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every moment of your life, from birth to death, constantly, while you aren't looking, there's some kind of weird shapes just moving around in the ocean. and the shapes are eating eachother sometimes too. and they might even dig holes. and all of this is happening during everything else that's going on. like think about the most important moment in your life. the thing that shaped you as a person. the entire time that was happening, far away, deep in the ocean, where no human has ever seen, there was some kind of wet sack with a weird protrusion flailing about in the water. maybe it even grabbed a fish. who knows. i don't. just think about that for a bit

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Stephanie Brown Week 2025 is coming soon! Here is the official prompt list for the event, which will run from August 8th to August 14th.

(Plain text version under the cut!)

Stephanie Brown Week Prompts:

Day 1 (August 8): Identity | Magic Day 2 (August 9) Parent | Child Day 3 (August 10): Games | Victory Day 4 (August 11): Birthday | Free Day Day 5 (August 12): Hidden | Loyalty Day 6 (August 13): Forgiveness | Revenge Day 7 (August 14): Stars | Recovery

Tag your posts #stephweek2025 and/or tag @stephweek in your posts to make sure we can see it and share it!

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jpeg from an alternate universe where they have new yorker cartoons at camelot

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As opposed to killing a normal person, which is fine.

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this is actually like my third or fourth rodeo so i sort of get it but sort of dont

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You know for the first 18-ish years of your life everyone your age is mostly doing the same things and then all of a sudden every year for the rest of your life somebody your age is getting divorced while somebody else just learned what a leaf is and you have no idea what’s going on or what you’re supposed to be doing

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I can promise you that 90% of the time, I do not know what the fuck people are talking about.

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Anikova dish: Nestorian Christian plate with decoration of the Siege of Jericho, probably made by Sogdian artists under Karluk dominion, in Semirechye. Cast silver of the 9th-10th century, copied from an original 8th century plate.

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my driver's test came back negative

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a detailed list of things i hate

hot weather

high temperatures

heat

warmer than average conditions

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dovlipman

IDF COMMANDER NEEDS OUR PRAYERS Please pray for SUF (סוף) BEN KIM.  He is a commander in the IDF who has been in a coma since being critically injured last Friday in Gaza and needs our prayers.  May God bless him with a full recovery.

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by Seth Mandel

A quick search, for example, shows the Times warning of Israel’s “pariah” status—using that exact word—for nearly 20 years.

Israel’s leadership “accused of genocide and war crimes”? Welcome to the party, pal. Was this article written in 1982 or 2025? The answer is: yes. Most of Israel’s bad press is made of 100 percent recycled material.

Israel’s government is “disdained by some world leaders”? As if that’s a new development. The president of France disdaining the Jewish state is what we call “the status quo.”

I will go one step further: All those things were said after Oct. 7, 2023 and before Israel went into Gaza. This point is crucial, because the genocide accusations were leveled after Hamas carried out an explicitly genocidal attack on the Jewish state. Israel is punished for weakness and punished for strength. So it might as well choose the latter, right?

Support for Israel, the Times warns, “has become a fiercely contentious issue in Congress, the subject of angry debates and protests on college campuses and fuel for a surge in antisemitic incidents in the United States and around the world.”

So what I’m reading here is that when an Egyptian man in Colorado burned alive an 82-year-old Jewish woman, it’s on Israel’s head—not the man who murdered her, not the mouth-foaming activists and politicians yelling “globalize the intifada” and other slogans encouraging people to burn Jews alive, and not the city, state or country that didn’t protect her.

Another way of saying this: How dare the Jews survive! Our survival only causes the world to keep trying to kill us!

And again, those masses gathering on college campuses around the country (and the Western world) waving Hamas and Hezbollah flags? They were mobilizing the moment—and I mean the moment, the very second—the Hamas attacks were carried and while the attacks were still ongoing and therefore long before Israel had formulated a response of any kind.

Then we’re told that Israel’s “violence has strained the good will of the country’s allies and neighbors.” Reminder that before Oct. 7, 2023, Israel’s neighbors included Hezbollah and Bashar al-Assad’s Syria. I’d love to see the author’s personal list of acts of goodwill performed by Hezbollah and Assad.

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arthurian legend but make it 1920s.

my first semester thesis project from 2021 focusing on visual development of a retelling of arthurian legend but set during the 1920s. i got to do some character designs, environments, and visual / color keys. :)