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happy earth day. don’t forget that someone else’s outdoor cat is your indoor cat

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does anyone know what you’re supposed to do after graduating college

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sorry we mistook your boyfriend for a cinnamon roll and we sold him with the chametz. yeah it's just a temporary agreement, you can have him back in eight days. he'll be okay he's safe in a locked cabinet with the pasta

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Secularist society that takes the cigarettes approach to religion and it's totally legal but all religious texts require a big sticker thst says "THERE IS NO EVIDENCE FOR GOD" or whatever. And at the start of every sermon you have to give a disclaimer thst you're making it all up. Etc. Kinda based

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#no memories of actually breaking skin #but im sure i tried #older sister claims she never tried to bite me but i did her

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as an autistic jew, passover is objectively the best holiday because it’s a dinner party with a script that everyone has to follow

#re prev #YOU are getting variety #EYE am getting potatoes

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#ACTUALLY I HAVE TO CLEAN PESACH STARTS IN 6 DAYS I /HAVE/ TO CLEAN

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as an autistic jew, passover is objectively the best holiday because it’s a dinner party with a script that everyone has to follow

#i have mealplanned for all of pesach guess what jrs gonna be #BREAKFAST: MATZO BREI #LUNCH: MATZAH SANDWICH #DINNER: POTATOES #pesach is great because its the one week of the year my goysiche roommate cant say 'no we have to have more than one meal forever on loop #for dinner because I need variety ' #because FUCK YOU ITS PESACH WE CAN ALL EAT ONE MEAL FOREVER ALL HAIL THE POTATO #also re the rest of this opinions #pro script but also pro deviation from script #pro pesach food as covered #cleaning ks the worst (im so stressed help)

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I’m curious because I have a gay aunt and I keep hearing more and more people tell me they have one too or a gay uncle 👭🏳️‍🌈👬

#i have a gay ex uncle (married my biological aunt and was my uncle and then had a years long affair with his male secretary that was an open #secret and my aunt and him divorced and now he's just secretly openly in a relationship with his secretary but not publicly out) #important note is that his secretary has a wife and children #ive met them #because they're all good family friends of my family #and we all just SHUT THE FUCK UP about the known love affair when the secretary's family is around

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every so often, you just have to come to terms with the fact that timothy omundson is extremely handsome, and he tricked you into forgetting. again. bc he's actually a fantastic character actor who exclusively plays tools.

#HOLY SHIT GALAVANT GUY AND CARLTON LASSITER ARE THE SAME GUY #my roommate is informing me that they told me this when we started watching pysch #but it definitely didnt sink jn intil now

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you can jerk off to anything. just the other day i jerked off to a crisp and refreshing spring breeze

#ma'am you can NOT #➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️ person who despite their best efforts has never orgasmed

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god knew not to give me a dick because I would be getting hard every time I eat a cream cheese bagel

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i think its funny how facial scars are seen as like a major character plot point where they reveal that someone tried to kill their dad or something when i know a ton of ppl (including myself) who have facial scars bc they rlly arent uncommon and all of them are like. from tripping and falling as a toddler

#hey prev i have a pretty identical scar #right under my bottom lip/into the lip #it's pretty visible if you know to look for it though #i got it from Falling off the toilet as a three year old #smacked my lip on the bathtub

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i think the way tiktok and tumblr (yes i am unifying these two sites together for this, for shame!) talk about autism and adhd (n honestly ocd too) as this quirky party trick has really damaged The Youths, at least in america (n they enact that damage on the rest of us, per usual)

like you guys will CONTINUE as usual to mock n harass anyone who is slightly "weird" or "offputting" bc well YOURE autistic and YOU dont do that, so it must be a them problem. well, YOU live on your own and YOU have a job and YOU have tons of friends and YOU go to uni and YOU go to the club and YOU arent weird. its not an "autism thing", this persons just weird. weird for being a picky eater, for using scripts in conversations, for avoiding crowded places n having meltdowns while in them, for living w their parents or in assisted living, for going on about their special interests, for missing social ques, for speaking "weird", for stimming, for having little or no friends, for being unemployed, for having motor issues, for being nonverbal, for not being able to handle the school/academy system, for being autistic.

THEYRE clearly just weird, THEYRE wrong for exhibiting signs and symptoms of autism. their autism is WRONG and WEIRD and OFFPUTTING. YOURE autistic and YOU dont do that, so its clearly "not about autism".

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Random bee behavior fact for those who wish to read, just because I feel like it and because it’s late and I’m stalling on sleeping:

Bumblebees may seem like passive, cuddly, and docile creatures, but they won’t hesitate to defend themselves if they feel as if their warnings aren’t being read or taken seriously.

I.e. the photo and diagram below, when a bee feels threatened they will raise one or more of their legs into the air, signaling to whatever or whomever may be bothering them as a message essentiality saying: “hey, back off, too close!”

species pictured: bombus pascuorum, bombus impatiens

If their defensive posture goes unnoticed or ignored, they may be pushed into defending themselves by stinging (which is also a stressful experience for not only one such as yourself, but also for the bee.) If you ever find yourself getting close to a bumblebee while taking pictures, walking close to them, or just admiring them, remember this posture! If a bee does this, it is simply asking you to take a step back as it feels it is being threatened.

Now you can understand and use this knowledge to your advantage if you ever come across one in the future. (Of course, because it’s very hard not to anthropomorphize animals, I do have to admit that they do look pretty cute when doing it. Just remember to respect them though!)

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if i tell yall what i did on the tram today yall would call it a fake tumblr story i think

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I think the Hunger Games series sits in a similar literary position to The Lord of the Rings, as a piece of literature (by a Catholic author) that sparked a whole new subgenre and then gets blamed for flaws that exist in the copycat books and aren’t actually part of the original.

Like, despite what parodies might say, Katniss is nowhere near the stereotypical “unqualified teenager chosen to lead a rebellion for no good reason”.  The entire point is that she’s not leading the rebellion. She’s a traumatized teenager who has emotional reactions to the horrors in her society, and is constantly being reined in by more experienced adults who have to tell her, “No, this is not how you fight the government, you are going to get people killed.” She’s not the upstart teenager showing the brainless adults what to do–she’s a teenager being manipulated by smarter and more experienced adults. She has no power in the rebellion except as a useful piece of propaganda, and the entire trilogy is her straining against that role. It’s much more realistic and far more nuanced than anyone who dismisses it as “stereotypical YA dystopian” gives it credit for.

And the misconceptions don’t end there. The Hunger Games has no “stereotypical YA love triangle”–yes, there are two potential love interests, but the romance is so not the point. There’s a war going on! Katniss has more important things to worry about than boys! The romance was never about her choosing between two hot boys–it’s about choosing between two diametrically opposed worldviews. Will she choose anger and war, or compassion and peace? Of course a trilogy filled with the horrors of war ends with her marriage to the peace-loving Peeta. Unlike some of the YA dystopian copycats, the romance here is part of the message, not just something to pacify readers who expect “hot love triangles” in their YA. 

The worldbuilding in the Hunger Games trilogy is simplistic and not realistic, but unlike some of her imitators, Collins does this because she has something to say, not because she’s cobbling together a grim and gritty dystopia that’s “similar to the Hunger Games”. The worldbuilding has an allegorical function, kept simple so we can see beyond it to what Collins is really saying–and it’s nothing so comforting as “we need to fight the evil people who are ruining society”. The Capitol’s not just the powerful, greedy bad guys–the Capitol is us, First World America, living in luxury while we ignore the problems of the rest of the world, and thinking of other nations largely in terms of what resources we can get from them. This simplistic world is a sparsely set stage that lets us explore the larger themes about exploitation and war and the horrors people will commit for the sake of their bread and circuses, meant to make us think deeper about what separates a hero from a villain.

There’s a reason these books became a literary phenomenon. There’s a reason that dozens upon dozens of authors attempted to imitate them. But these imitators can’t capture that same genius, largely because they’re trying to imitate the trappings of another book, and failing to capture the larger and more meaningful message underneath. Make a copy of a copy of a copy, and you’ll wind up with something far removed from the original masterpiece. But we shouldn’t make the mistake of blaming those flaws on the original work.