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I’m bored and nosy. Please reblog this with the book you’re currently reading.

#The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates #in a German translation #it's unfortunately just interesting enough that I am still nibbling instead of DNFing it #although I do think I would enjoy the English original more (probably) #about 250 of 670 pages in so we'll see if I will finish it

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from the archives: meet the dogs

#since this is basically 'meeting the family' this is high praise indeed #(the actual 'meeting the family' is certainly a lot less fun and much more dangerous) #taking the 50 dogs family over the murderous twin/clone family ever day #anyway: THIS IS CUTE AS HELL!!! #brillenschlange of doom #metalfloat

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Nicholas Galitzine & Taylor Zakhar Perez

#holy wow on a waffle #these are gorgeous!!! #firstprincefloat

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i just found out tumblr was storing over three GIGABYTES of cookies on my device without me knowing and that's why it's been running so fucking slow recently... incredible. anyways everyone go clear your fucking cookies. don't let this website run a goddamn video game's worth of disc space in the background for no good reason.

#so many websites and cookies #youtube and google were much worse though

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#gorgeous!!! #horizonfloat

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Charity auction #skateboard, complete! Inspired by, of course, our plucky resident heron named Sushi.

#this is gorgeous!! #artfloat

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Wait, so you said that you can learn to trust others by building friendships, but how does one go about doing that? Wouldn't someone I don't know be creeped out or annoyed if I suddenly walked up and started talking to them?

Friendships are built of repeated low-stakes interactions and returned bids for attention with slowly increasing intimacy over time.

It takes a long time to make friends as an adult. People will probably think you're weird if you just walk up and start talking to them as though you are already their friend (people think it's weird when I do this, I try not to do this) but people won't think it's weird if you're someone they've seen a few times who says "hey" and then gradually has more conversations (consisting of more words) with them.

I cheat at forming adult friendships by joining groups where people meet regularly. If you're part of a radio club that meets once a week and you just join up to talk about radios, eventually those will be your radio friends.

If there's a hiking meetup near you and you go regularly, you will eventually have hiking friends.

Deeper friendships are formed with people from those kinds of groups when you do things with them outside of the context of the original interaction; if you go camping with your radio friend, that person is probably more friend than acquaintance. If you go to the movies with a hiking friend who likes the same horror movies as you do, that is deepening the friendship.

In, like 2011 Large Bastard decided he wanted more friends to do stuff with so he started a local radio meetup. These people started as strangers who shared an interest. Now they are people who give each other rides after surgery and help each other move and have started businesses together and have gone on many radio-based camping trips and have worked on each other's cars.

Finding a meetup or starting a meetup is genuinely the cheat-code for making friends.

This is also how making friendships at schools works - you're around a group of people very regularly and eventually you get to know them better and you start figuring out who you get along with and you start spending more time with those people.

If you want to do this in the most fast and dramatic way possible, join a band.

In 2020 I wrote something of a primer on how to turn low-stakes interactions with neighbors and acquaintances into more meaningful relationships; check the notes of this post over the next couple days, I'll dig up the link and share it in a reblog.

#the reading comprehension on this site really is piss poor huh? #how someone can take a post about people talking about how to people with other people #because they struggle with that #and then call that ableism??!?! #wtf

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Julie and the Phantoms: Choose your favorite song! 🎶✨️

Julie and the Phantoms is a musical show that quickly got popular for its story, characters, and amazing songs – winning an Emmy for Best Original Song and MTV for Best Musical Moment, plus more nominations for its cast and crew. Sadly, despite the popularity and awards, the show was cancelled after just one season, but that doesn’t mean we have forgotten about it!

We will celebrate this great show with a championship to choose our favorite song!

The official soundtrack album has 15 songs, to make even brackets I have decided to add the song “Ghosted” by Jeremy Shada (Reggie Petters) who according to him, is a love letter to all the JATP fans. This will leave us with a first round with 16 options, followed by the Quarterfinals, Semifinals and Finals.

Let’s vote!

1st Round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

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you! the person reading this! please tell me one good thing that happened to you today

#saw goose chicks on my way to work

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This week’s word is…

✨ MOTION ✨

Find the word in any WIP and share the sentence containing it. Reply, reblog, stick it in the tags, tag us in a new post, or keep it private. All fandoms, all ships, all writers welcome.

#smooth hunter Luke + flustered Alex + competent Willie? #yes please #phantomfloat #onlygenfloat

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You My-TAY Miette? Oh! Jail for op! Jail for op for One Thousand Years! (and also a course for learning French)

Just checking.... We all pronounce Miette like My-TAY in our heads, right?

#it had to be done by someone

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“Let’s do something dumb with a bow and arrow!”

I can only assume that this is how LotR elves chop wood…

Patreon - YouTube

#always reblog archery dude

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Just checking.... We all pronounce Miette like My-TAY in our heads, right?

#mee-at #all drawn together #although the mighty miette might enter my vocabulary from here on out

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Obi-Wan's shit eating smirk is EVERYTHING.

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MISS CONGENIALITY | 2000 

bonus:

#it's pretty coldish here right now #still have to celebrate the date though

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Honestly, with all the tradwife cooking trash circulating, it only makes me love B Dylan Hollis more for baking vintage recipes while being openly gay, making sexual jokes, and screaming at the ingredients. He's the antithesis of every soft-spoken cishet woman cooking for her husband and children. You don't have to be an idyllic cottagecore housewife to cook.