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After a long, grim winter that refused to quit, it’s finally spring. Robin’s egg blue sky, fluffy clouds, a gorgeous breeze, and all the birdsong you could hope for on such a perfect day. I sit out on my back porch and watch the leaves dancing in that soft breeze with an even softer Husky by my feet. Hento lifts his snoot and gently sniffs what the wind brings to him, radiating contentment. We’ve…

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#cw pet death #dogs #grief #Hento #personal

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I don’t know how to explain to some discourse damaged people on the unholy trinity of social-media-websites-whose-names-start-with-a-T that romantic subplots in non romance media are not put there with the sole purpose of giving the audience the warm fuzzies; that, like any other element in a story, a romantic subplot should serve the themes and central thesis statement of its larger narrative; and that sometimes the most adequate choice of a pairing or approach to romance for a given story is not necessarily the one you personally think would be the cutest / healthiest / most progressive

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“this is not a healthy relationship!” okay, but is this detrimental to the type of story being told somehow? is it part of the point? is it well written and complex? does it complement the tone and ideas of the narrative? are you aware that romance in fiction exists to tell good stories and not being a life manual? that sometimes a dysfunctional love story can still be good as a story?

#away with queue

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Wait long enough in a mangrove swamp and you’ll see something magical. In this case, a small school of golden cownose rays.

#away with queue

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🤠🤠🤠🤠

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JEWPITER

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#space #away with queue

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If you don’t love languages, hear me out: my telugu friend had been affectionately calling me, a hindi speaker, “gundi” for 7 months. We didn’t realize until recently that the word has two completely different meanings in Telugu and Hindi, and that we both had completely different interpretations of her affection.

In Telugu, “gundi” means “smol/button/round/cute”.

In Hindi, “gundi” means “female thug”

#language #amazing #away with queue

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Energy company has got some sass

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Duke Energy Fined $102 million for Polluting Rivers with Coal Ash

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This is the best summary of the corporate deflection of blame for environmental destruction onto the consumer to save face I’ve ever seen

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You know what’s sad? Having to tell my adult patients that they don’t have to be boring fucks who hate everything to be considered adults.

Seriously, people have a very weird idea of what it means to be an adult. I have patients who come to me and tell me they are unhappy with their lives and they don’t understand why, because they have a job, they have a good salary, they can pay their bills, they have a significant other, they’re doing everything right and still they’re unhappy.

And then we start talking and talking and, finally, we reach the real problem: they stopped being themselves.

I have so many patients who stopped doing things they liked - harmless things, fun things - because they felt it was innapropriate for an adult to do them.

Videogames? I’m too old for that.

Comic books? I’m too old for that.

Disney movies? That’s for kids.

Super hero movies/series? I’m an adult, I should act like one.

Going to parks/carnivals? I don’t have kids to do that with.

It’s scary how these people simply gave up on these fun hobbies just because they reached a certain age. And it’s even more scary that they don’t see the problem with this.

Adult life is more than just work, paying bills and marriage. It’s about going out with your friends, it’s about buying silly things that have no purpose but to bring you a little joy, it’s about having fun and living your life to the fullest.

You don’t have to be a boring fuck to be an “acceptable adult”. Fuck society and fuck whoever says you can’t like something because you’re “too old”.

You’re never too old to do the things you like, play the games you want to play and watch the movies/series you want to watch.

Dress up and go to Comic Con. Go to the midnight premiere of your favorite super hero movie. Read the “silly teen books” you want to read. Play that “childish” game you’ve been wanting to play.

Being an adult doesn’t mean you need to forget who you are. Being older doesn’t mean you need to let go of the things you love and enjoy.

Be unapologetically yourself and go live your best life!

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angelofthequeers

Actually screaming on the inside at how they basically told queerphobes and exclus to please fuck off and explicitly included us aspecs even beyond aesthetics like the pride flags and nail polishes

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And many who didn't die now have to live with permanent disability that prevents them from holding any kind of job (especially because employers are so opposed to making the work accessible).

Those who are able-bodied and still remain have left to fill the higher-paying vacancies left behind by the newly deceased/disabled.

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Please, wear a mask.

Please wear a mask.

Please, please, PLEASE WEAR A MASK!

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#away with queue

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TRUE.

And let’s say the quiet part out loud: a protest at someone’s home is never just a protest. It is always a threat because what it says is “We know where you live”.

And sometimes that’s good. People who create policies that get other people killed shouldn’t be sleeping easy at night.

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Also, maybe the Supreme Court shouldn't have said it's okay to protest outside the homes of abortion workers in Madsen v. Women's Health Center if they felt so adversely about protesting