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He clasps then the knight and kisses him thrice, as long and deliciously as he could lay them upon him. 'By Christ!' the other quoth, 'you've come by a fortune in winning such wares, were they worth what you paid.'

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Here’s a 5 page comic about a weird project I spent the last month working on 🪲

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Lying to children is fun when they know you are being ridiculous. When you hold up a carrot like “guys look at this huge Cheeto” and they all scream “NOOOOOOOOO that’s a CARE-OTT!”

“What? No, it’s my giant Cheeto.”

“NOOOOOOO!”

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patron saint of one-way trips and other journeys from which you can never return

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after i saw goncharov i walked out of the theatre normally and without incident

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Last year for Easter, we got these cool egg decorating kits, with markers, stickers, stencils etc.

I was trying to do an elaborate floral pattern on my eggs, but the stencil kept slipping. I got reeeeally distraught. More distraught than I had any right to be. But no matter how much I concentrated, I couldn’t get the stencil to stay in the right place.

I was having an eggs n’ stencil crisis.

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7 more transgender rats in new york city

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Without a doubt the best genre of game is "genderless creature in an open world ready to explore nature and restore ancient ruins" such as Abzû, Journey, Sky: Children of the Light

#abzû #abzu diver #abzu #sky cotl #sky children of the light #sky: children of the light #journey #journey game #journey the game #genderless #gender memes #i guess #nature #cryptidcore #cryptid #yes i will abuse a lot of tags for this one :) #explore #open world game #indie games

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I wanna be a cowboy baaaaby

#cowboy #cowboycore

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This aged poorly

Everyone: why aren't you studying for your exams?

Me:*looks at america preparing for ww3*

#ww3 #gen z #wwiii #election #its still what im feeling a 100%

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Let the election be a unfriendly reminder that I don't want any trump supporters or people who support right wing ideologies anywhere near me. If you support trump or what he stands for unfollow me immeadiately.

#election #I hate trump supporters #trump supporters dni #fuck nzs #fuck nazis

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𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 . 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐢𝐭

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being individuals together is so intimate. let’s read different books but curled up next to each other, let’s visit a coffee shop so you can study & i can write, let’s just be near each other

#one of my favorite things is existing near someone in peace #just...knowing someone so well and trusting them to the extent that the silence is not depressing but comfortable...i love that #it happens very rarely that I'm happy with complete silence unless the person means a lot to me

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I always hire my guests to help me with ‘chores’ (if they’re willing!), the kind of task that’s fun at first but less fun when you have to keep going for hours (burning all the broom bushes in the pasture, picking many kg of berries to make syrup, carrying a mountain of logs into the wood shed and building stable log piles so they don’t come cascading down later…) And every time I’m amazed by the way humans can make the most tedious tasks genuinely fun through… group dynamics? just the way people start interacting and bonding with each other when everyone is focused on the same repetitive physical activity. It’s hard to find examples because it’s always so specific to each situation; but I mean things like

people spontaneously specialising and developing a feeling of expertise and pride in their subtrade, no matter how silly (putting away firewood involved one Log Selecter outside going back and forth delivering logs to two Pile Builders who piled them up in the shed, and each rapidly created their own well-oiled System and became convinced it would be hard to replace them now that they had mastered their craft)

new vocabulary being coined and immediately adopted (the Pile Builders came up with nicknames for logs of different lengths and shapes so they could ‘order’ them from the Log Selecter more efficiently—”I’ve got a One-Armed Bandit here, I need another one to fit next to it, but with an ‘arm’ on the other side” “Here” “The arm is on the same side!” “Just turn it around and the arm will be on the other side”)

songs emerging almost by themselves (a song about fishing mussels was repurposed into a song about picking plums; a whole new song was invented to encourage weirdly-shaped logs to fit in with the others as we tried to fill all the gaps)

stories being told. Weaving a trivial task into a complex imaginary plot and context to make it more entertaining and meaningful

the extremely human compulsion to write down our knowledge to share it with future generations (I was told to take note of the best & quickest knot to tie up foliage when making tree hay, for the benefit of whoever does it next summer)

beliefs as to the Right Way To Do Things quickly solidifying into myths or superstitions, as we forget what drove us to do things this way in the first place, but trust that we had good reasons so now it’s the Way It’s Done

I always tell people to help only if they feel like it and we can stop anytime and I’ll finish later by myself, but what usually happens instead is that they want to come back at the same time next year to do this exact chore again because of how they’ve made it theirs in just a few days (or in one afternoon!) Give a group of humans a banal task and while they’re at it they will come up with a whole new inside slang, a few work songs and a handful of founding texts and myths, until it feels special and important. I love seeing the way these miniature folklores just emanate from people doing things together.

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All my mutuals hate the cops. We all hate the cops

#this is a given #I hate cops fyi :)