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'Snake' wooden spoon carved in Sapele wood.

#This looks oddly ergonomic

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my brother showed up unnanounced at my door, handed me approx. 20 portions of (unidentified) Game Meat Stew, told me "you should eat this before it goes bad" then left.

now I have to figure out how I'm going to eat 20 portions of mystery stew...

#vitpost

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#yes sometimes because the definition of 'traditional' is kinda vague. would a knitted sweater count? I don't know. #but I do try to incorporate folk elements into my wardrobe as often as possible #and I will show up in full traditional costume in any setting where it might be socially acceptable to do so #I love handmade clothes I love to hand make clothes and I'm a BIG NERD about it #I'm not picky about what region I wear though. #which is a big no-no according to people who only wear their (standardized) traditional clothes once a year #but like. my dudes I'm over here hand making my own garments with traditional techniques #and swapping items with my equally nerdy friends #thus keeping the actual traditions alive instead of gatekeeping the superficial aestethics of them #so I can do whatever I want I think

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#In Norway sourdough bread was practically unheard of until like the 1600s because ppl thought the bread rising was the devil's work #and I wonder if the 'cross' you cut on sourdough bread has any correlation to that belief #anyways I still only eat flat bread because sourdough takes a lot of work and yeast is in fact the devil's accomplice (makes my tummy hurt)

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I LOVE taking kids seriously when they say or do something uncharacteristically grown-up. the other day a 4 year old boy walked up to me, shook my hand and introduced himself by name, and even nodded all serious when I returned the gesture. The grown man he was with (who had just done the same thing) was cracking up, but I naturally treated the whole encounter with the same gravitas as the kid. cause I remember being 7 years old, knitting clothes for my stuffed animals at my grandma's house, trying to engage in the gownup's conversation about local politics, getting laughed at for being a "7yo old lady", and then spending the rest of the night in silence cause I was too embarrassed to talk. worst feeling. let kids act grown up even tho they're not. it's good for their development.

#the whiplash I always got when I visited grandma (who babies even her own adult childen) #while my own mother has taken everything I've said and done seriously from day 1 #jarring #vitpost #also wow I wonder why everyone I talk to assume my profession has something to do with pedagogy.

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you know how some people go to parties and befriend the pets there like the dogs & cats? whenever i go to social functions i somehow end up randomly in charge of children. i don’t know how it happens. people are always just foisting children off on me in public places.

and the thing is it never stops at one child, because once you have one with you, another child approaches, and then parents start to think you’re perhaps some sort of hired childcare at the function and they don’t ask you. more children appear whose parents pointed at you and the other children and said, “oh look! that’s where all the kids are! go over there!”

I was at a work picnic once and a man from another department asked me to hold his 5-month-old while he filled up his plate. Then he got distracted talking to friends and didn’t come back for thirty minutes. I stood there with this baby whose name I actually didn’t know, chit-chatting a meeting new colleagues, and everyone assumed it was my baby and kept asking about him and what was I supposed to do? Say, “oh this isn’t mine” ?? Because then they’d ask whose it was and we actually hadn’t exchanged names. So then what would I say, “I don’t know” ??????????

I started wondering if I needed to make up a fake backstory for this baby.

The baby’s MOM eventually showed up looking for her husband, saw me, and said, far more pleasantly than she needed to, “hi! You seem to have my baby????”

I was just like, “indeed. so I do.”

I once volunteered to run the bubble table at a local festival. The point was to come get bubble wands & soap to use around the festival, but people just started sending their children over en masse. The festival ended, and I still had like 17 unattended children. I needed to go home.

I had no idea what to do. I needed to find an event organizer but I couldn’t leave them alone? So I started walking around the festival with a line of hand-holding children to find an authority I could give them away to like some sort of reverse Pied Piper

once I ended up in charge of a 3 year old at a funeral and she realized what death was and that she was going to die one day. I was holding her & she was crying while I was desperately trying to locate her parents.

Idk where I’m going with this.

I need to find a way to seem less approachable so no more strange toddlers have mortality crises in my arms.

#yea

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Stinky group of gamerz

It came to me in my fever dreams

tag yoself, I’m Chilskyrim

#Falin isn't here but you KNOW she only has a nintendo DS from 2007 (and maybe a switch so she and marcille can play together) #but downloads the games she wants to play on her brother's computer #(im Falin.) (my brother is Laios fr)

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Shit man, this wizard war is fucked. I just saw a guy clap his hands together and say "the ten hells" or some similar shit, and every one around him turned inside out, had their tibia explode and then disappeared. The camera didn't even go onto him, that's how common shit like this is. My ass is casting frostbite and level 2 poison. I think I just heard "power word:scrunch" two groups over. I gotta get the fuck outta here.

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HERE IT IS post-merge awkward reunion fancomic, enjoy!!

#This is the funniest thing I ever read #Ninjago

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#Im translating 'province' to fylke in this and uh #i wouldnt survive that actually #It's all black metal boys and afterski djs

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saw a poll about dry/humid heat and like OBVIOUSLY everyone preferred dry heat but. would love to know what everyone considers to be “too hot”

me personally it’s a hard cutoff at 75°F. don’t need anything more than that thank you 🫶🫶🫶

#21C in the shade is my LIMIT

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enough about taylor swift already. reblog and tag the smallest, least known artist you listen to

#probably not the LEAST known artist I listen to but outside of the saami music scene I'd say he's pretty obscure #Emil Karlsen (i can't get my keyboard to do the accent over the a I'm sorry). #very very nice voice I like listening to it #I've only found translations of a few of his songs but the lyrics are very nice also #tho my favorite thing abt saami music is the philosophy that the lyrics aren't necessarily needed to understand the message of the song

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sunsets after 7pm now !!!!!!!!!!! we made it guys !!!!!!!!!!!!

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this is a niche one but instead of "they would not fuckin say that" it's "they would not fucking use American sign language".

ASL is not the only sign language. two british characters in your fanfiction would not be using ASL. England in fact has its own kind of sign language, BSL, that forms a sign family with many other sign languages around the world.

ASL isn't even the original member of its sign family, it comes from french sign language. do you know sign languages aren't related to spoken languages? that's an important one! it's not a direct 1:1 with people speaking English around the world. people in other countries don't learn ASL just in case they run into an usamerican or Canadian (who do often use it)

i know the entire world is the USA or whatever and sign languages do sometimes borrow from ASL for signs they don't have, but please be aware that there are other sign languages and families in the world that are not in fact ASL.

#YEAH #exactly this #honestly i roll my eyes whenever I see yet another mute character who uses a sign language #like. in my life I have not met a single hearing person who uses signs as their only language #but I've met TONS of Deaf people who do #I've talked to someone who knew one hearing person with a significant speech impediment that preferred signs but that's it #Please write Deaf characters #Deaf (and HoH) people irl are so cool #let them see their life experiences reflected in entertainment please

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dadchuck is everything to me

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sorry i cant hang out i forgot how to mimic human like behaviour

#I found friends like this :')

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rainbow dash applies for a job

#average conversation between me n my friend tbh (I'm fluttershy in this scenario)