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If I didn’t have tasks today, I’d be going on a long spiel about how good and tight Dragon Quest IX’s themes of death/loss and the regrets surrounding your acceptance of it are.

Like fuck, even as a ten year old I was picking up on this. It’s gotta be one of the strongest things themed Dragon Quest games.

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I think I have an excuse for my brain being so sluggish the last week at home.

Genuinely, it’s hard to work atm.

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Thank you, I was thinking it seemed a bad plan, besides you think I have bricks and flower pots lying around?

Hi, I think you may have reblogged a post with some misinformation. The post that includes a heating trick with a ceramic pot is misleading and potentially dangerous; continuously heating a ceramic pot with tealights does not heat up your home and in fact can cause injury - something about making the pot dangerously hot.

I did not know that! let me tag @bodhrancomedy as well

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Reblogging for heating tips and also to note that I did go to Lidl today and full on involuntarily gasped in relief upon walking into the warmth. You sort of get used to being cold and you start to ignore it.

Am currently searching hot water bottles online however for a second one.

I think I have an excuse for my brain being so sluggish the last week at home.

Genuinely, it’s hard to work atm.

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It snowed yesterday. I’ve got it up to 11.4°C at 1pm after a LOT of time with the heating on, my high after about five hours of heating was 15°C on Sunday.

Spending a lot of time today under blankets hugging a hot water bottle.

February in Scotland sucks.

I think I have an excuse for my brain being so sluggish the last week at home.

Genuinely, it’s hard to work atm.

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I have a generic face.

I’ve been having issues with TT’s captions since the last update, apologies.

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Absolute dream role that. Dying before the theme tune.

I'm not a fan of puppeteers, but I've a nagging fear Someone else is pulling at the strings Something terrible is going down through the entire town Wreaking anarchy and all it brings

I can't sit idly, no, I can't move at all I curse the name, the one behind it all

[Chorus] Discord, I'm howlin' at the moon And sleeping in the middle of a summer afternoon

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My DnD group just referred to my childhood crush as looking like "Hugh Darcy if he got hit in the face with a shovel a bunch of times."

I'm a little miffed.

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The World Of Becca Blake

Art by Dan Schkade

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One of my favorite things about rewatching Cowboy Bebop is seeing all these one-line characters that you instantly know everything about from how they decorate their tiny box in space.

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“A Trans Masc’s Catharsis” or “Fuck Off, R.”

By Bodhrán M. (He/they/ze/xe)

I spend so much of my time, trying to explain,

The difference between gender, sex, and a name,

How I’m a genderless man although my body don’t look it –

How I’m happy, I’m happy, I’m halfway fitted,

I’m becoming an art piece as everyone does,

But round my head your insults and threats just buzz,

I’m a ‘traitor’, I’m ‘brainwashed’ I’m someone to save,

As if I’ve just been washed away by a wave.

But as I’ve already told you again and again

My gender’s my gender, that should be the end.

And so what if you don’t understand what that means,

Get your hands off my body, release me you fiends!

All that fake sympathy you project from your screens,

Yet you paint me as something failed and obscene!

I am not a weak maiden in need of defending –

I’m a man whose boundaries you keep on bending!

And biting and punching until the moment you break ‘em –

So you can bury my bones and hammer a steak in ‘em!

I didn’t consent to this use of my form –

Hold me hostage much longer and I promise you’ll burn!

Is this poem really helpful, you know, I don’t care!

It’s catharsis, I need it, I need it like air!

All those times I’ve been told to be respectful to you:

Why should I? You’re bigots! You ain’t nothing new!

You look straight at me and don’t see a person –

Each time that you pop up your attitudes worsen!

I’m a ‘creed’, I’m a ‘dogma’, a piece in your game,

To my body you’re trying your best to lay claim!

You think that’s feminist, you piece of shit?

It’s not really feminist if you just change who you hit!

What, you want my body to be pure and untainted?

Uncomfortably close to eugenics that, ain’t it?

At what point did I hand over the owner’s receipt?

Think I’d remember tying a bow that neat!

My sisters aren’t dangers, my brothers aren’t mute –

With patriarchy you could help pull out the root,

But instead, you’re just cowards and bullies to boot!

How many crisis centres could you have outfitted?

All that money – but no a man could have benefitted!

It should be all for one and one for all,

But you’ve slowed down progress to a tedious crawl.

I know that you know this, I know that you do.

It’s happened before, your lies are not new.

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It’s been nearly seven years since Oppy the Mars Rover went to sleep and didn’t wake up and still even the merest thought of it has me crying.

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Kasparov had a very open approach to religion. He was open to whichever one might be inclined to look fondly at that moment. He believed in all of them, even when they contradicted each other. After all, every religion was insistent it was Right and Kasparov didn’t approve of gambling.

- our first introduction to our protagonist, Kasparov from Gander & Kasparov.

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I'm rewatching Merlin for research purposes (I'm trying to put together a pitch arguing for more funding for tween/young teen audience) and I'm so mad at the production values and the interesting cinematography.

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The desperate chant of every actor after 8pm: “I must not scrutinise my body. Body dysmorphia is the mind-killer. Botox is the micro-expression death. Veneers obliterate the natural face. I will embrace my body. I will permit it to look like an actual human being’s.”

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Maybe its a bit unfair considering I think Merlin's budget was higher than typical tween shows of the 2000s, but that entire era of MI-High and Young Dracula and Misfits was instrumental to how our TV landscape looks now - actors, writers, directors, editors - but we have nothing even close to it in the UK now.

The stagnation of the industry is well-known and lamented, but there's very little being done to rectify it apart from wringing hands.

Also, my previous calling it a tween show isn't exactly accurate. It's a family show, designed to be watched by parents and kids. We don't have many of those now because its assumed that everyone is individually watching on their own screens. But with the success of family Christmas films like the latest Wallace and Gromit film and MASSIVE viewing numbers I think indicates a desire for that.

Or, at least, its what I think.

I'm rewatching Merlin for research purposes (I'm trying to put together a pitch arguing for more funding for tween/young teen audience) and I'm so mad at the production values and the interesting cinematography.