I'm not formed of myself alone

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eatelonmusk:

hmm no wikipedia i didn’t know that. i mean that’s pretty high praise tho how impressive could it beOH GODDAMNIT IT’S THE COOLEST THING I’VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE

[ID: screenshot of a Wikipedia factoid that reads, “Did you know that Script Ohio has been called one of the most impressive examples of American folk art in existence?”

The video shows the Ohio State University Marching Band performing its traditional Script Ohio routine, in which the drum major leads the band single-file to form an enormous cursive Ohio on the field. The crossovers require absolute precision timing. It is a FEAT. At the end, the drum major leads out a sousaphone player, who kind of high-kicks his way to dot the I. (Wikipedia calls it a “bounding goose-step.”) He gives a sweeping bow to each side of the stadium. The band then sings “Buckeye Battle Cry” while accompanied only by the sousaphone. Here’s the Wikipedia article, which has a much better description than mine. ]

“It wasn’t enough that humans did something so difficult as learning to play a musical instrument. Then they had to do it in groups. While walking around. In complicated patterns. And then they competed with one another to do it even better. Excellence, this kind of excellence, could never have any sane economic justification. It had to be done for the honor of one’s country, or one’s people, or the glory of God. For the joy of being human.”

From Diplomatic Immunity, Lois McMaster Bujold

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luxe-pauvre:

“In that predicament, if I’m lucky, I’ll remember the observation, usually attributed to Joan Baez, that “action is the antidote to despair.” People tend to quote this in the context of political or environmental activism, but it applies to everything else, too: an overfilled inbox, a cluttered garage, an intimidating creative project or overdue tax return. If you can get yourself over the gap between knowing what you need to do and taking an action, things can only get better from there. Which means that at least the nature of the immediate challenge is clear: not to “become more productive” or “get motivated” or “make a plan for the month” or something like that, but just to do one thing to address whatever situation you’re in. […] If you can approach your daily life in this way for a while – as a sequence of momentary, self-contained, eminently doable actions, rather than as an arduous matter of chipping away at enormous challenges – you might notice something profound, which is that, in fact, this is all you ever need to do. You can make your way through life exclusively in this manner. (As E. L. Doctorow said of writing, it’s “like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”) And not just that: actually, it’s all you ever could do. There is no achievement, in the history of human civilisation, that has ever been accomplished by any means other than as a sequence of doable actions. In the end, it isn’t really a question of “breaking big projects down into small chunks.” It’s more a matter of seeing that “big projects” are nothing but psychological constructs, quasi-illusory entities summoned into existence by taking a particular view of what our lives really consist of – which is moments, and the actions that unfold in them. After all, in any given moment, we’re never actually “working on a big project” or “addressing a major challenge” or anything similar. We’re always just taking an action. And then another. And another.”

— Oliver Burkeman, How to get out of a rut

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sch-uwu-lchen:

reblog to give the person you reblogged this from a fucking break

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betwixtyiff:

Motherfuckers will say “Autumn is my COMFORT TIME it’s the best season” and then proceed to have the worst month of October of their whole entire lives

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old-school-romantics:

-Mieko Kawakami

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sandmandaddy69:

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tkingfisher:

ALT

This is about where I am this week, on the Inspirational Quote front.

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gandalfthequeer:

the only time of the year this can be posted

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greelin:

hey man i get that it’s your thing but you are making people uncomfortable by, and these are your words, “blair witching it” in the corner

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Today Strahd sent my character a letter that made her so mad she turned into a summer eladrin

horseloaf:

When I’m liking your vent post just know that I’m kneeling with my sword to offer you support.

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strawberry-crocodile:

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herpsandbirds:

Common Egg-eating Snake (Dasypeltis scabra), family Colubridae, South Africa

photograph by Cristian Schneider

what’s in the little critter’s mouth??? Is it tasty??

:3

bestie you will never guess what this Common Egg-Eating Snake is doing

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