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Your mom finding her friend at a store is like unskippable cutscenes

The fucking worst is that as I get older i completly understand the interest to catch up an unreasonable long time because turns out adults just dont get enough time to hang with friends, so catch up next to the Aldi cheese aisle it is

ninth-order-simulacra

you can see the increasing age of tumblr users, these posts are like tree rings.

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source

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curliestofcrowns

The administration of President Joe Biden acted last month to mostly rescind a Trump-era Denial of Care Rule that invited health care workers to deny medical treatment and services to patients because of personal religious or moral beliefs.

Americans United applauded the move.

“We applaud the Biden administration for taking positive steps toward protecting both religious freedom and patients’ health by rescinding the Trump-era Denial of Care Rule,” said Rachel Laser, AU’s president and CEO. “No one should be denied the health care they need because of someone else’s religious beliefs.

“The Denial of Care Rule was a dangerous policy that weaponized religious freedom and put the health and lives of women, LGBTQ+ people, religious minorities and so many others in jeopardy,” Laser continued. “Today’s rule seeks to protect patients from harm and upholds the fundamental principle of church-state separation.”

naamahdarling

HEY SPREAD THIS AROUND, WE ARE SAFER NOW.

crobat

aullidoazul

Overcompensate

moveslikekeithrichards

i think the hardest part about this job is not being able to say What The Fuck

icouldwritebooks

During my sophomore year biology class, we all had to dissect worms. One of the kids in class ate one. A few minutes into the class, the teacher was like, “oh, by the way, make sure not to touch your mouth. These worms are covered in super poisonous formaldehyde.”

The kid who had eaten the work went pale. The kids at his desk huddled around him for a whispered discussion about whether or not he should admit to what he’d done, or keep his mouth shut and hope he survived it. He eventually decided that he did not want to risk death, put up his hand, and very timidly informed the teacher of his little snack.

The poor teacher. She just got this look on her face, like she was considering switching careers immediately. Anyway, she ended up calling 911. I don’t know how things went down at the hospital, but the kid survived.

necro-om-nom-nomicon

Right. We’re going to have words about that last tag there.

tricornking

Okay @gallusrostromegalus I realize you probably just forgot to finish that last tag, but I want to make clear how fucking

OMINOUS

it is that you don’t elaborate what those coroner firing reasons were covering up

gallusrostromegalus

Tumblr fucked up the tags, the last one is supposed to read “#Someone finally gave in to temptation and had a little Nibble”

tarot-sybarite

If this isn’t a #WorldHeritagePost it should be.

plaguedocboi

Literally nothing will make me more evil than just being sort of overwhelmed by Noises

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chaumas-deactivated20240115

one time I had a dream that I unlocked a secret never-before-discovered achievement in Disco Elysium by squeezing into various nooks and crannies and got a special copotype called “Crevice Cop: seek out and inhabit crevices like some kind of man-spider” and I thought yeah!!! man-spider!!! crevice cop!!! this game GETS me!!!

and then I woke up to find that I had fallen partially down into the gap between my partner’s bed and the wall and was horrifically contorted and in agonizing bodily pain from sleeping in a position only comfortable to a brown recluse

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twilightown

CAUSE EVERY TIME WE TOUCH I GET THIS FEELING

EVERY TIME WE KISS I SWEAR I COULD FLY

CAN’T U FEEL MY HEART BEAT FAST, I WANT THIS TO LAST

NEED YOU BY MY SIDE

the-husbando

This is the closest gif that can really capture the utter chaotic energy that is released when people hear this song

tenaciouszombiearcher

Knowledge is empowering

fluffmugger

you can literally get gender changers for like $3

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hamletthedane

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cait-lame

IHust wiOke upmy whol hOUSSe

disasterlarper

I’m telling this story again b/c fuck it but anyways I was playing D&D and one of my friends went “brown bear brown bear what do you see” and on cue three of us turn to him and like, death metal screech “ALLLL”.

The dude goes completely pale faced. I saw true horror in his eyes.

He didn’t know the joke.

So apparently dude just had three of his best friends demonically screech at him for no goddamn reason.

I do not think I will ever cause that level of sheer terror and confusion ever again in my life.

bi-files

Diane Duane really is the where's waldo of authors. Like oh, I just finished, Star Trek (TOS), those Star Trek books look pretty cool. Huh that cover with Spock on it looks neat. Proceed to read one of my favorite novels in the entire world. Ok ok it's by Diane Duane. Gotta remember that. Starting TNG like yo it's Diane Duane again! She wrote this episode :). Oh well, I guess no more Diane Duane Star Trek as I have found all of them for my collection. Damn, well my friend really likes Spiderman/Venom. Her birthday's soon. Guess I should get her comic books? And with steel chair it's Diane Duane again! And oh wait, what other comics did she write? She wrote a comic book for Star Trek! Better read that! An X-men novel!! Hmmm, y'know I've been reading a lot of sci fi and comic books recently. I would really like to get back to my roots and read some fantasy, preferably with some wizards. Diane Duane once again snipes me from the google recommend books page. Doing some research on Barbie to get ready for the Barbie Movie. Barbie: FairyTopia is cowritten by Diane Duane and Elise Allen. A bomb is dropped on my house. Watching a video essay on Batman because it's 2AM and youtube thinks I might like that. I've never watched Batman the animated series, but I guess I'll give it a try. Diane Duane strikes once again. Talking with my friends about their favorite authors and where they live during a vacation in Ireland. Huh I actually don't know where Diane Duane lives. Look it up and get punched into next week. Get tumblr. Ha that was a funny! Waldo once again has been sighted.

TL;DR: Diane Duane has got range and I haven't looked up all the things she's done and keep getting pleasantly surprised.

dduane

…I kept hoping nobody would catch me with the steel chair! Oh well. 😏

Meanwhile, there are several What I’ve Done pages over at DianeDuane.com, divided up between prose (novels, short fiction), comics (that section’s not complete, must sort that out…) and screen / media work. …Though IMDb will be more comprehensive on the latter.

Anyway, thanks to @bi-files for the nice words. Re: the range: I’ve simply been finding out what I like to do. For forty years or so. With luck, I’ll figure it out in the next thirty. 😄

(Oh, and btw: don’t miss out on that LGBTQ-centered fantasy universe. Who knows, it might be of interest…)

foobar137

The one that still gets me is Privateer 2.

Here you've got this underappreciated game that got tacked on to the Wing Commander universe for marketing reasons but really had very little to do with the original Wing Commander. But...it's really good, with a story that is far better than you'd expect for a mid-90s space-sim-with-FMV game.

Written by...guess who?

"You have the driest lips, mister. Let me wet them for you a little," still lives in my head rent-free, over two decades after I first played the game.

dduane

I was there. I can't deny it. And they gave me money for it.

...You may starve and struggle in between times, but occasionally the high points occur.

scoobycool9

Sorry, can we add Diane Duane to our cryptids because apparently like one Neil Gaiman, she’s on tumblr

dduane

I've been here since 2008. Apparently this is news somehow. :)

aqueerkettleofish

I just recently discovered that you wrote for the Happy Days spinoff cartoons, including the one with the time traveling diner, the alien waitress babe, and Mr. Cool.

And to be clear, I'm not mocking you. I would have taken the paycheck for it. Hell, I'd take a paycheck for that exact show NOW. But I've always wondered about how the writers of shows like that, or Gilligan's Planet, felt when they realized exactly what Saturday Morning Sugary Crack they were being asked to write for.

dduane

They felt, "How can I do this best?"

None of us signed up for this in the dark! Every one of us that I knew of was intent on finding out how to do it properly. And from this school of thought rose Paul Dini (he worked in the office next to me at Filmation) and Joe Straczynski (he worked down the hall from me at DiC) and numerous others whose script work people are watching right now. All the H-B animation people I knew were intent on finding out how to do this work well. Did we know we were going to wind up doing ludicrous things? Of course we did.

Did that scare us, though? Feck no. Part of the art of comedy (as all servants of great Thalia know) is that in the making of the (purposefully) ridiculous, you too may be ridiculed. (shrug) Big deal. They who deal in the pie to the face, themselves will probably be pied. Par for the course. (cue "Make 'Em Laugh")

And always reminding people (for those who've forgotten, or never knew): writing for Scooby and Scrappy-Doo paid for the food and rent that let me write So You Want To Be A Wizard, and The Wounded Sky, and Deep Wizardry. So Ed'rashtekaresket, and K't'lk, and the Mystery Inc. gang, are siblings under the skin.

...I don't forget, and nobody else should. :)