noirandchocolate:

“ASTONISHING, said Death. REALLY ASTONISHING. LET ME PUT FORWARD ANOTHER SUGGESTION: THAT YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A LUCKY SPECIES OF APE THAT IS TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE COMPLEXITIES OF CREATION VIA A LANGUAGE THAT EVOLVED IN ORDER TO TELL ONE ANOTHER WHERE THE RIPE FRUIT WAS. Fighting for breath, the philsopher managed to say, ‘Don’t be silly.’ THE REMARK WAS NOT INTENDED AS DEROGATORY, said Death. UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES, YOU HAVE ACHIEVED A GREAT DEAL.”

— Terry Pratchett, “Death and What Comes Next” (A Blink of the Screen)
(Tired of dealing with philosophers but never tired of humanity as a whole.)

lesnienka:

If there’s is something universaly popular in the Czech Republic it’s TV fairy tales, usually with a low budget and blatantly filmed in a film studio. 

This one is called Anička s lískovými oříšky (Anichka with hazelnuts, 1993). It tells a story of a cursed princess whose head changes into a one of a sheep and it follows her journey to break the curse with the help of faeries, so she can live with her beloved king. 

What is special about this fairy tale is that it is meant for children but it instead gave a trauma to a lot of them and I have nightmares to this day about the sheep head and nothing could make me watch it again.