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I want my child to be born where I was born, at Driftmark, in my lord father’s castle. I want my daughters to be raised in their homeland with their family according to their birthright. And at my end, I want to die a dragonrider’s death.

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Love on Tour — UK + Europe Leg (2022)

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DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE?

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#best platonic duo at it again

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But now I realise, you are my home.

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THIS IS US — First and last Big Three Chant.

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Eurovision 2022

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Stede Bonnet x Edward “Blackbeard” Teach | Our Flag Means Death ~ 01x09

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— Druig & Makkari | Eternals (2021) dir. Chloé Zhao

(IN HD 4K AT LAST 🗣🗣🗣)

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❝Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. 

But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.❞ — Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via alliterate)

OH WAIT LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT CECILIA PAYNE•

 Cecilia Payne’s mother refused to spend money on her college education, so she won a scholarship to Cambridge.

• Cecilia Payne completed her studies, but Cambridge wouldn’t give her a degree because she was a woman, so she said to heck with that and moved to the United States to work at Harvard

.• Cecilia Payne was the first person ever to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College, with what Otto Strauve called “the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis ever written in astronomy.”

• Not only did Cecilia Payne discover what the universe is made of, she also discovered what the sun is made of (Henry Norris Russell, a fellow astronomer, is usually given credit for discovering that the sun’s composition is different from the Earth’s, but he came to his conclusions four years later than Payne — after telling her not to publish)

.• Cecilia Payne is the reason we know basically anything about variable stars (stars whose brightness as seen from earth fluctuates). Literally every other study on variable stars is based on her work

.• Cecilia Payne was the first woman to be promoted to full professor from within Harvard, and is often credited with breaking the glass ceiling for women in the Harvard science department and in astronomy, as well as inspiring entire generations of women to take up science

.• Cecilia Payne is awesome and everyone should know her.(OP: Matthew Gardner)

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The holy grail of searching through academic literature is coming across a string of publications that are like:

Here’s An Idea. Smith et al. 2016

Terrible Idea; a comment on Smith et al. 2016. Johnson 2016.

You’re Wrong Too; a response to Johnson 2016. Nelson 2016.

Guys Just Stop Fighting, None Of Us Know What’s Going On; a Review of the Current Literature. McBrien 2017.

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LENA LUTHOR + looking at Kara | (6x14)

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👀 GOOD OMENS SEASON 2 IS COMING! ❤

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ITS TIME

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Love them to the moon and back

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KAZ BREKKER and INEJ GHAFA Shadow and Bone (2021)