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Thank you for the tag!

are these my all time favourites? idk, I can't choose but they're certainly up there

honorary mention for Paddington Brown, though

no pressure tags: @incorrectlyplacedeyeballs, @timey-acey222, @tiredgenderfluidaxolotl404, @runwhileyoucan, @letsbesharkfriends and anyone else who wants to join <3

Not me having some kinda type... Who shall I tag? I think I wanna tagggggg... @mybugsmybugsmybugs @mexicangela @lunar-years @biscuitboxpink but no pressure!! I just thought it would be fun!

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My god, that might be my favourite live show they've ever done! I was literally laughing out loud the whole way through, perhaps I'll do more in depth thoughts later, but if I don't I want it known that that was phenomenal. The Mystery of the Midnight Circus Prequel? Absolutely

(Also, the Runs In The Family edit should be up soon, it's almost ready, so stay tuned for that. A couple of the other edits on that poll are half done as well, so I should be posting more regularly (he says))

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Petition for a special bring a relative to work livestream, where everyone gets to bring a family member in for a game (or two)

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growing up i always knew i was different from other children (never watched spongebob)

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i know people are not reading the posts of Palestinian's pleading for your attention I know for some they might even think they are repetitive or tiring but every single one of these people are risking their lives to come ask for your help that every single life is valuable and every person is a universe and I am begging you if you see this please donate what you can and help share these fundraisers as if you were doing it for your own loved ones please don't ignore this!

Save Dr. Farhat's family from genocide in Gaza (vetted) goal at 41%!

Help Heba and her 3 children survive and reunite with father (vetted) goal at 12%! URGENT FOR MEDICAL CARE!

Help me build a new future for my family. (donations protected) goal at 2%! LOW FUNDS!

Support Moomen family in Gaza (vetted) goal at 5%! LOW FUNDS! LAST DONATION 7 DAYS AGO!

Help me escape the Gaza war and start again (donations protected) goal at 0%! LOW FUNDS! LAST DONATION 1 MONTH AGO!

Help Hamdi and his family get out of Gaza (vetted by association) goal at 0%! LOW FUNDS! LAST DONATION 6 DAYS AGO!

Support a Family's Journey to Safety and Peace (vetted) goal at 10%! LAST DONATION 18 HOURS AGO!

Help Shima’s Family Find Safety in Gaza (donations protected) goal at 1%! LOW FUNDS!

Donate to help Mysolin's family from the war in Gaza (vetted) goal at 1%! LOW FUNDS! LAST DONATION 2 DAYS AGO!

SAVE my family from the war in Gaza - Rafah (vetted) goal at 23%!

Help me so I can get my life back (donations protected) goal at 0%! ONLY 5 EUROS RAISED! LAST DONATION 13 DAYS AGO!

Helping Mohammad and his family escape genocide (vetted) goal at 6%! LAST DONATION 14 HOURS AGO!

Help Save Ahmed Family From Gaza (vetted by association) goal at 16%! LAST DONATION 2 DAYS AGO!

Help me find shelter and work (vetted) goal at 65%! LAST DONATION 2 DAYS AGO!

Please Help Hani and His Family Safely Evacuate Gaza (vetted) goal at 10%! LAST DONATION 4 DAYS AGO!

Help Grandma Reem and her family live in Gaza (vetted) goal at 14%! LOW FUNDS!

Help Ahmed to save him and treat his teeth (vetted) goal at 6%!

These people have reached out in asks as of 22/11/24. All of this are vetted and/or donation protected!

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You're only six years old. You're trying to be a ballerina, to be victorious, to dance better than any of the other girls. (You'll dance on their heads if you have to.) (Metaphorically.) You hope your parents can forgive you for being a bad little girl. You tell stories of them drinking too much and ignoring you for too long and making you fight a bear. (You lost.) But you also tell the story of how sometimes they said "I love you" by leaving an extra layer of dust for you to wipe away. Someday, that might lose its meaning, or take on a darker one. But you're young. You have time.

You're only six years old. You have trouble saying words, but you keep trying. You struggle with ballet, but you keep trying. You make jokes that most people don't laugh at, but you keep trying. You sing to yourself when you're lonely. You tell a little boy he can be whatever he wants to be. You laugh together. (It's fun.) You're reprimanded, but you still promise to teach him all you know. Someday, you might realize how brave you were. But you're young, and bravery looks so much like kindness.

You're only six years old. You've been forced to fight in a war you want no part in, used by the people who were supposed to protect you. You dance for royalty, but you will not slit their throats. (Maybe it's bravery. Maybe it's kindness. Maybe it's just the boy's voice in your head, telling you that you can be whatever you want to be.) You're cast out by the person who was supposed to care about you. (Maybe she never cared, or maybe she just doesn't know how to show it.) You leave, and the boy comes with you. You're not going to fight any battles that aren't your own. Someday, this will be a memory, and you'll be free. But right now, you're scared, and you're being forced to grow up too fast, and you're only six years old.

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ive created a SFTH longform tier list if anybody wants to rank them for whatever reason! the patreon ones are on there too but if ive missed any please lmk

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its unreal how all of my favorite characters have exactly the same traits and hobbies and diagnoses as me

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People = Ben and Mat (then a couple with Charlotte)

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Second half done, wouldn't be a London comedy show without a joke about Croydon 😂

Fantastic practical effects, and a reasonably tame audience!

Managed to catch a panto before the end of the season, midway through at the moment.

Did the dame start singing "It's Raining Men"? Absolutely

Did I immediately think of an improv comedy special?

Maybe

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Managed to catch a panto before the end of the season, midway through at the moment.

Did the dame start singing "It's Raining Men"? Absolutely

Did I immediately think of an improv comedy special?

Maybe

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Random Ask game

a novel that stabbed you in the heart recently

your regular café order

the food you like to eat when you get a cold

your favourite song to hear randomly play in a store

do you like street performers? if so, what type is your favourite?

art you want to hang on your walls

an organ you would like to take out for 6 minutes (whatever you choose it does not result in death)

your favourite day

ao3 text that you keep under your pillow<3

the perfect decoration you want to get

if you could walk in anything, what would you wear on your legs

a thing you know you should not taste but you are still curious about

favourite fabled animal

book world you would want your best friend to live in

a movie you do not recommend but love to watch it anyways

if you could choose for a fruit to be cheaper in stores/markets this year, which one would you choose

favourite street food

what makes you feel jolly

which two religious monsters do you think would be cool if they merged into a hybrid

which material would you like to be

what is your favourite tool(in the kitchen, in the lab, in the operation room, in the bathroom, in the craft room, garden, anywhere really)

favourite imaginary flower/plant

how did you play with dolls if you had them

what is your favourite pretend play game you had as a kid

if you could go feral without things going wrong afterwards, where would you do it

snow with footprints or newly baked snow?

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the problem with autism is sometimes you want to do something (brave) but you need someone to gently walk you through each step so you know what will happen. and people don’t like doing that

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SAY NICE THINGS TO PPL

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it's just past midnight here in the UK, so happy new year to everyone! hope 2025 treats you well <3

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine "Past Tense, Pt. 1"

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A nurse has heart attack and describes what she felt like when having one

I am an ER nurse and this is the best description of this event that I have ever heard. 

 FEMALE HEART ATTACKS 

 I was aware that female heart attacks are different, but this is description is so incredibly visceral that I feel like I have an entire new understanding of what it feels like to be living the symptoms on the inside. Women rarely have the same dramatic symptoms that men have… you know, the sudden stabbing pain in the chest, the cold sweat, grabbing the chest & dropping to the floor the we see in movies. Here is the story of one woman’s experience with a heart attack: 

 "I had a heart attack at about 10:30 PM with NO prior exertion, NO prior emotional trauma that one would suspect might have brought it on. I was sitting all snugly & warm on a cold evening, with my purring cat in my lap, reading an interesting story my friend had sent me, and actually thinking, ‘A-A-h, this is the life, all cozy and warm in my soft, cushy Lazy Boy with my feet propped up. A moment later, I felt that awful sensation of indigestion, when you’ve been in a hurry and grabbed a bite of sandwich and washed it down with a dash of water, and that hurried bite seems to feel like you’ve swallowed a golf ball going down the esophagus in slow motion and it is most uncomfortable. You realize you shouldn’t have gulped it down so fast and needed to chew it more thoroughly and this time drink a glass of water to hasten its progress down to the stomach. This was my initial sensation–the only trouble was that I hadn’t taken a bite of anything since about 5:00 p.m. 

After it seemed to subside, the next sensation was like little squeezing motions that seemed to be racing up my SPINE (hind-sight, it was probably my aorta spasms), gaining speed as they continued racing up and under my sternum (breast bone, where one presses rhythmically when administering CPR). This fascinating process continued on into my throat and branched out into both jaws. ‘AHA!! NOW I stopped puzzling about what was happening – we all have read and/or heard about pain in the jaws being one of the signals of an MI happening, haven’t we? I said aloud to myself and the cat, Dear God, I think I’m having a heart attack! I lowered the foot rest dumping the cat from my lap, started to take a step and fell on the floor instead. I thought to myself, If this is a heart attack, I shouldn’t be walking into the next room where the phone is or anywhere else… but, on the other hand, if I don’t, nobody will know that I need help, and if I wait any longer I may not be able to get up in a moment. 

I pulled myself up with the arms of the chair, walked slowly into the next room and dialed the Paramedics… I told her I thought I was having a heart attack due to the pressure building under the sternum and radiating into my jaws. I didn’t feel hysterical or afraid, just stating the facts. She said she was sending the Paramedics over immediately, asked if the front door was near to me, and if so, to un-bolt the door and then lie down on the floor where they could see me when they came in. I unlocked the door and then laid down on the floor as instructed and lost consciousness, as I don’t remember the medics coming in, their examination, lifting me onto a gurney or getting me into their ambulance, or hearing the call they made to St. Jude ER on the way, but I did briefly awaken when we arrived and saw that the radiologist was already there in his surgical blues and cap, helping the medics pull my stretcher out of the ambulance. He was bending over me asking questions (probably something like ‘Have you taken any medications?’) but I couldn’t make my mind interpret what he was saying, or form an answer, and nodded off again, not waking up until the Cardiologist and partner had already threaded the teeny angiogram balloon up my femoral artery into the aorta and into my heart where they installed 2 side by side stints to hold open my right coronary artery. 

I know it sounds like all my thinking and actions at home must have taken at least 20-30 minutes before calling the paramedics, but actually it took perhaps 4-5 minutes before the call, and both the fire station and St Jude are only minutes away from my home, and my Cardiologist was already to go to the OR in his scrubs and get going on restarting my heart (which had stopped somewhere between my arrival and the procedure) and installing the stents. Why have I written all of this to you with so much detail? Because I want all of you who are so important in my life to know what I learned first hand. 

1. Be aware that something very different is happening in your body, not the usual men’s symptoms but inexplicable things happening (until my sternum and jaws got into the act). It is said that many more women than men die of their first (and last) MI because they didn’t know they were having one and commonly mistake it as indigestion, take some Maalox or other anti-heartburn preparation and go to bed, hoping they’ll feel better in the morning when they wake up… which doesn’t happen. My female friends, your symptoms might not be exactly like mine, so I advise you to call the Paramedics if ANYTHING is unpleasantly happening that you’ve not felt before. It is better to have a ‘false alarm’ visitation than to risk your life guessing what it might be! 2. Note that I said ‘Call the Paramedics.’ And if you can take an aspirin. Ladies, TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE! Do NOT try to drive yourself to the ER - you are a hazard to others on the road. Do NOT have your panicked husband who will be speeding and looking anxiously at what’s happening with you instead of the road. Do NOT call your doctor – he doesn’t know where you live and if it’s at night you won’t reach him anyway, and if it’s daytime, his assistants (or answering service) will tell you to call the Paramedics. He doesn’t carry the equipment in his car that you need to be saved! The Paramedics do, principally OXYGEN that you need ASAP. Your Dr. will be notified later. 3. Don’t assume it couldn’t be a heart attack because you have a normal cholesterol count. Research has discovered that a cholesterol elevated reading is rarely the cause of an MI (unless it’s unbelievably high and/or accompanied by high blood pressure). MIs are usually caused by long-term stress and inflammation in the body, which dumps all sorts of deadly hormones into your system to sludge things up in there. Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let’s be careful and be aware. The more we know the better chance we could survive to tell the tale.“

Reblog, repost, Facebook, tweet, pin, email, morse code, fucking carrier pigeon this to save a life! I wish I knew who the author was. I’m definitely not the OP, actually think it might be an old chain email or even letter from back in the day. The version I saw floating around Facebook ended with “my cardiologist says mail this to 10 friends, maybe you’ll save one!” And knew this was way too interesting not to pass on.