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This op-ed explains how to start an ICE Watch neighborhood program in your community. Click the link for the step-by-step guide.

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There was a time when Teen Vogue was just another teen magazine. That time has passed.

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genuinely can’t stress enough if you’re in high school rn and anyone is telling you that’s the best time of your life they are lying. it gets better. hs is arguably the worst. if you can survive that you can survive anything. despite the horrors i know i’m always posting about i swear life is so much better as an adult

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how to write monsters that actually scare and not sparkle

✦ first rule: don’t over-explain. once you give me the monster’s exact height, weight, claw count, and dental record, it’s not scary anymore. it’s a pokémon. mystery is the muscle. a shadow that almost looks human will always hit harder than a full description of a swamp beast. leave gaps. let the reader’s brain fill them in with their own worst fear.

✦ physics should not apply. horror monsters are terrifying when they break the rules of the world we think we understand. a body folding in ways it shouldn’t. joints bending the wrong direction. silence in a place that should echo. footsteps that sound like they’re coming from the ceiling instead of the floor. once you warp reality, the reader doesn’t feel safe in their own.

✦ chasing is fine. but waiting is worse. scarier than claws, scarier than snarling—try a monster that just stands in the corner and watches. even scarier? it smiles. because predators don’t smile unless they know something you don’t.

✦ let it act like it knows you. a growl is scary, sure, but a whisper of your name in the dark is worse. a hiss of your birthday. a laugh in your mother’s voice. monsters are no longer “other” once they feel personal. they’re invasive. they’re inside your head.

✦ bonus tip: give them wrong appetites. a monster that eats flesh is cliché. a monster that eats wallpaper? horrifying. one that eats memories, so a character wakes up without knowing their own name? disgusting. one that eats reflections from mirrors so you don’t see yourself anymore? revolting.

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"you don't need to go on hormones to be trans" is true but not an appropriate thing to say to someone who is seeking hormones. "asexuals can have sex too" is true but not an appropriate thing to say to an asexual who doesn't want to have sex. etc etc etc. idk why it's so hard for people to get their head around this one. read the room dude.

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You have this post till midnight September 1st 2025, you may do whatever you like with it, but afterwards reblogs will be turned off

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Ive decided im gonna start posting on tumblr dot com as well hi

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the light in my eyes has dimmed (rick grimes shaved his beard)

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hi guys! ;D

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I may or may not be in Ohio doing research for my Scrubs ff...

Maybe Autism Speaks was right. Maybe autism is a disease and needs a cure /j

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Scrubs shitposts from Pinterest (1/2)

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Scrubs shitposts from Pinterest (2/2)

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I’m on episode 16 of scrubs. They should beat JD with hammers

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girlfail freak and her bisexual idiot boyfriend. many such cases

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Only time I feel shame for liking Scrubs is when the damn T-Mobile ads play.

The second hand cringe I feel everytime I see one is devastating to the soul