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I'm the one at the party who, with cake still in my mouth, interrupts whatever polite conversation you might be having to tell you that your cake was delicious but also has helped me to process some lifelong trauma and with an inappropriate amount of winks I say "I see what you're doing here..." pointing to a random bit of buttercream and then help myself to another slice of cake. I do not get invited back to the next party, but we become discord friends for life.
current fan creation landscape is kinda like if you went to a party with a homemade cake and everyone takes a slice and silently thumbs up at you with no attempt to start a conversation except for occasionally some guy sits in the corner with a tape recorder critiquing the cake as though he was a restaurant critic and another guy is handing the cake to an uber driver like "yeah i need you to find a restaurant that makes cake like this so i can have more of it" and the only person that's talked to you in 30 minutes is a very sweet little guy who was like "hey i liked your cake" and then ran away apologizing for bothering you the moment you said thank you.
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three fools does not make a wise man i fear
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Back to butterflies...after 3 years of trying to grow milkweed, I swear all the seeds and starter plants I've been throwing in the dirt finally decided to grow and thrive this year.
We came back after a week away to this lush (mostly) native pollinator garden, full of butterflies and their caterpillars, hummingbirds, beetles, and bees/wasps/hornets/etc. Also sooooo many baby bunnies.



#gardening#native perennials just beeeeee like that...#chicago is currently experiencing tropical levels of hot and humid#everything is so greeeeeeeen#personal
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A bit more book accurate Sophie and Howl °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°
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Johanna and Emmrich as young mourn watchers gives me Most Chaotic Lab Partners energy
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Any idiot can like something thats good. It takes a real genius to like things that suck ass
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[ID: Digital colors on white background, Emmrich smiles and waves while riding the bog unicorn (withered horse corpse with a rusty sword through its face). /End ID]

[ID: Black and white on gray background, Taash asks "Um... Whatcha got there?" while Lucanis grimaces. Emmrich, leading the unicorn by the reigns and holding a bottle: "Wine." The unicorn's eye glows green. /End ID]
The Bog Unicorn
Everyone is at least a little freaked out except Harding who's like "So THAT'S where that went!"
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Merrill and Anders have different banters depending on whether Mahariel Grey Warden survived or not, I like them, it’s a very rare moment of bonding for them
#dragon age#the friend...the friend is oghren right? RIGHT?!#anders#merrill#this is why writers are important
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my personal pick for most underrated animal is the european legless lizard, which i think is often taken to just look like a normal and rather plain snake, but if you're familiar with reptile anatomy at all it looks more like some sort of bizarre heraldic fantasy creature than basically anything else on earth


#legless lizard#fun fact when spawn was 5 or 6 she was watching indiana jones and got really irritated with the movie for not acknowledging the difference#there were a ton of legless lizards mixed in with the snakes in the snake pit and she was not having it#to this day she complains about this 'plothole' in one of the greatest films of all time
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Common violets, two colors. They’re starting to bloom all over now.
#every spring i beg and i plead and i neglect my lawn in hopes that these sweet native darlings will take over...#this year star of bethlehem and lesser celandine swooped in like “dont mind if we do”#ugh#you dont even go here!
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people who write fics. how do you feel about comments on super old ones you wrote like 2+ years ago
#hey some of us have been suffering from insurmountable writer's block for 5+ years#and a nice comment on a seemingly abandoned fic might be the thing that motivates us to start chipping away at it#it might also overwhelm us with panic and/or guilt but that's on us#dont let that stop you 😅
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I somehow ??? caught the perfect screenshot??
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i will die your daughter.
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