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boyfriend was just getting all gushy because I did something nice for him and he said "I love you so much, you are the most wonderful creature," and then in an abruptly solemn tone added "but make no mistake. you are a creature"

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Valentine’s Day is barely for couples it is most importantly for elementary schoolers to exchange candy and for thematic fanart and fandom events.

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I’m noticing an increase in new fic writers on AO3 who…uh…mayy not know how to format their fics correctly..so here is a quick and VERY important tip

Using a random fic of mine as example..

The left example: ✅✅✅

The right example: ❌❌❌

Idk how many times I’ve read a good fic summary and been so excited to read before clicking on it and being met with an ugly wall of text. When I see a huge text brick with zero full line breaks my eyes blur and I just siiiigh bc either I click out immediately or I grin and bear it…it’s insufferable!

If a new character speaks, you need a line break. If you notice a paragraph is becoming too large, go ahead and make a line break and/or maybe reconfigure the paragraph to flow better. I’m not a pro writer or even a huge fic writer but…please…ty…

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saw this thread and really loved it but what i liked most is that it taught this kid that if a book isn’t for you, even if you really want to like it, it’s okay to stop reading it and come back to it another time when you are ready. there were so many books i slogged through as a kid because i felt like i had to prove that i could read them since i *loved* reading so i simply had to finish this book or i didn’t actually love to read. silly, really. the more kids who don’t ascribe to that thinking the better. really great of both the dad and the librarian for allowing the kid access to the stephen king book and allowing him make the decision on whether or not it was for him by himself.

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beauty is an emotion actually

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you know what this means chat

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chasing cars by snow patrol really hits harder everytime i listen to it like,, what if i DID just lay here???? would u lie with me and just forget the world??????? please???????????

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“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.”

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you can always give your blorbos mobility aids btw . you can always make them disabled its always morally correct

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The threat was loud and clear: Report your so-called “DEI” employees or else. What exactly “DEIA or similar ideologies” means is up in the air, but the message was out there. And so was the email address of the DEIA snitching hotline. Fake emails quickly started to roll in. ‘I don’t care, fuck these McCarthyite bastards,” one BlueSky user said, with an screenshot attached of an email to the hotline where he ironically reported Donald Trump and JD Vance for being “put in their positions solely because of their race and/or gender despite the fact that they are wholly unqualified for their jobs and, in some cases, have criminal records.” “Anyone have a script to fire off a billion e-mails an hour??” another user asked in the replies. “Anyone can email anything of any size even if it crashes the site,” one X user noted. The scope and effectiveness of this latest phase of Trump’s anti-DEI crusade remains to be seen.

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thinking about when i was small, how my mom told me that pipe cleaners were just a tool until people started idly shaping things with them and it grew so popular that they were marketed as crafting materials. and that story about how the original frisbees were disposable pie plates that students flattened to throw. and how when i was a child i had a wooden mancala set with shiny, colorful stones, but on invention it was played with rocks and grooves dug into the dirt. and middle school, paper football and tic-tac-toe and mash and mad libs, games that just need pen and paper. and before that, games of pretend with pirates and princes and masked marauders. how at slumber parties after lights out, we used to whisper storytelling games, i say one sentence and you say the next. and shadow puppets. and the way all the kids in the neighborhood used to divide into teams and throw fallen pine cones at one another. and the floor is lava game, and the quiet game, and the games i play with my coworkers that are just words and retention. and "put a finger down" on the high school bus. and little girls clapping together, and how the first jump-rope was undoubtedly just a length of rope who knows how long ago, and how natural it is to play, how we seek play at every age and with any resources we have and with whatever time we can squeeze it into in a day. i'm not an anthropologist or a psychologist but i think after food and shelter and water and air what comes next is games and stories and laughter. i think that there is nothing -- not sex or fighting or forming unlikely bonds with animals -- there is nothing more human than to play.

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i think we've done a great job expanding the view of what a child's favorite animal can be. kids these days can say they love axolotls or pangolins or coelecanths and their decision is respected. maybe their parents can even find them a stuffed animal of it if they know where to look. and i think that's beautiful

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"it's such a stupid deus ex machina when a sci-fi story reveals that there's some ridiculous weapon designed to do exactly what the main characters need for the weird and obscure situation they're in"

yes, sure, but also, have you seen some of the scenarios presented to justify us military r&d?

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Ghost Vader AU: Obi-Wan warns ghost Vader to stay away from teen Anakin and gets 'oh like you care about him' (but in Vader Speak) in response. Obi-Wan proceeds for once to communicate very effectively that he cares about Anakin a Whole Lot Actually (it's easier to admit when he's talking to someone who is not Anakin). Vader proceeds to scream internally because You Couldn't Have Told Me This When I Was A Kid?! And saved us all a lot of trouble?!!

Context: this post

I have no idea what Vader speak for "You should TELL HIM THAT, dumbass!" would be, but I'm sure he's feeling it. Very "I'm going to haunt you with my annoying-ass anti-white noise machine breathing until you tell me my grandson that you care about him in a way he actually understands."

And then Obi-Wan just has to deal with Vader Being There until he talks some stuff out with Anakin.

It's very awkward, not in the least because, for the duration of this conversation, Vader has made himself obnoxiously present for Obi-Wan, and has made himself invisible/inaudible to Anakin, only really known to be there by way of the bitchy cold vibes of the Force.

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I keep wanting to do an AU where like… Vader’s ghost fucks around pre-AotC. Like he had his return to the light and all that, but his face is very much Anakin Skywalker’s face, and wearing the suit as a GHOST doesn’t hurt, and it’s more intimidating, so… Vader just runs around scaring the living daylights out of people to make them less shitty, like the Ghost of Christmas Past but unimaginably worse.

So there’s this Sith Ghost running around being ominous and talking like a thesaurus who once took a poetry class because his first master said it was important and his second master insisted on elocution lessons for the Giant Goth Tank, and the (ex) Sith Ghost hates the Jedi but hates Sidious more, and between harassing the Hutts and Haunting the Zygerrians, Vader stalks Obi-Wan Kenobi to tell him exactly where to find the bad guys, because he doesn’t want to scare Padme but there’s nobody else he trusts in this bitch of a galaxy so it’s gotta be Obi-Wan.

Knight Kenobi, crucially, wakes up to the dead cyborg with a hologram filter standing at the foot of his bed with grave tidings, regularly. This happens! To him! It sucks! He tries to ignore the ghost, and to redirect it, and to ask why a Sith would even want to help the Jedi in the first place, how many CENTURIES have you been buried or burned, anyway?

“None. I yet live on, in some respect, though I have died burning upon the shores of Mustafar, and again in the arms of my son.”

Still alive in some respect means the kid might be alive to, right? “Where is your son, maybe he could–”

“Unmade.”

Great.

Anyways, sometimes he shows up and gets semi-tangible to protect something through the power of “being so terrifying the enemy shits their pants.” Obi-Wan still isn’t sure if Vader even CAN kill anyone in this state, but he sure does threaten!

(Vader’s lightsaber does not work as a ghost. His ability to choke a bitch, however…)