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One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

#lotr

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no hug monster. scrry monster. no hug. 

#ouat #rumbelle

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Maids, cleaners, janitors, and sanitation workers are all the most important people of civilization by far. Even 12 hours without them is VERY noticable and they simply need to be highly compensated for it

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Father and daughter riding Penny Farthing's together, England, circa early 1900s.

#historical photos

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A heart's a heavy burden. HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE | 2004

#howl's moving castle

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you can think someone's an idiot and not hate them. anyone who doesn't understand this has never had a coworker

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Honestly, what do people expect, when a 2003 British documentary is still calling the Armenian genocide of 1914 "whether this was an act of centrally directed genocide is still a matter of furious debate" arguing that... well, you know, the Turkish government denies it was genocide, they say the Armenians just died of exposure, illness, and exhaustion, and here's a Turkish official from the time saying that maybe there was some regrettable excess.

#armenian genocide #almost a century later and still a lot of tiptoeing around you see #it was not an intentional genocide it was an oopsie genocide #one that you and I might commit any day as a casual oversight #one of those

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The beauty of the whole ''don't tell the reader things, let them make things up" philosophy is if I'm not telling readers things, I don't have to make them up. Unless I want to.

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First you procrastinate on the task because it is not a big enough deal to get done urgently. Then you procrastinate on the task because it has become such a big deal that doing it is overwhelming. You would think that this implies a middle point where it is just big enough of a deal to get done easily, however the inherent perversity of the universe's causal geometry prevents this

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Edward Dwyer- Victoria Cross Recipient

#wwi #he died at the Somme later on #but I hear him sing! #i cry #history

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The remake reboot prequel sequel industrial complex is killing me but the good thing is I don't have to watch any of that. I can just think "that sounds boring or otherwise doesn't interest me in any way" and do something other than watch it

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you cannot advertise to me in a way that matters.

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WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1992) dir. Peter Kosminsky

#wuthering heights 1992 #wuthering heights

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If you're struggling with the cost of living right now (reasonable), this is your PSA to...

Google universities/colleges near you.

If you can't get out to more than one, look up which one has the highest tuition.

Look-up when the graduation date is

Drive neighborhoods near the university the week before graduation

So much stuff gets left out on the curb. Wealthy college students tend to prioritize convenience over money, so instead of carefully reselling their perfectly good stuff, they frequently give it away or put it out with the trash because that's easier than moving, reselling, or donating. Take advantage of this.

I furnished pretty much my entire apartment from college giveaways and yardsales.

What I got for free:

Mattress and box springs

2 10 ft area rugs

The massive 9-drawer chest (that has a label on the back that it was custom-made and shipped across the country) that my TV sits on.

Two 13 x 2 ft raised garden beds

My desk - just sanded it down and refinished it.

Three short stools

An organizer rack

Watering can

Tommy Bahama outdoor cooler (retails for $350)

Chairs

Shelves

What I got for cheap:

Two futons for $50

Custom coffee table with storage for $25

Three tall stools for $30

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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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i'm a sucker for narrators who are like,,, part of the narrative. they're a part of the story. they may or may not be fundemantal to it, but they influence it one way or another.

#cranford! #rereading rn #fantastic tropes and why we love them