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No in between. Reblog if you vote pleas

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You guys really liked my last poll so

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the humble "like" is oft mocked despite what it does for us. "like, three people" is a vastly different statement from "three people". "and i was like 'what the fuck'" is vastly different from "and i said 'what the fuck'". i love you "like" and anyone who says you make people sound stupid will be killed on sight

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I have a question for the fanfic writers among you: How do you treat your work in progress when a very similar story is put out there? Do you go on writing - in the spirit that everything is unique in its own way - or do you abandon the piece - in the spirit of preventing 'superfluous' contributions?

Let's add a further wrench into the process by saying the recently published work by another author, so similar to your own, seems so much better written than your own (granted we are always our own worst critics). Where do you go with that?

Maybe this is a question for readers, too. Do you mind reading similar works/story lines?

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Out of curiosity and also guilt over my own coffee intake. I wanna ask:

Now I'm not talking about when you're studying and so you drink 3x the usual amount or something like that. This isn't me asking what your record is. I'm talking about the most basic, average day, how many coffees you drink?

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so if demons are sticklers for contracts, demand high payment for their services, and have firm/specific rules regarding summoning rituals (aka the hiring process & availability of their labor)—what i'm hearing is demons are fully unionized

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The agonising feel when a character tag is full of shipping that you Simply Do Not Vibe With. The solution is, naturally, to keep scrolling. But the wince, the WINCE.

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The concept of not using your top sheet is totally foreign to me. I guess it’s because I grew up in a drafty old house sleeping under down comforters, antique quilts, wool blankets and other pieces of bedding that were a sensory nightmare/difficult to clean. I see people in my generation joke about the uselessness of the top sheet and I’m like. Idk, I think it has a pretty important job to do protecting you from touching the creepy haunted quilt your great grandma sewed.

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marine biology is so scary because it’s such a small field. i was giving a talk on cetaceans and afterward a woman approached me with her husband and she said, “you did very well. [husband’s name] actually pioneered the research and published the first paper on that. We were very impressed by you.”

Which is such a scientific interpretation/public education win I will cherish forever but also for the rest of my life any time I give a talk I will be haunted by the knowledge that the world’s leading expert who literally discovered/invented the topic might be in the room,

which is like, the opposite of what you’re supposed to do for stage fright. In fact I never used to experience stage fright but now I will.

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Be’lal the over achiever

The more I think about it, the funnier Be’lal’s death in The Dragon Reborn seems. I mean of all the Forsaken -except for Ishmamael who wasn’t fully trapped in the bore- he was the quickest to accomplish something, taking control of Tear and ruling it in “all but name”. The other Forsaken who tried to become rulers of certain areas, like Ravin in Andor, Sammael in Illian, Demandred in Shara Semirhage in Seanchan, and Mesanna in Tar Valon, took longer or failed completely, Aginor and Balthamel -who were released from the bore before Be’lal- didn’t manage anything except die before reaching the eye of the world, Lanfear spent her time after her release being a crazy ex, and while Graendal succeeded in her plans -plunging Arad Doman into chaos- she did take longer than Be’lal. Be’lal’s plans were going so smoothly, he planned to lure Rand to Tear, which he did, he planned to fight Rand, which he did, and he planned to let Rand take possession of Callandor breaking the seal around it so Be’lal can take it for himself, and he was winning the fight before Moiraine came and Balefired him, if she was a little late he would have probably succeeded in taking Callandor for himself, becoming the most successful of the Forsaken and perhaps he would have been named Nae’blis. But the story of Be’lal the over achiever ended comically early when Moiraine “Surprise Bitches” Damodred strode into the heart of the stone and was like “Balefire”, and ever since then Be’lal was known as the Forsaken who died too soon.

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Please look at the native range of this truly rare tree called Florida Torreya...how did you even make it

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My train of thought last night:

What happens to trans people on Athos

If gender is heavily influenced by society and Athosians have no concept of any gender but 'man' and women are something they've never interacted with or even seen beyond scriptural edicts, would anyone even identify as one?

Gender roles and appearances don't seem to be as rigid on Athos beyond beards signifying you have a kid, maybe people who would identify as nonbinary or transfemme in other times and places are able to present and behave however they want but still refer to themselves as 'men' because that's all they know and it works for them

If women are a poorly understood cultural symbol of sin and fear, maybe presenting as a woman is Athos's version of being goth

Given it's illegal for most people to even see pictures or read writing by women I wonder what this hypothetical deliberately countercultural female presentation would look like

Probably pretty metal

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an important principle of fandom (and life, actually) is that if you want more of Less Popular Thing, it is good to create positive spaces and events for it. however, if you use those spaces to take cracks at the More Popular Thing which you perceive as stealing oxygen from your Less Popular Thing, you do not increase the audience for Less Popular Thing. you decrease it, because you irk people who like both Things. and depending on the relative popularity, there are quite possibly more people who like both Things than people who only like Less Popular Thing. (not to mention - you kill your chances of recruiting people who like More Popular Thing but are neutral on or haven’t considered Less Popular Thing.) 

you’re not campaigning for votes (where There Can Be Only One), you’re marketing for a share of people’s attention. don’t be petty. be effective. 

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White-necked Rockfowl aka White-necked Picathartes (Picathartes gymnocephalus), family Picathartidae, order Passeriformes, Ghana

photograph by Rob Williams Rockjumper - Worldwide Birding Adventures

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"con artist" is maybe the profession with the biggest gap between How Cool They Are In Media and How Cool They Are In Real Life