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So I’m rewatching “The Lord of the Rings” for the first time in a long time (in honour of Bernhard Hill & also because it’s been ages) and the thing that strikes me most, is that everyone looks so very human!

Don’t get me wrong, the elves have an air of the ethereal. Liv Tyler especially. And still…everyone has laugh lines and slight shadows under their eyes. There are all types of noses! Big, small, bend, straight. Everyone looks distinct, and it’s just so beautiful. And honestly, the most refreshing thing.

It really gives you a chance to say: “I could inhabit this world” and that is beautiful.

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Happy stabbing day! I reblog this again, because it’s just so perfect! 👌

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Wow.

emily wilson your MIND

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Good Morning from Scotland 

Sunrise at Lock Coruisk, Isle of Skye

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Good Morning from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

North Harris Dawn

📸John Ealing on 500px

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Yes, yes, yessss! To all of it. And to make it a “syllable” - a syllable!!! Not even a word, but a part of a word. As if in the end, we won’t even finish our last utterance. Incomplete. We are cut short when death comes.

Love it. It’s sooo good!

When Shakespeare describes the eventual end of human history as “the last SYLLABLE of recorded time” suggesting that the end of humanity will not be with a bang, a whimper, a gunshot, a sword, or even a breath, but with a syllable - a word….

And the fact that the line ends on the word “time”, which is one stressed syllable past its welcome in the iambic pentameter, suggesting that time itself continues long after human speech (iambic pentameter) has already ended AAAAAAHHHHHHH-

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Count me dead!

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Rounding Cape Horn, where the winds howl, the waves rise, and sailors are born anew - Bark Europa

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I finally feel validated in my choice. :)

@thoughathousandmayfall y'all gonna be sleeping WITH Aragorn in Glacier, those peaks get freaking cold and there is only one bed no bed

Actually this one was inspired by a ranger I worked with my last season there who was determined to climb Heaven's Peak, which has no trails and this really treacherous arete summit. I'm not sure he ever accomplished it, but you know who would?

I also did a SAR that summer where I was partnered with a ranger who did trail running on his time off and hiked 900x faster than me, and I was pretty sure I was going to be the one being coptered out of there by the end of the day.

^Ranger Jimmy when he saw who he was partnered with

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Why, oh why? Do I love sailing ships so much?

I think it’s the sound of wind and waves; and wood working…you can hear it in this picture.

Evening light, Bay of Biscay aboard Nao Victoria, by Richard Sibley

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So beautiful! 👍

All the "inktobers" for this week (taking a break for the weekend) !

I. Hérault / Herald  · II. Piqueur / Kennelkeeper  · III. Échanson / Cupbearer  · IV. Naturaliste / Naturalist  · V. Comédien / Comedian  · VI. Chirurgien / Surgeon

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I always wondered why nobody asked about the contents in the first place….

Glass of water at any height: Good

Glass of poison at any height: Bad.

In case of the later half empty might mean, you’re half way through a bad thing…or you’re dead. Wow. That’s depressing. But yeah…I always wondered what inside the glass anyway.

when i was a kid i used to respond to the "glass half full/half empty" question by asking how the liquid in the glass got there in the first place. nobody ever gave me a chance to explain my reasoning so i'm doing it now

if you have a glass and it has some liquid in it, up to the halfway line, whether it is empty or full depends on what happened before the question was asked. if you started with a full glass and poured half out until only half remained, the glass is half empty, because if you continued pouring it would be fully empty. however, if you started with an empty glass and poured liquid from another container into the glass up to the halfway line, the glass is half full because if you continued pouring it would be all the way full. logical, no?

i was 13 years old when somebody finally told me it was supposed to be some kind of optimism/pessimism thing. i always thought it was a riddle that nobody let me solve

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The kind of story, we all need at the end of a long day! You rock Rhode Island girl. 👍

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Happy Birthday, Freddie 🎂

Happy birthday to the greatest singer/performer ever Freddie Mercury!! We all love and miss you so much 🤍🤍

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Total brother-sister-dynamic, enjoying each others uniqueness - and the fact that they are just as weird as you in a different way.

“I knew I’d like you.”

Sam & Daniel in “Children of the Gods” 

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STARGATE SG-1, 2.15

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That sweater was a good look….

“I always seem to be saying goodbye to you.”

6.06 “Abyss”