knightedrogue

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Type 1 diabetic here. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: invisible disabilities are still disabilities. Your opinions have no impact on my insulin pump, bro.

Maybe he’s ordering a decaf because he has a heart condition, and you’re about to give him a heart attack and send him to the hospital.

Or maybe he’s just ordering a decaf.

Maybe she’s ordering sugar free because she’s diabetic, and you’re about to put her six feet under.

Or maybe she’s just ordering sugar free,

Maybe they’re ordering non-dairy because they’re intolerant, and you’re about to ruin their day. Maybe they’re allergic, and you’re about to sponsor an all black event in an open field.

Or maybe they’re just ordering non-dairy.

Maybe they ordered gluten free because they can’t process it, and you’re about to destroy their digestive tract.

Or maybe they’re just ordering gluten free.

Maybe they’re ordering this way just because they don’t want the food, for whatever reason.

But are you willing to bet their life on it?

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@holdouttrout I’m game if you are 😂

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You like me because I'm a scoundrel. There aren't enough scoundrels in your life.

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Clay and Pearl: Specter, Chapter 24: Gifts

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13417643/24/

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you know what’s really fun and in style right now? being kind and making others feel loved and valued

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princess Leia as Greek goddess for lovely @silvereddaye check out their story here Godhood

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Stop listening to the voice.

Your writing doesn’t suck. Even if it’s not getting the attention you’d hoped, that doesn’t mean it’s bad.

Your readers compliments ARE genuine.

Your efforts are NOT in vain.

You are NOT wasting your time.

Any time spent on something that makes you feel good or face feelings you’d trying to reject, those are things worth doing, whether that effort is outwardly validated or not.

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@holdouttrout one HUNDRED percent accurate

if you brought shakespeare back to life and showed him the lion king i bet he’d be like “this shit fucks why didn’t anyone tell me i could use lions” 

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Family portrait

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Leia Organa

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The older i get the more i realise constructive criticism isn't even used correctly in most situations where people share their art. Or that most people aren't looking for their work to be critiqued unless they specifically ask for it since sharing stuff publicly is scary af.

Like yeah, it's tempting to want people to improve and be someone who can personally help them, but I find most people improve naturally as they produce more work passionately rather than having their flaws pointed out and essentially be told to do homework before they can do stuff they find passionate about again.

Unless you're paying for a service, or money is being exchanged in general and expectations aren't being met, or that the person specifically asks for help, I really don't see how telling people who does things for passion that they need to meet some standard to post shit.

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its so freeing when you realize you can literally write whatever you want 

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Tonight I am thinking about this gif of Bail Organa:

Everyone else is watching the Clone Troopers with indifference.

But Bail?

He knows what they’ve done. And he knows they can never come back from it. And he knows this is wrong.

But he can’t say anything.

So he simply. Looks away, with sadness and disappointment in his face. And punches the stone.

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Lainey Molnar

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Thinking about the Leverage crew in the Good Place afterlife.

Accountants would cry trying to tally their points. They've encountered people who did bad things for good reasons before, but the scale the Leverage team operated on is new. The personal improvement of all the Leverage crew over the course of their life is huge, but the number of people they've hurt (the system doesn't allow for "but they deserved it"; and it's really hard to measure "they would have hurt more people if we hadn't stopped them", although the accountants still have to try to factor it in).

Glenn and some friends would lobby for Nate to be made an honorary demon because they want his help designing tests. Also, he's really hard to test because he keeps figuring it out.

Vicky would keep sending Sophie through the same test--meeting a promising new thief--and insist the goal was for Sophie not to train the thief but instead discourage them from pursuing a life of crime, but really Vicky is just taking notes on all of Sophie's acting tips.

Shawn puts bad people in a situation to do bad things and Eliot close enough to see. Either the bad people won't do bad things and thus improve, Eliot will find a way to stop them without beating them up and thus improve, or Eliot will beat them up. Shawn calls it "economical and enjoyable!"

They create a neighborhood where Hardison has opportunities to fix a corrupt government or business, but he keeps using his normal methods, and "refusing to work with corrupt and unethical people on their terms" and "stops bad people from hurting innocents" count as positive points even as his methods rack up the negative points. He also hacks the Bad Place. Changing your own score is negative points. Changing other people's scores to spare them suffering is positive.

Parker's case keeps getting handed to different architects. The architects keep succumbing to the temptation to try and build a security system she can't beat rather than teach her not to steal.

At some point, Nate has figured out he's in a simulation and refused to cooperate unless he speaks to whoever is in charge ("You need my help to keep this from happening again"), Sophie has earned Vicky's trust and convinced Vicky to show off her other work, Eliot has learned to tell the demons and real people and simulations apart and followed a demon to the exit, Hardison has hacked his way out, and Parker found an air vent that leads out of the testing room, and the five meet up again, ready to break out of the Bad Place.

Shawn develops empathy for Chidi's stomach aches.

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not to be native on main but like, it’s everyone’s responsibility to steward the land they’re on. like you’re required. if you’re in america the people who own the land aren’t around to steward it so pick up the slack. learn how people cultivated and cared for the land you’re on. if you’re an animist there’s really no excuse. man, i get disabilities and stuff (i’m disabled myself) but you gotta do something. get some native grasses and toss em into your yard. mow your grass a little higher. leave a little strip that’s completely untouched so native wildlife can take residence there. cultivate a relationship with the land you’re on, not only for magical reasons (and you WILL get magical benefits) but also because the earth is deserving of love and respect in itself. 

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This isnt a joke my favorite piece of writing advice that I’ve ever seen is someone that said if you were stuck with a fic and couldn’t figure out why or what was wrong, your problem is actually usually about ten sentences back. Maybe there was something wonky about the tone or the dialogue or you added something that didn’t fit but it’s usually ten sentences back. And every single time I get stuck in a fic I count back ten sentences and it’s always fucking there