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Whut

Writing a 10 page synthesis essay for my lit course about Goncharov and Miku Binder Thomas Jefferson and the Babadook was not something that I ever thought I would be working on while cristmas carols were being shot directly into my blood stream on the bus at 7 am

Yet I here I sit, drifting closer to hell every second

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So I was just thinking about those posts you get in the Discworld tag about the way belief works on the Disc and how Vetinari and/or Vimes is so integral to the way Ankh-Morpork works that they might just sort of… not ever die.

You know, the ones like ‘Vimes is going to become a god of policemen and he’s going to hate it”.

Well. What if it happens to both of them? There are two parts to the city, after all. ‘Proud Ankh’ needs taking down a peg or two (or seven) by Sam Vimes, and if anyone can terrify ‘pestilent Morpork’ into being better then it’s Havelock Vetinari. And they can drive each other mad with stealth puns for centuries, if they want.

Also, this would potentially make them literally Law And Order, and that just seems very fitting in a way that would probably annoy them both.

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I’m tired of hearing from my cisgender female friends that relationships without men are virtuous.

male relationships are rich, beautiful, and human. a man’s true love is just as sacred and powerful as any other. masculinity is not damnation. queer men, if you’ve ever been told you are “one of the good ones” because you aren’t cisgender and/or straight, that’s not true. you are not good because you are queer. you are good because you are you.

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btw while people continue to fight the system don't forget about Undue Medical Debt (formerly RIP Medical Debt), a charity that buys and forgives medical debt. on average a donation of $10 will forgive $1,000 of medical debt.

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Could you personally forgive someone who had a neo-Nazi “phase” as an adult? Assuming they’re trying to make amends for their past behavior/beliefs

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Important stuff to keep in mind

Wow. The patience, kindness and calm communication skills. Outstanding.

From raindovemodel

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Okay so

Noel Gruber is a maladaptive daydreamer

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk

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Important!

how to grow the fuck up

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This list includes doctors in the United States, Australia, Canada, and Europe!

Even if you're not the target demographic, please share for any of your friends who may be.

And if you or someone you know would like to be added to the list, there's a place for that!

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fish song

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arcane s2 ending spoilers (Viktor and jayce related)

viktor and jayce were sucked into the arcane, and the writers confirmed that they're not coming back. But considering that the arcane can do pretty much whatever it wants to you, and that we don't know what the specific effects of activating that rune were, outside of taking out this one channel between the arcane and one specific timeline, nobody can tell what happened to the two of them on the other side of the explosion. It might have just erased these two versions of them out of existence, but it might have also just locked them there, or spat them out into a different dimension, or back into the past to branch out a different timeline.

just, y'know, if you're the kind of person who needs this information to not go insane.

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if you're worried about the new ToS for AO3, please remember that you are primed to distrust because of the way politics are intertwining with the internet right now. remember to look into definitions yourself, fact check, and look through the logic lense before jumping to conclusions.

AFAIK right now, the update clarifies terms that have already existed. it's not changing as much as it is clarity-rewriting. i'm still looking through the legalese (law student, i'm learning as I go) and I will be checking in again later, but don't despair.

however, don't get lax. download fics, connect with the authors, build out your communities. comment and bookmark and save, and please don't stop writing.

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litter box warning

spreading this person's PSA here onto tumblr bc this seems very important for everyone to know if you're not on Twitter: here's the link to their full post.

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The funny thing about how the word "triggering" is abused in the culture war, is that "the most triggering story liberals could ever imagine" probably wouldn't be something conservatives would really like either. It would probably have detailed depiction of sexual abuse, religious trauma, bigotry-based trauma, the addictive power of self-destruction, child abuse and basically most of the common ways to traumatize people, which... Conservatives typically don't like it when we talk about those things.

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Fandom when a character canonically identifies as straight: well, it's not up for the canon to decide! Lots of people think or say they're straight at some point in their life and then decide they aren't, right? We're allowed to project our own experiences onto them!

Fandom when a character who canonically identifies as gay is reimagined as bi by a bi author: no, stop! You're hurting so many gay people by implying that the experiences of people who used to identify as gay and found out they're also attracted to the opposite gender deserve to be aknowlaged!