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“I had been led to believe, like anyone else, that it was simply pretty girls who traced and colored. As I got into it, I learned about the landmark work accomplished by these women. These women were artists in their own right; they were animating and moving color and we don’t talk about that. We focus on men wielding pencils, but there were women wielding pencils as well.” -Mindi Johnson

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A universe in motion seen from the International Space Station during a night pass over Earth.

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Timelapse created from images courtesy of the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center(ISS061-E-110520-111341 eol.jsc.nasa.gov).

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i’m just saying aragorn son of arathorn oh im sorry STRIDER (one of them rangers what his right name is i never heard etc etc) didn’t need to be that sexy at the prancing pony. like ostensibly he’s trying to lay low but even dipshit little [relatively] eighteen y/o frodo is like hey what’s the deal with that extremely ostentatiously sexy man in the corner

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hi! not sure if this is posted anywhere, so I thought I'd ask for my own reference~ what's your opinion on transformative works made based on your fics? I'm a podfic creator and would like to look into podding some of your fics. i really love them!! thanks for reading~<3

OMG yes! I love transformative works based on my own stuff, please feel free! I am honored to have anyone be inspired enough by my writing to want to art/podfic/fanfic-of-fanfic/generally create from it. All I ask is that you link back to the original fic, and would also appreciate a notification that it exists, though the latter is mostly so that I can go and heap praise upon it. <3 <3 <3

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tw: blood

Jessamy deserved better

Also, whatever you do, don't imagine dream thinking about hob in the glass orb and missing him even more in that moment because he could really use a friend and companionship right now don't do that

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LIFEHACK!

Where regular milk, soy milk, almond milk, etc, will go bad 7-10 days after opening lactose-free milk will stay good for 3-5 weeks, even after it's opened. Buy a half gallon and use as needed over the next month. You're welcome.

adult hood is just

*buys a half gallon of milk* *uses it all within a few days* *decided to buy a gallon of milk to not run out before next shopping trip* *uses a teaspoon of milk that week and it goes bad somehow* *buys a quart of milk instead so it won’t go bad* *uses it in one day* *buys a quart and a half gallon of milk because the gallon was too much but the half gallon was not enough* *only uses the half gallon* *gives up on milk for a few days in general* *buys a gallon of milk again just to tempt fate* *somehow uses all of it without realizing and then has to eat sad cereal with like the 5 drops of remaining milk*

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So I've been learning French for a while and 'faire' is actually an incredible word. Like what a fucking breakthrough in economy of language.

Faire is a verb that is usually translated into English as "to do/to make," but it covers way more actions than that, which is very confusing for new speakers. because (I have realized) that's not really what faire means.

Faire is actually a word that just gestures vaguely in the direction of the object of the sentence and goes "you know." "Je fais du velo." "Je fais du courses." "Je fais mes valises." I'm biking. I go grocery shopping. I'm packing my bags. You're just sort of pointing at a bike and going "you know, the obvious thing you'd do with it."

English: "You mean RIDE it??"

French: "Sure whatever."

Like idk I just really enjoy the concept of a catch-all verb that you can just slap onto almost anything because who fucking gives a shit, you get the idea. There's a bike. what do you think I'm going to do with it.

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never ask a woman her age a man his salary your mutual how late it is in her timezone when she starts posting about that bisexual man

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Saoirse-Monica Jackson as Erin Quinn in Derry Girls (2018—2022)

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everyday I pray Zillow makes a comment section

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in guarani there's a standard greeting that literally translates to "are you happy" (ndevy'apa) and the natural reply is "i'm happy" (avy'a) and as americans learning the language we were so distressed like "but what if we're not happy....." and our teachers were like "that's so not the fucking point"

we kept trying to think of any other way to reply but our teachers kept trying to get it into our brains that it's an idiomatic greeting, it literally is not the time or place to traumadump, and as usamerican english speakers we are not some special exception for saying "what's up" with the reply being "not much" instead of "the ceiling"

but anyway while i was working in paraguay -- the country with the largest population of guarani speakers -- i got sent an article by some friends back home like "look! they're saying that paraguay is the happiest country in the world!"

and the methodology was "we went around and asked paraguayans if they're happy and recorded their responses" and i was like. oh. of course you did. and of course you got a 100% positive response rate.

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Reblog with your score

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the big upgrade for death’s wings

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