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I’m not dead I’m just writing a Very Big Exam

#it’s very big #over on Friday though!!

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H*CK THEY SURE DO!

Bats in flight

#bats for currie #heehee the lil spread leg guy

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CURRIE MY LONG LOST LOVE, DO YOU KNOW OF ANY OTHER BAT SYLAS ART? I MIGHT HAVE IMAGINED ONE BUT CANNOT FIND IT IN MY TAGS OR YOURS ^v^

https://curriebelle.tumblr.com/post/166758538095/mx-kit-curriebelle-mx-kit-replied-to

AH? MY DEAR, uhhhhh Someone added a sketch to one of my Sylas bat posts eons ago!! Or are u talking about the one I did?

EDIT: https://curriebelle.tumblr.com/post/145139746090/portable-husband-bat-sylas-briarwood-thumbs-up

That’s the one I did! Man that was forever ago sjdgdhdh

#critical role #NEVER ENOUGH BAT HUSBAND #briarwoods

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ICONIC BEHAVIOR!

#king shit

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How am I supposed to tell real bananas apart from chocolate ones anymore CHOCOLATE MAN!!!!

#THATS JUST MEAN WHY WOULD HE DO THAT #chocolate man has become to powerful

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Addendum: stamps do have a function

Keep up the good work

#oops #nfts #nfts must die #long post

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🦇 by chistine.c.v

#:0 #woOSH #bats for currie

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I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently. Here are the thoughts.

NFTs are tokens for financial speculation that are uniquely suited for taking money from gullible people, centralizing power in the already-wealthy, and accelerating climate catastrophe. NFTs must be stopped.

Fortunately, the reason they are proliferating (and the reason they are so expensive) is not because they are useful, but because they appeal to a particular psychology of value.

It’s very similar to the value of rare baseball cards or stamps. Stamps do not perform any particular function and you can buy them very cheaply. Very expensive stamps are only expensive because there are a limited number, and because they were printed at a verified location. That’s where the extra value on rare stamps comes from — brand recognition and scarcity.

Right now, NFTs gain their value from brand recognition and “scarcity”. People recognize NFTs as NFTs on sight, and there are allegedly limited numbers of them. This is why Twitter implemented the hexagonal profile pics — it makes the NFT more immediately identifiable.

In order to make NFTs lose their value, which is exactly what we want to do, all you have to do is expose those two characteristics — scarcity and legitimacy — as the illusions they are. This is why right-click saving the NFTs is so devastating: it shatters that illusion of scarcity. This is also why insulting them as ugly and stupid is important work — it shatters the illusion of brand prestige.

And they are both nothing but an illusion. NFTs do not benefit from any extra copy protection beyond conventional digital material (which is why so many NFTs are minted from stolen art). The “scarcity” comes from someone applying a serial number post-creation and selling that string of numbers to somebody, with no more actual credibility than those fraudulent companies that sell stars. There is no way to prove the claim of ownership, and no way to stop anyone from replicating it.

That’s why an NFT bro, when faced with criticism of the NFT’s false scarcity, will tell you that you “don’t get” how NFTs work. It’s to protect the sham value of their investment. The NFT has to be scarce or it wouldn’t be valuable. If you point out that it’s not scarce at all, you must simply not understand the mechanism of scarcity.

But you DO get it. NFTs are exactly as stupid as you think they are. That’s why exposing the mechanics behind NFTs is actually important work. It’s praxis. The value of NFTs is entirely a rhetorical game, and every time you convince someone that the scarcity of an NFT is a scam, the scam loses some of its power. The value of NFTs is entirely contingent on belief. It’s like believing in fairies, only we want the fairies to die.

Keep up the good work

#NFTs #NFTs must die #long post

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happy ides of march

#snort

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Hi Currie I just wanted to drop in and let you know how much I love WMT, I'm currently campaigning to get one of my non-critter friends to read it because it's straight up the Best Gothic Romance. Just. The Best One. I kinda got away from reading fanfic for a couple years so I'm rereading all of my faves and yours was first on my list! Love you, have a good day 💕💕

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I LOVE YOU TOO RANDOM CITIZEN!!!!!!!

#wise man’s tree inspiration #listen u guys #it’s going to Done #it’s just that I’m writing my comps exams this term #and that is a lot of brain work #brain melty no power for romance #BUT ITS GOING TO DONE

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#yeah that checks out

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⁠— ⁠the voice of the tempest

#critical role #the fuckin Feeblemind Fall #eternally iconic

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Why is it always Blorbo from MY shows? Reblog and tell me who your parents’ Blorbos are. I’ll go first: the entire cast of Downton Abbey.

#my mom also has crit role blorbos!!! #her blorbo is probably grog #she also watches a lot of Scandinavian murder mysteries so #she probably has a blørbö or two #and my dad’s is Perry Mason #or Russell Crowe in anything #irl blorbo lol

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#musk redistribute ur assets INCLUDING the cat hot plates #cat hot plate communism #feed musk to the cats

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wait a second i gotta remind everyone that this is a real official token art in magic the gathering

#flying #DAMN THEY SURE ARE!!!!

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I love this post so much

#WHALES! HAVE! MEMESb #YES #I love how in animals memes are a sign of intelligence

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Maybe the slug is just jealous

#he wants to be free to express his own same-slug attraction :(