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me when the beauty of the house is immeasurable and its kindness infinite.....

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all people that exist

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Piranesi concept art!

I hadn’t seen anyone really tackle the drowned halls yet (as far as I know) so I thought I’d take a crack at it to practice painting environments

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A useful thing to know about AO3 tags is that they're wrangled by humans. A human being will read your tag, understand what it means*, and then connect that tag in the backend system to other tags that mean the same thing (if there are any)

that's why, for example, the tags

not beta read

no beta

no beta we die like men

no beta we die like mne

no beta we die like [insert character who dies in canon]

unbetad

unbeta'd

unbeta-d

un-beta'd

and a million more versions are all searchable and filterable if you just tag one of them. A Tag Wrangler (the job title of a human volunteer who manages AO3 tags) has made sure that AO3 understands that those are all synonyms, so AO3 treats them that way.

When you're tagging your fic, or searching for a fic, or filtering a tag to find or remove works from the list you do not have to use every possible version of a tag. You just need to pick one - unless using more is a stylistic choice you're making, in which case have at it.

*or research what it means - which is why wranglers really appreciate it if you put (OC) behind the name of your original characters so that they don't have to scour every source they can find to see if it's a named background character in canon.

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A detective tied up bondage style from the red strings on his cork board

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who up dinking they oiter

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Okay so this post about the Grim Reaper and a Scythe brings up the valid point that we really don't have that connection to a scythe and a lot of people jump to more of a stabby association for it. Or, they kinda lump it in as a staff, as a symbol not a tool.

So whats the modern equivalent, right? And I need you to know that my brain jumped through a bunch of options from guns to lasers, then went to modern farm tools, bc, scythe.

And at that point it went: Scythes cut grass, mowing grass, lawnmower doesn't work visually, needs to be a hand tool, could do those really long snips for pruning bushes, but still the wrong vibe since thats a precision tool, not something that hews things down indiscriminately, and it would be much better if it was some kind of pole based tool and ---

Anyway Modern Death should have a Weed Whacker.

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logically I Know it's an irrational thought to have but it still irritates me to no end when stuff that's super popular gets the exact intended emotional reaction out of me

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Had a dream where Johnny from “The Devil Went Down To Georgia” came out as a trans woman and the response was so unanimously positive it reversed nearly all of the transphobic bills in the South. She played live in Georgia to an audience of about a third of the US.

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Careful Monty, you almost expressed a sincere emotion there!

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Abel Overdrive - Huntress

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Roommate psychological warfare chamber

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love when nonfiction books have a few pages of pictures in the middle. that kicks ass, every book should have a halftime show

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bawling my eyes out over these mugs

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been doing a LOT of analog note-taking / journaling / planning lately (new years' resolution fulfilled! yes!), and I've slowly but surely started writing mostly in cursive again.

that said, I'm old (almost 35, ew) so I have questions.

if you want to RB this and put your age / locale / whatever else you think is relevant in the tags, that'd be very cool

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