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met a woman today whose original real actual given-at-birth first name is "Vendetta." ma'am are you aware you are a videogame protagonist and/or a character in a skullduggery pleasant novel. real quick sorry to bother you miss but who exactly were your parents expecting you to avenge in their name

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POV: You're sitting at the bar during our Sunday night session.

Add four more musicians and three more spectators in the empty chairs, and you'll get a sense of how it looked at its peak last night. It was a nice session; I was glad I went despite having a terrible headache.

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everyone should delete tiktok except this guy i wanna be alone with them

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at the fishing tournament yesterday btw there were age categories bc it was all-inclusive and we didn't want like 60 year old anglers competing against 4 years olds obviously.

so anyway this 14 year old boy entered in the 11-15 age bracket and he saw a huge fish in the water he became absolutely determined to catch. i don't think he even wanted to win anymore. he just wanted that fish specifically. but his line wasn't strong enough for such a big fish and didn't have the ideal bait.

enter: two 15 year old boys who didn't know him. they saw what he was trying to do, and they were clearly experienced anglers, and they got involved in the chase. they got the right bait and the three of them spent hours with their lines in the water, until the first boy finally hooked the fish. they talked him through the slow challenge of endurance. he couldn't reel in all at once because the fish was too heavy for his line and it'd break.

he finally reeled it in, but they didn't have a net. it took all three of them, lying on their bellies, six hands on the fish, to pull it out of the water. they put it in a big bucket of water for the weigh-in (we just subtracted the bucket+water weight after), gave their new friend careful instruction on how to handle the fish so he could pose for a hasty photo without injuring its spine, and then carefully placed the fish back in the water.

in the end, he won first place in his age bracket. one of the other boys who helped him tied for second with a 12-year-old competitor, and he gave her the trophy.

then during the drawing, where participants won prizes randomly if I pulled their name from a box, I happened to pull his name and he got a great prize so it all came around.

Idk. the teamwork. the serendipity of friendship. the graciousness. the consideration for the fish. Just some things that made me happy.

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sometimes i see a really serious post about like. trauma or patriarchy or whatever. and i'm not going to blorbotag a post like that. but oh my god it's exactly what a certain character has got going on

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knight who is constantly searching for a good and noble king to serve but cannot fucking find one for the life of him so he has to become the good and noble king himself.

and now all these other knights are coming around like "please let me serve you" and like obviously hes going to let them serve him thats the point of being a good and noble king but its also. very annoying. one of you become the good and noble king for once lets trade

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my favorite part of derry girls was just how accurately it portrayed being a normal person in a time of crisis. obviously the events in derry are very much real and ireland has experienced decades of political conflict, and this DOES impact the main characters in a lot of ways, but they still also…. go to school. worry about their friends and birthday parties and being together. because they’re just teenage girls (+ james) and that resonated with me a lot, especially now

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Wilderness from my new book Faraway Dreaming. 🌱🌲 Available on Kickstarter until 24 June, 2025!

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maisy mouse library moments

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nothing better than the wrong capitalization of Sie

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mutuals please do this to me

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I get frustrated at the perception that you have to have a family or personal connection to a place to study it. I never know how to field the "how did you get interested in Austria? Is your family from there?" question.

Because, no, my family is from the Russian partition. But that doesn't mean I need to work on where my ancestors are from.

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Source: https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Sauron

dude thats sick. thats rad

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The reading comprehension and overall common sense on this website is piss poor.

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migraine hitting the point where i just want to unscrew my fucking head

please it has been DAYS and absolutely nothing helps. not painkillers not eye drops not a muscle roller not different pillows. codeine doesn't even blunt the edges of it. i don't know what to doooo