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His name is Low Sodium Soy Sauce. Please protect him at all costs.

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I was reading up on Ceasar’s last words (as one does) and I came upon this one that has the Biggest Miette Energy

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the purpose of friends is to have people who unconditionally hate your shitty exes & relatives. like maybe YOU have a complex relationship with your father but i sure don't. i'm outside his house with a gun. he's not the unforgivable asshole who raised me he's just an unforgivable asshole

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every time i write i think about that maya angelou quote where she talks about her editor asking her why she uses semicolons instead of colons and says she has often responded by threatening to never speak to him again

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The majority of the Earth’s rodents: How do you survive environments with practically zero oxygen, feel no pain, and live for decades when none of the rest of us can???

Naked mole-rats:

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why is this one question for my assignment written like this

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knuckle tattoos that say MYFIN GERS

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the fact that pro-monarchy arguments have degenerated, over the past few centuries, from “the king rules by divine right and is accountable to nobody but god”, to “uhm the royals generate a lot of income from tourism” will never stop being extremely funny to me

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I was gonna make a joke about how I say “I need to go the circus again” the way people used to say they need to go to the sea to balance their humors. But I realized the circus balances humors too

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Collecting

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finally brought myself to read the neil gaiman article and i could barely stomach it- but it is such an important piece, not just for the victims finally having the platform to seek justice, but as a reminder of the ways in which abusers can indeed be charming, and outspoken on progressive issues, and sensitive, and still be abusers. it falls in line with a trend of public facing men who use said progressive views as a shield from scrutiny, and i hope as an online community we can start being more vigilant. this isn't to blame all the people who believed he was what he told us- no one is to blame but the abuser and the people who knowingly enabled the abuse. but the ways in which we have attributed certain appearances and mannerisms to moral good is worth examining.

the only thing i want to say further on the subject is this:

after the whole jkr nightmare, 'death of the author' has been run through a rightwing-like wringer of stripping the phrase of all actual meaning. the philosophical implications can be debated to whatever length suits you, but the fact remains as this; death of the author can only exist uncorrupted when the author is indeed dead- gaiman's financial position helped enable him to be an abuser, and he makes his money from fans buying his work and engaging with his media.

you can enjoy his work privately or through avenues that dont give him money. pirate his material if you must, (or better yet, read the tanith lee books that gaiman lifted so many elements of 'the sandman' from). but you also have to accept that if you want to disregard all of that and publicly so, ppl are going to feel some type of way about it. no one can stop you from putting money in his pockets, but you can't also turn around and demand no one react to you doing so (so long as that reaction isn't heinous and/or unproductive eg. death threats).

i've added a link to an unpaywalled version of the article for anyone who wants to hear the victims' accounts firsthand below. it's a very triggering read in regards to SA, coercion, manipulation, but if you can manage it, i would highly recommend doing so.

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DANIELLE RADFORD BRENNAN LEE MULLIGAN I NEVER SHOULD HAVE DOUBTED YOU

watching misfits and magic 2 after skipping season 1 (harry potter rip off stories dont super appeal to me but taking them out of the school setting made it 100x more entertaining) and....... listen... why are sam and evan kind of. hm. hmm.

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"Do you want to come over 4 days a week and come hang out?" "Yes." "Can I roll to see if she's telling the truth?" "She means it. She seems... surprised she means it."

HELLO??? HELLO??????? IS THIS THING ON????

watching misfits and magic 2 after skipping season 1 (harry potter rip off stories dont super appeal to me but taking them out of the school setting made it 100x more entertaining) and....... listen... why are sam and evan kind of. hm. hmm.

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guess im misfits and magic 2 posting now. im a little frustrated the players didnt pick up on aabria's very obvious signposting that sam was meant to be connected to miskoro (the whole conversation with the qohlye eg. 'i feel as though you're choosing me because i fit best of what is left', how miskoro's personality is very sam complementary with how soft and eager to help it is, purple making more sense than yellow for sam as a signature colour, the ability to alter the nature of magic the way sam has continuously altered the path of otherwise straightforward battles through her desire to make it a situation that fosters communication instead of violence).... but i have to admit, the whole confrontation was so thoughtful- especially the 'power, or understanding?'/'understanding, i have power' exchange- that I was less annoyed about it than i thought i was going to be