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Why does basil smell so fucking amazing

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It's a lot healthier to go for a daily walk than to sign up for a gym membership you won't be using because you hate that kind of exercise. It's a lot healthier to eat a frozen meal than to skip a meal because you were too tired to cook something healthy. It's a lot healthier to take a quick shower than to procrastinate an elaborate routine for days. Don't aim so high that you won't be hitting anything!

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@roach-works // Melissa Broder, "Problem Area" // Mary Oliver, "The Return" // @annavonsyfert // Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer // Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance // David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories // Tennessee Williams, Notebooks

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fireflies lighting up a rural Pennsylvania field at dusk

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Gilbert Blythe being like "guess I'll die" after the girl of his dreams rejects him and then actually almost dying for real is the most iconic thing I've ever seen. Bare minimum if you ask me

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Do you know what I think of the new moon? I think it is a little golden boat full of dreams. And when it tips on a cloud some of them spill out and fall into your sleep.

L.M. Montgomery, from Anne of Avonlea

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“My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”

― Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery

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L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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NOBODY feels love like Gilbert Blythe

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“because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while” — Anne With An E

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Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.

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having a fixation on star trek in 2023 is like riding a horse-drawn carriage down the interstate

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i would never use logic. that's appropriating vulcan culture.

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"I don't like old sci-fi shows, the special effects look too cheesy" you are incapable of joy. Go to the dungeon.

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i am conflicted over the way we say people have "lost their humanity" or "are not human" when they commit horrible acts, such as genocide.

because what is humanity if not this dynamic range of intelligence that allows us to commit both unspeakable evil and selfless good? have animals ever committed genocide? if these people are animals then they would perhaps be aggressive—but that would not explain their intentional manslaughter done not out of necessity, but out of hatred.

an animal may kill to eat. an animal may kill to protect themselves when another animal attempts to kill and eat them. an animal may commit individual acts of violence. but you would not see a pride of lions hunting gazelles to extermination. you would not see bears rounding up thousands of wolves and killing them because they are a "threat" to their sources of food.

genocide is an inherently human act. we need to stop pretending like it isn't because that is exactly how the cycle repeats itself. we think only inherently evil and inhuman people would commit genocide, or urge one on, but it could be your next door neighbor that brought you cookies as a housewarming gift. it could be the mayor campaigning for free housing for the unhoused. it could be anyone. that's the point. we're all human. separating yourself from the ones you deem evil only serves to perpetuate this endless repetition of history.

my point is not that humans are inherently bad, either. humans can be good. humans can be evil. humans can be anywhere in between that dichotomy or lie outside of it entirely. we are intelligent, sentient beings. what we do with this intelligence, this sentience? it's up to us.

to commit genocide is a choice that humans make. they are not monsters. they are just human. and to be frank, i think the reason people often avoid this concept is because that is far more terrifying than writing off all people that commit heinous acts as inhuman monsters.

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