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Wed, 15 May 2013 21:15:25 -0700

the-absolute-best-posts: Goodbye, Harry.

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:59:57 -0700

the-absolute-best-posts:

Goodbye, Harry.

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Wed, 15 May 2013 00:04:31 -0700

imsirius: itsmeagan: The original story of the little...

Sun, 12 May 2013 09:32:53 -0700

imsirius:

itsmeagan:

The original story of the little mermaid is that she must kill the prince in order to be human, and in the end, she loves him too much and kills herself instead.

The artwork is too great not to reblog.

Ok, ok - important expansion: she only has to kill the Prince because the deal was if he fell in love with her she could be human forever, and he didn’t. By which I mean, he was a good person and genuinely nice to her, but he didn’t fall in love. He fell in love with someone else, also perfectly nice - not the seawitch in disguise, fu Disney. The Mermaid is told she can only return to the sea now if she kills the Prince. She goes into the room where he and his lover lie sleeping and they look so beautiful and happy together that she can’t do it.

That’s why she kills herself. And because it was a noble act she returns to sea as foam.

One moral of the story was that women shouldn’t fundamentally change who they are for love of a man, and in theory Hans Christian Anderson wrote it for a ballerina with whom he fell in love. She was marrying someone else who wouldn’t let her dance.

I want this painted on my wall.

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Sun, 12 May 2013 09:29:10 -0700

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Sun, 12 May 2013 09:28:40 -0700

thehealthyherbivore: territorialcreep: itseasytoremember: whyt...

Fri, 10 May 2013 19:34:23 -0700

thehealthyherbivore:

territorialcreep:

itseasytoremember:

whythefuckareyouromeo:

0ver-doze:

omg they are so offended if you lick them back.

Fun fact! Dogs lick the mouths of those they consider higher in rank! So if you lick them back, they are not offended, they just don’t see themselves as higher than you and they are confused! The second dog must be a very loyal dog because he or she literally refuses to be licked back haha! I love dogs.

i started reading that expecting an angry rant and it turned out to be one of the nicest things ever.

I have reblogged this like ten times

Haha, their reactions are hilarious!

makes me want to go swim!

Fri, 10 May 2013 19:32:03 -0700

makes me want to go swim!

mochacafe: (via MOST NOTED POSTS) …..this too lol

Fri, 10 May 2013 19:31:26 -0700

mochacafe:

(via MOST NOTED POSTS)

…..this too lol

this look sooo yummyyyy

Fri, 10 May 2013 19:29:53 -0700

this look sooo yummyyyy

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Tue, 07 May 2013 22:19:31 -0700

eatcleanmakechanges: love this

Mon, 06 May 2013 21:24:04 -0700

eatcleanmakechanges:

love this

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Sun, 05 May 2013 23:59:00 -0700

I needed this <3

Sun, 05 May 2013 23:50:11 -0700

I needed this <3

rneerkat: shinykonyta: rneerkat: i love being pregnant because i can eat whatever i want and...

Thu, 02 May 2013 09:54:59 -0700

rneerkat:

shinykonyta:

rneerkat:

i love being pregnant because i can eat whatever i want and people wont question me about it :)

you are a 19 yr old boy

youre stereotyping me

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Thu, 02 May 2013 09:53:48 -0700

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Thu, 02 May 2013 09:45:35 -0700

yes-miss-nisa: ameliated: im-not-your-average-teenager: eterna...

Thu, 02 May 2013 09:42:20 -0700

yes-miss-nisa:

ameliated:

im-not-your-average-teenager:

eternalseptember:

Other Half

I love this so much

The Origin of Love. Beautifully illustrated.

I really can’t wait to find you.

A village in India plants 111 trees every time a baby girl is born

Thu, 02 May 2013 09:39:36 -0700

A village in India plants 111 trees every time a baby girl is born:

deafmuslimpunx:

While in some parts of India, many expectant parents still say they’d prefer bearing sons, members of the Piplantri village, in the western state of Rajasthan, are breaking this trend by celebrating the birth of each baby girl in way that benefits everyone. For every female child that’s born, the community gathers to plant 111 fruit trees in her honor in the village common.

This unique tradition was first suggested by the village’s former leader, Shyam Sundar Paliwal, in honor of his daughter who had passed away at a young age.

But planting trees is only one way that the community is ensuring a brighter future for their daughters. According to a report in The Hindu, villagers also pool together around $380 dollars for every new baby girl and deposited in an account for her. The girl’s parents are required to contribute $180, and to make a pledge to be considerate guardians.

“We make these parents sign an affidavit promising that they would not marry her off before the legal age, send her to school regularly and take care of the trees planted in her name,” says Paliwal.

Over the last six years alone, as population there has increased, villagers in Piplantri have planted nearly a quarter million trees — a welcoming forest for the community’s youngest members, offering a bit of shade for their brighter future.

via Micropixie / The Hindu

The Things They Carried - Found Poem

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:06:23 -0700

The smile never went away
Always smiled at the world
It had to end and eventually it did
I want you to feel what I felt
To feel the truth
To believe by the raw force of feeling
War is hell but that’s not half of it
War is just another word for death
Its odd you’re never more alive than when you’re almost dead
You slip out of your own skin
Leaving behind everything you ever were or wanted to believe in
It destroys the magic
Shedding your own history and your own future
The darkness squeezes you inside yourself
I felt hallow and dangerous
I wasn’t myself
You aren’t human anymore
You’re a shadow
You aren’t a hero and all you can do is whimper
The truth is ugly
In a war you lose your sense of truth
There is no clarity
Just a ghostly fog, thick and permanent
The vapors suck you in
Without rhythm or form or progression
It had to end and eventually it did
The war’s over.
It was a mistake
I couldn’t’ understand
I closed my eyes
It was all gone except for a few last images
There was nothing to smile at