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Been really into making pieces based off illustrations found in illuminated manuscripts.

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Please reblog

Australian KOSA is occurring right now

They are banning anyone under the age of sixteen from almost all media sites, including YouTube now.

They are including sites they promised they wouldn’t include

They are using inaccurate face scanning tech that does not accurately know your age

The other option is using government IDs

Neither is wanted.

PAY ATTENTION TO THIS RIGHT NOW. PLEASE JUST FOR A MOMENT

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The Sex Wars are the longest and ugliest conflict in feminist-slash-queer history, and they are somehow still! Not!! Over!!!

Now, I've got to have a take on them. So here's an essay, with no paywall, so you can yell at me all you like.

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“My favourite thing was a bunch of people made a giant sign that said “How am I going to be an octopus about this?” and held it up during Pompeii at all the right times and it distracted me enough to sing “octopus” instead by accident.”

— Dan Smith [x] (via bastillewtf)

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Creature spotlight: marsupials

IDs in alt text - how many can you guess? :-)

This is a collection of creatures originally drawn for my sticker club. Learn more and see more of my work here!

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I love articles like this.

The real wisdom of Solomon, however, came from user’s complaints that Skag Gully, one of the game’s earliest areas, had too many eponymous Skags. Players reported that they were running into too many clusters of enemies while moving through the Gully, offering feedback like, “this isn’t fun, this is boring.” Gearbox, as a result, tripled the number of Skags in the area. “All of a sudden, it wasn’t a travel area that had too many enemies getting in the way,” Armstrong said. “It was a combat area.”

The absolute madness to respond to feedback by just doing the opposite, and yet it works!! There's lessons to be learned here.

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I have a new observation about a minor detail in Animorphs that could have so many implications.

The English teacher at the Animorphs school is named Mr. Feyroyan. Tobias thinks of the teacher fondly in book 33, says he was dreamer and one of Tobias’s few friends. Tobias thought he would grow up to be like Mr. Feyroyan, before the war started.

I googled the name Feyroyan on a whim and the only instances of the name Google can find are all related to Animorphs. So I redid the search while telling Google to exclude the Animorphs results, and none of the remaining results actually include the name Feyroyan. They’re all stuff like “Fey Royal” or something. So it looks like the name Feyroyan was made up by Applegate or one of the ghostwriters.

Well that’s no big deal, people make up names for their stories all the time, right?

Except this is Animorphs, where there are shapeshifting aliens, and Feyroyan sounds like an Andalite name.

So, is Mr. Feyroyan an Andalite? What’s his job? Is he gathering intel for the Andalites? Is he hiding from the war on Earth? Is he looking after Elfangor’s kid on purpose or is their meeting an accident arranged by the Ellimist? Is he a human nothlit or does he go to the bathroom between classes to morph and demorph? Is he an unused/forgotten prototype for the “Andalite hiding from the war on Earth while posing as a teacher” plot that we later see with Gafinilan? I have so many questions!!

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What is dat *aggressively scuttles* 

(via)

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I would say it improves your mental health more than having a job but that’s just me.

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A bus driver, thinking he is doing me a favour: I see a person at the bus stop! They have not waved but I will slow down and stop anyway because I am nice :)

The other bus driver immediately behind them, driving the bus I need for work, cruising right past because they cannot see me from behind the wrong bus: I will get in the other lane to turn the corner because clearly there is noone at this bus stop for me. If there was the other bus would not have pulled in!

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Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia [OC] [1080x1350] - Author: steven_sandner

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affirmatives and filler words/sounds are my favorite thing in any language. i love that every language has various noises to make between words & thoughts and in pauses etc. i think they're also called "hesitation forms" (?)

growing up autistic i've always been very prone to language mirroring and i pick up hesitation forms so quickly i often explain upfront that it's not on purpose and i'm not mocking or purposefully mimicking someone in a conversation.

i also pick up affirmatives unintentionally and nearly immediately. in a lot of languages, people have a way of gently saying "yes, yes, yes, yes," repeatedly while receiving a list of instructions. in english this often is along the lines of "yes, mhm, okay, yep. got it. okay."

i took a kendo class in which everyone but me spoke Japanese as a first language and i was expected to answer instructions in Japanese and i began so formal but quickly fell into extremely casual, repeated affirmatives. i have very little experience with Japanese, so note this is only what i picked up in one particular place with this particular group, but it was fast nodding and repeated "ah. mm."

when i lived in norway and learned the language on the fly by immersion, i got completely stuck doing the affirmative H, which sounds like a gasp. i couldn't stop doing it for months after i moved home, and some of my friends near Oslo also used it as a hesitation form, so it was a double whammy.

no point to this, i just love languages and sounds.

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Gaga's alter ego: Jo Calderone.

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Guys not to be needy but I sent an email (that wasn’t that hard to send)(I have needed to send it for a week) (it wasn’t that hard to write) (for some reason I had to faff around for six million years not doing anything with it except bolding and unbolding) (and rewriting it)(one email) I sent the email by pressing the button. At 16:00 on the day before my nonworking day. Sent that email

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同じ力で相殺し合いながらおもちゃを取り合ってるハスキー見て

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Fuckass escalator at my local metro that gives me vertigo! It's so steep that if you look up while moving up, it feels like you're going down! Also the lighting makes it seem like you're getting raptured

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I found a loom at goodwill and I'm making it everyone else's problem