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omg this video is brilliant, he’s awesome! and I RELATE SO MUCH (but the other way around lmao).

When you’re an archaeologist with a set schedule, sometimes people really get to understand who you are

When I dug in France I always got a croissant at 0520 from the same exact place in Échemines. A week in, they had one lying on the counter for me by the time I walked in. By the second week I got the exact amount I’d pay in hand when I walked in, because they’d reliably have it ready. I made sure to tell the owners that I wasn’t returning on my last day of the dig.

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Neon Samurai by Dmitry Mel

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During one of Birds of Prey’s fight sequences, Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) identifies a teammate’s vulnerability and provides a critical assist — by lending her a hair tie. This small act of sisterhood is as familiar in an everyday context as it is surprising in the DC Extended Universe. It’s one of the many ways that Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) differs from its superhero movie forebears: It not only stars women, it was made by them, too. “There’s more women in front [of] and behind the camera than any movie I’d worked on, which is pretty incredible,” says Robbie, who also produced the film. “It was partly a conscious decision, but it also always felt like the organic, right choice to make.”

—Entertainment Weekly: How the R-rated, women-powered Birds of Prey flips the bird — and the script — in high-flying style

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don’t choke on the boot !

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Feeling all kinds of upset tonight. One of the young ladies training with us (who has been around much longer than me, she started training at 10, she’s now 21) was crying in the locker room after practice. 

It turns out, she’s super stressed because she feels she should try to go for nidan in March, but she doesn’t feel ready at all. Many of our older sempai have told her she should try. It’s hard in Japan to make a difference between a gentle nudge/encouragement, and a kind of ‘okay, now do it’. She told me and other ladies that it had gotten worse since another guy, her age, passed his nidan last year. Suddenly, it’s her turn.

But - and that’s where I feel bad - she is now even more under pressure, because every time I can, I try to practice a couple of nidan techniques and it makes HER panic. 

I don’t do it because I plan to test anytime soon, only because 1) I love to learn new stuff that we don’t practice during normal training as it keeps me motivated to progress AND work on the basics, 2) I have no opportunity to do them outside the 10 minutes of free practice we have because of work and family that makes me leave right away, 3) it will take me FOREVER to nail nidan requirements because it’s super hard and I’m a coordination mess with poor hip mobility - and again 10 minute slots! 4) I’m an hyperactive overachiever who just needs to do this kind of stuff, and while I’m grateful people call me a model sometimes, I swear that it’s not healthy.

However, what I didn’t know, is that it sent HER the message she should really do it because she’s been a shodan for more years than me. 

I felt SO BAD, like a bad guy or bully. 

With my poor Japanese, I tried to tell her that everyone went at their own pace, that nobody could force her to test, that it didn’t matter if she did it this year, the next or two years from now, that practice was meant to be fun and enjoyable, not stressful. That’s it HER choice, her move, nobody else’s.

For sure, at 21, it’s harder for her to grasp that for me (twice her age), time is running a bit faster, my body and mind are harder to shape and ‘rewire’, so I need to tackle all of this sooner than others. 

I wish I could tell her that with time, she’ll grow the thicker skin that comes with years and experience, pain, rough situations etc., that will protect her from inner self-pressure and self-esteem issues AND outside peer pressure (even when it’s positive). The language barrier really sucks sometimes.

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guys help i’m LOSING MY GODDAMN MIND over these fat tiger art scrolls

(source)

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フランス軍事顧問団のブリュネ大尉 Jules Brunet が残したスケッチ。

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Congratulations to Parasite on winning 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture!

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Congratulations to the cast and crew of Parasite on winning Best Picture at the 92nd Academy Awards, the first non-English language film to do so!

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Victor Hugo: In order to understand what happens next—

Me: Oh no it’s really okay

Victor Hugo: It is absolutely c r u c i a l to know—

Me: oh my g o d

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Lantern festival.  Japan.  Odaiba 2 by Yotta1000 on Flickr.

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All the YES!!!

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Might as well get lost — Sanzen-in

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Via  CreativeSoul Photography on Facebook:

“Sharing a few from our beautiful Charlotte kiddos. Special thanks to the Jack & Jill South Charlotte chapter @southcharlottejj for inviting us here. Sharing a few from our “Southern Belle” theme. 🥰❤️❤️  Hair: @redmystiqueart MU: @keyamua Dress: @ladidakids 

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Slavic Cossack dancing known as Hopak 

Warning: Do not try this at home unless you were born with super Slavic knee strength 

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Hiroshi Yoshida 吉田 博 (1876 - 1950) - Misty day in Nikko 1937

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- Jake, I cannot believe you’re gonna lose Nana’s apartment. We grew up together. We used to hang out there every day after school.