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Bend

Change a single letter and change the word game

I want to play a game with you all.

You have to make a new word by changing only one letter of the last word.

Dirt

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you can literally say anything to men, it doesn’t matter

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just finished my 5th play-through of the Mass Effect Trilogy. paragon Shepard in ME3 be like

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The last time we were on a long flight, my wife and I invented a game we call "Little Guy."

You start a game of Little Guy by saying, "I'm gonna hand you a little guy." The little guy is some kind of baby animal you are imagining. "Oh," she might say in response, "Okay," and hold out her hands for it. I will then mime handing her the animal. This provides some clues as to the little guy's size, weight, and general ungainliness.

She then gets to ask questions about what kind of little guy this is, BUT NO QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS ACTUAL APPEARANCE OR SPECIES ARE ALLOWED. Qualitative questions, or questions about his behavior, are the only ones permitted. She can ask "Is he soft?" or "Does he seem nervous about being held?" or "If I put him in the bathtub, does he seem okay with that?" or "Would he like a lil grape?" or "Is he the sort of little fellow who would wear a vest in a children's book?" but not "Does he have fur," "Is he a reptile," "Is he from Asia," etc. Some questions are in a grey area so you have to follow your heart, but the point is not to identify the animal as fast as possible: the point is to guess the animal purely based on vibes + how he would act if he were in your living room right now.

And I'm not limited to yes or no answers! If she asks, "Would it feel appropriate to see this little guy in a propeller hat?" I can reply, "Oh no, he has a gravity to him. A bowler hat would be a more appropriate hat." Or if she asks, "Does this little guy have protagonist energy?" I can say something like, "he probably wouldn't be the main character in a children's cartoon. He'd probably be the main character's ditzy best friend who's always eating sandwiches, or something."

We're big Twenty Questions to kill time in a waiting room people, but Little Guy is more about the journey than the destination. It's got a different kind of sauce that's nice if "killing time" and "lowering anxiety" need to happen hand in hand.

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CALRON

How could you hurt me like this

Ship dynamic is trending on twt again so I’ll just share one of my fav

It might be classic but I still love it nonetheless

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Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).

When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".

When the boat is still being built, your say "it".

When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".

When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".

When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.

If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").

If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")

If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").

If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.

If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.

I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.

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Hey, you know that one character? The one played by the tall, long-haired actor? The one who was pre-law in 2005, and well on his way to going to law school and getting a degree until an unexpected family issue reared its head, and he dropped out and chose a different career path? Y’know, he’s got that complicated relationship with his father, a parent-child relationship with his only sibling, and has some strange, destructive abilities that tie in with multiple traumatic experiences with fire?

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Reblog and put in the tags the fourth song that’s in your spotify on repeat playlist

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Ilia fucking Malinin’s world record breaking free skate

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I just woke up from a dream that there was a 90′s horror movie simply called, for some reason, “International Waters.” The plot of the movie was three people trying to escape a partially flooded, capsized cruise ship as they’re chased by a murderous, swimming newborn baby because according to this film if a baby is born directly into seawater it unlocks ancient prehistoric survival instincts. One of the three people had actually given birth to the baby like right when the boat flipped over but she was really nonchalant about the whole thing like “well of course he’s going to kill us he’s a baby in seawater” looking at the other 2 like they were idiots for not knowing. I don’t know how it could kill people but the baby had black voids for a mouth and eyes, it was lightning fast in the water and it could speak full sentences in a child voice though I couldn’t make out anything it said.

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And today from my silly little artist hands I offer a sad sketch of Aesop for any IDV Embalmer fans out there

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I've been drawing a lot of stuff involving choking symbolism recently

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Unfortunately I do that anyways

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Things you can do on the train

Read a book

Watch the scenery

Color

Paint if you have a steady hand

Talk to friends

Play a video game

Watch a film with a portable DVD player

Kill a demon

Take photos

Listen to music

Snack in the Cafe car

People watch

Possibly play cards

Other things

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I was today years old when I learned that when you type “otp: true” in AO3 search results it filters out fics with additional ships, leaving only the fics where your otp is the main ship