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how the heck does an elephant fit in a dormitory?

You show up for your first day at Copyright-Free Magic School. As you're going through orientation, you're informed that all new students get a school-assigned familiar that they are responsible for housing and maintaining. The staff member assures you that your assigned familiar is appropriately chosen and reflects you in some way.

Spin this to find out yours. (Remember, you are responsible for maintaining this familiar in your dorm room.)

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I'm like, "ah yes, my sim, you must get your infinite money garden going as soon as possible" and in doing so I fail the welcome party and my neighbours hate me. My social need then turns orange or red in the first day and I know it's over, and that soon I will be "crying it out" in bed.

And then the green "introvert" achievement pops up and I'm like, oops I did it again

i don't think there's anything more diagnostic about me than the fact that all my sims get the introvert achievement really early on because i forget to have them talk to other people

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I keep a book of positive things from each day, even if it's just "I enjoyed my breakfast", looking back and seeing those positives happening then means that even if I don't see those positives right now, they're still happening, I just might not recognise them.

I also create a lil doodle next to each one.

I'm very sorry to ask something like this, I've really been struggling with this question, and I wanted to ask the combined wisdom of the people on this site

I would like to know why you keep going, and what drives you to keep living. I know there are a lot of reasons to stay alive and enjoy life, I can think of a few that personally resonate with me, but I really want to know what your reasons are

You do not have to comment on this if that's too big of an ask, and I'm very sorry for asking something like this, I really need someone's help, I feel like I don't have much purpose

Also if I may ask, please don't post any suicidal ideation in the comments of this post, I really can't handle something like that right now

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Britain does have quite a lot of newt species, so especially if it was small, maybe it was one of them?

anyway speaking of i encountered some kind of lizard-like animal on a trip to suffolk as a teenager and I've been trying to figure out what it was ever since

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My dad just said Hamilton was boring.

He's officially irredeemable.

jk I do love my dad

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how the fuck does anyone have the motivation to do anything

how the fuck does anyone have time to do anything

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As a Brit I'd like to highlight my ancestral homeland of the Fens and say that yes, there is flat ground. It just floods a lot.

And that if you're a Yorkshire person you automatically have to diss on Lancashire. And vice versa. The Wars of the Roses never truly ended. Not in the hearts and minds of the people.

Yorkshire also has an ongoing feud between Thomas the Bakers, Greggs, and Cooplands. Who makes the best pasties? No one will agree.

And in terms of middle and upper-class kids... they do not understand money. Like, at all. I've seen them stash £5000 unguarded, unlocked, in a literal carrier bag, in a dormitory as if it was pocket change. "We'll take the lot" is actually very plausible for an upper class person. I honestly don't know how the village shop near that school kept up with the demand.

They'll also randomly drop brand names like its nobody's business and if there's a dance you can be damn well sure that even if they hate each other, the girls have all coordinated to be wearing VERY different dresses.

Oh, and school-age upper class people WILL show off exactly how many people they can fit in their castle/mansion for a sleepover. Bonus points if it's the whole class. (given that they're probably privately educated and their classes don't really go past 70 in my experience) and no I will not elaborate on the "bonus points" scenario bc it involves a Very Public Castle and a Duke's kids and I do not wish to open that can of worms.

But, if they're in a group with people they consider peers, they won't title drop. I've known many Lords and Ladies and a few Marquesses and Marchionesses, and a couple of Dukes and Duchesses, and they all introduced themselves without their titles but with the surname afforded by those titles. Their kids, however, didn't use the surname, instead using their standard non-title-afforded family names. I didn't see a single one of those kids use Lord or Lady while at school.

Basically, go ham when you're writing fics about James Potter and Sirius Black being upper class morons and Lucius Malfoy being a prick, I can guarantee you that the weirdest seems-upper-class stuff you can think of is... not far off from reality. Just... don't title drop too much. Because those titled kids would much rather be one of the gang than set apart by titles.

super helpful tips for non-english fic writers writing a marauder fic (set in england):

the characters can never say 'mate' too much. (especially if they're working class). there is no limit to the word 'mate'.

slag is a much more common word to use than slut or whore

you could drive an hour away and no longer understand anyone's accent. there is a lot of english accents

non-londoners think londoners think they're better than everyone else

the north/south divide is still existent but was much more so in the 70s. northerners saw southerners as posh wankers and southerners saw northerners as poor and dumber. the midlands gets ignored.

everywhere is hilly. you think there can't possibly be a hill? there is. flat ground is nonexistent.

sometimes it doesn't rain. we go to the beach and talk about how great the weather is (even if it's still cold. at least it isn't tipping it down)

wetherspoons (affectionately known as 'spoons') is not just a pub/restaurant. its a lifestyle. it's home. it's also sticky, always filled with middle aged men drinking pints, and you have to walk a mile and go through a maze to find the toilets.

we're strangely obsessed with lidl bakery and greggs.

in terms of the middle class and upper class marauder characters- idrk, but my old friend was rich and she had a bear skinned rug and ate a lot of quiches, so do with that what you will

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Let's go, fish! Let's frickin go!

I feel attractive

and that's not really a feeling I'm used to. I just feel really confident and beautiful. it's a really nice feeling that I didn't expect to feel anytime soon

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I mean, they weren't wrong...

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your last words before you die are the 3rd line of the last song you listened to. what are we saying ladies?

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*tags john oliver*

i sincerely believe they made journey to batuu just for people too lazy to make kylo ren in the sims for their self-insert to make out with

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Genocide (from the last 3 games being minecraft, sims 4 w/ violence mod, and valheim)

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I'd bet good money that if Nikola Tesla were to suddenly return to being alive today he'd be suing Elon Musk for besmirching his slightly weird pigeon-marrying name real fast

$122,000. And the thing is so shodily designed that the accelerator can become that easily stuck. It isn't even all one piece.

$122,000. That's more than my entire household income, and we're 3 adults with full-time jobs.

If you gave that $122,000 to Feeding America, that would provide over 1 million meals.

That's $122,000 more than Tesla paid in taxes.

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I didn't get to vote but I only know it's Canberra because of the juice media otherwise I'd have assumed it's Sydney

ok I’m trying to see something here

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this is the type of advice I needed, like, 10 years ago

If you’ve been stuck trying to please a mom who became abusive/toxic because of generational trauma, realize you won’t save her. You might be the subject of your mom’s rage, paranoia, obsession etc - but you are not the cause of it. And if you didn’t change her after all those years of begging her, bargaining with her, self-harming, isolating, defending yourself, etc, you are not going to change her now. When they say “you can only save someone who wants to be saved”, that applies here. When they say “the only person who you can control is yourself” that applies here. Please let go of this guilt that you carry for something that’s entirely out of your hands. These ideas are pertinent to creating your path to freedom.

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And wolves! You fly off with an elytra and boom, you wasted all those bones that you could've used for so many other things

the problem with minecraft parrots is that they're so easy to fucking lose

they fly off somewhere and boom! they get eaten by the fucking void cos i can't find them again

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He just wants his Doctor's attention and doesn't much care what he has to do to get it

ultimately, we all know that the master only wants to destroy and/or rule the universe because the doctor loves it so so much