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[indigoire]

This is one of the funniest holiday cards I have ever seen.

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i love the word "ostensibly", you can write some mean ass sentences with it

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let her in

I've got two Mari Lwyd drawings for you this year that were half finished for a few years. This is the one I started in 2022. I will probably print her as a seasons greetings card for next year.. and add glitter.

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Found this lovely, castle-like Tudor style mansion built in 2002, in Naperville, IL. I was NOT prepared for the interior. What were they thinking, designing a fairy tale brick Tudor with an interior like this? 6bds. 9ba, 10,495 sq ft, $3.888m.

I'm thinking they renovated it, b/c there's stone under the white paint. Why would you do this to a Tudor?

The beamed coffered ceiling must've been painted over in white and gray. The kitchen is right off this main sitting room.

I wish they had before photos, b/c this wainscoting and fireplace must be wood underneath.

Lots of stone in the kitchen. It looks like the brick oven is now a decorative feature.

Notice all the different colored neon in the ceiling.

Room for a table and chairs in the corner.

When it comes to sitting rooms, this house has lots of options.

Here's another one.

The primary bedroom is so gray and cold.

The ensuite is so sterile looking.

The upper floors.

Large empty room.

There's a bed and dresser in the huge space. Maybe it's a guest room.

Going down the stairs, you can see the Tudor style windows.

This is gigantic.

Behind the bar there's a full kitchen.

They've got a walk-in safe here.

This is the coldest home theater I've ever seen.

Shower room down here.

The lot is 1.43 acres with a fenced-in yard.

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What's the worst way your OTP could become canon? The one that would make you most go from "aaaww yes" to "holy crap NO WHAT'S HAPPENING WHY".

probably if one of them died right after?? or during?? the canonization?? i’d be a wreck aha

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i was jumanji’d too when i was a kid but no one cared

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i love you. you made a mistake? i dont care i love you. you made a wrong choice? love you. you don’t think you’re good for anything? guess what you’re good for loving i love you

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Yule Goat is here to greet you and wish you a merry solstice, may your winter festivities be joyous and safe ✨

[prints available here]

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sometimes i remember my first ever experience with a time loop story when i was like 8: Help! I'm Trapped in the First Day of Summer Camp by Todd Strasser.

The title says it all; kid goes to camp, makes friends with "cool kids" and gets peer pressured into being a shithead and a bully, wakes up the next day with things reset to arriving at camp.

But the thing is, this book is part of a series. Most of the books are this same kid getting caught up in body swap shenanigans, but he had gotten caught in a time loop once in a previous book. So he knew the score. He just needed to not be a jerk today. Cue him being overly nice to the point of blatant insincerity, making everyone wildly uncomfortable. No growth, just trying to appease the forces that be. Loop continues looping.

Yadda yadda, finally figures out how to be a genuinely nice kid who stands up to bullies and makes friends with the nerdy kid, etc etc, got everything perfectly right.

When that loop doesn't work he immediately throws himself off the bus to camp to kill himself. Loop again.

Finally, having resigned himself to never escaping the loop but at least he can dedicate it to being a good kid with nice friends, a thought occurs to him. There's one thing he hasn't done a single time in all the loops.

He brushes his teeth before bed. And wakes up the next day.

and frankly, i think more time loops should be hinged on morality-neutral mundane tasks. escape the time loop by taking your meds. free yourself by taking a shower. my man todd was a visionary

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actually you know what that's exactly it i would rather someone add 5 parantheticals after every sentence than use tone indicators it's 1. accomplishing SO much more in terms of clarity 2. extremely funny to look at depending on how they're used

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“On the 12th day of Christmas the pine trees gave to me, 12 hidden hours, a secret third half to each day as the sun ringed the horizon, when we could finally admit what’s in our hearts because not a word of it would be remembered

11 daytime stars, dark points in a bright sky, a constellation pointing me to the lands I imagined were there as a child, making it impossible to ignore them again

10 ancient poisons, each dose just barely strong enough to kill a moment’s worth of doubt, brewed from indigo flowers that were harvested to extinction during an age that was starved for heroes

9 words of warning, whispered within the songs of crickets and scrawled in my own handwriting between the stars: “The sea will be your only refuge from them”

8 caves of silver, carved by miners who left behind the precious metal either because something all the more seductive was calling to them from below, or because they were only seeking to hide from something calling to them from above

7 amber statues, depicting those who would be my enemies in the years to come, so that by contemplating their sad smiles I could be ready for them, forgive them before we even met, and perhaps, understand why one of them was me

6 guardian snowmen, absolutely still and forever unblinking, their eyes locked on the sky, ready to cry out at the sight of an approaching figure from the void, so that I can finally rest from my vigil

5 GOLD RINGS

4 wooden coins, the currency of the seasons, just enough to pay for a single summer to turn to autumn, to wrap the world in darkling sweetness as the storms and frost drown out the sun

3 bone pins, carved from the skeletons of long-extinct creatures, which would ward against misfortune, having already been tempered with all the bad luck they could endure

2 loyal dogs, skyhounds who will never stop seeking out crashed starships and time travelers, eager as they are to take me away from this planet and show me the silent wonders of their playground universe

And a wooden crown beset with lake stones, a priceless heirloom of the Forest King himself, given as a test of my humility, to see if I would cast it aside and accept my place among the quiet pine trees”

-QuietPineTrees

Merry Christmas, everyone.

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[ID: a screenshot of the “Almost Christmas” Ace Attorney meme behind a slightly transparent stock image of an ice cube. End ID.]

it’s defrosting

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Here’s to 2023, a year of as many little courageous kindnesses as possible. ♥️

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They have accepted their fates