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We've lost a lot to the onslaught of enshittification but I can think of none more brazen than Discord getting rid of the send button

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"you're really scraping the bottom of the barrel" girl i am living that balsamic life, that's the mommy down there at the bottom.

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actually. curious now, what like. which fromsoft ip would be like the best setting to live in? has to be like during or post game, cant be like "id live in ___ before all the bad shit happened"

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"Should I play Gregtech New Horizons?" To this I'll ask you a few questions. Do you like micro crafting? Do you want to kill yourself/want to want to kill yourself? Do you like thaumcraft 4 research? Do you like fighting 300 hp skeletons that can inflict dozens of negative effects upon you? If the answer to any of those is yes then sure go ahead. If the answer to all is no, go ahead if you wanna, I'm not a cop, I can't stop you.

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future archaeologists will know you were (not) a boy

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and speaking of things I read and forgot about, here’s one I was able to identify a while back with the help of Reddit. Paul Jennings is an Australian children’s author who usually writes about weird events with some gross-out humor for the kids, but he does the occasional story that’s just creepy. Granddad’s Gifts is one of them.

A boy and his family visit his grandmother’s farm, I think to help her prepare it for sale, since the grandfather is dead and she can’t manage on her own any more. The boy sleeps in a room with a locked cupboard, which he is instructed not to open, and of course does, finding a fox skin for wearing as a shawl. Apparently the grandfather shot and skinned it for the grandmother but she was upset by the fox’s death and they locked it away, buried the remains of the fox under a lemon tree, and never spoke of it again.

Anyway, the boy works on the farm every day, and is given two lemons from the bigger of two lemon trees on the property after work. Instead of eating them, he puts them in the cupboard, only to hear moving and chewing noises in the middle of the night. He also dreams about his grandfather, who he can’t remember well, but had striking blue eyes. In the morning, the lemons are gone, and when he touches the tail of the fox skin, he can feel two bones that weren’t there before.

So every day, he puts his lemons in the forbidden cupboard, and every night the fox skin regains two parts, and this goes on for his entire stay. Until the last day, when he finds that his grandmother has taken the last two lemons and made a pie for the family. The boy opens the cupboard to find a complete and live fox, with the exception of its eyes, which are still taxidermy glass, blind and stumbling. He locks the cupboard, then goes and sits on the step and cries, at which point his grandmother says that she doesn’t understand what the problem is, but he can have the two lemons off the small tree if he wants them so badly. The boy knows it won’t work, because it isn’t the tree where the fox was buried, but he takes them anyway.

The next day, he sees a fox run into the woods, which turns and looks at him for just long enough to notice that it has blue eyes.

His grandmother mentions that the small tree has rarely grown any lemons, and it is strange that it never grew well, because that’s where his grandfather is buried.

AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE, EVERYONE

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im so tired

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if you see a post about magic in the most abstract sense and immediately assume that it must be about Dungeons And Dragons Fifth Edition by Wizards of the Coast you are lower than a worm and do not deserve the grace of living beneath the warmth of the same sun as others

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I'm Sorry - Gator Days

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Now the ash dances with the snow....

Lil winter dragon stickers ♡

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Painted an aquarium dress to go with the terrarium dress~ 🐟🐚🌊

Gonna paint a planetarium dress next ahahaha

Here's a short timelapse. The full hours long video recording, HD Image, and PSD file will be DMed on my Patreon on Feb 5th

the aforementioned terrarium dress

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i’ve been losing my shit at jerma’s toad impression all week i need everyone to see this

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for my birthday four months ago i ordered a cute looking eevee plush off of ebay that apparently you could brush and style? i didn't read the description carefully and it was also in japanese. well it arrived!

or, at least, i thought it did...?

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cats being capable of understanding accidents and even giving you a little head bonk to let you know you're still cool makes it infinitely funnier that they don't understand when you're trying to help them

cats when you step on their tail: i'll admit that was rather ouchie, but given the lifetime of goodwill and trust between us, one must conclude this booboo is but a fluke.

cats when you try to get their claws unstuck from the couch covering: this nefarious bitch has never had a single honorable intention in their dishonest and shameful life, this must be one of their sinister plots or perhaps even an attempt on my life,