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"sickness, self-portrait" 10x10 acrylic on canvas

about feeling defined by illness and disability, and that all I'll ever be is a sick person trying to masquerade as something more.

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Flourish in Radiance

Jie Song

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For the last goddamn time...

"Kill your darlings" means "if something is holding you back, get rid of it, even if it sounds pretty."

That's it! That's all it means! It means if you're stuck and stalled out on your story and you could fix the whole block by removing something but you're avoiding removing that thing because it's good, you remove that thing. That's the darling.

It does NOT mean

That you have to get rid of your self-indulgent writing

That you should delete something just because you like it (?wtf?)

That you need to kill off characters (??? what)

That you have to pare your story down to the absolute bare bones

That you have to delete anything whatsoever if you don't want to

The POINT is that you STOP FEELING GUILTY for throwing out good writing that isn't SERVING THE STORY.

The POINT is that you don't get so HUNG UP on the details that you lose sight of the BIG PICTURE.

Good grief....

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malls are dying because they don't have blacksmith, apothecary, alehouse or peddler's

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A better look at the Cowardly Lion, Scarecrow and Tin Man Care Bears coming soon.

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i hate when a piece of kids media is so well made that people start saying "clearly this was made FOR adults not for silly little babies. we are the true target demographic" like cmon man. you don't have to pretend it's something it isn't. sometimes things that are made for 12 year olds are good.

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i think it's really fun when a rly specific trope is super popular in one particular medium but in other ones it's just totally unheard of. it's the time knife. visual novel players are suuuuper used to death games but many others encountered them for the first time in squid games. the other day my mom showed me all excited the summary of a super original novel she found and it was about a girl who got reincarnated as the main character in her favorite fantasy book

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𝔣𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔩𝔢𝔞𝔳𝔢𝔰

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did you make sure to make lots of mistakes today ? from which to learn and grow ^_^ ?

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“The world itself demands to be narrated, and only then does it truly exist, only then can it flourish fully. But also… by telling the story of the world, we are changing the world.”

— Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

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telemachus' first interactions with athena are everything to me. he has no idea he's speaking to a goddess so there's no posturing, no pretense. just: “greetings, stranger. sit, rest, have some wine. btw not to be indelicate but my life is a joke & these suitors fucking suck. welcome to ithaca”

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i can only imagine the emotional whiplash iphigenia experienced in the version of events where she ends up in taurus because on one hand she's just had the single most terrifying day of her life and now has to come to terms with the fact she might never see her family or home again and the entire can of worms that is her feelings on her father at this point but ALSO she is a teenage girl smack dab in the middle of puberty and she's somehow just managed to win the admiration of a cute demigod boy and THEN get bridal carried by the beautiful and buff goddess of the hunt herself so one must picture her at the end of the day feeling like she's gone through the full spectrum of the human experience at like. fourteen

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used bookstore tucked into an old church in the holler I will always love you

Buckeye Bend Books, Marlinton, WV.

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“The whole world opened up to me when I learned to read” - Mary McCleod Bethune

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I think the law on right to repair should give manufacturers two options: either you have to make it possible and practical for people to fix their own shit (as in, you have to sell replacement parts at reasonable prices, you have to provide repair manuals, you can't void warranties) or you have to fix your products whenever they break, for free, for the reasonably expected lifetime of the product.