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Customer: THIS IS ME WHEN I VISIT MY FRIEND DMV: THE FRIENDFUL VISITOR

Verdict: DENIED

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what the hell kind of dreams am I having

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waking up

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anyone who thinks dostoevsky's writing is dry and humourless is missing out on passages like this

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I'm a wizard (biologist) invoking my acid splash cantrip on defenseless creatures (preserving invertebrates in formaldehyde)

i love it when mathematicians use the word "invoke" to basically mean "use". like yes i am a wizard (mathematician) invoking powerful chain lightning spells (using fermat's little theorem) to cut down all who stand in my way (get rid of annoying exponents)

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working on my honours thesis about the possible shared ancestor between humans and satyr while living on the Chimeran Isles to do ethnographic research has really been a slog

Given how wizards are themed around higher education, with their universities and ivory towers, I wanna see more fiction that goes into their published papers.

Like, there should be massive drama in the Wizarding world about how Fantasy Wikipedia says "There's no consensus about the origins of skydoves" when in fact, there very much is, everyone knows they were created in the first or second dragon wars, and that's uncontroversial. One single wizard at the University of Towers who thinks they're an offshoot of mermaids DOES NOT MEAN IT'S AN OPEN ISSUE.

Papers that are rebuttals to other magical discoveries. Like, look, that spell just won't work, and you can't call it a "theoretical exercise" just to cover up the fact that you've not been able to cast it. You can't combine Ichthyomancy with completely unrelated elemental summonings, that's just not how magic works, in all due respect.

Thesis defense would be significantly scarier when all your reviewers can cast Everburning Fireball on your ass.

Learning Theoretical Evocation from a hungover lizardman TA at 8am, because the professor for this course has been off on the Elemental Plane of Circles for half the semester trying to finish her paper on how Centaurs predate horses rather than the other way around.

Speaking of which, the life of a wizard graduate student... You keep getting called to go on "quests" which are just overgrown research expeditions to help out some professor's project. You spent nearly a month in that damp castle capturing all the spinfrogs you could find, all to help your professor's project on the possibilities of concentrated soul essences. To this day, you still get dizzy whenever you see battlements, let alone a donjon.

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ive developed a new studying technique called not doing it

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Transparent pins taken from the Arquives' button collection!

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So when Jesus rises from his grave everyone rejoices and it becomes a holiday but when I, Count Dracula-

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the silly <33

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nothing compares to balance but taz vs dracula is getting pretty close for me. i am especially a fan of how everybody fucking Hates the invisible man in the universe they've created. and how dracula and dr frankenstein are fucking on the low

Justin McElroy comes up with the best fucking characters lmao. I know a lot of people stopped listening to taz after balance ended so I need you to know that they're doing a mini arc TAZ: vs. Dracula and Justin's character is a stuffy old society lady who is very prudish. BUT she died and she got frankensteined into the body of a hot tall battle maiden with "luscious curves"

oh yeah and she died bc Dracula hit her with his car so hard her body exploded

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i miss them (fictional character i think about literally every single day)

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I also feel the need to make lists of items, or pros and cons charts. was going to a friends house once and I made a list that included 'phone' and 'shoes'. as if I would forget those.

this is probably not a universal experience but when I'm excited about an event or looking forward to something, I need to google it. just googled 'how to camp with friends' to get the thoughts out of my brain. is this how those wikipedia guys feel

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this is probably not a universal experience but when I'm excited about an event or looking forward to something, I need to google it. just googled 'how to camp with friends' to get the thoughts out of my brain. is this how those wikipedia guys feel