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THANK YOU, AUNTIE!

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Dont know if you were joking about needing catboy references a couple of weeks back but here ya go

Theres one for sheep too if you need that

the sacred texts.... thank you for bestowing it upon me

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If anyone ever, EVER, argues with me that roleplaying with a partner is not literature, but in reality its basically non-formal coauthoring of literary shenanigans between two writing parters. I'm gonna show them this post of Neil talking about how he and Terry were side plotting a side romance between a post man and his then girlfriend.

Neil Gaimain about writing Good Omens with Terry Pratchett (x)

Neil: His line to me when we were writing “Good Omens”, he would phone me up and he’d say, I’ve just done this and it’s made it 17% funnier. I’d written this whole meeting between the International Express man and Pollution and I’d mentioned that, you know, ‘he and his wife went down there sometimes when they were courting to spoon’ and Terry added the line, ‘and on one memorable occason, fork.’

Rob: On one memorable occasion.

Neil: On one memorable occasion, and it‘s made it 17% better. In fact, in that case it may have made it 100% better.

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someone posted footage of that morshu at the twins game people have been talking about

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new stickers incoming … >:)

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Copperplate: The Victorian & Edwardian Era Penmenship

A PDF about the history of the stylized handwriting of the Victorian and Edwardian Era. Quills, dip pens and fountain pens.

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WHAT THE FUCK!?

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I DON'T HAVE TO GOOGLE FOR COPY PASTE ANYMORE! The millennials are going to go HAM, they have access to height of emoticons!

The key shortcut of "windows key" and "." held together has changed my life

like

emoji access? supremely powerful 🙂💖

But

Kaomoji ?

The year is 2013 and I am unstoppable ヾ(•ω•`)o o(*￣▽￣*)ブo(*°▽°*)o

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NASA Data Sonification: Black Hole Remix

In this sonification of Perseus. the sound waves astronomers previously identified were extracted and made audible for the first time. The sound waves were extracted outward from the center. (source)

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And this is why I firmly believe that outdoor education should be available to every person littles to oldest. Because many think the natural world is out of reach. Something you have to drive 3 hours to or buy a plane ticket. But communication with other people and you can get lucky with morsels of nature where the haze of man made lights and smog hasn't quite reached full capacity.

I once worked with a inner city science teacher to organize a non school sponsored "after hours science club meet". We drove to the edge of the city in a park and accessible by bus. Got out and though not perfect. The kids were able to for the first time see and find Orion, the little and big dipper, Mars and even tell the difference between planes and satellites trekking above our atmosphere.

Coming from suburbia, the sky was familiar to me, but finding this spot and sharing it with the kids and their adult guardians even I could tell it was an experience everyone liked.

And really helped solidify the phrase I would tell my students, "Nature is everywhere. You don't always have to drive 3 hours to see it, you just have to learn to know where to look."

thinking about how like. as a kid growing up in the light-polluted suburbs, space was always somewhere else. it was in the eyepiece of a telescope, star clusters and the andromeda galaxy and the orion nebula (good luck seeing any other galaxies or nebulae from suburbia) all faint and fuzzy, and outside the eyepiece, nothing. just a handful of stars in a not-that-dark sky. it was either that or look up hubble pics

i knew, in theory, that the night sky was space. but in practice i found that hard to believe since the sky i could see barely resembled the wonders of the cosmos described to me in documentaries or books. that telescope eyepiece was like a gateway into another world where faint hints of these things really did exist, because they didn't exist in my sky

and then i started going to dark sky sites, and it's all just. there. it's real. you can just see the plane of our galaxy with its star clouds and dust lanes

one time, a friend and i stopped in the middle of nowhere in kansas on the way back from a road trip. it was the darkest and most remote night sky i've ever seen. she pointed to a fuzzy little cloud fairly close to the horizon, like a puff of steam rising from the spout of the teapot of sagittarius. it was the lagoon nebula. she also pointed out the andromeda galaxy, a distinct smear on the sky

not with a telescope, but with the naked eye. everything was just there! sure, it didn't lookk like hubble pics, but it wasn't just the night sky anymore - it really was space

i think one of the saddest things about light pollution is that we live in a time where humans have unprecedented knowledge about the universe and our place in it. we can look at features of the night sky and understand the immensity and significance of it all. you can look at the puff of steam in sagittarius and know that suns are being born there

but for most people, these facts are distant and irrelevant, because they can't see them in the sky above their heads, and i think that's a tragic loss for our species

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Lord Tod

The Lord of Mourning and Mirth

Among the fruitless jeers And endless flowing tears. She sheds her countless years For a new face to effortlessly adhere.

"Charmed, my dear. You may address me as Mr. Tod, if you wish."

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Why is this on my dash?! I havent seen Lemon and Lime ratings since Senior Year of high school when Fanfiction.net was still the main source for saucy headcanons and aus. That was in the early 2000s. No way kids are still using them, especially with words like spicy and saucy and the overall acceptance of the word 'Smut'

Reblog for larger sample size. Feel free to indicate in the comments your generation, approximate region of residence, your length of experience with fan fiction, or when/where you first encountered these terms.

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BLURRED AT THE RAVE!

Reddit OC art

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Is it? Hm. I'll have to try it.

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I have the opposite effect. I wish it would give me rest. It reminds me of blue smoke from a cars exhaust pipe.

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