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#sports bra sweep #the dainty little regular bras simply cannot hold up against daily wear combined with tropical humidity #and cost waaaaaay too much

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one of the most infuriating things about becoming an adult is when you realize that it actually is 10x easier to solve problems by making a phone call vs literally any other communication method

#this is true #but companies here are also increasingly changing all their contacts to a whatsapp chat-only number

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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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#FAVE

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#good lord #i mean i get it i really do #whats the point of making super clean optimized code for when “good enough” solutions like this exist #but like at some point you must think “there is probably a better way to handle this #i respect it tho

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me staring at my calculator app for 45 seconds before i remember i was trying to open my clock app to set an alarm

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How did magicians back in the day make seals? Was there a science behind it or was it intuitive?

That's a really good question! The answer is extremely complicated!

When most people these days think of seals they think of goetic seals. But the terminology of "seals" actually comes from the idea of sealing a letter. Specifically, it refers to one of the many apocryphal versions of the story of Solomon and Ashmedai, in which king Solomon uses a signet ring with a special magical symbol on it to command demons.

Now, this is one of those biblical stories that people went absolutely nuts for. Jews, Christians, Muslims, damn near every abrahamic faith has their own take on the story, because let's be honest here it's cool as fuck.

But! The original story from the Tanakh doesn't refer to the seal at all, and focuses much more on controlling the sheyd with manacles inscribed with a secret name of God. The inherent magical power of names of God is a common trope in Jewish literature, but later versions of the tale also include greco-egyptian ideas about the inherent magical properties of language, forms, and mathematics.

So when we look at a contemporary English version of a goetic seal, we are looking at something with literally thousands of years of compiled knowledge behind it. I wouldn't necessarily call it science, or intuition, I would describe it as systematic, and narrative. Closer to how campfire stories are improved over generations as people tell and retell them.

Look at this seal of Belial:

The idea of the seal itself? That goes back to Babylonian Jewish ideas about written text having power to control supernatural entities. (Google Babylonian curse bowls if you haven't already.)

See how the letters are spaced? That's important. That goes back to neopythagorean ideas about regular polygons being fundamental building blocks of the universe.

The little crosses? Those are probably cruciforms! That's how you can tell Christians were involved at some point.

See how some of the lines of the seal end in little loops? That goes back to ptolmaic Egyptian ideas about magic. If the crosses are cruciforms, these are probably ankh-forms! You see shapes like that all over magical texts from the 2nd-6th century Mediterranean!

These symbols are the result of dozens of cultures and people and languages collectively yes-anding each other for literally thousands of years. They are DENSE with meaning.

#oh this is very cool actually

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So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)

Reblog to increase sample size!

#nyope :3 #🇲🇾

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reblog to give the person you reblogged this from a fucking break

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hey has tumblr.com as in like the actual website itself been running like dogshit lately. load times have been atrocious. stuff just isn't working. etc.

#....is this why notifs have been completely hit or miss lately

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#i love to read my mutuals answers but dont particularly enjoy them myself #i feel im alot less opinionated these days so i dont really have an answer besides “👍” most times

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yall do realize just because something has been a target of misogynistic criticism, that doesn't make stanning it completely uncritically in response some kind of revolutionary feminist praxis. right.

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ok yeah they got me

#....yeah

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This one was challenging. Had to make it a bit bigger than I originally planned because of the fiddly details. The background thread lost some of it's tension after being cut out despite my best efforts but I'm still pleased with how it came out in the end.

#YOOOO THIS IS REALLY GOOD!!! #castlevania

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Every girl in Castlevania are stong in their own way despite how the games potrays them:

Sara sacrifice herself for Leon in order to complete the Whip of Alchemy.

Lisa sacifice since she believed that her death can save others.

Sypha fought against the cyclop by herself before she was turned into a statue and later helped Trevor in his journey against Dracula.

Julia ran in hidding to save herself from persecution of witch trials.

Annette was prepared to take her own life if she became a vampire.

Maria who fought alongside with Richter when she was just a child.

Shanoa used power of glyphs against Dracula by herself.

Charlotte fought alongside with Joanathan during the events of WWII.

#hell yeah WOMEN #we can talk about the ways the cv franchise massively lets down their female characters #but we can also celebrate their strengths and positive qualities #castlevania

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