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i have to share with you all my favorite totk video ever

#zelda players are you okay #totk

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reblog to bonk the person you reblogged it from with a hollow cardboard tube

#idk it seems like everyone is bonking Slimer and I want in

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A man and a woman platonically raising a child together and not falling in love has to be the biggest plotwist in the Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves movie AND my favorite part

#D&D Movie #I love this movie so much #Together At The End of the Queue

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I'm saying this as a fan, but also as somebody who worked their arse off writing screenplays at film school, don't hate on the writers when they go on strike.

Writers control the story of the show, there is so much detail and fine tuning done in the scripts. Everything an actor or a director adds, is adapted from the script. There is no show without the script, but still screenwriters are horrendously underappreciated and underpaid.

Director, actors and producers usually end up with most of the credit.

Writers deserve to be seen. If your favorite show is delayed because of the upcoming strikes, don't be surprised and please don't be angry at the writers. They are fighting for their art to be appreciated.

#For real though #you'd think the people in charge would've learned their lesson back in 2007 #but noooooooo #they just had to make another power play #stand with writers #they deserve all your support #IRL stuff

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hey so - we frogged your boyfriend. The pattern wasn't working out and we'd rather use the materials for something else. Yeah, we unraveled all of him, wound him into balls and put him back in the stash. Sorry. You can help us pick out a new pattern, if you want.

#Ribbit!

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te/rfs and transphobes on tik tok are currently losing their mind over an older trans man saying “hey the laws you wanna pass that would put trans women in the men’s bathroom would also put me in the women’s bathroom” and all their responses have basically been that he’s a predator and that if they saw him there they would physically assault him. so yeah i don’t ever wanna hear ppl say “oh these laws won’t affect trans men” or “trans men only have to deal with infantilization, not actual violence” bc there is at least one example out there of the above actually happening.

#Yet another reason why all of this is fucking stupid #put a trans man in a woman's bathroom and SURPRISE #it causes all the same chaos as a trans woman #they don't care about safety #they just want to be bigots #transphobia tw

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#All right let's see #Four current animals #Petey (dog) took him from my SIL who was temporarily housing him for her husband's family #Ghost (Cat) we got off the street #Rivkah (dog) came from a breeder who is also my wife's friend #Stevie (Cat) came from a shelter #Before that I owned a bunch of fish (pet stores) #And we had a cat named Buddy (street) #poll

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#*whisper* what if I told you some of them are real #IRL stuff #sorta

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This is gorgeous

#Wow I never even thought about that #We used to go to Vermont and Maine all the time #And something about the drives just felt so surreal to lil!me #And this was it #there were no billboards #They're all over the fucking place in Massachusetts #but somehow I never noticed their absence #IRL stuff

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Traveling is a goddamned nightmare for me and my wife. She needs a wheelchair, and we travel with her extremely small (6lbs.) un-invasive and mostly silent dog (went through a four-hour flight once and no one even realized she was there). She has a wheelchair and an airport employee escort. I'm nonbinary and androgynous enough that by sight you can't usually clock me. This is important.

When you go through TSA in the US, you have to take off your shoes and jacket, unpack any electronics bigger than like, a 10" tablet, put shoes in their own bins, laptops in their own bins, and then put your carry-ons on the belt. My wife and I each have a laptop and each have a tablet. The dog has a carrier. When we go through, my wife, holding the dog, goes to a separate line while I juggle four carry-ons, unpack two laptops, two tablets, our phones, like four different bins for all of our stuff, my own shoes and jacket, her shoes and jacket, and the dog carrier.

Then I go through the scanner, and usually 2 out of 5 times I'll get stopped because the person running the machine was like "Oh that's clearly a dude" and then there was a confusion because I am not, in fact, A Dude.

"Do you want a private or public patdown?"

Like I have fucking time to go somewhere else, just do it here.

Then I have to get all of the stuff from the security belt and just hope they didn't flag my bag because no one can decide if a Switch qualifies as bigger than a tablet and they just need to search it. By this time my wife is on the other side and sitting down, and the employee escort is watching me like I'm the slowest, most annoying person in the world while I get our bags, laptops, tablets, shoes, jackets, etc. and try to drag everything over to where they're sitting. I almost forgot my damn phone at security once because I was so frazzled. The TSA guy called out like five times asking whose phone it was and my wife finally said, "Love I think that's yours?" and my dumb ass went "No I have my phone right - FUCK."

(TSA Guy had a good sense of humor about it and said it was cool after I apologized like five times for making them think a mysterious phone had been left unattended.)

It's a fucking ridiculous process and the fact that it has to be this obnoxious and exhausting is insane.

Today I had to get a private patdown by two TSA agents because my incontinence pad set off their screening devices

#Sam Complains #IRL Stuff

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#secret third option ftw #and binders #lmao

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#The Capitol Wasteland #welp

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I feel old and I'm only 22

#TAKE ME TO CHURCH IS TEN YEARS OLD #jesus christ #music

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i’m about to start gatekeeping interacting with fic authors from a lot of y’all. u need to learn how to behave

“i need more” “pls continue this” “when are you posting the next bit” why don’t you try showing some proper appreciation for what’s already written before you go demanding more!!!

​a lot of time and energy goes into each piece of writing and it is incredibly disappointing for the primary feedback to be “give me more!” if you’re trying to motivate authors to continue, this kind of response has the opposite effect.

you know what is motivating? specific praise.

let me break it down for you.

How To Leave A Comment Without (Unintentionally) Sounding Like A Pri- [GUNSHOT]

point out a few specific things you liked about the fic and why. how it made you feel.

highlight a line or two or three that stuck out to you.

if it’s an incomplete work, express excitement at seeing where they’re going — without a demand for more.

it’s quite simple, and it doesn’t even have to be a long thing. this can be done in a hundred words or less.

and yeah, it takes effort. takes a bit of time. but fandom is about mutual support. it’s about community.

fic authors are not celebrities who don’t even see your attempts to get their attention. there is a real person on the other side of that screen living a real life, and if you want to encourage them in their craft and properly motivate them to write, try treating them like a fucking human being.

authors put in hours to create content (that only ends up not being truly appreciated). i think you can spare a few minutes to leave a detailed, thoughtful comment in turn.

idk just a semi-friendly reminder that authors don’t owe you shit actually

#YES #but also #you can just say 'omg this is amazing' #literally anything is better than being demanding #fanfic etiquette

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Okay I’m sorry but the bit where Buffy just fucking BLOWS UP the judge is incredible

Like the whole ‘no weapon forged can kill me’ and then Buffy is like ‘that was then, this is now’, whips out a fucking bazooka and blows him up

Why can’t that happen in more supernatural media

#btvs #This was done so right #Just give her a fucking bazooka and let her go ham

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I was watching Pokémon: Indigo League on Netflix and the Pokédex called Kakuna a “transitional Pokémon”

and then suddenly this happened

#pokemon #sort of #I love this so much #fanart

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Tread here.

#sam stuff #irl #linkedin recommended me for a job at my former company #lol no