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Does anybody know if you ever stop being 11 years old and lonely

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“My body”? oh no you must be mistaken. This isn’t my body, this is just a thing I’m inhabiting for a while cause the other one was unavailable. No I will not elaborate.

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The divine right of kings but it's a curse

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A short list of things I think everyone should try or do at least once in their life that will make you feel more alive. Not all of these are applicable to every person, but it’s a summary:

Take a dance class of any style with a semi-serious instructor for at least 4 classes worth

Write a work of fiction, of *any* length and *any* quality

Learn a least a bit of a language that isn’t your native one. You don’t need to become anywhere near fluent, but try and get a bit beyond yes, no, and where’s the bathroom. If you’re from a country where most people are bilingual already, that doesn’t count! Get bits of a language with which you are truly unfamiliar.

In the same vein, make peace with subtitles and start consuming music, TV and movies from cultures that aren’t your own. If your country imports large amounts of media from a specific other culture or cultures (American movies in foreign markets, for example) that also doesn’t count! Get some feelers out to begin to take in content from a culture that you don’t already have a lot of knowledge of.

Try at least one less common/less “exercisey” and more fun type of physical exercise such as roller blading or roller or ice skating, gymnastics, trampoline, rock climbing, aerial silks, pole dancing, surfing, etc

Learn a hobby or craft that produces a physical finished product and produce a single, complete object - regardless of quality - that you can hold in your hands and say that you made.

Look up a how it’s made video or YouTube video on how an item that’s interesting or relevant to you is made

Give one type of thing - media, hobby, sport, whatever - that you’ve never been interested in or never tried because of some preconceived perception an honest shot and see if your perception was correct. Sometimes it won’t be, sometimes it will be, but it’s valuable to know.

Rearrange the furniture in a room in your home

It’s about NOVELTY, babey! Get some enrichment into your enclosure!

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not doomed by the narrative but saved by the narrative. yeah i know you'd rather die than keep suffering but the story doesn't actually care what you want. you have to keep going, even when it hurts. even being erased from existence won't stop you from being salvaged from the wreckage of un-being. get up. keep pushing. keep bleeding. keep living.

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it turns out that actually you never needed to be understood! what you really needed was to make the rest of the world just as incomprehensible as you are!

[YOU HAVE UNLOCKED BAD ENDING #4]

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Poll: if your mom remarries when you’re 26 years old is that guy still your stepdad or is he just your mom’s husband.

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i forgot how fucking weird november is theres no afternoon its just night after 2pm

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I know this is probably. The randomest request you've ever had and ever will have but a story about Four an bread? Please with sprinkles? (Bc I don't like marinated cherries.) Thanks!

"Four, what is that?"

"Bread," said Four, the word somewhat muffled due to the fact that his mouth was full. "Duh."

"But... where did you get it?" Twilight asked, confusion all over his face. "We haven't been to a town in weeks, and even Wild's out of flour."

Four shrugged. "Around."

"Around," Legend repeated, not bothering to hide his suspicion. "Seriously? It didn't just fall out of the sky, did it?"

"No. It was just in the bushes there," Four said after swallowing, gesturing to the shrubbery. "Still warm."

"And you didn't stop to wonder where it came from?!" Warriors sputtered, and Four paused, then shrugged again.

"Nah."

"Smithy! You can't eat random bush bread!"

"Already did," Four said, dusting crumbs off his lap. "No use being so dramatic about it."

"...Are you kidding? What if it was a trap or something?" Legend said with a hand on his hips.

"What if it was poisoned?" Warriors said more sharply, and Four tilted his head, feathered earring swaying.

"You guys are being oddly concerned about this."

"It was an entirely random loaf of bread, somehow still warm, right next to our camp, in a bush. And you ate it," Warriors said, grabbing him by the shoulders. "Why, pray tell, wouldn't we be concerned?"

"Because this happens all the time?" Four said, unconcerned.

"What."

"I eat bread I find in the bushes all the time. Tastes better than anything you can get in a store, though Wild's is pretty comparable."

"Good to know," Wild said thoughtfully.

"And do you know why this happens?" Legend said, looking rather dumbfounded.

"It's free bread. I don't question it," Four shrugged, and licked a few crumbs off his fingers. "Hasn't done anything except give me a full stomach so far."

Warriors stared, then sat down, looking like he'd grown a few grey hairs in the course of the last couple minutes. Legend and Twilight continued to stare at Four with odd looks on their faces, while Four still didn't look the least bit concerned.

Hyrule looked around at them all, and hesitantly raised a hand.

"Um. Is this anything like the tree cookies I sometimes find?"

"The WHAT?!"

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One last talent show to save the rec center

Ok everybody here's the deal.

My science education nonprofit, Skype a Scientist (you might know her, creator of the squid facts hotline and matcher of classrooms + scientists) has secured absolutely no grants to support general operations for 2025. But! We're selling advent calendars to fund our program! They absolutely rule. They can save our nonprofit asses. If we sell 5000, which I realize, is so many, we can fund our program for 2025. Then I can offer a bunch of programming for free. Running a nonprofit is a weird job.

Every day, counting down to frankly whatever you want (it's usually Christmas, but man, maybe you want to count down to Halloween, that's fine by me) scratch off the sparkly sparkly iridescence and reveal a fact about frogs! We have 24 top-notch frog facts here.

You should get one for every kid in your life, then get one for all the adults who still let themselves access joy in critters.

Get 'em here: https://squidfacts.bigcartel.com/

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I loveee fantasy settings doing magical exhaustion:

burnt out pyromancers emitting steam and smoke

tired cryomancers shivering with visible foggy breath

weary necromancers looking ill and hearing voices

frazzled healers receiving the same cuts, bruises, and injuries of their patients

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Do not blame me for who I am. The doctor prescribed me 20 mL of #dnd twice a day.

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That's not fair.

(If you want to see me vent I'm on tiktok, @cryingbard)

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I don’t regret being optimistic, by the way. I will never regret thinking better of people than maybe they deserve. I don’t know how thinking the worst of everyone always makes the world a better place.