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People will literally be doing anything on ao3

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AFFIRMATIONS

you do NOT have chuunibyou

you have DARK POWERS

your cursed eye MUST NOT be unsealed

your redemption IS within the ETERNAL PARADOX

you CAN ask the cashier for that water cup BY YOURSELF

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"The poor children"

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I think it's interesting how the two big holidays we celebrate today have completely exchanged places over their lifetimes.

When it started, Towel Day was very much a memorial. The date - May 25th - has no textual significance whatsoever. Rather, like the feast day of a Saint, it is the anniversary of Douglas Adams' death. The observance with the towels and all is/was a Fandom reference, but the purpose of the holiday was to honor the memory of a Great Man - and how more appropriately than with a bit of silliness? And in the, what is it, 20? more? years since his death, the memorial aspect has been eroded away, until it is now basically a celebration of the work more than the man, fun unalloyed by grief, a way to fly your geek colors. And perhaps that's what he would want in the end.

The Glorious 25th of May is exactly the opposite. It is - or was - purely a Fandom thing. It's a holiday in text, and we celebrate it alongside the characters because, well, Night Watch is a frickin amazing book and deserves to be celebrated. And there's admittedly always been a melancholic aspect, deriving from the text itself, but the date and the celebration were ultimately fictional. What I used to say is that I celebrated both, but I celebrated Towel Day harder because it commemorated something real.

And then Terry Pratchett died.

And this silly fandom thing we were already doing proved a ready made memorial to honor the memory of a Great Man. The fan art now us bursting with lilac covered fedoras. It now celebrates the man in addition to (perhaps even more than) the work.

I always wondered if Pratchett chose May 25th in honor of Adams. And I wonder what this day will look like in another 20 years, when the grief of this death has faded as well.

GNU Terry Pratchett. GNU Douglas Adams.

Happy Memorial Day.

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where is any higher quality version of this image

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You know, Yu Gi Oh has some decent wolf monsters (wulf, T.G. Warwolf) but every time they make a werewolf card it's so bad, like Lycanthrope, that weird ritual monster that does nothing. Or that Calupo guy who's just a wolf in a business suit. Or even Gene Warped Warwolf, who, is maybe even barely a wolf?

I don't know, I just wish we had one cool fuckable werewolf archetype, but unfortunately I am resigned to that never happening. And that's ok.

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Saw someone on Twitter say "He's against women being deacons so he's a conservative by Catholic standards."

Listen to me. We will colonize the damn moon before the Catholic Church alloes deaconesses.

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You're about to close on your very own, suspiciously affordable and comfortable house. Just before you sign the contract, the realtor shows you the required legal disclosure: your new house is haunted by the type of presence you'll get from this spinner wheel.

Of course it is.

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The pope will pass soon. He needs. Deltarune Chapter 3 and 4 to release.

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I was compelled by some sort of curse maybe to do nothing but make this for the past day and a half.

@reliqvia tagging op because it wouldn't let me put videos in the reblog

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I can't stop watching this- it's been stuck on loop for 4 hours. Somebody- help me.

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Hey. Your brain needs to de-frag. Literally it needs you to sit there and space out.

If you want your memory or executive function to improve, stare out a window at the skyline or sidewalk or trees or birds on the electrical wires for like 20+ minutes per day. (With no other stimulation like a podcast or TV if you can manage but hey baby steps innit). If you're fortunate enough to have safe outside with any bits of nature, go stare closely at a 1 meter square of grass and trip out on the bugs and shapes of grasses and stuff.

Literally this will make you smarter. Our brains HAVE TO HAVE this zone out time to do important stuff behind the scenes. This does not happen during sleep, it's something else.

That weird pressurized feeling you get sometimes might be your brain on no defrag.

Give your brain a Daily Dose Of De-Frag.

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