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(pictured above: mango smoothie and blueberry muffin)

Everything tastes better when it’s free!

I’m so glad I looked up birthday promotions a couple weeks ago. (Especially since you have to sign up for these a week in advance, presumably to encourage people to give their *actual* birthdays and not just whatever the current day is.)

(I mean, I had to subscribe to their respective newsletters, but I have a dedicated email address specifically for receiving newsletters from people who might give me free stuff, so no big deal. And both stores were on the way to the Chinese takeout place, so the fuel cost was negligible.)

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#adventures in human capitalism #birthday #oh look an original post #food

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Oh god, I’m seriously tempted to get into a fight with these smug idiots.

Somebody please stop me.

(*chants* “they’re the ones with all the power here, you can tell by how strenuously they insist that they’re powerless, they will beat you to an even bloodier pulp than they’ve already done and walk away without a scratch no matter *what* you do to them”)

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#just once I want somebody to look at me the way that I look at them #with paralytic terror #just once I want to win a fight #just once I want someone to grovel at my feet and beg me to stop hurting them #too broken even to fight back #I want the interactions I always have sooner or later with everyone #but I want to be on the *other* side of it this time #I’ll even be merciful enough to let them grovel openly rather than couching it in euphemisms #that’s more mercy than they show me #venting #vagueblogging #our roads may be golden or broken or lost #abuse cw #oh look an original post

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justice-turtle:

I’m going to bite somebody, I really am. What is wrong with you, 1930s Newbery writers? :P

I’m guessing your problem with this is to do with the whole ~democracy~ and ~ideals and manners~ stuff (and fair enough), but for me the problem that stands out most is:

“Instead of dwelling upon the familiar details of the story, this treatment of the legend”

I look at that, and I think:

‘And *that’s* why I had to learn nursery stories by taking several parodies and riffs of each one and noting the similarities between them. Nobody ever ““dwells upon the familiar details””, *everyone* assumes you already know and expects you to keep up.‘

You would think *children’s* media, of all things, would understand that there’s a first time for everything. If fucking *children’s books* aren’t a 101 space, what *is*?

(It may be relevant that I had to look up William Tell on Wikipedia just now. At least Wikipedia is willing to provide basic background knowledge. I guess *they’re* the 101 space for legends.)

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#reply via reblog #my childhood #(I know I used italics here) #(but I also put single quotes around it as a fallback measure)

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pencil-monkey:

Terry Pratchett’s books usually include a cornucopia* of puns, which is part of the attraction of reading them. However, these puns often depend on the intricacies of the English language, making them damn near impossible to translate into other languages.

This makes it all the more surprising (and gratifying) to discover that the French translation of the Discworld novel Hogfather includes a delightful additional linguistic pun, involving Mr. Teatime’s name – one that only works in French, no less.

*Given that they’re both corny and copious.

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#Discworld #puns

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idletoyesterday:

 

veggielezzyfemmie:

It’s even cooler when you stand back and squint your eyes.

 

thefrozenrose:

Or take your glasses off

 

malevittus:

or take your glasses off

 

ilovesuperwholockstuck:

NO SERIOUSLY I TOOK MY GLASSES OFF AND OMFG IT WORKED THAT WAS AMAZING

 

i-am-a-lonely-painter:

It looks like he is wearing sunglasses.

 

fabulousandwich:

van legogh

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#art #neat #(can confirm either of taking-glasses-off or squinting will work)

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silkarth:

marshmellowtea:

high-metafive:

so i made and account on tv tropes and it asked for my relationship status

i went over and was about to put in “single” or “it’s complicated” and, well..

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i can’t deal anymore

this is beautiful

Amazing.

Also, that youtube link at the bottom is exactly what you think it is.

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#long post #oh my god #rickrolling #(I did check) #(and when I got most of the way through typing out the video ID) #(”Never Gonna Give You Up” popped up in the URL-history section) #(apparently I’ve listened to that exact video of it before) #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #(don’t get me wrong a lot of the other ones are amusing too) #there is probably some warning tag I should put on this but I am not sure what

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While I do *have* an internal time sense, said sense tends to believe external cues over its own lying eyes.

The upside is, when springing forward I’ve usually adjusted by the end of the first day, and almost always by the end of the second. All I have to do is look at clocks a lot and follow my routine at least somewhat aggressively.

The downside is, every year at falling back I try to shift my sleep schedule back with it, and it never works.

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#slept 12:30 – 9:30 last night #which is more or less what time I slept a week ago #there was a while there where I was sleeping 12 – 9 and I liked that better #I thought using DST to help would make it easier to go back to that #but no if I’m going to do that it’ll have to be the hard way #(although 12:30 – 9:30 isn’t *all* that bad) #oh look an original post #Daylight Savings Time #(I don’t know how helpful my internal-clock malleability is for non-DST jet lag) #(because I have never left my time zone) #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see #(sort of)