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Just been #running Heres a picture of the dog

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First time #running tonight with no walk breaks over 5kms. Feeling really great

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Been #Running Pushing hard, sweating hard

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Thats enough internet tonight thanks

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#BBQ with my helper

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The best thing about Sybil is EVERYTHING

and also how…she’s the parts of femininity that aren’t “cool"? Like, everyone wants to reclaim lipstick and having men fall at your feet, but there’s a lot of stereotypical femininity—letter-writing, thank yous, kindness, politeness, proper manners, that we as women aren’t in a hurry to take back because they are rather boring and unglamorous. And that’s how Sybil does so well for herself, with gentleness and sweetness and everything in its place and a place for everything. And—and—because the lipstick and men-at-your-feet thing is either:

1.) denied her (I get really angry when people draw/cast Sybil as thin when it is SUCH A HUGE PART OF HER CHARACTERIZATION that she and Vimes come together from this place of no one really wants them except each other)

or 2.) it’s not the person she wants to be. The beauty of Sybil is that with her, the dragon sanctuary and defending herself aren’t contradictory, they are part of her characterization as someone who works hard and takes care of things, and she understands that that isn’t limited to the glamorous. (And also because she is a badass.)

I really like Sybil guys

pretty sure her family tried to goad her into marrying Vetinari for a while, and she was very polite about it until they did so in Havelock’s hearing and she snapped and said she had no interest in playing pinkish hippopotamus to Vetinari’s predatory flamingo

and everyone else just stood there in horrified shock as Vetinari, very slowly, smiled.

and now they have tea and smirk a lot at each other while Vimes runs around chasing bad guys and Drumknott tries to entertain Little Sam with paperclips

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Pre #Running / Post #Running I am exhaustion

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"But I don't wanna get in!" (at Griffith University Aquatic & Fitness Centre)

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A companion for early morning kids teev. #FurchesterHotel

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the walking dead (2010) season one episode one

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Been #Running Buggered Now for some Origin #beers

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Here’s to the Glorious 25th of May!*

(*I couldn’t remember if it was a granny or a granpa built into the barricade… And I couldn’t check because SOMEONE ‘borrowed’ my copy. Yes, I’m looking at you, thefishwithoutmercy.)

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Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. #howdoyoulikethemapples

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Me man. Me make fire.