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“Make yourself let go, make it go away”

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what is THE worst thing you've ever drank. all liquids acceptable. please tell me what it was, bonus points for why

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This guy must be killing it at the local Ren faires.

So this has been stuck in my head ever since I heard it three days ago.

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“I know you've got a little life in you left”🧜🏻‍♂️🩵

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what's the first movie you remember seeing in theaters? don't try and be all edgy and cool and say like tetsuo: the iron man. be honest.

Go!!

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flowah 🌻

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im not saying office jobs aren’t bad in some ways but its always very telling when people treat it like the WORST job at the bottom of the rung…because they have never had to face manual labor as a real option they would ever be forced to take.

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  I re-blogged this (the first time) in 2014. Today, I tried half a dozen times to re-blog it, and it wouldn’t work. So, I saved the images and re-posted it. I hope it helps make life a little easier. :-)   The original post is by iraffiruse.

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Ada is mostly APBT, but also has some German Shepherd and Australian Cattle Dog in her, which means she acts like the cops. Any time we take her to the dog park and she sees dogs play-fighting, she immediately inserts herself to get them to knock it off. Occasionally our cats get into scuffles, and she feels obliged to break them apart until they've calmed down. Weird noise outside? Better patrol the beat until the threat has subsided. One of the cats knocked over an empty pop can? She immediately snitches, then wags her tail proudly for telling on them. I keep telling her not to act like such a narc, but she hasn't gotten the message.

fun thing about herding and/or generally neurotic breeds: they are really good at following rules you have instituted, but they will also make their own Dog Rules they will follow stringently whether or not you like it

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teeny tiny ed+stede sketchdump

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I feel so bad for Ash.

Obviously I feel bad for the women that he violated. But his son has no agency. No ability to say "This is my experience." For credibility's sake, in order to implicate his father, it's important and necessary that he is a part of this narrative, but he has no ability to stay anonymous. Thanks to his parents, we know his name. We know his face. He is forever entwined with his father. Unless he goes into witness protection, he will never be able to escape the damage that Gaiman did to him. I hope to gods that he finds his way to good people, that his parents lose custody and the family connected to Scientology cannot sink their hooks into him--because who else is there? His father's family is in a cult, and his mother's family are enablers.

I hope that the FBI, CPS, any of the alphabet agencies (or their Aotearoa equivalent) are combing through Gaiman's electronics. And I hope to high heaven that he hasn't victimized more children.

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What Gaiman did is beyond comprehension. Condescending platitudes like "don't meet your heroes" are meaningless in this context. He didn't shoplift or get a DUI or be revealed as a bit unpleasant to his coworkers. He raped a woman in front of his child. That's shocking from ANYONE. If I found out that the friendly clerk at my corner gas station did that, let alone a beloved celebrity whose works I've read (and recommended and gifted) for decades, I'd be horrified.

People need to stop blaming 'parasocial relationships' when it's revealed to the public that a famous person has done something controversial (or even a crime) and the public is upset. 'I can't believe xxx did that!' doesn't always mean that the person who said it has a parasocial relationship with xxx. Usually it's just our faith in humanity, we want to believe that everyone has some basic human decency (especially someone we might admire) and it's only natural to be disappointed when we learn they're a bad person.

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Just when you think he can't sink any lower.

Trigger warning for everything.

WARNING - all kinds of disturbing

a new big article about NG came out, it is well written, has some new distubing levels, be careful about your triggers

(chrome didn't let me read it without paying but I opened in firefox and it was okay, edit: or link)

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Heartwarming Disney animated feature when?

Badgers and coyotes hunt together. It's a thing. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service explains that “studies have shown that this unusual relationship is beneficial for both species. The coyote can chase down prey if it runs and the badger can dig after prey if it heads underground into its burrow systems.”

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The bit about bullocks gall being an effective detergent is true. Dry cleaners still use it today, or a variant, as a spotting agent. It's called digest and it's made of powdered cow stomach. The acids in digest break down organic stains. You can DIY digest with saliva.

Fun little thing about medieval medicine.

So there’s this old German remedy for getting rid of boils. A mix of eggshells, egg whites, and sulfur rubbed into the boil while reciting the incantation and saying five Paternosters. And according to my prof’s friend (a doctor), it’s all very sensible. The eggshells abrade the skin so the sulfur can sink in and fry the boil. The egg white forms a flexible protective barrier. The incantation and prayers are important because you need to rub it in for a certain amount of time.

It’s easy to take the magic words as superstition, but they’re important.

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Read Northanger Abbey! Sweet Catherine Moreland meets nice guy Henry Tilney, who is polite, witty, and respectful, and they immediately hit it off. The only rival for his attention is Catherine's friend Isabella's brother John Thorpe, who is portrayed as an insufferable braggart and no real threat for her affections--Catherine only tolerates his company for Isabella's sake. Catherine and Henry have instant mutual admiration, bond over a shared hobby (reading gothic novels), and playfully banter together. They're friends first and foremost.

Seriously, it is my very favorite Austen novel, and my second-favorite book ever.

(This has been in my drafts for over a month [<- written in the summer of 2022 lol], let's just finish chewing this thing ...)

Part of the reason I'm obsessed with Our Flag Means Death is the magic of hyperfixation, but there's also something about it that just ... certain scenes, certain gifs, I see them and I absolutely melt. And I'm no stranger to romantic media, especially historical romance, so I had to ask myself why this, so much?

And I think the thing that really gets me about the romance in OFMD is that it's so entirely different from mainstream het romance (and again, especially historical romance) and that mainstream het romance is so often lazily written.

How often do you go to read/watch something where the protagonist and love interest immediately have a positive rapport, understand each other, smile at each other, admire each other, have fun together? And in contrast, how often is the love interest marked out by having immediate hostility with the protagonist, sniping, irrational disagreement, disapproval?

I watch Sanditon and Bridgerton mainly just to be aware of what's going on in them, because like it or not I'm kind of a Regency historian of sorts, but I can't really stand them. In the first season of Sanditon, the heroine, Charlotte was presented with two potential love interests, Sidney Parker and James Stringer. The former was the classic "we act like we hate each other because of our sexual tension," the latter was really adorable and full of smiles and care for each other. And ... Charlotte barely seemed to realize that Stringer was a real possibility, all narrative heft was given to her plotline with Sidney and of course they turned out to be in love. Then the second season rolled this back and brought in two new love interests, again with one having a positive relationship with her and the other constantly arguing and criticizing; the apparently positive one turns out to be a creepy Wickham while the one she initially dislikes turns out to be a good Darcy with manpain to deal with. (Same thing with her sister's love triangle.)

And there are loads of other examples where a potential love interest who is immediately pleasant turns out to be deceptive/meh while a potential love interest who spurs fights is endgame. Basically, this is because you need some kind of obstacle to stop the characters from getting together immediately. In historical romance written in the present day, social class and money aren't acceptable obstacles unless there's a pressing need for them written in (hence the prevalence of "father gambled away our fortune and you must marry well, my dear, to save us from the poorhouse" plots), and "we met in an awkward way and will not get over it" works, narratively, as an obstacle.

In contrast, what goes on in OFMD s1 is so much more complex - the characters liking each other but having internal reasons not to recognize their feelings or act on them gives more room for showing why they actually are good together.