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I saw this and immediately thought it was an Ok Go music video

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It's impressive how Neil Gaiman vanished from the internet. Wish Rowling would do the same.

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Summer on Friday the 13th

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game of DATE EVERYTHING is out and im honored to see the TINGLEVERSE mentioned. still have not heard from the developer but my offer stands: let me know if you want chuck tingle to voice an object. anyway buckaroos are having a great time playing so go check it out THIS PROVES LOVE

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BURY YOUR GAYS is out in paperback today and i am overwhelmed with gratitude for our journey together. thank you buckaroos for meeting me with so much love. cant wait to see where we trot from here. get your BURY YOUR GAYS PAPERBACK anywhere books are sold

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"the worst part of being a trans man is wearing boring plain masculine clothes" skill issue, i look cool as fuck

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Writing historical fiction will have you googling shit like “when did people start saying shut up”

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its a great time to be a buckaroo

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Making the Werewolf: The Forsaken/Wisher, Theurgist, Fatalist situation worse on purpose by running a game jam whose only rule is that each submission's title must abbreviate to "WTF".

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I'm in this strange place where I feel like I have to decide whether or not therapy is actually viable for me at this point in my life.

I know what I need, but getting it is the harder part. Breaking the avoidance in a structured way is probably the toughest thing as the general approach is to just sit in the room with the patient and wait for them to come to it themselves.

I'm not giving up on the self improvement piece, but I will need to find an approach that works for me. Traditional things like journals are really anxiety enducing due to a lack of privacy in my childhood.I'm going to get to where I want to go eventually, but I may have to take a very strange and indirect path to get there.

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Wait what is this story about colin baker in the woods, you can't just say that and leave us hanging

 oh god, okay… this is a fairly long story that colin baker relates in the dvd commentary for mark of the rani, i will be paraphrasing it but i’m pretty certain i remember all the major details because i was laughing SO hard the first time i heard it

first of all you have to know that mark of the rani was filmed on location in this particular village and the public woods surrounding it, and also that the weather was being rather inconsistent on this one day. it kept raining and then the rain would stop again, so every time the rain shifted, the whole filming crew would immediately jump up and run between two locations – for continuity reasons, because they were alternately filming one scene where it needed to be raining and one where it was sunny

so they’re doing this scene where the doctor is tied up and hanging from a pole like so:

it’s super uncomfortable to be actually hanging from a pole by one’s wrists and ankles for multiple takes of a scene, so the crew built some kind of contraption to make it easier on him… it was basically a metal frame-like thing that was hidden under his jacket and pants, supporting his back so that he wouldn’t actually be straining his wrists, i guess? at any rate, the downside of this was that this thing took a LONG time to set up, so it wasn’t possible to UNTIE him from the pole in between takes, so they just kind of. set him down on the ground. during the moments when they weren’t filming

anyways, in the middle of this situation with the intermittent weather, at some point it starts raining and the director calls for everyone to go to the other current filming location!! everyone is rushing about trying to get the cameras and props and people over there as quickly as possible (because you never know when the rain will change again) and in all of this hullaballoo they somehow manage to

forget colin baker on the ground

(actually he said that he sort of noticed them leaving him behind but was initially hesitant to say anything, thinking “surely i’m just missing something and they’ll come get me in a moment” and then by the time he fully realized he was left behind, they were too far out of earshot for him to say anything)

so he’s just like. well. i’ll just wait. and they’ll figure it out soon enough

he lies there tied to this pole for a good ten minutes or so until he hears someone coming down the path

but it is not the film crew, because these are PUBLIC WOODS they are filming in. it’s a random middle-aged couple walking their dog. and the dog comes running up to colin baker (who is a little ways off of the main path) and sniffing him and barking

and the couple just … look at him, tied to the pole on the ground… he said he could tell that they didn’t recognize him as being dr. who, so god knows what they thought about his COAT

he looks at them

there is a deeply awkward silence in which he doesn’t know what he could possibly say about the situation of him being TIED TO A POLE IN THE WOODS and they are clearly being TOO POLITE AND PROPER AND BRITISH-Y to bring it up

eventually one of them is like “nice weather today isn’t it” and he’s like “er yes quite” and they just keep going and leave him lying there on the ground tied to the pole

he just stays there for another twenty minutes or so until FINALLY he sees one of the camera crew running back to get him while yelling “COLIN OH MY GOD WE’RE SO SORRY”

…aaand that is the colin baker tied to a pole in the woods story, more or less as related by colin baker himself, aka my all time favorite thing that ever happened behind the scenes of doctor who!! ACTOR DVD COMMENTARIES ARE SO WORTH WATCHING, KIDS

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Your life in the United States is not improved by anyone being deported. It just isn't. Their lives, however, are crushed. If you haven't ever thought about what happens to someone when they are deported, and where they go from there, now's the time.

This myth of immigrants and "illegals" sucking up resources and jobs and committing rampant crimes is just that: a myth. It's an imaginary line laid down to divide ordinary people and create an easy scapegoat. And we could fix all of this with real immigration reform, but instead, too many politicians benefit from that line. They don't want to make anything better. They want the issue for its optics.

Your life is definitely not improved by authorities coming down on people with maximum intimidation, or by them ignoring due process. That's true regardless of the citizenship status of the victim. Instead, your life is made significantly worse by those actions, whether you notice it now or not. Someday all of that could be aimed at you or someone you love. Even if you don't care about strangers—and you should—what happens to those strangers reaches beyond them as individuals.

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by @beetlemoses

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Have you played 7th SEA ?

by John Wick and Jennifer Mahr

A swashbuckling and sorcery roleplaying game set in the fictional world of Théah (a alternative europe) in the 17th Century.

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It's important to remember that Luigi Mangione is being framed for murder. The "evidence" they have on him is absolute clown shoes absurd.

They're trying to win this by swaying public opinion. That's why they're doing movie deals about it and staging ridiculous photo ops.

They're gonna try to give this kid the death penalty to cover up for their own gross incompetence and in the hopes that they scare the working class out of trying to fight back.

Please don't help them do this by using his name as a synonym for political assassinations. Please do not perpetuate the idea that he's guilty.

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The place of genre fiction in our culture is such a mess right now. As far as I can tell, there’s been some kind of generational breakdown in skill transfer. The loss of the working writer who treats writing as more of a craft than an art form is a cultural tragedy, and I think it’s dealt a serious blow to mass literacy.