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To everyone who cancelled plans this year, who avoided having friends over and turned down social engagements. To everyone who stayed away from restaurants and bars even when they opened. Who rigorously kept to masking and six feet of distance.

To everyone who has had to work in retail, healthcare, or other jobs that caused them exposure and who still turned down social engagements that could have given them some deeply needed mental release, because they cared about protecting others.

To everyone who has been able to work from home but suffered financially because of it. To everyone who went months without touching or talking in person to another human being, and whose mental health declined as a result.

To everyone who will continue to do the difficult work of keeping others safe even after they are vaccinated, knowing that asymptomatic transmission may still be possible and that no vaccine is 100% effective.

To everyone who sacrificed something of themselves for the sake of responsible social distancing: you have saved lives. Period.

You’ll never know how many people are walking around who would be in the ground if you’d tried to go about your life as normal, if you’d done as you pleased like so many people have. How many are healthy who would be suffering long term health problems. How many were spared pain, a stay in the hospital, the legitimate fear that they might die. How many have someone they love they do not have to mourn.

I’ve seen this gif going around, and it’s a wonderful visualization of this.

It can feel hopeless sometimes – seeing others act irresponsibly, seeing news reports of the damage the virus is doing. But know that even if you cannot stop the spread on your own, you have kept it from being worse.

The good you have done is invisible, but it is meaningful, and it is enormous.

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🦇 Happy New Year! 🦇

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Don't talk about weight loss and diets to your daughter, don't talk about weight loss and diets around your daughter, don't comment on your daughter's weight, don't tell her she has to weigh herself every once in a while, don't ruin your daughter's relationship with food, don't make her feel bad about the way she looks. I'm sorry if diet culture fucked you up but please try to break the cycle instead of perpetuating it. Thanks.

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“If you promise to stay alive just a little bit longer I promise that we are going to make this world a place worth living in by any means necessary. I ain’t giving up. I swear.” 

Spotted in Clackamas, Oregon

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I’ll be pleased soon

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who else is in the mood to walk barefoot over the moors in a blood-red velvet ballgown w anguish in ur soul and wet leaves in ur hair while the wind blows moodily and dramatically?

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This is one of the funniest holiday cards I have ever seen.

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The December mood:

(Owl at Home by Arnold Lobel)

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The Middle

I wrote and illustrated this story as a birthday present for my partner, I hope you enjoy it!

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“Ya know, Macbeth’s witches just aren’t weird enough anymore. Let’s make ‘em…MOTHS! And put it on a Christmas card because everyone wants a doom laden fortune about their future for the holidays.”

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The Headlines of 2020

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Baby Opossum

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Lena Achtelik

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*points at you* rat (compliment)

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