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i miss them already 🕊️

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my head that i cant keep out got me

shawty like a melody in

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Australia has signed a UN treaty allowing inspections from the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture.

NSW is refusing to let these inspectors look at their jails. QLD is refusing to let them look at mental health wards.

UN inspectors, looking to make sure we're not torturing anyone, are being prevented from inspecting our facilities for torture.

the torture inspectors, that we agreed should do an inspection for torture, aren't allowed to inspect for torture.

🤔

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just a silly little guy waiting a few more silly days until he gets his freedom...

i can't wait to drive in 17 days. i don't get people who arent banging on the door of the DMV on their 16th birthdays demanding liscensing. the world is your bitch when you have a car with a good stereo.

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#doesnt matter i'll eat it anyways #please sir can i have some more

*gives you a foxglove* *gives you a nightshade* *gives you a devil’s trumpet* *gives you a moonflower* *gives you an oleander* *gives you a lily of the valley* *gives you a hydrangea* *gives you wisteria* *gives you a buttercup* *gives you a daffodil* *gives you an iris* *gives you elder berries* *gives you a

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fucking hate it when the stuff everybody says "actually works" does actually work.

hate exercising and realizing i've let go of a lot of anxiety and anger because i've overturned my fight-or-flight response.

hate eating right and eating enough and eating 3 times a day and realizing i'm less anxious and i have more energy

hate journaling in my stupid notebook with my stupid bic ballpoint and realizing that i've actually started healing about something once i'm able to externalize it

hate forgiving myself hate complimenting myself more often hate treating myself with kindness hate taking a gratitude inventory hate having patience hate talking to myself gently

hate turning my little face up to the sun and taking deep breaths and looking at nature and grounding myself and realizing that i feel less burdened and more hopeful, more actually-here, that i am able to see the good sides of myself more clearly, that i am able to see not only how far i have to grow - but also how much growth i have already done & how much of my life i truly fill with light and laughter and love

horrible horrible horrible. hate it but i'm gonna do it tho

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welcome to no gender november

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Moira is OP in OW2

I hate Moira.

She's cracked out of her mind in casual mode. I'm not talking about pro-level here where she's an absolute mid-tier character... I'm talking about the little shits that flank the hell out of people and suck their life force dry within seconds.

She's a DPS character disguised as a healer. Almost every Moira main I've come across is 85% damage and 15% healer. If you want to just play a cracked-out DPS character but want shorter wait times, just queue up for Moira.

She can win games for teams at the casual level, especially in the plebs arenas I'm qued into (since I'm > 30 hours into playing). If a team has a good Moira- 99% of the time it's just gg's.

She just shoots her little purple orbs and pisses people off. If you are the other healer and you see someone else on your team select Moira- you know you're just doomed. You are a solo healer now. Never expect a Moira to actually heal their team and if they do they deserve an endorsement. All of the 1 IQ players who play Moira as a DPS character secure their spot, right below Phara, on the list of my least favorite people on the platform.

In my almost 30 hours of playing, I have never once seen a Moira player use their ult to heal thier team. That shit bypasses energy barriers and just wipes teams faster than someone can wipe thier own ass.

Dear Blizzard Entertainment, We all know of your stupid decisions as a corporation in the past but I plead that you put your last few brain cells together and nerf Moira in the next update.

xoxo

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⚠️Contains Spoilers!!!⚠️

The Old Grist Mill

I'm just going to go ahead and link this song because in my opinion it is one of the best songs in the whole series period.

I love how the beginning of the series makes no sense to first-time watchers but after you have watched it at least once, everything at the beginning of the first episode makes sense. It gives off the same vibes as Jojo's Bizzare Adventure's openings... The Tome of the Unknown style is in every single title screen and it makes me so aesthetically happy. It intensifies the melancholy-autumn mood that this whole show embodies and of course, the art style is just amazing. I don't think any other art style would fit this series better than this one. Can we just pause for a second and talk about how f*cking cool it is that this entire show is just one big circle? The opening scene when the narrator starts talking is Wirt falling into the frozen pond... How do people come up with stuff like this!? I wish more series/movies did this kind of stuff. It just opens the door to so many more theories and expands the lore just that much deeper. Also before this episode gets any further in I just want to mention: grist;

grain that is ground to make flour.

malt crushed to make mash for brewing.

2.useful material, especially to back up an argument.

grist for the mill — useful experience, material, or knowledge.

I just found it interesting that the episode is named after it ヾ(＾∇＾)

Beatrice is one of my favorite characters in this show besides the Frog. The name Beatrice has many meanings but the one I think that makes sense in relation to the storyline is the one from the bible: deriving from the Latin word Beatrix meaning "One who blesses others". We'll talk about her more later because she is definitely a very important character in the series and the amount of lore is just *french kiss*. I'm ashamed to admit that I missed this the first time around but it's now so funny to me that while Wirt is wallowing in his sorrows and talking versing poetry about his life- Greg is just in the background swinging around objects to see which one he could knock out the woodsman with the best.

I love rock facts. 〔´∇｀〕

🍬 The candy trail that Greg has and produces out of his pants that ultimately "leads the beast' to them (Wirt and Greg) could be taken as a metaphor for no good deeds go unpunished- or that all good things lead to the bad. The 'beast', or the bad in OTGW is led to the mill by Greg's candy trail that was supposed to lead Wirt and Greg back out of the Unknown. One of my favorite lines from the show is when Greg sees the 'beast' and says "You have beautiful eyes". Greg always looks for the good throughout the series and that makes me happy （＾ｖ＾）

 🐢 The Black Turtles ~

These guys show up everywhere. I recommend you read the short article about them from the wiki that you can find here. I love these things. They're so mysterious, rare, and never explained. It never is even explained why Wirt says later in the series to Auntie Whispers that he "came to burgle her turts!". Does Wirt know something to do with the turtles that the watcher doesn't or is he just being observant and trying to make up an excuse on the fly? (More about that later in the series) It's such a good example of an uncanny valley~ they are turtles but they're black..? Black turtles don't exist in real life** and the ones in OTGW seem either to be just a singular turtle (although its never specified ).

** I kind of went down the Wikipedia rabbit hole and found out that "black" turtles do exist. Okay, so they're not entirely black but they are at least darker in color than your average sea turtle. Even farther down the rabbit hole, I started to find some things about Chinese Astrology and what certain constellations mean to them. The one that I found is the most 'relevant' (a.k.a I think it just matches the theme of OTGW the best). This is kind of complicated because of course, everything is disputed because legends and myths are always disputed so I'll try to explain this in the least confusing way possible: So the moon travels around the earth in a total of 27.32 days. Scientists track this progress by calculating the longitudes along the orbit (called an ecliptic) and then split it up into 28 different segments called Mansions or Stations (and sometimes even houses for some reason?). Anyways, ost often these were used by ancient cultures as part of their calendar systems. One of these cultures is ancient China. There's more... "The 28 Lunar Mansions are divided into four clusters, with each cluster made up of seven constellations"... There's a lot of math involved in all of this and I'm not an astronomer so I'm not sure how all of these connect but anyways I will put a pretty picture to kind of give you an idea of what I'm talking about here. Now... how does this connect to OTGW? Well, 2 things: 1. All of these Moon Stations make up "The Black Tortise of Winter" which according to this Wikipedia passage states that the Black Tortise corresponds to astrology and traveling to the underworld to guide people. 2. The 11th Moon Station of the "Black Tortoise of Winter" has a Chinese character meaning Emptiness. (pictured below)

I think that all of this concentrated around emptiness and the underworld largely reflects the ideas of the Unknown in OTGW. The Unknown is like a different world where people who are lost go to never be seen again. Kind of like Hell or the underworld. It's vast and has very few inhabitants. The turtles showing up in the movie could be almost like a guiding figure.

I appreciate the fact that the 'beast' in the beginning is Beatrice's dog. I just love dogs and that little extra added touch for the whole full-circle vibe of this show just makes me happy. "Aint that just the way" Burdens and burdens that are needed of bearing are mentioned in this episode and then never again but I still want to acknowledge that the Woodsman kind of predicts that Wirt will take on most of the problems in this show following this episode. Taking the blame, solving problems, etc., etc. which is most likely the reason why he gets turned into an adle wood tree first before ultimately Greg does. Kind of a statement piece on how difficult it is being an older child and looking after your younger siblings. This whole sentiment of "oh, your younger sibling is too young and doesn't understand, and therefore shouldn't get blamed" really can affect the elder sibling and like Wirt in the end, make them lose hope over time. Getting blamed for other people's problems is a tough situation and I think that way too many eldest children get put in the same boat. Especially at younger ages, this can cause severe problems later on down the line. I love the frog. I also love this drawing by @wabidrawbi 

keep drawing friends. you're doing amazing <3 XOXO

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There's so much to unpack...

I love this show so much.

Over the Garden Wall, or as most fans call it OTGW, was a short series (1 season) released to Cartoon Network back in 2013 but ever since then has just embodied fall. Based on an animated short film Tome of the Unknown by Patrick McHale, the film "serves as the inspiration and pilot for the mini-series Over the Garden Wall '.

If you want to read more about Tome of the Unknown I would suggest that you go take a look at the Wikipedia article on it:

Over the Garden Wall is just such a good work of art, music, character, world, and story development all wrapped up into one really good pumpkin pie. I was introduced to the story by a friend and have rewatched it multiple times. It's such a nice comfort show~ It has so many different layers to it and the animation style is just comforting to me for some reason. The characters are funny and most of the story is lighthearted enough that it cheers me up no matter what kind of mood I'm in. If you haven't gone and watched the show yet: I would stop reading this and go, take an hour of your time to watch the show, and then come back if you like it and want to hear my takes on it. (Also because there will be spoilers in the further publishings of this 11-chapter installment...)

The next 10 posts are going to be going chapter by chapter ( 1 - 10 ), each addressing their own episode of the show. They're gonna be mostly about the things I find interesting and actually took time to look into them because I found them interesting. Maybe some lore I thought was important, or something I saw that I haven't in the past 5 times I've watched this series... There will obviously be personal opinions thrown in a lot, and comments + criticism are definitely allowed in the comment section (just please remember to be nice). I might also throw in some really cool fan art that I find around Tumblr just because I follow the OTGW tags and appreciate all the amazing work a lot of people on this app do. If you ever want me to talk about something specific in the next installment because I will be uploading these periodically (because sadly I do have other things to do in my life other than write fan reviews of my favorite shows...), just leave a comment and I will try to read them and include it. I'm also open to discussion! If you've read this far we all know you're a die-hard fan just like I am.

XOXO