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“Take a body, dump it, drive. Take a body, maybe your own, and dump it gently. All your dead, unfinished selves and dump them gently.”

— Richard Siken, from ‘Birds Hover the Trampled Field’, War of the Foxes

#words #poetry

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#this moment! their faces! all their faces! #but especially the look exchanged between wen qing and wei ying in the 3rd and 4th gifs #the entire conversation they have in that look! #the way she’s near tears. the way she knows that doing this #means they only have a few more minutes #bc soon wei ying will be asleep. and then it will be time to go #one of my favorite things in any goodbye #is when you can pinpoint when the moment the characters realize that the clock has started ticking down #the awareness that these are the last moments #and that’s what this moment is for me. they both realize wen qing has started the clock on their final moments #and then. the way he starts to fall and they immediately catch him #they all know death is coming but first they carry their brother to bed #the untamed

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Queen Christina (1933, dir. Rouben Mamoulian)

#old hollywood

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I propose the best songbird is the Warbling Vireo, who has no distinctive features at all, is vaguely beige, and is one of the most common and widespread birds in North America. They're like God forgot to enter any variables and got the mathematical average of a bird. They're the colour of a damp olive, but with less joie de vivre. Their breeding range is anywhere that isn't permafrost. The platonic ideal of Bird. (I promise you this mockery comes from a place of genuine love)

IT IS SO BEAUTIFUL

love the little white eyebrows

#THE COLOR OF A DAMP OLIVE BUT WITH LESS JOIE DE VIVE

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Maybe my life wouldn't be better if I had magic powers but I'd at least have different, sexier problems.

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The Untamed as text posts (47/?) shitty horoscopes edition part 1

#so many of these are a real punch to the nuts #but the wen remnants made me go absolutely rabid #the untamed

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Broke af?

But still interested in feeding yourself? What if I told you that there’s a woman with a blog who had to feed both herself and her young son…on 10 British pounds ($15/14 Euro) per week?

Let me tell you a thing.

This woman saved my life last year. Actually saved my life. I had a piggy bank full of change and that’s it. Many people in my fandom might remember that dark time as when I had to hock my writing skills in exchange for donations. I cried a lot then. 

This is real talk, people: I marked down exactly what I needed to buy, totaled it, counted out that exact change, and then went to three different stores to buy what I needed so I didn’t have to dump a load of change on just one person. I was already embarrassed, but to feel people staring? Utter shame suffused me. The reasons behind that are another post all together. 

AgirlcalledJack.com is run by a British woman who was on benefits for years. Things got desperate. She had to find a way to feed herself and her son using just the basics that could be found at the supermarket. But the recipes she came up with are amazing. 

You have to consider the differing costs of things between countries, but if you just have three ingredients in your cupboard, this woman will tell you what to do with it. Check what you already have. Chances are you have the basics of a filling meal already. 

Here’s her list of kitchen basics. 

Bake your own bread. It’s easier than you think. Here’s a list of many recipes, each using some variation of just plain flour, yeast, some oil, maybe water or lemon juice. And kneading bread is therapeutic. 

Make your own pasta–gluten free. 

She gets it. She really does. This is the article that started it all. It’s called “Hunger Hurts”.

She has vegan recipes.

Don’t have an oven or the stove isn’t available? She covers that in her Microwave Cooking section. 

She has a book, but many recipes can be found on her blog for free. She prices her recipes down to the cent, and every year she participates in a project called “Living Below the Line” where she has to live on 1 BP per day of food for five days. 

Things improved for me a little, but her website is my go to. I learned how to bake bread (using my crockpot, but that was my own twist), and I have a little cart full of things that saved me back then, just in case I need them again. She gives you the tools to feed yourself, for very little money, and that’s a fabulous feeling. 

Tip: Whenever you have a little extra money, buy a 10 dollar/pound/euro giftcard from your discount grocer. Stash it. That’s your super emergency money. Make sure they don’t charge by the month for lack of use, though.

I don’t care if it sounds like an advertisement–you won’t be buying anything from the site. What I DO care about is your mental, emotional, and physical health–and dammit, food’s right in the center of that. 

If you don’t need this now, pass it on to someone who does. Pass it on anyway, because do you REALLY know which of the people in your life is in need? Which follower might be staring at their own piggy bank? Trust me: someone out there needs to see this. 

#for reference #food

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“lan zhan, shall we set a lantern together to make a wish since we have experienced a lot together?” “i’m used to being alone.”

#bunny lantern smile!!! #wei wuxian #lan wangji #the untamed

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been watching the new SheRa and wanted to doodle these two ✨

#catradora #she ra #spop #fanart

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I see some HEATED debates over the risks of “toying” with ouija boards in Halloween/horror groups I follow and I just want to say a ouija board is literally a toy for kids and if polterghosties existed I’d still seriously doubt that a piece of wood invented by Milton Bradley is a real magical conduit to their dimension

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Aldis Hodge in The Invisible Man (2020)

#aldis hodge #continuing to be The Single Most Beautiful Man

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#flowers #:))))))))))))))))))))) #art

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#the fall

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wen ning …. i care you. i want to see you thrive

#i CARE HIM #wen ning #the untamed #fanart

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btw louisville bail project & our collective liberation network r here

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Faith Schaffer on Instagram

#art #lady knight