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There are three things I love about Awakening and one of them is Anders

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hate how they forced bugs bunny into anti-weed propaganda in the 90s, as if bugs bunny wouldn’t love smoking weed 

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Glorious failure

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GORO TAKEMURA

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living their best life

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Continue✨ Keep going✨

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together

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✍ anders because I'm required to by law

It's always a delight to draw Anders! Thank you for asking USY, hope you like it <3

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‘Loving another is not soft, wizard. It is one of the hardest things a person can do.’

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i cannot keep quiet about this anymore.

if you're in the US or Canada and interested in learning a language using a free app please get a library card and download MANGO. it's very good and extremely free with a library card (there are many public libraries and universities using the service, so make an account and use the search feature here to find out if there's one near you).

mango currently has 72 available languages and dialects (that's right! different courses for french or canadian french! spanish or latam spanish!). it's set up basically like an audiobook with text. the idea is that the narrator explains the words while you read, and you repeat after them or say the translation out loud when prompted. there's a daily review where you go through flashcards. you can also use the flashcards at your leisure and create your own. at the end of each chapter there's a listening comprehension quiz and a reading comprehension quiz. i cannot emphasize how effective this all is. and it's free with a card.

if you're not in the US or Canada and/or looking for something more like duolingo (don't use duolingo btw tldr they fired translators and replaced them with "ai"), then try BUSUU! it only has 14 languages atm but the lessons are really descriptive and effective. it also has a feature where you can correct other people's open-ended speaking/typing exercises. you set your fluent languages, and exercises by people learning those languages will appear in your feed for you to correct. you can even add others as friends! and, much like duolingo, it has a streak and leaderboard system for you to strive for, minus the guilt-tripping owl.

busuu is free (you watch ads to unlock lessons and they're all skippable after like five seconds), although it also has paid premium/plus versions (i don't use the paid version—the language courses are available for free, and the ad system is Really unobtrusive).

so that's my wisdom for the day. mango and busuu. please check them out :)

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This is my first DA2 playthrough romancing Anders and he has a lethal amount of insane pussy. Zero rizz and zero chill. Rebel without a cat. Incurably a dork. You show the slightest bit of interest and he's ophelia swooning into your arms waxing poetic about the end of the world. He's blonde. He's deranged. He is 100percent right about the mage revolution. His ability tree has skills like VENGEANCE and MARTYR and he has big brown eyes that belong on a baby cow. The DA dev team created a man so wonderfully broken and fumbled him so badly. If you hate Anders I'm going to assume you're fascist. No there is no nuance.

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I know things aren’t very Fergalicious right now dude but hang in there

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He is so beautiful 💔

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Morriana piece inspired by the incredible fic I was gifted by @peardita during the @dasmutquisition 🙂‍↕️

They took my prompt and rolled with it, it's everything I wanted and more, please go give it a read! It's called "And a ribbon ‘round it" 💗

Again, the uncensored version can be found on Bluesky, but if we're mutuals don't hesitate to ask me in dm 🙂‍↕️ I hate to rely on another platform and I know a lot of you don't have Bluesky!

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"In every universe..." My second design for the upcoming Dokomi ! I wanted to draw Jayce and Viktor for a friend and I'm really happy that she liked them !

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Since I'm therapist-posting recently:

Legitimately self-compassion is the biggest mental health life hack of all time. I'm NOT talking about self-esteem. You do NOT have to like yourself one bit. You don't have to believe that you're a good person who deserves good things. You just have to believe that you're a person who deserves the things all people deserve.

You can't get from "I'm the Worst" to "I'm a worthy and lovable person" without passing through "I'm just a regular fuckup like everybody else."

Try it on. If you're really addicted to being mean to yourself, you can start by framing it as I'm Not Special. Embrace being a regular fuckup like everybody else.

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Jailbird