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If you’ve messaged or tagged me and you aren’t hearing back, I’m managing a big to do list and multiple health issues including chronic sleep deprivation. It’s starting to trigger my anxiety to not be able to reply promptly so while I love hearing from people please be aware. I’ll respond if and when I’m able to.

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Great now the scam disaster blogs are tagging me. Wonderfully triggering for the mental health. I have no money! Genuinely. Also I can’t tell if it’s scammers but it’s very likely to be, but I don’t have the mental or emotional energy to investigate them so I don’t feel I can report.

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Sissinghurst Gardens

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"Hermes Psychopompos"; the guide of souls to the Underworld.

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Dark sunset

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“There is a Pleasure in the Pathless Woods, There is a Rapture on the Lonely Shore, There is Society, where None intrudes, By the Deep Sea, and Music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more”

— Lord Byron

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Swiss Alps Escape Jon Reid

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La Manga del Mar Menor, Murcia, Spain

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Sunrise paddle, Lake Superior

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Favourite Designs: Frieda Lepold "A Knights Dress" Haute Couture Gown

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BTW i see these posts all the time like "ohhh i dont know what to comment on fics.." and every response is "keysmashes! or hearts!! anything works :3" and thats GREAT!! thats helpful!!

but: consider. if u genuinely like analyzing writing.. do u know ur just allowed to go through and quote your favorite parts and ramble abt what they mean to u and the author will LOSE IT WITH HYPE?

genuinely. i felt SO WEIRD the first time i did it.. but like. holy shit authors love it. its crack for authors. the first time i did it, it was on a fic that hadnt updated in half a year, give or take, and the author made 3 updates that month BECAUSE OF MY COMMENT.

LIKE. as an author every comment is INCREDIBLE!!! but also, dont feel like your comment has to be short or otherwise ur invasive or smth!! authors ADORE long comments more than ANYTHING.

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i literally love when people realize positive reinforcement works like yes its so silly isnt it. but it literally works humans love juice reward too

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I was wondering, I know phoenix is a mythical creature but is it herbivore or a carnivore or perhaps an omnivore like if it's real what do you think it'll eat but if I look at the beak and claws it's similar to an eagle I think?

great news, phoenixes aren't actually mythical creatures at all!

in fact, here's one right now:

that's right, the myth of the phoenix was very likely started by this actual real bird, in Africa! right on the border of Tanzania and Kenya, actually.

riiight about... HERE.

this is Lake Natron.

Lake Natron is an alkaline salt lake of volcanic origin, where the water is as caustic as pure ammonia and can be hotter than a sauna at 140 F!

what lives here? not much. just the extremophile bacteria that gives the water and salt flats their pink tint, really.

oh, and these guys.

that's right, if you're a Lesser Flamingo, this volcanic hellscape is home sweet home! they live in the lake year-round, feeding on the bacteria that they painstakingly filter out of the near-boiling waters with their hooked beaks.

and at some point, some traveling humans presumably noticed a flock of giant pink birds taking flight from a poisonous and hard-to-reach bright-red hellscape, with billowing clouds of steam that might have looked like smoke from a distance, and took word to the nearest settlement. and from there the tale passed on through the old world, eventually growing into the legend of the bird that sets itself alight to be reborn that we know and love today!

so, yeah! phoenixes eat cyanobacteria.

surprise?

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Gustave Max Stevens (Belgian, 1871-1946)

The Twelve Princesses, 1899

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The Oregon Coast

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