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Due to personal reasons I will be disappearing under mysterious circumstances

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My best friend is about to leave for college on the other side of the country and I am a very awkward turtle that doesn't really know how to maintain friendships and definitely not over long distance. How do I stay in contact with my friend?

Maintaining Friendships While Far Away

Create a group chat and send each other memes. Memes are my love language.

Follow them on social media and like their posts, especially big event life posts. They will see the likes and feel loved.

Use Snapchat as a quick way to send each other life updates.

Use Netflixparty to watch movies together.

Every time you see something that reminds you of them, send them a text (every time I see anything that says Texas I text @herhighnessthequeen immediately).

DON’T space on birthdays. Program birthdays into your phone right now so that you don’t forget.

Physical packages and handwritten letters can be nice and meaningful, but that can get expensive. Texts can be just as meaningful and sweet!

Make plans to visit each other from time to time. Take turns traveling to visit one another. Take time off work if you can if your friend comes to visit! Make an occasion of it.

Don’t be afraid to double or triple text! They’ll respond when they’re not busy.

Long telephone conversations and in-person visits are not the only ways to stay connected to friends. People’s lives get busy. Don’t expect your friends to be able to talk to you for long periods of time and don’t be upset if their life gets busy and they’re not as available. Their being busy don’t change your relationship or how much you mean to one another. Communicate when you can, and be glad of the relationship.

Good luck!

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please raise your children to wash their hands after they use the restroom I’ve watched too many men walk straight out of the bathroom from the stall without a second thought and it’s keeping me up at night

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harry potter au where everything is the same except to make a spell stronger you say “bitch” after it (i.e., “avada kedavra, BITCH”)

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Hadestown characters as Kermit memes

Orpheus: 

Eurydice:

Persephone:

Hades:

Hermes:

The Fates:

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hadestown characters as john mulaney quotes

orpheus:

eurydice:

hades:

persephone:

hermes:

the fates:

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the ‘huh huh huh huh huh’ underscoring in letters reblog if you agree

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Who is Balaga? I mean, I know he’s the  F A M O U S  T R O I K A  D R I V E R but who is he? He clearly knows Anatole and Dolokhov from past experiences, but what’s his history with them? Has Anatole eloped with more than one rich girl? Where are the “places not on any maps” and why the hell would Anatole and Dolokhov want to go to them? What were they up to - and more importantly, how much of it does Balaga know? He says he “knows things that would get you sent straight to Siberia if anyone found out”, but Anatole cheating on the wife barely anyone knows about doesn’t seem serious enough to qualify that, so what has he and/or Dolokhov done that Balaga knows about? Is that why he never has to “ask for roubles”? Because he has dirt on them so they pay him off? When he refers to his “fine gentlemen”, does he mean various customers or, as is seeming increasingly likely, does he mean just Anatole and Dolokhov? Could that mean that when he says guys have “beaten me and slapped me with their gloves”, that could have something to do with the fucked up arrangement he has with them? Did he witness something he wasn’t meant to? Alternatively, could the two owe him something, like something suspicious? Dolokhov is a “crazy good shot” according to the prologue, but he misses when he shoots at Pierre in the Duel, even though he managed to assassinate the Shah’s brother… could it be possible that Balaga had something to do with that?? He claims some say his troika “rides into the air”, which doesn’t seem realistically possible - is Balaga some kind of demon, who made a dark deal with Dolokhov and Anatole and therefore doesn’t “do this for roubles” and “does it because I like it” because he’s a true chaotic evil? He’s definitely contributing to chaos by helping them abduct Natasha. Additionally, Anatole’s defining feature - that he’s  H O T - is a little nondescript… is it an enchantment that Balaga gave him? So that all women around him would fall in love with him? Did they send witches to Siberia in 1812?? AM I READING FAR TOO FAR INTO THIS? I KNOW I AM BUT GET THIS: I DON’T THINK BALAGA’S A HUMAN AND I HAVE FURTHER EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT TH

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non-exhaustive list of musical phrases in the great comet that i find particularly spectacular:

harmony on “chandeliers and caviar”

the way that “living out their final days in moscow” goes downwards

“we’ll buy what we can afford”

the absolute jam that starts with “yes father yes father”

“i love you i love you i love you i love you”

“announcing…fedya DOLOHKOV”

“you can’t love her!”

“missed…missed…oh my mother my angel my adored angel mother”

the banger in dust and ashes that starts after the first chorus

“i see my face” “don’t be silly”

“time for church!”

“i see nothing but the candle in the mirror” also the so alone section in letters

obviously the “woooooaaaaahhhhh” in balaga (especially once the harmony kicks)

“natasha come here, kiss me, press your wet face to mine”

the choral part in great comet starting with “and there in the middle”

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My favorite thing is theater critics attempting to describe Lucas Steele as Anatole

“Enter the peacocking rogue Anatole (Lucas Steele, a platinum-blond knife-blade who looks like he could have kept One Direction together singlehandedly).”

-Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly

“Anatole (Lucas Steele, so wickedly sexy he should be arrested) is a preening peacock with a platinum-blond faux-hawk, given a flashy rock-star entrance”

-David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter

“Steele is charismatic as the cocky hedonist, haughtily tearing through scenes like a Disney prince off his meds.”

-Robert Kahn, NBC 4

"Anatole — portrayed by Lucas Steele with irrepressible rock-star vanity and the hair of a platinum woodpecker.”

-Linda Winer, Newsday

"Lucas Steele, for instance, is ideal as the Anatole conceived here: a rock star in skintight pants and a cantilevered pompadour.”

-Jesse Green, Vulture

"Lucas Steele performs the devilishly handsome Anatole with a cocky swagger that is just as effective on this recording as it is in person at the Imperial Theatre. Steele’s sex-infused instrument uses sublime delicacy to woo Natasha and listeners alike, allowing audiences to understand how he could sweep the young girl away.”

-David Clarke, Broadway World

"Steele’s Anatole Kuragin, the androgynous Casanova with a platinum pompadour who sweeps onto the stage with a David Bowie swagger and an introductory line in the opening song that tells the audience almost everything we need to know about him: “Anatole is hot. He spends his money on women and wine.”

-Dana Schwartz, The Observer

"Steele comes across as a Disney prince who plunged into New York City in an Enchanted­-like scenario”

-Dana Schwartz, The Observer

"Lucas Steele plays Anatole as a Disney villain—sky-high pompadour, skin-tight pants, slinkily thrust hips, and a singing voice that soars and swoops”

-Jil Picariello, ZEALnyc

"Anatole’s played by Lucas Steele, who reminds me a bit of a young Val Kilmer (Think Top Secret, not Top Gun)”

-Laura LaVelle, Newswhistle

Basically it’s the best.

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I had a very productive week

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Death comes for Minerva McGonagall.

It comes for her, as it came for her husband, so many years ago. It comes for her, as it came for her Headmaster, the price of his ambition. It comes for her, as it came for far too many of her friends and students, in one war then another.

Death comes for her.

Minerva McGonagall Looks at Death, and raises an eyebrow.

Death pauses, then nods and backs away. “We’ll call this number three then, shall we?”

She smiles as she turns back to her paperwork. There is a reason her animagus form is a cat.

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one of my favorite weird history moments has got to be when american agents tasked with nixon’s security while he was in the soviet union as vice president under eisenhower detected unusual amounts of radiation in his hotel room so they discussed it loudly to each other to make sure the soviets knew that they knew since there were obviously bugs everywhere and the next day it just mysteriously went away and they never learned any more about it

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The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius (via quotemadness)

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What’s your fantasy?