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best scene in the prequels is when anakin and padme have just landed on naboo & padme goes “hmm being a childqueen might’ve fucked me up a bit” and anakin, former 9yo slave separated from his mom, confronted for perhaps the first time with the idea that childhood trauma effects you later in life, goes “nuh uh”

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it must be so fucking funny to be a dungeon meshi anime only. imagine searching fanart of your favorite anime and every single time there is some fucking catgirl among the cast that's nowhere to be seen in the show. it's a medieval adventure setting why the hell is everyone putting a catgirl in there. but she's always there hanging out with the gang like shes always been there. real life Graggle Simpson

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE MOST INFLUENTIAL ALBUM OF THE MODERN AGE

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Open for commissions!

I have five slots available for late April! Email me at [email protected] with what you'd like and I'll get a quote to you. If you're based in the UK and your commission size is small, I might be able to squeeze you in.

#the first oneeee owwhaggaggh😭 #inspo #these are sooo pretty

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why small kittens are always either the most pathetic or the most evil creature you've ever seen

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you worry the cardboard sleeve around the coffee and think about landfills and the future without straws. you are worried about prion disease and deer. you are worried about the rising temperature of mushrooms. you are worried about teflon and microplastics and carcinogens and whatever else you're being quietly lied to about.

your mother used to jokingly say you are "a worrier," which always kind of oddly hurt your feelings. you feel like a person. and besides, you've been told one-million-times that this is normal. examples get trotted out in a pony show each time: everyone gets nervous sometimes. they talk about public speaking and picturing people naked and how when they get nervous they just-get-over-it.

you run your hands down the grater of your life and feel the sharpness. you started holding your breath in tunnels as a kid, worried that if you relax, the ceiling would cave in. like years of architects and engineers weren't responsible - you, and your faith, you were responsible for the success of infrastructure. if you slipped for a moment, your whole family would be swept away under the ocean. and the problem is that it worked - no tunnel collapsed.

you once broke a coffee carafe and even though you didn't drink from it after, you worried that there had been some previous invisible micro-break that had made you drink glass particles. you stayed awake for 24 hours, constantly dreading each swallow, waiting to taste blood.

you hate being late, you worry about it. you go to grab literally just lunch with a friend - no pressure, no emergency - and you still park the car an hour early and just sit there scrolling on your phone aimlessly. maybe you just don't like surprises or change. you triple-check you locked the doors, and then go to bed, and then get up out of bed to check twice again.

a worrier. like a strange and dreadful bingo card, you collect weekly experiences. someone tells you that you're overthinking, that's 2 points. you have to physically turn around and go back in your house to check you unplugged everything, that's 1 point. spiraling about climate change or politics or the state of the world is a free space, that's basically every evening.

you worry you're being selfish and not a good person because how come you're worried about your dog's health and the itch in your eye when you know people who are really very ill or who have it worse or who are genuinely struggling. then you worry that you're being annoying by infantilizing them. then you worry that your priorities are wrong, that you should be infinitely more worried about the state of a dying planet.

you wanted to be a person, is all. you wanted to go through life in a softness, to hold the world gently and have it whisper past you. and instead you are a worrier. everything that touches you is hard and raw and sharp like diamonds.

#faves #was thinking to myself ‘this is exactly how my ocd works’ and then I read the tags and yep #really gorgeous piece as always op🩷

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Toph

#inspo

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Anakin in a nutshell

#this feels like a shitposty tumblr quote but nope anakin really said ‘i choose consequences’ out loud with his mouth #<- prev 😭 #like one of those incorrect quotes posts

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Guys. Do it for them. Never forget.

@roxerroonie

Empyrean Weeping - cupcakeslushie

Replica - kathaynesart

Kid Leo - angelpuns

Bad End Ninja Turtles - butterfilledpockets

EMD - 3lectricinsomnia and teaableu (main blog evenmoreofadisaster)

Good luck have fun! NO TIES AT ALL ALLOWED ON THIS POLL.

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attention this is your captain speaking chag sameach pesach to all celebrating and a reminder do not open the airlock to greet elijah the vulcan rabbinic council ruled that opening the door to the room where the seder is occurring is sufficient elijah can get on a starship just fine himself he just likes to be personally invited in to your seder we dont need another incident like last year thank you

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I can't even begin to say how happy I am that Dungeon Meshi included a friggin' Winogradsky column in its explanation of how ecosystem works.

Just swap "spirits" for "microbes" and replace "mana" with "nutritents" and you're all there.

Oh, and since they used fire as an indicator for spirit activity, we can intuit that they tested for methane gas, which means that at least some of the spirits are stand-ins for archea, the only known microbes to produce methane.

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Wordle is running out of words. Only 2,000 five letter words remain. When that supply is exhausted the Creation shall begin. One day the word will be ZHURM, and all shall get it, and all shall understand it to mean "an ache from suddenly remembering a long-ago friend, who meant something to you once, but whose face you can no longer conjure". The next day the word shall be JOROL, and all will get it, and all will know it means "the melancholy confusion of passing by somewhere where you once could have died". The next day it will be GREFT, and all will understand it to be a small brown bird with white streaks found only in South America, and suddenly, it will appear, in the underbrush of the Amazon, in the streets of São Paulo, and all will know that it once was not there, but now, will always be

#unreality

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Eman's family is currently in danger!

Two weeks ago, the area to which Eman's family was displaced was bombed. As the war in Sudan rages, there is no where in the country they can go where they are safe. Eman's family has already lost their home, which was bombed while they were inside, martyring Eman's brother.

Due to the instability of Sudan's currency, the amount raised from this campaign so far is not nearly enough for them to leave Sudan. We have to raise more funds, and quickly.

Please support and share Eman's campaign. Let us help them urgently get to safety.

#save