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Do you like birds, or know anyone who does? Preorder my new humorous birding dictionary, THE BIRDING DICTIONARY, out May 6!

Folks who preorder in the US can fill out this form for a very cute free button.

The book itself is also available in Canada and Europe by the way! Ask your local store or check your local site!

Preorders help so, so much. Bonus points if you preorder from your favorite local small bookstore!

Thank you so much.

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This is the best one

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The Animorphs becoming less politically aware as the series progresses is very funny. Rachel knows in 6 that their governor is preparing to run for president. Jake recognizes that a mask is supposed to be Newt Gingrich in 27. But by 51, not one of them even knows the governor's name or gender. Talk about tunnel vision.

It's true. That said, I feel like this is also down to personality. Rachel is more connected to politics because of her mom, whereas Tobias is like "is the governor a bird and/or a hork-bajir? No? Then I don't give a shit."

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why are star wars planets more boring than earth and our solar system like sure we’ve seen desert, snow, diff types of forest, beach, lava, rain, but like… 

rainbow mountains (peru)

red soil (canada/PEI)

rings (saturn’s if they were on earth) 

bioluminescent waves

northern lights (canada)

salt flats (bolivia, where they filmed crait but did NOTHING COOL WITH IT except red dust?? like??? come ON)

and cool fauna like the touch me not or like, you know, the venus flytrap.. and don’t get me started on BUGS like… we have bugs cooler than sw aliens

BASICALLY like???? come on star wars you had one (1) job where are the cool alien species

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Here’s the thing about Halloween: all year long if you live in America you’re under a steady assault by this right-wing traditional faux-wholesome pseudo-Christian nuclear patriot family atmosphere, and then all the sudden as the weather cools and the days shorten the country loses its marbles decking everything out in bloody corpses, demon faces, witchcraft and giant rubber bugs. Half the country thinks they’re the Addams Family for 1-3 months while a small chunk of weiners get angry that it’s “pagan” or something.

I don’t know if anyone in any other cultural environment can really understand how that feels. It’s the antithesis of the “love jesus and eagles or GIT OUT” under(over)tone American culture is usually about.

And even though it generates billions of dollars, there’s no pressure, shaming or guilting to spend money on it like there is for certain other holidays. We spend that much on Halloween just because it’s fun and we want to, rather than some unspoken (usually unspoken) rule that you must buy extravagant gifts or you’re a heathen scrooge and you don’t love your family.

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recently when im tempted to say 'i'm gonna kill myself' i try to correct it into saying "im gonna walk into the river and become a trout" or some other form of that. this is my new thing

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if you have not drank any water yet today, this is your daily reminder that you are so cute. You're so pretty. Don't let anyone let you think you aren't beautiful. keep sparkling on, superstar

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In the spirit of encouraging people to comment on fanfics while also making it easier to do so, I feel obliged to share a browser extension for ao3 that has quite literally revolutionized the comment game for me.

I present to you: the floating ao3 comment box!

From what I've seen, a big problem for many people is that once you reach the comments at the bottom of a fic, your memory of it miraculously disappears. Anything you wanted to say is stuck ten paragraphs ago, and you barely remember what you thought while reading. This fixes that!

I'll give a little explanation on the features and how it works, but if you want to skip all that, here's the link.

The extension is visible as a small blue box in the upper left corner.

(Side note: The green colouring is not from the extension, that's me.)

If you click on it, you open a comment box window at the bottom of your screen but not at the bottom of the fic. I opened my own fic for demonstrative purposes.

The website also gives explanations on how exactly it functions, but I'll summarize regardless.

insert selection -> if you highlight a sentence in the fic it will be added in italics to the comment box

add to comment box -> once you're done writing your comment, you click this button and the entire thing will automatically copied to the ao3 comment box

delete -> self explanatory

on mulitchapter fics, you will be given the option to either add the comment to just the current chapter or the entire fic

The best part? You can simply close the window the same way you opened it and your progress will automatically be saved. So you can open it, comment on a paragraph, and then close it and keep reading without having the box in your face.

Comments are what keep writers going, and as both a writer and a reader, I think it's such an easy way of showing support and enthusiasm.

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Rich people showers

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Watching Przewalski's horses run free on the Kazakhstan steppe for the first time in 200 years

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You ever think about how weird hippos are ecologically speaking?

There's literally no other megafauna on earth that spends the entire day lounging around in water, mostly just socializing, only to come onto land to feed at night.

I remember when I used to do education programs on hippos, most people assumed they ate aquatic plants, and that that's the whole reason they were in water. Meanwhile, hippos are basically just giant nocturnal cows that eat only grass.

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Got two instances from the same WIP (In Loco Parentis): "The August sun is beating down on them and the cloying smell of heated asphalt permeates the air."

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"It also smells like air fresheners meant to mask the smell of the East River, but mostly it smells like the East River, especially the passenger seat."

Word Game Wednesday

Thanks for tagging me @a-noble-dragon!

I went searching in the WIP for my original sci-fi WIP -- Prime Conditions -- and I found this line about the development of psychic powers on the planet I refer to as Prime:

"I assumed Primes had something different, you know, in their air or water."

no-pressure tags to: @edupunkn00b, @thesymphonytrue, @enolaholmes18, @aragarna

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“My mom painted this and said no one would like it. It’s her 2nd painting.”

“I painted somebody’s mom”

“Took a while and not perfect, but i painted the guy who painted the other guy’s mom”

“I painted the girl who painted the guy who painted the other guy’s mom who painted an egret”

“I painted the guy who painted the girl who painted the guy who painted the mom who painted a bird”

“When it sinks in that I stayed up most of the night to paint a meme for internet points…”

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In my head, I've just been away from tumblr for 2 months

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where the HELL has 2024 gone?!?!

Don't get me wrong, it's been a pretty good year personally for me. But. It is flying by so damn fast!

Anyway, to all my mutuals who've tagged me in various posts: *vigorous wave hello!* Hi! Nice to see you!

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Happy May.

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