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Hello! Did you write that short story about four beings trapped on a planet whose topography is constantly changing with infinite courtyards with replica of a past civilization where they never die and their names are pronouns (one persons name is "I")? I could've sworn so but can't seem to find it.

You're almost certainly thinking of World Builder.

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.what do you think about I, Robot? i recently read it for the first time, and oh my god it's awesome (might be a new fixation) and i realized, this might be the kind of vibe that you like!

.also sorry for so many asks eirjrfjrfjfjkfjktkg

I love I, Robot. Foundational piece of scifi, absolutely wonderful read.

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The problem with cleaning your room when it's usually a disaster area:

Doing a little makes a lot of difference

But it doesn't matter, because someone coming for the attic access in the closet 1) doesn't know how much of an upgrade "messy" is from "normal" and 2) doesn't actually need a clear floor, they need the ability to get to the closet. And making such a pathway required a clear floor as step one, but now it needs more

And I'm tired

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The problem with cleaning your room when it's usually a disaster area:

Doing a little makes a lot of difference

But it doesn't matter, because someone coming for the attic access in the closet 1) doesn't know how much of an upgrade "messy" is from "normal" and 2) doesn't actually need a clear floor, they need the ability to get to the closet. And making such a pathway required a clear floor as step one, but now it needs more

And I'm tired

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Talking to a customer about classic children’s lit and how many of them firmly believe that fresh air and sunshine will cure any number of unspecified Victorian illnesses. I mentioned The Secret Garden and how much I like that the protagonists are basically just feral gremlin children who are very unpleasant to be around until they somehow manage to socialize each other.

Then I said, out loud, “on a scale of Sarah Crewe to Mary Lennox, how well did you handle being raised by a nanny in Edwardian India,” and realized that tumblr really has ruined my speech patterns for all time.

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the edit itself

this edit is getting taken down from tiktok every time someone reuploads it, its straight up censorship at this point

Im not even american but im having a great time with this

DONT LET THIS DIE

credit to miraculousgastropod for the original

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I dont know what it is about this picture of Robert Irwin holding a koala but to me it does look like the koala photoshopped Robert Irwin into the picture to make itself seem cooler

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I have my father’s eyes

I have my mother’s nose

My hair is the same color as my grandfathers whiskers

I have my father’s feet and my grandmothers hands 

I am the sum of many parts, each stretching back thousands of years 

I keep my family close to me, my body is decorated with art devoted to them

A flower from their home country, the sewing machine she used to clothe her family, the brushes she used to create the art that is on my walls

My height comes from a German boy, drafted to fight in a war to create a country he wouldn’t have cared about

My language comes from an Englishman, determined to live in a country where he has the right to be free

My build comes from a generation of farmers, living off the land

My family comes from the old world, from a world that lives with history, side by side, where you married a boy from a town one over, and no farther

I am the sum of many parts, a river flowing farther and farther afield, leaving pieces of itself behind, and picking up new ones 

I have my mother’s smile, my fathers mind 

I am the sum of many parts.  

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Because I feel like kids of color don’t hear it enough: domestic abuse is not a part of your culture. 

A lot of us were raised with the idea that “its normal for wives/children to get hit! it helps them learn– only white folk don’t get beaten when they misbehave”. That’s not true, white people aren’t the only ones who deserve a safe and abuse free environment. Black and brown people can and do have loving families. 

If you’re in a situation where you are enduring abuse and people use your culture to justify it, I want you to know that what they’re telling you are lies.

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For about two years, I did this with my master's advisor

or well, I don't know whether she or I sent the last message, but I got nothing done on my final capstone project for awhile, felt it awkward to tell her I had got nothing done and then just kind of...decided not to finish it (partly because covid made my research in museums impossible, as the museums were closed)

looooooooong long afterward, I expressed doubt about my decision not to finish it to a friend's aunt, who told me "just contact her, what's the worst that could happen?"

I went through the options:

she could not respond (unlikely, as she is a responsible advisor person).

She could respond by saying something rude like "how dare you not contact me for so long, I will no longer be your advisor" (seems unreasonable).

She could tell me that the deadline to finish the program had passed (I was about 75% sure I had 5 years to finish the degree and that it had passed 5 years since I started it a few months before).

I decided that none of these options were actually worse than not trying and emailed her saying I was interested in continuing my project now that the museums were open again.

She was thrilled that I reached out and we worked out a schedule and I did the project over the course of the next ~8 months.

I now have a master's degree because I overcame the awkwardness of not responding to someone for too long.

Receive message, be too busy/tired/stressed to respond right away

???

It has been long enough that responding without preamble would now be Weird

never speak again.

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one time someone came up to me at work (at the customer service counter of a grocery store) and asked if I could witness them getting a document notarized

I panicked briefly, thinking they were asking if I was a notary and could notarize their document, but it turned out the very normal person standing next to them was actually a notary and they just needed a 3rd party to witness

Sometimes I wonder what living on 'the otherside' is like. Because the closest thing I've ever come to a notary in the 40 years I've been on this earth is your post about a notarized grocery lists.

perhaps this is for the best. i fear that the uninitiated mind cannot handle the impossibly wild and crazy world of the notary public

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college aus are kinda crazy. they would not be doing all that. There's midterms

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Imagine being a collier and having to watch smoke all day. I'd zone out and burn the forest down immediately.

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#but. like. jesus the characters just talk directly to caldwell huh? the exposition is expositioning

I haven't watched Drawga for awhile now; I think they did some handwavy "I'm the voice in your head, these discussions are just your thought process" sometimes

but I'm just remembering Caldwell and Rekha yelling about her character's backpack contents ("WHAT'S IN THE BAG?" "WHY DO YOU NEED TO KNOW?") and then they all realized that there was no in universe explanation for this

another thing I love about Drawtectives is how Julia just...doesn't do exposition. very rarely does she need to put on a GM voice and narrate something that's happening. her beautiful, detailed backgrounds provide the location. her excellently designed character sprites (with minimal animation) show other people around. her voice acting gives them characterization and she purposefully has a personal player character to guide events if need be.

any additional world context can be gotten from various posters and newspaper articles.

It's just so different than other roleplaying games I've watched. Even in Drawga, that has a similar drawing-based premise, Caldwell is forever giving explanations of what's happening around them and the results of the characters' actions. Julia doesn't need to explain whether something they tried to do worked, because they literally don't have a pass/fail mechanics. There's no dice, no skills, no levels. Aside from the season 1 individual abilities (2 out of 3 of which were functionally useless, though comedy gold), there's no specific actions the characters can take other than draw.

How does this game even work? I don't know, but it works perfectly and I love it so much.

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I love that this is getting notes again now that season 3 has started

another thing I love about Drawtectives is how Julia just...doesn't do exposition. very rarely does she need to put on a GM voice and narrate something that's happening. her beautiful, detailed backgrounds provide the location. her excellently designed character sprites (with minimal animation) show other people around. her voice acting gives them characterization and she purposefully has a personal player character to guide events if need be.

any additional world context can be gotten from various posters and newspaper articles.

It's just so different than other roleplaying games I've watched. Even in Drawga, that has a similar drawing-based premise, Caldwell is forever giving explanations of what's happening around them and the results of the characters' actions. Julia doesn't need to explain whether something they tried to do worked, because they literally don't have a pass/fail mechanics. There's no dice, no skills, no levels. Aside from the season 1 individual abilities (2 out of 3 of which were functionally useless, though comedy gold), there's no specific actions the characters can take other than draw.

How does this game even work? I don't know, but it works perfectly and I love it so much.