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Hospice

We sing the last line and then live in the coda.

#poetry #monostich #napowrimo

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Now I want a spaceballs.us (they're an Instagram account and they're awesome) story about this.

Zoozve, my beloved

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Happy 10 Years to the 1st MCU movie I watched in the Theatre

#captain america #winter soldier #steve rogers #bucky barnes #mcu

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2nd panel is my students, probably.

#good omens memes

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How does anything get done on the set of Good Omens when David Tennant look like THAT

We keep him in a box until we're ready to shoot.

#david tennant #fun fact #good omens 2 #good omens fandom #good omens crowley #anthony j crowley #neil gaiman #ineffable idiots

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Stunning.

Alice Te Punga Somerville, Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised - Kupu rere kē

[ID: A poem titled: Kupu rere kē. [in italics] My friend was advised to italicise all the foreign words in her poems. This advice came from a well-meaning woman with NZ poetry on her business card and an English accent in her mouth. I have been thinking about this advice. The convention of italicising words from other languages clarifies that some words are imported: it ensures readers can tell the difference between a foreign language and the language of home. I have been thinking about this advice. Marking the foreign words is also a kindness: every potential reader is reassured that although you’re expected to understand the rest of the text, it’s fine to consult a dictionary or native speaker for help with the italics. I have been thinking about this advice. Because I am a contrary person, at first I was outraged — but after a while I could see she had a point: when the foreign words are camouflaged in plain type you can forget how they came to be there, out of place, in the first place. I have been thinking about this advice and I have decided to follow it. Now all of my readers will be able to remember which words truly belong in -[end italics]- Aotearoa -[italics]- and which do not.

Next image is the futurama meme: to shreds you say…]

(Image ID by @bisexualshakespeare)

#poetry #maori #new zealand poem #Alice Te Punga Somerville #Kupu rere kē #Always Italicise #powerful right off the bat #Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised #aotearoa #Māori poetry #Māori #poem #colonization #Decolonisation #colonisation #postcolonial literature

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So much yes.

I am slowly losing my mind over the shift towards video as the default media format.

I do not find this to be an efficient way to absorb information. I am bored and distracted by the time the largely unnecessary introduction is over. I can't use ctrl+f to find the specific information I'm looking for. If there are instructions to follow, I don't want to have to constantly pause and back up to the part I need.

At least give me a fucking transcript.

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just checked and there are 378 people now.

VERY IMPORTANT a dam in the Netherlands, the weerdsluis lock, is directly on a migratory path for spawning fish. They have a worker stationed there to open the door for the fish, but they can take a while to open it. So to keep the fish from getting preyed on by birds they installed a doorbell. Only, the fish don't have hands to ring the doorbell. If you go to their website, they have a LIVE CAMERA AND A DOORBELL that YOU RING FOR THE FISH when they're waiting, and then the dam worker opens the door for them! I can't express how obsessed I am with this. look at this shit. oh my god.

Please check on the fish doorbell once in a while :)

#fish #ring a ding ding

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Roasted chicken, ginger, daikon, shiitake mushroom soup with lime, cilantro, broccoli sprouts, and rice noodles

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#good omens #neil gaiman #david tennant #crowley #aziraphale #crowley good omens #doctor who #good omens spoilers #derek jacobi #shakespeare #william shakespere #the shakespeare code #hamlet #globe theatre #tardis

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Question: And in the meantime, you were still working together. You were doing Staged. So do you guys just love to work together?

David: That's all we are going to do now.

Michael: Yeah.

David: It's contractual. Yeah.

Michael: Yeah. Neil Gaiman made us sign a contract in blood.

David: And that's it forever now.

Michael: Yeah.

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From the Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously :) (you can watch it here in US or with US vpn :) <;3) (or just this bit on youtube here :))

Terry Pratchett: One day he rang me up and said, "I've started a book and, I think it's good, but I haven't the faintest idea where it goes." So, I said, "All right, well, send me the pages." And I read it and wrote him back and said, "I don't know where it goes either, but I do know what happens next."

Neil Gaiman: I was pretty much nocturnal then, so I would write my chunk of Good Omens before I went to bed, and I'd go to sleep about five o'clock in the morning and I'd get up about one o'clock in the afternoon and my answering machine would be flashing on, and I'd press the button and a voice would say, "Get up, get up you lazy bastard, I've just written a good bit."

Terry Pratchett: We did it as a kind of holiday, because if it crashed and burned, nobody would notice.

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This one's streaming now. Give it a listen.

Recorded on my phone in my bedroom.

#indie #indie music #indie artist #indie pop #indie poet #new music #ukulele #new songs #sad songs #Depression #depression thoughts #Spotify

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Definitely my mood some weekday mornings. Such as today.

#good omens #david tennant #crowley #david on fire #cranky

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To a Drowning Man

Here is the weight of a heart:

            dreams gone ragged at the edges,

faded and frayed, the ghost of hope

rather than her full splendour,

            and yet,

it’s enough, isn’t it? She sings

still, not siren but lullaby,

a reminder of strength

in darker times,

            a hand offered

without expectation, just steady

and steady on—

            the constant promise

of softness, breath

to a drowning man

who has ignored his own drowning—

sometimes, love is this

potential:

            glimmer unexpected,

            gentleness unasked for,

a silhouette standing in shadow,

            imperfect heart

shining, a torch song

                        burning

against the dark.

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David Tennant's first unboxing video! :D (compiled from Georgia's stories on insta :) ❤)

Georgia: Okay. Hi, David. Right. Sit there.

David: Oh God. Am I filming... am I on camera?

Georgia: You're on camera, yeah.

David: To who?

Georgia: Uh, don't know yet. There you go. Right.

David: Are you going to give me a present?

Georgia: Yeah. This is an unboxing video. Go on, unbox it.

David: I need some scissors.

Georgia: Oh. How do people, people do this, though, without sort of tools?

David: What people?

Georgia: Well the people that do unboxing videos.

David: I don't know... I don't know anything about unboxing videos.

Geogia: Oh okay. All right. Do you want to get you... hold on.

David: Oh hang on.

Georgia: Oh look at that.

David: Nope, still need scissors.

Georgia: Okay, hold on. Okay.

David: Oh, yeah. Thank you. There's a nail file. It sort of works. [sees what's on side] Ohhhhh! This is not... this was sent to you, wasn't it?

Georgia: It was, yeah. Yeah, I'm so... I'm regifting. I'm regifting the gifted.

David: Well, this is a gift to both of us.

Georgia: Okay, I'm going to have to stop this video because it's about to get to the end of it. Can you just pause it there? Okay, you can pick up where you left off now.

David: Okay, can I start again?

Georgia: Yeah, go. And action.

David: This! It's a Tucci pan! Ohhhh. Dear David and Georgia... shall I try and do a Stanley impression?

Georgia: Yeah, go on.

David: Dear David and Georgia, here's a taste of a line of cookware I've designed. I hope you enjoy it and shamelessly promote it on your social media. With love, Stanley Tucci.

Georgia: Okay, okay. We've unwrapped. We've unboxed.

David: Isn't it pretty, though?

Georgia: Yeah. That is really nice. That is really nice. I just need to learn how to cook.

David: If we were really good at like videos and stuff...

Georgia: Oh, yeah, should we do, yeah

David: I'd do this, I'd do that. And then I'd do that there'll be something cooked in it. [the video changes and there is something cooked in it] Oooh! Thanks Stan! We love our pan! We love our pan, Stan! Stan pan. Stan the pan man.

Georgia: Okay stop.

(yes, it is a thing :D)

#david tennant #georgia tennant #david and georgia #stanley tucci #unboxing video #transcripts #tucci pan #stand the pan man #funny #videos