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i love when horror movies have an installment thats like “the final chapter” “the last cut” “franchisename: its ending” and then theres like 4 more movies

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Gideon!! Love her lots hope nothing bad happens to her!!

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late night modern Harrow 🖤

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@skewered-smiles made the cutest Pixie!Harrow x Knight!Gideon and I am obsessed I had to draw them 💖

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some ralseis (plus a susie) first two are from a while ago so he looks a bit diferent??- i love this silly :)

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I feel like there's a parallel phenomenon to xkcd 2501 where you'll sometimes bump into somebody who thinks they're a geochemistry expert because they know the chemical formula for quartz, but then you get to talking to them and they're like "what the fuck is feldspar".

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Short linguistic fun fact

The ingredients of the cake sounds fancier than what goes into the cake, but their literal meanings are almost identical. Ingredient comes from Latin ingredientem, literally 'going into'. It's a participle of ingredī: in (into) + gradī (to go).

The stem grad- also gave us the words below, some of which are derived from the past participle stem grass-. When there was a prefix, the a became an e in early Latin:

grade < gradus (step)

to progress < prōgredī (to go forth)

to transgress < trānsgredī (to go beyond)

aggression < aggredī (to go towards)

congress < congredī (to go together)

egression < ēgredī (to go out)

regression < regredī (to go back)

retrograde < retrōgradī (to go backwards)

degree < Old French degré < dē + gradus

gradation < gradātiōnem (literally something like 'a stepping'"')

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I block people for being gullible. Some might call this "mean". However, having been regularly exposed to dangerous levels of gullibility offline for many years, I have developed a violent allergy to it. There is a limit to what antihistamines can do for me.

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"I wish I could read/watch/listen to/play this for the first time again"

As years pass, I resonate less and less with that idea.

The stuff I like the most is stuff that has grown in appreciation as I revisit it over and over, every time finding new details to notice, slowly gaining new perspectives on it as I become more experienced with it and with life. Rediscovering it again for the first time would lose all that progress.

The stuff I used to like a lot, but that I have cooled on, or that I liked in my childhood but that I know wouldn't hold up if I rewatched it again as an adult — I still have the memories of my enjoyment of that stuff. Rediscovering it again would mean losing those memories at the risk of not even enjoying it now.

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funny teehee hours are over. back to sad griddlehark time!!!!!

also sorry for the captions being so hard to read sometimes, im gonna be real with you I was too lazy to fix it cause I had already merged the layers djdhsh

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Stuff I was brewing sometime last month

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GEEEEET DUNKED ON!!!!

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Colored my first Aurora sketch

Don’t think I made their hair floods enough will correct in future sketches

Characters belong to : @comicaurora

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There's a need to remember that for all the harms it is alleged to be a source of, individualism is the cement of our modern idea of human rights.

The idea that individuals have agency and unalienable value as individuals is the main argument that stands between us and collective punishment, scapegoating, forced marriages, honor killings, caste systems, abortion and sex work bans, slavery, show trials…

If we don't concede that there is a hard limit to how much of a person can be legitimately sacrificed for the greater good, then none of the above things are off the table.

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I have this disorder where I am compelled to believe things that make sense instead of things that make me happy.

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Some things you wouldn't know about at all if you lived in the Western Roman Empire:

The game of Chess

The game of Go

Paper

Dominoes

Playing cards

The upper case/lower case contrast in the alphabet

Punctuation

The concept of biological race

The concept of biological sex

Magnetic compasses

Maps accurate enough for orientation, travel or strategy planning

The concept of libertarian free will

Potatoes, tomatoes and chili peppers

Gunpowder

Polyphony

Bowed string instruments

Ice cream

Distilled alcoholic drinks (whisky, vodka, rum…)

Some things you might have heard of but would likely not be very familiar with if you lived in the Western Roman Empire:

Bound books (existed, but the majority of books were in scroll format)

Sugar (the default sweetener was honey, crystal sugar was an imported luxury)

Bagpipes (attested from descriptions that however clearly imply them to be an exotic and unusual instrument)

China (limited diplomatic contact and trade existed)

Animal fossils (known to Roman naturalists, altho their nature was poorly understood)

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more sleepover activities!