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Frodo Baggins Anemia Moodboard

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John Farscape is the most Going with the Flow person on that ship. Hes making up whole personas on the spot to get out of a situation. But sometimes i think he gets carried away like he just starting beef with these bounty hunters for no reason. but the drama ✨

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Fundamentally if someone looks out on the whole span of humanity today and complains that life is too convenient and easy I can't help but feel a real contempt? Even beyond the total selfish myopia, it's not like the world lacks for edifying struggles and productive challenges for someone with some free time and capital to take on. You're just terminally incurious and lazy and want to make it technology's fault.

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I'm not going to derail the post telling people how to remove Windows recall, because there are legitimate situations where you are trapped with windows.

But there are fewer of them than it probably seems. Please, if you can figure out how to make a bootable USB drive, try Linux. Do it via a live environment and poke around, see if you can figure out how to do the things you do regularly.

If you decide to go in, you don't even have to ditch windows entirely. I didn't. But the difference is now I'm only booting into it once every few months to play a game that doesn't run well under Linux.

And my boot times are stupid fast. Login screen to functional desktop in 2-3 seconds. That's on a SATA SSD, the NVMe drive that Windows is on takes 30 - 40 seconds when primed, and closer to a minute or two when I'm only booting every now and then.

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The author's poorly disguised fetish

The author's proudly displayed fetish

The author's fetish you're pretty sure they don't realise they have

The author's fetish which they're firmly convinced everyone has and is just pretending otherwise

The author's non-sexual special interest which just sounds like a fetish because of their habitually unfortunate phrasing

The fetish the author is making a well-meaning effort to cater to in spite of clearly not understanding it themselves

The author's fetish that never quite makes it into the text because they keep getting sidetracked by the requisite worldbuilding

The author's utterly pedestrian sexual preference which the text treats like a bizarre fetish because they've got shit to work through

The author's seemingly innocuous recurring trope they're going to have a personal revelation about ten years down the road

The author's fetish you missed on a first reading because it's so far out of pocket, it never occurred to you that you could sexualise that

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true scotsman has never been tried

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I would just love to see the guys walking in and there's a whole pile of skeletons, but they're like cardboard, completely flattened, really completely flat.

Steven Spielberg

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This is your new pope

Oh my god Italy got hit with 20% tariffs, but Vatican City didn't. Some cardinal is about to become a global leader in microchip imports.

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Careful with birding you can become addicted to noticing beauty in everything and appreciating nature

BEWARE OF THIS!!

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I love when historians use the term "unforced error." It adds an air of judgement I can get behind.

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By contrast, when Althea did anything, my first thought was always "of course she fucking would." I love this also.

After finishing the Liveship Traders trilogy, and only finishing the first of the Assassin books so far, I'm really digging the differences in the two series. Fitz doesn't have a whole lot of agency, and when he does make decisions, I'm genuinely surprised by his choices. In some ways the pacing feels kind of slow until I realize that years and years have gone by, and by the end of book one I still don't have a solid grasp on his personality. He is still young, after all. I love when characters are written to be authentically just wrong and naive about how the world they live in works, and in this series so far I am delighted.

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After finishing the Liveship Traders trilogy, and only finishing the first of the Assassin books so far, I'm really digging the differences in the two series. Fitz doesn't have a whole lot of agency, and when he does make decisions, I'm genuinely surprised by his choices. In some ways the pacing feels kind of slow until I realize that years and years have gone by, and by the end of book one I still don't have a solid grasp on his personality. He is still young, after all. I love when characters are written to be authentically just wrong and naive about how the world they live in works, and in this series so far I am delighted.