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ah! didnt see u there! u caught me indulging in one of my most fascinating interests as of late. its called a "dictionary". *turns page and softly chuckles* oh, this is clever...

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I offered to come check on my friend's animals while she's away for the long weekend

She thinks I'm joking

But I'm ready

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Gatekeeping is so good and important

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In honour of Hozier's debut album 10 year anniversary…

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I don’t even believe she’s real

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THEY (the WoL) SAID NO PICKLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Older than history itself

What if the oldest vampire was a Neanderthal girl 🤔

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Not telling your kid they have a learning disability, chronic illness, mental illness etc. so they can “feel normal” actually does the opposite. They will not feel normal if they do not have the context to understand that their normal will be different from that of their peers.

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Guards! Guards! was not the first Discworld book I read but it is the one that punched my angsty, edgy thirteen-year-old self in the face. I have never had a book hit me like that since. Nothing has ever picked me up by the scruff of the neck and shown me my own face in the mirror that way.

I was angsting around, all "the world is terrible" and "people are evil" and "humans are a blight upon the earth" and "everyone is stupid" and Vimes showed up and said, "Yeah, and?"

So what? So they're stupid and petty - save them anyway. So they're selfish - save them anyway. So it's all fucked and there's never going to be a happy ending - save them anyway. Do it anyway. You don't get to opt out of caring just because they're grubby and ignorant and reactionary and petty because so are you and that's all we've got.

No other book has ever changed my worldview in one blow before or since. I reckon that's something that can only happen to you when you're a teenager anyway. But I've never quite gotten over it.

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“Buddy the sable is playing boomerang”

(via)

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I’ve had a fondness for this 1916 George Plank illustration from “The Freaks of Mayfair” for years and have wanted to recreate it for some time. Although the “Aunt Georgie” short story treats the character’s rejection of the gender binary as a funny peculiarity, it gives a surprisingly sympathetic and open-minded view of a trans-spectrum person for the early 20th century, which I found quite charming. 

You can read it here (chapter 2) though just a heads up it uses He pronouns when referring to a transfemme person (X)

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so i was discussing Aerith last night

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yr locked in a room alone with three adult men but you feel perfectly safe. who are they