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if the heavens ever did squeak, she's the last true mouse piece

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Apparently, my decision to be silly and make fanart of someone's writing (because I genuinely enjoy the story the person is writing and I was struck with inspiration upon reading a particular scene) has benevolent and wildly unforeseen consequences.

I apparently gained a bit of control of the canon because said writer really loved the art and decided what I drew/draw is canon.

2. Writer put said artwork into the document of his story right below the scene, so now it's IN the story where people who read the story will see it (with a link to me)

3. He sent the artwork to all his friends and people he knows because he was so excited

Wholesome interaction and I watched him do all that in real time, good stuff. However...there are two more consequences I was notified of today...nearly a full week after I gave the artwork.

Seeing the artwork caused his friends to become interested in reading and hearing about his story, which means more people are reading what he's writing and giving him critique on the story (which he actively asks for).

Apparently, upon seeing the art, his writer friends got a sudden second wind to pick back up writing they'd abandoned for a few months. Because, I quote, "seeing that someone enjoyed {his} writing enough to take the time to make art of it gave them the motivation that maybe THEY can write something that will inspire someone to also create something." I have accidentally caused a writing frenzy among his writer friends and my silly idea to make art for someone has had a butterfly effect for people who I don't even know.

Uhh...I'm pretty sure there's a moral here but I am tired and have a great deal of emotions about this.

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Had a dream last night that i was a knight and this bigger scarier knight had me on the ground and right before he swung his sword at my neck he said smth like "i mourn the loss of life for the tree who will become your coffin" which shouldnt have turned me on like it did but alas

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I killed the rat king of New York and inherited his throne by right of conquest or whatever, but I never took the rat oaths so I can speak to and command rats and they are compelled to obey, but they formally elected a rat president last year. I don't have any formal power in their social hierarchy but I have very real concrete magical power over them. I guess the title gets passed to my eldest son unless a rat kills me at some point.

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childhood emotion of wanting a dragon that is your friend so bad that it feels like there is a vacuum in your soul that only a dragon who is your friend can fill

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mine-sweeper? is it some sort of a maid game?

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When I talk about looking for unlikely ways to help bring your community together, this is the kind of thing I'm talking about:

I live in a "historically underprivileged" neighborhood. I'm a part of the neighborhood committee. I was talking to a man that's a member of a car club that's mostly young men with low riders. He was telling e how frustrated he was that people in the community didn't see the car club as an asset that helped keep them out of trouble.

I offered up the idea that they might want to do something to show good faith in the community. To engage with instead of just riding by. He was super receptive!

They're sponsoring an Easter egg hunt in our park with a few cars that the kids can get in and honk the horns of, some food and music, all free to our local neighborhood.

Is this CHANGING AMERICA? I guess not. But! It's giving people a chance to SEE each other. To talk!

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as much as I love portrayals of the sun and moon as a (lesbian) couple, the greeks were really on to something when they said "actually they're siblings who disapprove of each other's life choices"

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my advice to you is to never waste your time trying to fit into a club or hobby or any community who makes you beg for acceptance and approval just to participate when you could do the alternative—get involved in a niche and endangered hobby run primarily by old people.

i wanted to learn how to hunt ruffed grouse and train bird dogs so i sent an email to my local chapter of the ruffed grouse society explaining that getting into wildlife groups is intimidating to me because I’m trans

and all they saw was that someone under 60 wanted to learn to hunt grouse & several months into my mentorship I was told that like 7 old guys argued over me until they had to pick a number between 1 and 100 to decide who got to personally mentor me.

imagine vying for the acceptance of some gatekeeping weirdos when your mere interest could be inciting verbal combat among retirees

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I love how Nintendo killed all the excitement for the Switch 2 by raising the prices of games by 30 bucks

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the compulsion to try to be funny at all times is also a way of desperately pleading for your life to be spared

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How did Treasure Planet manage to come up with the greatest aesthetic in all human history? Victorian elegance plus space-age flair, with just enough dirt and grime and wear and tear to make it feel real? A combination of traditional and computer animation that perfectly embodies the movie's blend of old and futuristic? How does it get any better than that?

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stuck in a timeloop called i just have to get through this week

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people will design soap dispensers and dish racks and go like it's okay if this is capable of getting rusty, right. that's an acceptable weak point for an item whose sole immutable destiny is to get wet every time it's used, right

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on one hand i love the insignificance associated with time loops. you can do anything and it doesn't matter and it will always end the same because this day will wipe itself clean and begin again you can't stop it. you can't do anything to change it. but on the other hand oh the horrible horrible significance of it all.. the more times you repeat it the worse the consequences get. did you think you could break time and get away with it? everything you do that doesn't stop the cycle only feeds it. the more times you live the timeloop the more you become a part of it. can you even escape it anymore? do you want to?

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coming out of my cage and they’re shouting oh fuck it’s loose call for backup i repeat call for backup subject has breached containment area