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[Image: Tweet by Sage ( @sagescrittore ): last night Ursula K. Le Guin visited my dreams and I said to her "Queerness is a long thread of hurt" and she answered "Now what will you mend with that thread?" and it rocked me so hard I woke up crying. End ID.]

Today Kaladin went for his first hike, hiked a whole quarter mile on his own paws, explored a creek for the first time (got wet and didn't mind), went on his first train ride, met two dogs, and tried SO hard to climb a tree (not permitted by his humans)

5 star hiking day

Also this backpack met with his approval AND ours which is nice bc usually I feel like a cat backpack does one or the other

) <- super parenthesis. reblog to close all parentheticals you opened and forgot to close in your life and return to equilibrium

Raise your hand if you’ve ever felt personally victimised by lesbian yearning.

I don't think I've ever been angrier about a call in my life. We're not gonna win the game anyway, but it was a crosscheck to the FACE. I mean COME ON.

I'm still mad af that Mueller is in the box, but thank you. Boyd, you and your biceps can go. Thank you for your service.

I've been assigned (assumed) defense by my figure skating instructor, on the grounds that I have great edge control (I thought that's just how you turn but go off) and know how to skate backwards (yes but only if I'm paying attention to something else) but have next to zero confidence (accurate but potentially an insult to actual hockey players who play defense)

by the end of class I was appointed "captain of vibes" for learning everyone's names and dramatically falling down on purpose whenever anyone else fell so that nobody would feel embarrassed

unclear how I did not get kicked out of figure skating class but 5 star experience can't wait for next week

I should mention that I signed up for the lvl 2 class with a full *check's calendar* six weeks of skating experience, solely based on the fact that I recognized the names of all the skills in the lvl 1 class from the time I did 3mo of figure skating in the 5th grade and under the assumption I could just reteach myself those skills with YouTube

This was mostly true, but what YouTube could not give me was 1) the improved balance inherent to having recently spent 12 weeks in a figure skating class and 2) any idea how to correctly perform any kind of stop

So here I am in my hockey pants and my brand new skates and a hoodie, grinning like it's my birthday bc I am just SO excited to learn, and I have to explain to this poor instructor that I understand the drills but don't actually know how to plow stop when we get to the blue line (while maintaining the ruse that I totally took lvl 1 somewhere else a few years back). The instructor gives me a once over and says, a hockey stop is fine too.

Ma'am. I am so flattered that after watching me skate a few laps you still somehow think I know how to hockey stop but I do not, unless by "hockey stop" you mean "run into another hockey player, robbing us both abruptly of momentum and hopefully not sending us both sprawling" which I imagine they would prefer I did not to in figure skating class

To my great relief a handful of other students immediately admitted to also not knowing the plow stop and we went over it, but gentle reader, the incredulity on this woman's face that I was somehow skating around and PLAYING HOCKEY without knowing how to perform any kind of stop was incredible.

Cory Booker has been talking in the senate for over 20 hours now

He’s not filibustering. He’s protesting the current administration.

For those of you from outside the US or those of you who didn’t pay attention in government class, in the US senate there’s really no limit to the amount of time a senator can speak. So sometimes if they don’t want a bill to pass they just. Don’t stop talking. To hopefully get past the deadline to vote on a bill. This is called filibustering.

Senator Cory Booker isn’t doing that. He’s disrupting “the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able”. Just in protest. This doesn’t usually happen.