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Something that I get chills about is the fact that the oldest story told made by the oldest civilization opens with "In those days, in those distant days, in those ancient nights."

This confirms that there is a civilization older than the Sumerians that we have yet to find

Some people get existential dread from this

Me? I think it's fucking awesome it shows just how much of this world we have yet to discover and that is just fascinating

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Pinwheel and Bark are designed for kids with parental controls. iPhone and Google both have parent profiles that can lock down their respective phones.

i'm honestly surprised there isn't a cell phone marketed towards children and teenagers, with limited access to the web and social media, but that can allow them to communicate with their parents and friends.

like, we all know this can be done with a cell that is not a smartphone, but there's a huge space on the market for something for children sold to parents.

someone get me an investor.

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Yeah that sounds like story plotting.

esoteric form of roleplay where instead of actually roleplaying you just make up characters together and discuss in abstract how they'd interact and how their story would go

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Our books are on sale on Amazon US!

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Saying this right fucking now.

I don’t want to see ANY of you touching that fuckass new Harry Potter series.

That woman has set us back YEARS. YEARS. And whose money is she using to do it? People who continually support her and her sorry excuse for a book series.

If you simply must watch it? Pirate. It’s not hard.

Do not give her money. Do not give her a platform. Do not contribute. Please.

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at this current moment, there are wildfires raging through three provinces in my country -- primarily on indigenous territories. we are noticing quite a lack of media presence on this . two people have already lost their lives and more than 25,000+ people have had to leave their homes behind to find safety in other regions and even other provinces.

below is a current map of areas facing risk to fire. we are hearing constant complaint of smoke blowing south into the united states but a lack of empathy for what is happening here.

now, you may be wondering -- what can i do? if you aren't able to donate to relief funds, i'd recommend boosting the post!! if you are local, please be safe and take care of each other! canadian red cross wildfire relief fund: click here. foster displaced animals through northern connection rescue: click here. southern chiefs organisation for first nations folks: click here assembly of manitoba chiefs: click here united way saskatoon: click here

samaritans purse canada: click here

manitoba food charter: click here

manitoba emergency pet supplies and support: click here

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Writer Interview: Jen Desmarais — Eliza Leone - Author

I was interviewed by the awesome Eliza Leone! It was such a fun way to be interviewed and I loved getting to know her!

I talk about working with @pinkpiggy93 for the covers!!

Winging It comes out June 3!! 😱

https://www.jeneric-designs.ca/UBL-WingingIt

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Writer Interview: Jen Desmarais — Eliza Leone - Author

I was interviewed by the awesome Eliza Leone! It was such a fun way to be interviewed and I loved getting to know her!

I talk about working with @pinkpiggy93 for the covers!!

Winging It comes out June 3!! 😱

https://www.jeneric-designs.ca/UBL-WingingIt

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"the best way to screw jkr over is by making her characters queer!" actually. The best way to screw jkr over is to stop engaging with the property she still profits off of and read a different fucking book

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hey ladies, heard you liked big... stories.

(if corporations can use boobs as marketing so can i. genetics gave me pretty eyes and greats boobs and i'm not afraid to use them.)

Mrs. Victoria buys a brothel is a sapphic western. Middle aged women who fall in love, dance cancan, drink whiskey, gossip, fuck, and murder. A western that centers women, immigrants, Native Americans, and prostitutes.

Women who help women (get rid of the body of an abusive husband).

Get the book here

And please reblog if you think your followers would appreciate the book, or at least appreciate my cleavage. 💋

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The government of Alberta wants to implement "guidelines" to what is acceptable reading material in schools

All their examples of sexually explicit material is related to queer stories.

You can see their press release on the topic here.

Albertans have the opportunity to provide feedback until June 6, 2025 via a survey that can be found here.

If you're Albertan, please tell them that this idea is horrendous and that you do not stand behind them on this.

If you're not Albertan, please signal boost this so Albertans who haven't heard about this can have their say.

Some points worth making that you can use:

Book banning takes away parent choice of what their kids are allowed to read by restricting the books available to kids. It should be the job of the parent, not the government, to decide what a kid can read.

Instead of banning books, parents should talk to their kids (and if they want, the kids' librarian) about what they believe is appropriate vs inappropriate for their specific child/children. It's their job to monitor what their kids are reading, not the government's job.

Librarians are trained professionals who literally attend semester-long classes on how to choose books to purchase for their library. Are they saying that their training/professional judgement can't be trusted? If so, what are they employed for?

Thanks in advance,

An Albertan school librarian

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I do this in two different ways. The Autistic, I know you like this topic and I learned something about it to bond, way. And the ooooohhh I just found out.... Isn't that cool, way.

I do think it's a neurodivergent trait and it's great when your family is as excited as you are about random information.

a love language i've never seen mentionned is sharing of information

we do this all the time in my family. we're nerds, we love learning, and a way of bonding is dropping new things we learned lately, or just sharing an interesting fact.

it's normal for us to start a conversation with "Did you ever heard about Diogenes and the chicken?" or "I saw a video about how they designed Sonic 3's special stage so it could easily be compressed in the cartridge" or "The letter A started as a drawing of a bull head, how cool is that?"

for some of us, it's about special interests, but for others, it's about anything cool.

since i always lived with family members i had the twisted notion that it was normal, but apparently some people think dropping random knowledge is weird?

(before you ask, we're not autistic, but we do have a variety of neurodivergences)

i know many people do the random knowledge drop thing by themselves, but i've never seen it described as a family's or group of friend's method of communication and bonding.

"I learned something cool--" as a love language.

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Idgaf if you don't want to write essays for school. I don't care if you don't want to write corporate emails yourself. I don't care if you can't draw well, I don't care if you can't write well, I don't care if you just really really want to talk to your favorite fictional character but don't want to RP with a real person because you have social anxiety or whatever

If you're still regularly using generative ai, chatgpt or midjourney or character.ai or literally whatever the fuck, im personally blaming you when my utility prices start going up.

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Credit to: user

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Character, book, and author names under the cut

Luke Sunborn- In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan

Amanda Beyer- I Got You, Love by Desiree DuBois 

Alex Claremont-Diaz- Red White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

Kade Bronson- Wayward Children by Seanan McGuire

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Character, book, and author names under the cut

Hap-  In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune

Adam Parrish- The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater

Sidney Stark- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

Tony Carlson- I Got You, Love by Desiree DuBois