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animated fantasy films just don’t make fucked up evil castles like they used to

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—and now, in an effort to impose a world of peace, he found himself up to the elbows in blood.

—T. H. White, The Ill-Made Knight, in The Once and Future King

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I rode away [...] to find a place where I could split my heart alone.

—T. H. White, The Ill-Made Knight, in The Once and Future King

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How it feels to play tp and hear the ghost of oot in the wind

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* insect in the vernacular sense, so including spiders etc

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list link here

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(me, my parents, my sister, and the baby are sitting at the kitchen table eating lunch)

baby, pointing at the light fixture over the table and signing "on": o.*

my sister: we actually can't turn that light on right now, because the lightbulb inside is burnt out! it needs a new one.

baby: ighbu.

sister: yes, lightbulb! granddaddy said after we eat he's going to climb up there on a ladder and change it, and then the light will come on!

baby: gadada! adda, uuu! ighbu o!

sister: exactly!

baby, signing "on" and pointing at the light and then my dad, with increasing urgency: GADADA ADDA UUUU. O.

my sister: we're going to finish eating first though, ok?

baby: nonono. O. gadada adda uuu.

[a split second goes by]

baby, pointing to himself: ba. adda uuu. ighbu.

me: you're going to climb the ladder and change the lightbulb yourself?

baby: dzyeah. *pointing to the buckle where he is buckled into the high chair* ububu.

me: unbuckle you? so you can change the lightbulb?

baby, highly businesslike: dzyeah.

*pronounced like "on" without the n

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Just watched Becket (1964) and I'm obsessed

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People are so much more sad, and desparate, and lonely than you think. I have had three incidents in the last four months were a technician I was working with was being either dangerously unfocused (we work with high voltage), or just flat out angry with their coworkers, and every time when I just pulled them aside to say hey, this isn't you, you're nice, and you're competent, so something must be up - what can I do to help - they have responded by bursting into tears. One guy was struggling to get his wife moved into a care home, one guy just got served divorce papers, and the other hadn't slept a wink the night before because his daughter had the pukes.

I haven't spent my whole life responding to people being rude, or stupid, or dangerous with knee jerk compassion. It's a new habit. The first time I did that as the lead for my lab, it was because the guy genuinely was so good natured that I knew something had to be off. But the other two times were just me going, alright, lets see if it always goes this well, and so far, it has. I'm almost 30, and I just figured out that the #1 reason people are shitty are because they are going through shit.

I don't think you have, like, a moral obligation to respond to people being jerks with knee jerk compassion. But it has made my life so much easier the last four months that I would recommend trying. For your own sake. Please.

(I'll step off my soapbox now. Enjoy your Sunday.)

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Trying to hang out with new friends who are all parents to babies is so funny. We acknowledge that nap-times are a little unpredictable, but agree that maybe 3pm would be the best time to aim for.

At 3:15, I text that we are running late and also our baby just fell asleep in the car, so we are just gonna drive around for a while first. Friend 1 replies that their baby is having an epic nap and is still asleep so they’ll be late too, see us maybe in 30 minutes. Friend 3 replies that their babies are asleep as well. Go team!

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Baby Creeper Appreciation

Mickey 17 (2025)

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STRAUME (FLOW) 2024 | dir. Gints Zilbalodis

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Why are their legs so damn long they look like sailor moon characters 😭 literally like 80% legs

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I can't believe electra heart is literally king henry the second of england