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it's a sad song, it's a sad tale, it's a tragedy.

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World heritage tweet. To Me.

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created this for my mom ❤️ by kizzbaerriess

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At this point if they actually wanted to make a unique retelling of Dracula, they should have Quincey as the main character, market it as a tragic Western/British romance, and then halfway through drop us into the plot of Dracula

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My boyfriend makes a delicious stew that has three different types of carbs in it and it's delicious and having a bowl makes me spend the next four hours trying to fight a nap. Potion of Shut The Fuck Up.

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Some embroidery I did on a linen project.

I am really proud of it, now you have to look at it 👍

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With complete seriousness, the evolution of human participation in animal documentaries FASCINATES me, because "non-interference" was considered the only way to keep everything "natural" (like, the filmmakers knew their very presence was changing nature, and they were trying to balance learning with keeping things "normal"), but the longer we spend making animal documentaries, the more involved we get.

There's a shot in the first Planet Earth series of an elephant walking the wrong way after a dust storm, and they don't save it. They *can't* save the walruses in Our Planet, and that's the footage they use to scare the UN. And that's only 25 years of change. They save those specific penguins because it's a human-made problem (climate change), and they'd save that elephant, if something like that happened again.

Once upon a time, we thought we were observers. We equated not "saving" prey from predators with literally every part of "nature". But the more we've learned, the more connected we've become. And that's a feature, not a bug. We won't save the planet through dispassionate recording. We'll save it by making everyone feel like part of the system.

Elephants, walruses, penguins. We'll try to help wherever we can.

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As a general rule of fantasy and sci-fi naming, the closer to the back half of the alphabet the average letter in their name is, the eviller they are. A name that doesn't contain any consonants north of R is poison frog colouration. If it uses Y as a vowel in a non-terminal position you're basically fucked.

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“This is your final warning!” says the Viper. The horses hitched to the first wagon dance in place, their eyes rimmed with white, as the fire grows in the Viper’s hand. - The Templar, the Viper, and Other Masks by teddywesworl

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My side hustle, Children's Librarian, is in the books, too.

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I have successfully manifested the cheese, answering my favourite Dragon Age question: Where the hell do all these cheese wheels come from?

Also, bonus:

Please enjoy my current Rook, she is committed to the bit.