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So my grandparents rescued a kitten from the side of the road and they did not instead to keep him, but once he fell asleep in my grandpa's lap, they had no choice but to keep him.

This kitten in an insane little thing. Biting, clawing, he has broken 5 lamps. He ignores foil and cat proof spikes.

Absolutely adorable cat, pity he is a feral little gremlin inside.

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This is the most whiny bullshit article ever. Its about this married couple who started having problems when the wife lost a bunch of weight using weight loss pills.

The wife was having health problems with her weight, liver disease, and took to pills then. She lost a lot of weight, her liver was healthy, she was super happy and feeling great.

Then her bitch ass husband complained about how her body is different and she doesn't feel the same and how he can't have sex anymore blah blah blah. How its the hardest moment of their marriage.

How like a man to completely disregard his wife's health and happiness because she no longer looks the same.

As a fat woman myself, with liver problems, I can imagine how she feels to finally lose weight that the article says she has been struggling with since 5th grade. It would be life changing. But then here comes her whiny husband complaining that he liked her more "voluptuous."

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My 90yr old Irish Catholic grandpa doesn’t miss with my gender. He’s never gotten my name wrong, or my pronouns, never even faltered over it.

It’s all so natural too: son, big man, young man…

We’ve never talked about it. He’s the only one who hasn’t pushed for details. He just accepted it and carried on because it’s not a huge deal.

It’s so comforting.

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It happened folks

They changed it. I hope all of Trumps voters are happy with the great changes they are making! I'm sure this really improved their lives and made things easier for them in these troubling times!

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Sarai is an interesting character, that most readers can't help but dislike. She is spoiled, stubborn, opinionated and selfish. It is very obvious that a lot of her scenes in Trickster's Queen were written in a way that made Dove the better choice for Queen.

It took me a long time to realize that Sarai is a foil for Aly.

Aly used to be just like Sarai, before she was captured by pirates. She was caught between two worlds.

Sarai was caught between her identies as a raka and a luarin and it effected her in many ways. She wanted to live like a raka noblewoman, learning to fight and ride and express herself freely. But she was supposed to act as a luarin noblewoman, expected to be meek, obedient and "ladylike." She had to live with her people being abused and ill-treated, while her friends and family were part of the class that were responsible for their suffering.

Aly was torn between her status as a noble with very high pedigree from her mother, and having a commoner thief and spy as a father. She was trained as a spy, but was expected to live as a noblewoman or serve the realm as a knight. Her parents refused to let her be what she wanted, despite that her mother disguised herself as a boy and broke all the rules to chase her dream.

Like Sarai, Aly was flighty, flirted constantly with young men, and generally ignored everything else and didn't contribute to anything meaningful. She had no goals and acted recklessly, which led to her getting captured by pirates anyways.

In the books, Aly constantly compares herself with Sarai. She recognizes her tricks, understands her feelings and actions. She finally sees what she looked like, from the outside.

And, in the end, Sarai defies her fate and family and runs off to another country to do what she wants to do. Just like Aly did.

Aly and Sarai are two sides of the same coin. Very different people, with very different circumstances, but similar in so many ways.

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I make fun of people for going crazy during sports games. (Wow, look at that guy throw the ball, wow!) But then I went to my little cousin's volleyball game and screamed myself hoarse at the ref so yeah nevermind live games with tons of people is a hell of a thing

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Its ok to have faults, and you don't have to change them unless they hurt other people. Its ok to not to like speaking in public. It's not ok to hurt someone with your words because you are afraid.

You have to learn how to do small, basic things first, and cheating in big things will only hurt you in the end.

Its ok to not know what to do in a stressful situation. Your friends and teachers can and will help you.

Trans people exist. Gender confusion is a real thing. Poly relationships are totally fine as long as it's healthy and there is communication.

Revolution always had a cost.

Sometimes, separation from your partner is a good thing, in order to grow as a person and find out who you are without them. You can still return and love them.

Always pay respect to other people's gods.

Always trust a talking cat.

A non exhaustive list of things Tamora Pierce taught/influenced me on.

Periods exist

You don’t have to (and probably shouldn’t) marry the first guy you date

Chickens are the stupidest birds (I know she’s backtracked/regretful about this but I can’t shake it)

A undead dinosaur army is literally the coolest concept ever

Crows are the best

Servants often make the best spies

Bullying is not just a “childhood” thing people grow out of, it can and does often does have serious consequences

Delegation/management is an actual skill that most people don’t have (I’m not sure why the clerks’ death in Lady Knight is the thing that always sets me off crying but it does)

There’s magic in everyday creativity

Forest fires are the most terrifying thing to experience

Except not really because actually the isolation from a wide spread disease is humanity’s worst nightmare (wish we hadn’t experienced this first hand 😭)

Respect sanitation workers

Friendships are more complicated as adults, but also sometimes the first step is realizing friends mostly likely won’t judge you as harshly as you judge yourself

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They are scared of us. They are trying to make people stop posting stories. Trying to make people say their stories aren't true.

But we know the stories are true. We know because every single person in America either has a terrible story to tell about health insurance companies, or knows someone who has a terrible story. Every single person.

Privatized health insurance companies don't have happy customers. They only make victims.

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America is a place where inflation is horribly high. Where rent is incredibly expensive and most people are a few missed paychecks from homelessness. Where groccery bills have skyrocketed and are about to get much worse.

It's a place where health care is only affordable if you have a job with health insurance.

It's a place where companies make it incredibly difficult to get a job, expecting unreasonable experience and skills for low-paying jobs.

In this uncertain world where a good paying job with insurance is your only shield against living in the street, being able to afford groceries and being able to afford basic medical treatment, Trump is laying off thousands of people. Every federal employee, no matter the agency, is now at risk of losing their jobs for no reason and with very little warning.

For no reason at all, Trump has caused thousands of people to suddenly be very close to homelessness and high medical debt for both themselves and their families.

This mass layoff of federal employees is not only having very bad negative impacts on the ability of our country to run, but is petty and cruel for no reason. Suddenly laying off federal workers for no reason and with no warning or grace period is senselessly cruel and unnecessary.

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Having these posts show up like this was really funny to me for some reason

Hello sexual freaks, I hope you remember that God is going to fucking blast you to death with powerful lightning. Peace and love.

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In Saga of Tanya the Evil, Tanya meets God as he/she dies and rejects their existence, citing that if God were real, as the church says, the world would make sense and he/she wouldn't die in such an unfair way. She calls him Being X: a being who manipulates the world, but isn't actually God. Which is also an interesting take, especially considering she is at war with Being X/God. It's another person who believes that a powerful Being doesn't have the right to call themselves God.

It's used a lot as humor, when things are finally going right for Tanya, Being X causes things to go wrong and screws everything up for her. An ongoing joke in the series is that whenever Tanya says her plan is working, Being X will make it go wrong.

Which actually does have serious implications because Being X is manipulating events during a World War that had actual repercussions on real people. Being X causes the death of many ordinary people, just because of his war with Tanya. And Tanya calls him out on it, accusing him of meddling when God wouldn't do such things.

FMA is fascinating because there aren't many works about what it means to be an atheist and a heretic to a god that you can not only see, but who has personally snatched body parts off of your living body and made fun of you for it.

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Its a fucking acronym. That's hilarious. But also very important bill!!!

Eliminating Looting of Our Nation by Mitigation Unethical State Kleptocracy (Elon Musk)

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Main themes of the books that re-define the meaning of the word:

Gideon the Ninth: Sacrifice

Harrow the Ninth: Grief

Nona the Ninth: Love

Alecto the Ninth: Forgiveness

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The worst thing happend to me. (Not really I'm just being dramatic)

For some reason, my entire internet browser on my phone closed and I lost all of my tabs.

All of my Ao3 tabs.

Hundreds!!! Hundreds of open tabs, organized into groups by author and fandom and random categories known only to me. All of them open and selected "entire work" so if Ao3 goes down or I lose service, I can still read them.

Ahhhhhhhh!!!!

So much work to do oh my god. Its gonna take me weeks to build my tabs back up again.

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One of my favorite moments in Arcane was the Jinx and Ekko vs Ambessa war balloon fight in the last episode. For multiple reasons! But I loved how Ambessa was not prepared for Jinx and her chaos AT ALL.

Ambessa is a general with a lot of experience, and we can see her confidence and experience in every scene. She is almost always calm and in control. She expects almost every attack, and even if suprised, she overcomes the challenge and wins. She is never desperate, and takes on a teaching role in almost every scene, even battle and fight scenes. (Ex: lecturing Caitlyn even as they are fighting and before she orders her to be killed.)

Then Jinx and Ekko come in. And Ambessa, for pretty much the first time in the show, is caught off-guard. She doesn't panic, but its pretty close.

Look at her face, when she is ordering her men to face Jinx.

This is not the face of a controlled general who is prepared to fight. This is the face of a woman who is faced with an unknown threat and is trying to figure out what to do, but it coming up short.

Then, she ordered her men to fire on the Firelights.

There is a lot of movement in this moment. She is almost flailing. And it doesn't work. Her strategy completely fails in the face of Jinx and the Firelights adaptability.

Those bolts were big and heavy, designed to punch through armor, not shoot at small, fast-moving targets. The Firelights are used to flying through firefights and it shows.

In a matter of seconds, the Undercity completely routs Ambessa's soldiers. Like it's easy. The Firelights were perfect because they are fast and maneuverable.

And then Jinx almost kills Ambessa. Its a blink-and-you-miss-it scene. She fires at her with the mini gun, and Ambessa didn't even notice. A soldier sacrifices his life to save her, and you can tell by her face she had no idea that attack was coming, and is confused and shocked by it all.

I mean, look at her face. That is shocked fear. She almost died right there, to some random girl she's never even met.

Its the first time we ever see Ambessa afraid or off-balance, and I love that Jinx was the one to make that happen.

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Guys guys guys guys guys

Its July 2nd!!!!!! 2025!!!!!

Its happening! The one bright spot of this fucking year! It's here!!!!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!