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there's a cherry blossom tree in DC that keeps blooming every year even though it shouldn't and the park service keeps thinking it's dead and then it keeps blooming! well they're removing a lot of trees to rehabilitate the area and they've said it's finally time for stumpy to go and they're going to mulch it and use the mulch to enrich all the other trees so it can help everything else keep going. and they're also going to plant spliced little pieces of it all over so that stumpy can live forever and this is genuinely sending me into a spiral

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The ONLY thing that has ever hit me in the deep, warm longing that Howl’s Moving Castle always has is the Emily Wilde series. I can’t explain it but it is one of the most charming series I have ever read. I will sing it’s praises from the mountains. I want to put it in my rib cage and let it sink into my bones. There are plenty of stories where the fairy prince falls in love with the mortal woman but none have hit like this. The feeling of being slightly to the left of normal society and never fitting in, only to find you fit perfectly in what exists slightly to the left. Academia but it’s not dark, The Ancient Magus’ Bride but without the depression. Characters that before entering anything romantic have accidentally woven their lives together so intrinsically and platonically that they incidentally refer to each other as extensions of themselves. The danger that walks alongside the beauty of the Otherworld and the acceptance that you cannot have one without the other.

A romance with characters in their 30s, written with all the lovely charm reminiscent of YA novels. I could not recommend it more.

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HEAR ME OUT: Emily Wilde series in Studio Ghibli animation *screaming*

I WILL LITERALLY PAY GOOD MONEY GOOD MONEY FOR THIS i am on my knees. adaptation gods HEAR MEAAAAAA

#emily wilde’s encyclopaedia of faeries #emily wilde’s map of the otherlands #studio ghibli #adaptation #animation #hear me out

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RIP Richard Serra. You made so many people so so so mad

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i remember adults telling me, as a kid, to listen to doctors and get my flu vaccine and any shots i could because they remembered Before.

then they started fighting Covid precautions.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that the ozone was disappearing and the earth was dying and we needed to recycle and save the planet.

now my parents think climate change is a myth.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that racism was a plague, that we had to love and accept everyone, that we should never judge before walking a mile in their shoes.

then they told me that protesting for my Black siblings was wrong.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that we needed to give to the poor. working at soup kitchens. making quilts. collecting food and money and supplies. building houses. because it was the christian and just plain right thing to do.

now they look at me, on food stamps with their grandchildren, and lament the "welfare state".

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that it was easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven and that any rich man, especially an immoral one, should never run our country.

you can guess who they voted for.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, so very much.

when did they forget?

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oh fuck this is a really good hill i gotta die on this

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full offense but none of you would have ever survived fanfiction.net in 2009

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I am slowly losing my mind over the shift towards video as the default media format.

I do not find this to be an efficient way to absorb information. I am bored and distracted by the time the largely unnecessary introduction is over. I can't use ctrl+f to find the specific information I'm looking for. If there are instructions to follow, I don't want to have to constantly pause and back up to the part I need.

At least give me a fucking transcript.

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Not Karl..

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Someone: yeah it was so sad when this character died

Me, who’s already read 15 fix-it fics and no longer can tell the difference between canon and fanon: when they what

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FACE CARD OH MY GOD

BIANCA // sunday, 2023 United States GP

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it fucks me up that tolkien only died in 1973. dude has the vibe of a victorian scholar who wrote all his manuscripts by candlelight but then you look him up and realise that he knew what color tv was. what the fuck.

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Roasted chicken, ginger, daikon, shiitake mushroom soup with lime, cilantro, broccoli sprouts, and rice noodles

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dune part two made me want to be one of those people who claps at the end of a movie. cinema has never been more back