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Hey everybody- My name's Melissa. I tag my posts so you can always block what annoys you. Feel free to say hi:)
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learning that apparently several hundred people have been pronouncing 'miette' as 'mighty' has actively worsened my day
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u know someone’s about to get dragged through the mud when an academic uses the phrase ‘it’s tempting to assume’
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When I was younger, I wish someone had told me straight-up that not all adults experience “a calling”. That many of them never find particular purpose in a career. That sometimes, their job is just what pays the bills and they have to seek satisfaction and fulfillment elsewhere.
Because as an adult, this pervasive notion that there exists a perfect path for everyone, that people should love what they do, and that work is meant to function as a vehicle for fulfilling a person’s grand life destiny is not only inaccurate for many of us, it can be toxic.
The ideal is so ingrained that I have to remind myself constantly I’m not a failure because I don’t adore my job, and because I’m not rocking the world with my work. That is okay.
Sometimes, work is just work. There isn’t always a perfect career path, magically waiting to be discovered. There might not be this THING you were born to do. Sometimes, you discover that what you really want to be when you grow up is “paid”.
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hipness purgatory
indie sleaze
global village coffeehouse
supergraphic ultramodern
memphis-milano
internet awesomesauce
pacific punk wave
utopian scholastic
frasurbane
curly girly
pastel southwestern
mission school
#incredible poll#personally hipster purgatory elicits such a visceral reaction that I had to choose it
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I am a chronic turn signaller. People will be like “there’s no cars around.” Wrong, I’m
1. letting pedestrians know.
2. I’m doing this in case I missed a car or person somewhere, or
2b. I’m gonna be stuck at this intersection til a car or person shows up
3. It makes it a habit
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Bonus internet points will be awarded to anyone who actually tries this exercise before voting.
Assume you need to get the spelling at least somewhat close, and if a character has multiple names, only one counts. Also, if a character doesn't have a canonical name, I'm sorry, but "that guy's wife" doesn't count.
For reference, if you can name the 9 members of the Fellowship, the eponymous Hobbit and his 13 dwarf buddies, 3 prominent women, and the guy who runs the Rivendell B&B, that's 27 characters right there. And you probably also know the name of a dragon.
For further reference, Tolkien Gateway has 637 (!!) pages dedicated to Third Age characters. (Don't click that link until you've voted, of course)
Edit: Your humble pollmaker gave this a try, and got as far as 73 before deciding she was too tired to keep trying to remember dwarf and Silm names. If you also want to share (and don't mind people being incredulous at your having forgot ____), pastebin allows you to paste text and share it for free. :)
#I got to 60 easily then to 77 with a bit more effort#then I decided I was too tired to think of any more😂#poll is closed tho
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The super bowl or whatever I'm not american
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Keith Haring painting a mural at Horn Elementary School in Iowa City on May 22, 1989.
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Take your right wing lonerism and fcuk off.
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"Old Town Square at Night" by Józef Pankiewicz (1892) vs the same place on November 28th 2023 (Warsaw)
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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”
— Isaac Asimov, Newsweek, 21 January 1980
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10 years of Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Dir. Anthony & Joe Russo
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