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stay gold (or pastel peach)

[dailyworldcinema]

となりのトトロ (1988)

MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO — dir. Hayao Miyazaki.

[id in alt]

[1anonyymous1]

sometimes u just gotta stand in the shower

and leave this dimension

[quotesandstardust]

We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to.

Trevor Noah, Born a Crime (via petrareads)

[petrareads]

saw 118 blue penguins last night!! there’s a colony near where my grandma lives but we haven’t see them in ages and it was a delight- if you don’t know what a blue penguin is look up blue/fairy/little penguin, they’re so cute!! they’re the smallest penguins in the world 🤍💙

[etheraeal]

for a moment I thought “118 blue penguins” was the name of an obscure band and I was like ooh! intrigue! but the reality is also very cute

[angefemelle]

[psychodrama]

[raysofthesun]

[craved-deactivated20230908]

[tkkatherineblog]

[ur-daily-inspiration]

the water reflection of the bridge

[quotemadness]

“For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.”

— Franz Kafka

[mercedesrollinballer]

If I was about to get in a fight, I would also take time to turn my hat backwards

[enddddoftheline]

Also no context for the reference but yes

[etheraeal]

@enddddoftheline​ my first thought is Hattori Heiji but I’ll wait for you to tell me who it’s actually referring to

[ihni]

Tell me an inside joke between you and a friend, without context.

[ihni]

I beg of everyone to read the tags to this post, as they are all random and hilarious and read kind of like a poem, if the poem was written by someone who was on a lot of drugs.

[lagt-duck]

You are actually so right

[enddddoftheline]

@etheraeal hydrogen bonding?

[etheraeal]

@enddddoftheline get out of my panel

[grapefruitapologist]

can you hold my hand it's my first time killing and im kind of nervous

[danothan]

[etheraeal]

me in Kendo club

[petrareads]

‘If you try to think too far ahead…it’ll drive you nuts.’ 'So what should I think about?’ 'About today. Look what a beautiful day it is.’

The Eight Mountains (via petrareads)

[petrareads]

There are moments when you can’t believe something wonderful is happening. And there are moments when your entire consciousness is filled with knowing absolutely that something wonderful is happening.

Attachments (via petrareads)

[brightwanderer]

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.