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thinking about when i was small, how my mom told me that pipe cleaners were just a tool until people started idly shaping things with them and it grew so popular that they were marketed as crafting materials. and that story about how the original frisbees were disposable pie plates that students flattened to throw. and how when i was a child i had a wooden mancala set with shiny, colorful stones, but on invention it was played with rocks and grooves dug into the dirt. and middle school, paper football and tic-tac-toe and mash and mad libs, games that just need pen and paper. and before that, games of pretend with pirates and princes and masked marauders. how at slumber parties after lights out, we used to whisper storytelling games, i say one sentence and you say the next. and shadow puppets. and the way all the kids in the neighborhood used to divide into teams and throw fallen pine cones at one another. and the floor is lava game, and the quiet game, and the games i play with my coworkers that are just words and retention. and "put a finger down" on the high school bus. and little girls clapping together, and how the first jump-rope was undoubtedly just a length of rope who knows how long ago, and how natural it is to play, how we seek play at every age and with any resources we have and with whatever time we can squeeze it into in a day. i'm not an anthropologist or a psychologist but i think after food and shelter and water and air what comes next is games and stories and laughter. i think that there is nothing -- not sex or fighting or forming unlikely bonds with animals -- there is nothing more human than to play.

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it’s probably nothing, but my mail-in ballot was put into the mail to come to me the friday before the election (11/1) & 11 days later it still hasn’t been delivered to me

i voted with a provisional ballot day-of, & it’s still a little early i guess (it’s only been 7 days) but i keep checking the ballot tracker thing to see if it’s been counted & it hasn’t yet

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Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swann and Orlando Bloom as Will Turner PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN TRILOGY (2003 - 2007) dir. Gore Verbinski

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Explain yourself.

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epilepsy is so stupid, what do you mean three seconds of my silly little aura makes me afraid to take a shower because i’m home alone

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ily, menswear guy

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the most incredible creature

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Apparently this tiktok was deleted hours after I saved it.

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YOU hates terfs

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Caitvi Scenes: 30/? ↳ "You've got a good heart. Don't ever lose it. No matter how the world tries to break you. Protect the family."

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*sassy gay friend from a 90s sitcom voice* Well, Mr. Emperor, I wouldn't mind having a 'heavenly man-date' of my own

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we should start giving testosterone to ants

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Carpe diem, seize the day. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.

DEAD POETS SOCIETY (1989) dir. Peter Weir