What Happens At 3am

I like space and pretending that Lucy Lawless is always Xena in her TV shows

[rainbowkarolina]

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018) dir. Ol Parker

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Sylvia Plath was right

[ironleaves]

About what?

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“Being born a woman is an awful tragedy. Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, bar room regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording —all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yet, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.”

[okayysophia]

[thelovejournals]

“Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven’t the answer to a question you’ve been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you’re alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful if you listen carefully.”

— Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

[fyp-psychology]

“Depression can be understood as a sign of the loss of self, and consists of a denial of one’s own emotional reactions and feelings. The denial begins in the service of an absolutely essential adaptation during childhood, to avoid losing love.”

— Alice Miller, The Drama of The Gifted Child (via fyp-psychology)

[thelovejournals]

“Words don’t hurt you. Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.”

— Neal Shusterman, UnWholly

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Female clothing: no pockets

Gollum’s 500 year old tattered rags: has pockets where he keeps "fishbones, goblins’ teeth, wet shells, a bit of bat-wing, a sharp stone to sharpen his fangs on, and other nasty things.”

[incendavery]

parting is such sweet sorrow

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An important part of cinematic history.

[technicalamends]

Her brOTHERS FACE THOUGH

[isaia]

Truly Iconic

[gahdamnpunk]

THIS is why representation is important

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5.12 // 11.04

[the-doobiest]

This week in social justice smackdowns.

[jazzyflynaps]

Oh my god lmfao

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[ithelpstodream]

another perspective

[professorjawn]

I surely hope you’re not reading this post from your work computer, because you’re probably not supposed to be using it for Tumblr.

[bearsister]

Is there any hatred stronger than the rage kids get towards Barney the dinosaur as soon as they are just a little too old for Barney the dinosaur

[30-seconds-to-marx]

So, this guy, Martin Pistorius, fell into a coma when he was 12 years old and eventually awoke completely paralyzed, at least physically. He was misdiagnosed. Doctors believed he was in a completely vegetative state, but in reality, he had regained full consciousness and awareness. He just didn’t possess any motor function, so he couldn’t communicate to anyone that he was alive in there. He lived this way for 12 years before he overcame it by sheer force of will and was given the tools to communicate. He tells his story in his book, Ghost Boy. Since then he’s also been the subject of the first episode of Invisibilia on NPR and had his own TedTalk.

Anyway, the breaking point that incited his plan of escape was being forced to watch Barney reruns all day, everyday at his care center. Sitting in front of the TV, he learned to tell the time by the shadows on the wall. If he had time he could know when Barney would end. With the ability to measure his days, he was able to pull himself out of the void and ultimately start down the path to recovery. Today, Martin can communicate whatever he wants with the help of a computer program, but there’s one thing he can’t articulate: “I cannot even express to you how much I hated Barney.”

So it turns out that the primal hatred people have toward Barney is strong enough to pull a disembodied consciousness out of the abyss of existential despair and into the physical world out of pure spite

[photography-cnl]

Photographer Kristina Makeeva Captures What Autumn Looks Like Around Europe

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