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Here are two poems by Maksym Kryvtsov, a Ukrainian poet, who was killed defending Ukraine back in January. One of the poems is dedicated to a ginger cat that followed him around faithfully and later died with him. Please read his words, don't let them die too.

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so there’s this story that my grandmother loves telling (well, in recent years. for the first seventy years of her life she did not talk about her childhood at all.)

the story is that a family friend of theirs was Austria’s finance minister*, and Jewish, and after the anschluss he realized he was in trouble, but like many of Austria’s Jews he seriously underestimated how much trouble. by the time he realized it was too late to get out safely. He was also old and in failing health, so dramatics weren’t ideal.

so he asked a family member to drive him to the mountains on the Italian-Austrian border, and he’d cross there. It was easy enough to avoid the Austrian authorities going out, but you didn’t have a chance of avoiding the Italian ones, and they stopped him. 

“Oh,” he said to them, “Benito knows me. Tell him I’m here and he’ll call me a car.” And indeed, they called Mussolini and he called him a car. My reaction the first time I heard this story - and the reaction of everyone I’ve told it to - has been “so Mussolini opposed the Holocaust? He was helping smuggle Jews out of Austria?” And, no, he didn’t and wasn’t. But he knew this guy, they were old friends, the guy was in town, so Benito called him a car. Which is more characteristic of humans than the version where Mussolini was secretly a decent person, really. A million is a statistic, but this guy? I know this guy. He’s a great guy. There’s the phrase ‘the banality of evil’, and I think it applies, but the word that’s always come to my mind is the myopia of evil, the tendency to treat People well but just not look out at the world and see billions of People, not believe that the principles you apply to the ones you know apply to all of them everywhere.

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goodnight, darling...

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Remake 👀

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October, 1999. No-clown young adult reddie has a special place in my heart

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Perfectionism truly is a sadistic mistress. So here's a bonding moment for Angel and Charlie. Wings...just sayin'.

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*scrambles to make something quick for Valentine's Day* um ummm halter top!Vaggie and #chaggie kiss!

Inspired by this

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"May I have this dance?"

Based on that one tweet where it says that we could've gotten a Chaggie ball episode????? we were ROBBED

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And i'm back on my bullshit! .....this show has awakened something in me I swear to GOD.

I have quite literally never been able to just crap out poses like this before. Maybe doing so many is just good practice?

Also, it was not my intention to draw Charlie looking so much like a scolded puppy, but here we are.

As always, right click, view image in new tab for full res. Maybe I'll polish this up at some point....

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The fact that when Charlie notices Vaggie's wings, Vaggie actually looks a little nervous about it? That hits me right in the heart. Her wings are a visible, tangible reminder of this dark, massive secret she kept from her girlfriend for years: a secret that hurt them both terribly when it came into the open. Of course the nervousness doesn't even last two seconds, because Charlie's immediate reaction to seeing Vaggie has her wings back is to tell her they look nice.

Vaggie, who's worried that having gotten back a part of herself that was taken from her makes Charlie uncomfortable; Charlie, who sees Vaggie's wings and instantly thinks oh that's hot.

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More of these two, cuz I'm still feeling inspired

Yes, my love language IS resting with each other, how could you tell?

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The beginning and the ending.

This story is already full of everything I need.

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and lo on the day of the sun’s darkening there came a message

@cmdthenerd bound Shoot the Moon! and there was much rejoicing! and the message did say Eris/Toland T 69K etc

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I had an interview with a local paper this week about this rock snake I started on the longest street of a nearby city (where I work) because it's bringing people so much joy:

I said something during the interview that the interviewer seemed really shocked by, so in case it's important for anyone else to hear: When asked about the rock snake and some scavenger hunts that I've hosted for adults, I said -

"We don't stop enjoying the things we liked as kids; they just stop being offered to us. And when you're a kid, fun things like art projects and scavenger hunts are always brought to you, so you're not taught to make a habit of seeking them out as and adult."

She said "Wow yeah... life is so stressful... and you don't think to... wow."

So if anyone else needs direct permission to be a whimsical adult child today, I hereby grant it to everyone. ❤️