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there’s been a really bizarre trend in the past couple years of TERFS/radfems getting pissed off about biology posts. posts about the bilateral gyandromorph cardinal (one half male, one half female), posts about older hens beginning to crow and act like roosters, posts about animals being animals. and it’s hilarious because they interpret these posts as some kind of agenda. no! these are animals not choosing any gender identity or sexuality but being born into bodies they have no control over. weird how that happens in nature huh

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Hey man, whatever lorems your ipsum

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It occurs to me that there are people who weren’t on this website in 2012 and therefore never saw the magical gif that you can actually hear:

It’s been over five years and that still impresses the hell out of me.

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moss bones 🌿🦴 🍃 💀

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I’m not a monsterfucker but a monster lover. Like I’m ace but would go on a date with a vampire in a heart beat ok!

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As someone who is both…I’d let all of them hit

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started watching 2gether and i can't believe the first thing sarawat says to tine the first time they see each other is "keep looking at me like that and i will kiss you till you drop" LIKE

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henry sturges (dominic cooper), abraham lincoln vampire hunter

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just because your area of study isn’t chemistry or anatomy doesn’t mean you’re any less of a mad scientist! mad astronomers are evil! mad botanists are fucked up! mad psychologists are twisted! all fields of mad science are valid!!

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it's a pretty niche trope but when a character defeats a villain and then becomes their successor i go fucking wild every time it's so tragic and so so sexy

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I’m really annoyed with the internet woobification of batman 2022’s riddler because it fully misses the point of the entire movie to almost concerning degree

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whenever i click the cc button on a youtube video that clearly has a high budget and is made by a fucking studio and i see “english - auto generated” i spit daggers from my eyes and mouth at whoever decided to not pay someone to make actual captions

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If this is your first time encountering shorthand then you're in for a treat. What's shorthand? Shorthand is a technique for writing very quickly.

At its basics you're writing sounds not spelling and combining simple lines to make full words.

Get it? You're optimizing for speed of writing not density or accuracy. So it's hard to read and takes up more space but you can write down notes fast. How fast? Here's someone writing at 120 words per minute.

The world record is 250 wpm, but even with a little practice you can get a lot faster than cursive or print.

I've seen a few people ask if Jonathan is writing assuming Dracula can't read his notes. I don't know the answer to that, but I can share exactly that happening with Superman and Lex Luthor.

Naturally a reporter like Kent would use shorthand to quickly transcribe notes in the field.

This is the sort of think Mina is practicing specifically because it's the language used in business. You can read a great article on the expectations of men's and women's writing of the era here: