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it's that time of year when countless people in countless schools and universities start thinking about running a d&d night, and I'm here to tell you: that's the devil talking. listen, I play a lot of games, D&D among them, and I run a LOT of events for college students. what you want is a game with dirt simple mechanics, character creation that can be completed in about a minute or less, and a contingency plan to split your attendees into groups if too many of them show up to reasonably play together. maybe something that doesn't even have dice idk. I'm not being a buzzkill I SWEAR I'm sincerely trying to save you from the horrors of a D&D night where 20 people show up and half of them have level 20 characters packing 16 magic items and a bad case of Main Character Syndrome and the other half are going to need to spend 45 minutes making their first character sheet ever. just play a different game man.

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funniest thing our wizard has ever said after spending several seconds going through their spell list:

"oh who am I kidding? fireball."

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Φτηνά τσιγάρα

Θα ήθελα τόσο πολύ να σε εντυπωσιάσω 

η μοναδική μας νύχτα ήταν ξαφνική και σύντομη 

σαν μια μπόρα…

και ούτε που πρόλαβα να αρχίσω…

ούτε που πρόλαβα 

να σου πω την μοναδική μου ιδιότητα

είμαι συλλέκτης

μαζεύω το πιο σκληρό και άγριο πράγμα του κόσμου

“στιγμές��.

Όταν έχω αυτόν τον ξαφνικό πόθο να πετάξω

και δεν έχω που να πετάξω 

κρύβομαι στην συλλογή μου

γεμάτη καφέδες , χορευτές , τυχαία αγγίγματα,

βρισιές , τρυφερούς παρανόμους , στοές,

συναντήσεις, κραυγές,σιωπές, χωρισμούς , λόγια , λόγια ,

λόγια… έτσι κι αλλιώς τα πράγματα θα κυλήσουν όπως θέλουν αυτά.

Η ζωή ξέρει και εγώ την εμπιστεύομαι.

Είμαι από αυτούς που πάντα κάπνιζαν φτηνά τσιγάρα.

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Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn't have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn't have to be a walk during which you'll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don't find meaning but "steal" some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn't make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.

Albert Camus, from Notebooks 1951-1959

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― Albert Camus, Notebooks: 1935-1951

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Sometimes I take a mental snapshot of you in a moment. Like the moment I was sitting in the passenger seat and looked over at you. I thought to myself how precious and fleeting these moments are. How grateful I am to be in this car with you.

I have also frozen the memory of our bike ride when I sat behind you and rested my head on your back. The wind blew in my hair. I knew I would not get this moment back - it was fleeting afterall.

I have memorized your face when you’re sleeping next to me. The touch of your hand resting on the curve of my waist. Sleep did not come easily to me that night. All I want is to be beside you.

I have to take these mental images in case I don’t get a second chance at these moments. If you too are clicking a mental photograph of me, what do you see?

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Joanna Klink, from "Wonder of Birds“, Raptus

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Anne Truitt, from a diary entry featured in Daybook: The Journal of an Artist

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Are you going to make me your background picture on your phone or what?

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Hiding.

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being a good person left me traumatized so excuse me .. if i act distant sometimes

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Stop making yourself small, there is someone out there waiting to love you as you are.

Just wait.

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“You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge.”

— Danielle LaPorte, The Positivity of Pride