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ARDENT

[adjective]

1. having, expressive of, or characterised by intense feeling; passionate; fervent: an ardent vow; ardent love.

2. intensely devoted, eager, or enthusiastic; zealous.

3. vehement; fierce.

4. burning, fiery, or hot.

Etymology: from Latin ārdent-, stem of ārdēns, present participle of ārdēre, “to burn”; replacing Middle English ardant.

[Hana Jang - Moment & Goodnight]

"With my heart I kiss your Ladyship’s hand, since I cannot with my lips" – Pietro Bembo in a letter to Lucretia Borgia (locks of Lucretia’s golden hair preserved in the Ambrosiana in Milan)

This well balanced owl has a truly special bond with it’s owner. See more of their friendship here.

jacobyverger

So not just me then.

ah yes. the classic “I can’t sleep because it will be tomorrow in an instant and tomorrow requires things of me and I Simply Do Not Vibe With That”. so I’ll go through said tomorrow on 2 hours of sleep. very smart and once again no lessons will be learned

To anyone who believes fairy tale romances never happen in real life, may I remind you that JRR and Edith Tolkien met and experienced a forbidden love in their youth, and then were separated for five whole years because of his guardian’s rules that he could not date till he was 21, and she got engaged to someone else only because she assumed he’d forgotten her and lost hope that she could ever be with him, but then on his 21st birthday, he wrote her a letter saying he still loved her and wanted to marry her, she responded basically saying ‘if I’d known you hadn’t left me on the shelf, I would never have said yes to anyone else,’ then a week later she greeted him at the train station and then immediately dumped her fiancé, and they got married and she converted to his religion and danced for him in a flowering field far away from the trenches into which he was drafted, which left such an impression that he crafted an entire story about the most beautiful maiden in the world who danced in the woods and made enormous sacrifices to be with the man she loved, and they had four kids and remained faithful to each other and blissfully grew old together and their gravestones are now marked with the names of that same fictional couple that he created, who broke every rule and overcame every possible obstacle to be together and get a happy ending, who only did all that because he based it all on their own real love story.

VOGELSCHEUCHE

[noun]

German: scarecrow; an object, usually a figure of a person in old clothes, set up to frighten crows or other birds away from crops.

[Jeremy Masson]