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Tired of stories where the author worldbuilds a whole religion only to chicken out at the last moment by making the main character a skeptic. You mean to tell me that there’s all this richness in lore and culture, but you’ve trapped me with the one person in this society who doesn’t care about it? So bland. I could meet an agnostic easily enough by walking down the street, but your story is my one chance to hear the perspective of someone who follows whatever religion you’ve contrived. You made this whole world; convince me that your character really is from there.

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when playing animal crossing new horizons I thought chip’s character was awful because I couldn’t suspend my disbelief at the concept of a fish influencer with hundreds of thousands of fans who just… watch streams of people fishing and look at pictures of fish

anyway today I tried to explain that I was taking pictures “for the blog” to the barista as I tried and failed to covertly snap a pic of the hot water warning on their machinery

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uh oh! one of your organs has mysteriously vanished! Spin this wheel to find out which one!

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Gold earring with glass head pendant, Phoenician/Carthaginian, 3rd-1st century BC

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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i would like to stop seeing the flesh hat tubi ad now please

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the idea of a clutch purse is nightmarish to me. the whole point of bags was so we could escape the torment of holding things. and now u gotta hold a bag.

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Avery Brooks deliveries that make me smile every single time I think of them.

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I know I've said it before but every rewatch I do cements this thought further - elijah wood's performance in LOTR is absolutely insane, they really had a character whose name means "wise by experience", hired an 18-year-old to do it, and he delivered so much that not only is it a beautiful and moving role on its own, it's a performance equal to those of the absolute powerhouses he played side by side with like ian holm and ian mckellen. to name just a few

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KENDRICK LAMAR + SAMUEL L. JACKSON Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show

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Real

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What a time to be alive.

Happy Black History Month to all and to all a good night ❤️🖤💚

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Back in 2013, I posted a Welcome to Night Vale fic and someone commented, “I’m autistic and I see myself a lot in the way you write Carlos. Did you intend for him to autistic?”

And I was like “I’m flattered you think so! No, he’s not intended to be autistic, but I’m glad you can see yourself in him.”

Now twelve years later I spent some time this evening trying to track down that comment to give a very belated clarification. Whoever you were stranger, hey. I only said no because I based Carlos heavily on me, and since I wasn’t autistic, Carlos wouldn’t be either. Well. I’ve learned some stuff in the intervening decade that strongly support your literary analysis.

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Carbonara preparation under pressure....

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I think people are gonna get the wrong lesson from Kendrick winning Grammys for Not Like Us, that life's too short to not be a hater. No, because Drake had plenty of haters even before this and calling out his track record with minors. The takeaway should be let your haterism lead you to create transformative works of art. Let your anger, spite, and need to prove even 1 guy wrong fuel you to make cool shit. Kendrick dropped what, 4 diss tracks in the span of a week? It's easy to be a hater sitting on your couch. It's that much more impressive to convince the world your haterism was correct and that's only done with a convincing body of work arguing your case.

tldr: life's not too short to be a hater, let spite guide your heart into MAKING COOL SHIT !