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Loving Life Baybee

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tundras are soooo pretty aand beautiful to look at smears of best ever colors on flat and muted greens and yellows.... hard agree with los campesinos like yes take a body to tundra for real......

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nature but it looks like a sad hug its so real

The Kolyma (Russia) Woolly rhino (Coelodonta antiquitatis), the only complete permafrost preserved adult woolly rhino known. It lived around 39,000 years ago. © Vladimir Filipov 2012

and here’s Coelodonta antiquitatis as depicted by the people who lived alongside it:

…and here it was Christmas Day, so I put on big boots and coat and went out to do some snow standing. Not since childhood! I had forgot how astounding it is. I went to the middle of a woods. Fir trees, the teachers of this, all around. Minus twenty degrees in the wind but inside the trees is no wind. The world subtracts itself in layers. Outer sounds like traffic and shoveling vanish. Inner sounds become audible, cracks, sighs, caresses, twigs, birdbreath, toenails of squirrel. The fir trees move hugely. The white is perfectly curved, stunned with itself. Puffs of ice fog and some gold things float up. Shadows rake their motionlessness across the snow with a vibration of other shadows moving crosswise on them, shadow on shadow, in precise velocities. It is very cold, then that, too, begins to subtract itself, the body chills on its surface but the core is hot and it is possible to disconnect the surface, withdraw to the core, where a ravishing peace flows in, so ravishing I am unembarrassed to use the word ravishing, and it is not a peace of separation from the senses but the washing-through peace of looking, listening, feeling, at the very core of snow, at the very core of the care of snow.

—Anne Carson, “Merry Christmas from Hegel”, Float

Friend!!! Soft!!! 

Either 9 or 30 for the soft prompts? 🥺

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Friend!!! I felt a sudden upswell of tender feelings for Dream and of course this prompt was already in my inbox bc obviously you anticipated this a week ago. Anyway yes. We've had Hob telling everyone he's married to Dream, so now let's have the reverse with take 2 of 30: ‘this is my husband/wife/girlfriend/boyfriend/partner etc.’

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One of the little-known secrets of the universe is that when he's happy, when he's pleased with himself, when he's content, Dream of the Endless, supreme guardian of the collective unconscious, is absolutely adorable.

It's a slightly better known not-at-all-secret fact that Hob Gadling has a tendency to absolutely melt for him.

As he's currently doing in front of an awful lot of. Well. He supposes they are all people. If Dream's a person, which he definitely is.

Thing is, Dream does not actually love crowds, big functions, big crowded functions, hosting, entertaining, dealing with people who aren't one of the perhaps five he sort of likes, or worst of the lot, small talk. He's bad at it, as one might expect from an entity made up exclusively of feelings so deep that people aren't aware of them unless they're asleep.