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type of doll who has אמת inscribed on her forehead

#EmptySpaces

doll-dipping. it's like sheep-dipping but with industrial lubricant

In some ways, the main difference between people and dolls is their ability to make oaths. People have honor; they make promises and get to choose whether or not to keep them, and to accept the consequences either way.

Dolls make one promise - to serve - and have no choice but to keep it.

doll with the bones that never quite healed right

thinking about smoky bars and lipstick smudges on glass from far away, and the kind of feeling you only get when you're watching the angels across the room and one of them turns, for just a second, to acknowledge you

we know the feeling well from when we thought we were of them in a way we now know we never can be. we know it from days in casino convention halls and nights in strange hotel rooms, from girls with floppy red mohawks and balding Masons with coins and walking-sticks

we never really let it get far enough, though; never let it run to its logical conclusion, those glaces turning to stares and stares turning to sharp, razor-beautiful smiles; the easy confidence of an angel who knows exactly what she needs to clear her head, taking the hand of a girl who's clearly in too deep

there are stories of the next year's convention policy including a fee specifically for cleaning blood off the hotel room walls. i actually met the girl, once, and her angel, though maybe not that same one; I never managed to talk to her, I was too envious

that's all it takes to get in my pants, it turns out. just show me your care much more about your own needs than my basic wellbeing.

any volunteers? angels to the front.

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traumaqueers make the best #rust programmers because rustc gives us something we wish we had our whole life: someone who will tell us when we've made a mistake, what the mistake was, and what we can do to fix it, and then actually acknowledge that we did so.

"witch" is a statement about means, not ends.