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literally any upper middle class tiktok self-identified ‘that girl’ in a pastel workout set with a thirteen step skincare routine and a green juice is a million times closer to being patrick bateman irl than any self-identified sigma film bro

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TIL that Gothic literature makes a distinction between “terror” and “horror.” Terror is the sense of dread and apprehension that precedes an experience, horror is the sense of revulsion after an experience.

via ift.tt

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Ready for summer?

#slayers

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A brief moment of rationality from the bird place.

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So I made this post a while ago and guess what I found!

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obviously there are some kinks thst can only exist in modern times like I dunno fucking cars or being sexually attracted to robots but I think most kinks have been around since the dawn of humanity like yeah I know there were cavepeople smacking each other on the ass, tying each other up, role-playing saving each other from sabretooth tigers, watching others get it on (or being watched while getting it on), being attracted to feet, or probably even the really uhhhhhh let's say different stuff, like scat or emetophilia. like we have artwork from ancient civilizations of people banging animals and having orgies so I think we as humans have always been kinky and weird and so therefore I shouldn't be judged for masturbating to It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia fanfiction

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I'm so glad social media wasn't the thing it is today when I was 14 because if it was i wouldve said "your favourite character is your super ego, your least favorite is your id" to the world with my whole chest and people would've taken it like it was a peer reviewed psychological study accepted as fact by leading psychiatrists worldwide and people would've made it the subject of every fictional Discourse telling y'all that certain characters were signs of abusive narcissists and starting wars and citing it in all your call out posts and I would've been icarus with my hubris and eventual fiery downfall when in real life I wrote my notes in code because the guy sitting next to me was always trying to cheat off of me despite bullying me so that was my super secret clue that truly only I could understand that super ego was good and id was bad

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I once had an online friend in the very early 2010s that would drop the fact she had a lesbian friend in like more than half her conversations. She never said "My friend" but instead always said "My lesbian friend" and after the I dunno five hundredth time she eventually called me out like "how come you never tell me how accepting I am for having a lesbian friend" and I was like "because I just thought that was her identifier so I knew which friend you were discussing???" like I would sometimes tell her about my "goth friend" or "Rollerblader friend" and she proceeded to tell me how disgustingly bigoted I was for not commending her for having a lesbian friend and then later when I didn't agree to fuck her and her husband she called Me an abusive psychopath and proceeded to spend the next few years stalking me and my friends and family to warn them about how unsafe I was since i didn't want to have threesomes so Maybe people in their early twenties are just Like That™ and we were all fortunate enough not to have tiktok in order to blast that to the masses

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“how would you feel if someone blocked you just because they found you annoying?” then i wouldn’t have to interact with someone who thinks i’m annoying? i don’t see a problem

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you can buy these now ✨

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#final fantasy

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I feel like more people should know about the Filipino phrase bahala na si Batman. quite literally, it means it's up to Batman. on a more figurative level, it means that you're leaving something to God/fate - metaphorically represented by Batman, of course.

big event that you haven't prepared for but you're going anyway? bahala na si Batman. major exams coming up and you haven't reviewed yet? bahala na si Batman. about to do anything remotely risky/luck-based? bahala na si Batman.

anyways, I just think it's hilarious that Batman is now a part of our culture through this saying. is this a thing in other cultures/languages too? let me know!

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Do you have a favorite diagram from the manuscripts you’ve read?

Yes! Sir Issac Newton's model of the philosophers stone!

This image was from his personal notes, which have been in a private collection for years. But back in 2016, the manuscripts were put up for auction. They contain a vast amount of writing on contemporary alchemical theory, including this particular diagram, which depicts a theoretical structure of the philosophers stone.

Its an image from one of those wonderful cusps of history. Alchemy was still kinda the leader of the pack, and modern chemistry still had to prove its chops. It was an era when people regarded as serious philosophers and scientists had to contend with ideas we now consider nigh-magical and irrelevant.

You can see in the diagram how newton attempts to square the alchemical idea of the planetary metals as primary metaphysical forces, with the actual physical substances themselves, along with echoes of the theory of Jabirian equilibrium. You can tell Newton thinks of The Stone as this perfectly internally balanced substance, baring all natures and qualities. Like, if the world worked by alchemical laws, this is a damn good theory.

This diagram represents one of the brightest minds in human history giving deep and serious attention to an idea we now know to be entirely wrong. I find it intellectually humbling.

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scrunching my face real hard rn

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Honkai: Star rail & Genshin Impact | Dr. Ratio & Kaveh

#genshin impact #hsr

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no matter how terrible my day is. i can always end my day in bed imagining fictional characters making out sloppy style and fucking raw. and that's beautiful. there's some good in this world mister frodo and it's worth fighting for

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Threw out the instruction guide for my wireless mouse and briefly panicked as though I might, somehow, forget how to use one