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said that 5 minutes into his shift mind you

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When you try to pet a cat in the dark and they've gotta endure a few seconds of getting poked in the face and having their fur brushed the wrong way before you figure out the specific orientation and location of all the parts of Cat

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David Corenswet as Superman/Clark Kent

Superman (2025) dir. James Gunn

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He had to do like a whole 5 minutes of work so I could get a 15 second video stacking him for a webinar where I can get critique on my stack. So he's just exhausted.

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Loved the naughty dog representation in the new Superman movie.

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Ace hardware store guy: "Anything I can help you find?"

Me: "I need caulk"

Ace hardware store guy: "Sorry, I'm not really into women, or anyone actually, so I can't help you with that. Tracy over in the pipes section can though"

Me: "What?"

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Vala + Daniel in Beachhead

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Mum gives me ice to lick. They say it helps me stay cool. But I also like to play with it sometimes!

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The first year I had Emily, I learned to put my finger in front of her nose every few pets. If she moved to touch her nose to my finger, I could pet her a little bit more. If she stayed absolutely still, she'd bite me within the next few pets.

It took a long time for her to be willing to share softer signs of discomfort, like lashing her tail or making noise, before she escalated into attacking my hand.

Or maybe not "willing" so much as... literally able? I might be reading too much into it, but I got Emily as a year-old cat who'd been living on the streets for part of her life, when I was at the underemployed end of the grad school program that never ended, a therapist with nobody to therapize, so I ended up looking at her as a survivor of trauma and bringing therapeutic perspectives and techniques to the table. Some of which are about how we have to actually learn to understand and recognize our own internal states, especially because when we're living in fight-or-flight, that goes way down on our brains' priority lists most of the time.

So it might have taken her a while to be able to understand that petting felt nice but also overstimulating, so while she could enjoy it, it also caused that buildup of discomfort, and she could do something about it that wasn't biting.

All of which is just the context necessary for me to say, today she crawled into my lap and rested her chin in my palm, and demanded via headbutts that I just keep continuously scritching her jaw, for 20 minutes straight.

We've come a long way, babygirl.

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(person who learned from childhood to make themself as small and unimportant as possible to avoid being a burden) yeah its okay we dont have to do my thing if you dont want i dont mind

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The reason Donna has never seen the doctor regenerate without David Tennant is actually because the presence of Donna Noble spawns David Tennants in Time Lords the same way temperature feminizes lizards. If the master died in front of Donna he would regenerate into David Tennant

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#I don't know how many more "He gets it" I have left in me

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nothing makes me feel dumber than being introduced to a boardgame with more than three rules

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yknow every so often my personal posts get tagged as "harry du bois," and I've learned to be at peace with that, really, I have, but one just got tagged with "ianthe tridentarius" and I think that's a glaring sign that I need to get my next med check moved up

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