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The real reason Jasnah wanted Shallan to marry Adolin was to make sure that the Kholin Audacity continued on the next generation

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wool is soo nice

also, if you get wool wet, it stays really warm

The closest experience I've ever had to discovering "the vitamin" was buying a 100% wool outfit and wearing it in the winter.

Not only was I not freezing anymore, I was not sweating and overheating either. The horrible sensory nightmare of winter clothes disappeared.

In particular, I bought a pair of wool pants. They were a thrifted pair of fancy dress pants like you would wear at an important office job, and they were easily the most comfortable pair of winter-appropriate pants i'd ever worn. I wore them Every Single Day.

From that point on I realized a lot of my clothes were making me feel bad, and the common thread was polyester. Especially polyester blends.

It's a trap because the polyester clothes are the ones that always feel sooooo silky soft when they are in the store, whereas cotton, linen and wool can feel comparatively rough and scratchy. But when actually wearing them for hours throughout the day, it's the natural fibers that feel more comfortable.

Maybe the secret to sensory comfort is not about the presence of softness, but the absence of overloading sensations. Or maybe the sensory stress and agony is not triggered by texture of the fabric, but by how it breathes and regulates temperature.

Then there's the problem of clothing life span: polyester blends, no matter how soft they seem at first, become rough and scratchy and covered in hard, itchy pills after wearing them 10 or 20 times, whether or not they have been tumble-dried or even washed at all. (I tested it!) Linen and cotton become softer and more comfy the more you wear them, polyester but ESPECIALLY polyester blends become a constant stressor. Polyester blend t-shirts I used to love for their softness now feel bristly and irritating.

So now I'm trying to change my wardrobe to as many natural fibers as possible, and the more natural fiber clothes i have the more I realize that the plastic fibers stress me out. It's so easy to overheat or freeze in them and they're always degrading and becoming less comfortable and it sucks.

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I continue to run into people that are confused as to why Americans have screens on our windows and it’s really quite simple.

Bugs

Diseases carried by bugs

Other assorted wildlife such as dogs and teenagers

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this is who youre asking to work 40hrs per week btw

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little doodle featuring Ghost and Hornet holding floatie toys.

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so basically GBBO is stressful because of Paul, nothing else?

sounds about right.

I know that some British people take umbrage at Americans calling the Great British Bake Off relaxing, but it's just because GBBO is such a different kind of stressful from American baking shows.

American baking shows will be called something like "Cupcake Knife Fight", there's horror movie lighting everywhere and dramatic stings every 5 seconds. All of the contestants are shit talking each other and fist fighting over the one single deep fryer provided by production. It will show the judges all whispering to each other at their super villain table overlooking the whole kitchen, and one will be like, "Oh my god. Everyone look at Brenda right now. She's straight tanking it." And it will cut to Brenda, who is running around covered in flour and crying and also bleeding for some reason. Then you get a clip from an interview with one of the contestants, and they're like, "I really need to win this. Without this award money, I'm gonna need to close my restaurant, sell my dad, and live out of my car. AGAIN." Then the giant digital doomsday clock overhead lets out a horrid klaxon, the judges tell half of them that their cupcakes taste disgusting, and one of them gets eliminated and sent to walk down the dramatically-lit shame hallway never to be seen again.

Meanwhile GBBO is in a lovely, brightly colored tent, there are delightful and friendly hosts/jesters there to keep everyone entertained, and all of the B Roll is of like... a bumblebee going into a flower, or a lamb running in a field. And yes, there will be moments where someone will mess up their timing or something, and they'll be looking at their bake through the oven door like, "oh gosh I don't think this will rise in time!" Then they stand up to find Paul Hollywood directly behind them ominously. His creepy whitewalker eyes will glow white, and he'll say something like "the 12th of June. 2035. Drowning." And his eyes will go back to normal and he'll walk away. Then the baker gives a playful grimace to the camera and says "that didnt sound great, did it?". Cut to a sweet looking older woman sipping tea on a stool and she says "oo I do hope that Prue enjoys the taste of my sugary, sticky baps!". Then, at the end, someone gets a gold star for doing good, and the loser of the episode gets in the middle of a giant group hug. You see all of them at the end of the series at a giant carnival with their families and the post credits informs you that all of the contestants have become a Partridge Family-style traveling band and stayed friends forever.

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Ah these children who always create problems for poor mothers....

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I think about the AIDS quilt a lot.

Work on the quilt started in 1985; each 3-by-6 ft panel was made in recognition of a person who died from AIDS.

It's over 1,300,000 sq ft.

So often when learning about AIDS, we learn about how the government intentionally did nothing to help people because of their prejudice, but this quilt proves that not everyone shared that prejudice.

LGBTQ+ people have always been loved. Their families loved them, their friends loved them, and this quilt is physical proof of that.

Things are really, really difficult for LGBTQ+ people in the US right now, but please know you are loved.

No matter what the government says, you are loved.

Queer people always have and always will exist. And people have always loved them. Hate is loud, but love is stronger.

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Vi is the butch that wants to take a bubble bath with her little duck, maybe a squeaky ship even

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handsome caitlyn week day 6: supernatural/fantasy

today i offer you the oh so beautiful qilin cait

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he’s so babygirl

how did we feel abt the new tadc episode?

tagging my friends so they see this

@pluto-the-soap-eating-cannibal @astro-eats

@normystical @justaragdollysblog @rafareba

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I see you liked my Caitvi rockstars au! This is a little more of what I drew for this au ^ ^

Also i opened a ko-fi! I'm still learning how it works but if you like my drawings and want to show support I would really appreciate it

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everyone look at this

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Happy pride!

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Handsome Caitlyn Week day 4: Crime

Late at night, detective Kiramman isn't really doing any crime, but solving it instead

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one must imagine capnsoapy happy

do you think that a certain genre of queer person is so obsessively weird about pride flag discourse becuase their flags fill the gaping hole in their personality where a hogwarts house used to be

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Thinking about Adolin Kholin at the end of Wind and Truth I am going to be ill!!

My poor boy does not deserve this!! All he wants is to hang out with his wife and their boyfriend bestie but instead he fucking Goes Through It!!

They were supposed to get a drink after the end of the world but no we can’t have shit!!! They’re all trapped in different dimensions Brandon how dare you!!