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not a question, but here’s a sketch i did of you a while back! you’re freaking awesome man!

holy shit, you've really captured the handsomest possible version of me and for this alone i love you

(also this is just great, super kinetic, the hair and shirt especially are super well realised)

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I don't think this is exactly an egg for Killie but I wanted to tell you that I'm leaving on my Camino today (Primitivo) and it's because I've been obsessed by the idea since you wrote last year about your Camino. Thank you for sharing your experiences so I could find out about this cool thing I wouldn't have encountered otherwise!

(References: The post about “is it bourgeois to want things?” Where I took the idea, broke it down flippantly into “Catholicism,” and said “if you’re going to be Catholic about things, why not work productively towards actual absolution, and by doing the Camino de Santiago (waxing poetically upon this pilgrimage) and be changed forever?” I also wrote this one and have transferred my deep desire for the Camino/Kumano Dual Pilgrim badge to original character Ken. )

I have gotta say real quick that I have not completed the Camino de Santiago or won my own compostela (although I’ve had certain spoilers for it.) I haven’t done it yet! my someday is still out there. (And that’s what that comic is about.)

But that makes me even more happy and impressed and proud that you are doing yours! I am so very happy for you, and so glad you are doing this. I am unspeakably grateful that you told me this, because it means a lot to think that I have given you in some small way an idea that you liked so much.

I would like to give you a present, but you’re setting off today and need something light to carry, so let me give you a poem.

Best of luck and buen Camino. May it change you. Please tell me all about it when you get back.

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My efforts in the community.....,,..

I'm amazed that Swan Control hasn't stepped in, frankly

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i don’t have flop posts i have cult classics and sleeper hits

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Steiff, felt may bug on wheels

circa 1916

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Joined by Republicans from the state legislature in a highly publicized ceremony, Texas governor Greg Abbott signed a law Thursday banning consensual sex. “I’m proud to sign this bill into law today making all consensual sexual acts punishable by a minimum of 10 years in prison,” said Abbott, who was applauded by religious and other right-wing interest groups for standing up for traditional family values.

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Actually no one should be having sex. All of us are aged-up minors and the passage of time is inherently problematic

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Foie Graphics

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I have been thinking a lot about what a cancer diagnosis used to mean. How in the ‘80s and ‘90s, when someone was diagnosed, my parents would gently prepare me for their death. That chemo and radiation and surgery just bought time, and over the age of fifty people would sometimes just. Skip it. For cost reasons, and for quality of life reasons. My grandmother was diagnosed in her early seventies and went directly into hospice for just under a year — palliative care only. And often, after diagnosis people and their families would go away — they’d cash out retirement or sell the house and go live on a beach for six months. Or they’d pay a charlatan all their savings to buy hope. People would get diagnosed, get very sick, leave, and then we’d hear that they died.

And then, at some point, the people who left started coming back.

It was the children first. The March of Dimes and Saint Jude set up programs and my town would do spaghetti fundraisers and raffles and meal trains to support the family and send the child and one parent to a hospital in the city — and the children came home. Their hair grew back. They went back to school. We were all trained to think of them as the angelic lost and they were turning into asshole teens right in front of our eyes. What a miracle, what a gift, how lucky we are that the odds for several children are in our favor!

Adults started leaving for a specific program to treat their specific cancer at a specific hospital or a specific research group. They’d stay in that city for 6-12 months and then they’d come home. We fully expected that they were still dying — or they’d gotten one of the good cancers. What a gift this year is for them, we’d think. How lucky they are to be strong enough to ski and swim and run. And then they didn’t stop — two decades later they haven’t stopped. Not all of them, but most of them.

We bought those extra hours and months and years. We paid for time with our taxes. Scientists found ways for treatment to be less terrible, less poisonous, and a thousand times more effective.

And now, when a friend was diagnosed, the five year survival odds were 95%. My friend is alive, nearly five years later. Those kids who miraculously survived are alive. The adults who beat the odds are still alive. I grew up in a place small enough that you can see the losses. And now, the hospital in my tiny hometown can effectively treat many cancers. Most people don’t have to go away for treatment. They said we could never cure cancer, as it were, but we can cure a lot of cancers. We can diagnose a lot of cancers early enough to treat them with minor interventions. We can prevent a lot of cancers.

We could keep doing that. We could continue to fund research into other heartbreaks — into Long Covid and MCAS and psych meds with fewer side effects and dementia treatments. We could buy months and years, alleviate the suffering of our neighbors. That is what funding health research buys: time and ease.

Anyway, I’m preaching to the choir here. But it is a quiet miracle what’s happened in my lifetime.

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leave. me. alone.

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The 2007 Boston Mooninite Panic

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"And among these uncountable stars, it was yours that crossed my path. For that I shall be forever grateful"

- Themis, FFXIV Endwalker

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