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it’s so awkward being asked “do you really think that lowly of yourself?” because no? of course not? buddy, i was just.. kidding around.. haha, funny, haha? humor, you know? but also truthfully: yeah. absolutely. without a doubt. hold up a handful of dirt & one individual speck of it has more worth & purpose than i could ever even begin to hope to have but, you know! anyhow! nice weather we’re having

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This picture could not be more accurate

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big wlw mood: when you remember another woman who you just “””””””””admired””””””””” a lot as a kid for “””””””””some reason”””””””””

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Thank you Bones for an incredible 12 seasons, 246 episodes, countless amazing characters and friendships, an abundant number of fantastic storylines, 2 of the best love stories of all time, and most importantly, 1 beautiful family of a cast. My life means more because I know you.

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First and last days of filming “Bones” 2005-2017

“dbdbo69 Gonna miss these beauties!”

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Jess hitting the nail right on the head. #BeBoldForChange

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I'm about to go HAM

home

and

masturbate 

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(insp.) * ★ ° • ○ ° 

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Deidra & Laney Rob a Train (2017) | dir. Sidney Freeland

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Galavant + breaking the fourth wall » Season 2 [part 1]

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Herizen Guardiola photographed by Jai Odell for True Religion

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The Get Down Part II  |  Coming to Netflix Friday, April 7 

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ily: i love you

ilysm: i love you so much

ilysmichbilysmifligtaliomymmnbyammcrccahgmbcykmcfl: I like you so much, I can hardly breathe. I like you so much, I feel like I got thunder and lightning inside of me. You make me nervous but you also make me calm. Real calm. Calm almost how god must be calm, you know, Mylene? Calm from loving. 

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1. Shouting Secrets: iTunes

2. Empire of Dirt: Vimeo On Demand

3. This May Be the Last Time: Google Play, YouTube, iTunes

4. Road to Paloma: Google Play, Amazon, VUDU

5. The Lesser Blessed: iTunes, VUDU; Amazon

6. Rhymes for Young Ghouls: VUDU; iTunes (Canada)

7. The Activist: iTunes, Google Play

8. The Cherokee Word for Water: CW4W.com website

9. A Good Day to Die: Netflix, iTunes, VUDU

10. On the Ice: Netflix, iTunes, VUDU

11. Tiger Eyes: Google Play

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"Never, never, never, never, never"

Horror Vacui - "Nature abhors a vacuum.“

The single most devastating line in all of Shakespeare’s works. Act V, Scene 3: "Never, never, never, never, never.” Spoken by King Lear as he cradles Cornelia’s corpse. It’s already bleak. It’s beyond bleak. It’s crushing. Then you start to look at the language, and it’s goddamn beautiful in its bleakness.

This is the only instance in Shakespeare where an entire line of blank verse was the repetition of a two-syllable word five times. Where usual iambic pentameter mimic a heartbeat, unstressed-stressed, Lear’s line is completely trochaic (stressed-unstressed, NEV-er NEV-er). His heart is broken; even his speech cannot mimic a heart that beats properly. It is unnatural, monstrous (a word which originally meant against nature).

Then there’s that word, never. Never. nothing. Empty. Zero. Zero, an unnatural and foreign concept to Shakespeare’s audiences, had only recently been conceived in India, and had yet to become accepted in Europe. The idea of giving value of any kind to something that did not exist was unnatural. It wasn’t just unnatural, it was intellectually unthinkable and goddamn terrifying. “Nature abhors a vacuum.” Lear says it five times, over and over, with the unnatural sounds of his broken heart reinforcing the unnatural meaning of the word. 

When Lear laments Cordelia, his poor hangéd fool, he isn’t just mourning the loss of a daughter. He is wailing for the loss of nature, railing against an unnatural world which has forsaken him and broken his family and his crown. And he does it all with one word. 

If you don’t think that’s goddamn heartbreaking, you’re wrong.