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consuming mass amounts of media related to my hyperfixation isnt enough i need to eat it

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I had a beloved psych teacher in high school who got warned by the principal at least once to stop running psychological experiments on students - he was literally made for prank YouTube before YouTube even existed, these weren't even formally constructed tests of the scientific method, it was just clownery and tbh I think teaching at a catholic school for 2 decades does something to you psychologically.

but anyway the one that went down in history was when he faked his own death in front of a classroom full of his students "just to see how they would respond, for science"

but he couldn't just fake a heart attack...because that would be lame... he concocted an elaborate scenario where a former student of his came in during a quiet self-study time and got in an argument with him about past grades. and the situation escalated, and this kid pulls out a fake gun and the teacher is like "oh my god!!" and gets shot in the chest - he had fake blood and everything and was doing his best to serve an oscar-winning performance. but I mean if you're known for clownery then. lol. most of the students were like "oh. we're being experimented on again" and just sat back mentally eating popcorn as a handful of people who didn't know him well freaked out.

nobody got hurt but he didn't record data or anything he was just like "wow that was interesting...let's talk about why none of you over there cared I was dying...it hurt my feelings...."

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I want to write someþing about love, but I þink þat might be too on þe nose after I got rejected a few weeks ago

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I want to get back into acting. I think I’m going to move to the city nearest to me where we have a theater next year. It’s three hours away but it would give me a fresh start. Maybe I’d find an ending to my memoir if I can get into plays again.

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From What Do Trees and Hypercubes Have in Common? by Henry Martyn Mulder.

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Tumblr Code.

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Going to see children and adolescents dance badly, play ball badly, sing badly, play recorder badly because they are young: YES! YOU ARE LEARNING! INCREDIBLE!

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Hey, also, all the anarchist shit aside, tomorrow I want you to make something.

I forced myself to draw something after the 2016 election. I forced myself to draw something when my mother died in 2018. I forced myself to draw something when my spouse was hospitalized for multiple organ failure in 2021.

When you are miserable, make something. Add a row to your project, bake a box cake, draw on a sheet of lined paper, write a poem on a napkin, fold an origami shirt out of a dollar bill, make your favorite recipe for dinner, but make something with your hands, something that you can hold and look at engage your senses in.

It won't fix the world, but it will change the world. You will have made something that didn't exist before. You will have impacted your reality, even in a very small way. And it is going to be something you made *after.* Something bad happened, something shook you, and you made something after, in spite of it.

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hey if you're trans in the us i love you. hey if you're queer in the us i love you. hey if you're a person of color in the us i love you. hey if you're a woman in the us i love you. hey if you're disabled in the us i love you. i love you i love you i love you

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Eldritch greetings of spooky fun and shenanigans from the Old Ones

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MADE IT HOME JUST IN TIME FOR THE VENGEANCE SAGA LIVESTREAM

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Me when a 10 hour rehearsal on Saturday

There is no reason I should be in rehearsal this long

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he's her pwetty pwincessa

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Inktober #15 Octopus

A portrait of Inky the Octopus: the great New Zealand escape artist.

Tried something a little different here and did my outlines with a brush. Like the way it came out for the octopus, but I think I need a finer brush for pretty much anything else.