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My favorite thing in almost all timetravel fix-it desmond fics is when he casually mentions like "Oh, that guy is hot." And (depending on when he got sent back, I'm using ezio for this), ezio is like *gasp* "Did you just admit to... liking MEN?!" and desmond is just like "...we kill people Ezio😐. I think if they arrested me, it would be for the multiple acts of terriosm." It is so funny every time

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You ruined a perfectly hot middle aged man by giving him abs

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some dndads fics bc this is lowkey my favorite dnd podcast now

https://archiveofourown.org/works/23814763

We Often Forget The Youth Of The Ones Most Hurting (1,799 words); the kids talk with Paeden and Darryl and Henry share a nice moment

https://archiveofourown.org/works/24037627

What Happens to Glenn and Ron in All the Oakson Bed Sharing Fics (1,242 words); Ron and Glenn share a bed as literally just bros and their friendship is nice but also makes me feel a longing I can’t put into words

https://archiveofourown.org/works/25193251

You Belong (2,493 words); Glenn tells nick a story to help him sleep after a nightmare

https://archiveofourown.org/works/25447591

hand holding underneath the stars (1,041 words); terry and grant discuss the trip to ballsdeep

https://archiveofourown.org/works/25522156

Nightmares fucken suck (1,202 words); lark wakes up from a nightmare and spends some time with nick

https://archiveofourown.org/works/25169305

Where the Birds and the Bees Wont Know Me (2,714 words); Darryl and grant get to have an actual heart to heart after grant’s date with Yeet ends badly

https://archiveofourown.org/works/25105726

Falling down like angels fighting Stars and lightning hold me tightly (807 words); friends can cuddle, as a treat

https://archiveofourown.org/works/24968866

War Paint (2,651 words); while being held by the omega daddies the kids have some time to bond and have fun however short-lived it may be

https://archiveofourown.org/works/26093029

Cat’s Cradle (2,811 words); "What was your father like?"

https://archiveofourown.org/works/26498299

Brave as a Noun (1,883 words); so episode 42 sure did hurt like hell. Here’s a really nice fic of Darryl helping Henry process the aftermath

https://archiveofourown.org/works/26641723

only a few ever worried (3,096 words); terry junior is angry on behalf of nick

https://archiveofourown.org/works/26666263/chapters/65036041

harbor, haven, home (44,315 words); Terry Sr., Samantha, and Ron all navigate their relationship

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UNMUTE THIS 💀💀

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In the same vein of cave paintings having children’s handprints higher than their height suggesting them being lifted up or sitting on the shoulders of adults, there’s footprints in Australia dating to the Ice Age showing a group of adults and children walking to a body a water, and one child breaking away from the group to seemingly skip in a wavy path until rejoining the group

This is like 20 thousand years ago! And the joy and happiness of going to water made this child playfully skip along! It’s universal! Dancing their way back to their family!

In a language we will never hear, a culture we’ll never know, with thoughts and ideas we can only imagine! There are millennia of untold moments of happiness, of human connection and warmth that are gone forever. But they still happened! Did that family even notice the tracks they left? How could they have known that that one day their impossibly distant descendants would be able to see the imprints they made?

Another set of tracks in the same area shows three men hunting a giant kangaroo, running at incredible speeds, but one of them had only one foot! They jumped along on one foot, every so often an imprint from a stick appearing. How did they lose their limb? An accident? A fight? A predator? Was it completely gone or maimed? Was it from birth? Either way this person was cared for by their family and was able to heal and participate fully in life! They most likely felt grief when their family member lost the use of their limb! Who cared for them? Who gave them the stick to help them walk? What kind of joy did their family feel when they made a recovery? Did someone shape and carve the stick? They certainly worked all of their other wooden tools, something as essential that would have been too.

This was during the ice age when Australia became a brutally cold, dry desert. Their entire food system had to change. By all indications it should have been a stark and difficult life of little resources. But no! They worked together! They looked after their wounded and sick! The speed that these hunters were running at was incredible and means they were well fed and healthy! A millennia of helping one another and caring for one another and all we can get are tiny glimpses of these moments did they catch the kangaroo did they laugh and congratulate each other when they did how happy were they to bring it back to their families I just

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-core as a suffix serves the exact same function as -esque and yet they throw tomatoes at me when i say something is kafkacore

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So I wanted to know what kind of crystal could go in a wizard staff, right? so I googled “big crystal,” as one does, and got an Etsy ad for This

And as you all know I Am currently taking a geology class, so I am probably more emotionally invested in minerals than usual. But that is...very obviously not a natural crystal.

So I did some looking around on Etsy.

Now, these shops all seem to advertise to the “witchy”/“spiritual healing” type of person. And there are a lot of them. Crystals are a Big Thing on Etsy. And ALMOST ALL of them are obviously artificially cut into the same sort of prism with a triangular pyramid top, regardless of the actual sort of crystal it is supposed to be.

Even like, fucking, obsidian. Obsidian is volcanic glass, it doesn’t form crystals at all, it is not a crystal

I’m not throwing any shade at people who are into crystals for like witchy reasons, but it really seems like if crystals are spiritually important to you, you should know what a crystal is...right...?

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Traditional Georgian dancing.

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The hobbit soundtracks are a spiritual experience and anyone tries to tell me otherwise is dead fuckin wrong

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Getting ready for bed.

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I would let a racoon do surgery on me

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“false sense of security” is the polar opposite of an anxiety disorder

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