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Here’s my take on the whole audio books vs. reading:

Oral tradition of storytelling predates written ones by millennias, and honestly, which one you like is just a personal preference.

The actual difference is

when listening, you have no idea how to write characters’ names

when reading, you have no idea how to pronounce characters’ names

hope this helps!

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Mods? Take him to the stump of his favorite childhood tree.

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please help her

her gofundme

saving al-genina

sudan solidarity collective

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After some housing instability that meant I couldn't get regular dental care for a few years, I got health insurance and went in to the dentist. They do some scans and X-rays, and leave me to wait until they come back. The dental hygienist brought the X-ray in to leave for the dentist. As she put it up, she took a second to look at it, then turned towards me and asked with zero affect "So, do you *want* to keep your teeth?". Confused and distressed, I answered "If at all possible? Yes?". She then went "Hm." and walked out of the office.

The complete lack of a reaction combined with the concerning question (not do you want to keep some specific teeth, just in general do I want teeth) was an absolute wild experience.

Doctor: What do you see in this X-ray?

Students: *collective gasp*

Doctor: Please don’t do that in front of patients.

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isabelle i literally have no idea what you’re talking about

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Actually cannot stop watching this

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At a festival. Small child is lying on the ground nearby with a large rock on their chest yelling MORE WEIGHT!!! GIVE ME MORE WEIGHT!!!

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ty, astarion, for failing every fucking arcana check possible here to make this amazing comedy bit

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i imagine pre-res pyrrha dve as that one photo of daniel craig where everyone thinks he looks like a butch lesbian.

kind of a silver fox. reblog

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i’ve been thinking about innocuous photos like the one on the left. because it is my job to neglect the sprouts of imperialism and racism that accompanied my upbringing, i've been attempting to find solidarity even in the innocuous. and how easily it comes: marah and i, both schoolgirls who like cute things, both compelled by the desire to photograph our supplies after arranging them to be just-so. the photo on the right is an old one of mine.

if you were to ask yourself:

“how much do i have in common with a palestinian?”

i think the answer would be “everything.” maybe you’re united by the love you have for your pets, being fans of the same goth rock band, or the fact that, were something of severity to happen to your family, you’d also be online, asking for help in a way your elders might find it hard to wrap their heads around, and making sure people knew they could trust your campaign.

and if this were a message you were sending, i hope that your hope would remain in tact, because people like us, on the other end, would be doing everything they could to help you.

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astonishing how good it can feel to get some chores done sometimes. you’ll be sitting there like damn i am some type of horrid little smeagol like creature who should be crushed to death. but then you do some laundry and you’re like wrow. im actually gods most fuckable soldier.

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remember being 8 and world records were the most important thing in the whole wide world

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you gotta be able to say "die"

you gotta be able to say "suicide"

you gotta be able to talk about "sex"

they're uncomfortable topics, YEAH for SURE

because LIFE is uncomfortable. Death and suicide and sex and pain are straight up going to happen. not having words for the way it discomforts you doesn't make it more comfortable, it just makes you less able to reach out about it.

even more vital, you gotta be able to say words like "rape", "abuse", "queer" or "racist". cause we fought fucking hard to name those experiences. to identify "rape" as distinct from "sex" and "racism" as distinct from "acceptable behaviour" and "queer" as distinct from "invert"

like the function of communication is not to minimise immediate discomfort. we gotta be able to talk about stuff that's hard or sucks or causes difficult conversations.

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this is what pretty much every terf blogs look like to me

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Spiro T. Agnew button

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