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We find no rest for our weary bones unless we cling to the word of grace. Also on Etsy.

#one second I'm buying this immediately I'm buying it Now

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#OH #coming back to this bc my brain finished loading #i had conflated what i knew about islam with judaism #from what i know jesus is not in the talmud #but he was a prophet in the quran #i think

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real

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Selene! Excited for Hades 2!!

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i run ttrpg games *very* rarely, just halloween one-offs every couple of years. but! here is the the most fun theatrical trick i've played on my players. it totally got them

this was a story that was going to begin with the players playing themselves, sitting around the table in my living room, and then in-game the living room (and the players) would be transported to another plane

i rigged up a bluetooth speaker next to the window and closed the curtains. about ten minutes after they came in, before the game even began, i began playing rain sounds very quietly over the speaker. every couple of minutes i turned the rain up louder. just as the game began, with the rain at near maximum volume, one of the players even said "wow, it's really coming down out there, it wasn't even raining when we arrived"

🙃

i wrote a creepy verbal ritual the players had to complete as a group to transport the room to another world. right as they finished the ritual, i turned off the lights in the room using a remote and turned off the rain sounds at the same time

it was crazy effective. realistically it only took them a couple of seconds to figure out how I'd managed to turn off the rain, but they all said later on that those few seconds were completely disorientating, even frightening

anyway, i'm still proud of it 💜

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Cats painting studies by Paul Rabaud

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I'm trying to write a post about tick safety and avoiding tick bites, but a lot of the info on websites is like "Avoid going in the woods, in plants, and where there are wild animals" and "Activities like hiking and gardening can put you at risk" and I'm like thanks! This is worthless!

As ticks and tick borne illnesses are expanding their range, I think it's important for people to be educated about these things, and I think it's especially important to give people actual advice on how to protect themselves instead of telling them to just...avoid the natural world

Rough draft version of Tick Advice:

Ticks don't jump down on you from trees, they get on you when you brush against grass, brush, bushes etc.

Ticks get brought to an area when they get done feeding from an animal and fall off them. In the USA, the main tick-bringing animal is deer, but I've seen plenty ticks on feral cats and songbirds.

Ticks get killed when they dry out so drier areas with more sunlight are less favorable to ticks.

The above is useful for figuring out whether an area is likely to have lots of ticks, and how vigilant you have to be in that area.

Wear light-colored, long pants outside. Tuck your pants into your socks, and tuck your shirt into the waist of your pants. Invest in light, breathable fabrics idc

IMMEDIATELY change out of your outside clothes when you come back from a tick-prone area, wash them, and dry them on high heat to kill any ticks that might be stuck on.

Shower and check yourself for ticks after coming inside. Hair, armpits, and nether regions in particular. You can use a handheld mirror or rely on touch; an attached tick will feel like a bump kinda like a scab

While you're outside, you can just periodically check for ticks by running your hands down your legs and checking visually to see if anything is crawling on your clothes. Light colors make them easy to spot, and they don't move fast.

Combing through each others' hair to check for creepy crawly critters is a time-honored primate ritual and is not weird. When hiking, bring a friend who will have your back when you feel something on your neck and need to know if it's sweat or a tick

If you're careful, you can usually catch ticks before they bite you, but if one does bite you, it's not the end of the world. Since tickborne diseases are different regionally i suspect this advice will differ based on where you are, but the important thing is remove the tick with tweezers (DON'T use butter, a lit match, or anything that kills the tick while it's still attached, please) and contact a doctor to see what to watch for. Most illnesses you can catch from ticks are easily treatable if you recognize them when symptoms first appear

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i swear to god i thought jerma was in the casket

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i need people do do me a favor and be absolutely normal about it

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enough reclaiming slurs, I think in 2023 we should reclaim nascar. they banned the confederate flag on all properties & their stance on lgbtq+ isn’t just performative bc in 2013 they fined a driver 10k for using a homophobic slur, condemned indiana in a statement for an anti lgbt law, and partnered w carolina’s lgbt+ chamber of conference in 2022. nascar was founded by anti-cop moonshiners/bootleggers who drove suped-up fords to out-run the police. #yaaascar

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absolutely stellar

#MEEEE

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One of life’s greatest traps is when you’re talking to somebody who is also a nerd but not to extent you are. Cannot tell you the number of times I’ve been talking to my coworker about BG3 and suddenly completely changed the trajectory of my sentence because I remembered I needed to be at least 30% normaler for this conversation

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This was shared as a “bad” joke but I was so charmed by it I’ve been thinking about it for days.

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why is pride always in summer. what about the dykes that can't tolerate the heat huh. what about us. I mean them.

#literally #like i know Why it is but also 😭😭😭 #how are the leather daddies and full fursuit furries and goths supposed to cope with this

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#i had.... Thought he was one of the prophets? but idk for sure #i just know he's referred to as yeshua or something similar #like i just thought the deal was he definitely was not the son of god

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Public speaking is actually really easy if you don't respect a single soul in that room. I've had an incredibly easy time delivering speeches when I hated everybody I saw and they all thought I did amazing because my disdain was read as confidence. I don't have any tips for you I'm just telling you a fact

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eighth saint to serve the king undying, bitch!!!

quick thing for the people’s tomb fandom jam—the prompt was “pride” and i am nothing if not predictable 

#ianthe.......