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I love soulmates but also this-

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I just saw a wizard-as-fantastical-species shitpost and a maid-as-fantastical-species shitpost on my dash back to back, and now I'm kind of wondering what the maid equivalent of the classic "just a robe, a hat, and a pair of eyes" interpretation of the wizard-as-species would be.

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One of the things I find most interesting about the Addams Family is that they aren't the only ones.

There is a community of these weird people, who get together for parties and balls, have their own summer camps for the kids, etc.

The Addams Family could be isolationist if they wanted to. But they go out into the "normal" world, send their kids to "normal" school, embrace the rest of the world around them even if the world doesn't embrace them back.

There is a world where they are "normal", but they don't limit themselves to it.

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Honestly, nothing makes me frustrated with the "historians will say they were friends" thing quite like running across reasonably clear suggestions of queerness in my own work and realizing that they simply aren't that relevant to what I'm arguing about this particular figure.

My internal monologue: "I'm not the first person who's suggested this man was queer. He has a few very intimate male friendships. He was overly familiar in a mutual way with his subordinate officer who became his adjutant. He had a statue of Ganymede at his home. But none of this is relevant because I'm talking about diplomacy and politics and as far as I can tell, these relationships were discreet enough to have no bearing on that. So I'll call it friendship to not go off into the weeds."

I'm not hiding things. I just am not writing a biography and don't have a way to weave this in.

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Was curious how far Ithaca was from troy today while listening to epic the musical and rereading the illiad and I found this map

I think odysseus would have been better just to walk😭

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maybe if we torture this kid harder our lives will get even more awesome

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Link to original tweet

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Readers, make sure you have all your favourite Ao3 fics downloaded.

Writers, make sure you have copies of all the fics you have posted on Ao3.

I don’t want to be alarming, but things could get really bad really fast. OTW shared this today on Twitter, and I'm a bit worried about it 😅

Ao3 is a non-profit organisation. If they have to start paying taxes, I have no idea what will happen.

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something that should be taken with a grain of salt are the statistics talking about the high rates of mental illness + neurodivergence among trans people (ocd, bpd, adhd, autism, etc)

I see both sides of the political spectrum taking these studies at face value - conservatives say we're broken, and trans people try to come up with reasons why for example autism + gender dysphoria makes sense and why one of them feeds into another

at the end of the day you have to remember that we're the one category of people on this planet who are legally required to go see a psychiatrist in order to receive non-psychiatric medication and surgeries.

more trans people are in therapy by law than any other demographic of people, and as a result, this captures more comorbidities.

if I had to look at my own family & rates of mental illness?

mom, dad, 2 maternal aunts, maternal grandmother, paternal grandmother, sister, sibling, and me all have OCD.

7/9 of them are cishet, never been to therapy, never diagnosed. 2/9 are trans, required therapy for hormone treatment, and were diagnosed.

you don't have to do any math to just see that the resulting statistics end up intensely skewed.

and we can think back to how autism was virtually never diagnosed more than 50 years ago - ruling out any grandparents being included in statistics - and even my parents' generation (they're in their 60s now) wouldn't have been included either.

I don't think it's to anyone's benefit to accept these studies uncritically. a lot of these things are hereditary and far more prevalent in the overall population than people realize

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they're watching each other's backs

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My husband plays this game he calls “king of the cats” where he tries to hold all 3 of our boys at once… today he was successful

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Happy Lesbian Day to my beautiful tmnt butchfemme couple

(et's pretend im not almost 2 days late)

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this shit was so funny in my head .. don't think too much about this one

original

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watching goncharov is exactly like reading the princess bride in the original florinese

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"Hey, what do you want for Ch-"

I don't know, as soon as you started the question, I somehow momentarily was struck with such a lack of desire for any material goods that there's now a school of thought in Buddhism who reveres my ADHD riddled brain as a potential speedrun to enlightment.

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things you need to read 100000 times per day when you're working

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An old favorite of mine- just in terms of big loredumps for settings I'll never run or play a game in- is the GURPS sourcebook Reign of Steel, a terminator inspired setting where the twist is that there are in fact eighteen forks of the bargain-brand skynet and the human resistance only scrapes by as well as it does because of how much energy they expend being catty to one another over their territorial holdings