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Beautiful Language Fact:

In French, you call a person you love your “pomme de terre” which literally translated means your “hold on the earth,” or the one who keeps you here on earth, the one who keeps you grounded.

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I feel bad for all the people who didn’t take French in high school

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why are bats stigmatized as being creepy?

I mean

look at these things

they’re like tiny

fluffy

dragons

but instead of breathing fire they squeak and cuddle

in caves

and leaves

and they have funny ears and noses

I mean really

bats are amazing

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This post is so important to me

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sky puppies

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Happy 56th Anniversary NASA

#NASA #space

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Velma is having none of your vampire shit today.

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In fairy tales, monsters exist to be a manifestation of something that we need to understand, not only a problem we need to overcome, but also they need to represent, much like angels represent the beautiful, pure, eternal side of the human spirit, monsters need to represent a more tangible, more mortal side of being human: aging, decay, darkness and so forth. And I believe that monsters originally, when we were cavemen and you know, sitting around a fire, we needed to explain the birth of the sun and the death of the moon and the phases of the moon and rain and thunder. And we invented creatures that made sense of the world: a serpent that ate the sun, a creature that ate the moon, a man in the moon living there, things like that. And as we became more and more sophisticated and created sort of a social structure, the real enigmas started not to be outside. The rain and the thunder were logical now. But the real enigmas became social. All those impulses that we were repressing: cannibalism, murder, these things needed an explanation. The sex drive, the need to hunt, the need to kill, these things then became personified in monsters. Werewolves, vampires, ogres, this and that. I feel that monsters are here in our world to help us understand it. They are an essential part of a fable.

Guillermo Del Toro (via sailsflyseaward)

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#b&w

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Sometimes I just feel inexplicably guilty for all the plants I’ve neglected to death.

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#donnie darko

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You will exist, right there. An eternal suspension within me.

Anna Akhmatova, from The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova (Zephyr Press, 2000)

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little dark girl with kind eyes when it comes time to use the knife I won’t flinch and i won’t blame you, as I drive along the shore alone as the palms wave, the ugly heavy palms, as the living does not arrive as the dead do not leave, i won’t blame you, instead i will remember the kisses our lips raw with love and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me, and I will remember your small room the feel of you the light in the window your records your books our morning coffee our noons our nights our bodies spilled together sleeping the tiny flowing currents immediate and forever your leg my leg your arm my arm your smile and the warmth of you who made me laugh again. little dark girl with kind eyes you have no knife. the knife is mine and i won’t use it yet.

Charles Bukowski, “Raw With Love” (via whyallcaps)

#bukowski