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From the Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously :) (you can watch it here in US or with US vpn :) <;3) (or just this bit on youtube here :))

Terry Pratchett: One day he rang me up and said, "I've started a book and, I think it's good, but I haven't the faintest idea where it goes." So, I said, "All right, well, send me the pages." And I read it and wrote him back and said, "I don't know where it goes either, but I do know what happens next."

Neil Gaiman: I was pretty much nocturnal then, so I would write my chunk of Good Omens before I went to bed, and I'd go to sleep about five o'clock in the morning and I'd get up about one o'clock in the afternoon and my answering machine would be flashing on, and I'd press the button and a voice would say, "Get up, get up you lazy bastard, I've just written a good bit."

Terry Pratchett: We did it as a kind of holiday, because if it crashed and burned, nobody would notice.

#another reminder to approach life with curiosity

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i'm not supposed to take ibuprofen because of my GI issues, so I can really only take tylenol, but for tylenol to make a dent in a headache or cramps for me i literally have to take like 2000mg which is like over 3 doses lmao

#aiden text #i've had a headache all day and the fuck ton of tylenol i took right after waking up only helped a little and wore off in a few hours #so now ive given in and taken advil #its worth the tummy ache (and honestly it doesnt rly immediately flare my stomach issues but it can worsen it over time)

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I won't leave you here alone....

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i feel so enraged fundraising for gazans trying to flee because this money goes right into the pockets of the people i despise the most. its not lost on me that the millions of dollars primarily raised by civilians overseas who are doing their best to save lives with their dollars, given to gazans who have lost everything, is being extracted into the pockets of the corrupt egyptian regime and its adherents. its not going to go into social services, into hospitals, into social support for the millions of refugees egypt is hosting. instead it goes to the businessmen of the military regime who make sure egyptians stay subjugated while they put our money and your money in a swiss bank account and then beg for funding from the gulf and the eu to keep building malls in the desert. i genuinely hate that this money is crowdfunded. this isn't lobbyist dollars, it is not pledged from corporations or millionaires or billionaires, it's from ordinary and good people who are taking it out of their own budget and spending in the month to help someone hundreds of thousands of miles away. there are no other options as of this moment to save lives. they made it this way, but life comes first.

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why would you like media that is good if you can like media that is bad instead and pace around your room like an insane person thinking about What If It Was Good

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my university has been making national headlines in the past week and 100+ students, many mutual friends of mine, were arrested at a protest, and there are hundreds of cops right outside of campus, I am somehow expected to keep doing my mf schoolwork like nothing is going on .

#it's an insane purgatory here #they made classes virtual today #for unclear reasons #but i still had to give a final presentation #like ???? it all feels ridiculously trivial rn #and it has all year to be honest

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Finally, a side of you I like.

#this would have been the romance of all time

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#i am following 1503 people #i despise the for you page #it fuckign sucks it shows me the same post every day for like weeks

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Good Omens described badly: a bookshop owner and a vintage car enthusiast play hot potato over the responsibility of killing an 11 year old

#good description actually

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practicing with facial expressions... 🙂

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what if crowley took a university course on literature and suprise! the book they're discussing is good omens?

if that sounds interesting to you please read my new fic 'Lit' via this link

huge thank you to @crawley-fell for the beta'ing AND for making the above, supremely awesome gif!

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just saw a dni list that included the criteria of being in the ofmd, stranger things, olivia rodrigo, or naruto fandoms, among others

#aiden text #i think dni lists are silly because the only normal things that would go on such a list are just traits that nobody should have at all #and then anything that doesnt fall under the bigotry umbrella is either going to be a) a specific person (block them) #or b) people who just like things you don't and you are going to have to share the internet with these people sorry #curate your own feed but you cannot prevent somebody who is into a thing you hate liking or rbing one your posts that ended up on their das

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Remember the first Flour Massacre? Well, CNN has finally dropped the official Israeli story to give you an investigation that basically repeats what Palestinians have been saying all along

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I’m a doctor. I’m a time lord. I’m from the planet Gallifrey on the constellation of Kasterborous. I’m weird. I’m a weirdo. I don’t fit in and I don’t wanna fit in. Have you ever seen me without this stupid phone box? That’s weird.

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#yeah it only covered half my tuition but i think they weren't betting on tuition costing the exorbitant amount that it does today

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#need this shirt

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supernatural is either a groundbreaking concept with terrible execution or a terrible concept with groundbreaking execution

#this is great advice for writers everywhere actually #the story is the thing. #or in other words a story is not an essay #ANY story can be beautiful as long as you tell it in a beautiful way #but if you do not start with the story #you will end up with a bad story bc your story will be twisted and flattened in your attempt to make it the perfect vessel for ur themes #the story must justify the themes rather than the themes justifying the story