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TOS eyes.

Couldn't resist drawing some suuuper close ups. I mean, there's not a single person on the enterprise that doesn't have beautiful eyes.

At this point, having wonderful eyes was probably among the requisites to be a Starfleet officer.IDK

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kindergarten teachers in 2026: ok roll call... is "vriska" present?

kindergarten teachers in 2036: ok roll call..... is "harrowhark" present?

kindergarten teachers in DEVIL YEAR: ok kids today we are building a machine that destroys smiles

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With some changes to techniques, a careful selection of kitchen tools, and tips from fellow bakers, the joy of baking can live on.

I luckily haven't had to deal with much chronic pain or hand pain yet, especially with regards to baking (crochet is another story). That said, these look like some pretty solid tips! There's also some in the comments section.

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As this link nears five hundred notes, I'm just... very quietly touched at how many people are sharing it. Whether they need it themselves (or think they will someday), or know someone else who might need it, the fact that all of them are sharing the sentiment of "I want the people who love doing this thing to be able to keep doing the thing that they love" is... yeah. It makes me happy.

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Aleksandra Boikova and Dmitrii Kozlovskii Win Gold at the 2020 European Figure Skating Championships

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That’s the thing about faith… if you don’t have it, you can’t understand it and if you do, no explanation is necessary.

Nana Visitor as Kira Nerys in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993-1999)

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hey mari, i've had a real craving for horror books lately and was wondering if you had any recs for me? i think contemporary and homoerotic is the vibe at the moment but i'll take whatever you've got 💛

Chell, I’m so glad you sent this ask! I know you’re a fan of Carmen Maria Machado, so I tried to think of some similar authors or authors that I know have been an influence on her. (Also, I’m not sure if you’ve read her edition of Carmilla, but if not, maybe look into it? I really love the original Carmilla as well.) Some books in this list are probably not always considered horror, but they’re at the very list horror-adjacent. I tried to pick things based on what I know of your taste, but not sure if I did a very good job. If you read any of these, I’d love to hear your thoughts, and I’ll be happy to recommend more based on what you enjoyed or didn’t enjoy. Anyway, here’s what I came up with:

These are quite obvious and you’ve probably read them already but definitely Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and Toni Morrison’s Beloved. I mean, I could never talk about horror and not talk about them, so.

Angela Carter was a great influence on Machado, I think, and in any case she is always wonderful and breathtaking. I recommend starting with The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories because they’re all short, magical and creepy, though more gothic than horror.

Sarah Waters is more gothic than horror as well, but The Little Stranger definitely fits in the genre (though a lot of people who like her work didn’t like that one, but I personally did; of course I also recommend her other books, especially Fingersmith).

White Is For Witching, Helen Oyeyemi (check out her other books if you enjoy this one!)

Paradise Rot, Jenny Hval

Skin Folk, Nalo Hopkinson

A Human Stain, Kelly Robson (read it here for free)

Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island, Nibedita Sen (a short story that I love, read it here)

Irina, Susan Millar DuMars (here)

Things We Lost in the Fire, Mariana Enríquez

A Certain Hunger, Chelsea G. Summers

Tender is the Flesh, Augustina Bazterrica

Bloodchild and Other Stories, Octavia Butler

The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington (surrealism with some horror)

The Bloody Countess, Alejandra Pizarnik

Bluebeard’s First Wife, Ha Seong-nan

I’ve only very recently started reading Tanith Lee, but so far I can recommend The Book of the Damned and The Blood of Roses, but she’s written so many books and I’ve only dipped my toe.

Due to the nature of horror, a lot of these come with caveats and possible trigger warnings, but I wouldn’t even know where to begin, so if there’s anything that is particularly upsetting to you that you’d like to be warned about, do let me know!

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“I read the poem of a student and in the poem God wandered through a room picking up random objects – a pear, a vase, a shoe – and in bewilderment said, ‘I made this?’. Apparently God had forgotten making anything at all. I awarded this poem a prize, because I was a judge of such matters. I was not really awarding the student, I was awarding God; I knew someday the student would pick up his old poem and say in bewilderment, ‘I made this?’, and at that moment his whole world would be lost in the twilight, and when you are finally lost in the twilight you can not judge anything.”

— “On Twilight,” Mary Reufle

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always seeing posts on here about pathetic men but what about pathetic women. where's the love for us underachieving cunts. lethargic women. slug women. I do fuckall every day and expect rewards. i am your poor little meow meow. #feminism