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I'm always bemused when white characters in Western novels are like, "I've never been to a funeral/wedding". My Asian ass cannot compute. Funerals are open house come-one come-all affairs for us and I feel sure even orphans in this country are dragged to some rando's wedding or three growing up because there's always someone extending invites to their school chum's cousin's dog to fill up a table.

There's a lot of obnoxious lack of boundaries and toxicity in collectivist cultures but the isolation and lack of community in white western society is sad af. Probably why they need hyperconsumerism to fill the void. Sometimes the busybody aunties are the lesser evil.

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I've decided to rename the Game Changers books: (***spoilers ahead***)

1. Game Changer Scott Hunter and the Backstory for Ilya and Shane's Big Moment

2. Heated Rivalry Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander and the Most Beautiful Star Crossed Love of the Century

3. Tough Guy Ryan Price and the Third Act Breakup that's Singlehandedly Solved by Ilya Rozanov

4. Common Goal (I haven't read it but I assume) Eric Bennett and the Gay Bar that Ilya Rozanov Frequents With Sage Advice

5. Role Model Troy Barrett and the Weird Ensemble Cast Book That Forgets It's a Romance Novel Because Even IT Wants More Ilya Rozanov

6. The Long Game Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander's Hard Fought Happily Ever After

7. ???? Luca Haas and the Time that Ilya and Shane Finally Win a Stanley Cup Together (if that doesn't happen I will riot)

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Terminally online Zoomers have done more to debunk the myth of politically progressive generational cohorts than any scientific study. Every day more of them come up with takes that even the average trad Cath could not fathom.

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I'm angry at having to grovel. I know I hurt them but I was hurting so much, still am. I don't want to be sorry. I don't want to be in the wrong. I don't want to accept any more guilt when the whole goddamn problem is that I feel like I'm a bad, useless, horrible waste of space all the fucking time, and it's nothing anyone is doing to me except my own fucking brain.

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I am watching a mouse make a series of what I can only describe as Fuck Around Choices, and the Find Out is VERY excited to continue this little experiment.

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I am watching a mouse make a series of what I can only describe as Fuck Around Choices, and the Find Out is VERY excited to continue this little experiment.

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They're so cute I wanna die.

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Apparently in China peach wood (Along with the rest of the plant) is believed to have properties that repel evil spirits, a little similar to silver in European legends or iron for both European fae and West Asian/Middle eastern Jinn. Taoists sometimes keep swords made of peach wood because of this. This made me realize something. If you took a peach wood stick, and attached studs to it of both silver and iron you'd end up with a club or staff (or mace, flail etc.) that would have the weaknesses of many kinds of supernatural creatures while still retaining effectiveness as a normal weapon (peach is a hardwood and silver's poor edge retention doesn't matter for studs). You could even keep adding new stud materials to get something ridiculous that affects over 120 catalogued folkloric monsters. Since you just need a few little studs you could even get some really expensive materials like meteoric iron (a thumb tip sized meteorite can still cost like 10-20 bucks I think). I could somewhat feasibly make a weapon that affects every monster ever thought to walk the earth, from vampires and werewolves to jinn and jiangshi and even mankind.

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When I call, my cats only respond if there's anything they want. Like if they're up for food or play or petting and believe I might be offering. If not, they'll sit on their haunches idly listening to me yelling for them like, "hmm, nah I'm good, thanks for asking though."

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The orange is strong in this one.

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Science is not based on a division between subject and object, but rather on attentiveness as a form of love. […] Just as love of a beloved stimulates our curiosity to know everything about them, so does love of the organism (or phenomena) evokes our desire for knowledge. [And] no organism can be too lowly to be worthy of love. Ingrith Deyrup-Olsen, a seventy-year-old professor of zoology at the University of Washington in Seattle, describes with delight the object of her research—slugs:

Most people think, “Slugs—yuk!” But I think that whenever you start to study an organism, you become overwhelmed by the beauty and complexity of it. I am always amazed and touched by the way these animals solve the  tremendous problems they have, which are always really basically the same as ours. I have come to have very strong respect and admiration for them, and I’ve also found it’s a wonderful area to involve nonscientists in. The minute you begin to show them that slugs are very complicated, interesting animals with their own needs and demands, people begin to look at them with very different eyes. I’m very moved by the slug’s ingenuity and tremendous drive to continue living. I think in the end this is what makes me go on, no matter how frustrating the experiments happen to be at that time.

— Linda Jean Shepherd, Lifting the veil: the feminine face of science

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nearly had a medical emergency today because - and i cannot stress enough how little i am making this up - a helicopter landed in front of an open grain silo while i was getting off my ship and i am deathly allergic to the wheat that said helicopters rotor blades proceeded to blast in my face at full force. the cosmic forces are plotting against me ass situation to be in

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Bothersome beast, comforting friend

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It's so nice to be on Superior again.

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Crouching Kitten, Hidden Loaf