thehousethatalwayswins

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am always obsessed when someone says to a character “call off your dog” about another character.

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good queer representation does not require romance

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its simples: if the characters are flirting in canon then i think theyre best friends who transcend the traditional lines between romance and friendship into something uniquely devoted and hard to define. and if they hate eachother in canon then i think theyre fucking.

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I think the first step towards the life you want is often to just say yes to more things. Accept that coffee invitation from your coworker even if it seems awkward. Sign up for that free class at the library that you're not sure you'll like. Join that club. Book that tour. Say yes to as many things as you can and kill the part of your brain that gut-reacts with a no.

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Ask yourself: what’s good about this moment right now? Is the sun out? Can you hear birds? Are you drinking coffee? Can you smell freshly cut grass? Is your bed soft and warm? These little things are oh so precious and yet seem so arbitrary.

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stoppppp posting pictures of food bro i’m so hungry i could eat a. fluttershy cover your ears. i’m so hungry i could eat a horse man.

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never give up on the denial stage of grief. 95% of grievers give up right before it brings the person back

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streamer & youtuber RPF: this makes sense, most streamers are a subset of comedian and acting gay with your friends as a joke is very popular with straight men, leading to a lot of fuel for the fire.

kpop RPF: prettyboys that are usually contractually obligated to avoid public relationships, which renders them very available for shipping. i can see how we got here.

men's hockey & wrestling RPF: contact sports.

beatles RPF: insert paul mccartney group jerk off session story.

formula 1 RPF: yeah im still trying to figure this one out. no clue lads. good for them though.

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ever since i was a little girl i knew i liked problematic tropes

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“I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy” being a real hater is becoming a lost art

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(never degraded someone before) you have your mother's cruelty. and your father's cowardice.

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wow I love to sit crosslegged without moving for several hours straight!

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Grave offerings and burying the dead with tools and goods is actually such a deeply human thing to do. It's not really even necessarily about how much you believe in a literal afterlife or them taking the tools with them. It's also just going Wait, I'm Not Done Taking Care Of You, let me make you one more pair of socks so your feet won't be cold when you go wherever it is where I can't follow.

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One weird experience of transitioning is failing at ur assigned gender role the whole time and everyone constantly deriding you for it but then u come out and it's like we lost a beautiful gender conforming warrior today. Must grieve for my wonderful child who pissed me off by being ugly and weird since day 1

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Add realism to your fantasy stories by having characters from different backgrounds struggle to pronounce each others' names.

"My name is [low guttural sound] but I don't want to hear you butcher it. So you may call me She Who Arises With The Cold Mountain Sun."

"...Is that what your name really means? All that in just one word?"

"Yes. If you stress the wrong syllable it comes out as 'She Who Coldly Wakes Up The Mountain Sun', or 'The Cold Woman Who Wakes The Mountain Sun', and you will not call me that."

"Oh, huh. Could we just call you Mountain Sun, for short?"

"Hmh. It's boastful, almost bordering on blasphemy, but it is flattering. I accept it."

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Okay, this is pretty incredible. A 3D artist, consulting scholars and archaeologists, worked for a year and a half in Blender to create a reconstruction of pre-Columbian Tenochtitlán, complete with the surrounding landscape. It’s staggeringly beautiful, and—at least to me—gives a wonderful impression of the city as a place where people worked and lived and worshiped

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i’ll say it a hundred times because some of you need to hear it a hundred times but the trick to liking yourself again is learning new skills and hobbies or returning to ones you had. it makes you so confident learning new shit all the time.