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And my manager was like no!!!! If that happened, I would drive to find you guys in my truck and we could eat stuff from my wife's garden and I would make sure everyone I know survived!! I would carry you all on my shoulders away from the zombies!!

I haven't seen anyone talking about this and just wanted to make a quick post on here.

Akihiro Miwa recently passed away peacefully june 20th, and was not only a drag queen and a queer icon, but also the japanese voice of Arceus in the movie Arceus and the jewel of life, as well as the witch from Howl's moving castle and Moro from Princess Mononke.

#2: "hi [professor], hope you're doing well! unfortunately, I'm [sick/stuck at work/dead] and won't be able to submit [assignment] by [due date]. could I please have an extension? if not, is there anything else I could do to make up this credit? thanks so much, [op]"

The FIRST SENTENCE is the thing you want the recipient to do. Do not make them guess.

I want to let you know about ... (This email is to inform someone of something not to ask them to do anything)

Could you please do ... (This is a request. You want them to do something).

I'm looking into x and wondering if you can help me (this is also a request but for information instead of an action).

People do not want to read an email and even if they do read it, most people are skimming and not interested. Tell them what you want first, then provide context or other information (when you need a thing is often key). If the email is informational, you can even add "you don't need to do anything, this is just to keep you informed!" People will appreciate not having to figure out what you want from them.

If you can't articulate what you want the recipient to do with the message, you are not ready to email them. I read too many emails where I have no idea what the person wants from me.

The Night We Used To Know

but now???? friend hosta. beloved friend hosta who can always be relied upon. they do not give a single fuck about how you treat them. I just propagated one of my hostas by walking up to it, ripping off a stalk close to the ground, shoving it in some potting soil, and dumping water on it every other day or so. that was two weeks ago. It's sprouting its first and second new leaf because it does not give a fuck.

Sun? Shade? the hosta does not give a fuck. Soil type? Does not care. Hardiness zone? fuckin MOST of them. Water needs? It won't flop over dramatically if it goes without for a while. And they come in all sorts of goddamn sizes and different colors and leaf shapes and some are stripy and some have frilly-edged leaves. You just stick them in the ground and forget about them and come back two weeks later to find them straight up vibing.

AND THEY'RE EDIBLE?????

It took some work but I have three magical things available now for the first time in a LONG time:

My three fantasy playmaps are available again! They're blankets now, soft and fluffy and double-layered and double-stitched, and they come in small, medium and large sizes! Here's mockups so you can see the shape more precisely:

I made them for the kids in my life, but folks seem to agree with me that kids playmaps could be weirder, more whimsical, more wondrous - so I have been working hard to figure out how to offer these for sale outside of my own local markets!

Thanks to print on demand, it seems do-able! Right now I have Canada and the US set up; if you're outside of those countries and you're interested, let me know and I'll prioritize sorting out solutions near you!

The quality of these is amazing, and because they're digitally printed the way they are, they are durable as heck! They stay vibrant, won't fade, and hold up to all the loving roughhousing that comes with being a toy.

I know I’m the one who cast the curse but it can still only be broken with true love. I’m begging you, somebody, please come and fall in love with these girls and make them leave, I can’t take it anymore, it sucks so bad. I can’t keep getting viciously bullied by one of the largest living species of waterfowl anymore. I’ve tried running away but they can fly so they just find me. I’m getting nothing done.

Haha it does! It is from a specific store, a grocery chain called Superstore (and a few other stores owned by the same brand). It’s just the store’s own brand of stuff like every grocery store has, but it’s kind of brilliant marketing actually because everyone calls the store brand the no name brand even tho of course every brand does have a name. So this chain just went what if we literally called it no name. And yes grocery items from that brand are cheaper and just as good as other brands so I often get no name stuff.

This is like the regular stuff, I have no name corn starch in my cupboard right now. And then to be in on the joke they do stuff like this which is very funny and smart I think