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Hey, sorry to bother n all, I saw your post on the fantasy funeral clothes tradition and really loved it and wanted to ask permission to use it in a story I'm "writing."

Disclaimer, I'm just writing for fun and the likelihood of anything of mine getting published in this decade is slim as a triangle, but on the off-chance it ever does, I will credit you somewhere

Totally cool if it's not cool to use it

Peace and carrots

I post so much random worldbuilding shit that I have no idea which post you're even talking about, so go right ahead.

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Back when I was working at the factory years ago, I was living alone, undiagnosed, unmedicated, and stll talking to my family so all in all I was Not Doing Well mentally. Fortunately I had a solid contract and there's an unwavering workers' union, so mental health issues count as health issues and if you think you can fire a worker for health issues and get away with it, the union representatives will find you and eat your liver. Fortunately that does not need to happen particularly often, at least not at my old workplace.

Regardless, struggling to function in daily life also involved struggling to function at work, so one day I got called upstairs to the shift managers' office for some polite questioning of Bitch What The Fuck. And I guess they had expected me to get defensive or something, because it seemed like we were both mutually surprised to find that both sides of the discussion were perfectly willing to aknowledge that I have severe mental health problems.

I told them flat-out that I understand completely what the situation is like from their perspective - an employee is a tool just like any other, and they don't want to have broken equipment malfunctioning on site. And the one absolute sweetheart of shift managers (whom they probably picked for the task specifically because she's so nice with people) went "noooo that's not what we're saying D:" like I had said something horrible.

And I'm like no you are not understanding me. Being treated like a piece of equipment worth maintaining instead of discarding is the closest I've ever been to being treated like something with any value at all. Don't you fucking try to take this from me.

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People of the local punk scenes within a five-country radius will make a pilgrimage to take a selfie with that tombstone with sick poses and handsigns, not just because that's the coolest fucking grave ever, but also to honour the deceased, because that's exactly what they would have wanted.

Hey can you weaponise really long dreadlocks by headbanging? Because that's got to be dangerous to be around. Clearing a whole area around you by fucking lethally whipping your shit.

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Hey can you weaponise really long dreadlocks by headbanging? Because that's got to be dangerous to be around. Clearing a whole area around you by fucking lethally whipping your shit.

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He's got a cousin who has that. People unfamiliar with the family are in mortifying agony trying to guess which one is Human Greg and which one is Greg With Birth Defects.

Character concept for an urban fantasy story:

A guy who looks 100% human but is dressed like an orc, walks like an orc, speaks the local Orcish dialect as fluently as a native speaker, and is covered in orc tattoos. One with a more educated eye on the matter could see that the tattoos are not human mimicry of orc tattoos, but the genuine real deal. Orcs do not tattoo anyone outside of their own tribe, and if you ask the guy how he got them, he looks insulted and says that his grandma made them for him. His last name is an orcish clan name.

On a second look, one could guess that he's a half-orc who inexplicably just managed to not inherit any physical traits from his other parent. He is, however, not a half-orc. His little sister is, though. Their mother doesn't have any family of her own, and he was two years old when the two of them escaped from his father. He has no memory of his father, and doesn't care to have a human family - his stepfather's family is their family now.

He doesn't know his biological father's name, where he lives, or whether he's even alive or not. He's entirely unaware that his father died years ago, alone in his home, from a mysterious spontaneous case of Orc Dagger Shoved Down His Throat.

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I want to make it clear here that this is the opposite of a problem.

I have a new face goop that I need to put on my face at whatever time of the day. I went to a skin doctor to get this weird spot at my hairline looked at, figuring it's better safe than sorry. The doctor turned out to be the fastest talker I've encountered on this continent and he had one look at the spot and went

"Oh yeah that's a cherry angioma they're totally harmless anyway do you want something for that acne"

And my skin was better than it's been for a long time so I just shrugged like alright let's go with that, and he prescribed me a goop to put on my face every day and some secondary back-up medication if the goop won't work.

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It was like "yeah you don't have head cancer so that's one less problem on your head to worry about. Speaking of which do you want your face fixed while we're here."

I have a new face goop that I need to put on my face at whatever time of the day. I went to a skin doctor to get this weird spot at my hairline looked at, figuring it's better safe than sorry. The doctor turned out to be the fastest talker I've encountered on this continent and he had one look at the spot and went

"Oh yeah that's a cherry angioma they're totally harmless anyway do you want something for that acne"

And my skin was better than it's been for a long time so I just shrugged like alright let's go with that, and he prescribed me a goop to put on my face every day and some secondary back-up medication if the goop won't work.

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Can we insult your family? Is that alright??

Honestly there isn't much you can say that'd be worse than just describing them.

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I have a new face goop that I need to put on my face at whatever time of the day. I went to a skin doctor to get this weird spot at my hairline looked at, figuring it's better safe than sorry. The doctor turned out to be the fastest talker I've encountered on this continent and he had one look at the spot and went

"Oh yeah that's a cherry angioma they're totally harmless anyway do you want something for that acne"

And my skin was better than it's been for a long time so I just shrugged like alright let's go with that, and he prescribed me a goop to put on my face every day and some secondary back-up medication if the goop won't work.

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Hagfors = a municipality in Sweden

Hagforce = when a bunch of old women gang up on you to bully you into doing something you didn't want to do

Knowing the difference could save your life.

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All horses are weird. If there was a horse that does nothing weird, it would be weird for not being weird in some way like all the other horses are.

Why do horses have such a cartoonish tongue.

it looks like something that would have been drawn by someone who has never seen a horse up close and didn't feel like looking up what horse tongues look like and decided to just make something up, but no, their tongues actually just fucking look like that. Absolute cartoon animal nonsense.

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Why do horses have such a cartoonish tongue.

it looks like something that would have been drawn by someone who has never seen a horse up close and didn't feel like looking up what horse tongues look like and decided to just make something up, but no, their tongues actually just fucking look like that. Absolute cartoon animal nonsense.

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Well, if nothing else, today I successfully managed to avoid injuring myself while completely fucking up a piece of furniture while seething with rage. So I've got that going on for me, which is nice.

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I know that it's not physically possible to idiot-proof everything that idiots come into contact with, but if you're selling push-to-fit furniture that needs to be repaired with duct tape and superglue while being put together because it fucking broke while I was assembling it, while following the goddamn instructions exactly as they read, I should be legally allowed to kill you.

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Thinking back to the random occasional times when I was a kid and dad would make some snide sarcastic remark about something me and/or my sister were doing to make us stop being embarrassing in public. Like really, dude, you can't stand having your kids acting like kids and the best solution you can come up with is to be passive-aggressively mean at them about it?

Your kids are cringe whether or not you let them, dipshit. It came free with your shitass bloodline.

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You know what would be cool? If there was a sort of anti-graffiti paint that's selective of what colour paint it rejects. Like you could have a plain unmarked wall with two contrasting anti-graffiti paints on it in a secret hidden pattern that's concealed while the wall is unmarked. And also invisble when the wall is first marked full of all possible colours of graffiti as essentially a bright neon urban camo patttern:

But then, as the paint either fades in the sun or with time, or is washed off from the rejective surfaces by rainwater or something, only the non-rejected spray paints stick to the surface:

And the effect just gets stronger over time.