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It occurs to me that as much as “humans are the scary ones” fits sometimes, if you look at it another way, humans might seem like the absurdly friendly or curious ones.

I mean, who looked at an elephant, gigantic creature thoroughly capable of killing someone if it has to, and thought “I’m gonna ride on that thing!”?

And put a human near any canine predator and there’s a strong chance of said human yelling “PUPPY!” and initiating playful interaction with it.

And what about the people who look at whales, bigger than basically everything else, and decide “I’m gonna swim with our splashy danger friends!”

Heck, for all we know, humans might run into the scariest, toughest aliens out there and say “Heck with it. I’m gonna hug ‘em.”

“Why?!”

“I dunno. I gotta hug ‘em.”

And it’s like the first friendly interaction the species has had in forever so suddenly humanity has a bunch of big scary friends.

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My little book club is reading His Dark Materials and daemons came up while my betrothed and I were cuddling in bed.

They said to me, “Do you think anyone’s daemon is a mosquito?”

“What? No way, that’s way too small!”

“No,” they countered, “We see beetles and butterflies, Pan turned into a little lightning bug, and a moth.”

I digested this information in silence, and then my betrothed started shaking with laughter and pitched in two different voices. “‘Where’s your daemon?’ ‘Oh, it’s a tick.’”

I let out such a guttural sound of amusement and horror that I scared the cats. I couldn’t stop laughing and repeating, “It’S a TiCk!!!”

I escalated in hilarity to choking out, “The only blood it can eat is it’s own persons! They JusT gO aRouNd with a TiCk on their face!”

“I don’t think daemons need to eat, do they?” They asked.

“IT’S A tIcK!!” I responded, tears rolling down my face, hyperventilating at the best and worst concept I’d ever imagined.

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someone with a major in literature and/or poetry tell me what's so poetic about this that it captivated me because i have no idea honestly

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Temples are built for gods. Knowing this a farmer builds a small temple to see what kind of god turns up.

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Like it cannot be overstated how collective change is built by a collection of small, sustained individual actions. You giving what you can to one person, you helping one person when you can, you communicating with one person, sharing with one person, everything, it all adds up. That is how we build community. Its not big and dramatic and all at once. It is mundane but continuous.

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How To Read Ezra Pound, Martin Espada

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Some additional photos of Andrew Scott by Ward Ivan Rafik for The Sunday Times Style.

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The only thing that happens when Tumblr suggests to me any content, be it fanfiction or fan-animation or fan-comic, of the famous wizard intellectual property of a holocaust denying hatemonger is that I'll block the person who posted it.

I know some of you will think that's overreacting, but here's the thing.

She's personally funding transphobic lobbies.

She's gone so far as to openly oppose anti hate-crime laws in general because they extend any protection to transgender people.

She's close friends with people who openly describe themselves as fascists.

She's openly friendly to literal neo-nazis.

She's engaged in holocaust denial. Sure it's soft denial as in she didn't argue that the whole thing didn't happen, but she's still, to this day, trying to claim that it didn't happen to people that there's literal photographic evidence and abundance of documentation of it happening to people.

I know, I fully know, that it hurts to put down the things from your youth that shaped you, that were important to you, that meant the world to you, but the thing is...

... Everything that promotes that woman's creations, Everything, gives her value. Some of it is direct financial value, and I just mentioned what she does with that money. If you buy ANYTHING of hers, you're participating in giving money to these things.

Some of it is social value. It keeps her "relevant" via her intellectual property. It allows her to paint herself in a more positive light, via her intellectual property.

You can not support her intellectual property in any way without also giving her at least the tiniest smidge of support, and even the tiniest smidge of support for someone like that is more than I'm okay with.

If she had her way, I wouldn't be allowed to exist in society at all. No ifs ands or buts.

Her actions, what she is doing with her money and the power she's granted as a "beloved children's author" is Literally causing a fuckton of suffering and even, yes, death.

She's got blood on her hands.

I'm not suggesting the people I'm blocking do too, not necessarily, not all of them, but when my reaction to seeing any of it is consistently "ew, no, gross, blocked" it affects the algorithms that keep suggesting the intellectual property of the person who supports the eradication of a vulnerable part of society to said part of society that that is "unwanted content" and hopefully that'll limit the reach of those posts.... maybe not a lot, but at least a little.

Her behavior and actions are so egregious that to some, the mere mention of her name or the name of her most famous intellectual property is enough to be considered a trigger. It's a sharp reminder that there are people out there, with a lot of social power and money, that want you to stop existing.

I wouldn't call it a trigger for me, personally, as it's not causing a severe enough reaction for me to think of it as such, but it still sucks.

So, please, people... there are other worlds out there to play in. Please consider finding one of them, any of them, and stop keeping her worlds alive. Stop supporting her continued relevance.

Please.

#tw: harry potter #tw: JK Rowling #transphobia #homophobia #holocaust denial

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This is about academia, so programs for art/sports/etc don't count, only studying.

A program for gifted kids would be separate from most of the other kids, and only be open to certain students.

The "highest level" is referring to classes where you learn differently based on your academic levels. Unlike being a part of a separate program, you would still be in the same class as your peers, you would just be the "best" among them.

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#I routinely was using class material for classes 1-3 years ahead of me in grade school #The principal refused to let me skip grades because I'd “get bullied” #Guess who got bullied anyway! #By the time I was in the second tier of shcooling (between basic and uni) I was already burnt out from the combination #Bullying and the profound boredom of how slowly school fed me information I already had #Tedium in an hostile environment #I never made it to uni

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reconfiguring my entire wardrobe and lifestyle around this hat i just got

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I love this so much

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happy glorious 25th of may

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those who follow me on instagram have seen this already, but check out one of these latest commissions

ID: Calligraphy done in a blackletter hand using dark red ink. There is a scrolling vinework border and a drop capital with emphasis on spiky red shapes. The text reads "Some Motherfuckers are always trying to ice-skate uphill."

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