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How much caffeine does it take to kill an Oreo?

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Kingfisher and Great Egret lined up just right

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Thank god, I just re-read Flying Witch

Oh no, you got isekaied into the last media you read/watch. You are now a background character dead center in the plot. Are you surviving.

Yes

No

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Print. It was print. The commercial internet existed, but neither I nor anyone I knew was aware of it. I wasn't part of the zine scene, but I belonged to a fan-club that would include member submitted stories in the newsletter.

Please participate in my research (also, if you say other, please put it in the tags/comments !)

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what i've been up to the past 20 minutes

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I follow your blog because I want to support you but I feel like a fake fan because I... haven't actually read Aurora yet.

(To be fair, I started it, but then I lost the bookmark of the page I was on when I got a new computer, so I haven't reread yet)

omg. this is such a good opportunity. quick someone make one of those "for non-readers which of these insane events DID NOT happen in canon" polls

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My favorite "I've been there" is in The Package, an OKish thriller from the late '80s starring Gene Hackman and Tommy Lee Jones. The East German Forrest scenes were actually filmed in the Chicago suburbs in one of the woods where we used to walk the dog on weekends. We didn't see any of the filming, but we saw the fake snow they used.

when a film or tv show takes place somewhere where you have been, it is your sacred duty as viewer to say “i’ve been there” every time you recognize a place

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I'm proposing a new term: redemption quantum jump. This is when the writer speedruns a redemption arc so we go straight from Villain Feels Mildly Bad About the Crimes to Main Character Forgives Unconditionally

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We had a cookbook once that claimed (in the title no less) to be "20 minute recipes". The small print was that this did not include prep time.

I have never so much wanted to find an author and beat them to death with their own book.

getting big 45 minute vibes from this 15 minute recipe

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*sigh*

The only bright spot is that any writing contest run by people who think that way is not a writing contest worth winning.

a writing competition i was going to participate in again this year has announced that they now allow AI generated content to be submitted

their reasoning being that "we couldn't ban it even if we wanted to, every writer already uses it anyway"

"Every writer"?

come on

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I've been looking for a fun/quick little animation sideproject to flex my frame-by-frame muscles, so introducing Margie! A cat-goose dragon based on this little fella from this medieval manuscript

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Becoming more and more glad that I gave season one of the live remake a complete miss. I didn't think my enthusiasm could decrease, yet here we are.

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fyi i will be extending some dark tendrils across the sky later today. just a heads up

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Reblog if, no matter the size of the role, you would agree to work with the Muppets if offered the chance to do so, no questions asked