Tamlin, a grown-up human. EMT but I was a lot of other things before that. || space, science, hope, gym, gay stuff, SF. they/she
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English has different words for mouse and rat but in Chinese they're both the same creature (laoshu) so I asked my mom well how do you differentiate between mice and rats. She, clearly having never felt the need to do so, was like uhh big laoshu and little laoshu I guess. Then I went online to see how the difference between (the English words) "mouse" and "rat" was being explained to CN->EN learners and there are numerous articles delving deep into the analysis. Bigger vs smaller, indoors vs outdoors, cute and favorable connotations vs evil and ugly, tail length, fear factor, emphasis on the fact that you cannot call it a "computer rat." Much thought is being expended on this little mystery of the English language
#I did not know this!!#I think I learned laoshu was mouse.#real lime/lemon vs limon situation#or the two Russian words for blue but that does not personally impact me#I have have WHAT DO YOU MEAN conversations with Spanish speakers about the lime/lemon issue#languages#mandarin#spanish
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Another piece I created for my artbook with Gallery Nucleus -- preorders close TOMORROW June 7th so make sure to get your copy soon! 💛
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search inside yourself and find the outmost reaches of the universe
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#to say nothing of the skin taker!#last year I had a SACC classroom of very wild active kids - mostly 7-8yr boys#and because we could not be in the gym (seeing as it had to be shared)#I held “classroom Olympics” one week#where it was all timed planks and wall sits and arm wrestling and stuff like that#those kids were bonkers. five minute planks from some of them.#I had to announce a wall sits tie because three of them were CRYING AND SHAKING and still in wall sits at minute five! in the hall!#during pick up!#literally how did they do it. was the one (1) free vending machine selection worth it.
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concept: a bonkers prompt like "cyberpunk Amish werewolves" or "dungeons and dragons QAnon" or "murderponies (Welsh)". you Venmo me five dollars to add to the pot when you submit a story. work that does the most with the prompt and takes it seriously takes the pot.
#fleshing out the details in my brain but. this is tempting. it just sounds like a good time.#tam.txt
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i will defend that fictional teenage girl with my life. i literally don’t even care what she did. you would’ve done it too if you were her she’s probably handling things better than you would in her shoes
#Harrowhark nonagesimus#Ellie tlou#and Lottie yellowjackets. and nat.#not you shauna yellowjackets. there's something wrong with you
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I mean surely we all grew up feeling like there was a wrongness inherently deep inside us that will endure for the rest of our lives
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Hey don't cry, okay? We just found Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna, a species thought to be extinct for the past 60 years.
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literally nothing compares to the specific high of someone live texting you Gideon the Ninth for the first time
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SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler
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now that I've made the appointment, someone tell me how badly I've screwed up by making my first tattoo a sternum tat
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If you like shows where the camera zooms through a large set, shows with a large cast, enjoy political shows but also murder mysteries, and/or wish for a quirky World's Greatest Consulting Detective type character who is not a white man, boy oh boy should you watch The Residence.
#we're not done yet so no spoilers please (and I can't attest to whether or not the show sticks its ending)#also to be clear it's not about politics but it is about the residence side of the White House. (alternate) political happenings in the bac#ground#it's very charming so far! quick dialogue and a diverse cast and a detective who would rather be birding
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this post is so funny to me because this is absolutely a thing and was very popular at one point. people already did it 40 years ago and its called new romantic



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springtail eating a slime mold
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OH I literally posted about this story yesterday: Singing My Sister Down by Margo Lanagan
Anyone got any short story recommendations?
I'm trying to read more in the mornings to wake up instead of staring at social media (More stuff like The Yellow Wallpaper and The Lottery would be great!)
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