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[sighcomics]

save me glowing stars

[2001hz]

[xx-key-xx]

Deftones - Back To School (Mini Maggit)

[engravelives]

misc music stamps

[zegalba]

deftones: around the fur (1997)

[curds-and-wheyface]

I think a fundamental part of online friendships that people ‘outside’ fail to understand is how comforting it is to have friends right there in your pocket who will keep you company in good times and bad, listen to your rants, let you vent, be supportive whilst offering outsider perspective…

Need to be alone but need support too? Pocket friends.

Something awful just happened and there’s nobody around for you to tell? Pocket friends.

Need to let your feelings out but don’t want people to see you ugly-cry? Pocket friends.

Keep being amazing, pocket friends. You couldn’t possibly imagine how important you are.

[sunshineandchemistry]

[witchesversuspatriarchy]

Powerful witch spotted at pro-choice protest in Poland

[vangoghlo]

define gerrymandering but in a way that i can understand

[empathviv]

[sunlaire]

Just to give an idea how Buck Wild these district parameters can get , here's a list of districts who's contorted shapes resemble the alphabet

[pakchoys]

ghibli movies said youre gonna be really confused for 1hr 30mins but it’ll be breathtaking so you wont even be mad about it

[pakchoys]

to this day not even sure what happens at the end of howls moving castle but damn if bird howl doesnt look cool as fuck

[what-even-is-thiss]

I keep hate-reading plague literature from the medieval era, but as depressed as it makes me there is always one historical tidbit that makes me feel a little bittersweet and I like to revisit it. That’s the story of the village of Eyam.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Eyam today is a teeny tiny town of less than a thousand people. It has barely grown since 1665 when its population was around 800.

Where the story starts with Eyam is that in August 1665 the village tailor and his assistant discovered that a bolt of cloth that they had bought from London was infested with rat fleas. A few days later on September 7th the tailor’s assistant George Viccars died from plague.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Back then people didn’t fully understand how disease spread, but they knew in a basic sense that it did spread and that the spread had something to do with the movement of people.

So two religios leaders in the town, Thomas Stanley and William Mompesson, got together and came up with a plan. They would put the entire village of Eyam under quarantine. And they did. For over a year nobody went in and nobody went out.

They put up signs on the edge of town as warning and left money in vinegar filled basins that people from out of town would leave food and supplies by.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Over the 14 months that Eyam was in quarantine 260 out of the 800 residents died of plague. The death toll was high, the cost was great.

However, they did successfully prevent the disease from spreading to the nearby town of Sheffield, even then a much bigger town, and likely saved the lives of thousands of people in the north of England through their sacrifice.

So I really like this story, because it’s a sad story, because it’s also a beautiful story. Instead of fleeing everyone in this one place agreed that they would stay, and they saved thousands of people. They stayed just to save others and I guess it’s one of those good stories about how people have always been people, for better or worse.

[typcgraphyy]

— aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe (2012)

[haverst]

[holythefirm-deactivated20210220]

[tastefullyoffensive]

[princesshamlet-deactivated20210]

bill shakespeare in like 1606 writing The Famous Tragedie Or Whatever Of Scottish King MacBitch: tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day

people living through the 2020 pandemic: 

[procrastinationlikeapro]

02.05.2020 fresh study set up 🤍 stationery from here

[smalllhandwriting]

the perfect christmas gift for someone trying to get into classic literature <3