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dooku: jocasta do u have any family on naboo? jocasta: y would i have family on naboo? dooku: i think i found a cousin of yours. jocasta: ??? dooku: they are greatly enjoying your annotations on your translation of the nomês. jocasta: all people enjoy my annotations. they’re excellent annotations. and my translations are IMPECCABLE. dooku: it’s the version with the ossian tionese on one side and your translation and annotations on the other. jocasta: yeah u mean the BEST ONE. dooku: they’re three. jocasta: maybe i DO have cousins on naboo. dooku: ... they want to do corrections on ossou pértʰĭs. they say they know the "right ending". jocasta: i MUST have at least one cousin on naboo.

[later]

jocasta: sifo-dyas, is your secret seeker assignment for dooku one of my cousins? sifo: not to my vast and confusing knowledge. sifo: wait. it’s supposed to be secret. u kno the council doesn’t let me bring in kids anymore. jocasta: don’t worry. i’ve got u covered. sifo: ??? jocasta: they like my annotations and translation of the nomês. sifo: see i have IMPECCABLE taste. jocasta: i don’t see what your taste has to do with it. sifo: i ordered them in special. jocasta: pfft. the three-year-old has impeccable taste not u. sifo: ): but it's MY future three-year-old.

[even later]

Sweet Spot

Danielle Mckinney

User cotton-seed-oil posted to the FanFiction sub-reddit:

I studied for my exam with fanfiction, and I think it worked. This is so fucking funny. It is the best thing I have every done. I am a physics and astronomy student in college. I am taking cosmology this semester, and it is much harder than expected (we glossed over all of special and general relativity in two lectures, and our previous classes were not expected to teach us this). I spent days trying to study for this exam, and nothing worked-everything was going in one ear and out the other. Finally, two days before my exam, I decided to get creative. I wrote a fanfiction about four characters discussing the concepts, explaining them to one another. One issue I had faced when studying was getting very anxious while reviewing the material, making it hard to even think clearly. Writing this fanfic eliminated that-after all, it's fanfic. Therefore, no danger. It removed all the pressure. 48 hours later, I wrote over nine thousand words in Overleaf, at 30 pages long. It was fun, and it was complete. This afternoon, I took the exam-and while was difficult, I felt like I knew what I was doing. More than that, I actually think I understand the material now. When I reviewed my old homework questions, they were understandable, whereas I had been completely lost the first time around. I have a Quantum exam next week, and I am using the exact same technique, because holy shit, it works like magic (and is so much fun).

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unauthorized fucking thing!!!!!!

(warning: loud chirping throughout)

the first osprey is the father, the one that comes later is the mother.

ospreys are not eagles, they're ospreys

ospreys only eat fish, that's why they don't register this starling as possible food

the starling got home safely

the starling was not trying to eat the eggs, it was mostly curious and you can see it trying to hop under the osprey every time the osprey tries to sit down again--this is because the starling is still a baby and has the instinct to get under an adult for warmth, even though it mostly has its feathers. this scares the osprey because that is a Foreign Creature near its eggs.

at the end of the video you can see the ospreys starting to turn the eggs. birds do this so the yolk and/or embryo don't stick to the shell of the egg, which is bad for the egg's health.