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i don't understand why the characters in the wheel of time don't do whatever moiraine says, like that's magic rosamund pike i would do anything she told me to do it's magic rosamund pike are you stupid or something

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everyone talks about that one xkcd about experts overestimating the average person's familiarity with their field, and that's all fun and good. but in my experience what's far funnier is when you start to think of yourself as the "average" person being described in that comic. knowing enough people who are so incredibly into one specific thing that you start saying shit that sounds like "oh no i'm no geochemist haha i really only know the formulas for olivine and one or two feldspars. and quartz, of course."

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there’s a sign near my job that they change the quote for daily and one day it said “swallow your pride, it has no calories.” and all i could think of was elizabeth bennet slam dunking on mr. darcy by saying that during his proposal

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just saw someone post “it’s common knowledge ur not supposed to spam reblog from someone ur not mutuals with” …..?????????? am i confused??? IS that common knowledge???? i try not to spam if i can help it but i actually personally love seeing spam notifs lmao??? unless i dont know what spam reblog means

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YESSSSSS

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Finished a huge photo archiving project tonight that required me to go back through all my old photos. There were a lot of things and people I'd rather forget mixed in with my efforts not to forget the good stuff, but one funny thing is how terrible my spelling and grammar were during my summer study abroad. You can tell our brains were fried from travel, schoolwork, adapting to a different country and cultural norms of our host university, more travel, stuff going on back home (for example, toward the end of the summer, my best friend got married an ocean away from me on the same day that my beloved piano teacher passed from a horrible battle with cancer and I was simultaneously stuck in crowds in the rain and highly disappointing sightseeing and studying for finals and the emotions of the program/summer ending soon). Plus just FLOODS of history and literature and philosophy jammed into every minute and corner of our memories with the promise we'd be tested on it later...

It was wonderful, one of the highlights of my life, and also looking back a decade and a half later at my blog journal and the videos I cobbled together and photos with brief and scattered FB captions with truly shameful writing for someone who has a degree in editing, it is not just what the story tells us but how it communicates "between the lines." And in my case, before spellcheck and grammar check were on every website, it communicated that I was exhausted in ways I have never been before or since. haha

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The Marvels was a great movie with fun action, great characters and a lot of cats, some of you guys just hate having a good time

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Ward: I think we should kiss.

Daisy: I think you should die but we don’t always get what we want.

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Welcome to Doctor Who, we’ve got one Doctor played by three people, three Doctors played by one person, and at least three people who are doctors but not the Doctor.

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At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

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forget [tumblr] university get ready for [tumblr] elementary school where they teach you the very basic rules of reading comprehension

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Fandom terms have to sound silly, like blorbo or squick, because fandom needs humbling. Not a lot. But just every so often you need a good grounding reminder that all of this is literally made up nonsense for fun.

If you take a fictional thing so seriously that silly words genuinely annoy you, you've gone too far and you need to dial it back.

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AO3 filters are incredible. The show ended over a decade ago but you're only getting around to watching it now, and you want to avoid spoilers for later seasons? No worries; you can filter out anything posted/updated after a given air date. Don't want to see crossovers? Guess what -- you don't have to. Three clicks is all it takes to make them go away. ONLY want crossovers? They've got that option, too. In a hurry and only have a few minutes to read? Filter out everything over whatever word count you consider to be "too long." Absolutely can't stand this one character/trope/relationship? Exclude, exclude, exclude. And all they ask in return is that you tag your stuff properly. Incredible.

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everywhere I go people are asking me for my email. my email is in high demand. it's rare for me to visit a website without someone getting on their hands and knees, begging me for my email

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hot girls (gn) watch agents of shield over and over again because it’s their comfort show and then find no comfort in seeing their babies get hurt 🩵

i’m a hot girl.

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Sometimes i feel like younger queer kids are getting a bit to bold with openly talking to people they don’t know In The Context Of:

More than once i have had a younger/same age queer person come up to me in public settings and say something about “finding other gays” or clearly clocking me as nonbinary and I’m like :)))))))) hey buddy I’m here with my conservative parents can you fucking not out me :))))))))

Just say you like my outfit or hair and move on, fuck even tell me you like my shoelaces. Don’t call me gay and limp your wrist at me when you don’t even know me? Especially when there’s a bunch of ppl around?