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Nov. 3rd, 2016
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owl-librarian:
breelandwalker:
dragonessofthelights:
sosuperawesome:
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owl-librarian:
breelandwalker:
dragonessofthelights:
sosuperawesome:
Jewelry by Christi Anderson on Etsy
Browse more curated jewelry
So Super Awesome is also on Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest
@urbanspellcraft
WANT.
@thelegsandbikes designed for you!
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Me (as a child): why are all the songs about love?
Mom: someday you will understand
Me (now as an adult): seriously why are all the songs about love and sex this is ridiculous
Me (as a child): why are all the songs about love?
Mom: someday you will understand
Me (now as an adult): seriously why are all the songs about love and sex this is ridiculous
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“And democracy requires compromise, even when you are 100 percent right. This is hard to explain sometimes. You can be completely right, and you still are going to have to engage folks who disagree with you. If you think that the only way forward is to be as uncompromising as possible, you will feel good about yourself, you will enjoy a certain moral purity, but you’re not going to get what you want. And if you don’t get what you want long enough, you will eventually think the whole system is rigged. And that will lead to more cynicism, and less participation, and a downward spiral of more injustice and more anger and more despair. And that’s never been the source of our progress. That’s how we cheat ourselves of progress.”
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Obama’s full remarks at Howard University commencement ceremony - POLITICO (via apsies)
If you think that the only way forward is to be as uncompromising as possible, you will feel good about yourself, you will enjoy a certain moral purity, but you’re not going to get what you want.
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“And democracy requires compromise, even when you are 100 percent right. This is hard to explain sometimes. You can be completely right, and you still are going to have to engage folks who disagree with you. If you think that the only way forward is to be as uncompromising as possible, you will feel good about yourself, you will enjoy a certain moral purity, but you’re not going to get what you want. And if you don’t get what you want long enough, you will eventually think the whole system is rigged. And that will lead to more cynicism, and less participation, and a downward spiral of more injustice and more anger and more despair. And that’s never been the source of our progress. That’s how we cheat ourselves of progress.”
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Obama’s full remarks at Howard University commencement ceremony - POLITICO (via apsies)
If you think that the only way forward is to be as uncompromising as possible, you will feel good about yourself, you will enjoy a certain moral purity, but you’re not going to get what you want.
(via sashayed)
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jcmeskirk:
who else is terrified about finding out whether or not your rights and safety are going to be jeopardized in 7 days lmao
jcmeskirk:
who else is terrified about finding out whether or not your rights and safety are going to be jeopardized in 7 days lmao
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copperbadge:
39thyear:
shelomit-bat-dvorah:
wordsaredelicious:
shelomit-bat-dvorah:
witchpieceoftoast:
prokopetz:
unsurpassedtravesty:
prokopetz:
Some of my favourite urban sights:
Bricked-up windows
Upper-storey doorways that open into empty space
Staircases that lead nowhere
Clean, working, fully stocked vending machines in obscure and inaccessible places
Detailed graffiti on surfaces with no obvious spot for the artist to stand, like the underside of a high bridge, or ten metres up a bare wall
Machinery left to rust because there’s no use for it anymore, but it’s in a weird or precarious location and there’s no way to safely remove it
(I’m sure there’s a theme here…)
I’ve been rereading Unknown Armies again recently and there’s a part of me that wants to find occult significance for this sort of nonsense. But then, I kind of enjoy looking for occult significance for a lot of nonsense.
I’m not convinced that there isn’t some occult significance to some of these. The vending machine in particular stems from what’s definitely one of the weirdest experiences I’ve ever had.
First, some context: I don’t know if it’s like this everywhere, but major Canadian cities tend to have a lot of underground infrastructure - particularly in their downtown areas, where train tunnels, parking garages, underground shopping malls, and hotel basements often connect in such a way that you can easily walk for miles without ever seeing sunlight. The interconnections typically aren’t public, or at least not advertised, but a surprising number of them are accessible if poke around; I once followed a maintenance tunnel in a shopping mall parking complex and emerged in the basement of a nearby casino!
Anyway, I was snooping around in the maintenance tunnels below one of the larger local hotels - legitimately, mind you; I was working for the local telecom at the time, trying to track down an errant network cable - when I rounded a bend and noticed that the corridor a few dozen feet ahead of me was brightly illuminated by something. On top of being filthy and difficult to access, the tunnel was also unlit (I’d been navigating by flashlight), so this really stood out.
I couldn’t see any obvious light fixture to account for it - the light seemed to be emerging from an alcove off to the side of the tunnel - so I went to investigate, and discovered… a Coke machine.
Spotlessly clean, fully stocked, and apparently in full working order; the illumination was coming from its interior display lighting.
In a grimy, unlit maintenance corridor twenty feet below ground level.
In retrospect, I’m kind of glad I didn’t have any change on me at the time, because I’d have been sorely tempted to buy something, and who knows how that would have worked out.
if you’d had that coke, in accordance with the laws of food and drink consumption in the otherworld, you probably wouldn’t be here to tell us this story.
@wordsaredelicious, I presented your theory about the Waffle House pocket universe to my father and he shuddered in realization of a truth!
YES! I am so glad to hear my theory confirmed. There is only one Waffle House with many, many entrances to the Waffle House pocket dimension scattered across the United States.
…somehow I get the feeling that the One True Waffle House, if it exists on our mortal plane at all, might very well be in Georgia.
This whole thread screams @copperbadge
To add a little to the creepy, every time I try to find the Waffle Houses in Illinois, the Waffle House store locator page is down.
copperbadge:
39thyear:
shelomit-bat-dvorah:
wordsaredelicious:
shelomit-bat-dvorah:
witchpieceoftoast:
prokopetz:
unsurpassedtravesty:
prokopetz:
Some of my favourite urban sights:
Bricked-up windows
Upper-storey doorways that open into empty space
Staircases that lead nowhere
Clean, working, fully stocked vending machines in obscure and inaccessible places
Detailed graffiti on surfaces with no obvious spot for the artist to stand, like the underside of a high bridge, or ten metres up a bare wall
Machinery left to rust because there’s no use for it anymore, but it’s in a weird or precarious location and there’s no way to safely remove it
(I’m sure there’s a theme here…)
I’ve been rereading Unknown Armies again recently and there’s a part of me that wants to find occult significance for this sort of nonsense. But then, I kind of enjoy looking for occult significance for a lot of nonsense.
I’m not convinced that there isn’t some occult significance to some of these. The vending machine in particular stems from what’s definitely one of the weirdest experiences I’ve ever had.
First, some context: I don’t know if it’s like this everywhere, but major Canadian cities tend to have a lot of underground infrastructure - particularly in their downtown areas, where train tunnels, parking garages, underground shopping malls, and hotel basements often connect in such a way that you can easily walk for miles without ever seeing sunlight. The interconnections typically aren’t public, or at least not advertised, but a surprising number of them are accessible if poke around; I once followed a maintenance tunnel in a shopping mall parking complex and emerged in the basement of a nearby casino!
Anyway, I was snooping around in the maintenance tunnels below one of the larger local hotels - legitimately, mind you; I was working for the local telecom at the time, trying to track down an errant network cable - when I rounded a bend and noticed that the corridor a few dozen feet ahead of me was brightly illuminated by something. On top of being filthy and difficult to access, the tunnel was also unlit (I’d been navigating by flashlight), so this really stood out.
I couldn’t see any obvious light fixture to account for it - the light seemed to be emerging from an alcove off to the side of the tunnel - so I went to investigate, and discovered… a Coke machine.
Spotlessly clean, fully stocked, and apparently in full working order; the illumination was coming from its interior display lighting.
In a grimy, unlit maintenance corridor twenty feet below ground level.
In retrospect, I’m kind of glad I didn’t have any change on me at the time, because I’d have been sorely tempted to buy something, and who knows how that would have worked out.
if you’d had that coke, in accordance with the laws of food and drink consumption in the otherworld, you probably wouldn’t be here to tell us this story.
@wordsaredelicious, I presented your theory about the Waffle House pocket universe to my father and he shuddered in realization of a truth!
YES! I am so glad to hear my theory confirmed. There is only one Waffle House with many, many entrances to the Waffle House pocket dimension scattered across the United States.
…somehow I get the feeling that the One True Waffle House, if it exists on our mortal plane at all, might very well be in Georgia.
This whole thread screams @copperbadge
To add a little to the creepy, every time I try to find the Waffle Houses in Illinois, the Waffle House store locator page is down.
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sourcedumal:
durnesque-esque:
herehalftheworldismellow:
Quick blackout post of my time as Belle in Bermuda’s Beauty and the Beast. We were so beautiful up on that stage. #BlackoutOnTheStage I love us.
YOU’RE SUCH A GORGEOUS BELLE!
LOOK AT GOD
sourcedumal:
durnesque-esque:
herehalftheworldismellow:
Quick blackout post of my time as Belle in Bermuda’s Beauty and the Beast. We were so beautiful up on that stage. #BlackoutOnTheStage I love us.
YOU’RE SUCH A GORGEOUS BELLE!
LOOK AT GOD
emiett: Based off an ask
Nov. 3rd, 2016 10:49 pmvia http://ift.tt/2f6ofcF:
emiett:
Based off an ask of andthensomelion’s who recommended a whale in a Chrestomanci dressing gown which I morphed into Chrestomanci in a whale in a Chrestomanci dressing gown dressing gown which erupted into Chrestomanci giving Millie a Chrestomanci in a Whale in a Chrestomanci dressing gown dressing gown dressing gown. I spent a day and a half on this. My life is in shambles.
emiett:
Based off an ask of andthensomelion’s who recommended a whale in a Chrestomanci dressing gown which I morphed into Chrestomanci in a whale in a Chrestomanci dressing gown dressing gown which erupted into Chrestomanci giving Millie a Chrestomanci in a Whale in a Chrestomanci dressing gown dressing gown dressing gown. I spent a day and a half on this. My life is in shambles.