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how?? just how?

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some parts of being a theatre kid never die. for example if I think about the 2017 tony awards for longer than thirty seconds I start seeing red.

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“vampirism is too romanticized these days” damn that’s crazy. I’m romanticizing it even more now though because you’re whining like this

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happy birthday naoto my favorite girlboything i love you dearly

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genuinely thought that the “t” in “tgirl” meant “testosterone” when i first saw the term and i was like “hell yeah girls with the ‘rone… kinda awesome”

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two sheep. standing still

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new series time: persona 4 funnies ! enjoy the food

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oh no no this is all wrong... you butcher miette's name?? you englishifiy her french name??? jail for one thousand years!!!

(it's like "nyet" in russian but more french sounding ofc/"mee-yet")

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5 year anniversary of the miette post \o/

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taylor swift fans are so scary it's like i'm in the truman show. watching taylor swift fans talk about how she soo gets neurospicy mental illness grippy sock vacation is exactly how truman felt when his wife started advertising coffee or something to nobody in particular

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He sits on my lap while I spin, he does the little jiggle

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them. if u even care.

bonus gif under the cut:

she's so me

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I rly hate the Satanic Panic & the moral panic surrounding violence in video games in the 90s, coz it's now impossible to talk about the social implications of violent video games in a realistic sense.

No, violence in video games does not create serial killers in the way most people imagine it would.

However, it's very important to notice how after 9/11, a lot of violent video games pivoted their content from silly gratuitous cartoon gore to more realistic military shooters set in the Levant from a US American lens. It's also important to notice the connection of these games & their toxic online multi-player voice chats to Gamer Gate in 2014.

It's obviously not as black & white as it was presented in the 80s & 90s, I dont think everyone who played early Call of Duty games is a white supremacist who wants to join the military to kill people in the middle east, but I think it's dangerous to pretend like video games or any media can't have an impact on the way people think about violence.

I think what makes all the difference here is how that violence is portrayed, what the message behind it is, what the motives are behind the people who crafted that message, who the victims of that violence are, how they are portrayed & the greater cultural context that surrounds it.

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Source ~ Sorbet Jungle

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