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I want every single cat on this planet to know that I love them and that they are great

“I think freckles, stretch marks, tattoos, bruises, birthmarks, and scars are probably the coolest thing. You started with a blank canvas and look at you now, all this evidence that you’ve lived”

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Harry Potter tweets always make me smile.

current mood: I need to explore a deep misty forest very far away

There are 492 Billionaires in the U.S and not one of them has decided to become batman.

Detail : Relief on the facade of the Museo del Prado, in Madrid’s Paseo del Prado.  represented the King Fernando VII, surrounded by gods of classical antiquity, as Minerva, Mercury, Apollo and Neptune (sitting with his trident) .  1830-31.

Ramon Baba. Spanish 1767-1831. marble.

http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

HOLY SHIT MOZART

I just found out Mozart’s first true opera was commisioned by a university when he was 11, which all by itself was pretty impressive.

But the shocking fact is that this little kid wrote the opera about a f*cking homosexual triangle between the greek god Apollo and two humans, Hyacinthus (his lover) and Zephyr (who was jealous).

A GAY OPERA

THERE’S A DAMN GAY OPERA WRITTEN BY A 11 YEAR OLD MOZART

A comforting thought

Five thousand years ago, the Sumerians called the night ngi, the stars mul, and the moon Nanna.

Four thousand years ago, the Akkadians called the night mūšu, the stars kakkabū, and the moon Sîn.

Three thousand years ago, the Hittites called the night išpanza, the stars haštereš, and the moon Arma.

Two and a half thousand years ago, the Greeks called the night nux, the stars astra, and the moon Selênê.

Two thousand years ago, the Romans called the night nox, the stars stellae, and the moon Luna.

Kings and queens and heroes looked up at them. So did travelers coming home, and little children who sneaked out of bed. So did slaves, and mothers and soldiers and old shepherds, and Sappho and Muršili and Enheduanna and Socrates and Hatshepsut and Cyrus and Cicero. In this darkness it didn’t matter who they were, or where they stood. Only that they were human.

Think of that tonight, when you close your window. You are not alone. You share this night sky with centuries of dreamers and stargazers, and people who longed for quiet. Are you anxious? The Hittites were too: they called it pittuliyaš. Does your heart ache? The Greeks felt it too: they called it akhos. Those who look up to the stars for comfort are a family, and you belong to them. Your ancestors have stood under Nanna, Sîn, Arma, Selênê and Luna for five thousand years. Now its light is yours.

May it soothe you well.

“You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Detail: Apollo and the Arts, 1897, by Paul Jean Gervais.

😍😍

would you feel like it was the end of the world if you had to take antibiotics for an ear infection?

then why do you feel like it would be the end of the world if you got chlamydia?

getting an infection through sex is no worse than getting an infection of similar severity any other way. it doesn’t say anything bad about you. sex is nothing to be ashamed of, and neither is an STI.

stigma, shame and fear make both prevention and treatment harder. replace them with knowledge, compassion and confidence and make the choices that are right for you.

everytime I hear about children of the corn I think about the guy I met at comic con who actually lived in the town they filmed that movie at, and on the farm where they filmed in the corn. he was a teenager at the time and him and his friends would get drunk on moonshine and rustle the corn and let the air out of the tires of the production team’s trailers and shit. and now there’s Wikipedia pages about how the children of the corn set was haunted and they thought they angered god but it was really just drunk hillbillies

‘Cause darling I’m a nightmare dressed like a very gay hobo with stress issues.

shoutout to all high school dropouts, students who didn’t get accepted into college, students who used to be on honor roll but became overwhelmed, students who study for hours but still fail tests, or student who don’t study at all due to depression/anxiety, you are all stars and I’m wishing y'all the best luck possible to get back on your feet

Dumbledore, died at age 115

Horcruxes made: 0

Voldemort, died at age 71

Horcruxes made: 7

Conclusion: Voldemort was the most useless, magic dependant wizard that ever existed. He could have lived till like 200 if he just ate well and exercised, but no he had to go and split up his soul and ruin perfectly good jewellery, fucking dumbass.

plato doing karaoke: i’m coming out of my cave and i’ve been doing just fine

“And my dear memories are heavier than rocks.”

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Charles Baudelaire, from “The Swan” Les Fleurs du Mal (David R. Godine, 1985)

Worth reblogging a second time …

(via memoryslandscape)

“i prefer to think of poetry, as redistribution of melancholy.”

— from a graffiti on a wall in rome - i might be wrong, but the author did read tsh. that or henry winter is still alive.

The Secret History (1992)

“I hope one day 5 years from now you stumble across me when I’ve grown out of you and finally then after not seeing me for all this time it will break your heart.”

— (via suspend)

“One day we got tired, tired of chasing, of caring, of worrying… Not because we didn’t want more, but because the person didn’t value our efforts.”

— Daniel C. L.  (via convertions)

a concept: heavy rainfall when you’re tucked up in bed. like if u agree.

Imagine how terrified the first person who ever saw a whale was.

Imagine how much scarier the ocean would be if we fell through it as fast as we fall through air.