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I took my little brother (autistic, mostly non verbal) out and he was using his voice keyboard to tell me something, and this little boy (maybe 4 or 5?) heard him and asked me "Is he a robot??" I tried to explain to him that no, he isn't a robot, he just communicates differently, but my darling brother was in the background max volume "I am robot I am robot I am robot I am robot"

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merlin has more strength than me bc if I heard uther pendragon bitch and moan about how magic only brings harm after I just saved his sons life for the ten billionth time that year with my magic and almost died yet again, I fear id accidentally turn him into a log

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Anxiety: You're almost 30 and haven't published a single book. You wasted your chance to become a successful author!

Me: Stan Lee created Spider-Man at age 40. George R. R. Martin wrote A Game of Thrones at age 48.

Anxiety: Oh fuck nvm you do you, king.

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hold on something just happened

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Add another one to the list of hilarious examples of why generative AI doesn't produce correct answers, just statistically likely ones.

(Customers asked for how-to videos, which the company doesn't have. The AI chatbot decided that a million internet users linking to this video after similar requests couldn't be wrong.)

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Who wants to come with me to New Jersey to go on an exciting adventure to find the magical mystery baseball mud

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people seem to love redemption arcs but absolutely despise a character doing something bad to earn the redemption. it’s exactly why i hate things like ‘well actually ____ didn’t deserve a redemption arc!!’ like bruh you do know someone has to do something bad before they redeem themselves right. like that’s the point of it.

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Spike became good despite everyone telling him he couldn't. He worked really hard to better himself and he succeeded even with everyone around him constantly bringing up every bad thing he ever did and throwing it in his face. They looked at him and they told him You Are Evil and You Cannot Change and he did it anyway. Can you even imagine having that kind of pushback? And despite all of that, despite everything, despite not even having a soul, he still chose to be good. For her. To be hers.

and when he gets his soul and she still rejects him, he takes it. He says okay and is there to help her whenever she needs him. And eventually he is hers. Because he fought against all odds to be good. To be exactly what she needed. To be her champion.

And he does NOT get enough credit for that

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Lesser-known steps of the writing process:

Finding all the paragraphs where you used some hyper-specific word more than once

Rearranging paragraphs that you swear you wrote in the right order but turned out to be totally backwards

Going for a walk, coming up with the perfect line, and forgetting it as soon as you get home and open your laptop

Creating a separate document where you can dump all of those nice sentences that no longer fit in anywhere

Waking up in a cold sweat because so-and-so was supposed to be barefoot but never actually took his shoes off

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preacher boy

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You cannot say that a top grossing artist is "feral" or making you "feral." You are listening to the Billboard Top 40. You are very domesticated.

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Burning Feathers

One moment, Vaggie is one of the best exorcists heaven has to offer. The next, one demon's torn off her wings and another is pleading for mercy on her behalf.

Vaggie doesn't know what Charlie Morningstar wants with her, but one thing is certain. She won't let herself be tricked into trusting the princess of hell.

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Go check out my Chaggie vampire and vampire slayer AU so I can decide if I want to continue it now that I've reached the actual Chaggie

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Send asks, you say? Alright!

Re-read some of DYW's Yoru moments and the mental image filled my head of Yoru in a disguise to make herself less threatening, in a theater supplies store, buying theatrical-makeup-grade concealer. (The whole "ghoul with a threatening and violent outer persona out in disguise, doing something comparatively mundane" idea is just tickling my brain right now.)

This absolutely happened

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Worked on a little DYW tonight. It's coming along, slowly but surely.

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vlad_shevchenko

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I can't sleeeep