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This movie broke me a little. When I'm certain I'm over grief, and all that PTSD therapy. I don't know why I didn't see this ending coming, but I was floored and still picking myself up over it.

12 years since he passed in a month and two days. I've never been so happy or content in my life. But one stupid movie can take me back there.

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i’m still figuring out how redbook works so i can’t share the video here yet, but y’all.

a woman made a post on tiktok talking about li hua, a pseudonym students in china learning english would write under to american “pen pals.” these letters were never sent. apparently it was crazy common, hundreds of letters have been written from li hua.

and people have started saying they feel like li hua is getting a response.

this woman posted this on tiktok and the comments were full of people writing responses, apologizing to li hua for not being in touch for so long. and one american mentioned how when they were a kid they dug holes in the beach and thought if they dug deep enough they could reach china all the way on the other side of the world, and that just awoke some MEMORIES. like, i did that. i dug holes in the sand and wondered how close i was. “as children we dug holes at the beach to try to get to you. we wondered what you’d be like our whole lives.”

the same woman made a post talking about THAT on redbook, saying it feels like we’ve both been just struggling to reach each other for so long. “i suddenly realize, this meeting was actually a two way effort. it’s like you’ve done a lot of hard work and come a long way before a date, and the wait was too long that you gradually started to forget the original intention of embarking on this road, and began to doubt, is your date real? suddenly one day, they really appeared in front of you and tell you i also made an effort to see you. and that’s a wonderful thing.”

idk that just made me cry a bit. i’ve seen a couple people refer to the feeling of being a little kid at the playground again, awkward and clumsy and sometimes hurting each other but everyone just eager to meet and share what they love.

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I had a follower on my Instagram come at me saying Musk didn't do a Sieg Heil.

I love the argument 'well, you do that gesture then, if it's not a Nazi Salute. Film yourself doing it. You won't, because you're scared, because that's what it was...a fascist salute'

But what really does it for me is his face. Pure power and evil and wretchedness. And you're trying to tell me he pulled this face after saying 'my heart goes out to you'?

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Reblog daily for health and prosperity

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THE MATRIX 1999, Dir. The Wachowskis

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#my go to ep atm is Resident Patient. Around 13 mins of silent deduction and Jeremy Brett is so good

#i ordered a Jeremy Brett biography and left a house party to read it when I was in highschool

i know we all know this but in granada teh when holmes is watching watson cry on a rock while calling for him and holmes almost calls out to him but stops himself then just rests his head on his arms and watches watson oh my god oh my god oh my God .

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whenever ludinus is on the floor matt mercer is spiritually doing this

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Things cats were right about all along:

Fuck staying hydrated by drinking enough water - eat! more! wet! food! (watermelon, cucumbers, SOUP!)

Feels great to be really high up in your house where you can see the whole place (loft bed loft bed loft bed loft bed!)

Express yourself as clearly as possible when people are touching you and you don't want them to.

Optional, but you can also express yourself clearly when your people are not touching you and you want them to.

Sometimes it's important to just go "hmm. actually, I don't care" and wander off.

You don't have to be the strongest or toughest to defend yourself, it's enough to just be difficult enough to not be worth the trouble.

Ghosts will eventually leave if you stare at them for long enough.

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every language in CHANTS OF SENNAAR (2023, dev. rundisc)

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This was my top game played in 2024. I'm playing Heaven's Vault now to try to capture the linguistic-puzzle feeling from Chants of Sennaar, but the linguistic dynamic isn't quite the same. Highly recommend

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Please, as an Australian, allow me one (more) 'what the hell is wrong with the US?'

At what point will revolution happen? You have billionaire capitalists bending you over for every one of your human rights. And I'm just learning today that even your tax lodgement system is privitised?

Not surprising I suppose for a country that seems so against tax.

More Luigis, less Trumps.

Here is the easy to use, federally owned app Aussies use to lodge our taxes.

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Caught up with C3, and I honestly don't understand the criticism. Just Tumblr being Tumblr I guess. One trope I don't love in dnd is the 'goodie vs baddie' Disney-style story arch. In the dnd campaign I DM, it's difficult to push my players to attack the enemies because you want the NPCs to mean something. You want your players to see your world and the campaign as more than just initiative order and XP collecting. A story is best when the enemies have a purpose that isn't just 'I'm evil'. What's interesting about this campaign is it has taken this thought a step further, and we have come to a place where the Players are fighting the 'baddie' because they feel they must but haven't thought about whether they should. They have had to trust in shady characters and now they are at the decision point with questionable evidence and the end of the world in their grasp.

When the NPCs are flawed and confusing, and the PCs are flawed and confusing, it makes for a storyline where you can't see how it's going to end. And that's new. It brings to light so many more questions, and is far more true to life.

This campaign is so fascinating because there is no good option for the players. They're stuck between a rock (that they can funnel into a harness if they want) and a bad-place (a prison for a god-eater), and it might just be that Bells Hells are the slightly-stronger-than-your-average, egotistical-and-damaged, not-so-innocent bystanders who helped bring on the end of the world.

The storyline that Bells Hells actually have very little control over their fate is wonderful and fascinating. Particularly when they entered Predathos's prison and can see their golden kizuna fate threads connecting them - no matter what bad 'choices' they make, it's been predetermined. Ira and Ludinus will see to it that this whole thing sees it's conclusion. The end of the world is so much bigger than them - I love how their decision to enter into Predathos was mainly because 'if we don't then someone else will'. It's hopeless. It's ego. It's fatalistic. It's dumb. It's human. Matt is a wonderful storyteller and I'm so enjoying the fatalistic conclusion to this campaign.

It's going to be painful, and it might be an ending where the players aren't the good guys. But how refreshing is that.

The God Eater

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ORANGE BOSS 😺