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Mini-Comic: Dear Diary

12-year-old Nick writes a journal entry about his friends.

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Heartstopper updates three times a month, on the 1st, 11th, and 21st at 11am UK time.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!!! ❤️❤️❤️

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I’ve been knitting my way through this book by making friends gifts of hats they want. Its been great.

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The Sleuth, c. 1906 by Joseph Christian Leyendecker (American, 1874–1951)

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TUMBLR POSTS I'VE TAGGED AS EDWIN PAYNE [Charles' version.]

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what the whole "please comment on fic you like, it will encourage more writing" vs. "fic writers shouldn't be writing for engagement and validation" debate fails to really grasp, for me, is that comments shouldn't be boiled down to "engagement and validation" in the first place. by which i mean: comments aren't payment for a service, they are communication and connection. they represent the audience reaching back.

i don't write just for myself. are you kidding me? the point of storytelling, to me, is to present certain narrative arguments and produce or encourage an emotional response to them. That communication is essentially useless if there's no endpoint, no listener. To me, there is no point if I'm not communicating with someone. When I write, I am talking to a reader. If you've read anything I've written, then I was talking TO YOU.

you are well within your right to consume fic as ~content~ and withhold your "payment" out of a sense that the writer should be satisfied at having created anything at all in an unresponsive void. but please be aware that it feels really good when you talk back.

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I think of this as letting my mind be simple, like a baby's. Look at one thing, then the next. I get overwhelmed if I don't. Meditation is just this, letting the mind slow down. It lets you feel how restless you are and gives room to slow down. It's great advice.

Not to go "if you have ADHD just go for a run" or anything, but I am so serious if you have ADHD you should regularly go outside, no headphones no phone no nothing and just stand and observe for a while until you've had enough. Not until you get bored, until you've had enough. Drink your coffee without watching tiktok. Have a bath without music. Turn down the volume in your headphones. I cannot overstate how much learning to be bored is cruicial with ADHD. Life is not just about pleasure, no matter what your dysregulated dopamine system thinks, and when you teach your brain to be okay with being bored, then boring tasks stop feeling like torture. By letting yourself be bored you are yoinking your system out of the high/low binary and allow for the highs to feel like actual highs and not just anything that isn't low. I am so serious go literally touch grass. Listen to the sounds in your flat. Stimulate your body the way it was designed. It lowers anxiety and makes you feel like you're real and best of all it's completely free

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we have always lived in the castle illustrated by thomas ehretsmann for centipede press

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a Tesla exploded right outside Trump's Tower on Jan 1st.

2025 is starting with a bang.

literally.

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the new dj crazytimes song … now that’s what I call music!

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do you know "THE GIANT LIST OF SHERLOCK HOLMES ADAPTATIONS"?

(Docs)

The list brings together all adaptations available to watch, BUT many adaptations from languages ​​other than English are very difficult to find and many do not have subtitles, even the English adaptations don't have subtitles for non-English speakers, this also includes radio shows, it doesn't have a script that can be translated into different languages.

I'm very thankfull for everybody who helps build the list, from the bottom of my heart <3

So I come to ask, on behalf of many fans around the world, that those who can collaborate and help doing subtitles for the various adaptations, it would be very much appreciated

The list and the drive (with almost every adaptation) are also a way to to preserve the visual and physical media, the entire sherlock holmes hystory of adaptations. Many movies, radio and tv shows are lost midia, some of the bbc ones were deleted and lost forever. We do not profit anything by doing it, other than the enjoyment

feel free to get in touch, any help is welcome 🫂

Edit: DON'T SHARE IT ON TIKTOK

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One fun fact about me is that I played the demo of The Beekeeper's Picnic by @beekeeperspicnic and it's brought me nearly to tears several times just out of pure like. sentimentality?? affection for these two men and this very specific little world they inhabit? my foolish heart that's been stuck on Sherlock Holmes for going on ten years now? idk man idk

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Best Prompts of 2024!

Prompt #1089: “Why did you come back?” “Because I forgot something important.” “Oh, what did you forget?” “You, you idiot.”

Prompt #1070: “Sorry I tried to kill you.” “It’s fine, but next time you should try harder.”

Prompt #1103: “Stop following me.” “Oh, do you want me to walk beside you? Maybe hold hands with you?”

Prompt #1101: “I’m not the right person for you.” “You’re doing a bad job of convincing me of that.”

Prompt #1082: “You’re just as bad as I am.” “Oh believe me, I’m much worse.”

Prompt #1099: “Have I ever given up on you?” “No, never.” “Then don’t force me to do it now.”

Prompt #1073: Sometimes guardian angels don’t have a lovely singing voice and a set of fluffy wings, sometimes they have a deep frown on their face and a very bad attitude.

Prompt #1078: “Why do you think that you need to fix me? Who told you I was broken?”

Prompt #1062: “Don’t look at me like that.” “How am I looking at you?” “Like you love me.”

Prompt #1092: “If I had asked, would you have stayed?” “You didn’t ask. So we’ll never know.”

Goodbye 2024 and hello 2025! I wish you all a wonderful start into the new year!

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Neither “the magic is going away” nor “the magic is just beginning” but “the magic has been around for fifty years and society has only partly adjusted”

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Wrote a Voltron fic in the year of madness 2024. What the quiznak.

Shiro’s spirit doesn’t get put into the clone body quite right.

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“how did you get into writing” girl nobody gets into writing. writing shows up one day at your door and gets into you

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fighting art block with silly little projects like this Teapot Animal, sipping from your cup. i finally got to experiment with gold leaf on a bjd & that was a lot of fun.