The most important battle ever

Which is cuter: Ryan Gosling or a puppy?

See? I wasn’t kidding when I said this was the most important battle ever. A new single-serving Tumblr is asking the crucial question of which side holds more cuteness per adorable cubic inch, and you know what? It’s a tough decision. They’re both adorable in their own way: puppies in their cute, tiny, fuzzy companionship, and Ryan in the sense that, like the fist of an angry god, I would hit that. So clearly, I am in a pickle, which is funny because usually that’s the other way around. (That one’ll hit you in a couple seconds . . . Aaaaaaaaaand you got it.)

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