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The other thing that makes obimaul so compelling is just like... how do you forgive someone who ruined your life? CAN you forgive someone who ruined your life. How does finding out the ways in which this person suffered and the circumstances that led them to where they are now change your feelings? Does it?

Eventually you find common ground in your suffering. How do you look at someone who has caused you immeasurable pain and suffering and realize the hate isn't there anymore? Maybe, even, that it's been replaced with something like affection? For Maul in particular, who has clung to his hatred for the sake of his very life and has had little cause to know affection at ALL, what is he like when that fire has gone out?

For Obi-Wan, who never really needed Maul in the same way, but nonetheless has been forced to view Maul as nothing but a monster realizing that he is more wounded than he himself even recognizes. Maul has always just been A Monster to Obi-Wan, but the fact of the matter is that he was once just a wounded boy as well. That if things had been a little different, he could have been Maul? How does he grapple with the potential self loathing that could arise with empathizing with Maul and feeling like he has betrayed the people he loved by forming an attachment to the person that hurt them?

Delicious drama. 10/10 no notes.

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damn dude...

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(finishes intro to fic and posts it to AO3) EVERYTHING IS AMAZING I LOVE LIFE YIPEE

(one hour passes) hmm I should be banned from language

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@izukuwus

#she's trying to use the strawberries to smudge#the trees have bad vibes that's all

Wow, the psychic damage you just did me. LOL!

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So anyways with the rapid rise of fascism I feel it’s a good time to point out that it’s perfectly legal to follow unjust orders slowly, badly, or inefficiently

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@daraoakwise bought them for me. They're my work desk mascots currently!

the fact that they come in the same box is genuinely killing me. from what i can find they don’t even sell these designs separately.

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Paywall Free

"The protected land includes a one-acre fish hatchery at Unicorn Lake in eastern Maryland and the sprawling Green Ridge State Forest in the west. It includes shorelines, farms and woods around Naval Air Station Patuxent River, and the Chesapeake Forest Lands, some 75,000 wooded acres that are home to species like bald eagles and the once-endangered Delmarva fox squirrel.

None of it can be developed, and all of it has helped Maryland reach a landmark conservation goal six years ahead of schedule, before any other state that’s joined an effort known as “30 by 30.”

The program is part of a global initiative to protect 30 percent of the Earth’s land and waters by 2030. In 2023, Maryland joined the effort and a year later, Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat, announced that the goal had already been met. Nearly 1.9 million acres of land has been permanently protected from development, and the state has set a new target, to conserve 40 percent of its land by 2040...

Officials, land trustees and environmentalists said a unique set of factors led to Maryland’s success.

Since 1969, Maryland has levied a 0.5 percent transfer tax on real estate sales and used it for Program Open Space, which enables the state to acquire green spaces from voluntary sellers and purchase conservation easements from private landowners.

Owners like farmers and forest managers can still work the land, but agree that it can never be developed, even if the land changes hands.

Crucially, conservation has bipartisan support at the state level, said Elizabeth Carter, a land protection director at The Nature Conservancy. She said federal and state agencies, nonprofit groups and land trusts have worked together with shared goals, which helped the state meet its target sooner than many expected.

“That’s something we celebrate, and it’s exciting,” she said...

Josh Kurtz, Maryland’s secretary of the Department of Natural Resources, said that while the state had to balance conservation needs with development pressures and housing demand, natural spaces were crucial to offsetting planet-heating greenhouse gas emissions and to protecting the Chesapeake Bay.

“Being able to sequester carbon and mitigate climate impacts makes us more resilient in the face of climate change,” Mr. Kurtz said. “It’s also one of our key water quality strategies.” ...

According to Mr. Kurtz’s office, land conservation measures have prevented about 85,000 pounds of nitrogen and 6,000 pounds of phosphorus, which fuel algae blooms and starve water of oxygen, from flowing into the bay each year. The University of Maryland calculated that the state’s trees and forests absorbed and locked away 6.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2023...

While the state is still pushing toward its 40 by 40 target, there’s been a setback. Facing a $3.3 billion budget shortfall, the Maryland General Assembly recently voted to take $100 million from Program Open Space and other state conservation programs over the next four years. But A.J. Metcalf, a spokesman for the state’s natural resources department, said the programs were projected to generate $468 million through fiscal year 2029, enough to continue to acquire land for conservation “at a normal pace.”

Mr. Kline said he hoped that the state surpassed its next goal. “I would certainly hate to see our foot come off the pedal after 40 percent,” he said. “We feel like we’ve got something pretty special that’s worth protecting.”"

-via The New York Times, April 21, 2025

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honestly, the radicalizing event that made me ditch faux-ironic detachment is when I sent a hard-to-write sentimental message to someone I was (at the time) close with, and they sent the vomiting emoji back. it was like oh okay, that sucks. I am now of the opinion that it is 100x cooler and braver to be sappy with the people you care about.

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Put your answer in the tags, especially if you click the nuance button, please!

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here's the thing about the fucking tariffs. besides Unfairly Punishing Our FUCKING ALLIES YOU MORON- okay okay. anyway. the other thing

the other thing is that we have no manufacturing here

most of the fabric I buy to make my clothes is made overseas. I would actually love to buy wool from a local, unionized woolen mill! I'd be pleased as punch to do that! it's better for the environment and creates good local jobs that don't have a barrier of entry re: college degrees, which we need more of!

except we don't have any more fucking woolen mills because your billionaire ilk outsourced all of them to avoid union rules, OSHA, and paying minimum wage, when those things became commonplace and/or law. you orange fuckface

"buy American instead!!!" okay FROM FUCKING WHERE. we don't MAKE shit here anymore. and the few remaining local producers have been forced to charge exorbitant prices because they're competing with cheap unethical labor practices from big companies, so most people can't afford to buy local

god it's all so fucking stupid and I have to suffer for other people's idiocy that I actively tried to prevent

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Justice League International Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Guy Gardner/Michael Carter Characters: Guy Gardner, Michael Carter Additional Tags: Slice of Life, Poetry, Complicated Relationship(s), Communication, Post-Crisis, +Modern Age (1986-Present) Series: Part 11 of Past Resolution’s Power Summary:  On a rainy day in November, Booster tries to read and Guy learns a little bit more about his lover.

Excerpt:

It was a dreary day out, that kinda rainy fall day that made the roads gleam wet with reflections and turned everything into shades of gray that were only punctuated by brake lights and headlights and stop lights, with the occasional colorful sign thrown in. And inside, all was quiet enough that it was making Guy feel restless.

Not that that was anything new.

“If I didn’t know any better, I’d say you’re having a harder time with it than I am,” Booster commented from the couch, where he was tucked into the corner of it with the lamp on, wearing one of Guy’s sweatshirts and frowning intermittently at the book he was holding at various distances from his face like he was having a hard time seeing it.

“Don’t gimme that, you were the basket-case last weekend,” Guy popped right back, though without any heat, before wandering away from the windows to go spy on what Booster was trying to read. And maybe interfere with the man sexually, ‘cause what better way to spend a quiet, rainy day while the kid was off visiting her new 'aunts’? “Your head botherin’ you?”

“Not especially.” Booster’s tone was a little stiff, but Guy was pretty used to that. Beyond the fact that Booster often still seemed to be waiting for Guy to kick him while he was down, his moods had gotten progressively more quicksilver since he’d started antidepressants. Not for the worse, really, but definitely noticeable, 'specially when you happened to be living with the man. “I’m just having a hard time getting the words in focus.”

Guy stopped behind him and raked fingers through his hair, then grinned when Booster tipped his head back into it like a cat, eyes closed. “Took me a long time to be able to read again after I got messed up. And I still can’t really do it for fun anymore.” Guy eyed the metrical lines on the page of the slim volume Booster had been wrestling with and smirked in bemusement. “Didn’t know you were into that long-haired stuff, though.”

Booster half-shrugged, though otherwise he appeared to be content to let Guy pet him. “I’ll read anything in reach that doesn’t grow legs and run away. At least, when I have the time.”

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The night sky on Mars

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but what if i read one of your fanfics and then went to your ao3 accounts and read all of your fanfics and left a comment on every single chapter of every single one and you got spam emails from all of my kudos and comments and it made you smile, what then? what if i brighten your day with my words like you did mine, what then???