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Sozin’s Comet, the 4-part series finale of Avatar: The Last Airbender, aired 10 years ago today on July 19, 2008

I almost snorted tea into my nose from laughing at this.

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every word out of guillermo del toro’s mouth is the most hardcore thing i’ve ever heard and he says it all so casually like he doesn’t even realize how much of a gothic visionary he is

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“Since childhood, I’ve been faithful to monsters. I have been saved and absolved by them, because monsters, I believe, are patron saints of our blissful imperfection, and they allow and embody the possibility of failing”

I STILL THINK ABOUT THIS EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE

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Welcome to the Unknown, boys.

You’re more lost than you realize.

#music #otgw

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bush: bears photogenic red berries cedar waxwing:

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nature photographer: has a zoom lens cedar waxwing:

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My favourite flavour of water is cold

amidalis

Every single Twilight movie put out nothing but absolute BOPS on their soundtracks! I need every single one of you to realize that! You can ignore the shitty films, but you CAN’T ignore the fire music!

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this is the funniest fucking thing i have ever seen in my life

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Paper mache star wars mannequin ?? Unsure if it was for sale or not In salvation army in Utica Michigan

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So I just learned something that pisses me off. Y’know quinoa? The ~magical~ health food that has become so popular in the US that a centuries-long tradition of local, sustainable, multi-crop farming is being uprooted to mass-produce it for the global market? Potentially affecting food stability and definitely effecting environmental stability across the region?

Ok, cool.

Y’know Lamb’s Quarter? A common weed throughout the continental US, tolerant of a wide variety of soil conditions including the nutrient-poor and compacted soils common in cities, to the point where it thrives in empty lots? These plants are close relatives, and produce extremely similar seeds. Lamb’s quarter could easily be grown across the US, in people’s backyard and community gardens, as a low-cost and local alternative to quinoa with no sketchy geopolitical impacts. You literally don’t have to nurture it at all, it’s a goddamn weed, it’ll be fine. Put it where your lawn was, it’ll probably grow better than the grass did. AND you can eat the leaves - they taste almost exactly like spinach.

This just… drives home, again, that a huge part of the appeal of “superfoods” is the sense of the exotic. For whatever nutritional benefits quinoa does have, the marketing strategy is still driven by an undercurrent of orientalism. You too could eat this food, grown laboriously by farmers in the remote Andes mountains! You too could grow strong on the staple crop that has sustained them for centuries! And, y’know, destroy that stable food system in the process. Or you could eat this near-identical plant you found in your backyard.