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Alright, I'm starting a "If you like___, I recommend___" series.
If you have any recomendations or requests, please feel free to drop them in my inbox. I read alot of popular books and extremely obscure books. So, nothing is really off the table.
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Made the smart choice there, $52,000 a year is nothing to balk at even after taxes.
I love how there are so many comments that I found that are trying to imply that she is dumb for doing this. Or that our generation is stupid. But...shes 20!
Assuming that she lives to be 80, that is $3.12 million. Over triple the amount offered to begin with. All the while paying less in taxes because it is in a SIGNIFICANTLY lower tax bracket as a passive income rather than a lump sum. (Assuming this is in the US. The article I found was in Canada and they do not tax lottery income.)
So, while the goal may be to make her sound stupid, for doing this. It sounds to me like SHE is the only one who paid attention in math!
Guys, I'm going to be super honest. I've been trying to get the motivation to start posting book recs on the reg. But, I don't want to spam you with random recs. So, let me ask you guys this...
What genres or tropes would you like recs for?
Comment/Repost or send me an ask if you're looking for something specific.
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Could you give me book recs
Some books I really liked but couldn't find much that are similar are:
a magic steeped in poison by Judy I. Lin
A venom dark and sweet (sequel to a magic steeped in poison)
And the poppy wars book series (maybe not as graphic as those though)
Id also like some book recs that are in the fantasy genre with unique magic systems and are a bit obscure in terms of it being in the main stream... But no fairy tale retellings I'm a bit tired of them..
Also bonus points if there's like magical detectives or something like that like a mythical detective agency or something like that and like it's cool if there's romance but I'd prefer if it wasn't the focus and more like a secondary thing
I have so many book recs for you!!!
Magic Detectives?!
The Lockwood & Co. Series by Jonathan Stroud are unique, thrilling, and an overall great read. Keep in mind they're meant for your younger reader but they definitely stand firm in being great regardless of age.
The Dead Boy Detective Agency is another great read if you're open to comics. I know it became a touch mainstream after the show came out, but it's still worth the read.
Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston is a more obscure title that I think you will likely love. Think magical Men In Black.
The Grimm Legacy by Polly Shulman is another great obscure series about a secret agency dealing in magic. It has fantastic characters and a fun play on classic literature.
Fantasy With a Unique Magic System But Minimal Romance:
There are a ton of these. So, I'll keep them brief.
You Can't Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne and it's subsequent series. It scratches that tea itch while exploring their very unique magic system and various political landmines. Beware of the puns!!! The romance is heavy in that series but well worth it if you enjoy banter.
The Honey Witch by Sydney J. Shields is one of my all time favorites. It is a fairly similar vibe to that of the first Magic Steeped in Poison but with a bit more isolation. Not heavy on the romance, but very character driven.
The Magisterium Series by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare has the triller and magical feel while also having that maintaining a secret organization. This is another one meant for younger readers but well worth the read.
Lightlark by Alex Aster is another book that has a unique magic system with the set up for romance. But, is very high stakes and heavily plot driven.
I recently got a black kitten. Help us name her...
What name should we go with?
Wicca (We're Pagan)
Soot (With Soot Sprite Collar)
Let Her Choose (By The Collars)
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weary and wary are not the same word and have very different meanings and if i see one more person use wearily when they mean warily I’m gonna combust
weary: tired, worn-out, beaten down, exhausted, in need of rest. they were weary after their long journey. wearily, she sat down on the couch and kicked off her shoes. he had grown weary of this conversation.
wary: guarded, cautious, on-edge, careful. they were wary of the approaching stranger. warily, she poked at the dark shape in the corner of her room. he paused, wary, but nodded anyway.
thank you for this reply you get the funny crown today with bonus points for accuracy
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Queer joy detected!
"being a human is so boring why can't I be one of the COOL animals" okay hey. I hear you. but I actually really super love being an omnivorous persistence hunting primate with a stomach capable of dissolving many literal poisons and the ability to smell geosmin (released in the soil after it rains) at five parts per trillion. I super enjoy being a bipedal terrifyingly agile mammal with some of the most efficient sweat glands in the animal kingdom. I find a lot of joy in being an endotherm with mimicry abilities that rival most other animals with vocal chords. it's sick as hell I'm having a lot of fun
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A once-in-a-lifetime shot — the moon perfectly framed by a rainbow. Caught at just the right time. 🌈 🌕
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I was old enough to be on Vine the first time round but didn't have a smartphone at the time. I'm going to be so insufferable about this.
went to throw dog poop away in a rando trash can and
Plz tell me you took him home and have a new per gengar.
i'm not qualified to provide adequate enrichment for a trash gengar also I know for a fact he was recently hit in the face with a bag of dog poop
it just started raining this is really doing a number on my object personification
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Update please I am begging you
ok but you’re not gonna like it
mid spa break to drain in the sink
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please
the family requests that trash gengar's privacy be respected during this difficult time
drying in the sun
Thank you for giving him a home! :) (Sorry if this has already been done, already. I couldn't just leave this post alone.)
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Every few weeks I get really pissed off at everyone for no valid reason but then forget about it five days later
Free me from the chains of rage and fire
Same
You know, I've chopped this up to low social battery. But, it's so much more aggressive than that...
Anthropology major answer: “There absolutely was such a time! Modern humans and our ancestors shared territory numerous times over prehistory with cousin species like homo neanderthalensis, homo floresiensis, and many, many others!”
Folklore student answer: “Also, almost all cultures have something like djinn, faeries, hulder, fox spirits, and other similar creatures who can appear at least human and are very, very dangerous to humans!”
Both of these things are true, and may be connected both to the above and to each other. :D
Biology majors: it’s dead bodies guys. Corpses.
Listen I hate this take on the uncanny valley so fucking much because many subpsecies of homonids lived in the same areas but some of them got along well enough to coexist and neandertals had enough desirable genetic traits to the point where human women (see here for a blanket on female vs male choosiness) would often pass up incel homosepian for the chad neandertal.
Genetics aside, various hominid species didn’t start visually looking all that different until 50,000 years ago, while under the skin changes began as early as 89,000 years ago (ie the development of the Y chromosome but I might be oversimplifying at this point) Point being, even our non-human cousins didn’t. look. that. different. from. us. Especially comparing the diversifying of humans themselves crossing trans continental as it was. And even then neandertals still had advantagious traits for living in the Eurasian hemisphere.
Also I digress, regardless of it being intentional, and with few perserved records from that chapter in our species’ history, I don’t like the implication that the uncanny valley effect stems from humans being inherently racist (for lack of a word for hatred of non-human intelligences). I know that sounds off the wall but prejudice and sense of superiority by birthright is vastly different than othering by means of the sucess of social groups and the need to compete for territory or resources. Racism is entirely a Eurpean fabrication and it’s been proven time and time again to be a cultural outlier and purposfully designed to further the agenda of corroded theocratical religious divinity (here, here, here) and the financial benifits of the exploitation of colonism that otherwise has not been replicated by other cultures to the same degree. (this is the only example off the top of my head but I’m know there’s more.)
You know what’s older than racism?
You know what’s more flesh crawling than neandertals?
fucking rabies
You know what LOOKS like a human but doesn’t ACT human ENOUGH? Do you know what might bite you and get you sick or turn you into something that also moves about in a non human way? Brain parasites that give you painful headaches and intensifies agression and confusion.
Say you’re a monkey and one member of your troop gets bitten by something. Later he starts twitching and swaying about. He keeps stumbling out of trees but barely feels anything when he hits the ground. He won’t eat sleep or drink. He makes guttural noises that keep alerting predators and he’s in obvious writhing agony. Suddenly he’s not your friend anymore. He doesn’t recognize you and he attempts to bite and claw at anything that moves.
Up until preventitive oral medications and vaccines were developed in the 1970s there was NOTHING stopping rabies and it still prevails today and kills hundreds of thousands of people in third world countries with limited medical resources a year. There’s no cure for rabies once youve got it and the only reliable diagnostic is a brain autopsy.
Rabies. TB. Leoprosy. Syphilis. Meningitis. Toxoplasmosis. Anthrax. Mercury Poisoning. Prion disease. These are all bad and in different varying degrees can cause limps, sores, agression, confusion or dazed trances, ambled pacing, convulsions or uncharacteristic behavior in humans.
Basically everything that people are terrified of when it comes to zombies. Vampires bite. Werewolves rip people apart. Demonic possesion? Easy. Changlings take the place of your loved ones.
Also I don’t think that it’s a conicidence that the things we find uncomfortable with the uncanny valley also just happen to line up with predatory behavior, smiling too wide or staring you down, blinking too slowly or moving towards you with a slow steady speed. It’s just a danger signal to keep other monkeys in a troop from getting bitten by an infected monkey. Simple as that.
After all what’s scarier? A dead body, or moving body that will MAKE you dead?
I’m not going to be a hypocrite by pointing out racism being excused as a stemmed human behavior without claiming that the deep seated primal fear of disease doesn’t make a good excuse for ableism as well. I mean we use othering to discern friend from foe, and then at some point decided that was a good enough excuse for racism. Theres legitimate proof that ancient homonids could and would be hospitible to the disabled out of compassion. The point of having these initial fears is to guage saftey measures first, but once someone or something is proven to be harmless that normally should be the end of it. I mean if an adult wild silverback gorrilla can look at a spycam and decide it’s chill after a moment of inspection then there’s really no excuse for any of us.
Healthy othering =/= newly invented racism.
healthy fear of infectious diseases =/= excuse to hate disabled people.
But yeah rabies is more likely the reason for the uncanny valley effect thanks for coming to my goddamn ted talk.
Reblogging this version bc of sources and I personally think this makes for much more interesting (and terrifying) lore than any other post in this thread.
Holy shit. I never thought of the “zombie virus” to be this take. It makes total fuckin sense. Shit
i was literally about to make a huge post about rabies but someone beat me to it.
You know, one of my professors explained the way rabies effects the human brain. Not just symptoms but the virus causes the brain to swell and eventually start to die off slowly. So I asked her what would happen if someone with rabies didn't die from dehydration/starvation, what would be the next thing that would kill them.
This woman looked me dead in the eye and said they would fit all of the criteria of a really fast, really strong zombie (minus the dead part, obviously). But eventually the major function of the human brain would die off killing the patient after an estimated YEAR post infection. (The average inflicted patient dies between 2-10 days of showing symptoms.) So, if left un-treated and un-contained, we would be looking at potentially thousands of people this patient could infect before naturally dying off.
What killed me was her immediate murmering to herself of, "and that's why the cure to world hunger may just be our down fall." To this day I ask her every time I see her what she was talking about and she refuses to answer me.
My dad was dealing with some mixed feelings so I told him "In therapy when something is too complicated to do a simple 'pro and contra list' we sometimes do an excercise where you imagine all these mixed feelings around a table in some kind of conference, letting each tell their bit and you leading the debate."
and my dad didn't really respond and just stared ahead so I kept preparing lunch. Until a few minutes later when he suddenly piped up: "I am having a bad time at the conference"
I too am having a bad time at the conference
Reblog if you too are having a bad time at the conference
It's them. My Dysfunctioning Executives.
not to worry mutuals, I’ve recruited a halfling to detect any and all spike traps on your dashboard, just make sure not to scroll too fast so he has time to find them
yeah okay ill reblog that
