The Mental Magpie

this is how you find the new doctor who showrunner

—Parker Palmer

(via omoshirosou)

you’ll need those years of discomfort, these years where your skin is never quite thick enough, these years where your hands always cling to people too tightly, these years where your heart beats for people who don’t deserve your kindness, these years where softness is not a gift but a curse, these years where breathing is a talent, these years where your soul is burning and you don’t know what for.

Fox News + Night Vale tweets

Scout goes up to the counter and orders a vanilla creme frappuccino off the menu. The barista frowns and tells the girl that she is too young to be reading, and to tell her father to stop teaching her. Scout imagines how difficult it must be to be a Starbucks barista. She forgives her.

"I’m going to be a farmer. I know how to grow two types of crops. One crop is the normal kind. The other kind uses aquaponic systems. We have an aquaponic system in our classroom. It has a one ton tank with nine tilapia fish in it. It used to have ten fish but the biggest one died over Christmas break. His name was Frank. Anyway, the water in the tilapia tank gets filtered into another tank, where we are growing kale, hybrid spinach, and lettuce. Afterward, it gets funneled back into the tilapia tank and starts all over again. Everyday we have to measure nitrate, nitrite, ammonia, and one other thing that I forget the name so let’s not mention that one. Anyway, at the end of the year we are going to harvest everything that we grew. Then we’re going to make fish tacos."

Sir Doctor and Dame Rose Tyler trying to be serious and not looking at each other  (

Every week we’ll share some of the Tiny Desk Concert Contest entries that stood out to us. To be clear: if your video doesn’t appear here, don’t panic — your entry is still eligible to win (as long as it follows these rules)!

Alejandro Jodorowsky (via lovetheghost)

Sylvia Plath - From The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (via watchoutforintellect)