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sometimes it’s annoying when your character can’t jump in a video game but how often do you jump in real life?

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there is something to be said for going to zoos and aquariums on weekdays to avoid school-aged crowds but going to the aviary on a weekend is fun because going into big greenhouses and watching toddlers who just learned to walk encounter loose tropical animals taller than they are is part of the overall experience for me.

to me a three year old is just as much an entertaining and strange beast as an egret. and here they can interact directly. incredible.

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purple heather

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Trying to take care of yourself when you're sick is so annoying. Like you know you should probably eat something and you're trying to question yourself on what you'd want to eat, and the only answer is your inner voice of dying Jane Austen going "I desire nothing but death". well ok you dramatic sickly bitch do you want that with garlic or hot sauce.

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Proposal for new fandom etiquette:

If you read a fic because it was linked/recced somewhere, you leave a comment saying "came from XXX" and that comment doesn't need to include anything else.

Because when all of a sudden there's a lot of activity on one particular fic I WANNA KNOW WHY!!!!!

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Link to original

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truly never getting over the greatest loss streaming services caused: the disappearance of DVD special features. behind the scenes, bloopers, deleted scenes, commentaries, I will never forget you, I will never stop missing you.

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𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔢 𝔰𝔦𝔱 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔢𝔫𝔧𝔬𝔶 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔞𝔱𝔪𝔬𝔰𝔭𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 :)

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Detail from the Unicorn Tapestries, c. 1500. Met Cloisters.

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This is gonna come out wrong, but I actually really am drawn more to books that don’t have an encyclopedia of characters and family bloodlines going back fifty generations, and don’t flesh out every single aspect of the world-building down to the price of grain, and don’t require you to keep the wiki open so you can keep track of all the side stories, and don’t require extensive knowledge of “how this shit works in real life” so you can call out every instance where it was “unrealistic” and the author didn’t “do enough research” to make it believable

Sometimes you can just sit back and chill and read about a guy going on an adventure and falling in love, and that’s okay

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Yoshinori Mitzutani, Birds

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by Adam Bignell

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Every time I read the words 'male loneliness epidemic' I can't help but hear 'man who was raised to think he'd have a live-in maid/therapist/babysitter/nurse by now is shocked and appalled that one has not appeared.

It's just a handy phrase to replace 'feminism destroyed the family' or whatever we were calling this bullshit a year ago.

Is there a loneliness problem in our increasingly individualised and time-poor society? Yes.

Is that only effecting men? No.

Has the very concept of 'meeting new people' been branded and paywalled into apps and pay-to-access clubs/groups? Yes.

Is the extent of it only (heterosexual) romantic relationships? No.

Are women being blamed for what is essentially a facet of capitalism? Yes.

Is the solution to this writing endless articles about 'the MALE loneliness epidemic'? No.