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saw somebody's cool selfie and had to restrain myself from saying "you look like Meat Loaf" because I was unsure that would be taken as the compliment I meant it as and now I'm sitting here like man. I have weird Gender Role Models

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adult friendships are really anything you need them to be like it doesn’t matter. if you and your friend want to see each other twice a week, that’s cool! if you want to have a standing monthly dinner at a restaurant with a friend, that’s cool! if you see each other once every four months and that’s all you can swing, that’s cool! you’re still friends as long as that’s how you both feel. if you talk twice a year for a good couple of hours, guess what? that’s still cool and you’re still friends if that’s how it feels. there’s no rules. whatever you can give in terms of energy and time is enough to be friends

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Too late in the day to nap, too early to go to bed, just in time to lay down and listen to an audiobook while waiting for it to rain

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Being pumped full of seeds and juices by a hulking plant monster made of vines and leaves

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I will always prefer Wizards Is A Job over Wizards Is A Species as a trope.

Wizarding should be something you work towards. Being a wizard is like being an architect, or a painter, or a chemist. It’s something that makes your relatives ask “So are you still doing that or do you have an actual job now”

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how life feels when you go alone to see a fun movie and when you leave the cinema the sun is still out

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learning that 1. there's a thing called the 'gen z stare' 2. it pisses people off and 3. it's just underpaid service workers staring at someone until they follow a simple instruction, has been interesting.

for example, the card reader says 'remove card' the customer goes 'it says remove card, what do i do?' then some underpaid 20 year old just stares at whatever twat just asked that question. apparently that's devastating for baby boomers and gen x'ers, and they're complaining about it. retail workers should be allowed to jump the counter and kill customers

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Thinking about Gurathin visibly revising his opinion of Murderbot when he realizes it's positioned them to kill GrayCris. It is no longer too good to be true, it is no longer 'pretending' to be less dangerous than it is, it is no longer professing honesty. It did lie, it is dangerous, and it is going to murder.

And like any pessimist, this comforts Gurathin. He didn't want Murderbot to lie about their odds (unlike Pin-Lee, who just moments ago was practically begging to be lied to). He thought Murderbot's plan was too good to be true, too dangerous, he clearly felt that it was lying - and then it was! He was right!

And he turns on a dime. He's the one who realizes what it's doing first, he doesn't protest that it's wrong - he understands. He knows what companies like this are like. He knows there will be no negotiating, no pleas for mercy. They are a threat to GrayCris's profits and threats must be eliminated.

And him making sure to give Murderbot the exact time to launch. Because he knows that is the only way Murderbot's getting out of this alive. And now he believes, regardless of Murderbot's internal motivations, that it is going to do everything it can to get them out of there, and he's going to pay that back as best as he can.

The rest of PresAux reading (apparent) emotional vulnerability as honesty (points at Leebeebee) versus Gurathin needing to see the ugly catch, because the Corporation Rim taught him there always is one.

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it's so wild to me that you absolutely cannot force a hyperfixation to happen. like you'll watch the most perfectly tailor-made-for-you content that everyone says you'll love and feel absolutely nothing, and then the thing you watch on a whim to fill time will reach through the screen and put its damn fingers in your brain and start rearranging the neurons right in front of you and every single time you're like THIS??? THIS??????? and this happens like every 6-12 months forever

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Hey everyone, remember that being sick or healing from injuries is a hard time for your body. You have to eat a lot and lay still and be kind to yourself! [large neon sign that says HYPOCRITE descends from the ceiling and points at me] Hey what the heck what's this who put that there

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I am of the general opinion that the pandemic really broke everyone in a variety of ways and everyone is going on acting like 5 years on they haven’t been irreparably changed

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Gilles Rimbault, Feb 1970 cover of Galaxie magazine

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🔎 vulnerable man

🔎 emotionally vulnerable man

🔎 emotionally vulnerable man crying and whimpering on it

🔎 emotionally vulnerable man cryong and whimpering on it being tortured

🔎 emotionally vulnerable man crying and whimpering on it being physically tortured

🔎 birds native to massachusetts

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Stargate SG-1, 03.05 Learning Curve

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I am nursing a hangover because my neighbors invited me over for a dinner last night that was actually a high school graduation party for their eldest daughter but what it actually actually was was 16 Hindu families getting drunk and having a dance party in the basement teaching me, the Lone Jew, how to do Indian dances and getting me Quite Drunk while the kids watched YouTube upstairs