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And of course, there is the question of what happened to Kevin’s cats. Did he bring them with to Montenaro?

I’ve observed today (in my annual rewatch of the princess switch saga) that the flag of Montenaro is a Nordic cross

Which is odd, because I always pictured Montenaro somewhere like… near Luxenborg?

Also, I dearly love the harried priest in the end of the second movie. Poor guy just wants to make his flight and then all of a sudden he’s officiating a royal wedding

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I love legos because they understand the most fun you can have is following clear and specific instructions to do a manual task

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That’s fair, I think you could push through a lot of beurocratic nonsense with “I’m the Queen, I can do what I want”

I would think that Kevin is definitely a king, since Olivia is a princess and he shows up in a fancy little military outfit in the third movie, which seems a very kingly thing to do

Honestly, I’m also a little confused as to where they managed to locate a morning suit for Kevin on like a three hour’s notice. Usually no one owns those things unless they have at least two ancestral estates

Maybe they had to run to Montonaren Men’s Warehouse real quick?

I’ve observed today (in my annual rewatch of the princess switch saga) that the flag of Montenaro is a Nordic cross

Which is odd, because I always pictured Montenaro somewhere like… near Luxenborg?

Also, I dearly love the harried priest in the end of the second movie. Poor guy just wants to make his flight and then all of a sudden he’s officiating a royal wedding

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I mean, he did, props to him. Although honestly, if your flight boards in five minutes, you should be at the gate, not getting coffee

I wonder if they had to track him down to fill out the paperwork later?

I’ve observed today (in my annual rewatch of the princess switch saga) that the flag of Montenaro is a Nordic cross

Which is odd, because I always pictured Montenaro somewhere like… near Luxenborg?

Also, I dearly love the harried priest in the end of the second movie. Poor guy just wants to make his flight and then all of a sudden he’s officiating a royal wedding

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Also, despite all the Montenaroens and Belgravians having British accents, why is Mother Superior in the third movie just… randomly Scottish?

I’ve observed today (in my annual rewatch of the princess switch saga) that the flag of Montenaro is a Nordic cross

Which is odd, because I always pictured Montenaro somewhere like… near Luxenborg?

Also, I dearly love the harried priest in the end of the second movie. Poor guy just wants to make his flight and then all of a sudden he’s officiating a royal wedding

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I’ve observed today (in my annual rewatch of the princess switch saga) that the flag of Montenaro is a Nordic cross

Which is odd, because I always pictured Montenaro somewhere like… near Luxenborg?

Also, I dearly love the harried priest in the end of the second movie. Poor guy just wants to make his flight and then all of a sudden he’s officiating a royal wedding

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I think there's some medias that you just cannot meaningfully engage with if your main priority is shipping

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“we need more platonic relationships in media” your inability to turn off your shipping brain is a You problem

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I love how wildly dark some kids media is

Especially my dearly beloved American Girl Dolls, some of whom have trauma worthy of the most pathetic Little Guy™️ character

Like, this character had to leave behind everything she ever knew or loved, knowing fully well that she could never go back, never would see the family she’s leaving behind ever again. So she embarks on her journey, finding comfort in a friend who shares her grief at leaving their old life behind, but also the same hope for the future. But that friend dies just before reaching their new life, leaving her alone once again in a strange land.

She has to leave the last remnants of her homeland behind. And she still has hope, but so many of the promises of this new land are just not there. And they go back to try and retrieve those keepsakes, months later, and she has to be the one to lead them through the snowstorm, relying on half-remembered directions in the hope of not freezing in the snow before then can get home

She tries to do something kind, help out a little innocent creature. And it goes horribly wrong, ending up destroying the home that they only just are managing to carve out in this new land.

She gets lost in the woods, in the middle of winter, and she and her brother think they’re safe when they find shelter. But not only shelter, they also find the corpse of a neighbor, the first people to learn that he died. So they wait out the storm alongside this old body, one they can’t even properly bury because the ground is frozen, while her brother tries to comfort her with the thought that he was a good soul, so while he may be dead, his ghost is a kind one. And then, in order to try and fix the mistake that destroyed their home, they rob the dead man.

This is the character:

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Experiencing the glory of American Girls

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The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald would make an appearance, no matter the occasion

what is YOUR specific personal reason you shouldn’t be handed the aux? call urself out (in the tags or not. cmon this is public)

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Hmmmm

I prefer the longer one I think

The shorter one seems very… modern

And casual

Or something you would wear to the beach

Satyr Legs

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tucson aint got much but it does have a bridge shaped like a rattlesnake

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At the Museum, 1871 by Karl Böker (German, 1836–1905)

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I love all handmade stuff, but before I started knitting, I always wondered why folks poured so much time and energy into making stuff that looks exacly like what youd buy at a store.

It very quickly hit me: store- bought stuff SUCKS. Handmade stuff RULES.

The kinds of stitches used, the thickness/ quality of yarn, even the dimensions of the item itself are just so shitty and cheap on mass- produced clothing. Once you know what youre looking at, you can see that its made to be worn and disposed of within a year. But that handmade brown sweater? That sucker weighs 3x what a store bought sweater weighs. Its softer, it has better stretch and even with messier seams, its STRONGER. It can survive a trathalon, a hop over a barbed- wire fence, and a minor nuclear explosion.

So hats off to all of the more stubtle fiberworks artists out there, your bulletproof crafts are magnificent.

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every winter solstice I am consumed with thoughts of Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost...

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Me, yesterday: you know, I think it would be fun to recreate the dragonriders’ shoulder patch from that story I’m working on. I’ve got some felt scraps, that might be easier than embroidering it.

Oh, wait. Should it be a normal shield shape, or one with a point at the top? And come to think of it, what color? I’ve been thinking red or orenge, but maybe something else would be better? and should I keep the black background, or do a dark grey? Maybe I should experiment a bit? After all, it’ll be a super quick project

Me, today:

(The three I’m leaning towards for the final:)