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Musings of a Writer

@excitedandpirates / excitedandpirates.tumblr.com

Jack. 30-something. Queer NB disaster trying to keep it all together. Reader, Dresser, Dreamer, Writer, Roleplayer. Tea drinker, fanperson, and wandering Vermonter. | Chaotic Neutral | Threadmage | Winter Courtier |
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Pangur gets sooooo excited when I take naps. the thing she wants most in the whole entire world is to curl up on my arm & have me pull the duvet over her fat ferret body.

I immediately had to stop everything I was doing and sketch this absolute Creachure.

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b0nkcreat

i drew a horse from memory one like and i will reveal my beautiful boy to the world

my son philip he eats pencils and drinks paint

omg i did the same thing w a cow the other day .. i hope its ok that i introduced him maybe they can have a playdate. .?

oh my goodness gracious… yes of course

I think they should frolic together..

the world is so beautiful here

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Why we wear white on Yom Kippur (wrong answers only):

-As a fuck you to people who say you can't wear white after Labor Day

-Because it's the one day of the year we're not worried about getting food stains on our clothes

[Jews feel free to add to this list!]

  • camouflage to trick Gd into thinking we're all one individual, and thus Gd can't possibly remove us from the book of life
  • so we can celebrate the end of Yom Kippur by enganging in traditional kittel tie-dying
  • to make it more equitable for color blind people to participate in the holy day

- yom kipur clothing is actually super colorful, but you wash them in the tears you shed while doing teshuvah - the brighter the white the harder you repented

NOT THE PERFORMATIVE PASTELS LMAOOOO

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penrosesun
  • yom kippur clothing is actually super colorful, but they're secret shrimp colors and goyim lack the receptors to see them
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The whole “how the hell does this predatory creature get enough sustenance” thing that plagues fantasy and sci-fi occasionally gets so absurd it loops around into being funny, like the scene in Star Wars when the Millenium Falcon is flying through an asteroid field and gets swallowed by a worm.

I could complain about that, but I could also conclude that the supply of reckless space pilots flying into asteroid fields has been consistent enough for the past few million years for animals to evolve to prey upon them.

Who knows. Maybe there are enough adventuring parties roaming about the Forest of Doom to increase the available biomass at their trophic level in order to sustain tertiary consumers like giant spiderwolves...

“You’re going into the Catacombs? No one survives the Catacombs! Many an adventurer has tried!”

“Uh, how many have tried?”

“Enough to form an entire ecological niche for species specialized to prey upon them!”

“Oh. That, uhh, that is a lot.”

“Right? It’s pretty fascinating actually. I’m writing my thesis on it right now.”

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I know everyone says it’s best to just stick to “said” as a dialogue tag bc it disappears and that’s true and I mostly do but I want to take a moment for my all-time favorite dialogue tag, “lied.” Absolutely nothing hits like “‘I’m here to help,’ he lied.” NOTHING.

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unamccormack

ABSOLUTELY one of my favourites.

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it’s actually so funny how challenging it is to write bona fide graphic, horny smut. like people don’t give smut writers enough credit. you are constantly running out of words to describe the same 2-4 body parts and same 4-6 motions. you are constantly attempting to do interesting and dynamic things in the prose with this extremely limited set of words. you are looking at your prose for the nastier bits and wondering if it actually sounds hot or if it just sounds goofy. you are then toning down your prose and then wondering if it now sounds tasteful or if it’s just boring. you do ctrl+F for the word “cock” and there are 37 instances of it in the doc but you hate the 1-2 acceptable synonyms so there’s nothing much you can do about it

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You know what, fuck it, I don't *want* some frivolous, artisanal, lighter-than-air computer with no customizability, no upgradeability, no reparability, no ports, and a lifetime of *maybe* 3 years if you're lucky. I want a fucking great BEAST of a computer that's designed to last a minimum of 50 years, with ports up the wazoo and optional drives for every kind of media! I want modular components that you can drop in a bog for a year, dry them off, and have them still work fine! I want them to make a noise like "ker-chunk!" when you slide them into place! I want a switch that you pull to turn it on! And I don't want software that constantly forces you to get a pointless, cosmetic "upgrade" every few months either! I want durability! I want longevity! I want satisfying haptics! I want Silicon Valley to go fuck itself!

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