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Return of the Obra Dinn

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Me: I’m smart. I’m a writer. I read for a living. I’ve won awards for both writing and reading by association. I know what context clues are.

Patrick O’Brian: The tramontana had freshened and now it was blowing a two-reef topsail breeze.

Me: …. *reaches for the nearest dictionary*

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When you transition people tell you “it’s like watching someone die”. Like yeah a fucking loser died. Just the absolute lamest dude you ever met. A real dogshit guy just bought it. So sorry your absolute failure of a man is gone and has been replaced by a hot chick, must be hard for you 🙄

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Lesser-known steps of the writing process:

Finding all the paragraphs where you used some hyper-specific word more than once

Rearranging paragraphs that you swear you wrote in the right order but turned out to be totally backwards

Going for a walk, coming up with the perfect line, and forgetting it as soon as you get home and open your laptop

Creating a separate document where you can dump all of those nice sentences that no longer fit in anywhere

Waking up in a cold sweat because so-and-so was supposed to be barefoot but never actually took his shoes off

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In response to recent backlashes against sexual expression, I compiled a little list of books that touch on queerness and sex.

(This is an affiliate link)

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The Vietnam War was wrong and cruel

The Iraq War was wrong and creul

And this war shall be shown by history to have been wrong and cruel as well

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what the fuck

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I thought you liked catholics?

That’s a fetish. Good for roleplay but not earnestly irl. I like their horny art. But ultimately the Catholic Church is an enemy of humanity.

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do you ever draw something for yourself that’s so deliciously self-indulgent that you just sit there like

[Image ID: 2 digital drawings of a short-haired person drawing on a tablet. In the first image they are looking at the screen and blushing pink. In the second image they are looking away from the screen and blushing more heavily, with the caption “…is this allowed?”. End ID]

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Everyone knows that there are two ways to get into media these days:

1. A tumblr mutuals indoctrination

2. Blorbo from my other shows was there

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common origins of suffering, euphoria, and ferret

substack

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Yes there's a typo in the first option but I am not redoing the whole thing

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Maguma kaiju species profile

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Wouldst thou like to live above averagely