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I've discovered a 1960s British Puppet Show called Thunderbirds and I've become obsessed with it. While it has it's issues [being from the 60s], it also has a lot of good points, and tons of action and rescues! Scott is one of my favorite characters from the show. There's a CGI reboot and a live action movie, but I honestly prefer the original puppets.

OH WHAT...This looks lit!!!

Now I haven't started wtching yet (though I'm curious so I will), nor have I seen the reboot, but I do love puppet stuff so I feel like I would not like the CGI as much..even if it looks cool

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First thing you see after you zoom in is how you die

How you dying 👀

#frogs :(

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You ever wanna talk about your ocs but you dont have anything to say really you just kinda

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Okay, reblog game. Rb with what made you aro and/or ace (wrong answers only)

#grape nuts keeps a man steady...

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remember taking those "what job should you have" tests in middle school and the questions were like "do you think people deserve to suffer?"

#my weeb classmate had a panic attack b/c the test didn't give her 'english teacher in japan' as a result

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Since you're doing drawing suggestions, how about The Noid from Domino's Pizza? He is so silly and I love him!

how does one avoid this guy

#mascots #hehehe

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I’m so sorry but in the nicest way possible do yall actually read books or just read words??? Cause I’ve been seeing that trend of people not understanding how “snarled” and “eyes darkened” and “eyes softened” etc. was used in a book and like…

Genuinely, do yall just not have imagination?? Or not understand figurative language??? Also eyes do literally darken and soften have you not lived a life??? How do you read with no imagination? Is this how you get through so many books in one month - you simply don’t take the time the understand the words as they are read?

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happy womens history month btw if ur curious ab transfeminism i recommend the transsisters magazine which is archived & completely free to read here

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Wait, so you said that you can learn to trust others by building friendships, but how does one go about doing that? Wouldn't someone I don't know be creeped out or annoyed if I suddenly walked up and started talking to them?

Friendships are built of repeated low-stakes interactions and returned bids for attention with slowly increasing intimacy over time.

It takes a long time to make friends as an adult. People will probably think you're weird if you just walk up and start talking to them as though you are already their friend (people think it's weird when I do this, I try not to do this) but people won't think it's weird if you're someone they've seen a few times who says "hey" and then gradually has more conversations (consisting of more words) with them.

I cheat at forming adult friendships by joining groups where people meet regularly. If you're part of a radio club that meets once a week and you just join up to talk about radios, eventually those will be your radio friends.

If there's a hiking meetup near you and you go regularly, you will eventually have hiking friends.

Deeper friendships are formed with people from those kinds of groups when you do things with them outside of the context of the original interaction; if you go camping with your radio friend, that person is probably more friend than acquaintance. If you go to the movies with a hiking friend who likes the same horror movies as you do, that is deepening the friendship.

In, like 2011 Large Bastard decided he wanted more friends to do stuff with so he started a local radio meetup. These people started as strangers who shared an interest. Now they are people who give each other rides after surgery and help each other move and have started businesses together and have gone on many radio-based camping trips and have worked on each other's cars.

Finding a meetup or starting a meetup is genuinely the cheat-code for making friends.

This is also how making friendships at schools works - you're around a group of people very regularly and eventually you get to know them better and you start figuring out who you get along with and you start spending more time with those people.

If you want to do this in the most fast and dramatic way possible, join a band.

In 2020 I wrote something of a primer on how to turn low-stakes interactions with neighbors and acquaintances into more meaningful relationships; check the notes of this post over the next couple days, I'll dig up the link and share it in a reblog.

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I had this dream...

I had this dream that my body pre-transition still existed. It still had half a brain, as if part of me had been left behind, and I wasn't sure if what I had in my head was a full brain grown from a half, or a half brain grown from something that had been discarded.

I had this dream that my body pre-transition still exists. She was stored in a freezer-refridgerator hybrid, stuffed behind the uneven wall at the back behind the food. Its head was jammed into a space between the fridge and the freezer, and the belly button was visible for some reason through a hole in the back between some frozen chicken breast, a cork shoved inside to keep anything from spilling out.

I had this dream that my body pre-transition existed separate from my body now, large breasts intact but bloated from some stage of decomposition and frozen like that. Tubes with some purpose of preservation looped through the main part of the bottom refridgerator shelf; they looked like the CPAP tube I breathe through at night. I saw thin blood begin to flow down into this part of the tubing as I stood there with the door open.

I had this dream where I asked my mom if she still had my pre-transition body in the refridgerator-freezer, and she said yes, of course. It was mine. She wouldn't do anything with it unless I asked her to. I wondered if it was still preserved in there, and I wondered if it was still me in there, and I wondered if I was a continuation or a replacement, and I wondered if anything was left in there.

I had this dream where I realized how poorly my pre-transition self had been preserved, and I saw blood leaking through a tube that wasn't supposed to contain blood.

I had this dream where I pulled frozen food items from the freezer, trying to make room to find how to open the back of the refridgerator and get to what was inside. I moved aside two rolls of bread and wasn't sure if they had been attached to me once.

I had this dream where I wanted to look myself in the eye, but I wasn't sure if there would be anything there, or what it would mean for me if there was. What if her face had begun to rot? What if the eyes were blank? What if they weren't? What if I saw bone?

I had this dream where I looked my own corpse in the eyes, standing in the refridgerator door surrounded by discarded food and crying because the eyes were dull but the head turned to face me.

I had this dream that my body pre-transition still existed. For some reason, I had left her suspended in the back of a refridgerator. I had this idea that she had half a brain in her head, and the other half had contained my true self; that half was in my head, even though I did have a full brain. I wasn't sure if it had been placed there and grown a new other half, or if it had been discarded and cloned to create me.

I had this dream that makes me wonder if I've left some part of me in a state of poor preservation — when I should be living and nurturing everyone that I am.

#the library

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In my creative writing class in high school I was always afraid to ask why all slam poets use the same cadence when they were performing and if that was required for our slam poetry project but I didn't do it and I still earned a good grade so I guess it was fine

#wiz.txt #if a slam poet could please clarify that would be much appreciated

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Here’s a thing that I hate that people misinterpret about The Little Mermaid: Ariel doesn’t leave her family for a man.

All her life she has been fascinated by human things by how the world above the surface is like and all of her life she has been deprived of that knowledge. It took her years to fill up her cave and even at the beginning of the story we meet her doing exactly what she loves which is exploring and discovering about a world that is not her own. Meeting Eric is not the reason she decides to give up her life as a mermaid to become human. Saving Eric and being fascinated by him is the catalyst to taking her life in her hands and going to the world she has always longed to see. It’s a coming of age story, she separates herself from her parent and becomes a new person, and her body changes so you know. She becomes an adult. It’s a journey of self-discovery.

I hope that makes sense.

#i am taking notes like i am in my favorite class

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“What is it that the child has to teach?

The child naively believes that everything should be fair and everyone should be honest, that only good should prevail, that everybody should have what they want and there should be no pain or sadness. The child believes the world should be perfect and is outraged to discover it is not.

And the child is right.”

— Rabbi Tzvi Freeman

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Da MAN!!

#yeah ^_^

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I'm begging other trans people to read an ounce of Black Feminist or Decolonialist Feminist writing. I'm on my hands and knees and begging you. I promise you, I promise you, there is so much more to Feminist theory than anything you have picked up from White/Radical/Pop/Liberal Feminism I promise you. Read There Is No Hierarchy Of Oppressions By Audre Lorde. I have a link to the PDF right here you can read it for free. Take my hand I can't do this alone (thanks glass beach). Peace And Love On Planet Earth.

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hello person who engages solely in fanon. your task is to explain this female characters personality to me without bringing up any of the other characters, calling her anything familial, calling her a girlboss, calling her wife material, or saying she's a slut. you have 20 minutes until the saw trap goes off. good luck

#every fandom wiki ever is like 'personality: she's beautiful and she's a mom' #thanks! 🙃

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hey did you know that uhh

i. the monster's body is a cultural body

ii. the monster always escapes

iii. the monster is the harbinger of category crisis

iv. the monster dwells at the gates of difference

v. the monster polices the borders of the possible

vi. fear of the monster is really a kind of desire

vii. the monster stands at the threshold… of becoming