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[depsidase]

[theaceofwords]

It's called the Global Justice Report, it is here. This is an actionable plan which can be sent to legislators and demanded of political parties. We could save the world within our lifetimes.

It has always been possible. It is still possible.

[dittography-direwolf]

Totally normal for a legitimate for-profit company to refuse to reclaim or stop running their products even after they're no longer being paid to do so. I'm sure it's very normal to just keep running your service for free when your contract's been terminated. Spending money to continue running cameras that supposedly no one is looking at is definitely not an indicator they are just run by the federal government to spy on everyone and only a wacko conspiracy theorist would think so.

[unheardoracle]

Your dialogue is stiff because everyone is being too honest

Great dialogue can come from radical emotional honesty. But in most real conversations, people

dodge questions

answer indirectly

lie (badly)

change the subject

crack jokes to avoid serious answers

lie (convincingly)

say half of what they mean

tell the truth but get so anxious/angry/defensive others now think they're lying

If your dialogue feels unnatural, it might be because everyone is saying exactly what they think, or articulating their thoughts too well. Try letting characters hide things instead.

Subtext is where tension lives.

[dopedyk]

more so,

people don’t always speak in full sentences,

slang can change depending on age range, demographic, etc. &

don’t be scared of vocal pauses (uhm, uh, err)

[ohcorny]

speaking of libraries and how good and important they are, i drew this last month as a thank-you for the graphic novel and comics round table awards at ALA for naming Hunger's Bite one of their honor books for YA fiction.

librarians are at the front of the fight against book bans and the defunding of libraries, and are an invaluable part of our social safety net. and for authors--they are out greatest cheerleaders and customers. you must respect the library!!! you must!!!!!

go to your local library!! check out books!!! check out MY book and read it for free. i want you to!!!

[depsidase]

[byjove]

Knights of the Round Table most likely to jump a guy for his armor:

Percival

Lancelot

[byjove]

sorry for the bad photos but it has come to my attention that most of you do not know Sir Percival literally Did That

[byjove]

Ethical dilemma, some guy keeps weed eating my overgrown flowerbeds. I have social anxiety and agoraphobia and rarely leave my house. The first time it happened, I was in the house and I didn’t notice what was happening until he was halfway finished, I pretended not to be home and did not confront him. This is diabolical and I feel guilty about saying it but my flower beds were extremely overgrown and I assumed that a neighbor had hired him to do their flowerbeds and he had the wrong address, I did not have cash laying around to pay him to finish it and the house would look mad fucked up if I went outside and warned him it was the wrong address halfway through. I don’t have a big yard, it takes maybe 25-30 minutes to weed eat my front garden, I thought he would realize he fucked up and weed ate(?) the wrong house, either knock on my door asking for money, leave a note explaining what happened or quietly take the L and weed eat the correct house without addressing it. He just left after doing it so I assumed he had gone the third route.

Here’s the thing, that was in the late spring and he has done it 3 times now. The first time, I felt bad for the accidental theft of services and not stopping him but he did it again and he just did it a third time. He’s obviously not getting paid by me, it doesn’t seem to be an accident, he’s never left a note and I do not recognize this guy as one of my immediate neighbors. My house is on the corner and it is the first one you see when you drive into the neighborhood, he could live in the area and be fucking sick of driving past my gnarly yard every day, he could be paid by somebody OR he could somehow be related to my new neighbors who moved in next door around the time this started. If so, kinda weird to get someone to tend to your neighbor’s overgrown flowerbeds without introducing yourself…

What do I do? Continue my usual routine of pretending I’m not there and do not notice? He’s never come to the door, do I leave a note and a tip hidden behind the bushes addressed to weed eater man to show my appreciation? As previously stated, I don’t like talking to people or confronting them and I think a part of me is afraid it’ll somehow break the magic. This is truly a situation I do not know how to navigate.

[hotcupoteckla]

Could it be an SB mowing situation?

He uses YouTube money to pay for his time/probably writes off a portion as tax free for his paid business.

[liberalsarecool]

White supremacy does not want you to follow rules or do things 'the right way'. They want you dead or living in fear of dying for the simple crime of existing.

These parents were killed by white supremacy.

These parents were killed by pro-lifers who only want white children in the world.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

struck by inspiration for a "sorry kitten, daddy is" shitpost. but sick of the kitten-daddy dynamic

[hotcupoteckla]

You could always switch it up with Kitten-Mommy?

[whisqrs]

why does my boyfriend have to turn everything into a game of saw

[hotcupoteckla]

Steam will save her and make her a memento.

[pukicho]

Do you think you're anyone's tumblr crush?

God. I hope not. I'm too strong and overprotective and loyal to a fault.

[pukicho]

Heart

[tam--lin]

(7/30/26) The Red Cross just declared the second US blood crisis in its history.

Summer sees both a drop off in donations and, at least for our trauma center, a spike in traumas. Trauma centers across the US are in danger of running out of blood for our trauma patients TODAY, which is very scary but, unlike much of the other scary national news coming across our screens these days, is something you can help fix immediately and directly.

We need ASAP donations of blood, for people to spread the word, and for manager types to help facilitate others' donations. All blood types are needed, but universal donor blood (type O) is especially dire.

[killerspaghettiarts]

Hi twin ….

@sharkfiinn you’ve inspired me…..

[sharkfiinn]

[farenmaddox]

I have just found. the COOLEST website???

Lost Kitchen Scrolls

It has a huge variety of historical recipes from different regions, taken from manuscripts, transcribed and translated, and a whole section of notes about the context for the recipe. It's really fun and I AM going to try a couple of these recipes.

Look at how this lamb recipe is presented:

This is just such a fun way to learn more about historical foodways and discover traditional cuisine.

Look at all the filters you can use:

Maybe if I can forage some good blackberries this year, I can make a 300 year old recipe for blackberry wine!

Anyway. Check out Lost Kitchen Scrolls.

[thememedaddy]

[hotcupoteckla]

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[loki-zen]

has anyone considered that it was probably her house too. where else was she supposed to put her chintz?

[mtndewpitchblack]

[kiefbowl]

[hotcupoteckla]

Oh, but she's supposedly

It's not just replacing decor. Her spouse keeps her competitor. She lost to "has", his styleless whore. Now with no floor; Her home? No more.

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[tartrazeen]

Everyone needs to understand that I watched "The Pest" at a formative time in my life, and him in the shower with the lyric, "Like a booger, I stick to this" has been in my head as clearly as some other scene where they wrench open his legs to do the full splits

Idk what was going on with that movie. I assume they were trying to hunt him for sport, but I don't really know.

Anyway, that's all I knew him from until I watched The Menu. And Ice Age, I guess.

[hotcupoteckla]

He was also in To Wong Fu, Baz Lurman's Romeo & Juliet as Tybalt(fucking BADASS), and in The original Super Mario Bros movie as Luigi.

He's also one of better Guest Hosts for The Daily Show since they didn't make Dulce Sloan the showrunner after Noah left. I love him.