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What do you say to dogs in other languages?
Like, obviously, you can say whatever you want to dogs, that's part of their charm, but specifically what you say to a dog in English is "Good dog!"
What do you say in other languages?
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Down-side to helping someone clean out their hoarder-mother's house: everything, despair, you'll never be clean again, removing your skin unfeasible, tightness of breath due to either allergies, chemical poisoning, or the aforementioned crushing despair.
Up-side: opportunity to call yourself the trash queen from atop your trash throne
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Author Judith Tarr is struggling to feed her horses, and has set up a Patreon, and a horse-sponsorship program. I'm not really in a position to sponsor a horse, so I wanted to point to her books being sold through bookview, which have reverted to her ( Read more... ) -
UI and technical AO3 questions
Some of these I expect will have answers like "Because it would be too much work," and some of them will probably have answers like: "no" but I'm putting them out there anyway.
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Hey, is there a way to buy a WisCon membership on spec, and relinquish it if you can't make it w/out being a jerk?
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Things on tumblr
I went on a tear on tumblr about common tropes vs. me and soulmates vs. me
Alternately, go see Sashayed's mental breakdown over a a jewellery commercial.
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I wanted to call attention to two Martha Wells ebooks briefly available for $1.99 US; I have read and can recommend both.
Wheel of the Infinite: ass-kicking middle-aged retired abess from a civilization much like the medieval Khmer Empire must solve a murder that she committed ten years ago, with the help of her pretty barbarian boy-toy. (The ( Read more... ) -
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It's kind of weird that Charlie Jane Anders won a/b/o forever in Lightspeed in 2008 and I'm learning of this now.
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I assume most of us go through cycles of "UGH FANDOM IS THE WORST" and "Okay, this justifies everything you've put me through. You live another day."
So, anyway, Our Skin, Our Bones, Our Silent Poems is a Teen Wolf story, and a Stiles/Peter story, so I assume I've already caused most of you to stop reading, but it's also a story where Peter is ( Read more... )