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Let's purposefully get traffic so bad that everyone in the city votes in favor of building a light rail even after the oil lobby gets involved

#im not moving back to America if I can help it #nor am I getting a car if I can help it #but if I somehow end up in a situation where I am living in America and have a car #I will be driving around as slowly as possible just taking in the sights #because fuck y’all I ain’t got nowhere to be and if I did I wouldn’t use a car

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Okay okay I wanna play

Spin the wheel for a Shakespeare character!

Reblog for sample size, etc. Would love to hear what you got + reasoning in the tags!

#puck #and i need it so clear that the only reason im not picking fuck is that im ace as hell #but i do think being married to what is functionally the god of mischief is probably basically what i want anyway #at the very least i really enjoy having friends that keep things interesting #the worst feeling is boredom so. #also it wasn’t until this moment where it occurred to me that there are people who play FMK and don’t mentally tune F to stand for Friend #I’ve been in a delightful little bubble for most of my life where i could largely pretend horniness was a fake emotion #something they invented for movies #but actually I’ve got Very Normal Coworkers this year and they are also so goddamned horny #like not to shame horny people but on god i thought y’all were exaggerating

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are people still reading YA fiction at the same rate they did when i was a child? i feel like we haven’t seen a hunger games or squire’s tale in a while and i just need to know that that ecosystem is still thriving

#im okay being out of touch i just want to know that it still exists #tbh im fine if its not books. comics or movies or yt videos are okay too #actually i wonder if that’s the ecological niche mcyt is filling

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Sturgeon keychain attempt one: lumpy, not enough scutes, kind of looks like an alligator. Will update with attempt two

#ooohhhhhhhhh i love him #i have seen this man in my dreams

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[oc] THE SUNNY SHOW 🌻📺

#I DON’T KNOW WHAT’S HAPPENING HERE #BUT OP YOU ARE GIGABRAINED FOR THIS #TRUMAN SHOW BUT THE SET LOVES HIM???? #it’s been a while since I evaluated my top 3 movies that aren’t animated and im pretty sure Truman Show has moved up by at least one slot #respectfully im gonna be gnawing this bone in my mind for months at least

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I cannot stand the parodies of modern major general, they're overdone and simply not as good as the original. They've done them about everything, whatever topic, big or small.

And when i notice one of them my eyes will always start to roll.

The diction's always slurry when they rush the complicated words, and adding many fricatives will turn it so cacophonous. The slanted rhymes are silly and they keep just making more and more, please someone stop the parodies of modern major general.

The scanning of the lyrics in the meter is unbearable, they emphazise the syllables in ways that are untenable, in short in matters musical, prosodic and ephemeral, i cannot stand the parodies of modern major general!

#topsycore

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@mumblesplash

it's fun trying to consult the vast, exciting field of "medicine" for stuff to the effect of "wait, so is salt good for you or bad for you, did we ever come to a consensus on that"

b/c the median doctor is just going to parrot back whatever the party line was when they went to med school 20 years ago

and then you may stumble onto some rando on the internet who's making a convincing *contrarian* argument to the effect of "actually the party line is {completely wrong, vastly overstated, vastly more complicated than your doctors are telling you}, etc"

but also 80% of convincing contrarian randos on the internet are cranks, so you sigh and go look through their sources yourself, and thank god for sci-hub, but now you've read like eighteen different studies and you don't *really* have the background to evaluate them, but you're developing the strong hunch that the only obviously correct conclusion is "dear god why do all these studies suck ass"

and at that point your options are either "develop a weirdly intense relationship with a naturopath/nutritionist/opinionated-guy-at-the-gym and become Really Into Blood Test Metrics As A Hobby" or "shrug and assume shit is probably fine." and if the latter, well, damn, you coulda just skipped to the end and saved yourself some trouble!

#this is why I just outsource all this to you #my brain got caught on ecology and civil infrastructure so I don’t have energy for medical propaganda

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have Anadyne and Knock had a threesome?

No way, they're cousins and besties. Female friendship rep is really important to me so I don't mind saying they both are straight, and do not have romantic feelings for each other.

#FRIENDSHIP REP SPOTTED #perhaps the only representation more important to me than ace rep #i don’t care about a character’s sexuality very much. i think ace rep is nice and we should have it. #but. it is sososososo much more important to me that there be CLEAR instances of Just Friendship in a way equivalent to romantic love #if we can start making those things actually equivalent i think everyone would have an easier time of it #but also I specifically would have an easier time of it #there are so many people i want to be friends with

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"There's no thought crimes and no thought heroisms" is honestly such a good piece of life advice.

You could be having the most fucked up problematic thoughts 24/7 but if you treat people with kindness, the good you do is the only thing that matters. But if you have only the purest thoughts and all the correct beliefs, it doesn't matter one bit if you spend most of your time being an asshole to people.

#more people could stand to hear this #and i used to be like it as well #but I don’t care how right you are #morally. ethically. logically. if you’re being right means being an asshole its not worth it #I have lost multiple friends because they couldn’t understand the simple fact that #if someone tells you they’re upset at you there is no world where the right answer is to explain to them that they’re wrong for being upset

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I think a lot about how, if the glorious violent revolution happens, every kid with significant medical needs in a hospital where power gets cut will die.

You can decide you're willing to sacrifice your own life, but you don't get to tell everybody else on the planet that they're acceptable collateral damage.

#media only reports the stuff that’s bad because it’s easy to see #and it’s hard to see when things have improved #so searching for progress is like exercising survivorship bias through vast amounts of headlines #and it’s easy to feel defeatist when all you’re seeing is how much your plane got shot #but things are improving. they have been. they will continue to be #i don’t mean in America. to be clear #i mean in the whole world #violence is a quick and messy way to solve a problem #and it may be true that a violent revolution could save more lives cumulatively #but those are not your lives to make the choice for

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I love the "came back wrong" trope but from the opposite side.

Imagine you are dead. And then you are RIPPED from the embrace of decay into the world of the living again. Your memories are hazy and you don't recognize any of these people, but they act like they're close to you? Like they love you? So you try to get your memories back, to act like you belong here, but everybody tries to forget you died. And you can't. It is omnipresent. And just trying to grapple with that fact pushes the people who "love" you away, and they're incapable of understanding, and they're so confused, what's wrong N̶̄̀O̶͛͗T̷̉́ ̷͋͝Y̴̎̌Ȍ̴̈U̸̓R NÄM̴̃͑E̵̾̇? And you just need them to understand, you aren't that person! You aren't! You don't know who that person is! You don't know why any of this is happening, but they're unwilling to bend, they keep insisting you are that person, your memories will come back, everything will be normal again, and you want to scream and cry and claw yourself open to show them you're different. Your existence as a being wholly separate from whoever you "used to be" is a sin unto itself. All you can do is scrabble for life and to them, you're killing whoever they loved to do it.

just. lots of fun in that concept, you know?

#rascal does not dream of bunny girl senpai #aobuta #only thing i can think of that actually does this and i think its REALLY cool #actually listen #i know what the name makes it sound like #and the thumbnail that comes up when you look it up doesn’t improve that situation #but if you’re into this concept at all you really oughta watch that show #it’s my comfort show #they live in a world where actually all problems can be solved by personal growth and emotional maturity #actually now that i think about it it’s kinda just a show about letting yourself be more emotional

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#a few good options here #visually i am the beanpole unquestionably #but hitting my head on low-hanging objects simply isn’t my bit #i have at various times in my life been assigned ‘unassuming one everyone is nervous around for no reason’ #but i always felt like the people who said that didn’t understand me #however #Guy who says yeah? #he’s just like me frfr #im literally just some guy

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Art by Anthony Brault

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what base? the bepis hierarchy of needs does not include shelter

there really are limits to how much you should be accounting for ‘he would not fucking say that’ and related sentiments. for instance i will sometimes see a fanart and unironically think thoughts such as ‘he would NOT have that much external shoulder rotation’ which frankly isn’t something i expect or even want other artists to be worrying about. draw or write your favorite little guys however you feel like doing it. the insufferable nerds will live

#architecturally has not progressed past hunter-gatherer #agriculturally levitating t-pose

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I think it’s probably in fact both Poe and Ranpo. I haven’t watched BSD to the point where Poe shows up but I know he’s there and I’d be deeply unsurprised if people ship Ranpo and his namesake

something something breaching containment

#after about the first season bsd was too kpop for me #show could’ve done a lot more to hold my attention if the powers had ANYTHING to do with the book titles they reference #unfortunately the connection to the source material was extremely shallow #cool concept. don’t know why they didn’t do anything with it

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Obsessed with the x files episodes where like someone will go missing and they’ll go to the victim’s last known location and see like a normal ant crawling around and mulder will go “I think the victim was kidnapped by two hundred ants disguised as a human being who took the victim because they need to digest organic matter in order to have the strength to build a giant anthill” and scully will go “that’s insane” but mulder will literally be right beat for beat

#next time i watch the X-files i should try viewing under the lens that mulder is always right #but specifically in the sense that the causality is reversed so that he cannot be wrong

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“If The X-Files was a 90s anime.”

credit: MabooCraboo on imgur

#the X-files is my favorite show that sucks #like by and large it’s NOT a good show #and it’s certainly not the kind to binge #compels me though #and i would for sure like it more if it were a cartoon #guess it would lose a lot of its appeal for other people though