Regarding that petition to prevent Yahoo from buying Tumblr:
Sorry everyone, but I doubt your signatures will have any impact on the decision.
Monster Literature
I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.
Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
There was something strange in my sensations, something indescribably sweet. I felt younger, lighter, happier in body; within I was conscious of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered sensual images running like a millrace in my fancy, a solution of the bonds of obligation, an unknown but innocent freedom of the soul. I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil and the thought, in that moment, braced and delighted me like wine.
Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, Jules Verne
The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite.
The Complete Works, H.P. Lovecraft
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
Beowulf, translated by J. Lesslie Hall
He minded to sunder from each of the thanemen
The life from his body, horrible demon,
Ere morning came, since fate had allowed him
Fate has decreed that he shall devour no more heroes.
The prospect of plenty. Providence willed not
To permit him any more of men under heaven
To eat in the night-time.
More artwork by Mary GrandPre, artist of the American Harry Potter covers.
Sometimes I think about the fact that I will never read Harry Potter for the first time again and I get really sad.
A message from acciohollymae
I agree with Ashley. Count me in. #Cats2014
A message from coeurdesfeuilles
For your 22nd birthday party, I was thinking about throwing a surprise birthday party that isn't really a surprise. You would walk into a dark room. We'd lock the door behind you and then flip on the light. All around you ... cats. Cats everywhere. After a few hours, we will let you out and maybe give you medical attention. It'll be the best birthday party because it will remind you how great being alive is! Let me know so I can get invitations sent out.
A message from acciohollymae
YOUR BACKGROUND IS HAN SOLO YESSSSS
This is what happens when white guys listen to Indian music
this is my favorite fucking video on the internet
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During the act of reading engaging fiction, we can lose all sense of time. By the final chapter of the right book, we feel changed in our own lives, even if what we’ve read is entirely made up.
Research says that’s because while you’re engaged in fiction—unlike nonfiction—you’re given a safe arena to experience emotions without the need for self-protection. Since the events you’re reading about do not follow you into your own life, you can feel strong emotions freely.
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The key metric the researchers used is “emotionally transported,” or how deeply connected we are to the story. Previous research has shown that when we read stories about people experiencing specific emotions or events it triggers activity in our brains as if we were right there in the thick of the action.
"New study by Dutch researchers confirms previous theories that reading fiction makes you a better person by expanding your capacity for empathy.
Also see how storytelling makes us human.
(via explore-blog)
1: Aladdin. 2: Why were you impressed?
I think the lyrics actually fit into the movie even better than the english version.
Essentially, the song is about how he’s as good or as skilled as a king (he’s the “king” or “rey” of all these skills) but no one sees that because he’s poor. One of the lines - “Yo soy pobre pero un señor” means “I may be poor but I’m a lord.”
