there is no lesson in magic

my adblocker prevented the nyt from loading the paywall banner so all i got was this

3 weeks sober, rehab is doing my nut in it's so hard to choose to be autistic everyday lmao

4 weeks sober! Life is good I love being alive. Record since being 18 is 13 days :0 lots of challenging memories and emotions emerging. Learning how to cope and stuff. Crazy! Going to give my step 1 on Wednesday :D all the examples of powerlessness, unmanageability, denial, reservations, blaming and resentments, surrendering to the fact tuat i have addiction diseazzzz

Your pupils contract in response to visible light, but not all of the sun’s light is visible. During an eclipse, your pupils widen because it’s dark, but there’s an outer layer around the sun that mostly only puts out light that’s not visible to us, but that can still damage your retinas. Thus, looking at an eclipse makes your pupils open up like it’s dark, which lets more of the invisible damage beams in.

The sun doesn’t get a critical multiplier on its damage when HP is low. Equipping the moon gives the sun a bonus to backstab.

Catholicism

Well ???

this pos motherfucker

it's not gay you guys they are making a biblical reference to the kiss of judas ok there's nothing gay about this

controversial trench coat man

slug is here

Some advice for when you’re writing and find yourself stuck in the middle of a scene:

Never delete. Never read what you’ve already written. Pass Go, collect your $200, and keep going.

This is the literal best writing advice I have ever read. Period.

Special note: “Kill someone” means kill someone in the story. Please do not kill random real life passers by every time you hit a block. My lawyer says misunderstanding writing advice is not an acceptable defense. See you all in 25 to 50 years.

Help I read the first line as “kill yourself” and then was really surprised when the rest of the points were actually reasonable tips

Should’ve clarified the first point sooner. I’ve gone out and killed a person. Their body is now decomposing under my bed what do I do.

And what are your views on Civil Rights?

Jet Magazine, 1966

Ok, genius fuckin cartooning here.

In most one/two colour printing, usually the blank white page is the “default” skin tone, which makes everyone you draw white until additional pigment is added. That means every time you draw a person of colour and shade them in, you’re making them look out of place and an addition in the environment (if you look at Schultz’ work you can see how his inking/ printing processes weren’t ideal for drawing Franklin… even though drawing Franklin was a radical act). SO… shading the white man with an additional ink colour subverts that. It creates this feeling that HE is the one who stands out, and that this Black barber is the one who truly belongs in the environment.

Cartooning!!!!!!!!!!

“Umm it’s really obvious you have a fetish for fat people” okay i think that’s fine actually. I would prefer to be open about being attracted to fat people rather than tell other people not to be so openly attracted to fatness, something which people do to me with a strange amount of frequency

And now please kill the idea in your head that fetishes and kinks are always malicious and bad and could never be deep and profound and mutual and affectionate

it’s interesting bc i don’t think i’ve ever seen anyone say “this is clearly a fetish” to someone who is only attracted to thin ppl. weird.

abandoned space elevator

Accurate recreation of me when I said "Oh wow thats a pretty picture I wonder where they took it at" and then scrolled down to see the tag #pixel art

some of you never experienced the “this isn’t available in your country” situation and it shows

Ahmed Masoud, 17 February 2024: "My people in Jabalia Camp in the North of Gaza demonstrating today against the deliberate Israeli policy of starvation. Some of the signs say: we have eaten animal food, there is nothing left to eat."