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Babby Jesus- World’s first metal-head?

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Another moth for the moth jar!

This is a Madagascan Sunset Moth and I worked on him during a very long day at work. Thank you very much for the suggestion, moth enthusiasts!

Now available as a stick and a bunch of other things on Redbubble.

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That'd be 78 but feels like it should be 77, on account of Hamlet being oddly listed separately than the complete works🤔

How many have you read?

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal – Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

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Galadriel and Celebrian

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Mama Aredhel and little mole son

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I pretend to be complex and clever but in reality, nothing has ever made me laugh harder than those bad Chinese subtitles from the bootleg Lord of the Rings DVDs. Tears streaming down my face, core aching, slowly suffocating because I’m laughing too hard.

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Love Rainy Weather....

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fucking hate it when the stuff everybody says "actually works" does actually work.

hate exercising and realizing i've let go of a lot of anxiety and anger because i've overturned my fight-or-flight response.

hate eating right and eating enough and eating 3 times a day and realizing i'm less anxious and i have more energy

hate journaling in my stupid notebook with my stupid bic ballpoint and realizing that i've actually started healing about something once i'm able to externalize it

hate forgiving myself hate complimenting myself more often hate treating myself with kindness hate taking a gratitude inventory hate having patience hate talking to myself gently

hate turning my little face up to the sun and taking deep breaths and looking at nature and grounding myself and realizing that i feel less burdened and more hopeful, more actually-here, that i am able to see the good sides of myself more clearly, that i am able to see not only how far i have to grow - but also how much growth i have already done & how much of my life i truly fill with light and laughter and love

horrible horrible horrible. hate it but i'm gonna do it tho

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no stevie nicks, i CAN’T sail through the changing ocean tides and i CAN’T handle the seasons of my life

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@the-yarn-witch , a home with a colour scheme you may approve of!

Welcome to Neel’s technicolor converted factory home in Melbourne, Australia.  A floral mural dresses up the exterior front door, that opens to a rainbow staircase.

Neel relaxes on the mezzanine level, where exposed beams are painted lime green.

“My whole life is pretty colorful, and I wanted my house to feel like an extension of that,” Neel says. “It’s the social house where people want to congregate and hang out.”

Neel’s portrait mingles with kittens, Darth Vader, and Buzz Lightyear.

One of the first pieces Neel bought for his home, this shell-back chair, was recovered in salvaged fabrics.

Neel stores a variety of colorful glasses in his cotton-candy pink console. Each guest who visits is required to choose the vessel that represents them best.

Elephant trunks make stunning table legs.

“My colorful aesthetic was elevated when I moved to Australia because wearing colorful clothes looked so much better in bright sunlight,” Neel says.

This interior front door has a cheerful jungle mural.

I wanted her to have curly hair because of my obsession with curly hair,” Neel says of the mural. “I just like the faces. Every morning when I wake up, I look at them and feel very happy with myself.”

Neel’s bevy of antique mirrors, which he bought at Sunday markets and then spray painted in neons and jewel tones, provide a similar level of delight in his bedroom.

Neel channeled 1970s New York bathhouses and Mykonos, Greece nightclubs for his enchanting bathroom.

“Oh my God. I took one this morning,” Neel says of his outdoor shower. “Joyful. Absolutely. That has elevated my joy. Nudged it to the next level.”

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/this-technicolor-melbourne-home-is-filled-with-hundreds-of-faces

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Was thinking you were from Mit Rahina, grew up near the ruins of Memphis... did not get it until learned the united states have a Memphis

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I love all my plants dearly, but today's special plants are the variegated hoya pachyclada (who can keep up with what it is actually called now) who has exploded with another lovely peduncle, smells like floral perfume and cleaning supplies....😌; both of my itty bitty baby begonias who bring colour and whimsy into my room; and this hoya pubicalyx of some sort who throws the most gorgeous deep purple leaves😍

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I tutor a ten year-old boy who would rather write an informative essay than a short story. He'd stall and stall, make and remake characters, despair over thinking of a plot. I told him to write an adventure for Jack and Annie with their Magic Treehouse, and BAM, he can research something and then put these characters he knows in! He can chart out a plot using a predictable framework! Asked him to imagine what would happen if HE found the Magic Treehouse, and all of a sudden he is branching out from that frame, searching for hidden carvings in the wood, exploring the rest of the tree, getting creative.

We had moved well on to poetry when one week he is SO PROUD to read me his story where Jack and Annie go to Hogwarts. So proud. He made up spells, he chose wands, he wrote a Sorting Hat song. He printed that story out to show his parents who don't speak any English at all, and his teacher at school. He made his own side character in that fanfic, and has been writing ON HIS OWN, UNPROMPTED, a story about a boy who briefly met J&A and searched for his own magic adventure.

Starting with the framework of fanfiction is a perfect way for kids to ease into creative writing without getting overwhelmed with “how to start making stuff up out of nowhere??”.

You’re a ✌🏾former gifted kid✌🏾and you were reading at a college level in grade 4, but you also think Harry Potter is peak literature and that Fanfiction should be taught in school. Yeah alright

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I laughed so heartily that I had to explain this post to my two nearest coworkers, one with his little ccp button pinned to his shirt😂 They did not comprehend. Both were boggled that antivaxxers exist, also bemused by the fact that ccp conspiracy is even A Thing That Exists. Revolution starts with the letter R😂😂😂

Evil Communist Big Bird be like:

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Santa is on strike due to global warming.  All presents this year will be delivered by Sasha the Christmas Tiger.  Milk and cookies may not be sufficient.

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I have.... Not a few hoya plants😅 This is fifteen out of thirty six (probably)

I LIKE slow-growing plants, I have a small home and not a lot of shelf space! Unfortunately my hoya collection have other ideas and grow like they are being paid for it😒

I blame the turtle-provided fertilizer and lack of any discernable winter in this climate.