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why bother caring about the environment when 1. It’s so obviously a lost cause and 2. There’s definitely going to be a nuclear war?

And what are you doing about it Anon? Learn about ecological restoration or get out of my way.

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Grief is so fucking wild. It sinks into your muscles, forces itself to be felt. It steals your appetite, floods your brain with cortisol. It makes you so, so tired.

If someone you know is grieving, telling them "just let me know what I can do" means nothing. They can't. They don't know. And the small things are too embarrassing to ask for.

Bring them a cheese platter. Pre-Cut fruit. Peanut butter pretzels. Protein shakes (like slimfast) Food that requires no prep and does not create dishes.

Do the dishes. Take out the trash. Sweep the floor. Vacuum the carpet. They won't ask you to do this, but it will help.

A bottle of acetaminophen honestly might help more than flowers. Grief really can cause muscle aches.

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GBBO: “A s’more is basically just an Italian merengue sandwiched between two ganache-covered digestives”

Americans:

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me, serenely, to myself: I am choosing not to react in anger, I am choosing to visualize a magnificent sunset on a mountaintop where I stand and breathe in fresh air, as the person who has upset me dangles one-handed over a cliff's edge, begging me for mercy that will be slow to come indeed

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huh. so it turns out ginger can be really really good at treating period pain. like, as effective as ibuprofen/NSAIDs good.

I'm the last person to say "just drink tea about it" but if cramps are kicking your ass and the painkillers need some backup...consider chugging a mug of hot water + ginger powder

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enough about the timeloop I wanna hear about the post-timeloop.

person who just got over the horror of being trapped in a loop and settled into a comfortable routine...but then the timeloop breaks and they struggle to reacclimatize. person trapped in a loop for years who grieved their loved ones—who are suddenly back and acting like nothing happened (because for them nothing did). teenager who aged physically and mentally during the timeloop and now they're so much older than they're supposed to be. random strangers who were trapped in a loop together relieved to get away from each other at last, but feeling oddly bereft of familiar company. service worker who is pissed as fuck to have to go back to work

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sometimes i dont have an active dislike of a ship (i mean. beyond the watering down of their characters to generic yaoi pairing) but then it becomes 97% of the content i see for those characters and its like. Ohhh. okay. i have to boil you

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No, actually, i want cables and not bluetooth, i don't want touchscreens, i want buttons and knobs, i want to be able to take the battery out of my phone, i want to charge my phone and plug in head phones at the same time, i want a cd drive in my laptop and not have to buy an external drive, i want a car without a display, i want to turn on the lights with a switch not with my voice, i want to have a paper cinema ticket not a QR code, i want to listen to illegally burned music on a 00s cd player, i want to watch movies that i actually own, i want to read news once a day on paper, i want to aimlessly flick through magazines and not doomscroll on social media, i want to write emails and not talk to chatbots, i want to own stuff without hundreds of digital subscriptions, i want

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hey does anyone have that post where i talked about how its not cool or funny to immediately cry "but my ships!!! 🥺" whenever someone says they headcanon a character as aromantic

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Divergent is a bad book, but its accidental brilliance is that it completely mauled the YA dystopian genre by stripping it down to its barest bones for maximum marketability, utterly destroying the chances of YA dystopian literature’s long-term survival 

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“can you explain this gap in your employment?” why sure! I was not employed at that time.

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I don’t care how unfair things are in your life, put some goddamn headphones on in public

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On the subject about parents needing to control their child's reading and invade their privacy in order to "protect" them from "inappropriate material:

Until I was in....college? At least? The vast, vast majority of the books I read were either a) assigned by my school or b) (the vast majority of my reading) provided to me by my mother.

My mom is a librarian. She filled our rooms with books, picked especially for us. She pointed out books on the shelves in our home library (separate from our bedroom shelves) that she thought we would like. She bought us books for birthdays, Christmas, and just stacks of recommendations. She once paid me $10 to read one of the Cirque Du Freak books because she said I needed "to be exposed to bad literature."

She respected my privacy in room, didn't go through my belongings. She explicitly pointed out to us that she wouldn't know if we took a particular book of the shelf, as long as we returned it, if we didn't want her to know we were reading it. She purposely brought us books that she didn't care for herself, because she thought we might find them valuable or enjoyable.

And if we wanted to read something she thought might upset or disturb us, she would explain why. She wouldn't stop us from reading it - just ask us to check in with her, to talk through it.

And so when I read something that upset or disturbed me, I would go to her. She would listen and talk through it with me.

If she said she didn't think I would like something, or that a book might disturb me, or that she thought I should wait until I was older, I listened to her.

She didn't need restrictions or control to protect me. Because she proved I could trust her.

Controlling kids is never about "protecting" them. It's just about control.

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DP x DC prompt #239

Amity Park has sent many messages and SOSs to the Justice League in hopes that they can help with the ghost problem. Even Danny, as Phantom, sent multiple messages to the Justice League. But after Pariah Dark, Danny stopped. He had to deal with a world ending threat without the help of the Justice League, so they can screw themselves in his, and many other Amity Park citizens, opinion.

What they don't know is that the media black out over Amity Park prevented the Justice League from receiving any messages from the town and its hero. So when the media blackout is finally over, the Justice League is flooded with hundreds of unanswered requests for help from a single town in mid-western America.

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DP x DC prompt #240

Adult Danny Fenton walks into Gotham High, wanting to enroll his daughter/younger sister/clone/it's complicated into their program. But he's not even a few feet in when he's stopped by a faculty member.

"Ah, Mr. Wayne. You're a lot earlier than expected. Please come in, we've had some concerns with your youngest son, Damian."

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I stayed up late and now I has an idea.

Do you know the typical trope in DC x DP where Tim summoned Danny aka Ghost King to asking help to bring Bruce back from Time Streams? Danny usually asked Tim to be his spouse, fiancé or bearing his “children’s core” or even Danny himself.

Now, what if Danny asks Tim to be his son. Imagine this

Tim: I need your help to bring my dad back

Danny: Sure, but you have to pay the price

Tim: I could give my soul if you need it

Danny: No, I just want you to be my son

Tim: … WHAT?

Danny: I need someone to help me with the paper works but you need to be my heir to have the right to do it

Tim: …you don’s have any heirs?

Danny: No, I has 2 but they both have been baned as not “suitable for that position”. One is for destroying another universe and one for set some important papers for fun

Tim: … I somehow understand it

Danny: And you should be okey. I would give you power, treat you as my own and has the “revised anyone you love but they sadly died as long as they haven’t rebirth yet” for your welcome to the family gift. You can even pull your dad, whom soon will be your ex-dad if you agree the deal with me, out of the time stream yourself.

Tim: … that sounds … to good to be true

Danny: Well, I could feel your soul and I know you worth it

Tim: … Okey, deal! But I want to revised more than one people

Danny: As long as it’s not more than 50, then you could do what ever you want. Welcome to the family, son!

Tim: Thank you, dad