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In case anyone hasn't heard, the cyclospora outbreak affecting tons of people in the US right now is coming from Taylor Farms produce. Best to stay away from bagged lettuce and prepared salads completely right now, but especially the ones mentioned in the screenshot:

Taylor Farms Earthbound Farms Little Salad Bar (Aldi) Marketside (Walmart) Kroger House Brand Target private label greens Costco salads and greens etc Trader Joe's chopped salad kits and fresh produce Fast food: McDonalds, Taco Bell, (Yum! Brands), Chipotle, Subway, Pizza Hut, KFC, Olive Garden, Top Golf, Red Lobster, Burger King, etc.

This is not the first time I've heard about a Taylor Farms foodborne illness outbreak. I stopped eating their salads after reading a description of the conditions in their facilities. Doesn't sound like they've improved anything.

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Much Ado About Nothing - Text Posts (viii)

This is the story of Mira, a dying kitten I rescued. I have started a GoFundMe to help pay for her medical bills as I am in a rough place financially. Her full story is posted on the GoFundMe.

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Thank you for taking the time to read my little comic~ have a lovely day! ✨

With the right bit, it can be. The Straight Man and Wise Guy is a classic comedy duo. It's just that when you have a crowd of 15 Wise Guys surrounding a Straight Man, it doesn't work as well.

The Straight Man is supposed to set the tone for how the audience perceives the Wise Guy. He's supposed to be the normal baseline. But when he's outnumbered like that, the Wise Guys become the normal baseline. It's the Straight Man who ends up standing out as weird and abnormal for being such a boring killjoy.

If there is one wacky person in the room, having a normal guy go "Uhhhhh what," reinforces how weird and wacky the one wacky person is. But in a room full of wacky people, the one normal guy rolling his eyes at everything that everybody says or does just ends up being irritating.

Something I wish I could drill into the heads of every writer is this: Because your protagonist is a character we are going to spend 95% of the story with, they should be the kind of character we would want to spend 95% of the story with.

Like, a *lot*. 

So wrong.

So often. 

See, all genies will, to some extent, screw with wishes. It’s their nature. With some of them, if you wish for ‘a horse’, they give you a heavily insured and very identifiable race-horse and watch the catastrophe unfold. Others will just  mess with the wish a little bit, say, by giving you a foal instead of a currently rideable horse or something. But everyone knows they need to be careful with their wording, these days, so it’s not usually too bad. (Unless you violate the three rules. Wish to raise the dead, to kill someone, or to make someone fall in love with you, and they will get *very* unpleasant.) 

But Jimmy… he meant well. He really did. 

"People back then always married young it's natural!!!" Every single 1800s guide I've ever met casually mentions that, of course, you really shouldn't get married before you're at least 20, and waiting until 25 is usually better.

Or, like. Okay here's a long segment:

Just firmly going "it is crazy sexist to blame The Wife for overspending when thirty seconds of asking questions will immediately establish that her husband was outright lying to her about how much money they had. Talk to your wife like a normal person."

Or--okay, here. A section on being honest and not writing love letters in secret, because that's usually a good sign that there's something untoward going on....

....except that he then immediately acknowledges that sometimes, the reason you're hiding this from your parents is that your parents suck. That there are parents who frankly have not earned the right to approve or disapprove of your partner.

"Men and women being friends with each other is literally normal. Don't be a controlling freak."

"If you have to abuse a child to keep order in your classroom then you're a bad teacher."

(under cut because spoilers and sometimes the fun is whatever the new title is so)

Hey Now (Hey Now) - Melancholy Pt. 2

In Heaven There Is No (Dada DA Dada) - Asuka Introduction

You Better Watch Out - Christmas Special

To Fit A Square Into A Circle (I Defy) - Endless Eight Pt. 2

In Your Head (In Your Head) - Mukuro Zombie Fic

I still want to use Change Me At All Costs (Starlight, Starcrossed) for something but I'm not sure what yet. Maybe the final fic (which isn't necessarily the final fic - it certainly isn't chronologically, because the Asuka Introduction comes after that, and honestly I think the Canada stuff might, too - it's more like...the final piece in what I would consider the overarching plot, and the rest are fun excursions/stories, like the Santa Claus one-shot, which isn't part of the overarching plot, but is still there and still fun)—

You know what, I think that's actually a really good title for the final fic, considering that's kind of the theme of Junko and Haruhi's relationship as a whole.

Hm.

1.13 | Beyond the Sea

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Now take this logic and apply it to things like ADHD, autism, clinical depression, and other less visible/divergent disabilities. You cannot think your way out of feeling.