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Duck the Police, Matte Stephens

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“Personally I like tapping a tiny heart and watching it explode blood everywhere” - @prettysadmostly

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No guns needed.

Social workers are the new police officers.

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Never impressed by snapchat.

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Nobody knows but you:

I ate McDonald's today.

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There are lots of different ways to smoke a cigarette. Some of them are as potent as the tarry concoction inside each little white tube. Every drag was suffused with irony on the notoriously cigariffic Mad Men. In The Fault in Our Stars, Augustus Waters made a spectacle of almost-but-not-quite lighting up. On the new hacker drama Mr. Robot, the techie savants puff offhandedly, indifferent to the vulnerabilities of the flesh.

Another powerful way to smoke is to do it when you’re 12. Back in 2000, people around the world were struck by a photo of two Burmese child soldiers, the Htoo twins. They led a group of rebels, called “God’s Army,” against the Burmese military. They were believed by some to possess magical powers, to be invulnerable. And one, gazing into the camera, brazenly smoked a miniature stogie.

Something about that image stayed with Asaf and Tomer Hanuka and Boaz Lavie, the creators of the new graphic novel, The Divine. The picture was “an unparalleled image of childhood without childhood… chain-smoking child-soldiers, their eyes as tired as if they were fifty years older,” they write in the afterword to their book. “For several years we would take a look at [the photo] from time to time, trying to decipher it.”

Those meditations have borne radiant but flawed fruit. The Divine throbs with supersaturated color and cleverly deploys myth and mysticism. But it stays at the surface, lacking dimensional characters or a compelling theme. It’s all smoke.

A Striking Image Becomes A Gory Graphic Novel In ‘Divine’

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I’m tired of people romanticizing overexertion. Exhausted is not the new chic, coffee (though a delicious necessity) is not a food group, and running on fumes is not admirable. Why do we hold pedestals for sleepless nights, breakdowns, and inner turmoil? Are those really things to aspire to? Self-care. Balance. The ability to know when your body, mind, and spirit need to take a step back. Those are things we should admire. We have to stop blurring the line between ‘commitment’ and self-endangerment because too many people are burning out before they have a chance to truly shine.

my opinion on the way we envision hard work and the way we should live life  (via runningmandz)

so true…

(via helloheath-art)

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Play the new Grand Budapest Hotel video game.

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Got an ask about this the other day so here’s all the pieces from the ‘Dante’s Inferno’ series in one looooooong post. >:)

The circles of hell the pieces are based on, in order of appearance are:

Limbo - Lust - Gluttony - Greed - Anger - Heresy - Violence - Fraud - Treachery

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Spent the morning with these guys. Making proud choices.

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Frank R. Paul. The Elements of Science Fiction. 1953.

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Quit what you hate. Quit what makes you angry. Quit what makes you tired. Quit what makes you sad. Quit what makes you suffer. Quit what makes you guilty.

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No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization’s oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy in Obergefell v. Hodges, granting marriage equality as a constitutional right. (via englishprof)

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a bird apartment

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She says those things, and I'm just like, 'that's a lie.'

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Blas Gallego