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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Cathedral, Mountain, Moon: Single shots like this require planning. The first step is to realize that such an amazing triple-alignment actually takes place. The second step is to find the best location to photograph it. But it was the third step: being there at exactly the right time—and when the sky was clear—that was the hardest. Five times over six years the photographer tried and found bad weather. Finally, just ten days ago, the weather was perfect, and a photographic dream was realized. Taken in Piemonte, Italy, the cathedral in the foreground is the Basilica of Superga, the mountain in the middle is Monviso, and, well, you know which moon is in the background. Here, even though the setting Moon was captured in a crescent phase, the exposure was long enough for doubly reflected Earthlight, called the da Vinci glow, to illuminate the entire top of the Moon. Image Credit & Copyright: Valerio Minato :: [Thanks Robert Scott Horton]

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"The moon suddenly stands up in the darkness, And I see that it is impossible to die. Each moment of time is a mountain."

James Wright, from “Today I Was So Happy, So I Made This Poem,” in The Branch Will Not Break: Poems

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[bodyalive]

Peggy Guggenheim photographed by Man Ray in 1924.

[Jim Fagiolo]

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“A recent study published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience demonstrated that while most forms of exercise slow down age-related decline, dancing has even more profound benefits. Considered a psychosocial intervention, dancing combines the mood-elevating effects of increased social interaction with improvements in brain function, cardiac fitness, and overall quality of life. Mastering new rhythms, steps, and formations, in combination with increased social engagement, provides a boost to brain activity that creates additional cognitive benefits.”

― Sayer Ji, Regenerate: Unlocking Your Body's Radical Resilience through the New Biology

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[tennessoui]

oh oh oh au where anakin and obi-wan are both generals of the rebellion and anakin escorts senator bail and queen breha back to Alderaan after a covert Resistance meeting on the request of General Kenobi because he’s the best flyer in the Rebellion and they need to sneak them back into Alderaan so the empire doesn’t know….

Only for the rebellion to get the news that the Death Star has destroyed Alderaan. No word from General Skywalker. It must be assumed that he died with the planet.

Obi-Wan refuses to believe it, even as the days pass with no signal from Anakin. But he can’t believe his old padawan is dead….and he can’t believe he’d sent him to his death either.

(Anakin is alive, but he had to go undercover as an Imperial to leave the planet in time and hasn’t been able to contact Obi-Wan, but surely Obi-Wan knows it’ll take more than a Death Star to kill him!!)

(Obi-Wan doesn’t know this)

(Their reunion involves Obi-Wan maybe toppling him into the dust in a hug and then punching him when Anakin makes a Hardeen joke about it all)

[dawnleaf37]

IM TRYING TO DRAW THE STUPID FUCKING SCENE WHERE THIS IDIOTS ON THE CONVEYOR BELT TO THE FLYSWAT MACHINE BUT THE ONLY SONG THATS PLAYING RIGHT NOW IS FUNKY TOWN IM LOSING MY MJND

[scorpiusmalfoylovesoscarwilde]

do you understand how long I've been waiting for Devan's wedding???!!?!! it has lived in my head rent free for 5 years, I'm fucking HYPED

[kairithemang0]

My favorite thing to do is go through old starkid fan videos and just know every line by heart no I'm not obsessed wdym I'm very normal

[dark-elf-writes]

Wait wait wait wait for maximum pain for all involved in the ff7/hp crossover

Harry has to go back when he’s 14 because his name came out of the goblet and the magical contract is so strong that even a world away ignoring the summons could kill him. And on a more meta standpoint he has to be there so Voldemort can be brought back so Harry can eventually kill him.

And it tears Aerith apart to have to send him back. To not be able to save him just like she couldn’t save Cloud. To know that he will be hurt no matter what she does.

But, she is nothing if not resourceful.

So she sends Harry back to his planet at 14 but she also sends all of AVALANCHE (plus a few extras maybe idk) with him and they are frankly out for blood.

[lunarharp]

lazy scribbling of my baldur's gate 3 characters

[crescentfool]

silly facts about me: for about five months now, every time i leave my room and i see my mom sitting in the living room at her, i briefly do a little dinosaur impersonation motion like this. it's become a habit that i started doing as a joke because i thought it was funny.

and somehow!!! only a few days ago!! did my mom ever think to say, "you shouldn't be doing that to your wrists" and only then it dawned on me, "huh, yeah, i really shouldn't."

and now i haven't been doing it anymore because the idea of having to explain to someone, "i fucked up my wrists because i would pretend to be yosukesaurus every time i walked into the living room" is too embarassing LMFAO. and also i don't want to fuck up my wrists. fun fact over.

[cactikiki]

Naming Gregory, Ellis, Tony and Cassie the mystery squad and you can't stop me

[thestormypetrelofcrime]

I finished season 2 so fuck it here’s my Crowley closet cosplays from 2019-2021

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Jan Hughes

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“There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it’s not really there.” ― Bill McKibben, The End of Nature

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[bodyalive]

[from my files]

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breath My favorite poem about breathing, by the way, is very, very Catholic and some of you may find it a bit much, but Gerard Manley Hopkins’ classic here is a linguistic treasure.

Wild air, world-mothering air, Nestling me everywhere, That each eyelash or hair Girdles; goes home betwixt The fleeciest, frailest-flixed Snowflake; that’s fairly mixed With, riddles, and is rife In every least thing’s life; This needful, never spent, And nursing element; My more than meat and drink, My meal at every wink … For Hopkins, this was like the ubiquitous presence of the Blessed Virgin. For me right now, it’s just a reminder of how blessed we are … to breathe. — Andrew Permalink from The Daily Dish [alive on all channels]

[danswank]

it’s good to feel something.

[rbf451]

tiittatommi two ig stories 15.3.2023 At Poppodium 013, Tilburg 15.3.2023

1. What’s that Joonas button? 2. Joonas button in the action.

[000marie198]

The New York Times:

Also The New York Times:

......

Just how long do you bootlickers think you can keep up the Pro-Israeli propaganda narrative when the statistical new article adjacent to it proves it completely wrong and burns it into the ground? Just how long do you think you can control the thought processes of people who know the truth?

Someone's gotta be very very very stupid to believe and be affected by this propaganda even after everything.

Oh! And here's the article posted right after the other two, just minutes ago:

Keep pressuring them! They are afraid, they're down to making excuses