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they, 20, midwest, public transit appreciator, future geographer and or archivist, i talk a lot about the magicians tv show

[ramblingsoapbox]

dr thaddeus q they .. he is they ... s11 txf is comical

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

well maybe you should blearily wake up at 5:08 in the pre-dawn light and find the sleeping soft tiny mammal body of your cat just inches from your head like a miracle too beautiful for speech, and you should rustle one hand out from your blankets to rub fingertip circles across the warm eggshell dome of her little velvet-wrapped skull and on the bristly patches just where the cups of her ears begin, and as she inclines her head into your fingers and purrs without ever opening her little eyes you should feel a love so tender that you understand how that love could have reached out from the fireside into the inky spangled nights long gone to reach her, and then you'll feel better

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

i am at a complete loss as to how to adequately express to you how much this cat throws up yeah

[dailycatsblog]

[my-dailydreams]

[hugsohugs]

one genre of fanfiction that seems to have mostly disappeared since i became an adult is shenanigans-type fics. like not exactly crack but just "the gang goes to 7-11" type, extremely low-stakes plot stories. the beach episodes of fanfiction. i just feel like i don't see those around so much anymore. whered they go. i miss them :(

[thirdity]

“Fantasy is true, of course. It isn’t factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it, too, and that is precisely why many of them are afraid of fantasy. They know that its truth challenges, even threatens, all that is false, all that is phony, unnecessary, and trivial in the life they have let themselves be forced into living.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night

[feldfrog]

As a kid, I wasn’t allowed to touch the hot stove with my bare hands. But now I get to do it whenever I want

[ramblingsoapbox]

As a kid, I accidentally put my hand on the hot stove and didn't even get burned. But now I get to constantly avoid the stove whenever I want

[rosenkranz-isnt-dead]

every shitpost has at least 85% chance to have been a plot of an episode of the hit television show the x files (1993 - 2002)

[mangled-by-disuse]

in happier pride news i actually found this deeply heartwarming

that's solidarity baybeeee

[lgbtlaughs]

Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

"I'm only criticizing the people who are lazy on purpose" is just not the reassurance people think it is when nearly every disabled person has been accused of not really being disabled and just being lazy on purpose

[ramblingsoapbox]

rest even when it feels lazy or looks lazy is so very important to your overall physical and mental health

[vrtualdreamgirl]

we can’t talk here contact me in my dream tonight

[byjove]

Re your post about the carpark. there are so many cases of people building carparks and the like over historically significant places in the UK. There's a lot of historical stuff and not a lot of space. It's our favourite hobby at this point. In London there was a Roman Temple which had had a shopping centre built over it or something.

There's been drama going on for the past decade because they're trying to build a high-speed railway but can't connect all the bits because it can't avoid crossing places that have been deemed of "historical interest" and so construction has been banned.

Wow, it’s crazy they’ve actually shot down the idea of a high speed railway due to the potential of disturbing historical sites because they have destroyed so many Neolithic sites for roadways that could have been moved 6 feet to the side AND ALSO they were legitimately floating the idea of building a tunnel under Stonehenge to alegiate congestion on the A303. You would think high speed rail and having a less car-centered society would actually help persevere these sites…

The “well, the whole island is a site of historical importance, of course we had to build this carpark over an 8th century cemetery” kind of makes sense in an incredibly densely populated area like London where the whole city is built on 2,000 years of rising and falling civilizations, like how oysters scaffold themselves on the empty shells of other oysters.

The problem with knowingly building a carpark on top of an incredibly important archeological site is that you’re eventually going to have to tear that carpark up to get to that archeological site. It’s not economical. It’s bad for historical preservation. Though Britain is relatively small, so much of it is scarcely populated outside of major cities. The screenshot I posted was from an ancient monastery outside of the town of Saint David’s in Wales, which is a very idyllic and somewhat rural region of Pembrokeshire. You go on Google Maps and it is miles and miles and miles of fields, some with Neolithic sites but mostly just flat agricultural land. Except for the place they built a carpark, which was directly on top of an 8th century cemetery. TO WALES’S CREDIT, they removed the remains because they were endangered by costal erosion and the carpark project but it is still utterly ridiculously that apparently the only place for a carpark was directly on top of the cemetery.

[byjove]

Wait, let me show you, it’s so absurd it is hilarious.

location of the carpark and a view of the surrounding beach

archeological dig at the site of the chapel

[souvenirs]

[spitfaggot]

happy birthday, gilbert baker. (june 2, 1951 — march 31, 2017)

[ramblingsoapbox]

ok so do we like s10 txf or not?

[fitzsimmonssource]

“Fitz and Simmons are our star-crossed lovers of the show and can’t really seem to find happiness,” - Jeph Loeb

[ramblingsoapbox]

ok do i need to rewatch? and where even is it right now bc I am not paying for another subscription

[ramblingsoapbox]

just called somewhere to schedule an appointment, there was an auto message saying they were on lunch until 12:45 ... it was 12:41 (just a minute ago lol

[ramblingsoapbox]

i was a little rude and called back at 12:46 ... They are still closed. I was hoping to make this call before my appointment omg but they probably have to flip a switch or something when they get back from lunch

[ramblingsoapbox]

just called somewhere to schedule an appointment, there was an auto message saying they were on lunch until 12:45 ... it was 12:41 (just a minute ago lol