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When I was in grade 3 we ran out of dice for our board games, so we gathered 6 other students (d6), shut our eyes, and guessed how many were holding their hand up. The difference + or - determined what we "rolled" on the dice. We were 8 years old!!! 2003 weird dice Wednesday

children are amazing

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Mina staring at Van Helsing from within the holy circle like:

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he makes a good point

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Getting back to serious topics today.

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You just have to understand you’re on the Internet. You’re literally on Tumblr dot com. This is not a random sample of the US population. You are not a one-person think tank. Polls on here are only useful if you are trying to create a recipe for a cake primarily made of vanilla extract.

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DOCTOR WHO | Dark Water

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If you’ve never been all that disobedient before, you can and should start really, really small. For example, you can wear the slightly revealing or gloriously trashy-looking garment that makes your mom roll her eyes and sigh despondently every time she sees you put it on. You will feel judged and disapproved of when you put it on, but that is fine. Your goal is to sit with the uncomfortable feelings and continue with your desired behavior anyway.  Saunter down the steps in that highlighter-yellow Garfield crop top with your chest hair flowing over the neckline, and harness as much courage as you can muster. It’s okay if you feel like a beacon of sin. Just keep it moving. Your emotions are not the target here. Your behavior is. You can feel however you are feeling in the moment so long as you keep acting like you’re free.  Do you have a favorite TV show that a partner or roommate vocally hates? Try watching that show around them without apologizing or defensively joining them in mocking the program. At first, you probably won’t be able to enjoy the show while in their presence. You’ll feel self-conscious about everything they find annoying or cringe-inducing about the show, and so focused on their reactions that you can’t relax. That’s okay. Allow those feelings of embarrassment and guilt to exist and pass through you without giving up. In time, you will be able to ignore these reactions more, and enjoy the activity.  You want to see the needle of discomfort moving down just a little, like Link’s body temperature meter in Tears of the Kingdom when he puts on a breathable outfit in a hot climate. You’re not gonna go from roiling hot to frosty cold in an instant. But after a certain point, you won’t be actively in pain anymore. Things are just gonna slowly suck less, bit by bit, until they are finally okay. That’s true of most major life adjustments, I find.  Probably the best way to develop self-advocacy skills while growing in your distress tolerance is simply by telling other people no. Do this without explanation or hedging. Nitpicky aunt wants to hear all about your dating life? “No, I don’t want to talk about that.” Unreliable ex-friend wants you to do them the tiny favor of moving their entire home gymnasium into a new third story walk-up? “No, I’m not available.” Manipulative shift supervisor wants to cajole you into sticking around for another three hours to close? “No.”  As many advice columnists smarter than me have already intoned, “no” is a complete sentence. “No” requires no explanation. “No” is not subject to debate. “No” can be repeated over and over like a broken record if a disrespectful person acts like they can’t hear it. And you can walk away at any time to make your “no” physical and impossible to argue with, when someone has proven they don’t respect your boundaries. 

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to bear a ring of power is to be alone

(for the bff @frodoes)

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> mom spilled trace amount of curry powder on the floor

> cool ok ill sweep it up in a sec

> go to the bathroom, come back

> curry powder is suspiciously less

> cat is suspiciously yellow

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I know Anakin's desilusions of grandiosity are the talk of the town, but something something Padmé dehumanization of herself as a result of so much survivor trauma and so many close death calls. She's the senator with the highest murder attempts on her, she gets assesination attempts weekly and brushes them off, and she keeps chasing for justice to the point of collition, she sees people dying around her all the time but she keeps on living and living, at some point she's flirting with death as much as Anakin does in the battlefield. And something something, Anakin, ironically, in his extreme trauma and fear of death taking the people he loves, being the only one to say "You're a person, and your name is Padmé, not queen nor senator, and you're as fragile as any other live being" Something something the irony that person that most adored her being also the one who saw her as a person Something something Anakin commiting atrocities not for a goddess, no for a politician no for royalty, for a person. Something something how contrarian it is, that Anakin sees himself as a weapon, and Padmé's extreme guilt becoming what seems like superiority.

And particularly here in this comic something something how easily Anakin can walk through that storm Padme has created, how easily he can enter into her headspace and she doesn't flinch, doesn't blink, she isn't even surprised because she expects him and he's the only one that knows and can reach her like this, they're just having a conversation, something something.

Something.

I swear this was the end of me, so idc if i'm rambling, this comic kept me up awake for more than one day, because the power would go out every single time i sat to work on it, damnit

i need to sleep asap, and eat, eating first probably

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why yes i should've started my latin translations two hours ago. but I shall do it now and be at Peace. and feel no guilt about the two hours i didn't do work. because i am not a machine designed to make Deeply Mediocre And Highly Erroneous Translations. i am a girl. who had pneumonia for a month.

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IN GENERAL, Do you prefer chocolate or fruit-flavored candy? (Opinions on other flavor candies, like butterscotch or cinnamon or vanilla extract, are welcome in the comments but not relevant to this poll)

Like Chocolate, Dislike Fruit Candy

Don't Mind Chocolate, Dislike Fruit Candy

Dislike Chocolate, Dislike Fruit Candy

Like Chocolate, Don't Mind Fruit Candy

Don't Mind Chocolate, Don't Mind Fruit Candy

Dislike Chocolate, Don't Mind Fruit Candy

Like Chocolate, Like Fruit Candy

Don't Mind Chocolate, Like Fruit Candy

Dislike Chocolate, Like Fruit Candy

I can't eat/have never eaten Chocolate OR Fruit Candy

I hate all candy, it's a blight on society

I have an opinion that doesn't fit any of these broad categories

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Shout out to people with auditory processing disorder!!!

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