bigjazzboy:

To believe in a universe as young as six or seven thousand years old is to extinguish the light from most of the galaxy. Not to mention, the light from all the hundred billion other galaxies in the observable universe.

candlewinds:

armor of Henry II of France (reigned 1547-1559) ca. 1555 (x)

melonylotseven:

like for once someone on buzzfeed getting it right

She’s not a metaphor for All People Who Die Young: She’s a real, historic person who was murdered, and to say, “She, like Hazel and Augustus, is a person who died young but still lived a meaningful life” robs her memory of its true meaning, which is that this slaughter, Shoah, was a senseless tragedy, the result of deliberate evil. Lidewij says “Anne Frank,” and the audience is just supposed to understand. And what we’re supposed to understand is not “a teenager’s emaciated body lying on the freezing ground in a pile of corpses.” We’re supposed to understand, “Ah, yes, Anne Frank, died young, very sad.” Cancer is heartbreaking, but it is not a genocide; it is not an organized mass murder, and to compare the two erases the intentional aspect of genocide.

i got a pretty decent mark for my biology mock so my teacher better start taking me seriously and stop being a dick and telling me i was being a bit disappointing at the beginning of the year for getting solid 6s

jonsnows:

 I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night’s Watch, for this night and all the nights to come.