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now what if I made a silly guy 

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I love it when you see art of, like, a big fuckoff werewolf raging in perfectly fitted Regency finery. Like, that stuff doesn't stretch – there are only two ways this scenario happens, and both of them have fascinating implications:

Their werewolf transformation magically resizes their clothes to fit their hulking nine-foot-tall beastman form, and understands the principles of tailoring well enough to make that look good; or

They've had outfits specially made for their hulking nine-foot-tall beastman form, and the ravening ragebeast they become makes a point of changing before going forth to rampage and slaughter.

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a shout out to the small baby child today who was demanding liberation from her stroller but who, when asked if she would stay close to mama and not run around acting crazy, paused for a moment to contemplate the question and then answered "prob'ly no"

it cost you your freedom, small child, but i admire your integrity and honesty 😔

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the baby did something gremlinous and my sister scolded him and he said indignantly "you are speaking meanly to me!" and my sister was like "yeah well I was surprised and frustrated that you did something I'd specifically asked you not to" and the baby said plaintively "you were still speaking meanly to me" and she apologized for speaking meanly and he apologized for his gremlinry and they made up

but that phrase immediately entered my personal home lexicon and I am going to start using it on my mom. every time she gets that one pitch in her voice I am going to be like hey mom. hear that? you're speaking meanly to me.

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heyy can we do a sexy roleplay where im a prince from a fallen kingdom and youre the powerful warrior who has taken me for their own pleasure. yes? yipeeee ok so before we start first here's a google doc with the whole history of the fictional land we're both from and the intricate geopolitical workings of the- oh yeah and here's a supplementary doc on the agriculture and trade routes of said fictional land and stuff and yes this is important. the dirty talk has to be lore accurate

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does anyone have the screenshot of the comment on the youtube video of molten iron slag being poured where it's a guy describing his experience witnessing the same thing written in the most beautiful prose imaginable

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No big deal, I just have to figure out all of Galois theory within the next 20 hours

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(Peter Wimsey voice) Let's get something out of the way. I know I look and sound like I personally know Bertie Wooster. I know that my entire mien is that of a devoted attendee of his gentleman's club. I know. Unfortunately I am the smartest person in a ten mile radius and there's been a murder.

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Discworld x Tolkien crossover where Vimes arrests the One Ring for being an accessory to murder

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Watching Frodo and Sam throw away all their weapons and earthly things and wrap themselves only in simple robes to walk on: oh okay we’re on a pilgrimage, I wonder in what way? :) Like which vibe is JRR choosing? :) It’s interesting that the weapons were discarded… but at its heart this whole task is basically the same thing as throwing a penny in a fountain, which you might do with pilgrimage-like reverence idk. Normally you’d discard a ring (or a broken sword etc) in a pool or bog rather than a volcano but— NO NO NO NO RED ALERT WE ARE IN A WASTE AND WE’RE BEING TESTED. WHY IS SAM SEMI-POSSESSED. What the fuck what the fuck wh.

Okay regroup, is this gonna go biblical style or more like — I’m mixing up the sheer number of early medieval saints who wandered off to be hermits and heard the voices of the evil spirits tied to the land. Did he just win a seithr battle. Did he just kick a mind out of his mind. This was NOT a chill goodnight read. Holy fucking shit.

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The problem with AO3 is that every online store's search function is bullshit by comparison

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Inktober: how does a phone work underwater half a billion years ago anyways?

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I feel like in the rush of “throw out etiquette who cares what fork you use or who gets introduced first” we actually lost a lot of social scripts that the younger generations are floundering without.

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I love being a sports fan. Hobbies include staring at live scoring apps and trying to manifest changes with the powers of my mind.

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this ai generated origami tutorial is sending me

I don't know what's funnier, the complete nonsense folds or the fact that one step is just. pair of scissors. famously not used in origami.

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not to oversimplify an extremely complex discipline but if i had to pick one tip to give people on how to have more productive interactions with children, especially in an instructive sense, its that teaching a kid well is a lot more like improv than it is like error correction and you should always work on minimizing the amount of ‘no, wrong’ and maximizing the amount of ‘yes, and?’ for example: we have a species of fish at the aquarium that looks a lot like a tiny pufferfish. children are constantly either asking us if that’s what they are, or confidently telling us that’s what they are. if you rush to correct them, you risk completely severing their interest in the situation, because 1. kids don’t like to engage with adults who make them feel bad and 2. they were excited because pufferfish are interesting, and you have not given them any reason to be invested in non-pufferfish. Instead, if you say something like “It looks a LOT like a tiny pufferfish, you’re right. But these guys are even funnier. Wanna know what they’re called?” you have primed them perfectly for the delightful truth of the Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker