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miss swift you are not a tortured poet you are a billionaire

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the bravest person in the world

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buckwild to see swifties posting takes like "I feel like this album... is the most classic works of literature. As if these words... were always waiting to be written. I'm going to tattoo all of the lyrics on my skin so they can live forever" and then seeing someone else post a screenshot of the lyrics and it's some shit like "welcome to my dark and twisted mind / I'm the girl nobody ever notices / the joker hasn't seen half of what I've seen / call me the girlker / [reference to current trending media franchise]"

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David Foster Wallace

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“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.”

― Jamie Anderson

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death is insane. wdym i’ll never see my grandmother again

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Fortesa Latifi, from The Truth About Grief.

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Christmas Eve at the Grave (1896) by Otto Hesselbom ❅ New Year’s Night (1984) by Sergei Andriyaka

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When I was in middle school, I tried to learn how to crochet. I knew how to knit already, so I figured ‘how hard could it be’ and used my Christmas money on a brand new set of aluminum hooks and a how-to book.

To say it was difficult was an understatement. I spent hours pouring over my book, begging to gain some inkling of understanding from what felt like incomprehensible runes. My reward? One lopsided trapezoid of lumpy fabric and a resolve to never pick up a crochet hook again.

And so life went on, I finished middle school and high school without giving crochet so much as a second glance. In college, I read about how crochet couldn’t be replicated by a machine, it was unique in a way that knitting and many other fiber arts weren’t.

For Christmas last year, my girlfriend gave me what I now consider to be my most prized possession: a crocheted plush of my favorite pokemon. I raved over her skills and, since she never learned how to knit, we decided to have a yarn date at some point and teach each other our respective skills.

We never did get around to that yarn date. She passed a few months after our declaration, leaving me to inherit what was left of her yarn.

Nearly a decade after my initial attempt, I got ready for the toughest battle of my life. My weapons? One skein of yarn, a YouTube video, and a crochet hook that I had somehow never gotten rid of.

I slowly made my way through the video, redoing my work a couple times until I was satisfied with my product: a small, slightly misshapen rectangle.

I looked at my pristinely-made pokemon plush with hope for the first time in months and thought to myself, ‘maybe crocheting isn’t the hardest thing in the world, maybe you were just 12.’

Maybe this isn’t the hardest thing in the world. Maybe I’m just 21.

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‘Love is the one thing that we’re capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space.’

“Eulogy from a Physicist” by Aaron Freeman, with quotes from Interstellar by Christopher Nolan, and images from NASA, Interstellar, Getty, Petrichara, and Reuters.

1- NASA: GOODS-South.

2- NASA: NGC 1850.

3- NASA: Iberian Peninsula.

4- Christopher Nolan: Interstellar.

5- NASA: From the Earth to the Moon.

6- Hannah La Folette Ryan: Subway Hands.

7- Adams Evans: Heart Nebula.

8- NASA: Exploring the Antennae.

9- NASA: Crescent Moon from the International Space Station.

10- Petrichara.

11- Getty Images.

12- NASA: SMACS 0723.

13- Reuters

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I'm Your Man, Mitski | i love you, it looks like rain, June Gehringer | Bad Dog Love (wip), lev st. Valentine

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*touches your face softly with my long manicured wizard nails* you could not begin to comprehend the depths and depravity of my transsexualism

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The Dragon Republic by RF Kuang except entirely in ATLA quotes 😎

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If the USA is so great then why did they make a USB?

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I just think that 'animals are living intelligent creatures that have feelings and deserve to be respected' and 'when done properly farming is beneficial to both people and animals and there's nothing wrong with raising and killing animals for food, clothing, and other products' are concepts that very much can and should coexist

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I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair.

I hate the way you drive my car. I hate it when you stare.

I hate your big dumb combat boots and the way you read my mind.

I hate you so much it makes me sick — it even makes me rhyme.

I hate the way you're always right.

I hate it when you lie.

I hate it when you make me laugh — even worse when you make me cry.

I hate it that you're not around and the fact that you didn't call.

But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you — not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.