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my mom didn’t believe in lying to children so when I first asked about santa claus as a small child she was like “oh santa claus is another name for a man named saint nicholas who lived a long time ago. he was a very kind and generous man and he loved giving people presents and he would do things like put presents in people’s stockings when they were hung up to dry by the fire, so they would find them and be surprised. so now when we give presents at christmas it’s fun to pretend saint nicholas or ‘santa claus’ brings them. and we hang up stockings by the fire and when we get up in the morning there are presents in them, just like if saint nicholas was still alive to bring them!”

so that thanksgiving one of my uncles said jovially “so mac, are you being good for santa claus?” and little (not quite three year old) mac looked up and raised an eyebrow and said witheringly “he’s dead.”

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It’s that time of the year again :)

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actually now i’m curious

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It’s rare to feel happy in northern Gaza. But the other day, my sister Soso made me smile.

It’s not a lie that sugar is expensive. 1kg is $80. Frying oil is $70. That donut was expensive to make, even without the sugar. But it’s okay. Even if it means the adults can’t eat, it’s okay. Soso was happy for a few hours. She’s only 4 years old yet her life is already so hard. She’s not growing properly due to malnutrition and trauma. Her mental health is in shambles, not at all how a child should be. Since birth, two wars have come very close to killing her, so we just want her to be happy.

Please help me make her happy every day. A few days ago, she was the happiest child in the world because she ate an apple for the first time in a year. That won’t happen again because fruits are too expensive, but I swear, she explodes with joy when we buy vegetables too. She is a child with simple dreams.

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honestly its funny when really long standing fandom is starved of new content, because people start dissecting the source material in really specific ways. not in analytic way, because that was done long ago, but like in "desperately using microscope to try find very last scraps of meat" kind of way.

what i mean is that at some point i saw lotr gif set that was like "frodo + looking to left"

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I love going viral on tumblr.com. It’s like if you stood in a field and said some of the stupidest shit a human being is capable of and then like fifty thousand crows attacked you

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bro...what we could have had..

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trying to make an agegap hot but its not that much of a gap: hahaha when you were born i was. well i knew the alphabet

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Planning for a flight now consists of planning out how to document the legal violations the airline is inevitably going to commit.

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unironically love the phrase “but I’m being so brave about it” because truly, like, what other choice do we have in this wretched existence? what a beautiful way to remind yourself to keep going, even if only out of spite

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reblog if you're a sick individual who's attracted to women over 30

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some of you have never treated a cat with enough love and kindness to experience their adoration and trust and it shows

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every time i think about the fact it was welt yang who brought sunday onto the express i weep tears of narrative joy. and not even because theyre both my favourites and i like seeing them bounce off each other. but bc it's the perfect combination. it makes the most sense. i mean. sunday oak. his greatest and most notable crime is the eternal dream. he wanted to dictate others' safety to them. to restrain them in hopes of ensuring their eternal happiness. keep them ignorant to danger forever. throwing his own life away for an idealistic fantasy birthed as a child, so that others may live well, even though his sister wishes he wouldn't.

and then welt yang. who is deeply guilty of the exact same thing. albeit on a smaller scale. who tried to protect himeko in alien space by lying to her, over and over - which backfired, horribly. whose best idea of heroism is throwing his own life at a problem, and expressly ignoring when his family tell him they wish he wouldn't, all because he internalised it as a child and never unlearned it.

he's even doing it now, kinda. he came to star rail's setting trailing very dangerous world-consuming aliens, because his sense of heroism and guilt told him he needed to do something about it. he shoulders heavy burdens like it's instinct to him. so, yeah. of all the express, he's the most likely to actually understand sunday's thinking.

i mean, be real with me. this is someone who's being presented with someone who's too similar to him and is having some uncomfortable realisations about that. and, simultaneously, instantly coming to empathise with them. i hope welt dies in a car crash (i'm driving

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I like how teens are too young to figure out their sexuality unless its heterosexual