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The Animals - House of the Rising Sun (1964)

Silver Jews - New Orleans (1994)

wdhmbt’s tumblr post (undated)

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when i see you falling stars are in your eyes (oh, they're beautiful)

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“whatever the fuck these two characters had going on” is a vastly underrated character dynamic

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Newt/Hermann Secret Santa-Winter Exchange 2024! ❄️👨‍🔬❤️👨‍🔬❄️

It's November, so it's time for what I can only assume is everyone's most beloved holiday tradition, the Newt/Hermann 2024 Secret Santa-Winter Exchange!

To join the exchange, sign up using this form by Wednesday, 11/27/24.

How does it work? If you sign up for the exchange by November 27th, I’ll randomly and anonymously match up all participants and assign you a giftee by Tuesday, December 3rd. It’ll then be your responsibility to create some form of Newt/Hermann content (fic, art, etc.) for your giftee by January 31st, 2024, and in return, someone will make some form of Newt/Hermann content for you!

Keep your giftee a secret until you share your gift with them!

Like last year this deadline is a little extended compared to past exchanges. Though you are of course welcome to finish up your gift as early as you would like!

There are some more specific details about signing up in the form, as well as a spot to share your ‘wishlist’ (i.e., tropes or scenarios you just can’t live without that might be helpful if your giftee needs some inspiration!), and another spot to indicate interest in being a pinch hitter.

I’ll be crossposting about this on Bluesky/Twitter/Instagram as well.

For those of you who will be posting your gifts to AO3, I have made a collection for the 2024 exchange right here which you’re welcome to add your works to.

Please let me know if you have any questions! As always have fun! ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️

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Also if you regularly work with kids/teens I cannot stress how important it is that you know someone who's like really into lame emo junk. There was a girl my dad was working with who just flat out refused to talk to adults or anyone at all and one day I was there and I saw her wearing a homemade bracelet that had beads that said YLDNDAHFHHACYCSYCDAYDKK and since I was also once a 14 year old making niche homemade mcr merch I was like "oh my god you like dnd Audrey Hepburn Fangoria Harry Houdini and croquet you cant swim you can't dance and you dont know karate!!!" and she looked at me like I'd said literal magic words and now we talk about music all the time

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One of the greatest kindnesses you can do for other adults is to add positive surprises to their lives. Think about it: When you're a kid, surprises are things like "Our teacher let us watch a movie today," "someone brought cupcakes for their birthday," "my parents got me a puppy," etc. But when you become an adult, surprises are things like your car breaking down, conflicts at work, and unexpected bills. No one plans fun surprises for adults, and you can do so much for morale if you do. Ex: One time I found a tiny unlocked door in one of my university's buildings. It was empty, but because I'm a whimsical bitch, I decided to put something fun behind it for the next person curious enough to open it. See below: The Egg Gnome.

The eggs were filled with tiny plastic plants (I tried candy first, but mice got into them, and that's not good for health and safety). Just for the hell of it, I decided to announce the hidden gnome and basket of eggs in the big college group chat, offering hints to which building it was in. People went BONKERS for it. It added fun to people's days as they inspected buildings they went into every day but didn't pay much attention to. They asked me for hints, tried to remember what building had those floor tiles, and proudly announced it in the chat when they had found eggs.

I did several things like that where I just hid things around the university and challenged people to find them, and it did so much for student morale. Some people messaged me to tell me my random antics were their only source of real fun on a daily basis. Adults are just big kids. We're supposed to play long into adulthood, and the games are just supposed to scale in complexity with age, but even simple things like a scavenger or prize hunt can make people so much happier. If you have any kind of morale-keeping duties or have the option to take them on at a school, workplace, etc., I highly recommend planning fun surprises for the people around you. Planned events are a lot of fun, but it's a totally different kind of fun to find out there's a scavenger hunt going on on a random Tuesday.

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I want to write. I have ideas. I open document. I type four of the worst sentences ever created in the english language. I daydream the rest of the scene. I close document.

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the first law of tragedies: the end is already written and inevitable. the second law of tragedies: your actions are all your own and you can choose to get off this ride whenever you want. the third law of tragedies: we both know that you are never going to do that.

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Collection of exit and fire safety signs

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Fic writers: have you ever studied writing as a craft (formally or not) or do you just do your thing?

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wow you got to the red stop light faster and more dangerously than anyone else. should we throw a party?? should we call nascar

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This is me being a massive sop but I love this so much its so cute. Official Concept art by Albert Urmanov