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the world is running out of glassblowers and yet you want to become a fucking doctor

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Having ADHD is so fun because sometimes youre looking for something that you use regularly and definitely put away in a smart and reasonable place and you have absolutely 0 hope of remembering where and finding it. And then other times ur like "hmm I need a some kind of small pointed object. I feel like i remember seeing a paperclip under the left couch cushion a month ago, i wonder if its still there" and it is

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Harrison Wood Hsiang

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Really fucked up that you can just inherit complexes from your mother and be fully aware that they're complexes from your mother but still do all that shit

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Do you kids know how hard it is to hyper fixate on shit as a goddamn adult?? Sorry boss I know you need those files done but I’m too busy giggling like a goddamn school girl over a fictional man

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Ripley has gotten surprisingly polite about couch etiquette since we moved. He used to chew a lot of holes in the old couch, which my housemates and I referred to as "The Bird Couch," whereas this red couch was always "The Nice Couch." Maybe it has something to do with our naming convention, maybe it's that this couch is farther away from his cage and he feels less entitled to it. Either way I'm grateful that he usually goes to the trouble of pooping off the side of the couch rather than on it these days.

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Glory to the Palestinian resistance forever and always

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Back in 2013, I posted a Welcome to Night Vale fic and someone commented, “I’m autistic and I see myself a lot in the way you write Carlos. Did you intend for him to autistic?”

And I was like “I’m flattered you think so! No, he’s not intended to be autistic, but I’m glad you can see yourself in him.”

Now twelve years later I spent some time this evening trying to track down that comment to give a very belated clarification. Whoever you were stranger, hey. I only said no because I based Carlos heavily on me, and since I wasn’t autistic, Carlos wouldn’t be either. Well. I’ve learned some stuff in the intervening decade that strongly support your literary analysis.

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Do you guys call it aldi or aldis

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the searches for bootcut jeans have just increased exponentially

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do you want me to put that fictional man in a situation for you miss

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no way ppl are using ai to write ao3. what happened to being a tortured writer. what happened to blood on the page. what happened to the ao3 curse. people used to get run over, have their houses burned down, break their entire spines and they still put in the work to finish a chapter. fuck you, using ai. y’all are weak

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NO!!!! Characters accepting their sexuality will kill the patient.... She needs deep repression narratives to live

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congratulations to all haters and philadelphians

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am always obsessed when someone says to a character “call off your dog” about another character.

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SERENA WILLIAMS during Kendrick Lamar’s Halftime Show at Super Bowl LIX