"Remember, hate is always foolish, but love is always wise. Always try to be nice, but never fail to be kind." - The Doctor
Film/TV. Books. History. Writing.
this particular family recreating a dress made famous by a woman who was starved to malnutrition in nazi occupied netherlands and who spent her final years working towards ensuring that that never happened again is honestly deeply disturbing to me
so much of adulthood is just grieving in secret. grieving ex lovers, grieving dead friendships, grieving your parents sinking into old age, grieving the person you thought you'd grow into. grieving cities you never got to live in. grieving parts of you that couldn't survive.
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
If you think contentious US political issues don’t spill over into Australia, tell me why we were already voting and arguing over abortion again in Queensland just weeks ago