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Acquaintance cards, a variety of calling cards, 1870s-80s. USA. Via dangerousminds. More to see: Mays / flickr. They were used “by the less formal male in approaches to the less formal female.”

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spoke deeply to me.

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Everyone shut up and look at this carving of a whale from the 1200-600 CE Chumash culture

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As an aroace person I actually never had that feeling of being broken. I thought everyone was the same way and some people were just dramatic 😭

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forgetfulness is wild because sometimes its "oops silly me i left the house without my wallet again" and sometimes its "my friend is trying to reminisce on a thing we did together and the fact its jogging nothing in my brain is genuinely kind of distressing"

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Ref Recs for Whump Writers

Violence: A Writer’s Guide:  This is not about writing technique. It is an introduction to the world of violence. To the parts that people don’t understand. The parts that books and movies get wrong. Not just the mechanics, but how people who live in a violent world think and feel about what they do and what they see done.

Hurting Your Characters: HURTING YOUR CHARACTERS discusses the immediate effect of trauma on the body, its physiologic response, including the types of nerve fibers and the sensations they convey, and how injuries feel to the character. This book also presents a simplified overview of the expected recovery times for the injuries discussed in young, otherwise healthy individuals.

Body Trauma: A writer’s guide to wounds and injuries. Body Trauma explains what happens to body organs and bones maimed by accident or intent and the small window of opportunity for emergency treatment. Research what happens in a hospital operating room and the personnel who initiate treatment. Use these facts to bring added realism to your stories and novels.

10 B.S. Medical Tropes that Need to Die TODAY…and What to Do Instead: Written by a paramedic and writer with a decade of experience, 10 BS Medical Tropes covers exactly that: clichéd and inaccurate tropes that not only ruin books, they have the potential to hurt real people in the real world. 

Maim Your Characters: How Injuries Work in Fiction: Increase Realism. Raise the Stakes. Tell Better Stories. Maim Your Characters is the definitive guide to using wounds and injuries to their greatest effect in your story. Learn not only the six critical parts of an injury plot, but more importantly, how to make sure that the injury you’re inflicting matters. 

Blood on the Page: This handy resource is a must-have guide for writers whose characters live on the edge of danger. If you like easy-to-follow tools, expert opinions from someone with firsthand knowledge, and you don’t mind a bit of fictional bodily harm, then you’ll love Samantha Keel’s invaluable handbook

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More info under the cut:

Reverse Elimination: Instead of the winner, the loser will move onto the next round instead.

Surprise Round: A ship not in the main bracket will go against the winner of the finals in one final match. The chosen ship will be randomly selected and kept a secret until this match. Effectively, in a bracket of 16, there will be 17 ships instead of 16.

No romantic ships: You can submit platonic ships, familial ships, QPRs, etc., just no romantic ships will be allowed in this season. My main concern with this one is that people will try to submit their romantic ships and pass it off as not romantic, but ultimately I'd just have to trust the submitter here.

OCs only: Exactly what it says on the tin.

Lightning Round: The summaries submitted must be less than 100 words.

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It doesn’t appear in any written books, but rather in the ones that haven’t yet been written and yet have been read for generations, that the Zapatistas have learned that if you stop scratching at the crack it closes. The wall heals itself. That’s why you have to keep at it without rest. Not only to expand the gap, but above all, so that it doesn’t close. [...] And if there’s no crack, well, we’ll make it by scratching, biting, kicking, hitting with our hands and head, with our entire body until we manage to create in history the wound that we are. And then it turns out that someone walks by and sees us, sees the Zapatistas, hitting ourselves hard against that wall. Sometimes that passerby is someone who thinks that they know everything. They pause and shake their head in disapproval, judging and declaring that, “You will never bring down the wall that way.” But sometimes, every so often, someone else will walk by, an other. They pause, look, understand, stare down at their feet, at their hands, their fists, their shoulders, their body. And they decide. “This is a good place right here.”

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Phil Davies

"The Egret was in shadow and the background was in full sun"

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developed a real fondness lately for characters who experience a horrific act of violence and come out the other side saying "ah. I don't think I get to be me anymore. they took out the part that was me, killed it, and put something else back in its place, and now I'm whoever the hell that is." love it when someone becomes a corpse and replaces themself <3

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a man got arrested for throwing a subway sandwich at a customs/border patrol officer in DC this week, which would be absolutely hysterical if he werent facing a year of jailtime for felony assault

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/us/politics/federal-agent-trump-sandwich-dc.html?unlocked_article_code=1.eE8.0zIC.cANskTwox2Ii&smid=url-share

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aaaand i had completely lost track of who had the starseed. this will be fun.

i knew jason being untraceable by magical means would be important but i figured it would be to help HIM get away with things, not to help someone get away with kidnapping and torturing him!!

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i knew jason being untraceable by magical means would be important but i figured it would be to help HIM get away with things, not to help someone get away with kidnapping and torturing him!!

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Asking because my brother is one of the straightest people I've ever met despite how similar we are, but a lot of queer people I know seem to have at least one queer sibling.

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I really think we should stop saying "kid-friendly" and start saying "ad-friendly". We shouldn't indulge these companies and their excuses anymore. I also think that continuing to pretend that this is about "protecting the children" pushes a lot of the blame onto kids and teens, who don't have the political power to push through any of this censorship legislature. Corporations and governments are to blame.