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"There are old poops who will say that you do not become a grown-up until you have somehow survived, as they have, some famous calamity -- the Great Depression, the Second World War, Vietnam, whatever. Storytellers are responsible for this destructive, not to say suicidal, myth. Again and again in stories, after some terrible mess, the character is able to say at last, 'Today I am a woman. Today I am a man. The end.' When I got home from the Second World War, my Uncle Dan clapped me on the back, and he said, 'You're a man now.' So I killed him. Not really, but I certainly felt like doing it. Dan, that was my bad uncle, who said a male can't be a man unless he'd gone to war. But I had a good uncle, my late Uncle Alex. He was my father's kid brother, a childless graduate of Harvard who was an honest life-insurance salesman in Indianapolis. He was well-read and wise. And his principal complaint about other human beings was that they so seldom noticed it when they were happy. So when we were drinking lemonade under an apple tree in the summer, say, and talking lazily about this and that, almost buzzing like honeybees, Uncle Alex would suddenly interrupt the agreeable blather to exclaim, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.' So I do the same now, and so do my kids and grandkids. And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'"

— Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country (2005)

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That meme going around where Yuuji looks like a Togepi is so wholesome ;v;

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THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE (2018) Episode 5 | "The Bent-Neck Lady"

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she is thriving | THE BEAR SEASON TWO

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bps team battle subs all in one post, just because it looks nice ^_^

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Deleted Barrel scenes...of Thorin so passionately trying to find his hobbit.

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Here's a silly comic i did and got too scared to post.

Shout out to @tatterings for helping with the colouring you're a real one!

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Plants 🌱

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reblog to be eaten by this thing

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THE WITCH (2015) dir. Robert Eggers

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JEREMY ALLEN WHITE

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Dandelions & marigolds

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touches the ball with cheeto finger

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Yuuta Okkotsu in Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 Episode 23

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every once and a while I have to paint a knight to reorient myself...

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JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN as Clyde in The Possession (2012)