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knights are sooooooo good in horror settings like. blind following and unconditional loyalty to their liege. mistaking evil for divinity. unwavering faith to a corrupted cause. corruption in general (whether they’re the target or an accessory). so many good options…… *chefs kiss*

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it’s the titematic universe

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I know this isn't ninjago guys but I finished this 17 hour painting for my art class and I was proud of it so...enjoy.

I love Egypt fun fact about me. :)

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slightly parallel universe where tumblr allows alphabets from other languages to be used in peoples urls, so 2012 bloggers used katakana phonetically to shorten their ridiculously long fandom urls that contained every single ship theyve ever loved so that the whole goddamn thing could actually fit onscreen. a few users started using khmer and sinhala and other alphabets that are hard for monolingual english speakers to parse solely so it would be difficult for most tumblr users to @ them and/or track them down to block. this lead to discourse blogs demanding that people post selfies to "prove" that they arent using arabic for "nefarious purposes" and saying blatantly racist shit like "i block people using sanskrit on sight" or "can you claim ancestral reasons for using ge'ez?". someone gets called out for race-faking because they use chinese but their icon is a white woman, who turns out to just be a fictional character that they like, and they actually are chinese. several prominent and terminally online leftist blogs make bizarre claims about how using alphabets they dont know is basically the exact same thing as paywalls on academic articles because its "hiding information from people who cant afford college". it all culminates in staff making a meme that reeks of "how do you do fellow kids" vibes about how only cyberbullies use bangla, which is widely condemned by literally everyone as being racist as hell, and any further alphabet discourse from then on is shot down hard by merely posting tumblrstaffbangla.jpeg

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I'm fascinated by how the formatting of different social media sites affect how text is read.

For instance, a line break on Tumblr indicates a new idea.

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The Chicago-Milwaukee-St.Paul/Minneapolis train will begin running on May 21st as the Borealis

#oh fuck yea dude

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i'm not a doctor or a nutritionist, but sometimes i hear women talking about their diets and it takes all i have to not be like "this is not normal. you have an eating disorder and you are in a cult."

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sorry but i simply cannot take anyone seriously with this argument. being horny is not a crime. acting inappropriately toward another person is a different thing from simply perceiving them in a way that scratches your brain. but you cannot make sexual thought crimes (thot crimes) a thing without it leading down an EXTREMELY homophobic, transphobic path of "the WRONG type of person PERCEIVED ME and I DID NOT CONSENT TO IT." sometimes you will be perceived by people you personally are not attracted to, and i'm sorry, but that alone is not a problem. you do not need consent to find another person attractive. being horny is fine, actually. get over it.

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I love baseball

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I wonder what my life would be like if I didnt have depression like you

I am not sure how to answer this without making this very clear: I have depression, and severe anxiety. I can not remember a moment in my life where either one of those were not at the forefront of my mind at any given time or exchange. A few things that help me through it all: First, remembering that we are all essentially gods living within a mortal shell, where the universe is only what we can make sense of and imagine. Your yellow could be my blue, for example. We all see things differently, we all have in the totality of the universe experience purely unique moments every moment of every day. You are the only one that truly matters and can prove to yourself that you exist, why let others get in the way?

Second, after years of hating myself and never feeling enough, I realized that there is no way to become a better person by hating myself. This is easier said than done, but we all have habits we despise, but we all accept that we have them. Do that with the rest of the things you hate. Toss out the concept of cringe, and just let it exist. You don't have to love the parts that you hate, but you can definitely learn to ignore them at the least.

Third, I know this isn't for everyone, but read. Read a lot, read interesting things, read boring things, read new things, read old things, or gross romantic clichés (including that disgraceful smut), and absolutely abstain from the internet. Even five minutes of reading is better than none, you can ramp up to more as time goes by. Now speaking of time...

Fourth, Find a way to force yourself to Flow, a psychological effect where time disappears and you are just one in the flow of doing something. This could be reading, playing video games, making art, or splattering paint outside, but I would suggest finding something that means you aren't online or on your phone. Human brains haven't evolved enough to handle this much amount of information and connections all the time. Give yourself a break, minimize your distractions to zero.

Finally, find the things that give you small amounts of joys, namely things that your younger self would have loved to know you have - an action figure or stuffed animal, building things with your hands, drawing or painting on the walls, going outside and climbing a tree, or far too much chocolate that you don't have to hide. That's the beauty of all of it, just live out the petits rêves (small dreams) of your younger self. They are still there, protect them, find a way to make them happy. One thing that bridges all of these together: Do the things that force you to be happy, do the things that let your create or learn new things. We are all just machines programmed for the acquisition of knowledge and experiences, give into it.

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queen of the world to me

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I interrupt your scrolling to say: this is the love of my life, Minnie.

This is my angel, the light of my life, my reason of getting up, my actual child, and I will hear no words against her. Reblog to show her the love she deserves.

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polls literally actually changed this website. they've gotten to being at least 20% of posts nowadays. after years of asking for them, it's so weirdly refreshing to see how successfully and effortlessly they integrated into tumblr. more of this type of change would be nice

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