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Things that work in fiction but not real life

torture getting reliable information out of people

knocking someone out to harmlessly incapacitate them for like an hour

jumping into water from staggering heights and surviving the fall completely intact

calling the police to deescalate a situation

rafting your way off a desert island

correctly profiling total strangers based on vibes

effectively operating every computer by typing and nothing else

ripping an IV out of your arm without consequences

heterosexual cowboy

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started 5 years ago! revived several months ago! stopped to read several books! finally done! at a whopping 3,000 words.

Fandom: Good Omens Rating: T Pairing: a/c Tags: Gnosticism, pining, biblical cameos, also nag hammadi scripture cameos, genesis 3:14 but make it sad, can God make a plan so ineffable that God can't eff it, not a food kink but not NOT a food kink, season 2 compliant, what is love? baby don't throw me into a pit of boiling sulfur

Crowley eats dust all the days of his life.

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Married his first cousin. And then didn't let my grandmother go to her brother's funeral because people at the funeral might be confused that the sister of the deceased is the father of the husband of the daughter of the deceased and oh doesn't that mean they're--- [[gunshots from the gun that my uncle claimed he owned to defend his sailboat from pirates]]

Poll: if your mom remarries when you’re 26 years old is that guy still your stepdad or is he just your mom’s husband.

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I actually don’t mind that “dead dove” has become conversational shorthand for “fics with heavy themes where you REALLY need to pay attention to the warnings”. such is the nature of language. what i do mind is when people tag their actual fics with dead dove and then give no indication of what they’re actually warning about. that is useless. that helps no one. that is completely against the spirit of the meme. i will not be reading that

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anyone else learn to write in tolkien's elvish script when they were like 12, proceed to write 2+ years of diary entries in it and then almost entirely forget how to re-translate them? becos uhhh

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im always saying this

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now that i am a real adult i am starting to realise. media lied to me about the availability of rooftops to go hang out on. every day i wish i could be hanging out on a rooftop somewhere looking cool as fuck

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IG : @emperorofmischief

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never ask a woman her age a man his salary your mutual how late it is in her timezone when she starts posting about that bisexual man

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I was trying to pull up @henwilsonmd's ao3 page (tuckergreeen) and um. i forgot one of the "e"s.

Nothing but respect for the craft tbh.

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You, a heroic paladin have successfully slain a fearsome dragon. But the dragon warns you that death is but a door, and dragons don’t die, they reincarnate. You paid it no mind….until your son was born with golden, slitted eyes.

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Poll: if your mom remarries when you’re 26 years old is that guy still your stepdad or is he just your mom’s husband.

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Demographic of people in the Witcher fandom iirc convinced there's such a thing as 'lute oil' which best as I can tell is incorrect

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Oh my god

When people get a little too gung-ho about-

wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?

ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.

That’s…wild. What was I talking about?