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Honey mustard chicken

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one of the biggest things I can advocate for (in academia, but also just in life) is to build credibility with yourself. It’s easy to fall into the habit of thinking of yourself as someone who does things last minute or who struggles to start tasks. people will tell you that you just need to build different habits, but I know for me at least the idea of ‘habit’ is sort of abstract and dehumanizing. Credibility is more like ‘I’ve done this before, so I know I can do it, and more importantly I trust myself to do it’. you set an assignment goal for the day and you meet it, and then you feel stronger setting one the next day. You establish a relationship with yourself that’s built on confidence and trust. That in turn starts to erode the barrier of insecurity and perfectionism and makes it easier to start and finish tasks. reframing the narrative as a process of building credibility makes it easier to celebrate each step and recognize how strong your relationship with yourself can become

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im just out here trying to eat fruit and stay moisturized and drink water and recover from childhood trauma and protect my vibes, man

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The sound of heavy rain while you are in bed.

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Best chicken scampi

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A Moche ceramic stirrup bottle in the form of an ocelot.

From Peru, 100-800 CE,

Courtesy: BIZEN Museum of Latin American Art, Japan

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"the three dots on the side" call her by her REAL NAME.. Meatballs Menu

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Power armoured deep space bounty hunter type character with an oddly shaped helmet you're like 90% sure means they're some kind of alien, but then they take it off and it turns out they're 100% human and their helmet is shaped like that to avoid disturbing their very elaborate hairstyle.

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Easy Lebanese kafta

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“I would love to see you possessed.” The demon smirked at the human. They brought a sharp nail against the human’s cheek. “Imagine your lovely mortal body being controlled, all while you have to watch. Perhaps you’d like that.”

The human swallowed. “I–I, um…” They paused. “Perhaps.” 

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Me: *agonizing over whether a semicolon goes here, what the proper dialogue should be there, other assorted rules and semantics*

Terry Pratchett: "!" said the stranger.

THAT'S ALLOWED?

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mama knowles’ book showed up today. excited to read it 🥰🥰

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The lacquer thread carving in Quanzhou, Fujian Province （Qixiandiao漆线雕）

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stuff I like

- when the person kidnapped by the villain is all ‘no one’s going to come for me’ and 

- someone does, but it’s the person they’d least expect

- EVERYONE COMES because wow, maybe I am depressed because I didn’t think I knew this many people, much less that they liked me

- no one comes and the villain gets pissed on their captive’s behalf and treats them better than their former associates did

- they rescue themselves and everyone’s so impressed but the person yells because I AM CAPABLE AND YOU SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST NOTICED I’D BEEN KIDNAPPED

- they get rescued by a deus ex machina, preferably their dad/mom/grandma/old associate who is exponentially cooler than the heroes 

basically, I like it when people get rescued and get validation

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Codex Rotundus “266 almost perfectly circular pages of parchment have been bound together to build a block of 3cm height with a diameter of only 9cm.”

The initials of the metal clasps point us to Adolph of Cleves, Lord of Ravenstein (1425 - 1492) as the owner.