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here's a fun parchment fact for you re: reusing a surface: sheepskin was often used for legal documents because it's hard to scrape out a word and rewrite without it being obviously damaged, unlike good quality calfskin where it can be undetectable that something has been altered

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First strawberry of the season. You best know that it didn't last more than 10 seconds after this pic was taken.

It was sweet and delicious.

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Sometimes you read a thing and you're like "this is 113% out of character for both of these people but the trope is so hot and well done that characterization no longer matters." And that's a valid way of writing/enjoying fanfic too.

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Time machine

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Climbing Peace roses are blooming. This sucker is at least 20 years old, goes naked from untreated blackspot nearly every year (I do not pamper my roses), but still puts out 12 foot canes covered in blooms.

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Secret Panel HERE 😑 tapas.io/episode/2927671

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seen on FB

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you never truly appreciate good internet unless you have bad internet

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not to sound like a medieval peasant but, cheese and bread. garlic and butter. a menagerie of spices. potatoes. that’s what life is all about right there.

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So I’m on a trip with my robotics team and there’s only two “girls” (me, an enby, and a cis girl), so we get our own beds in our own room, but the guys are rooming four to a room, but there’s only two beds in each room. Which means that two guys are sleeping on the floor every night.

I’m not joking. They were literally arguing over who’s sleeping on the floor tonight (apparently they plan on rotating).

And I asked them “why don’t you just share a bed?” And they all gave me the same answer:

“No, that’s weird! That’d be gay!”

And I just looked at them and I decided to break the bad news to them

“If lying next to another guy makes you wanna suck dick, you already wanted to suck dick.”

I’ve never seen so many Straight Guys™️ enraged by a single sentence before

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holy shit is this gorgeous.

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an important principle of fandom (and life, actually) is that if you want more of Less Popular Thing, it is good to create positive spaces and events for it. however, if you use those spaces to take cracks at the More Popular Thing which you perceive as stealing oxygen from your Less Popular Thing, you do not increase the audience for Less Popular Thing. you decrease it, because you irk people who like both Things. and depending on the relative popularity, there are quite possibly more people who like both Things than people who only like Less Popular Thing. (not to mention - you kill your chances of recruiting people who like More Popular Thing but are neutral on or haven’t considered Less Popular Thing.) 

you’re not campaigning for votes (where There Can Be Only One), you’re marketing for a share of people’s attention. don’t be petty. be effective. 

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Little cat wakes up and stretches after a beautiful nap

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the contrabass saxophone is such an absurd instrument