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i don't really want to weight in on the "using big words in your writing is ableist" discourse happening on tiktok because i'm like 90% certain it's an anti-intellectual psyop to stir up drama in online circles to promote the use of ai to summarize literally everything and thus feeding the LLMs and lowering the populace's mistrust of such tools but i also have to say: dictionaries and thesauruses are the most accessible they've ever been. if you use an e-reader of any kind you can look up a word without leaving the page. there's a plethora of online dictionaries and if you just type a word + "meaning" into google it'll usually give you a definition. we used to have pocket dictionaries we used when reading in class. i have two on my shelf right now that i used in high school. stop letting the fascists purposefully misuse anti-ableism rhetoric to trick you into never thinking again.

It is heartbreaking that so many people still do not understand the scale of the suffering we endure in Gaza

The Israeli occupation continues to kill us, and each day brings more victims as a result of its ongoing violence and repeated violations of every agreement. Since the signing of the so-called ceasefire agreement, more than 975 people have been killed. This is not just a number; these are 975 lives. Every life held memories, every victim had a family waiting for them, and every loss leaves behind hearts broken by grief. These are human lives being taken from us every single day

I, too, have lost more than 103 people since the beginning of the war, the most recent being my cousin, who was killed just a few weeks ago. My family continues to live amid destruction and the pain we face every day. Your donation is not simply financial support; it is a lifeline that helps us endure, meet our basic needs, and keep going despite everything we have been through. You can support us directly through PayPal or GoFundMe. Every contribution, no matter how small, makes a real difference in our lives

Today, I was displaced while lying on a broken hospital bed in the street, unable to walk as people pushed me to safety.

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The whole plot of Echoes of Wisdom is so funny from King Hyrule's perspective because imagine you get spirited away to some alternate dimension and when you come back you learn that your doppelganger almost executed your daughter but it's okay actually because she had this whole whimsical adventure where she defeated both Ganon and an interdimensional eldritch god of nothingness. She's like 15. Oh and you also have a newfound alliance with the Gerudo because she started dating the Gerudo heir. Then she makes you a smoothie because of the headache this whole situation has given you.

I actually recommend everyone write for a rarepair once because it completely changes your relationship with fandom. Engagement stops being numbers and starts being names. You know who's going to show up. You recognize usernames. Someone disappears for a while and then comes back and you're like “OH MY GOD WELCOME HOME.” It's incredibly wholesome. It is also deeply inconvenient when all six of you simultaneously get writer's block-