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Here's a fun typography fact for you: Old English and Middle English had a single character for the "th" sound, called thorn. It looked like Þ in the capital; the lowercase is þ.

(If you crossed the upper bar, like so: Ꝥ ꝥ , it was shorthand for "that". "I like ꝥ kitten.")

Thorn largely died out when printing presses were imported to England. Because the typefaces were from Germany or Italy, they didn't have thorn. So they replaced it with a letter ꝥ rarely occurred in the same place þ did: Y.

I read this in a novel and it was so immediately and obviously correct.

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btw, there's a huge and very old dragon that lives in Puget Sound :)

alcohol, food 

I just finished sipping a glass of nice scotch and then immediately poured myself a bowl of lucky charms and I feel like this says something about me.

hey what do you call a ceramic vixen oc 

potsfurry

Gorons look like they would give killer hugs

Trailer for RP1 was showing off its Impossibly Cool Club with Cool People in the not-metaverse and I'm like heck, who needs vr, half my friends already look at least that cool irl.

Whedon is this weird case where the texts can read really differently depending on what you think of his personal character.

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Wish I could re-find that essay about how Whedon writes creepy guys as a recapitulation of his directorial voyeurism towards women.

Heck in Cabin in the Woods it's not even subtext.

Has anyone else had the experience of hearing someone start to tell a joke and it being really obvious they're trying to repeat a stand-up bit, only worse?

Has anyone else had the experience of hearing someone start to tell a joke and it being really obvious they're trying to repeat a stand-up bit, only worse?

MEDS TIP:

Taking an expensive-ass non-generic medication? Search "<med> copay assistance" and there's decent odds the drug company has coupons you can get just by filling out some basic info.

I just saved a *shocking* amount of money on my bipolar meds this way.

"Do I believe in god? Fuck man, I believe in gods you've never even heard of!"

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