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Well fucks? Get to it!

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sobbing and crying at the woman who stole a meth addicted kitten from her dealer and then she and the kitten got clean together

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me in five years when i still don’t have my life together:

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Say Hello back so he feel appreciated :)

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i can't imagine a world in which i haven't put this video on my page

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there are breasts on my roof. scampering about. wretched

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I feel sorry for children because they never had the experience of playing games or watching things for free. It's why I think a lot of them don't hate ads as much as people older then them do, they just accepted them as a necessary part of their reality and deal with it because the ads have always been there for them.

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~ Flowers of Home ~

Roses, Shamrocks, and Dandelions, oh my!

I'm finally making progress on finding my rhythm with watercolour painting (I love how the roses came out)!

I revealed in the last chapter that Kasta is both Irish and Czech (the latter which was called the Kingdom of Bohemia during the 16th Century), so I wanted to put in their national flowers: Shamrocks and Roses respectively, showcasing Kasta's quest to return home to their family.

Why also Dandelions, you ask?

They're Kasta's personal favourites, cos even though they are weeds, they hold many powerful meanings. They grow in the toughest environments, and when they turn to fluff, you can make a wish on them, and very few flowers are able to do that.

Plus, you can make food and tea out of them!

But yeah, to think it took Clip Studio Paint crashing - and thus almost erasing the entire colouring process I did and couldn't recover it for some weird reason (even though I had the autosave thing enabled) - to not only get me to go to bed at a reasonable hour, but to also change my mind on how I wanted to colour this.

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actually, no, i do have something to add. if your work of fanfiction can be easily rebranded and sold as original fiction, then it was never good fanfiction in the first place—and, in all probability, it won’t make for good original fiction either. i have a lot of love and respect for all kinds of derivative works (unsurprisingly, considering my perennial love affair with postmodernism), but i also believe that the superior fics are the ones that actively and continuously engage with their source material (and so it wouldn’t be possible for anyone to scratch their serial numbers off without damaging their integrity). something something mutualism (the derivative work deconstructing and expanding on the source material and so keeping it alive) as opposed to parasitism (thinking you can simply lift your blorbos wholesale and run but failing to realise that uprooting them from their respective stories will render them but a shadow of a reflection of their original selves).

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reblog if you’re okay with people writing fanfics of your fanfics and/or fanfics inspired by your fanfics

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obsessed with the way my robotics team lead talks

she’s reinventing hieroglyphics

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Wait, orcas murder things by yeeting them up into the air? What part of that kills them?

the part where a 6-ton animal cannonballs into them at 30 mph and reduces all of their internal organs to a fine paté