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the minecraft soundtrack is so important. its just like. augh

i cant tell any of the songs apart. i dont know any of their names. i couldnt pick a favorite if i tried. they evoke deep and indescribable emotions and they never get old

big congrats to aaron tveit for being the only actor what a dream come true

Happy Halloween the 1st!

hey guys! i've been reading so much abt the california fires and it's terrifying!! here's a link i found to a list of organizations that will be needing all the help and donations they can get! please please please add more donation links to organizations and/or individuals in the reblogs!

here are more versions of this post with more resource links!

thinking about when i was small, how my mom told me that pipe cleaners were just a tool until people started idly shaping things with them and it grew so popular that they were marketed as crafting materials. and that story about how the original frisbees were disposable pie plates that students flattened to throw. and how when i was a child i had a wooden mancala set with shiny, colorful stones, but on invention it was played with rocks and grooves dug into the dirt. and middle school, paper football and tic-tac-toe and mash and mad libs, games that just need pen and paper. and before that, games of pretend with pirates and princes and masked marauders. how at slumber parties after lights out, we used to whisper storytelling games, i say one sentence and you say the next. and shadow puppets. and the way all the kids in the neighborhood used to divide into teams and throw fallen pine cones at one another. and the floor is lava game, and the quiet game, and the games i play with my coworkers that are just words and retention. and "put a finger down" on the high school bus. and little girls clapping together, and how the first jump-rope was undoubtedly just a length of rope who knows how long ago, and how natural it is to play, how we seek play at every age and with any resources we have and with whatever time we can squeeze it into in a day. i'm not an anthropologist or a psychologist but i think after food and shelter and water and air what comes next is games and stories and laughter. i think that there is nothing -- not sex or fighting or forming unlikely bonds with animals -- there is nothing more human than to play.