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God I really wish carrying stuffed animals around with you was socially acceptable

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For people in the Netherlands: do you consider going out for a simple relaxing walk in the evening, when it is already dark, a normal thing?

Let's say the walk is after dinner between 19 and 21h, and in a mid-sized city or in your neighborhood; and it's the colder months so the sun has already set. Could be with or without company.

– Yes

– Maybe

– No

– Nuance

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it’s so annoying how if someone you have blocked is part of a reblog chain they still show up on your dash

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the little nightjar is a small nightjar species found in argentina, bolivia, brazil, paraguay, peru, and uruguay. these small, mottled-brown birds are active primarily at night, as their name implies. males have a white bar across the wing and tail, and a white throat, while females lack the white wing & tail markings and have a buff throat. while their diet has not been closely analyzed, they primarily feed on insects, like other nightjars. clutches consist of only two eggs, which are not laid in a nest, but directly on the ground; both parents incubate the eggs.

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Ik heb het idee dat ik steeds meer ebikes zie dan vroeger, dus! Fiets jij op een basic electrische fiets? (Voor normale dingen dus die ene keer op vakantie mag je weglaten)

Ja, want medische redenen

Ja, want ik moet (vaak) ver fietsen

Ja, om een andere reden (of zonder reden)

Ik rij op een fatbike

Ik rij op een gewone fiets

Ik rij op een speciale fiets (ligfiets/handbike/etc)

Ik fiets zowiezo niet/bijna niet/kaal

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I keep seeing the take that authors on AO3 need to stop deleting their fics and instead to orphan them without any explanation of the consequences of orphaning a fic and as an author I really need to say something to this.

Stop telling people to just orphan their fics.

Orphaning a fic means giving up any and all ownership over it. No way to claim it back, edit it or delete it. Yes it's an archive but an author should still have the right to delete their work if they feel like they don't want it to be up anymore.

Readers always scream for authors to orphan their fics instead of deleting because they feel like they have a right to the fanworks that is shared with them for free. If it's so important to you to not lose a fic, download it. Also comment and encourage the authors, instead of telling them to give up all ownership to their work.

To authors, if you think about deleting your fics, there are other options you should employ first. If you don't want it connected to your name, put it into an anonymous collection. As long as it's in there, noone can see you wrote it, you still can edit ot or delete it and moderate comments on it. You can even move it to anther account, just create another one, add it as co author and then take your main account off. Then you can still edit it from your second account but it's no longer connected to your account.

If you don't want it to show anymore put it in a unrevealed collection, that way, the fic won't show up but it's still there, you can still see it, read comments and make it public again.

If you feel the urge to delete your fic, try one of these options first and see how you feel about it after a while, you can still delete or orphan afterwards, but this hopefully makes your decision easier.

Only orphan a fic if you're 100% sure. This is permanent, there is no way back from that, AO3 support will NOT help you if you did it on accident or change your mind. Don't listen to people telling you to just orphan it, make very sure, this is what you want.

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you know what lets actually bring back lolcats, they were so simple and so benevolent. like check this out

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Love being brutally called out by the British Library

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i actually never ever want AO3 to be censored bc nothing is more fun than reading the tags on a fic and going “huh. didn’t know there was a market for that.”

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Virginia Wildlife; vol. 14, no. 3. March, 1953. Illustration by Wallace Hughes.

Internet Archive

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we need more divorcebaiting. how strongly can canon imply (without technically outright stating) that these two characters are bitterly, acrimoniously divorced? essential we explore this

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The urge to pick her up and pet her was so strong

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untitled by masha silchenko, 2023, bleach on canvas, 76 x 79 centimeters

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an interesting linguistics find! so I'm reading this text from 1908 and it keeps referencing "hp" in the context of "not being at full hp" "applying your full hp to a task" etc

and I'm like....... okay that is a perfectly normal way to describe energy and reads totally clear to me, but I KNOW you don't mean hit points/health points which is the first place my brain goes, so what are YOU using hp to mean

and it's not explained in-text, which means it was common enough to not warrant explanation to the 1908 audience, so gotta look elsewhere

horsepower. turns out it's horsepower.

and I'm absolutely FASCINATED that a commonly used initialism from 1908 now stands for something different AND YET the contextual meaning is still the same to a 21st-century reader

I could hand this guy my nintendo switch and he'd be like, ah yes I understand, this ''''pokemon'''' loses horsepower throughout the fight

language is amazing