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purplebuddhaquotes: “It’s very strange that the people you love are often the people you’re most cruel to.” — Kenneth Branagh

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lifeinpoetry: I look highTo receive my fate.The worldIt has not killed me.I am afterIrreverence.Today I fill aBook with blood. — Aisha Sasha John, from “Blood,” I Have to Live

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endless-unfolding: “My dream was a blue-colored roadway […] And I, within my slumber’s blueness, confused reality with dream” — Vladimir Nabokov, from “Dream,” trans. Dmitri Nabokov in Selected Poems

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FFXIV Lore: Ishgard

dancingnlancing: hasty-touch: BEHOLD: a 118-page compilation of (almost) every scrap of lore about Ishgard I could find – its social organization, history, religious beliefs, and culture. Every piece of lore is sourced with a footnote in order to make it easy to look up – and to tell canon from my informed inferences and wild […]

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crimsonkismet: “Beating soul and breathing blood.” — Marina Tsvetaeva, No. 20 (from Moscow in the Plague Year: Poems, trans. Christopher Whyte)

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Autumn Preferences: Raphael Delarue

1). go apple picking vs. go on a hay ride2). scary vs. sweet  3). sweaters vs. boots4). socks vs. mittens5). bonfires vs. football  6). trick-or-treating vs. scary stories9). bake (savory) pie vs. bake cookies10). rain vs. fog  11). black cats vs. owls12). ghosts vs. wizards13). harry potter vs. halloweentown14). go hiking vs. sleep in15). cinnamon […]