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one of my greatest pet peeves in fiction, and it is truly stupid I know, is that no one seems to understand how genuinely hard it is to kill someone via stabbing. stab wounds have a mortality rate of like 5%. especially abdominal stabbing. tv shows and movies show dudes getting stabbed one time in the lower abdomen with a tiny knife and then they fall over. like what did he die of precisely. that man died of Small Knife

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Mice straight up go on missions and no body talks about it

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sometimes you dont eat fruit for awhile and then you eat some fruit and you're like oh fuck its fruit

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Ruggiero Rescuing Angelica, from Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso by Gustave Doré (1879)

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IM SO SICK OF YOU ALL

No nuance allowed. please share for a bigger sample 💕💕💕💕💕

*by eat i mean how do you prefer your cereal.

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"i won't do polyamory because i don't think it's for me and i'm personally uncomfortable with the idea" <- wonderful i love you live your life however you want youre amazing youre incredible

"i won't do polyamory because it's wrong/it's just cheating" incorrect i'm killing you then my boyfriend is killing you then his boyfriend is killing you then his boyfriend is killing you then his boyfriend is killing you then h

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not gonna say it again

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Fox in the Village by Alexander Nikitinsky

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You ever think about how in Socialist Bolivia they get these gorgeous Neo Andean buildings with these beautiful bright colors and bold forms, meanwhile in the capitalist world we get Frank Gehry, who's buildings appear hostile to human life and sanity and generally look like if skyscrapers had tumors and they tried to make those tumors into real buildings; and who's attempt at a "brain health center" would probably turn you into the fucking Joker if you went there?

...I'm actually not joking about that last one, look at it:

It's like if they gentrified a fucking Psychonauts level...

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His yucky face is my favourite thing ever

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

This week we have stories on:

The people who love the “pests” of New York.

The racism that exploded a high school baseball team.

The forces behind a cult that starved themselves to death.

The mentality of a champion bull rider.

The power of silence.

Tap here to find out why our editors loved these stories.

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Bothering the beast