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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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*Hunters* we're needed because the deer and elk population would get out of control! *The government, sometimes* well we'll just let the wolf population grow back... *Hunters* NO

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if beautiful women on rocks in the middle of the sea wanted to sing me a pretty song i wouldn't act like such a spoilsport party pooper about it

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The “Mr Mime is Ash’s dad” theory mildly irks me NOT because I don’t like it or whatever but bc the canon reason Mimey is there is just SO MUCH FUNNER. For plot related reasons Ash dresses up as a Mr Mime in a circus just outside Pallet town but gets kidnapped by Team Rocket. Brock and Misty are like “oh they’ll let him go once they realise he’s not a Pokemon, we should tell Delia that he’s gonna show up at her house in a Mr Mime costume so she isn’t freaked out” but then an ACTUAL Mr Mime shows up at her house before he does and because Delia is as faceblind as her son she mistakes it for him. And this Mr Mime is like “oh I like it here” and starts helping out around the house doing chores in exchange for food. And then when Ash DOES get home he’s like “mom why is there a Mr Mime here” and she goes “oops! Well he helps more around the house than you so I’m keeping him” and does. Mimey is not Ash’s dad. Mimey is his step-brother and canonically the favourite child

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Actually I also get excited about animals I regularily see like rats or cats (or deer if I'm not currently driving) because it's just awesome to see some animal,be it in your backyard, in a zoo or on the other side of the world (the last of which I sadly never visited).

Sometimes I see some variety of North American Little Guy (opossum, raccoon, etc. ) and I’m like “okay”

BUT THEN I start thinking about how excited somebody from not-North-America would be to see this Guy. Like, would an Australian be excited to see the only marsupial not from their country? Are there raccoons in zoos on the other side of the world that are regarded as unique and exotic creatures? Idk but it’s made me more excited to see Guys in my area.

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Gav’s Tavern Hi, I hope you like this. It is different from what I usually do. Also it was a lot of work.

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Thing to keep in mind:

1) someone is gonna be in the White House next year, and it is going to be someone who supports us imperial interests abroad

2) both the main party candidates suck in their own ways

3) for everything you (reasonably) criticize Harris for, trump is demonstrably worse (very much including Palestine)

4) we are still feeling the continued impacts of trump’s presidency, in terms of everything from the makeup of the Supreme Court ending safe abortion access and the lessening of safety regulations causing mass food outbreaks

5) a second trump presidency would be worse, for literally every possible issue you could think of

6) there is no scenario in which we could exchange our domestic issues for an end to genocide. We can’t trade reproductive justice for Palestinian statehood

7) the Biden-Harris admin had accomplished a lot of good things

8) good things the Biden administration has done do not excuse his continued funding of Israel committing genocide

9) Choosing not to vote or voting third party will not change any of the above facts. There is nothing to be gained by abstaining from voting, or by voting for a third party that has no chance of winning.

10) yes, this is supremely unfair. But there is no option b right now. This is the choice we have, and if the choice isn’t obvious to you I’m not sure what to say

11) voting doesn’t mean you’re supporting this person, you like them, agree with them, or that you cannot protest against them, criticize them, or try to hold their feet to the fire

12) voting will not fix everything. but not voting will not fix anything. Voting is a tool, it’s not the only tool, but it’s foolish to refuse to use it on principle

13) if voting makes you complicit, so does paying taxes or using public services like roads or schools. I am complicit by virtue of living in this country and being a citizen. Refusing to vote will not demonstrate my disagreement with this country, only my complacency in how it is run

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NEW FISH JUST DROPPED

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That's why we stop paying them

I feel like I might sound like a boomer, but why do streaming services have ads now. I thought the point of streaming was to pay to be add free.

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IVE BEEN WAITING ALL YEAR TO POST THIS YOU DONT EVEN KNOW

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In a truck stop bathroom washing my hands today and 2 boys, looked about 5 and 9, came in with their little sister who looked maybe 2. The following whispered conversation made my entire day

"We have to wait, there's a lady in here!"

"That's not a lady, he has a mustache! We can be in here!"

"Some ladies have mustaches! And she has boobs!"

"Well some guys have boobs! Like Uncle Jake!"

"Uncle Jake is fat!"

At this point I could not contain a chuckle and both whirled around with identical looks of panic on their faces. I smiled and said "it's alright for you guys to be in here so your sister has help, don't worry. And I'm both! That's why I have boobs and a mustache. Some folks are just built that way"

(In unison) "Ooooooh!"

(older boy) "So do you use Sir or Ma'am or both?"

"Both, but I prefer Sir"

"Cool! Well thanks Sir! We have to help our sister now!"

This was in a small town country truck stop and both boys had "Murica" type stuff on and neither of them had any issue at all with these concepts. Their mom approached me while I was in line about 10 minutes later and apologized for them bothering me in the bathroom (they had told her about the interaction) and she and I had a lovely little chat too. I got to introduce her to the term "intersex" and her reply was "I think I've heard of that before! I didn't know that was the word for it. Amazing how many different ways God can make people!"

Sometimes the world is good. More often than you might think, if you give it a chance. It's not all bad loves <3

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Love those silly Pokémon Go background Jack o'Lanterns

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This no-nut-november, I will not eat a single nut. Instead, I will bury them all for the winter.

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Shout out to that one child who came trick or treating today. Don't know why there's not more, I can hear them outside and one would think our obvious outdoor decorations would give them a clue.

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peebo the ant mimic spider, or the spider mimicking ant no one knows, she bites you see and no one wants to pick her up