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sorry i was researching the author of a victorian book about raising children and now i'm fascinated by her. clear my schedule we're talking about lydia maria child.

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why bother caring about the environment when 1. It’s so obviously a lost cause and 2. There’s definitely going to be a nuclear war?

And what are you doing about it Anon? Learn about ecological restoration or get out of my way.

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I have some news for members of the united states armed forces who feel like they are pawns in a political game and their assignments being unnecessary.

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Emancipated duels. Photo by Pavel Kurmilev

Baroness Lubinska who presided over the famous duel between Princess Pauline Metternich and the Countess Kielmannsegg in 1892, insisted that the duelists remove their clothing above their waists to avoid infection in the event that a sword pushed clothing into the wound it caused. Being a doctor, the baroness had seen many instances of septic infection in soldiers for this very reason throughout her years of medical training.

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Weed gummy should cost 50¢ and be sold out of vending machines and at corner stores

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for some reason, "you can just do an art project" unlocked a realization that "you can just make art" wasn't able to access.

like yeah i know i can set aside an afternoon and sketch a still life.

but also i can, like. select a random marine creature from a hat and then research them and then spend a bit of time in the evenings and weekends over the course of a few weeks making a diorama.

or i can make an abstract sculpture out of scrap cardboard and masking tape, and then paper mache over it, and then paint it.

or i can draw something with markers and color it in with crayons.

i dunno why it took me so long to realize that, in the same way that i can revisit the games and hobbies that i enjoyed as a kid, and i can orchestrate "presentation parties" so my friends and i can flex our slideshow animation skills, i can also Make Art, Grade School Style (and not just Grownup Art/School Style)

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my humor might be broken cause I find this trend actually funny

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Book accurate Dracula by a now-deleted account on r/vampires.

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Getting a new hard drive early into pre-production is always a sign you’ve hit the ground running.

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Concept art by Ben Wickey for The Vampires of New Orleans, the upcoming docudrama from Atun-Shei Films.

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Dragon Lords, "The Game of Fantastic Battles Between Fierce Dragons" (Tony Orzech box art, Grenadier Models, 1993) -- This was an aerial combat game played on 6 map sheets with hex grids, using 6 small scale pewter dragons and riders with clear plastic flight stands (similar to microarmor scale, a few mms for the riders). Grenadier released additional dragons for this game in blister packs. The branding was confusing, since Grenadier used the same name "Dragon Lords" for many of their 25mm fantasy miniatures.

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The central joke of the Ulysses Ogre meme hinges on the Ogre holding themselves to unreasonable standards by expecting to fully grasp one of the most famously difficult works of the 20th Century after only a single reading, which just doesn't work if you substitute your favourite video game, because frankly, your favourite video game is not Ulysses – but to be fair, the overwhelming majority of books are not Ulysses either. There's probably a video game somewhere out there that's as textually challenging as Ulysses, and it's probably some random-ass RPG Maker game from 2006 with an author whose name is a dick joke and a present fandom of approximately eleven people.

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