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Bury me under a gravestone that reads “we’re anal about creating healthy chocolate”

Happily, Ridgewood Chocolate also has a website in the stylings of Time Cube (RIP):

http://ridgewoodchocolate.com/

(I’m not necessarily endorsing the chocolate, by the way. I tried it and I agree with what the proprietor, Constantine, warned me about: it tastes unlike any chocolate I’ve ever had before. Whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing, I don’t know. But I will be finishing the chocolate bar.)

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please i'll never do it again

u can forget without forgiving: an ok thing 2 do. or forgive without forgetting: also ok 2.

u can spit in my mouth if ur fingers claw or until yank surrender n draw.

for: giving can get n getting can give. but: giving n getting is no way 2 live

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so true bestie

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― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

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An astonishing number of women told me that after supporting the Free Britney movement, they had regretfully unfollowed her; her posts had become uncomfortable to watch. She seemed unwell. Missing was the control that had turned her into someone we thought we knew: Britney’s unparalleled command of her body, her mastery of self-presentation, that sense that she could become precisely the person she wanted us to see. The connection had been ruptured. The It was gone. This was, in public, unsayable, because it seemed to imply a justification for the conservatorship, but of course social-media posts that provoke unwanted feelings do not justify the abridgment of a woman’s most basic rights. They merely suggest that one cannot be returned to the status of a child for 13 years, placed under the dictatorial control of a damaged man, and emerge unchanged.

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Discovered on my parents’ living room coffee table.

You have one guess which group of ppl is not included in the list of holocaust victims:

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— Jeanann Verlee

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just some pointers for returning artists/blogs!

don't feel like you have to "art dump" the work you've made while you've been gone. post your art separately and schedule it! increase that visibility! let all your work be appreciated!

tumblr high-traffic times are the evenings, while twitter's were mornings. keep that in mind for posting, no matter your timezone!

tags are your best friends. use general tags (#artists on tumblr, #illustration, any media/character names for fanworks, descriptive terms for original work like "cat" and "kitten" for your pet's portrait, etc). keep your most important tags in the first five!

maybe even include a tag directory on your blog!

seriously, work I made a decade ago still gets notes because of tags

reblog your own work as often as you like! please do, it helps with visibility and there's no limit to how often you can

most importantly, have fun, be kind, and support other artists!!!

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the problem in this twenty-first century: sound &

me s.t.retching you in me

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the wayfaring stranger… where will they go next?

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Encore!

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“If guilt is the price we pay for the illusion that we have some control over nature, many of us are willing to pay it.”

- Elaine Pagels