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thinking about truth vs trust in Beyond Evil, especially with Joowon and Dongsik's characters. Joowon believes in truth being higher than trust, to the extent that he's the one who says that trust is an emotional matter, that once truth finds its way in there is a chance that trust will break. Dongsik believed in trusting people who cared about him till there was proof to question it, to the extent that he waits for them to confess if they have something to say at the cost of his own peace but tries to hold on to the belief of trusting people if there was any hope. Truth failed Joowon and trust failed Dongsik, but their beliefs save the other. without Joowon's truth, Dongsik stays stuck in the misery he was buried in for 20 years. without Dongsik's trust, Joowon never breaks free from his father's actions or his own loneliness to accept that people can care about him. when truth forces its way in, trust can falter. but when truth is invited in, trust can offer it comfort in return. and that's how they come together without needing either to give up on themselves.

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How evil does someone have to be to hoard more wealth than entire countries and call the people who have nothing "violent"?

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@allthefoolmine - for your 'the good life' tag

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Got a pin loom 👍

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Ignoring the annoying little voice in my head that says we are Never Done Ever to declare this square done- the first of nine!! The second will be finished tomorrow when I am not coming off an eight hour shift sjsjdj. The third will be a pair of filet embroidered lungs done in white over a multicolored square. I have high hopes 👍

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Some more pin loom squares made and joined with instructions from Sue Burton's Adventures in Pin Loom Weaving blog. There's a quilt like star pattern therre, but the two yarns I chose were too alike in color, so it's hard to see. Easier to see from the back, though the seams are more visible there.

I think I'm cresting the peak of this particular round of pin loom mania, but I have one project to do before I put it away again. Once that's finished I'll post a big roundup of my accomplishments in the realm of silly yarn squares

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Show me how unwell you are by telling me what your top song of 2025 is so far

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I did something a little different with the surface of this mug. After I finished underglazing, I sort of flooded the negative space with more underglaze that I’d watered down. It feels quite a bit smoother than usual!

On the bottom there, we see the benefits of loading a kiln yourself. I’m at a community studio, and our kiln shelves are in pretty rough shape. It looks like this cup was set on a particularly dirty area. I may try to sand the hell out of it later, but fortunately it’s almost all on the bottom of the foot.

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This is romance

And so is this —

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My toxic trait is that I am far more interested in the socio-economic and geopolitical implications of ABO settings than the smut.

For example: I can't read any ABO AUs set in England or France because while I can suspend my disbelief far enough for a gender trinary set up, I can't suspend it enough to believe those two countries would still be distinct entities in a alternate history where Richard the Lionheart could have impregnated Philip II.

If there was a viable dynastic future with Richard, Philip would have climbed him like an oak and dragged him to the altar if he had to. It's a match that makes perfect sense from both their points of view: Philip gets Aquitaine back under French rule, the best general in Europe on his council, and a powerful check on the Angevins... then unexpectedly (after Henry the Young bites it) the entire Kingdom of England for his Capetian dynasty. Richard meanwhile gets to stick it to his father, secure Aquitaine's prosperity, and gets the leverage to start pushing for his mother's release. Then when Henry kicks the bucket Richard doesn't actually have to be King of England in anything but name: Philip can run the countries and unify the Crowns and what not while Richard runs off to go Crusading.

Plus they also like, loved each other and stuff and being able to get to be together long term instead of being torn apart by politics would have been cool. But I'm mainly obsessed with the historical and dynastic implications.

All this to say any ABO au set in England or France that doesn't have them united as a singular Anglo-Frank empire is doing it wrong.

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I can't tell you the looks i got when I told people that instead of continuing to write YA novels that sold a lot of copies, I was going to write a series of small essays reviewing facets of human experience on a five-star scale.

And so I have to confess it is extremely meaningful to me that The Anthropocene Reviewed has not just hung around but found a growing audience, so much so that it will re-enter the New York Times bestseller list next week, four years after its initial publication.

Thanks to everyone who has kept that little book alive even as it becomes progressively less timely. What a joy.

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medieval illuminated manuscript nails by pampernailgallery

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Reading the descriptions of these dresses, here and on the video I posted earlier, it strikes me how many of them come either from places from which Palestinians have been forcibly removed or from places that straight up do not fucking exist any more. They're a remarkable remind of how much has been lost due to ethnic cleansing and genocide.

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THE PITT 1.08 • 2:00 P.M.