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$20 says it gets sold to private equity.

It is incredibly important to train yourself to have your first instinct be to look something up.

Don't know how to do something? Look it up.

See a piece of news mentioned on social media? Look it up.

Not sure if something is making it to the broader public consciousness, either because you don't see it much or you see people saying nobody is talking about it? Look it up.

Don't know what a word means? Look it up.

It will make you a better reader and a better writer, but it will also just make you more equipped to cope with the world.

So often, I see people talking about something as though it is the first time anyone has ever acknowledged it, when I've been reading reports about it on the news for months or years. Or I see someone totally misinterpreting an argument because they clearly don't know what a word means--or, on the other hand, making an argument that doesn't make sense because they aren't using words the right way.

Look things up! Check the news (the real news, not random people on social media)! Do your research! You (and the world) will be better for it.

Yes!

You have the whole internet in your pocket!!

When I was a kid, we had an encyclopedia in the house. And it was a normal dinnertime occurance to say, well, let's look it up.

But it was frustrating, because there were so many limitations.

But you have! the whole! INTERNET! in your pocket! ALL the TIME!

look that shit up

Look up ALL the things. 👍

So Alec is definitely getting wings In this fic and let me tell you, when Jonathon and Valentine eventually find out neither are going to be normal about this and neither were normal to begin with.

Magnus is just having a great time learning how to preen Alec’s feathers and Alec is basically ‘Done™️’ with everything but Magnus

I mentioned the hawk hood metaphor and one of the ways Alec acclimates to his new wings is being blindfolded and sometimes with his wrists tied behind his back to figure out balance and direction better.

Sometimes he’ll also have his hearing blocked and have to rely completely on sense perception. He has no time to gently adjust he’s thrown into a gauntlet because two extra limbs are a danger if he doesn’t adapt.

Magnus can be pretty brutal in training since it’s to ensure Alec’s survival and then he takes him home and pampers him better.

Magnus is honestly more interested in Alec’s wings than Alec is at this point and starts color coordinating things to match Alec’s wing color.

<3 thanks for help with the poll

🪼 lumine

look at the bottom right

Why would an evil dragon make 3d models of trains?

amtrak-official I am so sorry but that's a train dildo

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Why would someone make that

Seems they were hoping to get railed

This post and its notes are just a cornucopia of terrible puns

This is like one of those art house horror movies with symbolism I don’t understand except I understand what this is trying to convey perfectly holy crap

Same energy 

nominee for best tiktok of 2020 holy shit i got chills

This was originally about the inital phase of the pandemic and lockdowns but honestly? This is the exact mood I’m feeling right now watching the US descend into fascism

Queen of the Dead part 2, 63

For the pose in the second panel I have used the Artemision Bronze, a sculpture that is thought to represent either Zeus or Poseidon, dated to c. 460 BCE.

yasminemei

Flower Crown - Hair at Reem Acra Fall-Winter 2015 bridal collection

REPHANIMATED WON THE COPYRIGHT BATTLE

BE FREE. WATCH TO YOUR HEART’S CONTENT

Evening Dress

c. 1908-1913

The National Museum of Norway

seeing straight men be disgusted by booktok smut recommenders has actually radicalized me to the side of booktok smut recommenders. girls your taste may be atrocious but i will never disparage you for exposing mainstream discourse to the concept of soaking through your underwear. spent my whole life listening to men talk about penises it’s about time they get jumpscared by women talking about pussy in crude detail on social media. go forth and goon my warriors

I work at a bookstore and hearing one of my male coworkers call smutty romantasy "the downfall of society" because it's "literally just porn" radicalized me

Men have an entire industry. Entire industries dedicated to their sexualities. Let women have fantasy sex. there's not even a camera crew involved.

Left this in the notes

late Dannyversary drawing for all of you 💚

happy 21st anniversary

sex isn't sexy unless it's a little bit gross. have you forgotten that you are a divine ape? plastic smooth skin, plucked hair, painted faces, scripted reactions, scrubbed til only the smell of perfumed soap remains, proportions that are conflictingly cookiecutter yet unattainable, none of this is even a little bit interesting.

you can laugh at napoleon's "home in three days, don't bathe" letter to his wife, but there's more sexuality in that one line then there is in the entirety of the hypersexualized but painfully unsexy internet.

What are your thoughts on musk?

i hope he dies