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How people can mistakenly think or just subconsciously feel food works: there are “unhealthy” foods like pizza or fried chicken and “healthy” foods like fruit salad or steamed vegetables. Every time you eat an “unhealthy” food you’ve harmed yourself in some way.

How food actually works: foods contain carbs, proteins, fats, sugars, vitamins, minerals, fiber and/or other nutrients. Your body needs and uses all of them but it would like to have a little of everything every day. If you ate pizza or fried chicken for lunch then that’s probably your fat and protein for the day with extra that your body will make use of in time, so it’s a good idea to make your next meal something different like that fruit salad or steamed veggies. You can have that fatty lunch every single day if you just maintain balance and stay active enough to actually use what you’re stocking up on because foods aren’t “good or bad;” they just either fit into the rest of your diet and lifestyle or they don’t.

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my pet mold spores

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can we all agree that pressing foreheads together is an underrated act of affection??

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Young Prince Arthur

Young Prince Arthur who spend most of his days in the stables with the horses because they’re gentle and likes him

Young Prince Arthur who prefers the company of his nursemaids to his father’s. With their soft hands and kind smiles as they tuck him in at night with a lullaby

Young Prince Arthur who asks where his mother is after having met Leon’s mother. His father tells him a story of how the wicked sorceress stole her from them, and than Arthur will never have a mother because magic is evil

Young Prince Arthur who twisted his ankle training with the other squires but his father only told him to toughen up and dry those tears

Young Prince Arthur who never truly had a friend. Leon and the other squires venerate him too much to be considered a true friend

Young Prince Arthur who learned to drink wine from a young age as to appear older and wiser. He learns to stand taller and broader than he his

Young Prince Arthur who feels the weight of the crown and the loneliness of the throne as he sits by his father for petitions

Young Prince Arthur who stands next to his father and watches as a woman is being tied to the stake for her crimes of sorcery

Young Prince Arthur who led a raid on a druid camp and has lived with the guilt eating him alive for the past decade

Young Prince Arthur who has been trained to kill since he was born

Young Prince Arthur who slowly learns that to be respected is to be feared, and that kindness is a weakness

Young Prince Arthur who arrests a peasant with big ears and an even bigger mouth

Young Prince Arthur who is about to find his first true friend

Young Prince Arthur who is about to grow up

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Well fucks? Get to it!

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young mage recently joined a party of more established adventurers, watching in horror and fascination as the veteran sorcerer sits and meditates with tall candles burning hot wax over his palms in order to concentrate and gather power to himself, whatever the fuck that means

"i don't know how you can just… just sit. doesn't it hurt?"

"put out your hand," the old man orders him, and he hesitates, but when he intones, "NOW," in that booming voice of his, he puts his hand out reflexively and hisses out a noise of pain as wax drips over his palm

it hurts, stinging heat against his skin, but it doesn't burn him badly, and he tries to draw back, but the other man grips him by his fingers and pushes up his robe, drizzling more hot wax on the inside of his wrist where the skin is much more tender

he gasps this time, flinching

"it cannot kill you," the sorcerer whispers, leaning in close - he smells of the burning wick and candle wax, smells of the dried flower petals he makes his potions with, smells of the ozone flash of raw, concentrated magic. "but it brings you in touch with the surface of your skin, doesn't it?"

"i don't normally forget I have skin, old man."

"but do you feel it?" he whispers, raising his eyebrows - his breath is warm, their faces so close together than the junior mage can feel his elder's breath on his lips, smell the strong coffee he drinks, and he feels a bit dizzy. "the wax makes you. i could drip it all over your body," he goes on. "Make you feel every inch of yourself - make you concentrate magic on the surface of your flesh, that you might feel it, feel the flow and shift of the power within you on the surface of your skin, the better to hone the channel of it within you."

"the fuck," the young mage whispers back, because why the fuck is he suddenly so horny, magic crackling between the two of them?

and then the other man laughs, drawing back, and blows out the candle.

"I'm a traditionalist, of course," he says. "no need, if you'd rather not."

and um. he kind of WOULD like to, but the older man is already walking away and chattering with some of the others, and what the fuuuuuck he is so horny and he needs to go and spend some time in the tent Alone and he think about this old freak dripping candle wax over his balls apparently

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I think adults should stop demanding obedience from children and should start focusing on requesting respect. That’s what will actually serve them in the adult world and help them make good decisions mindfully.

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you know its bad for you when you start coming up with aus for your own ocs

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Genuinely think the only way to approach art is to like the things you like instead of tearing down what other people like.

"You should read classics because those are real literature unlike that TikTok garbage." Bad. Turns people away from reading the classics because it makes them sound stuffy and boring and makes you sound like a snob.

"You should read classics because this book is amazing! I love the characters and the story, and it's so cool to read a story that uses different techniques than modern fiction does." Good. Makes people want to read the classic. Suggests there's something good in this story instead of just suggesting that other stuff is worse.

"You don't like the modern art? That's because you're an unwashed plebeian who only likes what's pretty." Bad. Puts down the person and makes them even less likely to be interested in this type of art.

"Wow, I love this painting! Look at the technique! I love the message behind it!" Good. Helps the person to appreciate what might not be obvious at first glance, instead of shaming them for not automatically knowing this.

"You should watch this show because it's so much better than that other garbage show." Antagonizes people who like the garbage show and makes them less likely to feel positively toward the show you like.

"You should watch this show because it has great writing/characters/plot etc." Good! Tells people what makes this show appealing and makes them want to try it.

"I listen to this music because it's real art and not that manufactured pop garbage." Bad. Makes your genre seem like an exclusive club of snobs that I don't want to join.

"I listen to this music because I like the sound. Here, listen to this song." Good! Shows me something good within the genre and may encourage me to explore further.

There's a place for criticism. You don't have to like or approve of everything. But it's not a great technique for getting people to like art. Hating on the things that are bad just drives people away. If you want to draw people toward something, you have to help them to appreciate what's good.

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My fellow bitches under 5'5. Whatever the money, do not take a job working at a middle school. A fellow adult tried to put me in detention last month and would NOT give up until I showed her my badge proving Yes, The School Hired Me To Work Here. It's not meant for people our height.

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Becoming a writer is great because now you have a hobby that haunts you whenever you don’t have time to do it

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people really just walk into horror movies and expect them not to deal with uncomfortable things despite the genre being dedicated to discomfort.

i saw so many people complain that lisa frankenstein, a movie where one of the leads is famously a rotting corpse, was too gross for them. when i walked out of nosferatu, i heard people say that the nudity was uncalled for... in a vampire film. nudity? in MY gothic horror?! unheard of!

a LOT of people really need to accept that maybe some genres just aren't to their taste, idk. not every movie needs to be cookie-cutter clean. sexuality is a staple of gothic horror, if not the wider genre horror in General. you don't need to enjoy it, but it doesn't make these things uncalled for.

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i get the idea of wanting more characters who are 30+ because of the media's obsession with youth, particularly in regards to women, but also like, I'm only 31 and I'm already so fuckin tired, y'all. let the 20-somethings go on life-and-death adventures and find themselves. their knees still work. they can handle it.

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Interfering Family

Interfering Family

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M, Gen

Fandoms: Rise of the Guardians (2012)Guardians of Childhood - William Joyce

Relationships: Jack Frost/Pitch Black, Jack Frost & Pitch Black, Jack Frost & Sanderson Mansnoozie

Characters: Jack Frost, Pitch Black, Sanderson Mansnoozie, Mother Nature | Emily Jane Pitchiner, Mother Nature | Seraphina Pitchiner

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting, character cameos, Original Character(s), Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Mutual Pining, Character Development, Developing Relationship, Developing Friendships, Families of Choice, ROTG Secret Santa 2024

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Maybe if a werewolf put his clawed hand on my waist and made me feel small and helpless but also warm and safe I’d calm down

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Much as we (myself especially) like to make fun of conservatives for how much of their political movement consists of really obvious grifting, I think that what makes them susceptible to grifters is the same thing that makes them so successful electorally. They don't ask too many questions; they fall in line behind those they perceive as leaders. They are comparatively easy to organize, in short.

Leftists, by contrast, are always on the lookout for grifters, but this comes at the price of a willingness to reject entire segments of the coalition and to turn on supposed leaders of the movement on a dime. We are hard to scam but hard to organize.

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We are NOT a Christian nation. We are a nation where you are free to be a Christian/ Your religion guides YOU, not all of us. Hope that helps.