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Some Doors Lead To Nowhere

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Vampire Tricked in Steam Room

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Drunk Texts/Calls

Aries: Likely to drunk text their best friend something that makes no sense or sends angry rants to the wrong people.

Taurus: Likely to drunk text their closest loved one what they're feeling in the moment.

Gemini: Does a drunk group text and/or tries to invite people out but never really tells you where they are or keeps moving from bar to bar.

Cancer: Likely to drunk text their ex.

Leo: Drunk texts friends bad jokes.

Virgo: Goes a step further and drunk calls their friends to let them know how much fun they're having.

Libra: Drunk texts an ex, current hook up, or crush.

Scorpio: Drunk texts whoever is on their mind (likely an ex or current partner).

Sagittarius: They are having too much fun to drunk text or call, probably lost their phone.

Capricorn: Drunk text or calls whoever they want to end up with at the end of the night whether it be friend, hook up, or crush.

Aquarius: Drunk text someone they haven't spoken to in years.

Pisces: Drunk text or calls whoever they care about.

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It is possible for wonderful encounters and beautiful things to exist. 

                                                                                -Hayao Miyazaki

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I told Miyazaki I love the “gratuitous motion” in his films; instead of every movement being dictated by the story, sometimes people will just sit for a moment, or they will sigh, or look in a running stream, or do something extra, not to advance the story but only to give the sense of time and place and who they are.

“We have a word for that in Japanese,” he said. “It’s called ma. Emptiness. It’s there intentionally.”

Is that like the “pillow words” that separate phrases in Japanese poetry?

“I don’t think it’s like the pillow word.” He clapped his hands three or four times. “The time in between my clapping is ma. If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it’s just busyness, But if you take a moment, then the tension building in the film can grow into a wider dimension. If you just have constant tension at 80 degrees all the time you just get numb.”

Which helps explain why Miyazaki’s films are more absorbing and involving than the frantic cheerful action in a lot of American animation. I asked him to explain that a little more.

“The people who make the movies are scared of silence, so they want to paper and plaster it over,” he said. “They’re worried that the audience will get bored. They might go up and get some popcorn.

But just because it’s 80 percent intense all the time doesn’t mean the kids are going to bless you with their concentration. What really matters is the underlying emotions–that you never let go of those.

— Roger Ebert in conversation with Hayao Miyazaki

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Ummm, haven’t been on tumblr in a couple years. Saw this post, and I decided....yes.

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Lively Floral Watercolors By Elena Moroz

Artist Elena Moroz inspired by the fresh florals of summer and spring, has dedicated a series of realistic flower depictions in watercolour. 

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