gloriousmonsters

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"ne'er-do-well" is such a harsh criticism like bro ne'er? e'er? like youd think at least some'imes id do well but nope. ne'er

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northern hemisphere babes we made it to the longest night of the year. we made it. for the next 6 months, every day will give us a little more daylight than the last. let's go. take my hand. climb out of the darkness with me

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affirmations

i am a complex organism brutally engineered by uncaring forces of nature

i am a product of billions of years and trillions of deaths

i am building a machine greater than myself

i am able to make phone calls and appointments

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on trees

J. R. R. Tolkien ("The Fellowship of the Ring"), Parte de todo (src), Faiz Ahmed Faiz/tr. Naomi Lazard ("When Autumn Came"), Marina Tsvetaeva, a photo by me (src), Margaret Atwood ("War Photo 2"), photo (src), Tony Hoagland (“Peaceful Transition”), Slope Point, New Zealand (src), Tara Bray ("Listen"), Max Dupain ("Banksias by the Sea"), Mary Oliver ("When I am Among the Trees"), source unknown, Ted Kooser ("Trees")

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“I don’t want to be a burden” you’re more like a relief, a gift, a blessing actually

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I am taking the bus in paris i hope im not gonna get attacked by the creatures!

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writing xue yang character development (from his pov) is so so funny bc you have to find a way to somehow convey to the audience that character development has occurred while also avoiding him ever consciously noticing that it has

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Saying "mosquitoes are annoying" after one bites me but shaking my head the whole time so the attractive single ecologists in my area know I understand their value in the ecosystem and that we would slowly die if they went extinct

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There's something extremely depressing to me about how many people just don't want to get weird with female characters the way they do with male characters.

Like, I can kind of see why a lot of people feel weird about writing about bad things happening to female characters, but what it leads to is everyone putting female characters up on a shelf where you can admire them but you can't actually do anything interesting with them because that might be sexist or just make people feel bad. And I think that's actually a whole lot worse in the long run.

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World's most divorced man becomes first human to be alienated from both biological and digital children.

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dating simulator where it starts normal but it slowly becomes clear that all of the romanceable characters are attempting to cover up an extremely specific murder they committed a year ago before you arrived

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I am afflicted by Nuance. I fear it may be terminal. well okay, not necessarily "terminal" per se, but

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Han dynasty scholar Wang Chong gives an argument against the existence of ghosts

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was in the bathroom at work today and a little girl was in there with her mom, and while in the stall I heard this exchange

girl: No. no no no

mom: are you saying I can't close the door?

girl: *unintelligible*

mom: you have to stay with me for a minute. you're only two, you can't just walk around alone

girl: *thoughtful pause. questioning, intrigued tone* By myself? *door rattles*

mom: no

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Stop getting mad at me I raise undead when im in distress

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waving my freak flag at half mast to indicate there has been a pervert tragedy

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the children. they yearn for a monster of the week show