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The optometrist prescribed blue light blockers on my glasses to reduce eye strain while I'm working at the computer.

Two problems:
1. the yellow-green tinge they give the world is is ugly as hell
2. I DON'T WEAR MY GLASSES WHEN LOOKING AT THE SCREEN!

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I'm procrastinating on doing my PT by applying for jobs.

(gold star of adultiness)

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Person who read a lot of pop-psych: Humans need novelty! They need change!

Me: Just changed my phone background for the first time in ten years, switching out one sparkly unicorn for a different sparkly unicorn.

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Me: Based on the unusual positioning of legs in this drawing of a unicorn, I have to assume it's a Paso Fino doing the breed's characteristic ambling gait.

Brain: It's a magic unicorn with shining white eyes and you're worried about the gait being weird?

Me: Yup.

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Heck yeah my wrist is healing. Soon I will be able to cartwheel down the hallway singing folk tunes.

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She wanted him

because

in the scars on his skin

she saw a kindred spirit

And he wanted her

because

in her smooth complexion

he saw the life

he never got to live

Their affair burned

and

they parted

more scarred

than before

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This place is not a place of honor

But I am not an honorable person

No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here

But I am not esteemed either

Nothing valued is here

And neither am I valued

What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us

As I am to those around me

This message is a warning about danger

I have seen many of those

The danger is in a particular location

They are about me, the messages

It increases toward a center

I am dangerous, they tell me

The center of danger is here

It is in me, so they say

Of a particular size and shape

Whom have I harmed? What have I done

And below us

to deserve this?

The danger is still present

Monster, they call me

in your time

And so it will be

as it was in ours

I will be the monster they believe I am

The danger is to the body

But tell me-

and it can kill

-who is the monster?

The form of the danger is an emanation of energy

The one who lives in peace?

The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb the place physically

Or the one who cries “monster” when faced with the unknown?

This place is best shunned and left uninhabited

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She found every one of the shapeshifter’s forms beautiful.

Finally, after years together, he showed her his true form.

It was the most beautiful of them all.

She wondered who had taught him otherwise.

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I write what I know: broken people making the best of the bad hand life dealt them.

Sure, sometimes these broken people are millennia-old demigods or werecat survivors of the apocalypse or pirate spies in an underwater kingdom, but how is that relevant to anything?

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Every song on Circus of Doom by Battle Beast is like... #BigMood.

Hell if I knew what any of these moods are. But they're big.

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"Eyes are the windows to the soul" vs "an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind" - discuss.

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There's a liminal space a block from my grandma's apartment, a corner store painted a cheery yellow. It's split in two, a separate door for each half: the room on the left sells dairy, bread, and juice, while the one on the right sells meats, candy, and alcohol.

It has always been there. No one knows when it was built or who owns it. It is simply there, a fact of life. The sun rises in the east, October brings snow, and the yellow corner store is open 7AM-9PM and always has what you're looking for.

The women staffing it have no names, no distinctive features. They do not eat or drink, do not have feelings. They may as well be twins, or perhaps the same person: chestnut brown hair in a bun tucked under the navy and white cap, eyes of a color that has no human name, and lips of the perfect rose color that makes you wonder if it's subtle lipstick or simply a perfect mouth. We don't know how long they've been working there, if they have been there from the start or if they get carefully switched out every few years.

You will not find the place listed in any directory or on any map. It has no address. It is merely there. It has always been, and will always be. It is eternal.

Do be sure to check out their ice cream selection.