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ghost hunting is such an american concept. everywhere else we just coexist with them. befriend them even

#this is so true #why would you go disturb these people in their houses huh #ghosts

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You will never forget the name Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn after this

Watch the full episode on Dropout

#truly the strangest ways to get me to pick up a book again #but I guess thank you Sam Reich for reminding me of that copy of the Gulag Archipelago on my shelf #I’m twenty pages in and I’m obsessed it’s already spectacular #and the translation is gorgeous #idk what it is about Russian but German translations of it are always so much smoother than translations from other languages #alexander solzhenitsyn #aleksandr solzhenitsyn #god fuck I give up #Александр Исаевич Солженицын #game changer #dropout #sam reich #siobhan thompson #mike trapp

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Sometimes self-care is, actually, NOT getting onto the computer and little treats and watching youtube videos. Sometimes those things are self-care, but sometimes they're also avoidant behaviors.

Sometimes self care is waking up and just. Fucking getting in the car. And driving to the bank. And the store. And buying the cat litter. And changing the cat boxes you've been avoiding because your brains been stuck in a hole. And picking up the trash you've been piling up. And getting a load into the wash. And mowing the lawn before the village council sends you a formal complaint and potential-fines warning.

Like its hard and annoying to do because it sucks. It sucks so much. But if I don't start working on this pile of bullshit I've let build up because it stinks and i was stuck in deer-in-headlights mode, I risk letting it turn into fuckery. I do not have the patience for fuckery that I once - foolishly! - thought I had.

#as someone so deeply stuck in this mire believe me #it's true #at some point all the little treats and happiness cannot distract you from the absolute 50 car pile-up that is your life #mental health #reminders #life advice

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❝ These are the Rohirrim, as we name them, masters of horses, and we ceded to them the fields of Calenardhon that are since called Rohan; for that province had long been sparsely peopled. And they became our allies, and have ever proved true to us, aiding us at need, and guarding our northern marches and the Gap of Rohan. ❞

#oh neat! #lord of the rings

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i mean this from the bottom of my heart: no one is impressed by your loud ass car. actually we talked about it and we all want you dead.

#GOD YES #get the fuck out of here with your extra special loud car #what are you even trying to prove?? #i relate to this on a spiritual level

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addendum: this campaign is the first time i have ever seen accents and foreign mother tongues handled in the way i always thought would make most sense and I am SO excited about it!

Yes, Caleb would have an accent, because he's not speaking his native language. he wouldn't have an accent when speaking his native language. and this show recognises that while they can't actually switch to German/Zemnian, they can just say "for this scene, imagine our actors, who are speaking English, are really speaking Zemnian" AND THEN EVERYONE DROPS THE ACCENT

it makes so much sense! it's such a simple, smooth way to go, they're now speaking their native tongue. it makes the scene feel that much more intimate and separate from other scenes without taking you out of it, and with voice actors of that caliber they know that they can simply trust their audience to understand that these are still the same characters, they're just codeswitching.

it's so neat, i've almost forgiven Matt for the goofy names

watching Liam O'Brien do a spectacular fantasy!German for dozens of episodes has impressed me so much and yet nothing could have possibly prepared me for the man starting to sing, of all the songs, "Laurentia, liebe Laurentia mein"

the immersion! if you reached to the very back of my memory there'd be like ten folk songs there and this one, which we used to have to sing at 7:00 in the morning on choir retreats while doing squats for all the weekdays, would definitely be there. it's a silly ditty you've heard somehow exclusively in childhood, it's a little game song for children. If all else was tainted by your later life that song would probably survive, it's perfect

#this is a joke but also every time they mention the capital all i hear is 'rec center' and uh. 'ungebroch' is just criminal #'vergessen sanatorium' sounds like poor grammar and also. idk isn't it a bit on the nose #'this is a good and normal place for health treatments. why would you assume we shut people away in there. anyway it's called Forgotten' #still! YES! finally someone does non-native speaker characters sensibly. i'm so happy with this character #yet another thing i did not expect to find in ttrpg of all places tbh but THANK GOD #(especially not this campaign that tbh i used to avoid because the title made me think this would go the 'haha isn't german silly' route) #critical role #the mighty nein #caleb widowgast #german #i'm a language nerd #yes good carry on #liam o'brien #matt mercer

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that some people respond to any well-foreshadowed reveal with “ugh that plot twist was so predictable” proves bad faith criticism has rotted their brains to the point they think it’s bad writing if they can correctly identify information the writers were intentionally giving them

#i will never understand this at ALL #i’ll always be such a sucker for some good old fashioned foreshadowing #it's the best thing!! how could you not want it!! #i want to see it coming! and want to see the character walking into the trap anyway! #it's about the TRAGEDY #the suspense! #i don't want to be surprised i want to be dangled #it's the hitchcock thing with the bomb: #it's much more stressful to watch a scene where there is a bomb underneath the table that you've seen #but the characters haven't #than just a scene of watching three people at a table and then a bomb goes off #writing #fandom #storytelling

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And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the Ring passed out of all knowledge

#lord of the rings #i love this film so much

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The Iranian Regime is going to execute rapper Toomaj Salehi for supporting protests of Jina Amini’s murder by the regime in his songs.

Iranian activist Elica Le Bon says, “Iranians in the diaspora picked up on the fact that the regime tends not to execute people who become known to the international community. We have seen many examples of prisoners that were either released on bail or had their sentences commuted through our “say their names to save their lives” campaign on social media, using hashtags to garner attention for their causes, and even before social media existed, through getting the stories of political prisoners to international media outlets. Once reported on, and once the eyes shift to the regime and the reality of its pending brutality, realizing that the action is not worth the repercussions, we have seen them back down and not execute. For that reason, this is part of an urgent campaign for readers to talk about Toomaj as much as you can, using the hashtag #FreeToomaj or #ToomajSalehi. Every comment makes a difference, and if we were wrong, what did we lose by trying?”

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Walking into the Church of Cassandra, Ancient Goddess of Mystery and Doubt, Mother of the Welcoming Dark, I turn to greet the priestess with the traditional greeting of the acolytes of the order. “Heeeeey, Girlieeeee.” 👁️👁️

#fantasy high junior year #cassandra #ally beardsley #dimension 20

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humans need a healthy dose of believing in benign bullshit. four leaf clovers. salt over the shoulder. if you don’t let it out in little ways it builds up inside of you where it rots until you join qanon.

#the older i get the more i believe this #life advice #humans are weird

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Fuckin aye, man

@/deddyfatstacks on tiktok

#if this were what dating was i would be doing it tbh #excellent pitches all around sir thank you

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look on my works ye mighty…………………… 🍐

#this is so stupid i LOVE IT #oh my god #hilarious #i'm a language nerd

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I am completely obsessed with a crown of candy. like caramelinda and lazuli were IN LOVE. imagine you're caramelinda. you are married to the love of your life. and she dies. your country is unstable, you need to remarry, politically. you have to remarry to her baby brother who up until now has just been a reckless prince getting up to stupid shit in the war. and now he's your husband. and now he's king. you have two daughters with him. he is a useless ruler, so you manage everything. you try to keep your family safe. your daughters grow up and take after their father. they take after lazuli. they are reckless. they just want to fight things, and you feel like their jailer, trying to impose rules, trying to keep them safe. you love them and would break apart if anything happened to them. you miss your wife. you have been married to your husband for 20 years now. he has been by your side longer than you even knew your wife. you deserved her, not him. it is impossible not to love him. but never like you loved her. he is still an irresponsible reckless warrior. he is a coward. he is your partner in life. you have children and a kingdom together. one of your daughters dies. she dies sneaking away after you told her to go to bed. you are queen. you are supposed to be able to protect her. you had ordered people to follow her and keep her safe. she still died. you want to blame her. you want to blame everyone. you want to blame yourself, you tried so hard to keep her safe. you cry in your husbands arms. you find out your wife kept secrets from you. you have to leave your home. your family is in danger. your family is protecting itself. you feel like dead weight. you miss your wife.

#acoc is so goofy and SO TRAGIC #and it's always both at once absolutely maddening #a crown of candy #dimension 20

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one of my favorite scenes in all of star wars even though it is devastating

watercolor + gouache on arches hot press paper

#this is so well captured #rogue one #jyn x cassian #fanart

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cloth fibers ranked by how much sense they make to me

wool. the most sensible and natural fiber. wool is hair from meaty, not very bright animals. I have hair, meat and did not excell in school, so I relate and understand this best

cotton. Cotton is made from plants, but don't be scared yet. these plants are basically small sheep for they are wooly and have hard seeds in them like how sheep are wooly and have hard bones inside them

silk. I was fairly terrorized as a child by caterpillars that made massive silk tents in mulberry trees. We came in into conflict because both of us liked to eat mulberries and climb mulberry trees and also because they liked falling out of the tree upon my person. this was distressing for me for various reasons primary amongst them was that I had been told by the wisdom of my peers that if one of them bit me I would die. anyway I believe that silk comes from caterpillars because I have seen it I have witnessed it I have lived it

linen. bizarre. have you watched videos of people turning flax into fibers? I have watched video after video of flax being transformed from plant to linen and none of it makes any sense. One moment, it's a plant and then if you comb it enough it becomes hair. utterly incomprehensibe witchcraft

PLASTIC? PLASTIC? PLAstic??????

spandex. incomprehensibe. uncontainable. might as well be string theory to me.

#understandable #textiles #craft

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Having 3 friends is fun until they’re all busy

#me at all times #:( #i relate to this on a spiritual level