Frank & His Kind

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When i told a friend Rihanna was my spirit animal

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A friend is dating a guy that is older than him. So one day i sent him this and since that day im certain he holds revengeful feelings towards me.

I dont care, i won at life that day. 

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Most popular sport by country

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apparently other girls don’t have access to computers

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Or candy.

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#jennataughtme

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Tried and true.

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Yo con ex colegas de mi último trabajo.

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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Søren Kierkegaard (via observando)

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What if the tumblr logo was in comic sans?

Like it went from

to

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Reblog it and look at your blog!

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 go look

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what have you done

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me showing up late to class while my teacher does attendance

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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Jonathan Safran Foer (via observando)

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(vía http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=4_PMIVK0_ZE&u=/watch?v=JjPWL-23w-w&feature=share)

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EM Forster was a Jane Austen fangirl with a side crush on Italy.

English Literature, Agnes Scott College

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Maurice is basically what Jane Austen would write if she was a gay man.

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Favourite moment of 2013.

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Just a crude map of separatist movements, made by johnct

johnct:

A simple (and very colorful) map I’ve been working on in my spare time. Besides present-day borders, it includes current separatist and independence movements, as long as they have at least some political/military support. And yes, the borders are not 100% accurate. Criticism welcome!

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At this point we can firmly state Spain is a joke: EVERY autonomous community except La Rioja appear in that map as a “separatist region”. OMG.

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Maps like these are pretty and all, but I don't think people realize they're not offering much information at all. These aren't all separatist groups as much as they are regions with ethnic, linguistic, or political differences from the rest of their country. Most of these divisions actually conflict with one another, which means it's not like the world could be divided like this at all.

For example, the whole point of Alaska's independence movement is for "Cascadia" not to happen. Cascadia itself isn't something you can argue for, because even the people that want it can't agree on whether if they would take existing state and province boundaries into account, or ecological boundaries. And if Alaska gets its own section, why not Vermont? Or Texas? At the same time, Europe is basically partitioned into linguistic areas, which yes, are relevant for some independence movements, but not for all. The whole point of The Troubles in Ireland was that Northern Ireland did NOT want to be unified with the Irish Republic. All those divisions of Serbia and Croatia? Most of them are outdated or their exact point is that they can't lead to independence. Bosnia's fragile federal government was established by the US, the UK, and the EU to stop the killing in 1995, and the people there would've done anything for peace after years of war. Serbia-Krajina doesn't exist anymore. Sandžak-Raška's independence movement pretty much died due to the war. Not to mention how both Bosnian republics actually share the Brčko District and this map has it in the wrong place. The whole point of Central Asia and South East Asia (and most of Africa) is that those divisions cannot be drawn on a map. You might as well section off all the US states and call it a day, because I'm sure they all have 3-5 people who claim the state should be "independent" or who think their accent gives them a real linguistic difference. 

So yeah, I think it's pretty clear why you'll never see a map like this from an official source. It's just not possible. The best anyone could do is focus on a country or a small region, and explain the situation. Otherwise, it's all imagination and inferences based on our own understanding of what makes a secessionist movement legitimate.