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All the little angels (how do they rise up) by Terry Pratchett

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oh thank god for the ui update i was jsut thinking that WAY too much space in the ui is devoted to the conent of the posts (the thing i come to the website for) im so glad that those upstart Posts are finally getting overshadowed by their rightful overlords, the real stars of the show, icons and urls,

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Uh oh! You are now a were-animal! This means you become a human-sized animal hybrid with uncontrollable bloodlust every night!

Spin this wheel to get your species

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I know I know I know he like Died died, but consider:

Galadriel arrives in the Undying Lands and Fëanor is just standing on the shores, hands on hips like “WHAT THE HELL??? THREE STRANDS??? TO A DWARF???”

Galadriel just smirks as she walks past.

Eventually, Fëanor gets over it because hey it’s FINE. He’s gonna live forever in the Lands with her, and the Dwarf won’t.

And then like a century later that Greenleaf bitch rows up in his own little canoe with WHO FUCKING ELSE

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You! Have been visited by the gnome of executive function! Reblog to send them along to make sure they visit the next person in need!

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ra's is clearly cetagandan, he sometimes hangs out on jackson's whole for "inspiration" and also because most of the other cetas find him creepy.

i keep trying to place the other members of the justice league, and the only one i'm sure of is that wonder woman is from beta colony. barrayar might be metropolis? i can see lex vorluther, and clark was raised on komarr before moving to vorbarr sultana.

On a "local to Barrayar" level I think the Bats would be vigilantes in Vorbarr Sultana (or maybe Vorkosigan Vashnoi pre-destruction) but on a galactic level we have to drop them in Jackson's Whole. We just have to. That's the closest thing Bujold's galaxy has to Gotham, we gotta drop them in the capitalism-corrupts-everything interlocked-crime-syndicate planet with five wormholes.

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Clouded Leopard Cub. [video]

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I need your help with a hypothesis!

For context: My linguistics professor and I got into a discussion after a test she did with us, and I was of the opinion that the reason for the results was different from the one she offered, so she encouraged me to test my theory.

What I need

All you need to do is draw a coffee cup (with a handle, not the disposable stuff) and then answer three questions.

I don't need to see the coffee cup. You can draw it wherever you like; on a piece of paper, digitally, in the sand, on a foggy window. Anything works. It does not have to be good. A doodle is fine.

You have to draw the coffee cup before you see the questions. This is very important. If you decide to help me with this, please doodle the coffee cup before you keep reading.

Assuming you have drawn the coffee cup, I now need you to answer these three questions:

On which side did you draw the handle?

Are you right-handed or left-handed?

Do you primarily write using the Latin alphabet or a different one? (please specify which)

More context

Most people will draw the handle on the right side. My professor says it's because most people are right-handed, so they draw the handle in the direction that would be comfortable for them to pick up.

I said drawing it on the right side just felt more comfortable to my hand and argued it's probably because we write a bunch of letters like that. B, b, D, P, p, R all look like a tiny "handle on the right side" and are all a straight line followed by a round one (so "cup first, handle second," like most people draw cups). The Latin alphabet doesn't have letters like that that face the other way, except maybe d, depending on how you write it, so it makes sense to me that people writing mostly Latin letters would go with the handle on the right side.

Which means that I need to know what Asians, Arabs and Greeks do and if the distribution of left and right sides of handles differs from the Latin alphabet group. Cyrillic seems to favor right, too, though it'd be interesting to see if there are differences.

If there are, my theory is right. Doubly so if there is a sizeable increase in a group whose alphabet has letters that benefit the left side choice.

So feel free to spread this to as many people as you like and put the answers in the comments or the tags of a reblog. The more answers I get, the better I can assess whose theory is better.

Thank you for your help!

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A meeting of dragons.

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For science!!!!

(Please reblog if you vote! :D )

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Reblog if its ok to spam you with boops

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Let's play hide and seek?

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There's a stereotype that USAmericans tolerate very long car rides.