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why do vampires even bother trying to be invited in. just get a harpoon gun

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Not bad looking? He’s damnably handsome. Brave in battle, smart as a whip. An excellent dancer. Oh, and an even better shot.

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King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo, 2019

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“Daughter of Smoke and Bone”, with Prague in the background! I loved both the book (ordered the sequel already!) and the week I spent in this beautiful city with my boyfriend. I’d go back in an instant, if I could! ❤

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me: has 29 shows to catch up on, 43 books to read, a house to clean, dinner to cook, work to do

also me: guess it’s time to watch pride and prejudice (2005) dir. joe wright for the 600th time

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Anyone else like the idea of nonbinary Kaz? Like imagine.

“What’s your gender?”

“Money.”

“No what’s in your pants?”

“A knife. And your wallet.”

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I luv him…..

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“Cassini's own discoveries were its demise.”

– Earl Maize, its project engineer @ JPL

current mood: emotional about a space probe

Cassini is the first spacecraft that was destroyed not from malfunction, or as a necessary end result of its mission… but out of love.

The probe was running out of propulsion fuel, but there’s no reason it couldn’t have been pushed into a stable orbit from where it could collect data and send back pictures for a long while yet.

Except it had detected that one of Saturn’s moons held liquid water and organic compounds: a world that might support life. A world that is, at the least, dreaming of life.

There is no orbit stable enough to be certain that the probe, carrying radioactive batteries and Earth’s bacteria, would never have come into contact with Enceladus. A delicate island of alien life could have been snuffed out or overrun. The sheep could have eaten the rose.

So instead - for the love of this fragile possibility, this potential that might yet never be realized - Cassini was brought into a final, intimate tango with Saturn.

But of course, all space probes are built for the sake of awe, which is nearly love. Science is rational, but scientists are driven to understand the universe just as the religious strive to know the face of God.

The Cassini probe was a 4 billion dollar machine for understanding Saturn. And yesterday, two decades after it launched from our planet, it was destroyed while sending us information about Saturn it never could have gathered from a distant, stable orbit: advancing its purpose, even knowing that it would be consumed.

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We are writers, and we never ask one another where we get our ideas; we know we don’t know.

On Writing by Stephen King (via gooseandcaboose)

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me: stutters out fifteen sentence fragments that no-one can make sense of not even me me: you know?

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Going pretty well, tbh. 

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Hey

Psstt

The guy who invented the theory that vaccines cause autism had his medical license revoked for it

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In 1988, these neo-Nazis disgraced themselves on the “Oprah Winfrey Show”

She used her platform to expose their ignorance and hate. 

What happened during this hour changed the course of Oprah show history forever.

Oprah says she and her producers believed they would be exposing ignorance and confronting hate, but they were wrong.

That was the show that changed the way Oprah thought about TV and how in should be used for good.

#Neo-Nazis #OprahWinfrey

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A Reaper At The Gates by @sabaatahir Countdown → Day 206 ↪ Tour | Tribal Lands  | Desert

see previous moodboard here

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The Plantagenets = Goths

The Tudors = Punk Rock

The Saxe-Coburg and Gothas/Windsors = shady sexually active band geeks