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you’re only ever one good fic from getting into a trope/ship you said you’d never be into

A great blue heron looking straight at the camera

Ok #birds feed. You ready for this one?

Are ya?

Can you wait for it?

Stop scrolling.

STRAIGHT ON GREAT BLUE HERON COMIN RIGHT AT YOUR FEED!

Pics I took in my last 3 trips that I'm very proud of ✨

I enjoy the antics of those magic nuns on Dune, the Betty Gesundheits or what have you. When they do the bullfrog voice and make a guy stab himself? Great stuff! Fun buncha gals. Knock ‘em dead ladies.

Señora, si su hija sufre y llora, es porque es venezolana. No hay absolutamente ninguna otra razón.

An image of the two screens of the PS1 startup. Text has been edited to read "Holy shit, this bios is 30 years old. I am so old. You probably are too. You have my deepest sympathies. Play some PS1. I hear it helps".

Realised it was the PS1's 30th anniversary in like two weeks, and it did me immense psychic damage.

Just my 2 cents. But my goal is to ignore the trolls. Give them zero attention. Block them if they annoy me.

I think the worst thing we can do on this site is re-create the ad hominem/ personal attacks that occur across comments on Twitter/insta/tiktok/ etc

These are my step children, whom I love dearly

Derek, after a song in Bob's burgers
&
Xedo, because he's a tuXedo

Me pone triste tener que empezar de cero en una nueva red social y tener que contar todo mi lore

gosh it is so nice to see so many of you over here! i used to really enjoy talking about writing craft, speculative fiction, asian american + sinophone literature over at that other place. we're back!

im on every app. im in your city, in your neighborhood. the sales associate who handed you a large when you asked for a medium? that was me. i am now behind you.

Never forget: READING FOR PLEASURE has the biggest positive impact of any factor on children's life chances. So never stop sharing books with kids. Never stop reading to them, and helping them to read. Never stop changing lives. #literacy #kidlit #books

Chicago Riverwalk

a white cat standing on a bookshelf, surrounded by books

look at this bookworm

The backstory to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein puts unrealistic expectations on how much work you can accomplish in a vacation house.

A picture of a sunset

Not quite a blue sky, but very pretty

If anyone’s looking for alternatives to GoodReads, I highly recommend StoryGraph. It’s owned by a black woman, and the platform is so much more accessible and easy to use.

An example of Acción Ortográfica Quito doing the Lord's work (graffiti on a wall corrected with red spray paint)

Many commentators say that vigilante groups are never the answer. But they clearly don't know about the masked Ecuadorian trio named “Acción Ortográfica Quito,” who roam the streets at night with a singular purpose: to correct all the spelling and grammar mistakes they find in graffiti.

a major problem with bluesky is that i can offhandedly remark "i hate drawing, its too hard" and then a sweet old lady will gently encourage me and kindly point me to some useful resources to get started drawing and i dont know what to do with myself