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[singularcitrus]

What would you most like to tell them about Japan? I don’t know if this is really ‘about Japan’ but during the filming of My Happy Marriage we were shooting in a lot of very old historical Japanese houses, which are always really tiny and have a lot of exposed beams. I’m about 185cm tall, so I kept hitting my head over and over and over again. One time, I guess I hit it harder than I thought and got very dizzy while we were shooting. I think it was just because I kept hitting it – but I got checked out and everything was okay. So, I guess if anyone out there is planning a trip soon, the old traditional hotels with hot springs are great but please do watch your head!

[singularcitrus]

She had seen Brianna’s face for a moment in the light; white as paper and hard as bone, with the eyes black holes. Her gentle, kindly mistress had vanished like smoke, taken over by a deamhan, a she-devil. Lizzie was a town lass, born long after Culloden. She had never seen the wild clansmen of the glens, or a Highlander in the grip of blood fury—but she’d heard the auld stories, and now she knew them true. A person who looked like that might do anything at all.

— Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn

[singularcitrus]

I was dead [...] – and yet all that time, I loved you.

— Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn

[singularcitrus]

I felt like I might die if someone was kind to me.

Like when the rose tree is so sweet,

like when the sunset is so sweet.

For whatever I’ve done wrong, it felt like kindness might kill me.

Kim Kyung-Mi, ‘Kind[ness for] Me’ (다정이 나를)

[singularcitrus]

Percy inched closer to Annabeth. He tried to remember why they were here, but the sense of despair made it difficult to think. [...] Annabeth turned the blade of her drakon-bone sword, which Percy had to admit made her look pretty intimidating and hot in a ‘Barbarian Princess’ kind of way.

— Rick Riordan, House Of Hades

[singularcitrus]

“Photographs and drawings have distinct feelings. When Khun–Yai and I are apart, every time I look at this picture, I will recall the details of my current surrounding. It is a memory captured with my senses, sight, taste, smell, and hearing. I will see Khun–Yai, feel his kiss, and remember his voice uttering the word of love to me. I will remember his scent and the feeling of the wind dancing on my skin as I stay with him at this moment.”

I Feel You Linger In The Air (2019)

[motogpblr-archive]

Marquez is crazy late in braking, and he has the ability to stop the bike very fast.  - Alberto Puig, ATF Aragón

Yeah he stops the bike fast, alright.

(Don’t worry, I love Marc - but the timing and context of this interview is somewhat unfortunate)

[fuckyeahlwaxanatroi]

‘Dark Page’ was interesting. It was a Majel Barrett episode, the one with the wolf. It was shot in a weird way, with the fish-eye lens.

Marina Sirtis, interviewed in Starlog Magazine Issue 259, February 1999.