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You're gonna see it coming, except for how you aren't.

#military prosecutor doberman

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The weirdest guy I ever met in a church was this boy who referred to “Buzz Aldrin and his husband” going to the moon. I was completely baffled, and when I asked if he’d misspoken, he got really angry and accused me of being deliberately ignorant of the facts. It turned out that he was somehow comvinced that Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were married. It took five Wikipedia articles to convince him otherwise.

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how?? just how?

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unfortunately no eclipse photography can ever outdo the waffle house one from 2017

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odin is like “when thor was born the sun shone bright upon his beautiful face. i found loki on the sidewalk outside a taco bell”

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This is what happened when a fanfic site is profit driven. Wattpad sucks 😞

The email from Wattpad is so condescending imagine pressuring writers to update and work while they are doing it for free and fun. Also the discovery? Algorithm? Of Wattpad looks like a stressful popularity contest 😑

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You were the caretaker for the mythical beasts of the royal family. Yesterday they decided to replace you with some incompetent noble, before kicking you out of the castle. You then spent the night in a nearby forest. However today you were awakened by the beasts who chose to follow you.

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I noticed you haven’t been online in 10 hours, is therapy finally working?

this websites hate mail game is ruthless

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unfortunately no eclipse photography can ever outdo the waffle house one from 2017

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Happy Leland Melvin Day!

Happy Leland Melvin Day!!!

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Unhelpful Drama Reviews

It's about finance, loss, shoes and getting in and out of cars. And being petty.

#rising with the wind

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I had no idea that's how that worked. Off to make sure I didn't add anything to a collection by mistake.

I've seen a lot of fics disappear from my bookmarks, some 10+ years old, because they were added to an unrevealed collection. It makes me wonder if people realize what your fic being added to a collection actually means and if the authors approved it automatically without realizing what would happen.

If someone adds your fic to their collection, they can hide it! They can mark the collection as unrevealed and your fic will be unreadable to anyone other than them! If you're writing works for a surprise event, like a Secret Santa, this is really nice.

But if you're just writing and someone adds your fic to a collection for their own personal use and marks it as unrevealed, that. . . really sucks.

I bookmarked this fic in 2017, almost 5 years ago. Knowing me, the fic itself was probably at least a couple years old at the time I bookmarked it.

This is a 5+ year old fic that is completely inaccessible now because it was added to a collection that, as far as I can tell, is literally just for the collection owner's own reference. There's almost 30 fics in the collection, all of them unrevealed.

Please don't blindly accept collection requests and if your works ARE in a collection, make sure that they aren't being hidden without your knowledge or consent.

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i'm so glad goncharov happened when it did, right before prolific public use of AI. that was pure honest gaslighting straight from the heart. real human whimsicality and trickery thru blood sweat and tears. we were a family. and we all gonched, together. you cant replicate that with any machine.

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Let's take this weird agenda writing and make it go somewhere interesting.

Having Jake have opinions about Jason, and Liz being torn about what to do, but then not have Liz, Jake and Jason be in ANY scenes together makes no sense. So this is my new headcannon.

We know the FBI has something they're hanging over Jason's head. When Franco was around (before he and Liz got together or after, it doesn't matter) he got into the trust funds Jason set up for Cam and Jake. He did something SUPER shady with the money. Jason found out, shut down the accounts, and set up new ones. But he wasn't able to catch the crime before the FBI did, and the money was clean, but it all leads back to Liz. He's a mole so she doesn't go up the river for whatever Franco used the money for.

"How did Liz not know?" If asked, she'll remember that years ago she got a call from the bank. They told her there was some cybersecurity incident so her account numbers had to be changed. All the money was still there (since Jason replenished the accounts) so she changed her passwords and thought nothing more of it.

Or, even less hoops to got through. The FBI knew about Liz hiding Peter's body. Even though Jason didn't do it, he was in the vicinity. He works for them or she goes to jail. (We're going to handwave anything that doesn't fit the timeline, because I can't remember how/when the "body" disappeared from the freezer).

Jason's keeping his distance because they're hanging Liz over his head. Plus the people who got rid of the sniper now know who he is, and he doesn't want to drag her into it, because they will use her for leverage.

I like the longer scenes and I am willing to give the writers a chance, but the lenghts they go through to keep Liz out of anything resembling an interesting storyline are frankly baffling.

#general hospital #jake webber #jason morgan #elizabeth webber

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This Sunday afternoon I was running for a tram and there was a knock at the door

I live in a city where you don't use the front door so thought "I'm already on my way out, I'll see who it is when I get round the front" (there's too much stuff in the way to even open the front door)

So I get to the front door and

... OK yeah I was a bit surprised.

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I would watch this!

A murder mystery film set in a medieval village. After an outbreak of plague, the villagers make the decision to shut their borders so as to protect the disease from spreading (see the real life case of the village of Eyam). As the disease decimates the population, however, some bodies start showing up that very obviously were not killed by plague.

Since nobody has been in or out since the outbreak began, the killer has to be somebody in the local community.

The village constable (who is essentially just Some Guy, because being a medieval constable was a bit like getting jury duty, if jury duty gave you the power to arrest people) struggles to investigate the crime without exposing himself to the disease, and to maintain order as the plague-stricken villagers begin to turn on each other.

The killer strikes repeatedly, seemingly taking advantage of the empty streets and forced isolation to strike without witnesses. As with any other murder mystery, the audience is given exactly the same information to solve the crime as the detective.

Except, that is, whenever another character is killed, at which point we cut to the present day where said character's remains are being carefully examined by a team of modern archaeologists and historians who are also trying to figure out why so many of the people in this plague-pit died from blunt force trauma.

The archaeologists and historians, btw, are real experts who haven't been allowed to read the script. The filmmakers just give them a model of the victim's remains, along with some artefacts, and they have to treat it like a real case and give their real opinion on how they think this person died.

We then cut back to the past, where the constable is trying to do the same thing. Unlike the archaeologists, he doesn't have the advantage of modern tech and medical knowledge to examine the body, but he does have a more complete crime scene (since certain clues obviously wouldn't survive to be dug up in the modern day) and personal knowledge from having probably known the victim.

The audience then gets a more complete picture than either group, and an insight into both the strengths and limits of modern archaeology, explaining what we can and can't learn from studying a person's remains.

At the end of the film, after the killer is revealed and the main plot is resolved, we then get to see the archaeologists get shown the actual scenes where their 'victims' were killed, so they can see how well their conclusions match up with what 'really' happened.