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Ten of Wands and Queen of Wands

You have the expertise to know what to do with them, but that doesn't mean you want everybody to bring you theirs.

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UK 1982

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I love the hagiographies that are like "St. Christopher was 12 feet tall and frost giants helped him build an abbey out of the bones of a giant pig, which were gold"

And then you Google the abbey and it's clearly just French and made of slate rock or whatever.

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lugia loaf 🍞 i just really wanted to draw this pose

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it do be like that

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you can differentiate me from weevilwizard via subtle variations in our proboscis

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I was looking through my past October inking challenges, and I completely memory-holed what I did in 2023 post-surgery. 😆

Anyway, I didn't get to 31, but here's my Birds with Iconic Hairstyles.

Shoebill with Beyoncé’s high ponytail

Bittern with Farrah Fawcett waves

Blue-footed booby with the Rachel

Cassowary with hi-top fade

Emu with faux hawk

Ostrich with Britney Spears pigtails

Budgie with Snookie poof

Amazon parrot with 1960’s flip

Blue and gold macaw with George Clooney gentleman’s cut

Cape vulture with Marilyn Monroe waves

Immature Cooper’s hawk with Bieber swoosh

Bald eagle with 1980s crimped hair

Australian white ibis with Lance Bass frosted tips

Gull with 1980s mullet

Canada goose with Karen cut

Goldfinch with 1920s Eton crop

Cardinal with 1990s heartthrob hair

Mourning dove with man bun

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wait I kind of love this concept. dolphins still tell the legend of jerome the dolphin, who dove too deep and came back dead-eyed and bloodthirsty, no longer needing to breathe.

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Good news: if you’re currently laying around and not producing anything, you are a credit to your species.

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person in fandom: eeeyikes!!! i hope im writing this character in this short little fanfic right >_< eeekkk what if my takes on my meta are all wrong and everyone will Kill me!!

guy in professional comic industry: okay lets mischaracterize every single character that appears in this comic for 50 or so issues

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i cant believe that there's still gamergate STANK on games that women enjoy. NASTY misogyny residue. stardew valley is in fact a video game. animal crossing is also a video game. so are otome games and dating sims and twee little cozy games. sometimes a bitch doesnt wanna play bloodborne that shit's hard

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the problem with addiction is not that it's pleasurable. it's not "having too much fun" disease. it's not even a requirement for addiction that you have fun at any point in the process at all and to be honest it is incredibly common that no pleasure is gained from substance use. imagining that addiction is about pleasure does two things: 1) demonises feeling good (there is nothing wrong with wanting to be happy/comfortable/etc), and 2) frames addicts as people who Like Having Fun Too Much. it's simply not useful to frame things this way as well as just fundamentally not being true

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This is the most real MTG post of all time cause I'll give you one guess which of these two cards was an absolute menace in standard and had to be banned and which one hasn't seen any play since getting reprinted

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"you don't owe anyone anything" You are a tar pit. Speak for yourself. I personally owe the cafe employees my dishes put away and my friends a listening ear and small scared insects a cup and a gentle trip outside. Hyperindividualism is a rancid infection borne of capitalism and willfully misinterpreted therapyspeak and I will defy it by continuing to be kind regardless of whether or not it benefits me personally

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It’s been said before but don’t trust before/after photos from anybody trying to sell you something. Posing and lighting (not to mention more egregious tricks) can make a person look totally different in a matter of minutes or hours.

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In case you're wondering what raising a kid in a polyamorous family looks like, our kid just has. Zero concept of monogamy. Like we've explained it to her many times but she just like. Forgets it's a thing and the assumed cultural norm. We're showing her Lord of the a Rings and she was very confused when Aragon rejected Eowyn.

"Wait, I thought they liked each other??"

"She likes him but he's already with Arwen."

"So?? He could just be with both??"

Anyway enjoy this meme I found about it