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terradi commented on the post, beer 1 month, 1 week ago
Ah, beer. The social lubricant that makes shy guys complete jerks and smart guys complete idiots. A pint or two in us? We’re all the same. All stumbling, fumbling drunkards just trying to pass for maybe-sober and walk in a straight line.
Not that I have anything against equality mind, but some nights I prefer to stay sober and watch the show. -
terradi commented on the post, growing 4 months, 1 week ago
The big ideas, they starts small. Always. Barely noticeable, barely recognizable from the nothing that surrounds them. And then they expands. And sometimes, when the atmosphere is just right and the people and times are ready for it, they grows into something big.
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terradi commented on the post, must 5 months, 1 week ago
I see him and a driving, burning, itching urge takes control of me. Backing down, backing away, gathering courage to try another time — these are no longer options. I’m drawn towards him — whether I like it or not. Yes or no, today is the day I ask.
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terradi commented on the post, reference 5 months, 2 weeks ago
My work consists of checks and in-text citations. This need to verify, re-verify, cross-reference, and affirm data samplings is what I live and breathe. I love it. Goodbye perception-tainted observations, goodbye hearsay, and goodbye speculation. You have no place in my world of logic, facts and information.
There are so few places in the world where everything can be filtered out. This is my haven. -
terradi commented on the post, lord 5 months, 2 weeks ago
When the times get tough, she turns to the Lord. Whispering, chanting words and prayers … phrases spilling out from virgin lips, passion and fervor rarely felt anywhere else tumbling from her soul towards the one source she has always believed to be true and faithful to her.
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terradi commented on the post, amount 5 months, 2 weeks ago
How do you add up the value of a life? Is it in the number of possessions you’ve obtained over the course of your years? Your level of education? Your average salary? The debts unpaid upon the date of your death? Or is it something simpler, like the number of smiles? The nights you’ve sunk into untroubled sleep? Or the amount of good that you’ve done in the world?
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terradi commented on the post, officers 5 months, 3 weeks ago
People of law. People of order. Their ways are not always so easy to understand. Walking the fine line between just enforcement and petty abuse is not an easy path to take. Go too far in one direction and you’ll never forgive yourself. Go too far in the other direction and they’ll never forgive you. Of course, some will hold it against you no matter what you do. Sometimes that’s how you know you’re doing it right.
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terradi commented on the post, shows 5 months, 3 weeks ago
The fireworks this year are all across the street. From my seat by the window I can see it. House all lit up, animated figures pacing back and forth with dramatic, angry gestures which surely can’t mean anything good and should they really be saying that kind of stuff to their very own family members who they supposedly love? The volume is pretty spectacular as well. There’s a reason I celebrate my holidays alone.
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terradi commented on the post, now 5 months, 3 weeks ago
The time is now. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Not whenever you get around to it. Today. This instant. This moment. This is a unique opportunity to move forward, to change. To make something new. Stop waiting for a holiday. Stop waiting for a special occasion or when the time is right or for some divine sign. Make it now. Or you’ll stall out forever.
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terradi commented on the post, fire 5 months, 3 weeks ago
It started with a couple of words, then became a full-out inferno of hate, passion, and anger. Words spilled out that could never be taken back, nor forgiven. From a spark the tinder was lit for a feud that would separate for the rest of their lifetimes. Bitterness, anger, hatred borne from such simple words.
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terradi commented on the post, actual 5 months, 4 weeks ago
True to life! Actual size! As seen on TV!
The words of the ads are, usually, a lie. Thus when I saw an advertisement for a dragon egg, I expected a fancy version of Sea Monkeys. The egg that arrived at my doorstep seemed far too glittery to possibly come from anything real. Yet I could hardly resist the temptation to see what exactly would hatch from that giant egg.
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terradi commented on the post, scatter 6 months ago
Thoughts drifting, distant. Memories, emotions strewn around like scattered shells at the seashore. Who am I? Why am I here?
Questions calling like gulls overhead, but only the echo of the ocean answers, whispering songs in a language only the seaborn can understand. I listen, searching for meaning, searching for answers, but none come. -
terradi commented on the post, season 6 months ago
Tis the season! They shout at the department stores with unstoppable, unthinking cheer. What they really mean, of course, is buy, buy buy! Why SHOW your love that you care about them through your actions when you can BUY THEM THINGS and show them your love through MATERIALISM! Because cold hard cash and worldly possessions mean so much more than a simple sign of affection.
No wonder the divorce rate is 50%. -
terradi commented on the post, game 6 months ago
Terri ran along the brick wall, panting with the exertion. Exhaustion was closing in, but he dared not stop. An arrow whizzed by his head and shattered on the stone, sending splinters everywhere. The enemy was coming. Coming quickly.
“Some game ….” he panted.
It had started out as one. It certainly wasn’t one anymore.
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terradi commented on the post, stir 6 months ago
Bubbling, humming, sizzling, spiciness permeates the air, bringing the hint of clove and magic. I savor the scent, but keep my attention on my potions, stirring carefully to make sure everything stays properly mixed up. This is my favorite part of the day.
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terradi commented on the post, living 6 months, 1 week ago
They say that dying is hard. Dying is easy. One quick motion or movement and it’s over. If you watch a horror movie, you notice that the second someone dies it’s all over. It’s real easy to die or get dead. It’s living that’s hard. That willingness to soldier on and to continue, despite or because of everything — that’s the challenge.
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terradi commented on the post, patient 6 months, 1 week ago
Waiting is the hardest thing on earth sometimes. If it’s good news you worried so long for no good reason, but if it’s bad news your whole world changes forever. And there’s no way to know which news you’re going to get until it arrives. Until that moment you’re both sick and well, your fear is laughable and serious, but far too late to do any good. There’s an odd sense that everything is possible until you know for sure.
Doctors think they have the hardest job but I tell you, their stress and worry is nothing in comparison to their patients. -
terradi commented on the post, July 6 months, 1 week ago
The summer heat kisses my face. It is so hot that even the
air tastes like heat. I am never sure what to make of days like
this. In the winter I dream of them, yet in the summer I dream of
the winter’s cool. The day is endless, luxuriously free of
constraints and expectations. It could go on forever, and it almost
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terradi posted a new activity comment 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Just another Tuesday for me.
(over the one minute mark addition)In reply to - terradi commented on the post, simple It was supposed to be an simple quest. Get in, rescue the princess. Get out again. But, of course, it was never as simple as it seemed. Said princess turned out to be more than a little psychotic and possibly bent on world destruction — the actual opposition to be fought. Getting her out of the prison constructed to keep her from achieving any of her goals would be disastrous — yet not doing so would mean a war on the scale that hadn’t been seen in centuries. • View -
terradi commented on the post, simple 6 months, 2 weeks ago
It was supposed to be an simple quest. Get in, rescue the princess. Get out again. But, of course, it was never as simple as it seemed. Said princess turned out to be more than a little psychotic and possibly bent on world destruction — the actual opposition to be fought. Getting her out of the prison constructed to keep her from achieving any of her goals would be disastrous — yet not doing so would mean a war on the scale that hadn’t been seen in centuries.
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Just another Tuesday for me.
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