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In front of Marie, a sea of endless yellow rose to meet the horizon. Behind her the highway sang a discordant song, the rush of traffic between two major cities a constant buzz.

Marie never liked the highway. It is busy, destructive. Marie's seen too many wildlife killed by speeding vehicles. Marie never liked the highway, the smell of it making her nose burn as she stood at the edge of the highway waiting for her cousin to finish reliving himself in the bush.

The canola rose from the ground that itself was not a crime. It is not a crime to be made into something that you didn't ask to be. It is not a crime to exist. There is no crime in the canola itself.

"Ya done yet?" Marie calls out to her cousin just as he emerges from the bush.

"I'm good," Jason says and nods toward the car, "Let's get goin', don't want to make Mom wait."

Marie nods, she takes a final look at the canola field knowing that on her way to Edmonton there will be many, many more fields just like this.

What happened to what lived here before? Marie can't help but wonder. That thought is quickly replaced.

The same thing that happened to us, a voice in her head whispers.

The same thing that happened to us.

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The loss of native plant life and its replacement and displacement by white settlers as a metaphor for the displacement and the erasure of culture and forced assimilation of indigenous people

I have an idea

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Wait wait wait

The loss of native plant life and its replacement and displacement by white settlers as a metaphor for the displacement and the erasure of culture and forced assimilation of indigenous people

I have an idea

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I've seen too many horror movies where the monster is hiding in a cornfield. Cornfields are overdone. We need more monsters willing to lurk in other crops.

We have canola fields out where I live, swaths of knee-high yellow flowers like the gods doodled across the planet with the biggest dandelion crayon they had to hand. Very picturesque. Very cozy. If I looked out the window and saw Something standing in a canola field like a black widow spider in a lemon meringue I would shit a brick

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Dante out here during the Titan and Giant Wars like

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I could not be one of those people who lament the death of summer I am a cold girly give me WET give me COLD give me DREARY DAYS with SNOW or RAIN

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shakespeare was ahead of his time

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Just lost a few braincells reading an nyt article about gen z "treat culture" and I can't even fathom that this is a thing. We're living in a dystopian hellscape where someone spending $5 a week on a cookie is considered a wasteful brat because they should have just gone for a nice free walk instead and saved the $250 a year that roughly equals four days' rent. That's why these ungrateful kids can't buy a house, naturally.

I am ALL for free treats, like hiking or reading in the park. But at some point you can't budget your way out of poverty, and you will literally go mad if you deny yourself basic pleasures that are literally all around you. They even lamented that little treats could snowball into doing something absolutely unforgivable like learning how to play the guitar or buying concert tickets.

At what point do we just start saying out loud that living an enjoyable and fulfilling life is now only acceptable at a 100k+ salary, and if you're one of the millions of people unlucky enough not to be in that category you should just eat dirt and be grateful?

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Frosted Soft Strawberry Brown Sugar Bars

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PRESS Ⓐ TO BE WEIRD AND UNSETTLING

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Your spouse died?

I’ve never had a spouse?

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that post about how its impossible to satirize masculinity without thousands of men earnestly idenitifying with it isn't wrong but ive also seen enough women cheer on the most rancid shit as long as its got a veneer of femininity to it so idk i think it might just be a human thing

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Welcome to my escape room. *places an affectionate cat on your lap*

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very few people have yellow as their favorite color but the people who do are always unhinged about it

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Fish on the beach!

That one hot couple that judges you (and everything else).

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Woe mushroom mug be upon ye

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I’m yoinking this meme

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if you're going to kill me, look me in the eyes