My Top Ten Rains

“Rain is a very special blessing,” my mother says. Even when I was little, she’d already been saying it to my sister and me for as long as I could remember. Just as my grandmother had said it to her, when my mother was not my mother but only herself, in the dry Texas summers of her own childhood. Eons ago and continents away, as children reckon these things.

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Horror Roguelike TTRPG Deckbuilding Escape Room Mystery Is a Genre Now

No, really:

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Passenger

Sometimes I wonder if other drivers on the road ever see this, and if so, what they make of it:

A tote bag containing a laptop and various papers, safely buckled into the front passenger seat of a car.

(I don’t like putting it in the back because I sometimes need to get stuff out of it while I’m driving, but I also don’t want it to spill out onto the floor if I have to make a sudden stop.)

(And yes, that’s an Undertale tote bag.)

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No Hard Feelings, Right, Tumblr?

I really do love Tumblr, and this is pretty much why:

(From a response to a writing prompt about an EMT necromancer)

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In Case You Were Wondering

I don’t know how many of you have looked at my Music page, but if you have you may be wondering why I haven’t updated my “currently listening” playlist in a while.

Did I forget about it? Have I been too busy?

Nope! The reason I haven’t updated it is because I’ve just been listening to the same thing over and over again for the last three weeks.

(The Deltarune soundtrack, if you’re curious. The OST for chapters 3 + 4 is particularly good!)

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Are Shoes With Toes Worth It?

Content note: pictures of shoes with toes

TLDR: Yes, but you can get 90% of the benefit with shoes that look perfectly normal.

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Brisk

It got very cold here last week…

❄️

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Why Do They Call It Tumblr, It’s All Just Deltarune Fanart

Huh? What do you mean, there’s other sections besides “More posts like this” and “For you”??

(Just kidding, Tumblr. You know I love all of you!)

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AI: Auto-Incorrect

Me: “…AI-assisted coding…”

Autocorrect: “…AI-assisted cuddling…”

Me: …

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Help, I’ve Reddit and I Can’t Get Up

I knew Reddit was a bad idea. Why did I start scrolling? Why did I even open the app??

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Judge Orders Feds: Don’t Break the F*ck*ng Law

Are we all awake now?

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