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Yuri Gagarin, the hobbyist photographer, at home with his wife.

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I used to be mad about "whole language" reading approaches in theory but now I work with school-age kids and I am mad about it in practice.

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jeremy every time he unlocks a new piece of jean’s lore in tsc:

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the worst part about cardio is the laundry

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the most annoying people are people who don't understand storytelling. they be like "oooo how convenient that this thing happened to the main character in the very beginning". yeah no shit. that's why the story begins here

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Things that should be normalized:

Taking meds in public

Going out to eat by yourself

Not having your drivers license

Asking about allergies when eating out

Things that should NOT be normalized:

Watching loud videos in public without earbuds istg stop it its so annoying I don't want to hear some Minecraft dude screaming while I'm trying to eat my pancakes in peace

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it's fledgling season so here's your yearly reminder that if you find a baby bird that is completely feathered on the ground, it is there on purpose under the supervision of its nearby parents as it learns how to forage and fly. fledglings do not need your intervention unless they are sitting in immediate danger (such as a bike path, road, gutter, etc.). if you do see a fledgling in danger or a fallen nestling (naked baby bird), it is a myth that parents will reject babies humans have touched. deposit the fallen nestling in the nest*, or put it in a dark towel-lined box with no water or food while you contact a local rehabber. please do not try to "raise" a wild bird on your own. happy spring and enjoy all the babies!

*(some birds will push out nestlings that are not viable, and sometimes even this level of intervention is not necessary. use discretion.)

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Instead of "live laugh love" or "home is where the heart is" my (wonderful, progressive, very accepting) dad put up the racism sign in the foyer

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NO WAY

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what if instead of having a fake name for internet personal-life purposes we could have a fake name for professional work-life purposes

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take your kids to work day!!

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Thinking about Jeremy climbing stairs and counting them in French, thinking about Jeremy reciting monologues and looking to Jean for words he’s missing and jean giving them immediately, thinking about jean wanting to memorize the sound of his language on Jeremy’s lips, thinking about Jeremy saying I’m only learning French for u

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thinking about aaron minyard taking a pharmacology class in med school & getting curious & looking into the experimental medication andrew was put on & finding articles about what it did to the people who took it and how it was deemed unhelpful & searching for any first-hand accounts of what it felt like because he knew he would never get them from andrew (and he would never pry into that, would never dig that up) & talking to katelyn about it because he needs someone to know, needs someone to remind him that it wasn’t his fault and he couldn’t have stopped it, and it can’t be nicky, who would only feel even guiltier than aaron & he gets tickets to andrew’s next game just so he has an excuse to visit him and see him face to face and remind himself that there are no drug-induced smiles anymore

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You have to get up pretty early in the morning to lead your gift horse across that burnt bridge but you can’t make a watched horse eat all your cans of worms in one basket

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my dream as a fanfic writer is to write a story which people want to talk to me about and send asks about afterwards and discuss things the characters did and the symbolism and meanings behind certain lines and I'll be all "hehe thanks" but irl I'll be in literal tears because I wrote something that means something to someone

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call me a dirty communist radical but I think everyone should know if they live near toxic waste