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Sunrise, Louise Glück

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cats being capable of understanding accidents and even giving you a little head bonk to let you know you're still cool makes it infinitely funnier that they don't understand when you're trying to help them

cats when you step on their tail: i'll admit that was rather ouchie, but given the lifetime of goodwill and trust between us, one must conclude this booboo is but a fluke.

cats when you try to get their claws unstuck from the couch covering: this nefarious bitch has never had a single honorable intention in their dishonest and shameful life, this must be one of their sinister plots or perhaps even an attempt on my life,

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“One First of April, the question had arrived from Paris in a single Latin sentence, starting off dispiritedly. “Num…?”- a particular which notoriously “expects the answer No.” Harriet, rummaging the Grammar book for “polite negatives,” replied, still more briefly, “Benigne.””

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-Gaudy Night, Dorothy L Sayers (via summersanginme)

#wimsey��#please #are we to assume she was saying thank you then or #gaudy night #harriet #you win (via @zooeyscigar)

I Am Not A Latinist but my mental translation is “thanks but no thanks.”

(via talkingpiffle)

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the point of no return

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deus vult [an instrumental fanmix for The Sparrow]

The Jesuit scientists went to learn, not to proselytize. They went so that they might come to know and love God’s other children. They went for the reason Jesuits have always gone to the farthest frontiers of human exploration. They went ad majorem Dei gloriam; for the greater glory of God. 

They meant no harm. 

(listen.)

one. Rome, December 2059 (Allegri Miserere - The Sistine Chapel Choir)

two. those hands were like the mark of Cain, he thought. (Afterimage 3 - Max Richter)

three. for Emilio. (Gabriel’s Oboe - Yo-Yo Ma)

four. at least for the moment, they all fell in love with God. (Remember Me - Thomas Bergensen)

five. night on Rakhat: they named everything they saw. (Water Night - Eric Whitacre)

six. “challalla khaeri” (Ibelin - Harry Gregson-Williams)

seven. “God! God, I was born for this.” (The Falls - Yo-Yo Ma)

eight. Supaari VaGayjur profited from the presence of the Jesuit party on Rakhat before he knew of its existence. (Ney Improvisation in Makam Huseyni - Sufi Music Ensemble)

nine. “Madre de mi corazón.” “Hijo de mi alma.” (Closure - Michael Giacchino)

ten. Hlavin Kitheri was a poet. (Overture - Jay Chou)

eleven. the city of Gayjur (The Dance of the Soma - Jordi Savall)

twelve. ils sont les innocents (Sacrificial Procession - James Horner)

thirteen. he would tell the Reshtar: I am here to learn your poetry and perhaps to teach you ours. (Sybilla - Harry Gregson-Williams)

fourteen. “You see, Meelo? Your family came for you. I found you for them.” (And He Remembered Noah - Clint Mansell)

fifteen. “But it was my body. It was my blood. And it was my love.” (Vide Cor Meum - Patrick Cassidy)

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— D.H. Lawrence, Complete Poems of D. H. Lawrence 

[insp. by old-long-john’s gross tags]

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Personal work inspired by greatest writer ever aka Ursula K. Le Guin's short story Winter's King. You can find it in The Wind's Twelve Quarters, it's set in the same world as The Left Hand of Darkness and it's... well, brilliant, like pretty much all her writing.

“Thus, although the best known picture is that dark image of a young king standing above an old king who lies dead in a corridor lit only by mirror-reflections of a burning city, set it aside for a while.”

And then, as she often does, proceeds to break your heart.

At first, I wanted to make 3-4 illustrations for this story, but found a way to put all scenes into a single piece. And I believe that actually works better, given the cyclic nature of the story.

I'm not done illustrating Gethen. Genly Ai and Therem Harth rem ir Estraven: you are next. Once I finish the commissions I'm working on and have the time and energy for personal art, that is.

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Jenny Holzer.

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ALICENT HIGHTOWER and RHAENYRA TARGARYEN HOUSE OF THE DRAGON — S1E5 x S2E8

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literally though if you feel like your life is slipping through your fingers and every day goes too fast… try doing hard things, not just taking the easy route, like reading and making art and exercising and cooking a meal from scratch and journaling, doing these things without distraction, without being absorbed on a screen… the time will stretch and you’ll be reminded that life is long and beautiful if you make it so.

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every time i start to feel cringe for being too deep in the hyperfixation i remember the intense depression i have waded through and have to remind myself that enjoyment is fleeting (so grab it with both hands), and life is for loving (so hold that love close), and if anyone thinks i’m cringe they must not be having a very good time (and i hope they can find a good time soon).

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Blud, Rachel McKibbens

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“I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.” — The Secret History, Donna Tartt

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Bothersome beast, comforting friend

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The Beast that Bothers

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