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‘I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.’

Quotes: Maggie Stiefvater, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Haruki Murakami, V.E. Schwab, Fernando Pessoa, Clarice Lispector, N.M. Sanchez |  Artwork by Holly Warburton

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PSA as we go into spooky season and people start using activated charcoal to make foods look spooky.

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nobody really drops anvils that make people have funny birds and stars spin around their head anymore… they should do start doing that again

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this is gonna sound like a shitpost but the best advice i have if youre consistently coming off wrong is to start talking like an elcor

you will feel like a dumdum at first, but once you get used to it youll realize that telling people what kind of thing you're about to say ahead of time flattens their anxiety a huge amount

ive been starting every question with "question:" for awhile now and i almost never get people reading too much into what i mean anymore

it seems super dumb, but "what are your plans tomorrow?" gets people asking me what i have planned despite me obviously being in the process of figuring that out, whereas "question: what are your plans tomorrow?" gets me a quick rundown of their schedule, followed by "why?"

it also makes it really easy to work tone indicators into your verbal speech. if you're always saying "question: [your question here]?" then no one blinks when you say "genuine question: [question that could read as sarcastic]?"

it also gets you out of your own way for any types of things you struggle to say. "can you make sure to do the dishes before you go to bed?" feels like an argument waiting to happen, but "request: can you make sure to do the dishes before you go to bed?" gets the words flowing on a neutral word while making it clear that you're not looking for a fight

so yeah. suggestion: talk like an elcor

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lacing my blood with poison so when those mosquitoes try to drink from me theyll be in for a nasty surprise

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Is it just me or does having a positive interaction with a stranger scratch a very particular itch? I think it's the reassurance that the world is not split solely into people who already love you and people who never will.

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STUDIO GHIBLI + LANDSCAPES

Princess Mononoke (1997) Castle in the Sky (1986) Spirited Away (2001) Only Yesterday (1991) The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013) Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) My Neighbor Totoro (1988) Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (2008) Tales from Earthsea (2006)

part 1 | part 2 | part 3

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im going to be riding this gender euphoric high for the next several years

i made a new uquiz to figure out what kind of guy you are

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As a fellow person in their twenties, you good?

i wish i could float in a river face down for seventy kilometers and not drown

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Art Nouveau Colored Glass | International Art Glass Catalogue

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I’m crying because when my dad was eighteen he was going to join the airforce and then the night before he had a dream that Jesus slapped him in the face with a gigantic fish and asked him what he was doing and he woke up and thought, “Jesus is right what am I doing?” And that’s why my dad did not join the military. 

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Sheena Ringo for Ongaku to Hito (音楽と人) magazine, February, 2000.

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“The Princess Is Swallowed Up by the Earth” (1905) by Henry Justice Ford (English, 1860-1941)

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