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the duality of trying to explain that some relationships in fictional media can and should be interpreted as platonic because friends/family CAN IN FACT be very close and affectionate without it having some romantic context behind it and that we shouldn’t take away from ace and aro representation by using ‘oh but aces/aros can still be in relationships!’ As a simple excuse to ship them

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trying to explain that some characters have heavily queer-coded/romance-coded relationships that may have not become canon, but are quite obviously there if you pay attention and that some explicit relationship definition (especially for queer relationships) might be replaced by using best friend/family terminology because of censorship.

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This strange life.

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sandwith webweave

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i had been watching the terror with my best friend, and we watched the last episode last night. she turned to me and said "wow. that was really good, but i feel dead inside. my chest feels like, empty. i love you, but i don't think i ever want to watch that again."

tell me why the first thing i see when i open my phone this morning is a text from her saying, "rewatching the terror"

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honestly tho that scene in the incredibles where mr. incredible sees the names of all the old super heroes that used to be his friends / that he knew from Back in the Day and how every one of them has been killed by syndrome is such a chilling scene for so many reasons 

like for one, everyone he knew is dead at this point and has been killed on the same island he’s at now and two, its heartbreaking bc that means that almost every hero wanted to try out being a hero again despite the laws against it and wanted to try and help someone out and relive their glory days, only to be straight up murdered like fuck that scene is just so fuckin intense

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lying down for 50 minutes to imagine in real time the experience of walking to trader joes and buying a single pea and walking back home and getting out a cutting board and a knife and skinning and chopping one pea and sprinkling it into a tank with one fish in it

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rabbits are really small this time of year

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Spiral orb webs showing some colours in the sunlight in a gorge in Karijini National Park, Western Australia, Australia

Bjørn Christian Tørrissen

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HEEELPPP a six year old just came into the nature center and she had SO many questions. it's pouring rain and nobody else is here but her family so non-stop for an hour she had my full attention. by the end of it i had half my field guides open to various insects and mammals and birds and she just kept going.

she became extremely fixated on bigfoot and asked about the ways people try to prove its existence until I was explaining DNA to her, and she asked such thoughtful questions! she said, "what if someone found a skull they thought might be bigfoot, and there was hair left over. could we use DNA from hair to prove it's bigfoot?" but before i could answer, she said, "but if you don't have a living bigfoot that you KNOW is bigfoot, to take hair from, how could you know this hair from this dead bigfoot is really bigfoot hair?" !!!! what an awesome question!!

so this 6 year old and i started discussing control groups in scientific studies and she was so engaged!!

then the bigfoot talk led to discussions of extinction which led to dinosaurs, and she said, "what I don't understand is why people say dinosaurs are extinct, but they also say that dinosaurs became birds. how could they all be extinct if they became something else?"

she asked questions that really challenged me in that figuring out how to answer them on the fly in a way that's digestible wasn't totally straightforward.

a few minutes ago, the adult with her said it was time to go and get ice cream and she said, "can't you see I have 1,000 more questions to ask? i have to just bloooowwww them all out now so you don't have to answer them later."

I saw my younger self in her so much LOL. They said they're coming back tomorrow and I said, "I won't be here, but my colleague knows even more than I do!" And she said, "Well, I hope so. He's gonna need to."

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with my love as your garden, won't you fall for me?

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Its wet beast Wednesday yall!

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Just me?

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i feel strongly about this