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woke up today and realized that tumblr entirely killed fuck ya life bing bong so here ya go again

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i love characters who lie. i love when a character is established as a capital L Liar and then we as the audience can’t take anything they say at face value. i love liars fakers schemers deceivers. characters whose tongues are outright necrotic with the rot of their lies. characters to whom truth is a stranger. i am kissing them on the lips btw it tastes disgusting

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I'm losing my mind over newborn hedgehogs fucking look at them they're so creature

what the fuck. who allowed this

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this is a way better model... you'll still get transphobic & intersexist drs of course but i prefer this to male / female or even having separate questions for gender & sex.

[we can't see the full form, but i'd suggest having a "something else" option and dominant hormone question too.]

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died and came back exactly the same but something was so so so wrong with me before and now I have an excuse to really lean into it

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Queen of Eggs by Artur Sadlos

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Oh yeah there's a part 2 of the horse desensitizing that I love.

🐎: Hey what's with that tiny predator, the one you're hold- WOAH WHAT THE FUCK WHY IS IT UP SO HIGH

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Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

A worm that can jump? It's more likely than you think! Asian jumping worms will thrash wildly when threatened, and have been known to leap nearly 30 cm (11 in) into the air! If that doesn't deter predators, they may also drop their tails just like a lizard.

(Image: An Asian jumping worm (Amynthas agrestis) by Tom Potterfield)

If you send me proof that you’ve made a donation to UNRWA or another fund benefiting Palestinians– including esim donations and verified gofundmes– I’ll make art of any animal of your choosing.

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I came across this in a book I'm currently reading and it's really stuck in my mind and I wanted to share

'Sheep in Wolf's clothing' by Judith Duffey 1986

I don't know if anyone on here is going to be interested I'm this piece or anything but I wanted to share as it struck me an an amazing piece of textile art

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The Lovers of Valdaro/ Dinosaurs, Laura Gilpin/ Broomistega and Thrinaxodon

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The Triassic Cuddle

“The Thrinaxodon was in a torpor and wouldn’t have woken up before it drowned in the rain. The Broomistega was badly injured and dying. Neither of them ever actually knew each other but their last moments are curled up together and immortalized in stone.” -xxx @picckl

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I can't get over how much this picture looks like three dudes you would have met at the '80s at a grateful Dead concert.

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Wizard worm just emerged from a wizarding hole! Lucky you!!!✨🪱🪄🍀

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“I never really thought about it in those terms. Like it was something in the DSM that I could sit down with a psychyatrist and talk about. And I think what, now looking back on it, I think what happened really had to do with – I had played Hamlet at Stratford, Ontario not that long before we started shooting the show, and the experience of that, because I was inside Hamlet for about a year or longer. We did ninety shows or something over the course of one long season. And I did get quite loopy doing it. I mean some of it was just general feelings of insufficiency and ‘I am absolutely incapable of pulling this off. I should quit.’ In fact I tried to quit after the first preview, I think, or dress rehearsal. I was crying and phoned the director saying ‘I can’t do this. You know I can’t do this. Call up Colm Feore. He still remembers the lines!’ But along the way of playing it, I got to a point where I was really paranoid. Because along the way, you absorb all of the things he has because it just overwhelms you. You can’t, it’s not a part that you can leave anywhere. And I think: ‘Everyone in this company is actually trying to kill me. All the other actors are trying to kill me.’ And then it kind of metastasised from there to the point where I was having these weird, I don’t know if I would call them hallucinations, they weren’t exactly like that, it was full blown and quite real. And I’d be on stage when this was happening. As an example with ‘How all occasions do inform against me’ I had this weird, I could see that I was in like a bar, an old tavern, with big beams and posts, and I could see Shakespeare at a long table with some food in front of him, and out of the middle of this conversation with some other people this speech came. And I’m thinking yeah that’s probably how it happened, it fell out of him, parts of it. Because at the end of it somebody said ‘Well that’s good, Bill’ and he said ‘Hm, yes it is. I must remember that.’ And then I’d be back on stage. And then that got worse because I would black out, and I don’t mean faint or anything, but just disappear and wake up in the middle of a scene and not know where I was. And that was showing. To go through all of these things in front of two thousand people is really kind of uncomfortable. But the person who saved me was Brent Carver who has recently died, but he had played Hamlet a couple of times, once at Stratford, and he was not in the company, but we would run into each other if we were switching over from matinee to evening. He would say: ‘How are you doing?’ And I’d say ‘Well, I don’t trust any of these people’ and he’d say ‘Yeah, that’s gonna go on for a while.’ and I’d say ‘Now I’m blacking out.’ ‘How long has that been going on?’ ‘About a week and a half.’ ‘That’ll probably last another week. You’ll be okay.’ And then I kind of was. So that’s a very long way to say that when it came to Geoffrey’s madness, it was just that. That stuff. It’s all very real, but it’s not in the DSM. Does that make sense? I know typically research goes into all this with psychiatry and then I thought about it, and you know that’s kind of limiting. I know what it means to be inside theatre that makes you go somewhere else.”

— Paul Gross, on the nature of Geoffrey Tennant’s madness in Slings & Arrows, interviewed by Emily Nussbaum, October 2020. (See the full cast and crew interview here).

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