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I used to assume we’d be roomies through grad school well into little old lady hood. You know, cheating at bingo together and forgetting to take our pills. ↳ Buffy Summers & Willow Rosenberg in season 4 of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”

royalarmyofoz

ok but this is cute

aletheius

expected Boomer joke, pleasantly surprised

creepish

me picking a scenario to fall asleep to: there’s nothing good on

sawasawako-archived

thinking about how orpheus turning to look back at eurydice isn’t a sign of mortal frailness but a sign of love

meduseld

“Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?” ― Ovid, Metamorphoses

dean-winchesters-clit

This is true no matter the version you're reading.

1. Eurydice trips and Orpheus turns to help her because he loves her.

2. Orpheus cannot hear Eurydice behind him, and fearing that he's been tricked, turns to make sure she's there.

3. Orpheus makes it out of the Underworld, and so full of love and excitement to be with Eurydice, turns to embrace her, forgetting that they both need to be out of the Underworld.

No matter what happens in the story, Orpheus loses Eurydice because his love for her compels him to look.

wildefluorescent

Orpheus, I can forgive you, then, There’s not a soul alive who wouldn’t have looked back

The Descent, by Tyler King

princesssarisa

Don’t forget Gluck’s opera, where Eurydice doesn’t know Orpheus is forbidden to look back, Orpheus is also forbidden to tell her, she assumes he must not love her anymore, and Orpheus finally looks back to reassure her of his love because he can’t bear her anguish.

In that version in particular, but possibly in all retellings, a part of us wants Orpheus to look back, because his failure proves his love.

forestkodama

I'd be the voice that urged Orpheus When her body was found I'd be the choiceless hope in grief That drove him underground I'd be the dreadful need in the devotee That made him turn around (Hey ya) And I'd be the immediate forgiveness In Eurydice

- Talk, Hozier

acecroft

Charlie Cox as Tristan Thorn in Stardust (2007)

gfwooyo

i hate how reward systems never work for me like i can’t just say “if i finish this assignment i can have a cookie” bc my brain is like “…..or u could just have one right now” and i can’t argue with that logic

truestoriesaboutme

Self-imposed deadlines don’t work either because I know the guy who set them and he’s full of shit

truestoriesaboutme

This is going around again, so I should say, I was wrong when I wrote this.

Actually, I know the girl who set them and she’s full of shit

bisexualshakespeare

Congrats on the gender. Get well soon with the executive dysfunction

truestoriesaboutme

OH MY GOD

(from @me-ndel)

assiraphales

every character brendan fraser played in the 1990s was the himboest himbo to ever himbo

assiraphales

the energy this man exuded

sporeblossom

“the millenium falcon would wipe out the enterprise in seconds” lmao the enterprise is just an innocent science class floating thru space…. all they wanna do is look at some rocks… kiss an alien…. find some space plants….. why would you fight that its not a battleship theyre just nerds…… leave them olone

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lystheni

A friend of mine saw this and brought up some interesting arguments

so, in other words,

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Pretty much.

jaegerdelta

here have some size comparison

two-punch-man

Who wins in a fight, a fully staffed Navy research vessel or your local weed man and his best friend in their souped up VW Bus?

decodering

Redditors design worst volume sliders possible

Some of these are genius! ( see reddit / via )

decodering

Well, this post went a bit nuts.

xxxtictacion

That last one honestly belongs in hell

official-lucifers-child

ALL OF THESE HAVE ME WHEEZING AND CACKLING SO MUCH

ha-nice-joke

All found in the comments but not found in master post, you’re welcome :).

tastefullyoffensive

gayplanets

utterly obsessed with this headline

insomniac-arrest

I think a lot about that Fruits Basket story where the onigiri (rice ball) thinks its plain and bad with nothing special about it

but everyone else actually admires it because of the delicious plum on its back that it can’t see

anyway, I’m going on a second date with a girl soon and couldn’t help but think “Why would she want to keep going out with me?? I’m like, so weird and a little crazy.”

but then I remembered that there is also a plum on my back that I can’t see and that people often like others for reasons we don’t recognize in ourselves. Be kind to yourself. There’s always something good about someone– however little we remember it.

paeshi

can’t believe it took me this long to realize that the reason ppl like me is because of my fat juicy ass

wakethedevils

the mighty nein as spotify playlists from that one post

beau:

caleb:

jester:

yasha:

caduceus:

nott:

fjord:

molly:

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gendercents

[Image description: a series of images, screenshots of text, quotes and tweets. In order, they are:

1. Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

2. Two photos, each showing two different people hugging in front of a white brick wall. The caption on the bottom says, “Embrace an important friend in a full-length hug for 31 minutes.

3. A thin white woman with short brown hair talking to another thin, white woman with blonde hair. She says, “I don’t know what to do with all the love I have for her. I don’t know where to put it now.” The blonde woman says, “I’ll take it.”

4. A quote posted by tumblr user perrfectly that says, “You will fall in love with your friends. Deep, passionate love. You will create a second family with them, a kind of tribe that makes you feel less vulnerable. Sometimes our families can’t love us all the time. Sometimes we’re born into families that don’t know how to love us properly. They do as much as they can but the rest is up to our friends. They can love you all the time, without judgement. At least the good ones can.” - Ryan O’Connell.

5. A gif of two men hugging. The caption says, “Cuidate (Take care of yourself.)”

6. A tumblr post by user BeetleJuices that says, “isn’t it all about old friends? like everything? all of it?”

7. friendship IS romantic like romance is just friendship in its most powerful form. it’s not two venn diagram bubbles it’s a sliding scale baby.

8. -were thirty-seven? Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified. Friendship was witnessing another’s slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person’s most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return.

9. A quote posted by tumblr user exhaled-spirals that says, “The dynamic of friendship is almost always underestimated as a constant in human life […], but no matter the medicinal virtues of being a true friend or sustaining a long close relationship with another, the ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor the self, the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.” -David Whyte, Consolations.

10. A tweet by user elvia wilk (@3LVVIA) made at 2:50 PM on July 21, 2019. It says, “How do I make my entire life a love letter to my friends.”

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