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The Panama Canal

#panama canal #locks #video post #reblog #q

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thinkin' about ged earthsea

#wizard of earthsea #ged #sparrowhawk #reblog #q

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ianthe's little cannibalism moment except it's not little, it's 15 pages long, enjoy!

(this took a total of 115 hours, waw, i am still sick as all hell, so feel free to leave me all ur thoughts in great details, i will read them.)

#the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #gideon the ninth spoilers #ianthe tridentarius #i think i've reblogged this before but i'm not sure #it's amazing though so you get to see it again #reblog

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Did you know that there is a Toaster Museum????

#reblog #q

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SHE WAS JUST A SCIENTIST IN THE WRONG PLACE AT THE WRONG TIME!!!!!

stills below the cut

#reblog #the locked tomb #mercymorn the first #gif

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"Saw traps for people with moral OCD" is a phrase that has embedded myself into my brain because, well, Saw traps for people with moral OCD are everywhere.

Stuff that basically amounts to...

"You have to listen to my opinions on [issue], or else you don't care about [issue]. (Constantly talks about how people like you are the absolute worst.)"

Anything that's functionally like, "you have to let me tear you down over things you can't control or you're a bad person."

Anything that's functionally like, "you have to let me vent to you whenever and however I want or else you're a bad person."

"If you enjoy X media/trope, you just hate Y people."

"Everyone knows that X thing is harmful/hateful; if you engaged in it, it's just because you were fine with perpetuating hate/harm."

"You should have just known better/should know this already!"

This thread over here talks about the inherent issues of putting this kind of stuff out there. The TL;DR is that it really only works on people who are mentally unwell and have poor boundaries, while just pissing off everyone else. It really doesn't matter if you're technically correct; you're still attacking people, and that means they're not wrong to block you.

I think that many of these Saw traps are created when people effectively write posts directed toward people who don't want to help, rather than the ones who do. Like, if you catch yourself writing an angry, shame-laden post, ask yourself: who are you writing it for and what are the odds you're going to change their minds? If your mental image is some smug fuck or angry reactionary, you're writing for the wrong person. Write for the person who's curious, who's willing to learn.

Also? Work on figuring out how to transmute negative feelings into positive, encouraging rhetoric. EG:

"Why is there no X positivity?" -> "Let's hear it for X!"

"No one cares about Y problem!" -> "Hey, we need more recognition of Y problem" or "I haven't seen many people talking about Y problem, so here's some info on what's up."

"If you don't reblog this, you don't care about [group]" -> "Please reblog this, it would mean a lot for us [group]."

And if you're really super duper frustrated and want to vent with a lot of nasty words and sentiments? Consider taking it to a private vent channel or a journal or somewhere that a stranger with moral OCD/scrupulosity isn't likely to run across it.

Remember, most people don't want to hurt anyone. More people are ignorant than malicious. People naturally want to do the right thing, so if you feel like you have to guilt them or shame them into it, there's probably a fundamental communication issue somewhere, or they simply lack the context to understand why what you're saying is so important.

#the dreaded discourse #ocd #online activist spaces are just so full of these #reblog

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Gloom OBF 198 Illustration Rare by Masako Tomii from Scarlet & Violet—Obsidian Flames

#pokemon #gloom #reblog

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Tumor | Print

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Grief

ref photo by @jawsstone

#reblog

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izutsumiiiiiiii. kitby

#dungeon meshi #izutsumi #reblog

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"low support needs disabled people are often not believed to have a disability at all and therefore struggle to get accommodations."

"high support needs disabled people's accommodations are often seen as 'too much' and therefore are not met."

"neurodivergent people's needs are often dismissed because nothing is physically wrong with them."

"physically disabled people people often cannot physically access buildings and people refuse to do anything about it."

"invisibly disabled people are seen as lazy by society."

"visibly disabled people are ostracized from society."

IT'S ALMOST LIKE THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE DISABILITY

#the dreaded discourse #disability #ableism #reblog

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save me, brave hero.

#ffxiv #reblog #q

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「The same river flowed between us, singing the same song to both its band. I listened to it, lying alone on the sand under the stars; and you listened sitting by the edge of slope in early morning light. Only the words I heard from it you did not know, and the secret it spoke to you was a mystery for ever to me.」 Lover's gift and Crossing, by Rabindranath Tagore

#tolkien #reblog #q

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💓 Altered Bunnies sculptures 💓

( By artiat: Debra Broz )

#body horror #reblog #q

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Vanessa Smith — Mind the Forest (oil and acrylic on canvas, 2023)

#reblog #q

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'Snake' wooden spoon carved in Sapele wood.

#snoon #reblog #q

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IX.

#gideon nav #the locked tomb #reblog