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saying "und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, dann leben sie noch heute" instead of "they lived happily ever after" is so fucking funny to me. like, yeah. ofc they're still alive if they didn't die. doesn't mean it's a happy life though lmao

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on the plus side: really cool new tattoo

on the not-so-plus side: itchy as fuck T_T

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Happy 10th birthday to the best tweet of all time.

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The haunting ancient Celtic carnyx being played for an audience. This is the sound Roman soldiers would have heard their Celtic enemies make.

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Tumblr is good for creative types because the tag system lets you be truly deranged about how much you like it without feeling as Exposed as a Comment Section

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wait other post cancelled. mutuals. when r ur birthdays.

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one of the best gags in leverage is when the crew starts naming random cons, even better when they disagree and give us just enough information to be more confused - "it's like the cherry pie, but with lifeguards" or "the roper has a glass eye. No! It's a cue ball." bafflingly perfect, 10/10.

But a close second is when they just reference a con they did, without giving us any useful information. Now we see physical bits during like the broken wing job which is great. Or the night out jobs where they show the chaos of both nights in pieces from the other side. But I had forgotten in the 'cross my heart job' they were doing crazy crazy things. They were on the emerald isle, Sophie was pretending to be french on a topless beach, Eliot was in a shipwreck fighting three ex-brazilian combat divers with harpoons underwater, and hardison apparently faked a volcano eruption??

no notes. a perfect show truly

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Actually no one should be having sex. All of us are aged-up minors and the passage of time is inherently problematic

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I haven't gotten far enough learning German yet 😭😭 What's the "i don't spider" idiom? I must know

In colloquial German the verb "spinnen" means not only to spin (ie yarn) but also to be crazy. You can say things like "ich glaube ich spinne" (I believe I'm crazy= reaction to something crazy, disbelief) or "du spinnst wohl" (you must be crazy = are you nuts?!).

Die Spinne means spider as a noun so "ich glaube ich spinne" sometimes gets incorrectly translated as "I think I spider" as a joke.

Incorrectly translating idioms, proverbs etc for fun is a German pastime (see also Germans humorously describing their English as "not the yellow of the egg" to indicate it's not exactly the "cream of the crop")

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We ask your questions anonymously so you don’t have to! Submissions are open on the 1st and 15th of the month.

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bless everyone who leaves comments on ao3 . i wish you all the best for your entire lives

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The sentences "Asexuals can still have sex" and "Aromantics can still date" need to go up on the high shelf for everyone except aces and aros talking about their own experiences. From now on, everyone else has to use the revolutionary new phrase "Asexuals and aromantics can do whatever the fuck they want forever."

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i will start sitting in a clearing holding a small stone and rubbing it with my hand for 10000 years to learn how to empathize with the river bed

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nothing like a tumblr ship poll to make u confront the fact that we are all on our own unique journeys. some of us with no compass or map

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I hate when a tiny stupid thing pushes you over the edge and makes you freak the fuck out because it makes you look like a completely irrational tar pit of a human being. Like no I promise this is warranted just maybe not about that specifically I swear I'm well adjusted. Come closer stick your fingers in my cage

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being a writer is like babysitting 15 feral children you gave birth to in your mind and they all have knives and secrets