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most basic treatments for sickness involve some form of salt water (drinking electrolytes, gargling with warm salt water, epsom salt baths) as a way of microdosing going to the seaside

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happy glorious 25th of may

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i love how there’s the genre of fix-it fic where the author goes into great granular detail of how our heroes manage to avoid or undo whatever character death or other unpopular choice occurred, in a way that abides by the laws of the fictional universe and definitely required a substantial plot outline, and then there are fix-it fics where the author just went “that’s bullshit and didn’t happen,” and we as readers all go “agreed. carry on.”

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Honestly very glad the source is on this one. Because at first glance: neat! Languages!

But then:

Why the fuck is Nunavut teal? Teal is not on the legend.

Why is Korea blue? Hangul is definitely syllabary, that’s why the symbols get all compound.

But then I read that it was produced by the commission for linguistic minorities of India, and it makes sense. The geographic highlights aren’t just because that’s where we have a lot of rich written history but also because that’s the geography they care about.

Anyway Nunavut should be more clearly stripey green and blue because Inuktitut is abugida and the official languages of Canada (English and French) are alphabet.

edit: it’s morning and I’m dumb. When I was done posting and could click on the map to zoom, Nunavut and Japan are both clearly striped. Point about Korea stands, though.

Writing systems worldwide

by geoglobal_/instagram

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hozier (2014) being hozier’s debut album is fucking nuts like… take me to church?? from eden?? work song?? like real people do?? it will come back?? foreigner’s god?? cherry wine?? SEDATED?? what the fuck??

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Today I organized cans. Putting away the artichokes, consolidating the green beans. Remembering we have a fucking bread maker I’ve never used as I put away the cat food in the neat and terrible stacks generated by going from a monthly (Amazon) delivery to a quarterly (chewy) delivery.

Did I shower? No. Did I take the pictures of the chicken coop that I need to for garden club? Also no. But I organized cans and also the whole pantry cupboard and then I made food, so it was good.

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having long distance friends is so fucked. do you wanna come over to my house and play (it will cost us 1 william dollars)

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"the world isn't kind" ok??? Much more importantly are you?????

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No nuance the normal option is only one and i want statistics to prove to my parents that something is deeply wrong with them

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Being a person is hard right now. But!! Today I:

Washed my hair

Took my meds

Solved a fiddly work thing

Moved a plant

Tidied a thing from my office

And later I will go to garden club and change my sheets. I am taking my little victories and running with them.

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I love being back on tumblr.

It always fascinated me that when trans people took hormones, they. Worked. I mean this PURELY from a biological standpoint. We think of "male" bodies and "female" bodies as so different, but the reality is they just aren't. A human body will know what to do with the tools you give it, even if it's never had those tools before.

Put testosterone in a "female" body, and it'll know how to grow a beard. It just will.

Put estrogen in a "male" body, and it'll know how to form breasts. It just will.

It doesn't matter what the "original" sex was, a human body is a human body and it knows what to do. We were never different. We just think we are because we think it makes more sense. But it doesn't. I make way less sense, actually.

I think that's fascinating and kind of beautiful. Honestly

And I never thought the place to explore this line of thinking thoroughly would be a Hazbin Hotel mpreg fanfiction but HERE WE ARE

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the default way for things to taste is good. we know this because "tasty" means something tastes good. conversely, from the words "smelly" and "noisy" we can conclude that the default way for things to smell and sound is bad. interestingly there are no corresponding adjectives for the senses of sight and touch. the inescapable conclusion is that the most ordinary object possible is invisible and intangible, produces a hideous cacophony, smells terrible, but tastes delicious. and yet this description matches no object or phenomenon known to science or human experience. so what the fuck

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Everything in my brain was screaming so I went and did the set of 10 pushups I’d decided was going to be my coping mechanism. It worked. Goddammit.

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TikTokers are such pussies when it comes to ships. “B-but they’re not canon 🥺🥺🥺😭😭😖😖” honey back in my day we shipped characters from entirely different medias uphill both ways in the snow

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You can only wear the two randomly assigned colors* for the rest of your life, ( trying to wear any other colors the items will change to one of the two other colors) how do you feel?

*Different tones/shades of the randomly chosen colors are allowed. Pastel, neon, etc. will also fall under the base color and are therefore allowed.

Spin the wheel to find out which colors you must wear