grumpyoldsnake

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If you are watching a TV show, it can be live action or animated.

But not when you're reading a book. Much to think about.

#I can’t vote on this because it’s none of the above slskdhd #I mean. it IS words. I never completely divorce from the awareness of what I am physically looking at on the page #and there’s a bit of a narrative voice as I think the words as I read them #but it’s also the formless presence-shape-perspective understanding that I get in dreams #not images but not really an ABSENCE of images either. just like. spacial and impressional Awareness #which is honestly how I inagine most things unless I’m making an active effort to visualize so that tracks ahah #I’m physically capable of visualization but it takes effort and concentration and holding onto it is shaky #polls

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A cherry blossom dragon to celebrate the coming of spring!

#ooh v pretty #art #other people's art

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#I think I stumbled on a few episodes of Wolf’s Rain when I was quite young #but the first one I actually properly watched a significant amount of was Ouran with my brother #he had me and our mom watch the full series with him #anime #polls

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unsung benefit i think a lot of ppl are sleeping on with using the public library is that i think its a great replacement for the dopamine hit some ppl get from online shopping. it kind of fills that niche of reserving something that you then get to anticipate the arrival of and enjoy when it arrives, but without like, the waste and the money.

#libraries #mental health

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You know, it's kinda funny how much of high fantasy centers around kings and nobility and courtly intrigue considering that the archetypal high fantasy, Lord of the Rings, had the rather explicit moral of "saving the world is up to this backwater hick and his gardener because no politician, least of all inherited nobility, would have the ability to see past their own ambition and throw away a weapon". Oh sure, Aragorn is a great king and all, but there's a reason he's over there running a distraction ring while the hobbits do the real work. Sauron loses because he gets distracted by kings and armies and great battles (i.e. typical high fantasy stuff) letting Frodo and Sam sneak through his back door and blow it all to hell.

Just saying, maybe old Jirt knew what he was saying when he said that the small folk doing their best and holding to each other was more powerful than a dozen alliances and superweapons and we should respect him for it.

#tropes #writing resources #genres #writing resources: themes #lotr #tolkien

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Hi! Have you read the poem "The Dormouse and the Doctor" by A. A. Milne? I remember being fascinated with it as a kid and I recently re-read it to my own child and realized it's actually a really hard-hitting fable about medical trauma & doctors ignoring your needs. And it's also why I love geraniums (red) and delphiniums (blue).

Yes! I had a book of A. A. Milne's poetry growing up. I remember rereading it a few years ago, not expecting it to hit quite so hard. It's something that pops into my head whenever a medical provider is being less than helpful.

#to read #poetry

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Please go watch Sex Explained on Netflix. Not only is it a great resource for the basic sex education that is sorely lacking in the U.S., but some of ya’ll need to take a deep breath and remember the difference between fantasy vs reality. This purity culture thing that we’re going through right now is directly harmful to responsible, healthy sexual expression. BTW this woman, Lisa Diamond, is a noted psychologist and has been pushing for greater understanding of womens sexuality as a whole.

#sex ed

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@pyrohorse submitted: Found this funky fella resting on a window at work. Look at those fuzzy legs! I love moths.

I, too, love moths. And this fella is very cute! Excellent antennae.

#fluff ;_; #moths #bugs

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Creative way of saving camels from getting run over

#ffff holy shit #camels #videos

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Fantastic art

#resources #art resources #art resources: lighting #videos

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sumo wrestlers in a sunflower field

#aaaa #makes me smile #art resources: body types #body types

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Hmmmnng I need a nap and about 12 hours of quiet time in the dark.

Yes, these are two different needs.

#12 hours is an exaggeration but it doesn’t *feel* like it right at the moment fff #v overstimulated rn and forcing my brain to think coherently enough to wrap up at work is like pulling teeth #not really sensory stuff or anything. but. one of those days where I was not able to follow one single scrap of routine #and have had to make decisions and then reevaluate those decisions on the fly constantly #bleh #life flails #complaining

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everyone's got that one homie who zealously adheres to his inflexible code of honor even though it has long since become a burden to him

#pff

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Like a bloody star - Submitted by Anonymous

#7A6359 #EBE4C3 #80A06B #F2FF9B #3B5454

#ooh #brown #cream #green #color palettes

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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

#I’ve had my current phone 6-7 years but it was inherited from a family member who’d already had it several years so 😂 #I think I had 2 or 3 different flip phones a bit more rapidly back when they were a thing #so that was the one time the turnover’s been less than 5 years #then I was gifted a smart phone in… high school? and I kept that one until the battery started giving up the ghost #and then I tried two second-hand-from-family ones to decide which size I liked and settled on this one #queue

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There's the thing in kids' shows/books/movies where the kids always know what's going on and what to do where the adults are idiots, and in most shows aimed at adults the only roles for kids are precocious-yet-loving protag's kid, smart-mouthed pain-in-the-ass, or victim of the crime-of-the-week, so I think it would be funny to have a story from the POV a hard-bitten middle-aged cop or detective who mostly does hard-bitten-middle-aged-protagonist things like drink a lot and complain about his exes, but he always runs into this team of five 13-year-old amateur detectives on his job, and they seem to be just as good at it as he is and it drives him a little crazier each time.

#I would read or watch this in a HEARTBEAT #tropes #plot bunnies

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me: yeah I'm pretty close to finishing this fic

the fic:

#shshshhshs #look having the structure down (even with placeholders) IS finishing an important step dangit #…but. yeah. lot of work ahead still fff #writing flails