Pine And Snow

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There was one of those hyperspecific polls that had an option like “your grandfather told you war stories that he never told anyone else” and now I feel like I have to tell the story about how a spider saved my grandpa’s life in WWII and how my family doesn’t kill spiders because we owe our existence to that One Single Spider

So to set the scene, it's the height of WWII in France and my grandpa—a 6'3" 20 year old upper Michigan farm boy—has been separated from his company after their temporary camp was shelled. My grandpa (who, I have to add, was nicknamed 'the Suicide Kid' at this point because he worked in demolitions and bomb interception and kept taking the jobs no one wanted with the expectation that he was never going home anyway) is scared out of his wits, wandering around the French countryside alone. He has to move at night and sleep in barns and sheds during the day to hide from people who most definitely want him dead.

On one of these days, he finds a farmhouse of a very jittery couple who agree to let him sleep in the barn, with the conditions that he sleeps in the barn loft and if he's found, they disavow all knowledge that he was there. He agrees, because he's exhausted and will sleep in a hay pile if he has to. My grandpa manages to fit all six foot three inches of himself into a feed trough stored upstairs and tries to get some sleep.

However, right when he's half-snoozing, he hears motors outside and sure enough, here are some very angry officers of mixed Nazi and Vichy make confronting the couple saying someone up the road spotted an American soldier walking this way. They wouldn't know anything about that, would they? No, of course not.

All the while, my grandpa—now trying to figure out how to either escape the barn unseen or how to fight off six? seven? eight? people at once—freezes up and waits for the inevitable. While he does, a HUGE spider crawls next to his head and onto the loft railing. For one second, he thinks about swatting it away, but that would risk him being seen and killed.

So, instead, he lays there and waits to either fight to the death or get executed in a feed trough. And while he lays there, the spider starts making a huge web on the railing. My grandpa's transfixed by this thing. He watches her go around and around, building a solid web before plopping herself off to one side and waiting for breakfast. At the same time, the officers finally go into the barn.

My grandpa can hear them searching around, turning over crates and checking animal pens. Then, he hears one say to check the loft.

And then another say, "Don't bother. Look at the spiderwebs up there. No one's been there in a while."

And they leave.

Because my grandpa didn't swat the spider away and let her build her web, the officers thought no one was there and left him alone. They drive off and my grandpa immediately thanks the farmer couple and hauls ass out of there as soon as he can.

After this, my grandpa refused to kill any spider, and his kids did the same. Because if it wasn't for her, he wouldn't have lived and would never have had kids or grandkids. So we owe her one.

There's the man himself. Go grandpa!!

Beautiful library in Munich Bavaria

© Thomas

she won the stand-off

Wylan asking what his fake name says on his documents and Jesper saying “What, can’t you read it?” AND THEN IMMEDIATELY CLOCKING THAT WYLAN LITERALLY CANNOT READ IT AND FEELING TERRIBLE ABOUT IT? That fucking hurt 

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for context. this night came after the most difficult and painful season of my life. fora variety of reasons, it was one of those stretches that truly breaks you down. about a week before this video danielle was in my apartment and told me about a party she was planning where everyone in the cast has to dress up like someone else in the cast. naturally, she gave me amita and for the next few days ii scrambled to find a way to make that work... a very serious conversation with freddy comes to mind where he generously offered style advice and thanked God he had gotten kit. a couple days later i showed up to danielle's apartment only to realize everyone had actually dressed up as me. it was obviously surprising and ridiculous and hilarious but also it came at a time where i desperately needed something like this. danielle set up a whole party themed around me because she's an angel and all the cast was there and giving love. it's difficult to put into words what that meant to me at the time, but it forget. i share this story most of all to give some insight into how genuinely special this group is. beautiful friends and artists. it brings me immense joy to see them shine. be sure to watch shadow and bone season two and know that you're rooting for the best of the best. i'm so thankful for this moment and to be a part of a show with people like these 🖤

mal having THEE worst week of his life. girl he likes is destined to be a demigod with no time for him. the demon lord killing the world is his cousin. he got kidnapped and beaten OFF SCREEN, escaped OFF SCREEN, returned intact and now his girlfriends pseudo mother in law tells him he's going to have to die to save the world. incredible

GUYS, WATCH S2 AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE SO WE CAN GET A SOC SPIN-OFF

Ben knew EXACTLY what he was doing.

I am not over the fact that Jesper didn’t realise he’d met Wylan before until he was literally on top of him. He didn’t recognise his one night stand until he was On Top Of Him,,,, that’s the angle he had to have to remember his face,, there’s only one image that’s fitting for this.

Shadow and Bone adaptation is so fun you’ve never seen a more perfectly cast show acting their hearts out paired with the weirdest writing decisions in your life

Wylan being enraptured by the "extremely rare" butterflies and the intricacies of their ecosystem and then mercilessly handing them out like doritos is the most hilarious representation of the duality of his character

the darkling said i have loved and lost and i can bear it no longer, i will close my heart to anyone who is not like me, love is weakness, love is heartache, the joy of loving them is not worth the pain of losing them and i would spare her from this pain even if she hates me for it

and alina said i have loved him and i will lose him but not today, i have sacrificed everything but i will not sacrifice him, not again, i will bring him back to me no matter the cost, even if i have to let him go in the end

and mal said i have loved her my whole life but i don’t know who i am without her, i want a life of my own even if it means i have to leave her, but i will go trusting that i will be able to find my way back to her as i always have

and genya said i have loved him and i do not regret saving him but it came at a terrible cost, i have wandered underground in the dark with only the sound of his heartbeat guiding the way, i have survived unimaginable horrors and i am strong enough to survive losing him too

and david said i have loved her without knowing how to show it but i would like to try, i know metal and she is stronger than steel and more beautiful than rubies or emeralds, i have never known anyone braver and i regret leaving her side before, but i will do it just once more if it means i can save her

and wylan said i have loved him even knowing it might never be anything more, i left him the first time but i’m not leaving now, i want to hear about his day and i want to tell him about mine

and jesper said i have loved him all while hiding a part of myself but i will hide no longer, i do not know where this journey will lead us but i would like to find out, i have spent my life gambling and i will take a gamble on this

and nina said i have loved him even as he hates me, i have condemned him to save him and i will not rest until i am able to free him

and matthias said i have loved her despite a lifetime at war against her people, i should have known better than to trust her but i let myself anyway, she betrayed me and i should hate her but it’s not just hatred that i feel when i dream of her in the night

and inej said i have loved him as his shadow, close enough to be near but never touching, i want more for us and i will not settle for less, i will have him completely or not at all and i will not wait, i will live my own life with the freedom he gave me and we will meet again one day when i choose to return

and kaz said i have loved her when i could not love myself, i do not believe in saints but i believe in her, i have lost my brother and i would do anything to make sure she doesn’t have to suffer the same, i have given everything so she could have her freedom and i would rather watch her walk away than ever hold her back, i will wait for her and i will miss her every moment she’s not beside me, but i will try to make myself a better man by the time she returns

and sankta neyar said i have loved and lost and i will gladly do it again, i once closed my heart but no longer, i will endure the pain of losing my husband by cherishing the memories of the life we shared, may you all find a love that brings you joy that will outlive the pain, my love is my strength and my universe, i have lived for hundreds of years and what i have learned is this: there is only love, it is the only thing that matters and it is enough

Listen to the sound of wikipedia

This is a way to listen to changes to wikipedia. You are literally listening to knowledge being added to the world.

Pluck sounds are an addition, strings are subtractions, and the pitch says how how big the edit is. My heart shudders at this I love it so much.

This is so relaxing. 

I COULD LISTEN TO THIS FOR HOURS THANKS

Overstimulating: turn on all languages

Hyperaware: turn on wikidata, English, and anything else

Upbeat calm: turn on English, German, Hindu, Chinese, Japanese, French, Spanish, Telegu

Calm: English, Chinese, Hindi, German

Distant calm: Arabic, Telegu, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Hindu

Unsettling quiet: Punjabi, Serbian, Western Mari, Macedonian, Farsi, Tamil, Kannada, Gujarati

The Distant Cry: only Western Mari

not to sound like a medieval peasant but, cheese and bread. garlic and butter. a menagerie of spices. potatoes. that’s what life is all about right there.

Op you have medieval in url and don't know about the potato timeline, why

Only Hozier could write a song about older generations robbing the younger ones of a future, and make it sound like a metaphor for oral sex

KING.

I think it’s worth talking about that he couldn’t get another job between filming the movie and it coming out and lost his health insurance because of it. It’s shameful.