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putting a polaroid of you on my unhinged conspiracy board and linking you with a red string to a post it note that just says "gay"

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Mushroom Playing Keyboard

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Beloved ☀

(Lydia Petrovna from Curse of Strahd and my cleric PC Konstantin)

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DOGE just froze funding to vital Federal and Indigenous conservation programs devoted to supporting the very delicate and tenuous existence of the black-footed ferret.

I fell in love with these animals as a kid traveling to our National Parks. Their rarity and ferocity made me sharply aware, even as a child, of just how much of a responsibility we have toward our environment. I can't bear the thought of them being a fucking casualty of Trump and Musk.

Look at them! They do war dances.

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hes got baby basket for the babies in the basket....my god

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I think one of the biggest and most overlooked things to keep in mind when writing is: is how/what I am writing accomplishing what I am trying to accomplish?

Part of why so many writing "rules" don't work for everyone is that they're assuming you're trying to accomplish things that you're not trying to accomplish.

This way of thinking is applicable at every level and every step of your writing process.

Is this plot structure telling the story I want to be telling?

Does this scene evoke the emotion I am hoping to evoke?

Does this sentence mean what I intend it to mean, in a way that is likely to be read with that meaning by most readers?

If something in a story is jarring, for example, it's probably because that piece isn't accomplishing what you're otherwise trying to accomplish in the story.

When I talked about finding epithets jarring in a close third person POV, it's because what epithets do (provide distance from the character) inherently conflicts with what the point of view was intending (intimacy with the POV character).

If a scene or moment is jarring or just feels wrong in a book, it may be because it doesn't match the tone you are otherwise trying to cultivate, it breaks or escalates the tension in a way that you aren't intending, or it has a different narrative feeling than you are intending with the book.

Even down to the grammatical level, you can get away with breaking a lot of grammar rules if you can accomplish what you want to accomplish with the sentence. Is it coherent? Does it have the meaning you intend? Does it have the clarity or ambiguity that you are intending? Does it fit the tone that you are going for?

The same idea holds for the message/implication level. If you are implying or stating something in your story, is it what you mean to be implying or stating? If you are mimicking or subverting stereotypes, is it in a way that accomplishes what you are trying to accomplish?

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mech pilot in hunter green x sunflower yellow

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A few photos of Ricasolia virens - one of my favourite lichens. ^_^

When well hydrated it is rampantly vogon-green, with a fishy odour, and exuding tiny droplets of a milky white fluid from its pimple-shaped pycnidia.

Also, <3 apothecia <3

iNaturalist observation 265204024

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i am nooooot locked the fuck in. im locked the fuck out. call the locksmith

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Robert McCall’s Floating Worlds series, 1970s/80s

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!(^o^)!

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eye test

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Tag this with ur 10/10 album child name

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AN UNCOILED AMMONITE

MOROCCO

From the Cretaceous (145-66 million years ago) the specimen of Emericiceras barremense prepared in Germany,

22 x 12in. (57 x 30cm.)

Christie’s

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it's kinda wild that it took the mcelroy brothers 13 years and 678 episodes to drop their "our great great uncle was the chief purser on the titanic" lore. if i were them i would never stop talking about that.