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did you guys know about this oc stuff. you can just make a guy. big if true

#but watch out

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If you are watching a TV show, it can be live action or animated.

But not when you're reading a book. Much to think about.

#mostly words

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a post-doc was doing a guest seminar at my institute and at the beginning of his presentation he was explaining why he chose birds for his evolutionary analysis - so he said "well first of all, because birds are the best and most interesting animals and it's fun to study them" and a few professors in the room gave him a very serious nod

#lol #I wouldn’t disagree

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when brains r like "today i will not brain" my brother in christ you are a brain

#sometimes he just say no

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#twice #once after a death in the family #and once because I couldn’t balance full time study #With full time work #as far as I know I’m neurotypical

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Being a little too cold: brrrr i’m a little too cold !!!

Being a little too warm: i am going to kill the next person who makes eye contact with me.

#legitimately

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So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)

Reblog to increase sample size!

#yeah nah #polls

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What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become, except in dreams that blow in from out there bearing the fragrance of islands we have not yet sighted in our waking hours; as in voyaging sometimes the first blossoming branches of our next landfall come bumping against the keel, even in the dark, whole days before the real land rises to meet us.

- David Malouf, An Imaginary Life.

#character inspo #an imaginary life #David Malouf #Australian author #quote

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NEW VERSION. :)

#it is but a shadow and thought etc #I like many of them though #I’m glad they exist #lotr

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Daria – 1.11: Road Worrier

#my spirit animal #my nickname used to be Daria #same vibes #at least when I was late teens early twenties #maybe I’m better now #Maybe I’m worse lol

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My boyfriend is trying to explain cricket to me again. “He’s only got two balls to make 48 runs”, he says. The camera focuses on a man. Underneath him it says LEFT ARM FAST MEDIUM. A ball flies into the stands and presumably fractures someone’s skull. “There’s a free six”, my boyfriend says. 348 SIXES says the screen. A child in the audience waves a sign referencing Weet-Bix

#grew up playing cricket and listening to it on the radio #because my Dad was sports crazy #and #I used to watch a lot of cricket at one time #It’s popular here #slightly different vibes but the same in essentials #to this very amusing description #there’s so much time just #watching seagulls #random people in the crowd #and flags flapping in the wind #the game sounds complicated #but the funny thing is it’s actually very simple #There’s just a whole lot of lingo #to discombobulate #I always cackled when they started talking about #the cracks in the pitch and they’d have diagrams on screen #and what not #so silly #cricket

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Submitted by an anon.

reblogs for bigger sample size appreciated

polls can be submitted to this blog via asks or submssions

#if it’s persistent #and triggering #I use the filtering system #otherwise I ignore it #curate your online experience #tumblr stuff

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#keyboard #I can type much much faster on a keyboard #though I #never learnt to type properly

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Late addition: Last year, a commenter said I shouldn't censor the word cunt in Australian vernacular. I only did so in this instance as this is a direct quote from the book, where it is censored. A point which would be better taken up with the publishers rather than me; because yeah - this is history being censored and it really shouldn't.

Honestly, if the reader can endure 689 pages of extremely grim military reality, they can deal with the word cunt.

Lest we Forget.

It's Anzac Day here, and in the grand tradition of such morose and weighted occasions, here's a sample of Anzac humour:

'At Tel-el-Kebir at one point [Egypt, in 1916], a battalion of Australian soldiers is put on parade to be informed that the General Officer Commanding, an Englishman, desires the use of bad language to be cut out, most specifically the words 'fuck' and 'c-nt', as in any case he understands that these two words are not used in Australia.

'At this point, a voice rings out from the back of the parade: 'The fucking c-nt's never been there!'

Or my fave:

'Perhaps the lack of deference [to the English officers] is just in the Australian blood? ... when a British officer told off an Australian for not saluting him, the friendly Australian reached out, gave him a pat on the shoulder, and said, 'Young man, when you go home, you tell your mother today you've seen a real bloody soldier.'

[Both quotes are taken from Peter Fitzsimons' book, Fromelles and Pozieres: In the Trenches of Hell which I re-read every April in memorium.]

#lest we forget #australian military #adf #anzac day

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you can recognize yourself through the fictional character. but watch out

#watch out

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two bros, both alike in sexuality

in a hot tub, where we lay our scene

#lol #yeah I’ll tag this as #Shakespeare

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#…. wut? #lol ok then #fandom