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intersex people are not 'rare'. PCOS + gynecomastia are not 'rare'.

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best friends to lovers is only good if theyre still best friends while theyre lovers

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Hey so fun new scam just dropped! I got a call earlier today from someone spoofing the local police department's desk number, asking me if there was a reason I'd missed my jury summons this morning.

Friends, I had not received a jury summons for this month. Which I told him, at which point his previously clear diction suddenly turned into a rapid mumble, only becoming clear for scary words like 'federal' and then asking to confirm my address, at which point I hung up and decided to call the police department later.

When I called the police department the desk officer sounded so tired y'all. All I had to say was "Hey I got a call earlier saying I missed jury duty this morning?" and she immediately sighed and told me that yes it was a scam that was going around and thanked me for calling to confirm.

So this is your periodic reminder that law enforcement agencies will not call you to tell you that you're in trouble. If you need to pay a fine of some sort they will mail you a physical invoice. Anyone calling you saying they're from the police or any other law enforcement organization (up to the CIA and yes I have heard of scammers attempting to impersonate CIA agents over the phone) who then tries to get financial information from you over the phone is a scammer.

I know I actually bang on about this a weird amount, but it is my fervent hope that the information will stick in peoples' brains if they get randomly selected for the adrenaline spike lottery. Scammers use scary words to get you to panic in order to shut down your critical thinking, and if even one person's brain spits out "Tumblr user waterhobbit said the cops/CIA/federal marshalls don't call about this shit" before their bank account routing number is in the hands of assholes I will consider it a job well done.

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they should invent a world that im suited to live in

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the author's barely disguised longing for a kinder world

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"during the pandemic" is now btw

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One of my current frustrations is that, in some ways, I’ve actually become more wary of Covid in the last ~eight months, and it’s because almost no one is taking even basic precautions right now. When most people were still masking appropriately, I personally felt comfortable taking slightly more risks. But now that most people have completely abandoned public health measures, I have to be more strict in reaction, and I just seem boring and paranoid.

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watching leverage is truly a "giggling and kicking my feet" experience for me personally. it's genuinely such a fun show with such fun and compelling characters that i can't help but grin like an idiot at my screen when they do barely anything

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Be weird. Please oh please be weird. I want weird, I crave weird, I love weird. This beige of false normality is a little too much for me. We can be weird together if you want. Tell me meticulously everything about your weird and I'll tell you about mine. Whatever obsessions or hyperfixations you have, tell me about them, I so desperately wanna hear it. We were born in this world, it is just as much our right as it is theirs to take up space the way WE want. Soo please, let's do it.

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I think “handsome decoy” IS a jesper fahey talent

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Yet another fanfic writer ask game!

Compliment your writing!

How do you react to positive comments?

How do you react to negative comments?

Post a screenshot of one of your favorite comments

Quote one of your fics out of context

Vaguely spoil one of your fics without telling us which one it is

Share the first line of your five most recently published fics

Share the last line that you wrote

Tell us your favorite thing to drink when you write

Tell us your favorite thing to snack on when you write

What fandom do you write for most often?

What fandom do you want to write for more often?

Do you ever write crossovers?

What two fandoms would you write a crossover for?

What fic of yours would you most like to rewrite?

What is one of your favorite words or phrases to use in writing?

What trope is your favorite to write?

What trope have you not written yet, but want to?

What headcanon do you always include in your stories?

What was the last thing you researched for a story?

What do you do when you get writer's block?

When do you usually write? (day of the week or time of day)

Where do you usually write?

Which fic do you think is your funniest?

Which fic do you think is your saddest?

Which fic do you think is your scariest?

Which fic do you think is your most adventurous?

Which fic is closest to your heart?

Which fic would you most like to have fan art done for?

Which fic would you most like to have its own fanfic written for?

Which fic would you most like to see made into a movie?

Which fic would you most like to write a sequel to?

Which of your fic titles is your favorite?

What title do you want to use, but can't figure out a story to fit?

Have you ever written a fic because you were inspired by a title?

Have you ever written a fic because you were inspired by a song?

Pick one of your fics and share three songs to go with it

Pick three of your fics and share a song to go with each

Pick one of your fics and share an image to go with it. (Unsplash is a good source)

Pick one of your fics and share a quote to go with it (not a quote from the fic, but an outside quote that fits)

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how to prepare for a trump presidency: ⤑ list of crisis hotlines that do not contact police ⤑ see where you can get necessary vaccines ⤑ order a vaccine card ⤑ double check your citizenship status ⤑ stock up on birth control or make a plan to ⤑ buy-it-for-life items to invest in before tariffs. ⤑ know what to expect. ⤑ good things that happened on election night.

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i just want to say that nobody should ever feel shame for the state of their living space, no matter how unclean or unsanitary it might get. if you're in a situation like this, you know that if it was just so simple as to "take care of it", you would have. nobody is happy or content living in squalor, and you're not less of a person for whatever circumstances have led you to having to live like that. whether is because of mental health, physical health, grief, neurodivergency, lack of time, whatever - you are a person deserving of empathy, respect, and dignity. and an unclean space is never a reason you should be deprived of that.

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I wrote a choose your own comfort letter type thing on ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/60392395/chapters/154146079

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your survival is an act of resistance. your joy and leisure — just as much as the work that you put in — is a radical act of resistance. you may take care of yourself, and tend to your community, and take action. and still, simply living another day is a triumphant act of resistance. i love you, keep fucking going.

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So some people in PA got an email TODAY saying that their vote might not have been counted. If that's true, then they actually fucking cheated.

Link here, though Musk will probably try to delete it, so here's the images directly: