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i rly like chinese plus sized fashion bc they use models who aren’t just hourglass/pear shaped, a lot of them have wide waists and larger arms and its so nice to see that like too much in american plus size they try to only show models who have the coke bottle figure in some way and its like cute but thats not gonna help me when i buy the garment and it looks totally different on me. 

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why can you fuckin blaze a post for $$$ for people to see it. arent most of these people porn bots?

#tumblr is always so fun to catch up one once a year or so #this is only because i finished all of yurucamp and now my life is empty #i even watched the movie #i rewatched thru the ptsd memory fog #so like two seasons and a movie #i just need this trip to come now so i can continue the narrative in my head

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sometimes i remember i made this to post art and relevant things but the only reason i have tumblr is because the constant influx of pornbots following me with abandon amuses me for real.

#im thinking its about time to wipe the blog and start posting for this gotdamn book. again. #so many porn bots #can i command them somehow? #bend them to do my bidding

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Monster High

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The Boston Dynamics dog and the blood squeegee art installation robot both illustrate ways in which humanity imbues its automatons with life and spirit but in separate moral directions.

The Dog took the shortcut, copying a well loved animal that already has a soul and mimicking its movements and mannerisms. Add an expensive marketing campaign with music and good lighting and choreography and its easy to believe this sleek and beautiful piece of machinery is practically alive.

Then take the other, a faceless mechanical arm. Beautiful perhaps in an abstract and brutalist sense, but with no friendly mannerisms or colorful chassis. It is in fact frightening and shocking to behold, scooping what appears to be blood across the floor.

But then we have the mask slip on the friendly dog, and the thing that tried so hard to be cute and funny and beautiful is revealed to be just another toy for the military to use in its quest for human destruction, hiding its purpose behind its ability to dance and play.

All the while sympathy mounts for the mechanical arm, its movements become sluggish, its resolve grows weak, its ability to keep pulling its blood back into itself begins to wane, much like in our own human selves, and this terrifying appendage eventually dies, much like ourselves, having done no harm despite its terrible appearance.

How much easier then is it to bestow the idea of humanity on the arm than the dog. Where the dog becomes better and more capable over time yet more prone to inevitable violence; yet the arm becomes tired in its age and uninterested in harming anything, it merely struggles to keep moving until entropy claims it and it cannot do even that any more.

It becomes an almost hamfisted example of how evil lurks beneath the veneer of advertising, a perfect illustration of how beauty doesn't equal goodness.

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This video made me cry so I wanted to put it here

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Please please PLEASE watch this Christmas spot we got in Spain

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a bit lost

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I think the thing that drives me the most batshit about the medical fatphobia conversation is that the burden of proof feels so exactly backwards. Just from an obvious best practices standpoint???

Things like intentional malnourishment, intentionally incapacitating vital organs through surgery, denial of potentially lifesaving medical care until those things are done, etc.

Those are all pretty extreme. The kinds of things it feels like a “first do no harm” system should have a lot of solid evidence for before recommending or implementing them.

But they’re so bog standard and accepted and everyone from doctors to your own family will look at you like you’re a flat-earther when you suggest maybe we shouldn’t be defaulting to that.

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snail foods (snoods)

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