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What is the biggest lie you’ve ever told?- video by slimysuckers

#this will never entirely stop being a hockey blog #even now that it's mostly not #marc andre fleury

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#untamed

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#i have the opposite problem with this to what I had with the last poll #because so many of them #probably alanna or anne #depending on whether I wanted to be feared or adored #meg murray and sara crewe and cimorene and menolly were all up there too

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I wanted to be Alanna of Trebond. Or Eowyn. There was a certain theme of dressing up and going off into battle.

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#click in case of sadness

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#truth

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WIP Wednesday

The old house stood at the head of a narrow lake, the hills rising steeply behind. It was a rambling sprawl of a house, faded white clapboard and steep-sloped roofs and high peaked gables with arched windows, like the architects (because there obviously had been more than one) had had dreams of gothic grandeur, cobbled together from the fir and spruce of the local landscape. Ollie remembered finding it shabby as a child, a stark contrast to the neat brickwork and manicured lawns of his parents’ home in Star City. Now, the decades had carried it from shabbiness to downright dilapidation. The paint was peeling, moss grew on the roof, and sagebrush appeared to be colonizing the wide front porch. He was surprised by the rush of fondness that came to him. He climbed the porch carefully, not trusting the rotting boards, and tested each step before giving it his full weight. The key stuck in the lock and the door caught in the hinges; he had to give it a good kick before it finally creaked reluctantly open and he stepped into the gloomy hall. Inside smelled of mildew and pine. It was very cold, and dark, and quiet. It felt like a place of mourning. Maybe that’s why he had come here, but now that he’d arrived Ollie couldn’t help but think of the flower shop, the little tower that he and Dinah had made their own. All the sun streaming in through the windows, and Dinah with armfuls of peonies. They’ve messed up the order, she’d said, brought ten times what we were supposed to get. Grab all the buckets you can find. How many damn bushels do you think we can fit in the bathtub? Ollie suddenly felt very, very tired. He dropped his pack and his bow case by the front door, sending up a cloud of dust that tickled his throat and burned his eyes.

#writing #wip wednesday #ollie queen #dinahollie

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Made myself sad wondering what would make Eddie ask a woman he’s only been dating for a few months to move in and remembered that the season started with Chris believing that women always leave, and that Eddie is exactly the kind of person to put the blame for that on himself and his failures in past relationships, and double down on his relationship with Marisol to show Chris that that belief isn’t true, whether he actually wants to or not.

#this makes so much sense of s7 eddie to me #i have liked a lot of things about the season (obviously) #but am somewhat baffled by how eddie is being written #it's not that I don't want him to be happy #(that is my whole thing for him i have the story to prove it!) #but dropping him into a romance that's happened almost entirely off screen #and saying 'oh but this time he's happy'?? #what about all that season 5 development??? #eddie diaz #9-1-1 #911 spoilers

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K Yamada ...

#art #this is a cat blog

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Beth Riesgraf as Parker in Leverage: Redemption (2021—)

#leverage #parker #my beloved

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#golden girls #and how life does not stop when you turn 40 #good media

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graphs survey

Hey folks! I'm taking a class on data visualization/making graphs, and we're doing a survey on how people read those graphs and how best to convey info through them.

If you could spare 12 minutes (estimated; most people seem to take less than that) and take a look at these five graphs (one question per graph), that would be super helpful: Assessing the Perception of Different Designs of Data Visualization

Please only take this if you're over 18, and put Hannah (that's me!) as the name of the person who asked you to take this survey. If you're interested in reading the paper on this that I'm going to have to write in a few weeks, reach out and I can let you read it when I'm done!

#always do data viz surveys!

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#laugh rule

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Bonus internet points will be awarded to anyone who actually tries this exercise before voting.

Assume you need to get the spelling at least somewhat close, and if a character has multiple names, only one counts. Also, if a character doesn't have a canonical name, I'm sorry, but "that guy's wife" doesn't count.

For reference, if you can name the 9 members of the Fellowship, the eponymous Hobbit and his 13 dwarf buddies, 3 prominent women, and the guy who runs the Rivendell B&B, that's 27 characters right there. And you probably also know the name of a dragon.

For further reference, Tolkien Gateway has 637 (!!) pages dedicated to Third Age characters. (Don't click that link until you've voted, of course)

Edit: Your humble pollmaker gave this a try, and got as far as 73 before deciding she was too tired to keep trying to remember dwarf and Silm names. If you also want to share (and don't mind people being incredulous at your having forgot ____), pastebin allows you to paste text and share it for free. :)

#I made it somewhere past 60 before I started wondering if the ponies counted so I stopped there #(the ones who all answer to tom bombadil's names for the rest of their lives) #I had a really long high-school lotr phase #and the tom bombadil rhymes just stuck in my head #also all the “son ofs...” really helps flesh it out #there was a time I probably could have done 100+ #but this time is not that time #lotr

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online communities are so strange because people slip away so easily. you can be on here for years, folding people you've never met into the fabric of your daily life, and then they disappear, leaving only ghost posts scattered across tumblr behind. or their blog stays dormant, for weeks, months, years, until you're only still following them because you remember that they love sunflowers or they were kind to you when they didn't have to be or the last thing they posted was sad and raw and you still worry about them sometimes.

and sometimes they come back when you least expect it, years later, even, and there's this sudden rush of relief like there you are, there you are, even though you barely knew each other.

there's a strange kind of love to it. i don't know you and i want to hold your hand across miles and time zones and oceans. i can still see the imprint of you in this community you left. you don't anyone will notice or care when you're gone, but we notice and we care and we wish you well.

i hope you're all okay out there. i hope the sun is shining on your face and you are breathing deeply. i miss you.

#fandom

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#caractacus potts!

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DUE SOUTH S03E02 - Eclipse

#THIS SHOW #due south