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Perks of being a momma seal is you have a super soft pillow that follows you everywhere

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It drives me nuts because I can’t remember the source — a European Marxist I think, maybe Italian? If it’s Benjamin I’ll kick myself — but I have been haunted now for over a year by a line along the lines of men will do more for wronged ancestors than they will for living children and I just. Think about it all the time. In the context of. Everything.

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My boyfriend was showing me his cat and I leaned over to kiss the cat on his soft little baby head and he went "meow" and scrambled away because I'd been wearing my headphones and I accidentally jabbed him with the microphone.

And I said "Damn, this is exactly like in the Iliad"

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seeing the 'mutual' icon change to 'following' feels like finding out ur getting a divorce through the morning newspaper

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Cutest animals 😍

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concept: one of those dashboard simulator memes for Early Minoan Crete where all the URLs and posts are unreadable gibberish

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Did you remove Child Ballad from Ao3? It's one of my favourite fanfics, I'm hyperventilating I swear...

No! Have you checked that you’re logged in, though? It is archive-locked, so you need to be logged in to see it!

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Yall are so desperate for the Sith to be grey morality instead of just the straight up villains theyre constantly shown to be and it shows

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to all things, a season

The thing about children is, sooner or later, they grow up. Kaz reckons with an end, and a beginning.

Read on AO3

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currently reading htn and i just have a feeling this fanart is gonna circle back to bite me in the ass. Anyway.

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Same shit (fandom does not understand that people can be bisexual) different day (today)

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Oh man, this is incredible! Thank you so much for the time and effort you must have invested in this. The endpapers are especially beautiful, but the pomegranates are probably my favorite part. Also sorry to have made your life difficult with Signal texts and end notes! But thank you for showing me this beautiful thing you have made! My response is unequal to your art!

This was my second binding and casing of "Kohelet 3:16 (Call Me a Cab) by @linearao3

It is, without a doubt, one of my favorite pieces of fiction in any fandom. The use of Judaism and liberation work as plot and setting for a modern Star Wars AU is just...ugh, it. is. so. good. Everyone's queer, everyone's Jewish, the author provides helpful and detailed author's notes (formatted for printing as footnotes with a couple of appendices) to give context. It's just exceptional.

It was the second binding and casing because I'd typeset it before I understood, y'know, margins. I was also attempting to impose it myself because I'm a fool. These days I rely heavily on bookbinder js because I love myself. I'll eventually put up some pictures of the first bind because it was a good lesson. I will also probably re-bind it (again) because the colophon info isn't correct, specifically regarding the inclusion of end page art. I wound up not including GizSkyriser's piece (found right here, it's so good, please go look and tell them how good it is) since my printer isn't capable of edge-to-edge printing. My plan is to use it on the book jacket that I'm still designing. Furthermore, the colors of the text bubbles were kind of wonky upon printing, so I'll need to reassess that.

I used pomegranates on the cover due to their important symbolism in Judaism, particularly in the Sephardic tradition and their use during Rosh Hashanah. Often associated with the concept of righteousness, pomegranates are said to have 613 seeds, which correspond to the 613 mitzvot of the Torah.

I used an image of Lady Justice on the title page for similar reasons, given the themes of the work.

There are several less put together projects between "Do Not Go Gentle" and "Kohelet," but these are the photos I have on hand. I say that, because I'm really very pleased with how this turned out. I had a vision and I (more or less) executed it to the best of my ability, having precisely zero useful graphic design skills. Still, there are things I want to change/update as I get better at typesetting, so I imagine there will be another post about a different iteration of this in the future.

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As I grow older I feel my capacity to understand that Miss Piggy is not a real person reached a peak in my adolescence and is now on a steady decline. I watched a Wendy Williams interview and there's this part that's like "can we get a ring cam!" and Miss Piggy shows her bling and I'm just like fuck she's so iconic. Miss Piggy who are you wearing? Miss Piggy have you ever considered running for office??

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Oh sunk-cost fallacy, we're really in it now. We are in fact so really in it that if we quit now then everything we did would have all been for nothing and so we have to keep going in

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Everyone missing out on the cheerful stuff like:

She is aware, in a dull, bruised way, that the Atrede fairly openly regard the Suli as subhuman. But that’s not exactly uncommon. She wonders if Matthias remembers – or ever really knew – that the same Kaelish rebel sect that killed his father destroyed six Suli encampments in one night in 2003. Fifty-five people dead, and the last horse-drawn caravans in the world burned to ash. They said the Suli were undermining the resistance by giving aid and comfort to the enemy, which is more or less the same thing the Tsibeyan Nationalist Alliance said in 1988 when they wiped out one of the northern Suli clans and most of the other. And they had Fjerdan guns, Fjerdan money behind them from the party before the Esseve. But who remembers fifty-five dead Suli in FAKT when the Third Leflin Massacre killed five hundred Kaelish civilians a month later? Who remembers a few thousand dead Suli when the the TNA bombed half of Os Kervo into the dirt, and two hundred and fifty thousand with it?

Who remembers any number at all, when your own father is dead?

I think I am going to put off publishing the next chapter of Publish or Perish because if the US election goes badly god only knows when I will have the will to write the last chapter and then I will have left everyone in a bad place story-wise and I will feel bad about it. Also it’s not like it’s done now lol.