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my grandpa was a good man. and it really wasnt his fault - recreationally lying to kids is a proud family tradition - but he told me, once, that cutting a worm in half resulted in two worms.

i think he said it so i'd be more morally okay with fishing? i actually dont remember the context.

point was, he told me this, and he understimated (by a very large margin) how much i liked worms. i was a worm boy. very wormy. and after hearing that, i went home, and i dug through the garden, flipped over every rock, did everything i could to gather as many worms as i could, and then i uh.

i cut them all in half. every worm i could find. all of them. with scissors.

i then took this pile of split worms, and i put them in a box with a bit of lettuce and some water and stuff and went to bed expecting to double my worms overnight. i have math autism, so i had a vague understanding that if i did this just a few times in a row, i would eventually have a completely unreasonable amount of worms.

i was very excited to become this plane's worm emperor.

(i think i was...six?)

anyway, i did not become the inheritor of the worm crown. i instead woke up to a box of dead worms and cried. a lot. i got diagnosed with panic attacks as a teenager, but i think i had them as a kid, i just had no idea what they were. i was kind of processing that a.) i had killed what i had assumed was every single worm in my yard, and thus would have no more worms, and b). i was going to like, worm hell.

(six year babylon spent a lot of time worrying about god.)

so i kind of freaked out, and i climbed a tree, because god can only smite you if you're touching the ground (?) and i sat up there mostly inconsolable until my mom came out and asked, hey, what's up? what happened?

so i explained to her that i had killed all of the worms, forever, and was also Damned, and she took me to the compost pile, and we dug for all of five seconds and found like twenty more worms.

the compost pile was full of worms.

she then told me that a). there were more worms, and we could put them back under rocks and stuff and recolonize our yard and b). that one day, i would die, and go to heaven, and be able to talk to the worms face to face. that i'd be able to tell them all that i was very sorry, and that i killed them on accident, driven only by excessive Love, and that she was positive they would forgive me because worms have six hearts and no malice.

at that point, i think i was sixty percent tear-snot by weight, and i had no choice but to gather enough worms that i could hug them. which my mom helped with. and then after that she helped me put some worms back under each rock.

and for my epilogue: i spent a significant portion of my childhood in trees. and for many years after, even when my mom didnt know i was watching, i would catch her giving the space under the rocks a light spritz with the hose. not because she loved worms.

but because she loved me.

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This is Zaporizhzhia today. russians hit a clinic. Three dead, eleven wounded hospitalised. There are people still under the rubble, rescue efforts are ongoing, so the count will rise higher.

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I did not exactly plan to do any fanart but this idea was too good to pass up

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everyone has dreams about being lost at school, late to work, cant find bathroom etc but whats yalls most common Uncommon stress dream. ill always have dreams about having various problems with my fish tank

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My children are enduring the hardships of displacement and the constant fear that comes with it. They are living in a state of uncertainty and anxiety, struggling to cope with the emotional toll of these challenging circumstances. Your support would mean the world to us during this difficult time.

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I ask you to support the strong in these difficult circumstances. I understand a dire need for this support so that they can move on and face the challenges. Any help would be great for her in her life.

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I cannot be the only person who feels like they’re on the outskirts of every bubble they’ve ever seen

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Hello ! I am a Palestinian academic educator from Gaza, seeking your urgent support in time of bad need. I am trying to reach out to generous donors or contributors to help get my family out of the hell of the war to safety and peace. The war turned our life up side down and turned us from having everything to having nothing. Our house and livelihood business have been lost due to the war and my whole family became homeless and displaced in a very small tent under the sunny hot weather. No place to shelter my family and no income to live on. Life has become unbelievably harsh and tough. That is why I am asking your kind support. Please don't leave us alone in such tragic and catastrophic circumstances. My family is in bad need to your contribution, either through directly donating whatever you can or through sharing my link. Your assistance is highly appreciated and welcome.

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Hello, I am Tareq from Gaza Iam trying save my famliy from the genocide happening here. I ask for your help in spreading my story and donating if you can contribute anything, no matter how small.Please don,t forget to sharethe latest post from my page and follow my account to help spread the story to the world. Thank you.

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A NEW CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN CREATED...‼️‼️

Hello, I'm Lama... My campaign was suspended four days ago and it is actually considered my source of income, especially these days due to the famine occurring in the southern Gaza Strip. 😞😭

I have created a new campaign to complete my mission and rebuild my life.💔

Help me spread the link to my new campaign and donate to me.🙏

I need you and I need to provide flour for my family, which is expensive, $300.

‼️Please, do not hesitate to help me and my family from these difficult circumstances, you are our last hope‼️

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Пісня «Піду втоплюся у річці глибокій» — але співає її Гаррі. Малюнок дла @kravatkan ♡

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2024, Among Friends

(Water Soluable Crayon and Acrylic Ink)

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crashing out

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important

so gofundme has paused transfers again on mohammeds campaign @save-mohamed-family unfortunately.

im really hoping this will be resolved soon but please donate to this chuffed page i made. we have until january to raise enough money for mohammed and his family to evacuate. we need 31k for each of his family members to be registered, and the remaining amount will be to cover bank and transfer fees.

this is really urgent and might be the only chance we have for them to leave gaza. mohammeds wife has cancer and is seriously ill

$235 out of $40,000

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I literally don't know what possessed me to make an 11 page comic over these sad old men! bon appetit <3