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The top picture is one I took in April while visiting Kyiv, the bottom is from yesterday morning after a Russian drone strike. This is the Dormition Cathedral at the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra in Kyiv, Ukraine. It was originally built in 1051 and is a UNESCO World Heritage site. It's a testament to Ukrainian culture and religion, which is exactly why Russia targeted it.

#russian war on ukraine #russia is a terrorist state

mariacallous

#russian war on ukraine

honourablejester

I don’t know why that affected me so strongly, but I’m watching a youtube video on disasters on Lake Huron, and the first one involves a coal freighter that was lost in the White Hurricane of 1913 called the SS Argus. Everyone on the ship was lost. But it’s mentioned that the captain’s body washed up later, and was found without a life jacket. So they thought, based partly on testimony of another ship that thought they saw them go down, that it just happened too fast for him to have time to get his jacket. But then another body was found, that of the second cook, and she was found wearing the life jacket marked ‘captain’. And that’s …

It didn’t work. It didn’t save her. But it’s so very possible that he spent his last moments alive trying to save someone else, one of his crew, and they probably both knew that it wouldn’t work, that there wasn’t a lot of hope in a blizzard on the lakes in November, but he tried … he tried anyway. Even if it did nothing but maybe make her body easier for her family to find.

You know that Mr Rogers thing of ‘look for the helpers’? How many times has someone, facing the end, done something tiny and fragile and maybe hopeless just to try and help someone else? Whether it works or not. How many people went to their graves at least trying?

That has to say something about us. As a people. As monstrous as we sometimes (perhaps often) are, so many times we were also …

Whoever saves one life, saves the whole world.

And sometimes you can’t save one life, sometimes it doesn’t work, sometimes there’s no getting out of this for anyone, but … try anyway. Because it matters anyway.

And maybe no one will ever know. But maybe also some day more than a century down the line, maybe some idiot will be crying into her coffee because of what you died trying.

galaxywarp

once you realize you don’t actually need to sleep, you can really (stops talking abruptly and stares straight ahead for 4 minutes)

weaselknievel

*introducing myself to the guards who caught me* seized to meet you

greencheekconure27

Act 2 of Princess Ida in a nutshell:

Hilarion & Florian: CYRIL, NO!

Cyril: CYRIL YES.

#princess ida #gilbert and sullivan #cyril #hilarion #florian

castledeity

Lee Mosely wearing the soft armour Maille Dress by Samantha Pleet

herpsandbirds

Sooty Albatross (Phoebetria fusca), family Diomedeidae, order Procellariiformes, Marion Island in the Southern Ocean

photograph by Rich Everett

distantvoices

‘BODIES’ FOR ALLURE APRIL 2018 BY CATHERINE SERVEL

utilitycaster

I know I've made this post before but like. every time.

fan of heroic character: I like heroic character

someone who doesn't like heroic character, untagged, on their own blog: I don't like heroic character

fan of heroic character: 👍ok I do

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fan of villainous character: BEWARE I like VILLAINS. I'm WEIRD. I'm a WEIRDO. I'm a SICK FUCK and PROUD OF IT. I don't CARE if you can't MATCH MY FREAK.

someone who doesn't like villainous character, untagged on their own blog: I don't like villainous character

fan of villainous character: i can't believe that I am being SILENCED and ATTACKED for my love of my widdle meow meow. You must all be MONSTROUS BIGOTS for disliking the sweetest little baby who ever existed? I'm going to tell my mommy on you? This has ruined me. How can I ever recover. Did you know that when you don't like someone's favorite character it's like you personally broke their kneecaps. You are going to go to Christian Hell, which is real, for your unforgivable acts of cruelty. Normalize loving my little guy!!!!!! They have never done anything wrong jk but not really!!!!!!!!!! I'm going to DIE because you KILLED ME by NOT LIKING MY FAVORITE CHARACTER how do you FEEL ABOUT THAT.