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the only bad part about going to the zoo is hearing adult men confidently tell their kids or gfs objectively incorrect information about the animals we’re looking at and having to remain silent. do u know the restraint it takes to say nothing when a grown adult man tells someone “falcons are in the same family as eagles” next to me? no babygirl. no.

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i love when people draw 2 characters cuddling and it looks like this

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so! Guess who found out their bio grandfather is getting married to a woman about four years older than her uncle

if you guessed me, you’d be correct. There’s a reason we don’t talk to the man, and it’s not just this.

#blabbering

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this quote from hbomberguy’s plagiarism video really resonated with me:

“creative people have trouble recognising their skills as skills, because eventually they feel like second nature. […] this stuff really is valuable. if it wasn’t, people wouldn’t be stealing it. creativity doesn’t feel special or unique until you realise people have to plagiarise it”

your craft is and always will be valuable, please never let anyone make you doubt that

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So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?

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🏳️‍⚧️ Happy Trans Awareness Week!

#Dragons

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i need people do do me a favor and be absolutely normal about it

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shoutout to everyone with forget disorders (adhd, DID/osdd, ptsd/c-ptsd, asd, dementia/alzeheimers, schizophrenia, other psychotic disorders, major depressive, chronically ill/phys disabled people with brain fog, people with long-Covid, natural memory degradation, and etc.)

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New gender binary: either you exist or you don't exist.

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the humble "like" is oft mocked despite what it does for us. "like, three people" is a vastly different statement from "three people". "and i was like 'what the fuck'" is vastly different from "and i said 'what the fuck'". i love you "like" and anyone who says you make people sound stupid will be killed on sight

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The crash of the Lady Be Good is fascinating to me. cursed ass plane

This is a B-24 Liberator in desert paint much like the B-24D Liberator Lady Be Good.

On April 4, 1943, the Lady Be Good took off with 25 other B-24s from Soluch, Libya to bomb Naples, Italy. 24 returned - Lady Be Good did not.

In November 1958, an air survey by British geologists sighted a crashed WWII-era bomber from the air.

Four months later, a ground search party found the plane and identified her as a B-24 Liberator, the Lady Be Good.

The nine crewmembers aboard had bailed out when the plane ran low on fuel, and they all perished in the desert. Eight bodies have been discovered; the ninth has never been found.

Much of the Lady Be Good was salvaged, some for study, some for museum use, and others were reused in other planes. Most of these planes proceeded to have faults and crashed of their own. A C-47 in which a Lady Be Good radio was installed crashed in the Mediterranean; an de Havilland Otter with an armrest from Lady Be Good crashed into the Gulf of Sidra killing all ten aboard, and one of the few pieces that washed ashore from the wreck was the armrest; and a C-54 with several transmitters from Lady Be Good only avoided crashing by dumping all of its cargo overboard.

An episode of the original Twilight Zone that aired in 1960, the first of the second season named King Nine Will Not Return, is based on the Lady Be Good. It's the first episode where Rod Serling appears on screen as the narrator instead of just a voice (or getting poof'd in the first season finale).

Last but not least there's a painting I adore related to Lady Be Good:

"The Lady Be Good Dies Alone" painted by Willard Fleming

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まだ寝みっすわ

#Birds #yeah lil buddy

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oh, you’re worried about making something from the heart because it’s “too cheesy”?

you know what else is cheesy as hell? Scalloped potatoes

and that shit good as hell!!

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really wish gender was more of a hobby and less of a societal contract and mandate

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