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“I've had a lot of ups and downs in my life. I'm still working through it personally, but the best thing about me is that if an alcoholic or drug addict comes up to me and says, 'Will you help me?' I will always say, 'Yes, I know how to do that. I will do that for you, even if I can't always do it for myself! So I do that, whenever I can. In groups, or one on one.

And I created the Perry House in Malibu, a sober-living facility for men. I also wrote my play The End of Longing, which is a personal message to the world, an exaggerated form of me as a drunk. I had something important to say to people like me, and to people who love people like me.

When I die, I know people will talk about Friends, Friends, Friends. And I'm glad of that, happy l've done some solid work as an actor, as well as given people multiple chances to make fun of my struggles on the world wide web...

but when I die, as far as my so-called accomplishments go, it would be nice if Friends were listed far behind the things I did to try to help other people.

I know it won't happen, but it would be nice.”

- Matthew Langford Perry

queering the map, an interactive map of the world that allows members of the lgbtqia+ community to find locations significant to their queer experience and write them down for others to see. you can look through this for hours.

tree.fm, a site where you can listen to recordings of forests all around the world. each sound recording is accompanied by a beautiful picture.

this is sand, a visually satisfying virtual sandbox that lets you create art and showcase it to others. you can also see other people’s creations!

a soft murmur, a website that allows you to mix together your own ambient sounds to create your own background noises.

futureme, a site where you can write a letter to your future self and schedule to have it emailed to you after a certain amount of time.

you’re getting old, a site that calculates exactly how old you are according to your birthday and puts it into perspective.

bored button is exactly what it says on the tin. if you’re bored, press the button.

This is doubtless because of his experience of the trenches in the Great War.

Like, this is what things looked like to soldiers who fought in that war (image in black and white of a solitary soldier walking across a muddy wasteland pocked with puddles):

Here’s Delville Wood, the site of a battle in 1916 (sepia image of a wasteland dotted with broken and dead trees):

Here’s an image from the Battle of the Somme, in which Tolkien participated (image of soldiers standing above and inside a trench or earthwork in a grey wasteland; smoke from artillery is on the horizon)

Cold snap - Steve Smulka

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