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Pray for everyone in rafah there's heavy bombing right now there. I can't sleep thinking of my family 😭

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Honestly with how stupid and sanitized the internet is getting some company should just make like. A nsfw exclusive twitter clone. Retweets could be called refucks

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[Image ID: an instagram post from @/nationalsjp of six students at the McMurdo Station in Antartica, standing in snow and ice, holding a palestinian flag and signs that say "Antartic workers for Gaza", "Ceasefire", and "Fund science not genocide"]

protests have literally made it to antartica

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Here’s to hoping that every single person with schizophrenia or a schizoaffective disorder or DID or NPD or any other ridiculously demonized mental illnesses has a wonderful day

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TODAY: faculty at northwestern university have been operating on a 24 hour shift schedule so theyre always there in groups protecting their students.

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You’re meeting the friend of a friend for the first time, who’s apparently an empath. When they shake your hand, they immediately rip their hand away from you.

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accidentally went and got myself killed yesterday but god wont let me die so im back

#Aqueuete findings

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If we are friends and you are out somewhere and you see some horrible novelty food and you're like who would eat this the answer is me. I will. Buy that food and bring it to me. I'm a horrible gremlin who will be too curious not to find out firsthand what mustard flavored licorice tastes like. Bring me the horrible food.

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posts that make me want to rip my heart out

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Fun fact, in the book, it's explicitly stated that Sophie is a wizard like Howl and has a magical gift for speaking things into existence. Wish they added that into the film bc it explains SO MUCH and adds to the theme that her thoughts were shaping her reality.

There's one scene where she's fixing Howl's jacket and says it looks like it's built to attract ladies. And then SUDDENLY women are swooning over him.

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Woodpeckers are insane creatures if you stop to think about it like honestly the aye aye freak finger is conceptually more sane than evolving to smack your head on trees. Glorious animal

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In writing, epithets ("the taller man"/"the blonde"/etc) are inherently dehumanizing, in that they remove a character's name and identity, and instead focus on this other quality.

Which can be an extremely effective device within narration!

They can work very well for characters whose names the narrator doesn't know yet (especially to differentiate between two or more). How specific the epithet is can signal to the reader how important the character is going to be later on, and whether they should dedicate bandwidth to remembering them for later ("the bearded man" is much less likely to show up again than "the man with the angel tattoo")

They can indicate when characters stop being as an individual and instead embody their Role, like a detective choosing to think of their lover simply as The Thief when arresting them, or a royal character being referred to as The Queen when she's acting on behalf of the state

They can reveal the narrator's biases by repeatedly drawing attention to a particular quality that singles them out in the narrator's mind

But these only work if the epithet used is how the narrator primarily identifies that character. Which is why it's so jarring to see a lot of common epithets in intimate moments-- because it conveys that the main character is primarily thinking of their lover/best friend/etc in terms of their height or age or hair color.

#Writing #Écriture

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i think at the end of every war they should dump a cooler full of blood on the president

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“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted