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A Denial in Belgravia

@lady-anthea / lady-anthea.tumblr.com

my remaining days are numbered; a brief night / / Andrea, 31 yo Mexican mess, still an adlocker
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Holding myself accountable

The following text is part of an Adlock story that has been in the works at least since 2015. As I am not a prodigal author, the Word file has rested unopened for ages, even though every now and then comes into my mind. Today, for the first time in forever, I wrote new words into it.

Hopefully some of you will find this tidbit interesting. In any case, I hope posting this helps me to keep this WIP within my focus. Some parts I've shared previously as quotes, but will be probably different from the final fic as one of the main ideas behind it has changed. Apologies in advance as is (mostly) unedited.

So, here it is.

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“She began to understand why lovers baby talk to one another. There was no other socially acceptable circumstance in which the children inside her were permitted to come out. If the one-year-old, the five-year-old, the twelve-year-old, and the twenty-year-old all find compatible personalities in the beloved, there is a real chance to keep all of those sub-personas happy. Love ends their long loneliness. Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.”

–Carl Sagan, ”Contact”, 1985

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froody

just wanted a visual demonstration since I was talking about how much I love them

Mules are like horses with the self destruct button removed

...do you mean the 'self preservation instinct' removed????

No, absolutely not. It’s the opposite. Mules will straight up refuse to do things if they don’t have the confidence that they can complete it. This is where the term “stubborn as a mule” comes from. A horse would attempt these feats and break its weak little ankles and roll over and kill its rider. Mules do this because they know they can. That’s also why mules and donkeys are used as mounts around the Grand Canyon, they’re both sure-footed and stubborn and will refuse to do things that put them and the rider in danger when a horse would listen to the call of the void and just do it. Donkeys are less domesticated than mules, less dependent on humans and more self-assured, this is why they can be harder to train but also why they have such great self-preservation skills. A mule inherits those traits from its father.

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j-liz

I was expecting a compilation of a mule tearing a new one into some form of predator or canid because they just hate anything that looks close to a dog, but this is acceptable.

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xmagnet-o

Why is this turning me on?

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xenocorner

Multiverse of madness inspired thing I did around two weeks ago when I should've been doing homework lmao I couldn't polish the hair and clothes as much as I wanted because of time, but I really wanted to finish this as a wallpaper for my phone, and I liked the result enough. Plus working on the glass of the background was pretty fun :D

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doccywhomst

hey remember when pop-ups and banner ads were associated with malware? when youtube didn't have any ads at all? when you could get a cheap netflix subscription that was better than cable TV? digital marketing experts estimate that most americans see 5-10k ads every day. what the hell is going on

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