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Back in the house I grew up in.

Lovely house. Wonderful garden. Fantastic surroundings.

But god damn. Emotionally I am spiraling from anger to sadness to worry to loneliness. Again and again. And it feels awful. I need to muster so much patience and empathy for others in order to be deemed adequate but I receive none of that on return. No wonder I struggle with so much anxiety in my adult life.

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Yapper 1 & 2

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So glad my fav colleague will come to my new year's party... otherwise I'd be crying. Our last shift together just ended. But I am also looking forward to Christmas and in a hurry. So I have no time for tears. I guess I have to promote him to friend status.

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Why Midshipmen were also called Snotties

Since I have already received several questions as to why they were called that, well, that is relatively simple. If you look closely at the uniforms of the 18th and 19th century you will notice that they have buttons on the sleeves. Now relatively useless, but according to legend they were put on to keep the young middies, mostly the very young and still new aboard a ship and therefore often still homesick and therefore often crying, from wiping their tears and runny noses on the sleeve. Hence the name Snotty or Snotties.

Memento Portrait of a Young Midshipman,by John Downman late 18th–early 19th century (x)

However, the origin of this legend is unclear. On the one hand, it is attributed to Napoleon who, during the Russian campaign, ordered his men to wear tasteless cloths at last and not always to use their uniform sleeves and therefore to sew the buttons of their dead comrades onto their sleeves. Nice theory, but unfortunately it doesn’t fit in with the time period, as the naval uniforms from 1748 already had these buttons. Therefore the theory of Nelson, who gave his Midshipmen the same order as Napoleon, only that they should buy extra buttons and sew them on, doesn’t fit either. Similarly, Prussia’s King Frederick the Great was tried to be the origin of this legend.

However, the uniforms, especially the first ones, were strongly based on the prevailing men’s fashion and there are already buttons on the sleeves. Therefore, it was probably simply adopted from there. And the fact that the young midshipmen were also called snotties may simply come from the fact that we were dealing with boys aged 10 and upwards and the young ones were simply homesick and therefore perhaps cried a little more in the evenings than the others and went to bed with a tear-stained face and a runny nose, and probably needed the handkerchief more often than others.

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As a 90′s kid, it blows my mind that origami youtube videos exist. You can look up any model and watch a pair of manicured hands assemble the thing in real time, in full color, in 3D, with cheerful flute music in the background. When I was little, you had a library book with no words and these esoteric little dotted lines and arrows and it was just you, your hands, your paper, and the cruel, uncaring eyes of God.

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tbh i like that more and more games are introducing a "narrative mode" instead of an "easy difficulty", cause a big thing about the easy mode discourse was centered around "are people capable of playing hard games", which showed a lot of elitism and sometimes ableism, but with the introduction of "narrative mode", it completely shifts the paradigm away from "hard mode is for real gamers, easy mode is for noobs" and towards "this is just the game mode for you to experience the story", which not only smooths over that problem, but also enables devs to really rethink how they want to approach designing their game and telling a story to their audience, which i think adds in a lot of possibilities beyond just "is the game easy or hard"

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if you see this post you are obligated to reblog and tell me something good that happened to you this year

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Both cats are dozing in their cat beds.

I sneeze very loudly.

I see four ears peaking up.

I see the cat equivalent of a shrug.

Four ears disappear behind the brims of the cat beds again.

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Men whose idea of "entertainment with a female protagonist" is just "Identical looking super attractive women get put into lots of different situations where they stylishly succeed with no ugly moments" should maybe look into this cool franchise I found that does exactly that... it even has a really expansive universe and lots of action figures and cool collectibles. It's called "Barbie"!

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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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𖥔 YONDERLAND! 𖥔

the elders!!!! how marvellous!!!

they just saw one of yonderland's daily horrors

wich is your favourite?

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wheres seasons greasons

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Am I understandably but very intensely anxious about my recent life choices or am I having a physical reaction to slowly discovering that I may have sabotaged myself?

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Dmitri and Ofelia

audio drama pals, i’m having a very brain fried migraine day - can you help replenish my health with pictures of your pets?

here’s my tony for starters, being a lump on his new space blanket