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The remake reboot prequel sequel industrial complex is killing me but the good thing is I don't have to watch any of that. I can just think "that sounds boring or otherwise doesn't interest me in any way" and do something other than watch it

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Happy (late) Maid day!

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Starting a collection

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Kay falls asleep on the ride home and Edgeworth has no choice but to pick her up and carry her to bed. She half wakes up when he picks her up but then her head is tucked into his shoulder and... She's back out. She drools all over his shoulder. A tiny smile has snuck into his face as he tilts his head just enough to press against the top of her head.

He tucks her in and sneaks a quick forehead kiss. For a few moments Kay plans the ultimate heist where she pretends to be asleep on the ride home so he'll have to do it again.

The next time Miles has to carry forty pounds of evidence up 12 floors he's almost grateful. Cause it means he's strong enough to pick Kay up still.

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Kay falls asleep on the ride home and Edgeworth has no choice but to pick her up and carry her to bed. She half wakes up when he picks her up but then her head is tucked into his shoulder and... She's back out. She drools all over his shoulder. A tiny smile has snuck into his face as he tilts his head just enough to press against the top of her head.

He tucks her in and sneaks a quick forehead kiss. For a few moments Kay plans the ultimate heist where she pretends to be asleep on the ride home so he'll have to do it again.

The next time Miles has to carry forty pounds of evidence up 12 floors he's almost grateful. Cause it means he's strong enough to pick Kay up still.

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I have had a lucid dream exactly one (1) time and I think I fucked it up.

I dreamed I was driving past my old college and I went “Wait this is a dream! I can do whatever I want!” and I immediately swerved into oncoming traffic and right before I hit a truck I thought “Boy I hope this is a dream or this is going to really hurt”

And then I woke up.

I have not had a lucid dream since.

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i can never think of silly tags...

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Fanfiction is great because you can see so clearly how people learn to write.

Some people, it's clear, learned almost entirely through absorbing the world around them. Grammar and punctuation will be all over the place, spellings are approximate, but the voice of the narration will come through so clearly. You can hear the dialect of the people around them as of they're telling the story. It's not a written story, it's a transcription of how they talk in their day to day life.

Some people learned through reading a gazillion books as a kid. Grammer and spelling will be rock solid, formatting occasionally based on the single tab of physical books rather than the double tab of online scrolling, but dialogue is often stilted and overly formal. You might notice a lack of contractions and very rigid rules they made for consistency that actually have a lot more flexibility than they think. They tend to have a fantastic grasp of sentence flow, though.

And other people formally learned how to write. This could be anywhere from taking school classes seriously because they enjoyed writing stories as a kid to literal certifications and jobs in the field. Grammer is flawless. Punctuation is triple checked. Foreign words are in italics. Characters have distinct voices. But their self indulgence is tempered by perfectionism. They know precisely what they want from a fic. Authors notes often feature mutterings about their happiness with the chapter. Kaomojis often appear! They seek a style to their writing, and it makes for some wonderfully clever plots! These are the ones most likely to get fun with formatting!

And some people.... Some people examined it all. They dissect dialogue, people watch, cross reference behaviours and compare characters to people irl. You can tell almost immediately who had formative experiences with Terry pratchett and/or ghibli, because it's these people. While others see writing as fun, expression, craft, they see it as art. Plain and simple. Sure, the grammar is occasionally sacrificed on the altar of creative freedom, and the occasional sentence might miss a full stop, but these people seem to self reflect on themselves as part of the art making process. On occasion, these people have the most masterful grasp of dialogue and invocation and hand sewn characterisations. Formatting is pretty standard because all the focus is on the actual words. These fics can be edited to the moon and back!

All of these can vary wildly in forethought and quality, and betas can often catch individual problems before they hit post, but just. Isn't it so cool? What's that one Oscar Wilde quote about every mask just being another fragment of yourself?

Did you recognise yourself?

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art will save you, being unreasonably passionate about something niche will save you, letting past sources of joy show you the way back to yourself will save you, earnestness over composure will save you, the natural world will save you, caring for something bigger than yourself will save you, daring to be seen will save you, kindness not as a whim but a principle will save you, appreciation as a practice will save you, daring to try something new will save you, grounding will save you, love will save you, one good nights sleep will save you

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[ the great ace attorney | baroryuu ] quick brry bc i swear cleaning up and transferring some old art made me miss them sm dhdjdjdd 🥲

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I simply love Aang.

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I can be shaped by more than the things that hurt me

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NASA advertising "do you want to be an astronaut" to tumblr users surely means something. What have you found out there, NASA? What have you found that you believe tumblr users, specifically, are best equipped to handle?

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Enjoyed the bubble sounds!

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to plant a garden is to believe in the future 🌱