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I call upon the fan fic writing gods to bless you with the perseverance to finish one of your unfinished drafts. 

May your fingers dance along the letters upon your device with ease, may the devil of distraction stay far from you, and may your work not need much editing.

I pass this blessing upon every fan fic writer out there.

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martin penderwick complaining in latin about his blind date will never not be funny

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this may or may not be a fantasy writing exercise for me. please reblog

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day 1: matzah isnt so bad i guess why do i hate it again day 8: goodbye hell cracker see you next year

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So I was thinking about my recent realization that I am ambidextrous and that it's not something everybody can just naturally do (like I thought it was) and I have another "can everyone do this or is my family just weird" question for y'all: Can most people consistently hit the target with ranged weaponry the first time they try it? wait okay unrelated follow up question: can most people (if they do not have an injury or condition that prevents it) sit on the ground cross-legged and lean forward until their torso is like flat on the ground? editing again: I am trying to come up with more things I thought everybody could do but that, in retrospect, might just be my family. High kicks? I guess? I know not everyone can do like head-height kicks, but can most people kick like chest high?

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knitting tutorial made by a twenty-something knitting influencer: 18 min long, 12 of those minutes being the intro and a sponsor plug, they show the first few steps of the tutorial at the slowest speed known to man, they show the most important steps at a neck-break speed, they stop every five seconds to talk about what they just did, 40,000 comments filled with questions ranging from insightful to “how do i knit”, filmed with a camera that costs more than a car, the tutorial is incorrect.

knitting tutorial made by a seventy-something grandmother: two min long, filmed 17 years ago, shows you what you want with the skilled patient hands of a beloved deity, made with the world’s shittiest camera, the best video on the fucking internet, four comments and 30 views, you lose the video and never find it again.

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this too shall pass

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To put it very bluntly.

You will always make a better impact helping people who need it than trying to hurt people you think deserve it.

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Everyone should read their own fanfics recreationally tbh this shit fucking rules. It's like the author knows exactly what I like.

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btw though. crossing my fingers so i don't jinx myself, but. Old Unit, Young Unit chapter 8 is a few rounds of editing away from finished.

and what's more, i think i'm pretty sure that chapter 9 is going to be the last one. not to get ahead of myself, but i am SO excited to be past the bottleneck of spoilers on this fic, because then i can start posting all the other polaris stuff i've been working on in the meantime, some of which is already finished and just waiting for me to get past the spoilers at the end of OUYU. i have oldunit's official company file. i have niri pov of parts of OUYU. i have a couple of niri's prior adventures. i have bits of what comes next for oldunit. and eventually (altho this is REALLY getting ahead of myself) i have a whole sequel longfic that i'll be able to start working on in earnest.

i'm excited, is what i'm saying. i'm getting SO close!!!

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The “oh I could definitely write this fanfic in under 5000 words and it really wouldn’t take me that long” voice in your head is actually the devil speaking

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game: conlang golf. using only historically attested sound changes or grammatical shifts, modify a language in the specified way, e.g., evolve English into a language with triconsonantal roots, create a language that is to Oscan as French is to Latin, turn Ithkuil into something actually speakable by humans

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Not sure who needs to see this, but if a Service Dog starts backing into you, pushing you away from their handler, or they sit down at a leash distance from their handler

You Should Move Away.

They are performing a task known as "spacing" or "blocking" that helps reduce or prevent anxiety in their handler.

They are NOT "asking for pets" or being disobedient or asking to be spoken to. All you have to do is stay back from the dog and handler.

This is not a capslock PSA because I'm not sure how many people that don't have a SD actually know this is a trained task.

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all your stuffed animals love you. they're not sad if they're in a box, or on the floor, or not held/played with as much. they understand. they know that you might need another stuffie more, or that you don't have enough space. they're just happy to be with you, and if you ever give them away, they'll be happy there too. stuffies are for comfort. they understand. they love you too. it's okay.

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First you procrastinate on the task because it is not a big enough deal to get done urgently. Then you procrastinate on the task because it has become such a big deal that doing it is overwhelming. You would think that this implies a middle point where it is just big enough of a deal to get done easily, however the inherent perversity of the universe's causal geometry prevents this

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The reason the work you’ve done on how you feel doesn’t seem like it’s working is because you need to do it until it works. It’s never been “this strategy will pull you up” it’s always been “here’s something you can do that will END with you getting out of that hole” the climbing still hurts and the being underground still hurts but that doesn’t mean it’s not working

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matzo brei is such an S-tier food its fucking nuts