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Bro, we are cooked. The knight that dogs the prince's shadow like a dark and silent wraith just knelt to press his forehead to the prince's hand. Yeah, now he's uttering a prayer whose recipient is ostensibly God but in reality is the deified version of the prince that exists only in his mind. Aaand the prince just caressed his cheek to preemptively grant him absolution. I gotta... I gotta get out of here.

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Solarpunk, realism, dystopia: a rant

Hopefully this is helpful to someone out there 🌸

You can find the Prompts podcast here, I drew some of the covers :D Also check out this digital library full of Creative Commons Solarpunk art (neither of these are sponsored).

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(hit the image limit multiple times, check the notes for the full conversation)

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pee

part 2 tomorrow

on the edge of my seat

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everyone on replies is terrified of this fact but i just think it's so sweet and heartwarming. she's holding our hand and leading us somewhere secret and we're both giggling like kids. i love her

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you’d be surprised at how many doctors will tell you that schizophrenics shouldn’t masturbate, have sexual fantasies or write/draw erotica, let alone date or have actual sex, because it “distracts them from recovery”, as if schizophrenia is a two week course of antibiotics and not a lifelong neurotype and disability

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I just found out one of my favorite AO3 authors of all time is a fucking neurosurgeon which was surprising initially just because I often forget AO3 writers are real people and not smut angels sent down from the heavens to make us feel alive, but in hindsight it makes perfect sense.

they are a fucking genius so. they just apply that genius to multiple fields.

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figuring out the "glass beach" riff in july of 2015. i dont think i realized this riff was 10 years old but it took some time to write the rest of the song

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The Old Copper Culture was a culture that existed around the Great Lakes from between 7500 BCE to maybe 1000 BCE. As the name implies, they used a lot of copper, which was a result of the world's largest naturally occurring pure copper deposit. They made knives and spear points and adzes with it.

And then something interesting happened, which doesn't seem to have happened anywhere else in the world: they stopped using it for tools. The term for this is "technomic devolution" and it's pretty rare to happen across human history: generally speaking, you don't go back to stone tools from metalworking. Instead, copper began to be used for ornamentation and ritual use.

Part of it seems to be that the copper just didn't sufficiently justify itself in terms of how long it took to make a copper knife as compared to a stone knife, and copper wasn't all that much more durable. And because this was very pure copper that was completely cold worked without any advanced metallurgy, there was never a "bridge" to bronze or brass.

Another part is social stratification, a speculation that class differences meant copper was used for ritual and ornamentation rather than tools. This would, in turn, have been a result of increased population allowing that greater stratification.

But of course, we don't really know. Copper was one of the few things to survive, being a metal, so it's hard to say anything about the entire rest of their society, like what their rituals were, what their clothes were like, what other technology they might have had that was made from e.g. wood and animal products that have long since rotted.

I'm just across the border from Wisconsin, and was talking to my nine-year-old son about how there's a state park that would be a road trip away, and a museum that has a huge collection of artifacts, and he seemed incredibly enthusiastic about it, so maybe that will be one of the things I do this summer: go see what little remains of a culture that existed here nine thousand years ago.

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this might be the singular passage from Norman Mailer that I think is useful and admirable

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Bad literary idea: Slaughterhouse-Five, but every instance of "So it goes" is replaced with "Many such cases"

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does anyone have any more posts in this style? I'm making a collection

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maybe the single funniest twitter comment I've ever seen

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steven is a really funny character actually. he never went to school. one of his powers is astral projection for no real reason. hes a musical prodigy. he was so traumatized by the end of the show they had to make an entire epilogue series about it. he spent seven years looking like a 3rd grader. he was even bisexual

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So about the rainbow connection by Kermit the Frog, wow