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Cards Against Humanity reads customer service emails, part II.

[lokisbluebox-blog]

omg so in english class we have to do a “warm up speech” to get the “jitters” out and it has to be about something that is sentiment to you and I decided since I dont really have anything sentimental I was going to do the speech on this rock and my introduction is pure gold I swear:

“Nothing has ever been more sediment to me. For some, it isn’t much to talc about. For me? I’d never take it for granite. I’m going to be rather onyx here and say I do find this rather gneiss.”

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[blanket8989898-deactivated20150]

ive stolen this line and used it so many times

[hpfan124]

The Meaning of Life.

This was a conversation my friend and I just got in. We were talking about something and got on the topic of the value of love in the grand scheme of things.

Him: "Thats true. But why not just plain happiness? I mean truly ultimately we just want to be happy"

Me: "Because love is something more than happiness; it's compassion. I don't care about my happiness. I care about the people I love. And the things I love."

Him: "I've always thought of love as a route that leads to happiness I guess. So the more you find things and people in your life that you love, the happier you'll be. I guess I'm just a primal person"

Me: "Happiness makes sense and what you're saying makes sense, and is what most people believe their main goal is. I guess, for me, I just think there is more to the meaning of life than my happiness. I believe in a greater contribution to society and the progression of society and I think that love and loving what you do and the compassion behind it is really important. And that level of contribution eclipses my own happiness."

[hpfan124]

LEGEND OF KORRA BOOK FOUR PREMIERES IN THIRTY SIX HOURS WHAT

[fishingboatproceeds]

"It's a metaphor" I have no doubt that you completely understand and stand by this statement that the act of putting an unlit cigarette in Augustus Waters' mouth is in fact a metaphor. But for some folks, we don't see it asa metaphor, we see it as situational irony, or a simple statement. Please explain how it is a metaphor.

Well, a character in a novel saying that something is a metaphor is not the same thing as the author of the novel saying that it’s a metaphor. Gus’s intellectual grasp often exceeds his reach (he calls a monologue a soliloquy, and misuses quite a few of the bigger words in his vocabulary). But I do think the cigarette is a metaphor, albeit a different one for us than it is for him.

Gus’s idea is that the cigarette is a metaphor for illness, and he keeps it unlit and in his mouth as an expression of his power over illness. “You put the killing thing between your teeth but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.” Gus’s thinking here is that HE has the power. This is why he tends to use the cigarette when he’s feeling nervous or powerless. (He’s also using the most famous commercially available carcinogen to make this statement, so obviously there’s a connection there in his mind: Humans can prevent cancer by not smoking; cancer is something we can have power over; your job is not to give cancer the power to kill you; etc.) 

But of course Gus is wrong about all of this, or at least almost all of it. You may have SOME control over whether you die of cancer (you can choose not to smoke), but in most cases humans don’t have control over illness. “You don’t give it the power to do its killing” imagines more agency over illness than we actually have, because in the end much of the fault is in the stars, not in ourselves. So to us, the unlit cigarette is a metaphor for our false perception of control, and our urgent need to feel in control. It’s no coincidence, then, that when Gus’s life is spiraling out of control and he finds himself powerless before fate, he tries (and fails) to buy cigarettes.

[avatarparallels]

Water cloak: A waterbender can use their water as a form of armor with tentacle-like arms. The bender can use these arms to grab objects, whip enemies, blast enemies with water and freeze them. If a waterbender has less water available, he or she can simply form the arms instead of the entire cloak. 

[skunkbear]

Australian scientists have proposed a new system of 3D imaging so entomologists can digitally share specimens (like the weevil shown above) in all their gross and glorious detail … and create larger than life 3D prints.  The system involves photographing insects from dozens of angles, and then using those images to construct a 3D model.

Hat tip to Geoff Brumfiel.

[flameodragon]

Sokka's Artistic Talent

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Pizza Princess 

[emiett]

[hopephd]

Seizure First Aid. 

Learn it. Share it. Know it. Use it. 

[king-in-yellow]

100% correct medical information on tumblr for once; also consider calling 911 if you don’t know how often the person has seizures and ESPECIALLY if the seizure has lasted 5 minutes or more (which is why the watch is critical)

[lisawiththecats]

This is so important!

[dennys]

Pancakes! They’re just as useful as they are delicious! Follow along as we improve your every day problems with some handy lifehacks flaphacks.

Flaphack #1: Got a wobbly table? Throw some flapjacks under that thing, baby! Boom! Problem solved!

[lauramercierbodyscrub]

what the fuck dennys

[officialfrenchtoast]

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[michaelaspratt]

Game of Thrones Meme - 6 relationships - [6/6] - Jon and Arya

She wished somehow they could come to the Wall before Winterfell, so Jon might muss up her hair and call her “little sister.” She’d tell him, “I missed you,” and he’d say it too at the very same moment, the way they always used to say things together. She would have liked that. She would have liked that better than anything.

[hodorhodorhodooor]

[missdontcare-x]

All men must die, but we are not men.

[wolfsdragon]

[hpfan124]

game of thrones meme ✭ (1/1) queen/king

"I am Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, of the blood of Old Valyria. I am the dragon’s daughter, and I swear to you that those who would harm you will die screaming."