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dogs might look like their owners but cat people always have a cat with the same mental illness as them

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Hey, guys? Make peace with yellow teeth. I'm so serious right now.

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"In recent years, there has been a rush on the internet to supply image descriptions and to call out those who don’t. This may be an example of community accountability at work, but it’s striking to observe that those doing the most fierce calling out or correcting are sighted people. Such efforts are largely self-defeating. I cannot count the times I’ve stopped reading a video transcript because it started with a dense word picture. Even if a description is short and well done, I often wish there were no description at all. Get to the point, already! How ironic that striving after access can actually create a barrier. When I pointed this out during one of my seminars, a participant made us all laugh by doing a parody: “Mary is wearing a green, blue, and red striped shirt; every fourth stripe also has a purple dot the size of a pea in it, and there are forty-seven stripes—”

“You’re killing me,” I said. “I can’t take any more of that!”

Now serious, she said it was clear to her that none of that stuff about Mary’s clothes mattered, at least if her clothes weren’t the point. What mattered most about the image was that Mary was holding her diploma and smiling. “But,” she wondered, “do I say, Mary has a huge smile on her face as she shows her diploma or Mary has an exuberant smile or showing her teeth in a smile and her eyes are crinkled at the edges?”

It’s simple. Mary has a huge smile on her face is the best one. It’s the don’t-second-guess-yourself option."

--Against Access, by John Lee Clark, a DeafBlind educator

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listen, sometimes it's more powerful for a fictional relationship to be a friendship precisely because friendship is devalued in comparison to romance. anyone can sacrifice themself for the love of their life. but for a friend? if anything, that kind of devotion can be even more moving than if the relationship is romantic. there's a real dramatic power to prioritising friendship in your narratives sometimes.

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“Babe are going to bed? How did you get under there???”

“Mreh!” >:(

“Oh, I’m sorry! G’night!”

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when me and my boyfriend make meals we have a tradition of sending each other unappetising off-centre photographs of them in poor lighting. we call this "wikipedia food".

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In my opinion it's a lot more healthy to be able to own that you dislike someone for petty reasons than to do all kinds of mental gymnastics to make everyone you don't really vibe with out to be a bad person actually

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favourite part of the latest episode is when maomao finds out jinshi is the crown prince and goes "damn" and moves on immediately while jinshi is just standing there like a frazzled dog

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cannot stop thinking about this tweet… AUGH 😭

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so about that new TBOB...

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What I call irony is that Maomao at first thought that being lowkey and appearing inattentive would grant her a peaceful life. Little did she know that this was the reason why she was noticed by Jinshi.

He was used to being the center of attention, and wherever he went, people would turn their heads toward him. However, there was only one person who was completely lost in her monologue, unaware of his presence, and it was that freckled girl.

He couldn't resist not knowing what this was all about afterward. It turned out that she literally doesn't buy his "sparkly" persona, nor she tolerate engaging with his "sweet-as-honey" fake behavior that most people swoon over. On the contrary, she responds slightly better to him when he literally drops the act and behaves like his real childish self.

I don't think it's only a matter of him liking that she's not impressed by him, I think he feels safe enough that she doesn't have any ulterior motives toward him which as we have seen, many have tried to whether by lacing food with aphrodisiacs or inserting love charms in his closet.

She's not after his beauty, status, or money. If she ever returned his affection, it would be for his true essence. He doesn't have to "sell out" his charm to get what he wants, nor does he need to act older than his actual age with her. Isn't that.... freedom? No wonder he's in love with her. He just needs to work extra hard to get her affection.

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stop reading tomes with the gnomes and come read a scroll with the ghoul