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#nge #it certainly was an interesting first anime lmao

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"people in real life: hey man how's it going" is a killer phrase. instantly neutralizes whatever insane discourse you find online. gonna start using that from now on

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"Why when I cook with my grandma recipes it doesn't taste like hers?" Add more butter in the pan. The amount of butter is rarely if ever given to you by your grandma, but I assure you that she uses a lot more than you do.

#shoutout to my gran for saying 'the alcohol cooks out' while adding wine to a cold salad #(dont ask me what salad i do not remember)

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people should give me money so i can get more tattoos and look hotter and sexier

#me as hell #i want more tattoos but i am le poor

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this is kind of crass and not disability related mostly but i have more of a following here and i'm using it

if your art looks bad to you ask yourself this: does it really look bad or do you just hate yourself.

i do this often. and then i go "this doesn't look bad i just hate everything i do so i'm going to keep working on it and then i'll get the fuck over it"

and eventually i get the fuck over it

you may not. sometimes i don't. i have a huge problem with "this isn't completely satisfactory to me" but it's worse for me to literally physically and emotionally hurt myself by trying to make things "perfect" than it would be for me to just leave things "imperfect"

you don't have to like it if other people do and other people don't have to like it if you do

art is supposed to be fun

you also don't have to put so so so so so much effort into things if you can't which is disability related but i'm tacking it onto this. messy art is good art. "simple" art is good art. abstract incomprehensible scribbly vent art is still art. scribbles are still art. there is no bad art besides art that's used to hurt people

you don't have to spend hours and hours and hours on something if you don't want to or can't or don't have the time or energy or just want to move on. if something looks finished to you it's finished. if you could have done more you could have done more and it's always ok to revisit things later if you want too. you don't have to post things immediately and you don't have to post things at all if you don't want to. if you want people to see it but don't want it spread you can turn reblogs off. you can do whatever you want forever etc

your life is your own mob psycho. i'm not trying to be funny i'm serious. please don't hurt yourself trying to do something that is, and i cannot emphasize this enough, supposed to be fun

i've been watching a lot of bob ross lately and i love how he constantly says "you can do this, anyone can do this" anyone can make art and art can be anything. if you arrange like m&m's in a certain order that can be art. writing and music and jewelry and sewing and paper crafts and pottery and a lot of other stuff i can't think of are art. i also want people to make art if they want to so so so badly because i love art i love looking at art i love making art i love colors and i love shapes. i love seeing all the different things people do. i love seeing people experiment with both irl art supplies and brushes in programs and apps and i love doing it myself

all art is good art i'll fucking cry. whatever art you make however you make it however much time you spend on it however much effort you put into it whether it has meaning or you wanted to just draw something pretty and mindless whether it's very simple or very detailed or scribbly or the color is outside the lines or not completely colored it's still good art

splatter colors on a canvas whether physical or digital i'm begging you. just throw some colors or lines or shapes together

#yes!!! #PREACH

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if you want the joys of eating garlic bread (eating garlic bread) you must also accept the horrors of eating garlic bread (breath smells like garlic)

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The thing about the r slur is that people who are using it again are indeed using it as a slur. This isn't a word that is being reclaimed. This is a word that is once again being used 100% as a slur. You're being a bigot if you're using it against others. Straight up. There isn't another argument to be made. Knock it tf off.

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I think Sam Reich needs to do just one regular, normal, vanilla version of Game Changer randomly so that when it ends Brennan never feels safe.

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I hate the quiet 'oh' that shuts down the conversation when you're not what people expect any more.

Someone I went to school with and generally got along with somefuckinghow recognised me on Facebook a few years ago and messaged me. Something to the effect of 'so do you work for NASA now?'

I explained that I was working as a data entry keyer, a temp job, but I was really enjoying the flexible hours and it wasn't complicated and the team were nice and all that good stuff.

And they said 'huh. But you're just out of university, right? You'll get that big job soon enough! Keep your chin up!'

And I said, no, won't happen, but hey, I'm working on stuff. I'm in a happy relationship and writing a book and I've patched things up with my mother and I'm on the right medication and--

And they cut in about how smart I am and how I'm letting myself down if I haven't gone to university and that relationship better not be holding me back and come on, what could be so bad about studying some more? Why am I wasting my potential?

I'll admit, I got a little frustrated. I told them about the serious head injury I sustained a few years earlier. About how I had to fail out of university and how I have serious lingering effects. I'm lucky it wasn't way worse, and that I can still do a lot of jobs, even if I'm slower and need more recovery time. I'm happy though, and that's what actually matters.

And there was... oh. And nothing else.

People want the person they remember. It's happened a few times where people want to be buddies again, and then when they learn about the disability I picked up along the way suddenly they have nothing they want to say to me. I can't decide if it's better or worse than useless pushy advice.

#yeaaah i really feel this #i get that when people who know ive been off for a long time but don't really stay on contact ask if im back at work yet #'nope still disabled and not able to work!' #or like. whenever people tell me that they're sure ill get back to the work that i used to do #like great but that probably wont happen this is fairly permanent at this point #(anyway handshake in people being weird about brain injuries 🩵) #brain injury #disability

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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

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if u cant describe ur own stuff on tumblr u can still help ur visually impaired followers with 2 quick things:

look in the notes to see if someone already wrote a description. a lot of the time, someone already has

if theres no description in the notes or u cant write ur own, please tag the post as undescribed, so we can avoid inaccessible posts!

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Alright, to ao3's soon to be arriving Wattpad Refugees, a basic guide to general user culture:

1.) Unlike Wattpads vote system that let's you like each chapter, the ao3 equivalent kudos only allows one per work. Everyone is generally quietly annoyed about this. To engage with each chapter, you're heavily encouraged to comment. Trust me, it makes people's day.

2.) Ao3 has no algorithm. By default it's latest updated work first. You can find things to your taste through searches, filters and tags.

3.) 'No archive warnings apply' and 'user has chosen not to use archive warnings' mean two very different things. No archives warnings means the work is free from any content that could require a warning tag (character death, graphic depictions of violence, non-con, etc). User has chosen not to use archive warnings means it could contain any of the warning content, be it hasn't been explicitly tagged. Treat it like an allergen. No archive warnings apply is allergen free. User has chosen not to use archive warnings, may contain traces or whole chunks of the allergen. If you're likely to have a bad reaction, maybe don't take the risk.

4.) Speaking of warnings, ao3 has very few restrictions on the type of work that's allowed. Whatever your personal thoughts or feelings on that are, thats how the site is. You're likely to run across some dark subject matters and a lot of people are uncomfortable with reading that. You're well within your rights not like these works and have your opinion on whether they should be allowed, but harassing the authors of such works (or any works) is more likely to come back on you than them. Ao3 operates on a strong policy of 'don't like, don't read'. Use the tagging system to your full advantage to only engage with the kind of works you want to see.

We look forward to welcoming you all and seeing the fantastic works you create. Happy writing!

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When I say "you need to read the article" or ask "did you read the article," I mean literally nothing but "you should read the article."

Screenshots are not sources. Headlines are not the full story.

That's all I mean.

(Now if you wanna hear me out and then go "it's behind a paywall, asshole," that's completely legitimate, and I do have answers to that but I don't have the spoons rn to talk about tips and tricks for getting around pay walls).

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silly gravityfalls doodle

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i think what’s on a person’s nightstand is very telling so reblog this and put in the tags the things you have on your nightstand

#water bottle and kleenex box and a lil backscratcher claw thing #also lotion and lip balm #had to get up to go look but also glasses case and ear plugs and nail clippers #several loose buttons #and a usb key that has been there for years #do i know whats on it? no #do i care to find out? no #why is it there? who knows

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how is the cat ‘No’ ?

he just Is