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having good & true friends will literally save and protect you in a million unfathomable ways. like okay we have written so many times about lovers. but the way a platonic friend laughs and cries with you. the way they hold your hand at 14 years old and at 34. the way they keep a little silver tie to you, touching base over and over and over. how you can go years without talking, only to re-meet and discover: oh shit! you're still cool!

there are people who have been in my life for more than half of it, and i have loved every version of them. do you know how fucking beautiful that is. yeah love will save the world. but the way friends love you is gonna save the you.

kristmizz

#pretty #autumn

halfmachinegirl

journalofsolitude

Morgan Harper Nichols’ ‘Let July be July’

#writing #poetry

binariesuns

@pscentral event 27: scenery ↳ MULAN (1998) dir. Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook

#mulan #pretty

dynamicsymmetry

Good stuff.

tarysande

Guys, I edit professionally. This list is legit. Incorporating these suggestions before you hire an editor will save you A LOT of money. Even if you did these and nothing else, you’d see significant overall improvement in your work.

That said, you don’t have to overthink these things when you’re writing a first draft. If you write, “she said angrily” in a first draft, you can always revisit the phrasing in a second draft. I mention this because overthinking style can lead to a loss of momentum, and losing momentum is why so many people never finish a draft. Give yourself permission to write fast, write messy or ugly, and edit your draft into beauty later.

#writing

ozzyonedge

11 years ago, January 18th 2013, the last episode of Fringe was aired.

It was the best show, and I miss it dearly.

Time for another rewatch?

P.S. Non of the gifs are mine. Unfortunately I'm too senile to recall where I got them from. Probably here on tumblr.

#dude #that was 2 days before my 18th birthday #memory lane

thyme-in-a-bubble

#pretty

meditationtemptation

1st-1

The Eyes of God. Prohodna Cave, Bulgaria

Here it is at night.

oeblaze

Pretty sure the first picture is also at night, but super cool regardless.

#Bulgaria

wizardnuke

"everyone experiences [symptom]" how many times does it have to be explained that it's often about the frequency of the symptom, not the symptom itself

wizardnuke

"nearly everyone has had a headache before" i agree. "most people get headaches regularly" you're starting to lose me. "it's normal to have a headache all the time" go to a doctor.

"everyone gets anxious sometimes" true! "people get anxious pretty often" um. "it's normal to be anxious all the time" go to a doctor. etc

#as a medical professional #yes and yes #life tips

natureandbeauty

akindplace

@theopeninvite on Instagram

scandireader

white candles, white snow, white skies

#pretty

eerna

The boy who could get them through this, get their money, keep them alive, would do her the courtesy of putting her out of her misery, then cut his losses and move on.

TA-DAAAA! ‘Tis the graveyard scene, which I’ve wanted to draw since forever, commissioned by the wonderful @brambleberrycottage~!

#kanej #fanart

fleur-aesthetic

instagram | permillion44

moonminho

𝕾𝖍𝖆𝖉𝖔𝖜 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕭𝖔𝖓𝖊 ꜱᴇᴀꜱᴏɴ 1 ʀᴇᴡᴀᴛᴄʜ #71 ↳𝟷.𝟶𝟺: 𝚘𝚝𝚔𝚊𝚣𝚊𝚝'𝚜𝚢𝚊

#shadow and bone #kanej

penroseparticle

My favorite thing is that Europe is spooky because it’s old and America is spooky because it’s big

meduseld

“The difference between America and England is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way.” –Earle Hitchner

burntcopper

A fave of mine was always the american tales where people freaked out because ‘someone died in this house’ and all the europeans would go ‘…Yes? That would be pretty much every house over 40 years old.’

‘…My school is older than your entire town.’

‘Sorry, you think *how far* is okay to travel for a shopping trip?’

*American looks up at the beams in a country pub* ‘Uh, this place has woodworm, isn’t that a bit unsafe?’ ‘Eh, the woodworm’s 400 years old, it’s holding those beams together.’

bedlamsbard

A few years ago when I was in college I did a summer program at Cambridge aimed specifically at Americans and Canadians, and my year it was all Americans and one Australian. We ended the program with a week in Wessex, and on the last day as we all piled onto the bus in Salisbury (or Bath? I can’t remember), the professors went to the front to warn us that we wouldn’t be making any stops unless absolutely necessary. We’re headed to Heathrow to drop off anyone flying off the same day, then back to Cambridge.

“All right, it’s going to be a long bus ride, so make sure you’re prepared for that.”

We all brace ourselves. A long bus ride? How long? We’re Americans; a long bus ride for us is a minimum of six hours with the double digits perfectly plausible. We can handle a twelve hour bus ride as long as we get a bathroom break.

The answer. “Two hours.”

Oh.

derinthescarletpescatarian

English people trying to travel around Australia and wildly underestimating distance are my favourite thing

marzipanandminutiae

a tour guide in France told my school group that a particular cathedral wouldn’t interest us much because “it’s not very old; only from the early 1600s”

to which we had to respond that it was still older than the oldest surviving European-style buildings in our country

iguana-sneeze

China is both old and big. I had some Chinese colleagues over; we were discussing whether they wanted to see the Vasa ship (hugely expensive war ship which sank on it’s maiden voyage after 12 min). They asked if it was old, I said “not THAT old” (bearing in mind they were Chinese) “it’s from the 1500s.” To my surprise they still looked impressed, nodding enthusiatically. Then I realised I’d forgotten something: “…I mean it’s from the 1500s AFTER the birth of Christ” and they went “oh, AFTER…”.