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A-Z of Animals

More like A-Z of AWESOMENESS.

Hehehehe.

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That gravity we feel when we are forced apart – does it blind us or provide clarity?

A quiet Chinese immigrant, flung far away from her home country, who has learned to blend in with the cultures of a foreign land, but relishes in the bright red skirt she gets to wear on Chinese New Year.

The favourite, hard-to-come-by candy bar we crave, rejoicing when they are found in a specialty store, or received as a souvenir from friends back from an overseas trip – a feeling of unbridled glee that mysteriously fades out shortly after it becomes easily available.

The toddler who barely looks at the toy rabbit lying next to him, until it is taken away by his sister and he starts wailing for it, having just realized that at that moment it was his favourite toy in the world.

A young couple at the airport, sharing laughter, gossip and coffee, until that final hug at the departures barrier when they are both trying to hold back tears.

The young girl biting her lip as she peeks into her bedroom, once filled with his happy shy smiles, now empty except for sterile white furniture.

Is it a silly, greedy instinct that drives us to fight to reclaim what we’re suddenly deprived of? Or something entirely different; something that stays special and meaningful even without the shock of loss and the buoy of rose-tinted recollections?

There is one sure way to find out.

agabeofthrones:

1 - Which house would you want to be a member of?

2 - Which house would you actually fit into?

3 - Which of the 5 kings do you support the most?

4 -Which of the 4 Queens do you support the most?

5 - Favorite Character?

6 - Favorite Book?

7 - Favorite Sigil and Words?

8 - What would your own original house Sigil and Words be?

[SPOILER WARNING]

1. Tyrell. Flowers, pleasure boats, cutout dresses and Dame Diana Rigg? How are these mofos not independently ruling Westeros?
2. Probably Martell. A huge family of tomboyish war-crazy maneaters and probably the original SPG’s.Oh and their hometown is mercilessly scorching hot? RELATE.
3. In descending order: Renly, Robb, Stannis, Joffrey, Balon (look at least Joffrey’s rule would involve some level of mediation by Tywin, Margaery, Jaime, Tyrion and Varys). Jon Snow as Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch, King of the Wildlings and whatever else he conquers after his please-let-it-be-inevitable resurrection.
4. Denaerys. Her score sheet reads as: Khal Drogo, Daario Naharis, and the complete and utterly deserved jilting of Jorah Mormont. She commands an army of men without penises. GET HER A GODDAMNED CROWN.
5. Cross between Jon Snow and Jacqen Ha’agar. Look he’s cool and all but I don’t know what that sneaky creep is up to next. And I’d be majorly into Gendry if he featured more in the books. And Tyrion is kinda less loveable in the books. You’ll see.
6. The last one, for now.
7. THE ROSE. GROWING STRONG. PLEASE ADOPT ME.
8. SEE ABOVE.

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awesomephilia:

Pony makes friends with a giant teddy bear after being abandoned by his mother (via)

This sort of thing happens; welcome to earth.

I have really ugly fingers.

A boy once told me he loved the sound of my voice; that I could quicken his pace as easily with a shout or a whisper. He described it as a cross between a tinkling bell and a kitten’s purr — at times enticing, at times soothing, and yet at times both.

Another told me he liked my eyes. He found them deeply expressive and yet instinctively kind. They were eyes that told him I was interesting and passionate and fun, and yet also patient and empathic and strong.

Another traced my collarbone as he confessed to finding my neck the most attractive, naming in turns my strong even shoulders, sharp collarbones, and the long neck he would lean in to kiss every time I revealed it by gathering up my hair.

One once breathed in my scent — just me, or perhaps my skin, unperfumed — and embraced me for some time, whispering that it made me irresistible.

But I have really ugly fingers — knobbly at the joints, heavily lined, and short uneven fingernails that often have dirt under them. One glance at my fingers and a man would immediately turn my hands over to look instead at my palms, which are less offensive.

My fingers have played many instruments, prepared many meals, written countless notes. I’ve trained them to rub the stress out of sore tired shoulders and change a man’s mood by trailing them softly and reassuringly over his brow, across his back, or along his arm. They’ve fastened ties, replaced dozens of buttons, ironed a hundred shirts, taken a million photos.

But they are ugly, rough, weathered fingers, and by the time a man studies me hard enough to find them, they leave — perhaps realizing that they cannot picture these fingers with a shiny silver band around it.

[Note: Just an essay!]

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“Things do end, and you want them to end when we’re running through the finish line and not limping to it and not vomiting or pooping ourselves. You have to muster the maturity to leave it. But we’re all going to be a mess.”

I miss you guys so much!

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“What a majestic fat bird.”

Voiced by the delightful Stephen Fry (with Alistair McGowan as ‘dodo’). Follow the cause here.

nationalpostsports:

The race was in London, but the thoughts of many were with another city.

Thousands of runners who took part in the London Marathon on Sunday paid tribute to those killed and injured in the Boston Marathon six days earlier. Participants paused for a moment of silence in the beginning, many wore black ribbons on their chests as a sign of solidarity, and two runners finished carrying a banner that read “For Boston.”

The mood was festive, defiant — and the surging crowds who turned out on the glorious spring day to line the route roared enthusiastically.

“It means that runners are stronger than bombers,” said Valerie Bloomfield, a 40-year-old participant from France. (Photos: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images, Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images, Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

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