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touching grass isn't enough i need to be

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Aeschylus’ The Oresteia: Agamemnon (tr. Richmond Lattimore)

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- Anthony Bourdain, Les Halles Cookbook

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You need love.

Hopefully it's love for the people you're cooking for, because the greatest and most memorable meals are as much about who you are with as they are about what you are. But love for what you're doing, and for the ingredients you're doing it with, will more than suffice. I suggested once to a maniacal barbecue professional that cooking well was not a profession, it was a calling. He laughed and went further: "it's an illness." I knew just what he meant. You must like cooking for other people, even if you neither know nor like them. You must enjoy the fact that you are nourishing them, pleasing them, giving the best you've got.

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How To Train Your Dragon (2010) / The Dragon Prince (2018—?) / The Sea Beast (2022)

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Paul Guest, from "Poem Written to Replace Another", My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge

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love and soup on the planet earth

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“The mystic Simone Weil wrote to a friend on another continent, ‘Let us love this distance, which is thoroughly woven with friendship, since those who do not love each other are not separated.’ For Weil, love is the atmosphere that fills and colors the distance between herself and her friend. Even when that friend arrives on the doorstep, something remains impossibly remote: when you step forward to embrace them your arms are wrapped around mystery, around the unknowable, around that which cannot be possessed.”

— Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost (via ecrituria)

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I find community everywhere I go and I love and value that so much about my life, and as I have gotten older I have realized that this is not because I am the greatest con artist master manipulator alive hiding my evil heart and corrupted soul from everyone and coercing them through subterfuge into caring about me. Actually all I am is lovely

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DOCTOR WHO, 2x08 - “The Impossible Planet”(2006) STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS, dir. J.J. Abrams (2013) THE MARTIAN, dir. Ridley Scott (2015)

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Genuinely so mad that cuddling is seen as a strictly romantic thing that's so stupid cuddling is awesome and two consenting platonic pals should be allowed to cuddle as much as they want

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James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

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“why would we make plans in front of you if you weren’t invited?” babe i was left out of everything growing up, i need 100% confirmation you want me there or i simply will not go

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Tell me a soft memory

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You know that Ada Limón poem where she’s like “i can’t help it i love the way men love”? my dad recently confessed to me that he became a shoemaker because they buried my grandma shoeless

oh…………………………………

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my life really did improve when i decided to just constantly, casually compliment my friends and family. i cannot recommend it more. it makes everything better. you look incredible in that shirt, you're one of the funniest people i know, you're wearing the hell out of that dress, you're so sexy wtf, you're so talented, i love talking to you, you're so fun to be around, you're so kind, that haircut is amazing, i love you, i love you, i love you

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friendship is like you rest your head on my shoulder on the way home from the beach our faces absorbing the last waves of warmth from the setting sun i rest my head on top of yours and it’s silent but we both know it means “i’m never more at peace than during moments like this with you”

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schuyler peck (@schuylerpeck) can't get enough of my love \\ sanna wani \\ charles oluf olsen goal

kofi