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me when i procrastinate a project to the night before: i have concepts of a plan

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Oh come on…

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learning about plants in ur area is wild. like you also learn about the histories of the plants. Like oh! Thats garlic mustard! That was brought over from europe as a crop! it smells just like garlic and you can cook with it!  And thats yarrow!  Its been used for tons of stuff and pollinators love it! Oh hey! Thats hemlock! They killed Socrates with that! 

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That really is how being in your 30s is like 😭

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based on a true story

(side note, it's very euphoric drawing my kid self as a girl! i'll have to do more of this!)

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I'm curious--how do you guys go about creating your OCs?

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them: SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST MEANS HUMANS MUST BE INDIVIDUALLY SELF-SUFFICIENT AND COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT

biologist:

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Here's a tv show pitch.

In this idea there is no sex, drugs, violence, or high stakes because I'm tired of it.

Ian McKellan, Liam Neeson, Sean Bean, and Ewan Mcgregor are all widowers and live in four houses in a row in suburban UK. The main drama is them vying to be the Favorite Uncle/Grandfather figure for the local schoolchildren. Otherwise it's slice of life. They're extremely petty about their gardens. Occasionally they'll combine forces against another widower. They all understand technology but are purposely asses about using it. They each support a different sports team and consider their own to be the best. Each actor's popular roles are alluded to, such as Ian McKellan always seems to be managing twelve unruly dwarves children; Liam Neeson is extremely protective and occasionally uses black ops skills to solve small problems but won't admit to military service of any kind - he brushes off whatever outrageous thing he just did as "picked that up in [small English town] when a cow got out"; Sean Bean is at high risk for heart attacks and cancer so his death is always being foreshadowed but he never dies; Ewan McGregor has a different shaggy haired emo teenage boy each season to mentor through life's ups and downs. The four of them are all always bickering to the extent that the non-widower neighbors try to set them up with wives.

It's called.

Widower Row

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Happy Labor Day. Today I learned about probably the first strike to happen IN SPACE.

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I think Odysseus is the guy everyone else makes talk to the cops when they show up to bust the party.

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inkle dinkle binky bunk

dude you can't just say inkle dinkle binky bunk

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Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is a cisgender woman, you absolute freaks. The International Boxing Association never did a karyotype test on her; they only tested her testosterone levels. She was disqualified from competing due to antiquated, misogynistic and patriarchal regulations that require women to present according a Platonic ideal (a perfect form) of Womanhood. She is a cis woman; she did not undergo “male puberty,” you genitalia-obsessed weirdos.

She grew up in a rural Algerian village and overcame numerous gender barriers to get where she is. Her father forbade her from boxing because he didn’t approve of girls playing the sport, and he actively prevented her from practicing. She would be actively prevented from boxing again in 2023 because a panel of men deemed her not “woman” enough because of arbitrary rules about how much testosterone a “true lady” should produce.

Imane Khelif’s life story is one of overcoming adversity put in place by the arbitrary rules the patriarchy imposes upon women to keep men as men and women down.

Also, it is literally illegal to be trans in Algeria. Algeria does not allow people to change their sex on official documents or undergo medical or hormonal treatment to transition. Y’all are freaks who hate queer people and women. Leave Imane Khelif alone. Leave trans women alone. Leave women alone, period.

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Hot Shit | Tom Cardy

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"I don't want to read this" is totally valid.

"This is disgusting to me" is totally valid.

"I don't want to read this because it is disgusting to me" is totally valid.

"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.