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"I would kill for you. I would die for you" would you take a break for me? Would you sit down and rest? For a day, a week, a year? Would you let others take care of your needs for me? Would you let yourself be held for me? By me?

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The last time we were on a long flight, my wife and I invented a game we call "Little Guy."

You start a game of Little Guy by saying, "I'm gonna hand you a little guy." The little guy is some kind of baby animal you are imagining. "Oh," she might say in response, "Okay," and hold out her hands for it. I will then mime handing her the animal. This provides some clues as to the little guy's size, weight, and general ungainliness.

She then gets to ask questions about what kind of little guy this is, BUT NO QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS ACTUAL APPEARANCE OR SPECIES ARE ALLOWED. Qualitative questions, or questions about his behavior, are the only ones permitted. She can ask "Is he soft?" or "Does he seem nervous about being held?" or "If I put him in the bathtub, does he seem okay with that?" or "Would he like a lil grape?" or "Is he the sort of little fellow who would wear a vest in a children's book?" but not "Does he have fur," "Is he a reptile," "Is he from Asia," etc. Some questions are in a grey area so you have to follow your heart, but the point is not to identify the animal as fast as possible: the point is to guess the animal purely based on vibes + how he would act if he were in your living room right now.

And I'm not limited to yes or no answers! If she asks, "Would it feel appropriate to see this little guy in a propeller hat?" I can reply, "Oh no, he has a gravity to him. A bowler hat would be a more appropriate hat." Or if she asks, "Does this little guy have protagonist energy?" I can say something like, "he probably wouldn't be the main character in a children's cartoon. He'd probably be the main character's ditzy best friend who's always eating sandwiches, or something."

We're big Twenty Questions to kill time in a waiting room people, but Little Guy is more about the journey than the destination. It's got a different kind of sauce that's nice if "killing time" and "lowering anxiety" need to happen hand in hand.

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As per ConcernedApe's recommendation, I started up a new farm to experience the new 1.6 content in the context of normal game progression. So I'm romancing Harvey again, and it's all going swimmingly. I bring him coffee every Sunday and Monday morning like clockwork, we do the year 1 Flower Dance together, he's blushing and telling me that my health is "very important to him," and it's all very cute as usual. Then literally 2 minutes after I give him the Bouquet, I trigger Shane's 6 Heart event.

Imagine being a small-town doctor with absolutely zero rizz who has almost resigned himself to a life of loneliness, and then suddenly this odd farmer lady shows up in town one day out of the blue and is already very evidently and inexplicably head over heels for you, and perhaps more importantly, brings you homemade pickles, and after an adorkable small-town romance you both profess your growing love for each other in your cozy office as the Summer rain beats against the roof above--

And not even a full hour later she busts open the front door with the saddest, drunkest sack of a man slung over her shoulder like "i just found him like this in the woods pls help also i love you."

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"who radicalized you" ever since i was a child i wanted other people to be treated nicely and fairly because i didnt understand why theyd deserve otherwise and it fills me with disgust seeing how people treat their fellow human beings sometimes

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Tfw you accidentally bring about the apocalypse

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actually no, we're not "dating". we're bound together for infinity. like the stars. so, fuck you, actually.

#tma #jmart #oh who's that? your boyfriend?

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@jonmartinweek day 6 - eldritch powers | caretaking day 7 - ten years later | martin's poetry

10 years later - after surviving an apocalypse and what could be considered death, healing as an act of rebirth - martin still pulls the bullshit "lonely hands" move 😶‍🌫️

[Start ID: Two drawings of Jon and Martin from The Magnus Archives in blue hues. Jon is a average sized Persian man with curly hair tied back into a messy bun and multiple scars. He has a thick mustache and lighter beard, with streaks of grey in his facial hair and eyebrows, and wears rectangular glasses and a large sweater. Martin is a fat mixed Polish/Korean man with shaggy hair pulled back into a headband, several beauty marks on his skin, and a patchy mustache (beard not visible). There are streaks of gray in his eyebrows. He wears browline glasses and a simple t-shirt. Both Jon and Martin have matching bands on their left ring fingers. 1st image: Jon stands at a counter watching a mug of tea, an arrow points stating "waiting for tea to steep". Steam from the mug flows to the side and Jon wonders, "Did I leave a window open?" as the temperature presumably drops. In the steam cloud, Martin appears behind Jon in a fog-like state, reaching a vaguely shaped hand out. 2nd image: Martin grabs Jon (punctuated by GRAB with a heart), shoving one hand into his sweater collar and the other underneath his sweater. He smirks, singing, "Cold hands!". Streaks of fog trail behind him. Jon shouts at the sudden cold, "M-MARTIN!! You're freezing!", and shivers all over, one hand gripping Martin's arm and the other flailing beside him. Hair can be seen where his stomach and upper chest is exposed. End ID.]

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drawing for a valentines day/secret santa thing on twitter!

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Great example of how alt text is important for more than one reason. Thank you so much because I could NOT read the text in the last panel lmfao

The second issue of the Practical Handbook was all about queer readings so I made this non-fiction comic about reading Holmes as trans! It’s actually more of an introduction to the subject, ideally I’d like to turn it into a proper article some day, but it felt good to reflect on it and be able to have this in a publication as a valid reading. Researching critical material was emotionally draining since the very few published essays on the topic are incredibly transphobic and basically worthless, but that made me want to have my say even more. Many thanks to my good friends Mo and Elinor for helping me with the wording so as to make it accessible but to the point, and as always Katie for supporting my little transgender bum.

#alt text #dyslexia #amirite

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I’ve said it before, I’ll say it a thousand more times: No piece of dystopian fiction has ever been a prediction of the future. They are observations and criticisms of the present. 

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Love that episode of TMA where you find out Jon was raised by his grandmother and it's like, oh so that's why you are the way you are

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I am bisexual 

I have sex twice a year

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ROOM TO RENT IN NJ NEEDED DESPERATELY

I haven't talked about my situation publicly, but I'm really fucking sick of living in a motel where everyone screams at each other and abuses their kids all day long. I still feel like I'm living at home hiding from the wrath of my parents.

I am looking for a room to rent in a house or apartment share. I can afford $850/mo, utilities included. If in an apartment/roommate situation, my $850 must be an equal fraction of rent & utilities. I need to stay in NJ for at least 2-3 more years so I can get on Medicare (federal) instead of Medicaid (state). I would like to stay within Middlesex or Somerset county, so I don't have to find new doctors, but I'm flexible on location. Backstory: I became homeless in 2022 and have been in shelter placement through state social services since. The legal lifetime max they shelter you is 1 year, unless you meet their "Hardship" requirements, which I do 'cause i'm disabled. However, Social Services is very eager to close my case, so I have some sort of might-lose-the-room crisis every other month. I qualify for state rental assistance, TRA, but no one accepts it and its budget does not reflect the housing market. I'm on SSI now, but that's still not enough even for subsidized housing. My name is TeaKay, I'm Disabled, queer, and I use they/them pronouns. I'm really shy but try very hard to be kind, friendly, and caring, and I do like to be social once I get used to people. I have trouble keeping personal spaces tidy, but I will make sure to clean up after myself in common areas (though i need a long break between doing a thing and then cleaning up after it.) I like to cook, sew, sing, draw, and play video & tabletop games. I love outer space, art, anime/cartoons, and comics/manga. I have many stuffed animals. I don't have any pets but would like a service cat in the future. I have a few medications that require refrigeration and a lot of food allergies, but the worst one is fish and gluten. I cannot be present if fish is being cooked. I will need to use my own dishes and cookware that must stay separate to avoid cross contamination with fish or gluten/wheat particles. I also have severe digestive disease and am in the bathroom a lot. I'm not used to living with peers so there will be a large learning curve and adjustment period. I have a large fabric stash in storage that I would really like to make into things once I find somewhere to live. I also struggle with stairs.

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I am Jewish. I am an anti-Zionist. I am always and forever pro-Palestine.

My grandmother was born in Palestine before Israel existed. My grandmother, who died less than a decade ago (in her 70s) was already older than the settler colonial state of Israel. Judaism exists without Zionism. Zionism goes against the Jewish religion. Zionism is white supremacy.

From the river to the sea Palestine WILL BE FREE

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timelias is appealing because it's the worst thing that could happen to either of them. imagine how devastating it would be for tim to be attracted to the most annoying, boring, corporate bitch ever. like his one interesting trait is that he's evil. and on the other hand, elias would be forced to come to terms with the fact that his most irritating employee is, in fact, hot. and it would be so entertaining for literally everyone else