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i love six o clock because the clock looks so stupid. "|" like get real

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person who has only watched one anime: what i really love about dungeon meshi is how it subverts our expectations of a typical anime by not sexualising women and having a good plot!

#thanks nozaki

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#cats are the best

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✨💛🌼 this user loves the character of Fanny Price dearly and does not find her boring or lacking 🌼💛✨

#she is my daughter #fanny price #jane austen #mansfield park

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Since the r-slur is making a comeback (you know, the word that starts with R, has six letters, and ends in D), I'm gonna make a little PSA:

Yes, it's an ableist slur.

Terms like "asshat," "head-up-ass," "up their own ass," and "high on their own farts" exist. There's also words like crap, dogshit, half-assed, assclown, and chucklefuck. And on the less vulgar side, there are terms like ridiculous, nonsense, train wreck, pointless, insipid, self-absorbed, pretentious, annoying, boring, contemptible, vile, and disgusting.

Substituting words like restarted, poptarted, brain damaged, smoothbrain, etc. is still ableist, because either 1. you obviously still mean the r-word, or 2. you're still using disability as an insult.

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#polls #swing and read but I think read is just slightly in the lead

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There's something that sounds a bit like a music box outside thats just loud enough to hear and I am being driven mad by it its 5am 😭

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sorry i can't come in to work today. yeah sorry they killed me off last night. yeah i just wasn't relevant to the plot anymore. i should be in tomorrow but i'll let you know.

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Trust

English added by me :)

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it's cool how these cost almost as much as my house

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wheelchairs and canes and glasses and hearing aids and every single other disability aid should be free btw and if you disagree i hate you

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Gentle reminder that often creativity decides to hibernate for a bit.

It’s okay.  You’re not broken, you’re resting, and much like spring, creativity comes back.

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a comprehensive list of everything Pliny the Elder had to say about periods

Pliny's first century encyclopaedia, Natural History, had an entire section on periods. and literally everything he had to say about menstruation was incorrect.

if you take off your clothes while menstruating , it can stop whirlwinds, lightning and storms at sea

but it will also kill young plants and vines such as ivy and rue

on the plus side, if you walk barefoot through a field while menstruating, it will cause all the bugs to fall off the crops

don't do this too early in the morning or it'll kill all the crops too

don't touch beehives when menstruating, or the bees will leave

avoid period sex with during an eclipse because that'll straight up kill the guy

"matters of a most dreadful and unutterable nature" (worse than the above)

laundry will turn black while you're boiling it

cooking or doing the dishes will make the pans greasy and smelly

touching a razor will blunt it

looking in the mirror will tarnish it

but dw if you stare at the back of the mirror for a bit it will go back to normal

being near a dog while menstruating will drive it mad

touching pregnant horses will cause them to immediately miscarry

if it's your first period, even *looking* at the horse will make it miscarry

on the plus side, this property of period blood means you can mix it into contraceptives to make them more powerful

anything purple that you touch will immediately become dull

literally

even the ash from burned fabric which touched menstrual blood will make your purples fade

in Judea, specifically Judea, menstrual blood can cut the flow of bitumen

even swords made of steel can't do that

relieves gout when spread on it

mix with rosewater and apply to the temples to soothe a headache

mix with wool of a black sheep to cure malaria

put on a cloth and wear in your clothes to cure rabies

yes that directly contradicts the mad dogs thing

he wasn't consistent at all

smear on someone after an epileptic seizure to revive them

touch facial sores or boils to cure them

neutralise spells by evil wizards

simply smear menstrual blood on the doorframe and the curse is gone

luckily all of this can be averted with one weird trick: carry a red mullet fish with you, always

you can read Pliny's menstruation chapter in its entirety here.

#pliny the elder #running around a ship naked while on my period for safe passage