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i have such a love for characters who descend into madness or villainy out of deep, deep empathy. characters who fundamentally cannot cope with the cruel realities they find themselves in and blow up about it in spectacular fashion. fallen angel type characters with tears of outrage in their eyes. characters who break before they bend, and break so badly they splatter blood all over their noble ideals. every variation on it gets me so good

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Focus on what you have

Focus on what you cherish

Focus on everything

Don’t miss anything

Don’t miss the game

Don’t miss the concert

Don’t miss the performance

Don’t miss the show

Don’t miss the conversation

Don’t miss the sermon

Don’t miss the class

DON’T MISS ANYTHING

GO LOOK, SEE, LEARN, TASTE

LET THE FLAVOR OF LIFE BE PART OF YOUR LIFESTYLE

BUT DON’T FORGET WHAT YOU WANT

ACCEPT WHAT YOU WANT AND DON’T HAVE

AND STRIVE TO ALWAYS BE BETTER

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- strange feeling.

very old padparadscha sketch

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“I need to stop imagining situations in my head that aren’t going to happen.”

— Unknown

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Hoi Hoiii

So I’ve been self studying Japanese and holy shit the transition from seeing everything as just hieroglyphs to reading sentences and understanding some words feels unusually weird and satisfying

Thats it arigatu for reading, jaane✋🏻

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i don’t have a nervous system. i am a nervous system

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Doing crazy shit is what makes life worth living.

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"Fantasy and science fiction in their very conception offer alternatives to the reader’s present, actual world. Young people in general welcome this kind of story because in their vigour and eagerness for experience they welcome alternatives, possibilities, change. Having come to fear even the imagination of true change, many adults refuse all imaginative literature, priding themselves on seeing nothing beyond what they already know, or think they know.

Yet, as if it feared its own troubling powers, much science fiction and fantasy is timid and reactionary in its social invention, fantasy clinging to feudalism, science fiction to military and imperial hierarchy. Both usually reward their hero, whether a man or woman, only for doing outstandingly manly deeds. (I wrote this way for years myself. In The Left Hand of Darkness, my hero is genderless but his heroics are almost exclusively manly.) In science fiction particularly, one also often meets the idea I discussed above, that anyone of inferior status, if not a rebel constantly ready to seize freedom through daring and violent action, is either despicable or simply of no consequence.

In a world so morally simplified, if a slave is not Spartacus, he is nobody. This is merciless and unrealistic. Most slaves, most oppressed people, are part of a social order which, by the very terms of their oppression, they have no opportunity even to perceive as capable of being changed.

The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary.

Having that real though limited power to put established institutions into question, imaginative literature has also the responsibility of power. The storyteller is the truth-teller.

It is sad that so many stories that might offer a true vision settle for patriotic or religious platitude, technological miracle working, or wishful thinking, the writers not trying to imagine truth. The fashionably noir dystopia merely reverses the platitudes and uses acid instead of saccharine, while still evading engagement with human suffering and with genuine possibility. The imaginative fiction I admire presents alternatives to the status quo which not only question the ubiquity and necessity of extant institutions, but enlarge the field of social possibility and moral understanding. This may be done in as naively hopeful a tone as the first three Star Trek television series, or through such complex, sophisticated, and ambiguous constructions of thought and technique as the novels of Philip K. Dick or Carol Emshwiller; but the movement is recognizably the same – the impulse to make change imaginable.

We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom. We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable.

I want to close and crown these inconclusive meditations with the words of a writer who never spoke anything but truth, and always spoke it quietly, Primo Levi, who lived a year in Auschwitz, and knew what injustice is.

The ascent of the privileged, not only in the Lager but in all human coexistence, is an anguishing but unfailing phenomenon: only in utopias is it absent. It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end."

- Ursula K. Le Guin, from "A War Without End." Utopia, 2016.

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This Anime is true Art. Definitely my all time favorite.

Stages of Phosphophyllite

original made by Emerald19#5253 on the wiki discord 

uncolored version below 

Keep reading

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Menace😈

★ 【DIno】 「 ozen 」 ☆ ✔ republished w/permission ⊳ ⊳ follow me on twitter

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oh, to have someone to talk to about art, literature, movies, about religion, and psychology, and poetry and history, just talk talk and talk.

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So i learned something called cognitive bias. It has to do with psychology and controlling people. I will not delve into the meaning but i will give you an example. Imagine sitting with people listening to something and someone just finished talking so everyone stands up and starts clapping. At this moment the most likely thing your going to do is to also stand up and start clapping. In this case its the societal pressure that made you do something. Another example is imagine if you are sitting and there lets say some water and no one is taking any, but once some one takes a bottle now is when people start getting comfortable to take something from the tray. Another example would imagine sitting in a class where everyone is sitting in one way looking at the board and what you do is just give you sit and look the complete opposite your going to feel something is wrong.

So yeh thats it c:

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Antigravity