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So, in my mind this will be something deep and meaningful. In reality, it will probably be an outlet for my nerdy fandoms...

[draconym]

Bothers me when the distinction between Witch and Wizard is drawn according to gender. The Witch/Wizard distinction is one of class. Wizards live in towers and have cursed artifacts. Witches live in shacks and have crooked teeth.

[draconym]

Both witches and wizards can be evil, of course. But when a witch is evil they turn you into a frog. When a wizard is evil they try to tear a hole in reality or raise an undead army. You don't see witches doing that shit because they're working class.

[ecoeschatologist]

The witch is looked down upon because they are competition to the hierarchical work of wizardry; they present an alternative to state monopoly on magic.

[draconym]

Absolutely. Witches perform folk magic--you'd never catch a wizard getting overly preoccupied with practical magic like soothing ulcers or curing the flu, but witches are always brewing up stuff for those kinds of reasons.

Magic is like programming. When it's seen as practical and tedious, it's "women's work." When it's seen as academic and intellectual, you get a huge salary and an audience with the king.

[youtendtoforget-deactivated2025]

I’m ready to be transformed by the ibuprofen . I’m ready to be born again in its purifying light.

[questionableadvice]

~ “Effects of ‘Votes for Women’ - Upon Women’s Faces”;  W.K. Haselden, Daily Mirror,  December 15, 1910

Yes, my friends, the burden of The Vote is so great that you can expect your breasts to deflate by age 20 and you will require pince-nez by age 21. Oh, and your hair will fall out. And who’s going to want to marry you then, hmm?

[baeduan]

trinity santos managed to attract every hot woman in the er, uncover a drug diversion scheme, infiltrate princess and perlah's chismis operation, perform a successful reboa that all the senior residents and attendings are now gossiping about, and put a roof over a homeless sopping wet kitten's head, all on her first day on the job

[riickgrimes]

"ER" & "THE PITT" STAR NOAH WYLE PLAYS OPERATION

[mtfoss]

Sure everything is twice as expensive as 3 years ago but at least we also didn't beat covid

[cannibalchicken]

[pilot-star]

Some kneading techniques that I have observed

[gallusrostromegalus]

Mochi, claws out, DIRECTLY into my tender flesh: The Acupuncturist

[lady-of-the-spirit]

"What do you have to be sad about? Did one of those Paw Patrol dogs die?" is one of the fucking funniest things Roy Kent has ever said and it doesn't get enough attention.

[onceuponaoneshotfanfic]

I need to start adding this to my regular rotation of quotes

[bakwaaas]

Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson) / @wholeheartedsuggestions / Jenny Slate / Euripides again

[hera-aphrodite]

[queer-as-city-folk]

Don't worry, You can trust me with the city budget, just let me in there. Come on, just let me have the budget. I will totally not gut the police budget to build a centralized mass transit network and new libraries. I will definitely not do that, just let me in there please. Come on let me have access to the city budget for 5 minutes. That's all I ask.

[junkdiary]

jason sudeikis can/could do anything to me and i would say thank you and then die peacefully🤭💖

[hjarta-deactivated20260124]

just learned that magnolias are so old that they’re pollinated by beetles because they existed before bees

[scienceoftheidiot]

They existed *before beetles*

[somethingaboutsomethingelse]

[spacedandelions]

Why is this sad? Why am I sad?

[ignescent]

https://xkcd.com/1259/

Bee Orchid

[sepdet]

This is how I feel about Joshua Trees. They and avocado trees produce fruit meant to be eaten and dispersed by giant ground sloths. Without them, the Joshua Trees' range has shrunk by 90%.

(my own photos)

Not only they, but the entire Mojave ecosystem is still struggling to adapt since the loss of ground sloth dung. their chief fertilizer.

Many, many trees and plants in the Americas have widely-spaced, extremely long thorns that do nothing to discourage deer eating their leaves, but would've penetrated the fur of ground sloths and mammoths. Likewise, if you've observed a tree that drops baseball or softball-sized fruit which lies on the ground and rots, like Osage Oranges, which were great for playing catch at my school, chances are they were ground sloth or mammoth chow.

You can read about various orphaned plants and trees missing their megafauna in this poignant post:

The Trees That Miss The Mammoths - American Forests

Trees that once depended on animals like the wooly mammoth for survival have managed to adapt and survive in the modern world.



[modernvintage]

First quote from the linked article. Found it poetic.

[lesbx]

there is a spectrum specifically for actors that used to be wrestlers and one end of the spectrum is dwayne johnson who’s like, a pretty competent actor, but like he really only has the one performance he can do and that performance is just The Rock. but that’s okay because you don’t hire the rock to Not have him just be the rock in your movie. the other end of the spectrum is bautista, who is like actually shockingly good as an actor and seemingly has a genuine love and interest in the craft and is actively working to expand his range and see what he can do. somewhere in the spectrum in some unidentified quadrant is vin diesel who has never been a wrestler but just seems so much like a guy who would be a washed up meathead wrestler turned washed up meathead actor that it’s impossible to shake but also impossible to pin down. an enigma

[laurbailey]

#natasha romanoff: master assassin super spy avenger

[shannananan]

Matt, building his character for EXU: Head EMPTY. Heart FULL. CANT LOSE

Brennan, building his character for Misfits & Magic: the saddest person you will ever meet ψ ŵ̴̘̭̲̊͌͘ḧ̶͓̜̬́ơ̶̧̮̠͖̆̾̚ ̴̬̫̗͋̋w̷̡̒͌̾̽i̴̛̜͙̓͠͝͝l̵͔̜̮̂̚l̵̢͖̖̾ ̶̢̹̣̬̈́̈́͋͠d̴͙̣̭͇̃͑̕͝ë̴̯̲̗v̷̨͂̒̑̎͝o̸̧̭̗̾̊̚͜͜u̸͈̟͍͒̄̾́r̷͍͚̭̦̻̈́́̂͛ ̵̱̘͕͙̲͒́͒͗́ý̷͍͔̙̱̏o̸̺̽̽u̸͓͍̼̫̔̅̏͠ͅr̴̝̮͊̈̂͘̕ ̴̞̦̞̝͋̕s̵̥̺̿̾̂̋̇ͅo̸̳̐ṳ̵̲͖͉̔̃̽ļ̵͔͙̋̔̓͜ ψ and knows a lot about birds