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a-bumbledbee

forkingandcottage

via @indiarosecrawford

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dflogerzi

First of all, this is genius and the sound must be on. I have a lot of comments. This was a LOT of work. Not just the animation... but the lovely and adorable handmade creatures themselves. The staging and gathering of the miniatures used, all of it. A labor of love. I am so happy to Reblog and I hope more enjoy it. Thank you so much for sharing, pretty much reset my day.

manawari

@zuppizup

zuppizup

This is so sweet 🥹

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hereidinathoreauwrites

eccleston

Does anybody else get legitimately worried when a fanfic author who was updating regularly just suddenly disappears with no warning? Like, is it a serious case of writers block or are they in a coma? Did they just up and quit? Was it me? Were my reviews not good enough?! Did they die 😳?! Were they kidnapped? Do I need to file a missing persons report? Excuse me officer, there’s been 13 weekly updates and now nothing for months! Find them! What’s their name?! Name!? I don’t know their name but they write 3k+ chapters and I need them safe and back in my life!

Sir, that’s my emotional support fanfic author.

drarrymylove

Officer: i’m sorry, but you can’t file this person missing.

Me: you don’t have all the facts.

Officer: which are?

Me: i love them.

phinarei

So, painful story, but I’ve really needed to tell it for a while.

My best friend, the woman I loved for 13 years, was a fic writer in the middle of an especially long piece. She updated on a schedule and had for years. She had a small, but loyal following.

And then she died out of nowhere. One day we were laughing, the next she was in a coma, 3 days later she was dead. She hadn’t been ill and to this day we don’t know what took her. She was just gone.

I knew she had friends all over the world so I went into her email to see if I could find addresses and notify people after a week of blind grief. In her inbox were about a dozen concerned messages from her readers. I cried. I cried and cried and I responded to all of them, telling people she had passed.

And the messages kept coming. Those people spread the word and message after message came in, most of them addressed to me now, as I had given those original readers my contact info. There were words of comfort and grief and just every emotion imaginable in that scenario. I wrote back to them all, thanking them and comforting them.

For months after she died, during the worst of my grief, I had those messages. I had those people. And they had me. I really think I might not have made it to the other side without them.

So, the fact that you care? That you think of them? That these authors who became a presence in your world are missed when they aren’t there? It means something very real. On the off chance that the author did die? Anyone who has seen this post will find comfort during the loss of their friend or family member, knowing that you all exist. That they aren’t alone. That you CARE that the world now lacks their loved one.

So, yeah. I’ve seen this post and ones like it for years and wanted to share this story. I finally could today.

Thank you, every person who reblogged this post. People like you are the biggest reason I’m alive today.

#For real though #There's people from here who just logged off or deleted and I have no way of every finding them again #But I hope they're doing okay #Especially NZ girl who had a thing with her boss #I loved talking to you!

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hieronymus-bush

rancidthing

#I had to experience this and so do you #Like the *visceral* sense I had of exactly what this would sound like #Still laughing

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stormqueen

datasoong47

“A collection of common glyphs of the poorly understood Memeorite civilization of the Second Silicon Age. Memeorite glyphs possess multiple conflicting interpretations and a complexity of meaning impossible to capture in a few short words. These are rough translations only.”

Source: https://twitter.com/beach_fox/status/1325668490431246336 (which include more “memeorite glyphs”

lazorsandparadox

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catscoffeeandmisanthropy

werewolf-transgenderism

i am LOSING IT over these photographs…… this is what cameras are for

[video description: a series of short process videos showing a photographer setting up little creatures made of acorns and sticks in various natural environments, designed to interact with the animals in the landscape either by placing them in areas animals frequent or placing birdseed or other lures that draw animals to sit on or near the creatures. each process video is followed by a photograph of the little acorn creature interacting with birds, butterflies, and chipmunks. each acorn creature has a joyful or surprised expression on its face. in the bottom right corner of the screen is a watermark reading “www.davidmbird.com” /end description]