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Apparently my director went to see a production of West Side Story a few years ago, and the guy playing Chino forgot his gun before coming out for his final scene. Once it got to the big scene where he is supposed to shoot Tony, he screeched “Poison Boots” and kicked the actor playing Tony until he went down. The girl playing Maria then had to jerk the shoe off of Chino’s foot, and had to do the gunshot scene asking “How many kicks Chino? How many kicks, and one kick left for me”. 

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could you elaborate on the "wizard with mercury poisoning archetype"? your post is the first i've heard of it that i recall

(With reference to this post here.)

The whole "physical frailty, irritability and social withdrawal occasionally punctuated by sudden manic episodes with delusions of grandeur" bit is largely derived from historical stereotypes about people with mercury poisoning. (In reality, mania and delusions are rare in mercury poisoning victims, but they got to be part of the stereotype anyway!) You tend to see this specific stereotypical personality associated with any profession that's historically been prone to mercury exposure, ranging from hat-makers (as immortalised in the idiom "mad as a hatter"*) to lighthouse keepers.

I'm not sure whether there's a specific reason that wizards – being a fictional profession – also tend to fall into that bucket, or whether they just picked it up by association; I want to say it has something to do with alchemists (who were notably prone to giving themselves mercury poisoning), but that's speculation on my part – I don't know enough about historical stereotypes about alchemists to back that up.

* to anticipate the inevitable well-actually, I'm aware that "mad as a hatter" probably originated as a corruption of an earlier idiom "mad as an adder"; however, its meaning drifted over time, and by the 19th Century it was firmly associated with mercury poisoning among hat-makers even if it didn't start out that way.

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one of my favorite things in the whole world that makes me so happy is the behind the name popularity chart which shows the name “mabel” fade into obscurity and then rally in the early 2010’s right after gravity falls came out. it’s so dear to me

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Lesbians famously do not like seeing girls panting over each other and kissing with saliva connecting their mouths.

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a lesbian life tip is that complimenting a girl on the shape of her hands is a way to appear relatively normal or maybe slightly odd and painterly to everyone else in the room while still indicating to her directly that you are deliriously slobberingly verge-of-blacking-out horny

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in library. talkin about thanksgiving. librarian is asking the kids what they eat, trying to lead them towards thanksgiving food & its like pulling teeth. asking what they pour on mashed potatoes. one kid says Rocks. librarian is like “im thinking of something that starts with GR and its brown” and another kid raises her hand & im like ok this girls on top of everything shes got this. & she goes “gorilla sauce”

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If a man with a gun tells me I have to run in 10 seconds or he'll shoot me, then points to a blocked street, he is not "evacuating" me.

Warning people before your throw bombs at them and their families is not an act of kindness or "evacuation", it's a death threat.

Now even that threat is in the past. Every civilian is just waiting to die from an airstrike as Hamas fights to repel enemy forces on the ground. May they find a way to defend Gaza in the airspace as well.

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GC: ON3 B4D GLOOP 4ND SH3 DO WH4T 1 YO1NKY

GC: TWO B1G SPLURGS 4ND 4 B1G 4SS GLOOPY

GC: THR33 MOR3 YO1NKS 4ND TH3N 1 BUY M3 A SMOOTH13

GC: POUR3D UP 4 GLOOP TH4TS 4 GLOOP AND 4 SPLURGY

CG: IMAGINE JOINING THIS FUCKING GROUP CHAT AND THIS IS THE FIRST POST YOU SEE.

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SOLLUX: my comp2cii teacher ii2 pregnant and 2he a2ked the cla22 for baby name2 and 2he called on me and ii paniicked and 2aiid karkat

VRISKA: I was on my phone in my FLARP session and I read this and laughed out loud and this random guy was like "who are you texting" and I panicked and said Karkat.

KANAYA: This Should Be A Thing

KANAYA: Every Time Someone Asks You Something And You Panic Just Say Karkat

NEPETA: :33 < karkat! at the disco

KARKAT: I HATE ALL OF YOU.

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The housecats that get made fun of the most for being dumb are really some of the feline species' deepest thinkers, because they have enough going on upstairs to be perplexed by things. It's the ones who never stop to think about anything that you really need to worry about.

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Why do you live in jerma's room

i’m living in his walls

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female Equius is my precious princess

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“Living weapon” covers a lot and all of it is hot