Ghibli films be like maybe the real hero was public transport

Music at the end of Doomsday:

saddest music ever, or saddest music ever?

My favorite part of it, though, is that a snippet of it plays the very first time Rose steps into the TARDIS, and then I'm pretty sure you never hear it again till Doomsday. Everything else comes between, but it was always building to this.

Excerpt from Hello NY: An Illustrated Love Letter to the Five Boroughs by Julia Rothman

Some of my favorite buildings on here. One of my favorite things about cities is how you inevitably have different styles all mashed up next to each other, creating something unintended and new.

are these even legal anymore

Mary Oliver, A Settlement  (via yesyes)

I love Ourit Ben-Haim’s series of photographs of people reading books in the subway—partly because I relate to it, and partly because the portraits are of people whose heads are some place else entirely. They’re almost not even really there, they’ve been transported in a different way.

like, no offense to other people, but the people who read this blog are the best people on the planet

in general it is a pain in the ass when a post goes 100k+ viral but this one absolutely deserves every moment of its success and i am proud to have been a part of it

Lol

please never stop with the literary valentines. 

For newlyorange

Boston is cancelled until spring

the whole city. please make sure to relocate to Boston 2, which can be entered through the maglev train hidden in the basement of South Station. Boston 2 is a complete replica of the city, including a giant artificial sun, located 2 miles underground, so as to avoid the snow and cold, and about 20 miles west of the above ground city. Please do not pay attention to the giant rats. Just think of them as hungry packs of stray dogs. 

On January 19th, I met a young man on the street named Vidal, and I asked him to tell me about the person who had influenced him the most in his life. He told me about his principal, Ms. Lopez, and he explained how she had taught him that he mattered. Over the next two weeks, I learned the story of Ms. Lopez and her school, Mott Hall Bridges Academy. By hearing the stories of MHBA students and educators, my eyes were opened to the unique challenges facing a school in an under-served community. Ms. Lopez taught me that before a student is ready for academic training, they must be made to understand that they deserve success. And that can be the hardest battle in education. Ms. Lopez always said that there was no place her students did not belong. Recently we received an invitation that proved just that.