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Do you ever think about Doggerland?

Like how fucked up is it that it’s just….. gone.

I tend to forget about it and then when I remember it again I’m like “Oh yeah! There’s like an entire country sized stretch of land that’s just fucking GONE.

well…. “gone”….

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Lorraine Roy, contemporary Canadian textile artist.

https://www.instagram.com/lroy.art?igsh=MWw1dHZtbDhpczExdQ==

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Happy birthday, Simon Snow!

He is and will ever be my favorite character of all time. There's no one like the rosebud boy. He's pretty, complex and has beautiful wings.

Nothing else to say because I have a galaxy filled of thoughts and words that I could never articulate, but I love this boy that's now more a man.

He deserved to be turned into a lottery card because he's that special.

Te amamos, Simon Snow ❤️

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Happy birthday to my favorite enthusiast guy with a sword!!

Thanks @rainbowrowell for giving us the gift of Simon 🖤

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Proposal for new fandom etiquette:

If you read a fic because it was linked/recced somewhere, you leave a comment saying "came from XXX" and that comment doesn't need to include anything else.

Because when all of a sudden there's a lot of activity on one particular fic I WANNA KNOW WHY!!!!!

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Vivaldi played by the South African elementary school Goede Hoop Marimba Band

Turn ON the sound

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Art by Gleb Grusovsky

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Happy Birthday, my rosebud boy! 🌹

Simon Snow makes me feel grounded, I've learned so much through him, he gave me hope when I needed it the most.

(How could I not celebrate his fictional birthday when everything he meant—means—to me feels so real?)

Happy Birthday, Simon Snow. I love you so much!!!!!! I will always love you.

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Some bird stamps I made today.

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Fanfic is a free hobby.

It's one of the last few things we can have as a society that's free. You can engage, for free. People give you things (art, stories, etc), for free.

Don't buy into the consummerism just because it's everywhere else.

You don't have to consume everything you interact with. You don't have to use things, just because they exist.

You're allowed (still, for now), to have things that are enjoyable for free.

Do you realise how insane the world is? We don't have many places where we can just be, for free anymore, but ao3 is. Did you notice we don't have ads in ao3? We don't have pop ups? Where ELSE do we not have that?

Where else can you just go and not have to wait for a commercial to be over or for ads to be on the sidelines?

I don't think the younger people understand, but the whole of internet used to be like this. YouTubers would do Youtube for free, just because. You couldn't monetise your internet presence before.

Ao3 is like a little preserved corner of the internet where the old internet used to be, and it's being attacked by people who do not understand that free things are allowed to exist without judgment.

Please don't ruin this for us.

Some of us need it.

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obligatory post today

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happy birthday my rosebud boy. i love you.

(five year redraw)

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All quotes are from Wayward Son because yesterday @rainbowrowell said no one says "I love you" in this book. I'd argue there is more than one way to say I love you and that Wayward Son is, in fact, full of I love yous (which is why I love it so much!)

Happy birthday, angel. May you never forget how precious you are ❤️

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Some quick doodles of the birthday boy! 🥰🎂🎁🎈

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Solstice Love to the Northern Hemisphere