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My grandfather said the bow is the wise man's weapon. You can defend your city without opening its gates. ↳ THE STARKHAVEN LONGBOW

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Honestly part of the problem with this obsession with only consuming unproblematic fiction is that people are less likely to acknowledge when something is harmful. If you so much as say hey this one joke in this one episode was offensive fans will write you an essay on why it wasn’t. Because they’ve created a world view where this is basically accusing them of being a bad person who has committed an unforgivable sin.

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Stolen from reddit where it wasn't being properly appreciated

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my transgender lifehack. stop using terms and pronouns that you "dont mind" and start using only ones that you like. does it spark joy

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i love watching an extremely famous tv show 6-60 years after its peak popularity and being like "whoa this is pretty good. has anyone heard about this"

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My pedantic nitpick of the day is that it bothers me when statistics about like, gender discrimination in the queer community or etc group "nonbinary or twospirit" as the same category because. Well. I get that you're trying to be #inclusive and acknowledge a lot of 2spirit people Don't identify with western (non)binary terminology, But. That's gotta skew it a bit, right. I think if you counted them separately the numbers would look different. Intersection of racism & transphobia etc. Idk I just don't think a White They is on the same social level as 2spirit people

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Liking a character who sucks is silly because yeah I hate him and yeah I want people to bully him and say mean things but if you say the Wrong mean thing I'm going to get defensive

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bro we're so fucked they just integrated a ticking clock into the background music

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i am actually insufferable once I get comfortable with someone

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think that everyone has their own personal theme in life

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i think a LOT of you with chronic conditions should learn this one magical phrase to get your hospital doctor to shit his entire pants, which is leaving the room and saying "im going to go discuss your behavior with the ethics committee, i think you might need a reminder of what your job is"

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“No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis? It is native to the soil there, and does not do well elsewhere. But any kitchen can become an ecosystem. If you bake a lot, your kitchen will become a happy home to wild yeasts, and all your bread will taste better. Even a failed loaf is not wasted. Likewise, cheese makers wash the dairy floor with whey. Tomato gardeners compost with rotten tomatoes. No writing is wasted: the words you can’t put in your book can wash the floor, live in the soil, lurk around in the air. They will make the next words better.”

— ERIN BOW

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Any writer needs an eye for the double entendre in the same way that the gamekeeper has to have the mind of a poacher. The deliberate double entendre, on the other hand, is not to be sneezed at; I myself once perpetrated a treble entendre, and I suspect that if sufficient grant money could be made available, the quadruple entendre should not be beyond our grasp.

-- Terry Pratchett - A Slip Of The Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction

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when it comes to female dr who companions on the other hand i think there are broadly speaking 3 categories:

The regular degular companion: typically a young woman in her 20s. in some way disaffected and with unfulfilled potential. generally from contemporary earth but not necessarily. Romana and Leela are in this category in spite of not coming from earth. Donna and Ace are in this category even tho they're way out of the age range. interestingly i think the earliest example of this is actually Polly who i think would slot right in with the nuwho companions in terms of vibes.

The doctor's granddaughter: plucky teenage girl who has an especially close relationship with the Doctor. around 16 years of age. usually has a love of destruction and unshakeable belief in her own abilities tho there is some variety in terms of personality. Victoria is in this category even tho she doesn't have the usual personality type. Nyssa MIGHT belog here rather than with the regular degulars? I'm unsure.

The classy grown up lady: typically over 30 years of age. what differentiates her from the regular degulars is that she has some kind of fulfilling career and is generally in a good place. the Doctor is A cool thing in her life but not the best or most important thing she's got going on. sadly as far as TV who is concerned I think this is probably the rarest type of female companion? the only classic who examples are Barbara and Liz (maybe Sara Kingdom? I'm undecided). arguably Donna moves into this category as of her second run on the show.

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met a woman today whose original real actual given-at-birth first name is "Vendetta." ma'am are you aware you are a videogame protagonist and/or a character in a skullduggery pleasant novel. real quick sorry to bother you miss but who exactly were your parents expecting you to avenge in their name

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everyone's always like ohhh the bottoms sexual fantasies are always so fucking compilated and convoluted they always wanna be like some kind of European wild hamster digging through the undergrowth and you have to be the relentless bird of prey that is hovering over their den and ready to strike with deadly talons, and maybe the bed is a sand dune thats allows for the predator to take maximum advantage of the terrain. What about the top's fantasies huh when does the top have something to say about all this. Sometimes I wanna be President Nixon in the last days of the administration and someone else is Erlichmann showing ass to comfort me. sometimes the top wants to get weirdly specific with it too okay