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boston gothic

- there is no grid system in boston. every street is a circle. you miss your turn and try to double back, but the asphalt is giving way to cobblestone. you can hear muskets just ahead.

- boston common always closes at 9pm. it locks from the inside.

- you walk out of mike’s pastry in the north end and the streets are deserted. there’s a rumbling beneath your feet. it smells like molasses.

- every time you crane your head to peek down the dark subway tunnel for the train, you can see two bright pinpricks of light in the distance. they’ve been there for 30 years, watching. you look away and try not to breathe.

- they’re always trying to fill the pot holes and the cracks in the sidewalks. it’s from the ice, they say. come morning, the holes always return. bigger. deeper.

- the next train will arrive in 5 minutes. days have passed; winter is setting in. the next train will arrive in 5 minutes.

- you arrive at logan airport and it’s empty. the intercom crackles, “this is the final boarding call.” no flight is specified. it’s time to go.

- the red line train pulls up, empty. you get on and it comes to a sudden halt in the tunnel. the lights go off. you hear the muffled sounds of ‘sweet caroline’ in the distance. it’s getting closer.

- the citgo sign looms above the brownstones. no matter how far you walk, it is always there. 

- you hear rustling. it’s just the turkeys, you say. you hear screams echo in harvard square. it’s just the turkeys.

i want to break free (1/1, 2237 words) Pairing: Aziraphale/Crowley Rating: General Tags: Human AU, Walk of Shame, First Meetings, Fluff Summary: In which Aziraphale does the walk of shame and meets someone special along the way. — If you enjoyed this, please reblog so others can as well! Thanks!

A little penguin encouragement to support you when you need some motivation. :D <3

My dash is exploding with Hobbit feels and I don't get to see it until Monday.

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Okay nerds, y’know what?  Money where my mouth is time, literally.  I have just purchased two Patty Tolan Funco POP figures and & I will give one away to someone who likes or RTs this post, and the other who likes or RTs the link I will post on Twitter.  I will pay for shipping in the US or Canada!  #loveforLeslieJ

As a sidenote, haters and racists are ALSO giving the fucking TOYS negative reviews for ugly, racist reasons, so dropping by Amazon to give the Patty Tolan action figures and POPs some love would be awesome.

Giveaway ends Friday, July 22nd at 6PM CST!

getting emotional over fictional couples was not how i envisioned my adult life

The Daily Grump | December 24, 2012

And here they are! The first hi resolution images released by NASA from yesterday’s flawless flyby of Pluto.

The close-up is a view of a region on Pluto at the bottom of ‘the heart’, the feature seen on the pre-approach image posted on July 14, yesterday, at 7:23 am. It reveals a smooth area in the upper left, a hummocky region in the lower right, and in between mountains that are 11,000 feet high! The only material on Pluto that is strong enough to build mountains is water ice. The other volatiles, nitrogen and methane, which are escaping Pluto as vapor, are apparently no more than a thin veneer. This image has a resolution of ~ 1 mile/pixel.

The other image is Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, about ½ the size of Pluto, seen at an image scale of ~ 3 miles/pixel. It surprises in several ways: a long chasm reminiscent of Saturn’s moon Tethys, a variable surface appearance, and very few craters that indicate a relatively youthful surface.

How mind-blowing it is that we are today discussing processes operating at 32x farther from the Sun than is the Earth, and over 3x farther away than Saturn. And yesterday, it was just a dream.

Think about that! CICLOPS.org: The Icy Mountains of Pluto CICLOPS.org: Charon’s Surprising Youthful and Varied Terrain