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Illustration by Sophie Lucido Johnson

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They just dropped the perfect Christmas gift for your least mentally healthy friend

(and by “your least mentally healthy friend” I mean “me”)

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We make fun of generic The Blank of Blank and Blank titles in fantasy, but honestly they're genius. First of all, that naming convention is way older than booktok and the new pulp fiction we pin on it. It belongs in the genre by tradition as much as elves and magic. Second it's a great use of iambic trimeter to put weight on those three words, which just sounds nice too.

And most importantly, it gives everyone who reads the title three keywords that describe the story. Fantasy is so diverse that picking three evocative words per work is possible the best way to describe it. Court, Thorn, Roses; Song, Ice, Fire; Ballad, Songbirds, Snakes, whatever. It's definitely overused at the moment, but not cause people are uncreative. It works

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When I was 19-21 years old living on the streets in california the people who cared for me the most were never the people who could care for me comfortably. It was never the channels that were intended to or designed to help me. Not my dad or my local government or anyone with the authority to make things happen. It was my friend's stoner mom who got by on community aid who made me the best damn lentil soup ill ever have (no really that ruined the dish for me nothing has ever come close to that soup) and let me sleep on her floor. It was my ex who hated my guts but still set me up with toiletries when i needed them. It was the father of a classmate who met me by coincidence one time in a park and brought me home to share taco night together. It was the barista who got in trouble for giving me free coffee. It was the other homeless person who I shared some candy with who gave me his blanket. It was the randos at the bar who brought me to get stitches one night. The have-nots have always had more to give than people who believe themselves in a position of power. You can pick any one ivy league graduate and they will have a sob story for you. They will have excuses for why they don't care. They're scared and gormless and it'll take a hell of a lot to make me care about them. I guess what I'm trying to say is that as much as everything sucks and we're all fucked over every day, nothing can ever impede your own actions more than the feeling that you cannot make an impact. The initiative needed to make the world a better place lurks in everyone, it's your responsibility to nourish it. Volunteer somewhere, talk to someone on a bad day, give people the time of day to explain themselves. When you can, reach out to help someone. And when you can't, don't ignore them. Be kind to your friends and neighbors. It's literally always been and will always be about community. I love every one of you truly.

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this is frying me 😭

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futch lesbian and wanian lesbian nephenee icons

like/reblog if you use and credit me

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A Lively Bluegrass Cover of the ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ Theme Song

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went to an elementaryschool musical production and they started the show with the director saying: "Now there's some very small viewers here today, so just so you know. There will be a scary character later in the show. This is her," and a girl in a kinda scary ghost outfit did a creepy walk across the stage, the stood up straight and did a cheery wave, "but remember, it's just Nina. She's pretending to be scary."

Aaaand i would very much like for horror movies to have that as a little bonus feature you can chose. Let me start a movie with Guillermo del Toro showing me a scary ghost that might jump at me, but don't worry, thats just Doug!

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the ladies call me the subjunctive mood the way I express desire, wishes, uncertainty, doubt and fear

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random poll. i assembled these options from a wikipedia list of languages with the most speakers

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Love my grandparents.... on the phone just now my papa was dead serious like “i just think it’s so terrible to kick your child out for being gay . This is a union family and the ONLY thing i’d ever kick any of you out for is crossing a picket line.” okay working class hero!

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Hunter of Worlds! Please! Everybody read Hunter of Worlds by CJ Cherryh

i know why this is less common but i kind of wish more spec bio adjacent worldbuilding was less about the ways a species' society was built around their natural behaviors and more about how it failed to accommodate them

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Very old comic I finally finished 🙌🙌🙌