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Not telling your kid they have a learning disability, chronic illness, mental illness etc. so they can “feel normal” actually does the opposite. They will not feel normal if they do not have the context to understand that their normal will be different from that of their peers.

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If you were the handsome blonde flag bearer in yellow at the Battle of Prestonpans Jacobites Rising of 1745 I’m sorry if I knew you and didn’t recognise you if that’s why you kept staring at me, I didn’t want to wave during the battle and look like a fool

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Maggie Smith, photographed in Venice (1966)

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the collection so far

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Hi I have a question about Pacific Rim. Given that the sparring is just A way to test for drift compatibility and any activity that requires people to collaborate and anticipate each others moves works, including stuff like multi player video games

Can you test for drift compatibility via improv comedy

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Michael K Williams as Hamlet (painted in clip studio paint)

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Thinking about some childhood book series* and plot points therein, and was struck with “Anakin is a shapeshifter who turns into a snake and masquerades as an accessory, like a headband or funky chunky necklace, for Ahsoka or Obi-Wan on undercover things so they have backup in secret,” except now I’m just stuck on Anakin is a normal-ish snake, about as thick as someone’s arm and maybe twice as long, incapable of human speech but understanding it, still ludicrously Force-Sensitive. Qui-Gon argued that he was young enough to join the creche because nobody could figure out his age or maturity or species so maybe he was a toddler?

Bonus points, Shmi is still his mom, she just laid/found a Force Egg and went “okay, then, this is my child now.”

* not Animorphs this time! It’s about Children of the Lamp, with accidental nods to that SW/Stargate fic I was reading recently.

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star trek tos au where all the uniform boots look like this

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i hate it when customers get mad about policy and go “well i’ve always thought it worked differently” like ok. when i was a kid i thought the drains in sinks and bathtubs lead to Hell and i would pour things down them for the dead people. it turns out that you can think things that aren’t true

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This might be unpopular but I’m not going to use simpler vocabulary in my writing if it’s out of character for the narrator. If my POV character is a botanist, he’s going to call a plant by its name. If you don’t know what it is you can either Google it or move on just knowing it’s a plant of some sort.

I don’t like this trend of readers being angry that not everything is 100% understandable for them. I want my characters to be believable as people and sometimes people use words people outside of their field will not understand. That’s not a bad thing.

You don’t have to understand every word to get the gist of what’s happening. I’m not going to slow down an action scene to describe every weapon because someone might not know them by name. They can just assume it’s a weapon because that makes sense in the context of the scene.

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Btw don't shut up you're not annoying

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Do you think the people who design modern sewing machines in plastic cases ever feel insignificant because of it? knowing that they're making machines with the lifespan of a dog when they could (if they'd been born a few generations earlier) be making machines with the lifespan of a Galapagos tortoise?

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Maggie Smith in The First Wives Club (1996) dir. Hugh Wilson

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My contribution to Ukrainian Miku

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@aspecardaweek day six | intersectionality | bi aro aredhel

[Aredhel] was younger in the years of the Eldar than her brothers; and when she was grown to full stature and beauty she was tall and strong, and loved much to ride and hunt in the forests. There she was often in the company of the sons of Fëanor, her kin; but to none was her heart’s love given.

—The Silmarillion, “Of Eldamar and the Princes of the Eldalië”

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