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oh this phrase is not going to leave my mind for a solid week at least. obsessed with this collection of words

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le doohickie in question btw:

greengableslover

MĀRAMA (2025) dir. Taratoa Stappard

contaiinedarmageddon2

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chenria

I am not satisfied with this anymore... so I will abandon this portrait of my OC Alani... but I still want to show the outlines because they took work to draw... But there are too many things I am not happy with and I don't know how to fix them... so this will remain unfinished and end up in my "abandoned" folder...

thesolarpunkgardener

Just had the first block party on my street since I moved in more than a decade ago. My neighbor and I just decided on a date and went around leaving flyers on doors/talking to people who were home.

It went so well. We set up in an empty lot, some of us brought tables and chairs, everybody brought food. About 30 people came. Multiple people told us they'd always wanted a block party.

Before this I knew maybe 5 neighbors by name. Now I know dozens. That feels wonderful.

thestuffedalligator

Human Is is a 1955 Philip K. Dick sci-fi short story where a guy goes to another planet for work and when he comes back to Earth his personality has flipped from an asshole to a sweet, kind, considerate man. Everyone's immediately convinced that an alien has taken over his body, this goes all the way to court, and in court his wife testifies that she's noticed no changes at all and so the charges are dropped.

And then there's a bit right at the end of the story as the wife and the husband are walking out of court:

Jill turned abruptly. "What is your name? Your real name."

The man's gray eyes flickered. He smiled a little, kind, gentle smile. "I'm afraid you would not be able to pronounce it. The sounds cannot be formed..."

Jill was silent as they walked along, deep in thought. The city lights were coming on all around them. Bright yellow spots in the gloom. "What are you thinking?" the man asked.

"I was thinking perhaps I will still call you Lester," Jill said. "If you don't mind."

"I don't mind," the man said. He put his arm around her, drawing her close to him. He gazed down tenderly as they walked through the thickening darkness, between the yellow candles of light that marked the way. "Anything you wish. Whatever will make you happy."

And I. God. There's something there. A soupcon of monsterfuckery. To tell your partner in a moment of intimacy that yes, you're something so inhuman that the lips you're stealing can't speak your actual name. You're a parasite that not only had the ability to burrow under this man's skin and take over his life, but you were so desperate to escape a dead, dry, blasted planet that you did.

And for your partner to then turn around and go "I know, I've always known, and I love you" is just. God I know it's not a great Dick story but something about it is making me lose my mind

thestuffedalligator

Also it's explicitly stated that the guy's consciousness is still alive and preserved on the alien planet. Jill is told this and then proceeds to defend the alien anyways, ensuring that her husband's brain is stuck in a jar on a desert planet. You love to see it

michaelnordeman

Värmland, Sweden (2 August 2023).

myguiltyotpleasures

drunkenhills

This is the only tiktok where the automated voice actually adds to the cinematic experience

savvylikeyeahhh

freedom

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

This is absolutely what a cats internal monologue is like <3

suzoar

Actually Ive decided to be angry now

netnel

mudwerks

Bringing you more Bad Books and Immodest Pictures, your Impure Thoughts Stockpile was getting low.

radetzkymarch

smallestflowtree

PSA for fanfic writers

carpe-aurore

Got that pussy that tastes like McDonald's sprite

carpe-aurore

which one of you cowards just unfollowed me

funny-tik-toks

escapistsatellite

I was not prepered for all these plot twists, this man lived an entire suspense novel plot in the span of 5 hours with a cliffhanger to boot.

theprofessional-amateur

Author/illustrator Trung Le Nguyen has been live posting reading Pride and Prejudice for the first time on bluesky and just hit the first proposal. The replies are basically the sickos meme

Thread here

theprofessional-amateur

Incredible stuff happening. I want push notifications for every update. I hate push notifications.

warrioreowynofrohan

@bethanydelleman if you haven’t seen this yet it’s DELIGHTFUL!

There’s a whole liveblog from the start of the book throught at least to Wickham running off with Lydia, and it’s SO much fun to read!

bethanydelleman

My friends have all been reading them! I've read a few, but I hate reading threads so I am happy to share a document version:

jewish-joy

Last year, I befriended a Catholic seminarian. We've gotten to be pretty decent friends. Seeing as he was staying in town for the summer and I wasn't, I entrusted him with caring for my plant.

He did a wonderful job, but as he was returning my plant to my custody, he explained "I watered her every other day, I gave her new dirt, moved her into the sunshine, prayed the rosary-"

"What?"

He looked at me, confused. "Isn't she a plant you pray with?"

"No," I said slowly. "She's a prayer plant. That's the... colloquial name of the plant."

Upon seeing his stricken face, I realized something went wrong. Turns out, this entire time, he's been including my plant in on his prayers and leaving her near icons.

Listen, totally cool. My plant becoming Catholic is a great deal for her not dying over the summer. But now I must navigate this interfaith household. Keep me in your thoughts.

jewish-joy

#i love prayer plants but they're fussy so I don't keep them#can we have a picture op they're so pretty

Behold, Dorothea

(Naming my plant "Gift of God," and then giving her to a seminarian with just the explanation that it's a prayer plant? Okay, that's my bad.)

jewish-joy

I should also add- I ran into my rabbi and explained the situation. I then asked, earnestly, if there was a remedy. A mikveh of sorts, or a beit din, or something.

He turned to me, sighed, and said in a very deadpan tone-- "Plants don't have covenants, Joy,"

So Dorothea's a free agent according to rabbinic opinion. I guess I'll permit her to be Roman Catholic.