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please please please i'm praying and hoping for a future where i have the financial and housing stability to own multiple dogs. i keep seeing dogs for foster and adoption where it's like "would thrive in a household with a confident dog to show it the ropes" and that's Little Bird!!!! when she retires as my sd her new job should be teaching fosters confidence!!!!!!!!!! she'd be SO good at it AHHHH

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Erosion by Tamsin van Essen. Who knew parasitic invasion could be so beautiful?

van Essen on her project:

This work explores erosion and the disruption of form. Focusing on biological erosion, I wanted to convey the idea of a host being attacked and eaten away by a parasitic virus, highlighting the creeping spread of the infection as it corrupts the body. I have produced a series of angular porcelain forms, sandblasted to wear the surface and reveal inner strata. This aggressive process, contrarily, creates a delicate vulnerability in the shape. The translucency of the porcelain and the interruption of the surface make it possible to glimpse through to layers beneath, creating a tension between the seen and the obscured.

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Uncomfortable facts of life:

Nobody's going to magically swoop in to rescue you. You can't just sit there and expect someone else to come save you. You have to get your shit together and do it yourself.

About 90% of the time, the "it" you have to do on your own is pushing yourself to walk up to someone else and use your words to say "hey I need help."

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Important things about the nature of reality:

Lemmings in real life do not randomly bolt to their deaths like lemmings do in cartoons. Small children randomly bolt to their deaths like lemmings in cartoons.

Piranhas in real life do not flock to pick anything to the bone in a span of seconds like piranhas do in cartoons. Domestic chickens pick anything to the bone in a span of seconds like piranhas do in cartoons.

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Rules of DIY:

if it's a skill, there's rules you can learn

if it's an art, rules are not your concern

make it fucked up or you won't make it

if it's already broken, you can't break it

anything can be fixed with gorilla glue

except for pleather, and also you

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Innovative take on centaurs happening here

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If you're having a private phone conversation with the phone off your ear, no headphones, and the speaker on in public, that's a public conversation now. That's an open invite, and I'm going to chime in if I have an opinion. This is now OUR disagreement about your boyfriend's spending habits.

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I just… I wanna say to all the monogamous people out there, its okay to crush on someone while you’re in a relationship. Its okay to fantasize about someone while you’re in a relationship. It doesn’t mean you don’t love your partner. Even if you’re 100% certain about you needing a strictly monogamous relationship, those things are normal. They’re allowed. They’re just thoughts.

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One time my dad and I got into an argument cause he said it was unprofessional for a man to wear a skirt to work because a man would only want to wear women’s clothing if it was a sexual fetish and at the time I just thought it was stupid but in hindsight I think I learned something deeply personal about my dad

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the beauty of the world is that there are people out there having basically indistiguishable gender and sexuality experiences and one has several microlabels and an army of pride flags, one says "idk i guess im nonbinary or something" and the other is comfortably cis with a little flexibility. and all of them are correct because your identity is whatever you make of it.

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sometimes I remember that there are legit people who think virginity is a real thing and a huge deal and like having sex is a thing that fundamentally changes u as a person and it feels like I turned over a log in the woods and discovered a strange new breed of pervert

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Nothing like holding my love

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the only reliable, effective way of "protecting children" is education. but people don't want to hear that because they don't actually care about protecting children, they care about protecting a mythologised ideal of innocence

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This shouldn't go without saying: Religions are fundamentally interesting. People locking themselves in caves and writing books about god that go on to influence kings and princes. It is inherently dramatic and interesting.

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