w3-4r3-th3-f1r3: nightfoot: So many Discworld fans say

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nightfoot:

So many Discworld fans say things like “I relate most to Vimes” to “I see myself in Granny Weatherwax” but stop lying, every other Discworld fan I’ve met is clearly channelling Constable Visit the Infidel With Explanatory Pamphlets in their enthusiasm to whip out reading order charts and explain to strangers why they should convert to Omnianism read Discworld. 

@fialleril

yw84fun: charliebowater: primalheart: charliebowater:

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charliebowater:

primalheart:

charliebowater:

“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”

A little doodle for one the most beautiful lines from any poem, The Old Astronomer.

This is not a little doodle. This. THIS. This is fucking MAGIC. You have captured pure wonder and whimsy and romance and bliss and that almost melancholy wholeness when you look up at the sky and just feel the smallness of your being and the grandness of the universe. All this captured with a lover’s eye. We cannot see her face but I feel the tender passionate ardour for this petite but mighty creature in the world. While at the same time I feel the bittersweet swoon of wanting to be gazed upon myself with such whole and overwhemling admiration and love. It is goddamn masterful.

I am fucking following your tumblr charliebowater you are amazing.

THAT’S THE NICEST COMMENT I’VE EVER READ.

Look at these fucking tags:

I’VE EVER READ.

Source:

charliebowater

#and oh the stars

#this makes me think of the astronomer play

#the one about the woman who catalogued the stars

#she dedicated her life to this

#her masterpiece - her legacy - was the classification and cataloguing of thousands ofstars

#and at some point in this process she figured out the secret of distance

#how to measure the distances of stars

#bc a lot of stars (all star? idk but that doesn’t sound right) pulse - their light shines at different brightness levels

#and the pulsing is regular

#but astronomers didn’t know what to do with it

#but she figured out how to calculate - based on the different speeds at which different stars pulsed - how far they all were from earth

#idk the details bc it was a play and I’m not an astrophysicist

#I was busy crying about her sister (who was a bamf who wrote symphonies while caring for their aging father and doing a ton of unappreciated

#work as a housewife and church organist and community organizer)

#but yeah it was a beautiful play about stars and music and love and legacy

#and most of all about dedicating yourself wholeheartedly to the things you love

#you lose a lot if you do that

#many things fall by the wayside while you’re chasing your stars

#but your heart will always be full of the night sky

#and that - the play tells us - can make every loss worth it

#(also you gotta be nice to people and value work that is different from what you value)

#(that was a major theme too)

#(the astronomer was dismissive of her sister’s interests right up until she wrote a full symphony)

#(aka her sister had to prove her interest was a Serious interest before the astronomer recognized that it had value)

#(she only sort of got over herself but the play made it pretty clear that this attitude of hers was arrogant and wrong)

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for those who aren’t aware, the australian government has abandoned the manus island offshore detention facility where it’s been indefinitely holding over 600 refugees. they have no food, water or electricity and are at risk of malaria. you can donate here to the RISE refugee welfare organisation, and here for the asylum seeker resource centre #bringthemhere

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fineillsignup:

Tobirama’s expressions when faced with the horrific consequences of his various forbidden jutsu makes me think of GLaDOS in Portal.

This was a triumph
I’m making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS

We do what we must
because we can
For the good of all of us.
Except the ones who are dead.

[…]

And the science gets done.
And you make a neat gun
for the people who are
still alive.

@blackkatmagic

bisexualfredandrews: bhreac: Remember when we had to

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bhreac:

Remember when we had to read fanfiction on our desktops… Not even laptops. having to get get plopped down in the family computer room to pull up your naruto and yugioh self insert stories on lunaescence archives and fanfiction dot net with god & everyone watching you.

the dark ages

valerie-an: shantronathon: valerie-an: do you ever want to gently float up to someone and...

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shantronathon:

valerie-an:

do you ever want to gently float up to someone and whisper “this isn’t a debate; i am actually educated on the subject and i’m telling you you’re wrong”

Yes and I would also like to gently float in general.

this is the most positive addition that has ever been made on my post

Just imagine Luci (and Cas+Winchesters) coming face-to-face with the new Four Archangels. It's - a b

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For the first time since the Fall, Lucifer is actually genuinely happy in a wholly innocent way. Because this, this is what he wishes that he and his brothers would have had, a happy, healthy, normal sibling relationship where there were no co-dependence issues and where one’s loyalty to their siblings was not at odds with their loyalty to their parent and they ended up having to choose between them. 

It actually results in Luci calling off whatever shit he is pulling in favor of spending time with the new Four. Which they cautiously agree to because hey. If he’s spending time with them, he is not causing chaos. It ends with an ice sculpture contest between Holly and Lucifer. Fun is had by all. 

(After the first meeting between Luci and Richie in his apartment when Luci was seeking confirmation that Richie was his nephew, Richie probably immediately called his siblings in a panic. Because if Luci knows about him, he might know about them and he needs to know that they are all right).

robbsstrk:I’m a slow learner, it’s true.

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I’m a slow learner, it’s true. But I learn.

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hymnsofheresy:

hachama:

hymnsofheresy:

ravenclaw-burning:

hymnsofheresy:

when christian artists change the line in hallelujah from “maybe there’s a God above” to “I know that there’s a God above” >:c

#idk why i’m so unreasonably angry#maybe cuz it’s my fav line

it’s also because Leonard COHEN (!) was Jewish and this is a quintessentially Jewish line, and changing it to that level of Annoying Certainty is stripping it of its Jewish meaning and imbuing it with that particularly American smug evangelical Christian attitude that makes me tired, so very tired

THAT IS EXACTLY WHY

I don’t think I’ve heard any cover artist sing my favorite verses
You say I took the name in vain
I don’t even know the name
But if I did, well really, what’s it to you?
There’s a blaze of light
In every word
It doesn’t matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah
I did my best, it wasn’t much
I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch
I’ve told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you
And even though
It all went wrong
I’ll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

um woah

I will always hit the reblog button so hard for Hallelujah but ESPECIALLY mentions of the elusive final verses which are just about my favorite lyrics ever. Why do people always omit the best part of the song??

In Yiddish

In Hebrew

In Ladino

The full version of hallelujah is on the shrek soundtrack and this was how I knew the lyrics

I don’t know how to feel about this

Isolated in a crappy area, viewed as a monster, used as a scapegoat for the ills of a badly-run kingdom, people routinely try to kill him, and he has the full version of Hallelujah on his soundtrack.

There are obvious implications here, but I’m really not sure how to feel about this.

@funkzpiel

"Stand up, warrior; you are not yet finished. Beaten you may be, but broken? Angels have fallen from

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Stand up, warrior; you are not yet finished.
Beaten you may be, but broken?
Angels have fallen from greater heights
and survived, so why shouldn’t you?
Never mind what you are made of;
you are more than this flesh that binds you.
There is nothing you have to fear
that should not fear you a thousand times more.
Your heart is a galaxy, and your soul is lined in stars.

You are something extraordinary, my dear.

”
- so do extraordinary things | m.a.w — commission for @bearholdingashark​ of finding courage (via dvoyd)