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again and again and again and again

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(literature girl summer) we're back to finishing a book in two days

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in an interesting case of linguistic convergent evolution, the english words scale, scale, and scale are all false cognates of each other

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if it sucks hit da bricks <- litany against sunk cost

take it easy but take it <- litany against burnout/apathy cycle

fuck it we ball <- litany against perfectionism

now say something beautiful and true <- litany against irony poisoning

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is snw kirk never not on the enterprise? isn’t he the first officer of the farragut now? like get back to work

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sexiest thing a character can do is drag their past around like it's a dead body tied to their ankles

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100 year old Galapagos tortoise with a few weeks old Galapagos baby posing for a new family photo, and its own baby photo from 100 years ago.

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i got these knockoff boots online and instead of the brand name on the tag they have the name of an apparently nonexistent martin scorsese movie??? what the fuck

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Happy Pride Month

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ultimately the truth about frankenstein is that we are all grotesque amalgamations of the best and worst parts of everyone who came before us. and sometimes the people who are supposed to love us because of and in spite of this will not. and we can kill them with hammers for that. and i think that’s beautiful

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To me, when a woman really centers men in her life that whole behavior has a wash of immaturity over it. Like oh my God I cannot believe at this age you still live in this fantasy land where men care about you, or are worth the amount of respect you're giving them. I find it immature that you're not centering yourself 

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine // S06E13: Far Beyond the Stars

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it actually completely unironically pisses me off that there was times when i wasn't alive and there will be times when i'm not alive. i should have been there for everything

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i know we're all sick of self-care being a marketing tactic now, but i don't think a lot of us have any other concept of self-care beyond what companies have tried to sell us, so i thought i'd share my favorite self-care hand out

brought to you by how mad i just got at a Target ad

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Plain text:

I think a lot of marketers are worried right now. I saw a couple of posts here yesterday that identified it better than I could. They’re things that have been circling around in my head that I hadn’t found the right words to articulate. Tommy Walker wrote about how he’s started second-guessing centuries-old literary devices. Things like parallel structure, rhetorical questions, antithesis. Because the AI gotcha crowd has decided anything with rhythm or structure must be fake. There’s a new layer of suspicion. Kyle Lacy shared his concern that AI has the very real potential to replace the pathways we all relied on to learn and grow in this field. The early roles. The grunt work. The hands-on experience that taught us how to think. And I just... ugh. Big sigh. Because I feel it too. The shift. The ache. The quiet fear that the job we fell in love with is slipping away. Remember when someone handed you a headline and said: make it sing. And you tried. And failed. And tried again? That’s what I’m grieving. The late nights rewriting something that didn’t quite land. The mentor who marked up your draft in red and told you why the changes mattered. The slow build of the creative muscle that helped you nail taste, timing, and resonance. Learning to see the world like a storyteller. Discovering your own style. I’m afraid we’re severing the creative bloodline. We’re replacing apprenticeship with automation. Care with speed. And creative instincts with templates. I honestly believe that if we’re not careful, we’ll look up and realize that we scaled everything except meaning. And the world will feel gray. If you feel the grief, the disorientation, and the daily existential crisis that comes with learning how powerful AI is getting, you’re not alone. If you got into this field for the craft, you’re my people. I’m still holding the line for now. I still plan to write like my life depends on it. But I don’t know if marketing is the container in which I’ll be able to do that for much longer. And that makes me sad.

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Wolfstar vs Jegulus

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10 Traits That Make a Character Secretly Dangerous

❥ Disarming Humor. They’re the life of the party. Everyone’s laughing. No one’s noticing how much they aren’tsaying.

❥ Laser-Sharp Observation. They see everything. Who’s nervous. Who’s lying. Who would be easiest to break. And they don’t miss.

❥ Unsettling Calm. Even in chaos, they stay still. Smiling. Thinking. Calculating.

❥ Weaponized Empathy. They know how to make people trust them. Because they know exactly what people want to hear.

❥ Compartmentalization. They can do something brutal, then eat lunch like nothing happened.

❥ Controlling Niceness. The kind of kindness that’s sharp-edged. You feel guilty for not loving them.

❥ Mirroring Behavior. They become whatever the person in front of them needs. It's not flattery. It’s survival—or manipulation.

❥ Selective Vulnerability. They know how to spill just enough pain to make you drop your guard.

❥ History of “Bad Luck”. Ex-friends, ex-lovers, ex-colleagues… they all left under “unfortunate” circumstances. But the pattern says otherwise.

❥ Unshakeable Confidence in Their Morality. They don’t think they’re the villain. That makes them scarier.