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#I do not make that decision #my cat made that decision #i've said this before but I'd been forgetting that my teenage bedroom door physically could not properly close #I could jam it shut but not so well that a cat could not open it by jumping at it #so this has been my cats' call through most of my life #Kali didn't wreck my carpets the way Puck does but she would be very sad about it

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i love being told everything btw. if i love you and youre talking to me not a single detail is too much. youll never overestimate how much of the fabric of your day to day i want to hold in my hands and know the model and make of. im Everything Matters girl and everything matters to me

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Hands up if you're sick of the IDF flying gay flags like they're doing this shit in our name

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Therapy is risky because sometimes they'll just ask you their standard "why can't you, though", and you think you're making some good point by saying something like "well if I don't do anything with my life then what's the point of being alive in the first place" and your therapist gets that look on their face and you immediately realise that your dumb ass just got caught, pinned to the ground with your stupid-ass neck between the spikes of a pitchfork, and you are not going to wiggle out of there before you two unpack what the fuck you just said.

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truly the coolest people are the ones who are just unashamedly into their interests. passion is sexy. practice is sexy. not giving a shit what anyone else thinks is the sexiest thing of all.

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miss Allison Reynolds ⭐️🦊

 im never gonna let u forget that aftg takes place in the early 2000s

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Oh, you think you're safe now?

Nothing can deliver you from these paws!

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Hello, Mr. Gaiman!

Out of pure curiosity, did you and Sir Pratchett decide to have Aziraphale seem very gay for any particular reason or just because it’s a funny concept? (Just because conceptually, Aziraphale, an angel that looks and acts like that, is hilarious)

Thanks so much!

(Thank you and kudos for writing all those books btw. Quite nice really)

Because that was the character we were writing. We didn't go "wouldn't it be funny if people read Aziraphale as gay-coded" we went "so our angel owns a rare bookshop and will look and behave like this, which means people will probably read him as gay, and he'll be really clever, etc".

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saw an opinion i disagreed with and didn’t say anything about it. +350XP

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i think as a writer, the older you get and the more you read, the more you realize there are very few actual truly bad ideas. which is a relief. but! the other thing you learn is that stories live and die on the execution and ha ha. lemme tell you. unfortunately. there are lots and lots of bad ways to execute an otherwise fine idea

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There are two kinds of people:

1. Wasn't retroactively erased from existence by the time beam

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editing your own writing is like woah you really like commas........ maybe ease up on those commas there, pal........ maybe Fewer commas would be nice

#editing all writing is like this

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The Lemkin Institute for Genocide has released a statement saying that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and the United States is complicit. The statement was released in the aftermath of the horrific attack on a refugee camp in Rafah

In April, Lemkin also issued a genocide alert for the West Bank

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You can also apply for a Voter Authority Certificate, as mentioned above. You need a recent digital photo and your national insurance number. That's all. It's free. They legally had to bring it in. Deadline is listed as above. Deadline is a week after the postal vote deadline so there are options.

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Key dates for the 2024 UK general election

Deadline for registering to vote: 23:59 on Tuesday 18th June

Deadline for applying for a postal vote: 17:00 Wednesday 19th June

Deadline for applying for a proxy vote: 17:00 Wednesday 26th June

Deadline for applying for a Voter Authority Certificate: 17:00 Wednesday 26th June

Polling day: 07:00-22:00 Thursday 4th July

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#i really don't know what the postal vote process is like on the mainland #but if it's like NI's then it's ludicrous and absolutely requires ID #but that just might be NI's #hence why i never went for a postal vote when i lived away because you had to register IN PERSON for your POSTAL VOTE #i genuinely think NI's electoral stuff is really solid but that part gets me #edit: my welsh friend has i formed me you don't need photo ID for the postal vote so excellent 👍

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Yay, unsolicited advice time! Or, not really advice, more like miscellaneous tips and tricks, because if there's one thing eight years of martial arts has equipped me to write, it's fight scenes.

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Fun things to add to a fight scene (hand to hand edition)

It's not uncommon for two people to kick at the same time and smack their shins together, or for one person to block a kick with their shin. This is called a shin lock and it HURTS like a BITCH. You can be limping for the rest of the fight if you do it hard enough.

If your character is mean and short, they can block kicks with the tip of their elbow, which hurts the other guy a lot more and them a lot less

Headbutts are a quick way to give yourself a concussion

If a character has had many concussions, they will be easier to knock out. This is called glass jaw.

Bad places to get hit that aren't the groin: solar plexus, liver, back of the head, side of the thigh (a lot of leg kicks aim for this because if it connects, your opponent will be limping)

Give your character a fighting style. It helps establish their personality and physicality. Are they a grappler? Do they prefer kicks or fighting up close? How well trained are they?

Your scalp bleeds a lot and this can get in your eyes, blinding you

If you get hit in the nose, your eyes water

Adrenaline's a hell of a drug. Most of the time, you're not going to know how badly you've been hurt until after the fact

Even with good technique, it's really easy to break toes and fingers

Blocking hurts, dodging doesn't

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Just thought these might be useful! If you want a more comprehensive guide or a weapons edition, feel free to ask. If you want, write how your characters fight in the comments!

Have a bitchin day <3