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« If you have to ask yourself where you will find the time to read, it means the desire isn’t there. Because no one has the time to read. Children don’t, teenagers don’t, adults don’t. Life is a perpetual obstacle to reading.

“Reading, I’d love to, but what with my job, the kids, the housework, I don’t have the time.” “You have so much time to read—I envy you!”

How is it that Ms X, who works, runs errands, raises kids, drives her car, loves three men, goes to her dentist appointment, is moving next week—how is it that she finds the time to read […]?

Time spent reading is always time stolen. Like time spent writing, for that matter, or time spent loving. Stolen from what? Let’s say, from the duty of living. Which is probably why the subway—this stinking symbol of the duty of living—is the world’s largest reading room.

Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.

If we were to consider love from the point of view of our schedule, who would bother? Who among us has time to fall in love? Yet have you ever seen someone in love not take the time to love?  I’ve never had the time to read. Yet nothing has ever stopped me from finishing a novel I loved. 

Reading doesn’t belong to the societal organisation of time. Like love, it is a way of being. The issue is not whether or not I have the time to read (no one will ever give me that time) but whether or not I will gift myself the happiness of being a reader. »

— Daniel Pennac, Better Than Life

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Vincent Price speaks of art

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I [34 M] am somebody who inherited a lot of wealth from my parents, which allows me to support my ex’s daughter [10 F, from France and not my daughter]. To deal with the challenges of remote learning, I hired a tutor [19 F] to live in our home and teach her while I’m traveling for work. The tutor seemed a bit boring at first, but the more I got to know her, the more I liked her. We eventually really hit it off and got together after I broke up with my ex - now we’re engaged.

There’s just one problem: we were about to be married when my ex-wife’s brother [38 M] showed up and revealed that I’ve kept my bipolar and/or depressed wife [37 F] locked in a small padded room in my attic for the past 15 years. (Inlaws know all your skeletons. Ugh.) He then called me a bigamist in front of my girlfriend, embarrassing me and her!

Now my gf wants to break off our engagement...all because of a little spousal attic confinement! I tried to compromise - I even said that marriage wasn’t a huge deal and she could still be my mistress, but she won’t hear me out. We’re so in love, I don’t see what the big deal is...AITA here???

Tl;dr: AITA for trying to convince my 16yr younger fiancée to become my mistress after she discovered I kept my depressed wife trapped in a padded attic room for 15 years?

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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.”

— James Baldwin

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“¡Qué soledad, la del príncipe sin reino, la del hombre sin calor!”

— Guillermo Del Toro:  El Espinazo del Diablo, 2001.

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James Dean photographed by Dennis Stock, Fairmount, IN, 1955

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Dream—Sofie KJ

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Writing Notes: Facial Expressions

Facial Expression - A form of non-verbal communication in which an affect display is communicated via the face, the musculature of which is sufficiently complex to enable a vast range of expressions to be conveyed.

The 7 Universal Facial Expressions of Emotion Anger, Contempt, Fear, Disgust, Happiness/Joy, Sadness and Surprise.

The 3 Types of Facial Expressions of Emotion

Macroexpressions

Seen in daily interactions with people all of the time.

Typically last from 1/2 a second to 4 seconds.

Microexpressions

Occur when people are consciously or unconsciously trying to conceal or repress what they are feeling.

Most people report that they don’t see microexpressions, however research has shown that people can be taught to spot these relatively easily: with training, in about an hour.

Typically last less than 1/2 a second.

Subtle Expressions

Associated with the intensity of the emotion, not the time the emotion moves on and off the face.

These occur when a person is just starting to feel an emotion, or when their emotional response to a situation, another person or the environment around them is of low intensity.

Recent research showed a high correlation between recognizing subtle expressions and being able to tell when someone is lying.

These expressions show the 7 basic emotions.

Sources: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

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Sunday reads / King Kong Theory

It’s crazy when things speak to you so deeply. I usually have side eye for white feminism but this one is thee one.

Yo I love Virginie Despentes — her mind is something else. I had to highlight this whole page because I was like fuck yes to every statement.

Hits so hard.

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For full thing click thru to the AO3 link or you can see the super high qual version on Flickr. Who knows the fate of this on Tumblr. PUT ALL THAT SKIN AWAY BUCKO.  

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Birthday gift for @velociraptorerin​. Cause everyone needs a good hug every once in a while. <3

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Beautiful film stills from Good Bye, Lenin! (2003) with Daniel Brühl as Alexander Kerner.

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“She is a beautiful piece of broken pottery, put back together by her own hands. And a critical world judges her cracks while missing the beauty of how she made herself whole again.”

— J.M. Storm

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“In the beginning the Universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.”

— Douglas Adams

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“IT’S A SWORD, IT’S NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE.” My favourite scene from The Hogfather. ___ See how this comic was made here.