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everyone's like wehhhhh why doesn't doctor house gets suuuueeed! like my man. literally every patient he sees is someone that's been trying to find a diagnosis for ages. i could live with a little medical malpractice if it were coming from someone ready to break into my home to look for allergens and not simply half heartedly listen to me before suggesting I lose weight and take ages of back and forth arguing to order a single test

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No, Google Docs, there is a distinct difference between "cussing" and "cursing."

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They don't really bite, and they don't necessarily have the mouthpieces for "bite" so much as "chew/grind" honestly. They do strike, with their front pinching arms, but these guys are so little it doesn't actually hurt. He couldn't even get his arms around my finger (and my fingers are small, I cannot stress this enough how small my hands are compared to most people), so he can't pinch down.

Here's a photo of Whiskey next to a quarter on the same level as his body, for scale.

Teeny boy. Must be treated gently, for he is defenseless against such large predators as a camera.

When the camera is scary and you must warn it to heckin BACK OFF.

(don't worry, no mantises were harmed in the making of this photo, here he is 10 seconds later chilling like usual, I just startled him when I moved the camera at first)

He is SUCH a pretty boy.

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Richard Siken… Richard Fucking Siken. You asked RICHARD SIKEN if his poems were inspired by BUDDIE. Gay men do not exist in people’s heads except as props huh?

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theres this gold you can only look at but never grab and it shows up on top of waves when the sun hits the water and you can try picking it up gathering it in your hands but it dies without water just disappears but if you look at it without trying to make it worth something to someone else well then. youll see after a while why its so priceless.

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Edit -> find all and replace -> space teh space -> the

If you are finding yourself consistently making certain common spelling mistakes that your processor doesn't auto correct (and please... use a word processor program, libreoffice is literally free, even gdocs is free and has tools and autocorrect features that can assist you when it's time to edit, most of them will squiggly underline suspect spellings or grammar as a very basic feature, and it auto saves drafts in case of a crash), you can find spelling errors manually.

To avoid replace all making the mistake of changing partial worlds (for example, one I saw a post about- if you replace all "arse" with "ass" it would change things like arsenic to assnic), you can just add spaces on either side of the words. " Teh " -> replace all with " the " instead. This will locate all cases where "teh" is its own word.

Obviously this would be a hassle to do for EVERY word but in the case you find yourself making one common typo repeatedly, you can do a double check like this. You can also do a manual search.

Good luck out there.

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When the camera is scary and you must warn it to heckin BACK OFF.

(don't worry, no mantises were harmed in the making of this photo, here he is 10 seconds later chilling like usual, I just startled him when I moved the camera at first)

He is SUCH a pretty boy.

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I also finished the Monochrome House, featuring a kitchen, bedroom, side porch, rooftop hang zone, and secret wall-aquarium. I admit I mostly added the secret wall aquarium as a surprise for @luckyspike, who was very excited to see it.

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When I first started playing Minecraft, I build a group of rainbow huts as quick as I could. They were nice for safety, but ultimately I wanted to do more with them, so I expanded the safe zone, and I've been rebuilding them.

This is Brown House, modeled after a mountain cabin. It's got a bedroom, library, kitchen, sitting room, and wine cellar for storage, as well as two balconies with a view overlooking a valley, a bay, and two partial castles. When it rains, you can sit on the balcony overlooking all of it, with the sound of rain pattering and the crackle of the fireplace.

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There are good things in the world still

Today, one of my good friends survived her knee surgery.

Today, my little spiny flower mantis, Whiskey, showed off how SCARY (big, very dangerous) he can be (adorable) by threatening the camera, and I got a nice shot of it!

Today, I got to see The Fifth Element on the big screen for the second time in my life. It was phenomenal and the theater had a lot of other people equally excited to see it- people who could recite the lines and laugh freely. At the start, there was a message from the group putting movies of yore on the big screen, and the message accidentally played twice. Someone in the theater said loudly "Let's see if it plays again..." and I responded "I don't wanna be in this time loop!" and got a good laugh from the others there. I think (and hope) it set the mood for a relaxed theater.

Today, I got to eat delicious Thai food with a good friend before the movie. She'd never been to this particular restaurant, and seemed very pleased with it.

Today, I gave quail eggs to my neighbors as a thank you for locking up my birds for the night while I was at the movie.

Today, I was dreading re-running laundry because I had been avoiding it for three days now, thinking I had left a load in the washer that would be stinky now. When I finally did go down, I found that past!me had already moved the load to the dryer, and everything was fine! Thank you, past!me.

There are good things left in this world, however small or big. This is your invitation to share your good things with others by reblogging this and adding to it, or to browse the notes if you need a reminder.

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I love my people and it's amazing to see so many of us turn up today, but it's like herding very friendly cats 😂

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How to Train Your Dragon (2010) dir. Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders

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First egg day is always magical. I brought home eggs to hatch in March and now these beautiful ladies are finally starting to lay! It’s been a very eager 29 weeks since they’ve hatched. (And I’ve been saying “aaaany day now for about 5 weeks.)

Not sure who laid them but I suspect a black copper marran and an olive egger (front two). The two in the back came from my black australorp, Purdy. We’re still working on laying them in nest boxes but I’m pleased as pie that they’re laying at all!

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there’s a lot going on here

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I think there's something that needs to be said about encouraging readers to leave feedback.

For me it's not about "tell me my writing is amazing and stroke my ego"

It's more about "please engage with me so that I can experience your joy secondhand and foster a connection with you"

I understand that not everyone wants this in their reading experience, some people are shy and a million other reasons why maybe someone wouldn't want to engage and that's perfectly fine!

But what I'm trying to steer away from is being a passive content creator with passive consumers. What I want to steer toward is fostering a community that is essential to fandom. I want to see your reactions because it makes me feel like I'm a part of something.

On encouraging reblogs —

I understand that not everyone is comfortable reblogging, especially explicit content. This is ok!

But just consider that the only reason you were able to enjoy a fic or fanart is because someone else shared it, and by not sharing it yourself you are potentially robbing someone else of the opportunity to enjoy it as much as you did.

As OPs our reach only goes so far and this website relies on reblogs in order for anything to truly get seen by a wider audience.

So that's really it! That's why I encourage these two things at the end of every story I post. Not because I'm trying to be demanding and "make people feel bad" if they don't do it.

I know most other social media sites encourage mindless content consumption and that's just the way of the world nowadays, but I am from a time when community was at the heart of fandom and I just don't want to lose that.

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Building a cabin on a cliff in Minecraft, and it's SUCH a pain in the butt, but it's going to look so cool.

When I first got into the realm, I buried to make a bunch of small huts in a rainbow of colors. I didn't know a ton about the game, but I knew other people were gonna join me and I wanted a base camp that they could hunker down in or return to. New people could see some of the blocks in use right away.

But, I've learned a lot since then and seen what can be done, so I've been expanding the base and building various structures. It's finally time to redo the original huts. I've done the monochrome one and it's gorgeous and modern looking.

Now I'm on the brown one, and I went for like, a hunting cabin kind of look, and figured I could make use of being on a mountain. We'll see how I feel about it when it's finished but right now I'm crying over trying to reach stuff on survival mode lol