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It’s important to take notice of kindness. Not just being kind, or kindness given to you. Be attentive to kindness shown by others, to others.

Someone running to catch up to the person who dropped their belonging. The patient librarian with the elderly patron at the computer. The little kid picking up worms from the drying sidewalk. The local food pantry that stays open on holidays, that actually works extra hard on holidays to help people have a proper celebratory meal. The charities that meet or exceed their fundraising goals, lives saved from donated blood or organs, a species saved by decades of tireless work from thousands of people.

Kindness doesn't go away just because you aren't directly involved with it. Notice it. The world will feel less cold.

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This is so funny to me

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why must clothes tear when you wear them repeatedely? love should make you stronger

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there is something erotic about watching someone be extraordinarily competent at something especially if they're also really passionate about it

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And to think that it takes very little to make a child happy....

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"this movie doesn't hold up bcos of dated special effects :(" to you, maybe. i would clap at a bat on a string

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Andrew Garfield on consent and privacy

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"BANZAI!"

All shot using real figures, lighting and miniature sets. My usual foil for water technique and cotton wool for the splashes were used into create the water

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Thanks for tagging me @oceanandarock!

No pressure tag to @unrequitedlover295 @lenaluthorssuitcollection @teafaellana

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to pretend that horrible people cannot make good art is another way to conflate beauty and talent with integrity and morality. the works of monsters are best examined with knowledge of the author in mind but art is not inherently reflective. human beings are creative, and habitual liars- it'd be stupid to pretend art must always be a portrait of its creator

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Probably one of my favorite random things about LotR is the fact that

a) Pippin did a Gollum impression in the books

b) Pippin had never MET Gollum before that point and never would

c) yet it was an ACCURATE impression, as it startled and was recognized by the orc he was speaking to

d) the only possible explanation for Pippin Took’s accurate Gollum impression is this: Bilbo, while telling stories to the eager children, must have imitated Gollum perfectly

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also if gnomes were all sitting around a small tree stump using it as a table and someone used the word "misnomer" one of them would speak up and go "HEEHEE. MISS GNOMER IS WHAT I CALL THE MISSUS" they'd all laugh so hard they fall off the mushrooms they are sitting on and spill the berry juice everywhere

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