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Just a Shining Artifact of the Past

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Feel free to ask me things if you'd like. Here you'll find the things I enjoy, including but not limited to: Teen Wolf, Parks and Rec, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Avengers, The Good Wife, Brooklyn 99, The Mindy Project, MCR, pretty people, turtles, bears, and tons of other awesome things. I tag EVERYTHING, so tumblr savior at will - and if there's ever anything that you'd like me to tag specifically, please let me know! [AO3]
"We’re gonna miss each other. This show is, for the fans, gonna live on forever. That is the beauty of being a fan of Parks and Recreation, is that anytime you want to see it, you can on Netflix and see it or you can go on your DVR and see it or you can put in your DVD and see it. But for us it’s not about the idea that our show is gonna live forever because that’s not where we enjoy the show, not in the medium of it being shown on television. We enjoy creating it and making it, and that’s coming to an end so that’s very sad for us because, you know, we’re not fans of the show, we are the people who are making the show. Just like life, it’s a beautiful thing but you enter it knowing that it will end one day. Our tears aren’t because we feel like we haven’t lived a full life here on the show, it’s just that it’s coming to an end and it’s very emotional for us." - Chris Pratt
"The inn is just falling apart. This has been my dream forever, and I have it, and it’s here, and I’m failing. I can’t handle it. I just spend every minute running around and working and thinking. And I thought I would have help, but Sookie has Davey, and Michel has Celine, and I’m — I can’t do it all by myself. And I don’t even have time to see my kid, and hell, forget see her, just even talk to her. And I miss her. And I sat there in my parents’ house just listening to my grandmother basically call me a charity case, and I couldn’t even argue with her. I couldn’t even say anything, because I am. I’m running out of money, and I don’t know what to do about it, and I was gonna, I was gonna ask you for $30,000 at dinner tonight. That’s how pathetic I am.” (requested by anon)

I want to give Lauren Graham seventy thousand Emmys. Can I do that? Somehow?

Interviewer: I’m not the only one of course, a lot of people are crushing on you, including Uzo Aduba for Orange Is The New Black. Tatiana: Well, I’m crushing on her, I think I crushed on her first and now it’s nice and mutual, it’s great, she’s amazing. She’s like such a strong actor, plays such a huge character with such grounded truth to it. And she’s hilarious. I really love her.

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I feel like I’ve lost sight of myself, Mulder. It’s hard to see, let alone find, in the darkness of covert locations. I mean, I wish I could say that we were going in circles, but we’re not. We’re going in an endless line, two steps forward and three steps back. While my own life is standing still

X-Files rewatch has commenced. Falling in love with Scully all over again is basically the greatest.

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Scales

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This is because Fahrenheit is based on a brine scale and the human body. The scale is basically how cold does it have to be to freeze saltwater (zero Fahrenheit) to what temperature is the human body (100-ish Fahrenheit, although now we know that’s not exactly accurate). Fahrenheit was designed around humans. Celsius and Kelvin are designed around the natural world. Celsius is a scale based on water. Zero is when water freezes, 100 is when water boils. Kelvin uses the same scale as Celsius (one degree, as a unit, is the same between the two), but defines zero as absolute zero, which is basically the temperature at which atoms literally stop doing that spinning thing. Nothing can exist below zero Kelvin. It’s the bottom of the scale. So. Fahrenheit: what temperatures affect humans Celsius: what temperatures affect water Kelvin: what temperatures affect atoms

Why didn’t my science teachers ever see fit to toss off this little fact?

Well that explains a lot, jesus.

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also, in what universe is 0° Celsius “fairly” cold. 0° Celsius is “cold enough to hate yourself but not cold enough to cancel class” and it sucks

This is fascinating and makes so much sense. I very much appreciate this explanation.

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Audrey Hepburn Gets A Haircut As Cameras Roll in The Nun's Story

"If she had been 10 years younger, she would have cried. But Audrey Hepburn, being a mature and modern young woman, didn’t even wince much when her hair was shorn for the final scenes in "The Nun’s Story."

In her role of a Belgian girl who becomes a nursing nun, the hair cutting is part of the ritual as the girl prepares to don her habit as a novice. Director Fred Zinnemann scheduled the Warner Brothers picture so that the very last scene was with the shears.

And in order to make sure that the job was done properly and authentically, the director put Audrey’s personal hairdresser in the habit of a nun to do the cutting in the scene. After the scene, the hairdresser made a few additional trimmings and considerable arrangements, and Audrey emerged looking for all the world like a young woman with fashionable short hair.” May 27, 1959. The Milwaukee Journal. =

"I lost a four year growth of hair in four minutes." Audrey Hepburn 

godDAMN she's beautiful.