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Muslims misreading the Barbie posters might be the funniest thing I’ve seen today

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Time traveller: *moves a chair*

Timeline:

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one thing about me is that I will abuse the quick reblog function on mobile

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'Always an angel, never a god.' -

Princess Luna my belovedddd. 'Not Strong Enough' is VERY Celestia/Luna coded you can't convince me otherwise. + enjoy some cute extra LunaxTempest art dump to soothe from the Luna angst. I would loveee to info dump my headcanons for Luna but its 5 am rn and I cant type any furtherehf

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In the end, if children bother you for sensory reasons and that's why you don't want them to be in the same public spaces as you, there are disabled adults who can and would cause the same sensory issues for you. Adults who are loud, who vocally stim, who have poor boundaries, poor hygiene, who cry in public, etc etc etc. And they're already socially ostracized for all of this.

So actually yeah, it's the bare minimum you can do for the group with the least human rights on the planet to figure out how to accept children as part of your public community without hating them for it, even if you are child-free yourself.

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yall are pro mental illness until they hallucinate

yall are pro mental illness until they dissociate

yall are pro mental illness until they self-isolate

yall are pro mental illness until they're paranoid

yall are pro mental illness until they split

yall are pro mental illness until it's too Scary for your comparatively neurotypical brain to handle

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I think using photos of real cats is skewing votes towards "don't punt" in a way that wouldn't happen if you used the character images. Like I highly doubt 45% would be don't-punting Shrewclaw if they realized his entire character is viciously bullying the particular book's protagonist (who is already friendless and abused by both his parents) lol. Quite possibly THE most puntable character in the whole series

don't think i don't know what you guys are doing

you all just want me to let you pretend for a moment that these characters aren't actual cats, so that way you don't have to feel bad when you punt them

well, it's not going to work

i'd be skewing the vote the other way if i let you weasel your way out this guilt-free

#keep using actual cats its funnier

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The Moon

#it would be funny

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STOP! PUNTING! THE! KITTYCATS!

I don't care how many warcrimes they committed, they are smol and adorable, just put them in separate rooms if they can't be nice to the other cats.

Cats should get timeout, not solar annihilation!!!!

from what i've heard, these cats have been up to some serious mischief, definitely timeout behaviour

also apparently ashfur dragged squirrelflight into the depths of hell because she wouldn't be his discord kitten

#PUNT! PUNT! PUNT!

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So, there's a dirty little secret in indie publishing a lot of people won't tell you, and if you aren't aware of it, self-publishing feels even scarier than it actually is.

There's a subset of self-published indie authors who write a ludicrous number of books a year, we're talking double digit releases of full novels, and these folks make a lot of money telling you how you can do the same thing. A lot of them feature in breathless puff pieces about how "competitive" self-publishing is as an industry now.

A lot of these authors aren't being completely honest with you, though. They'll give you secrets for time management and plotting and outlining and marketing and what have you. But the way they're able to write, edit, and publish 10+ books a year, by and large, is that they're hiring ghostwriters.

They're using upwork or fiverr to find people to outline, draft, edit, and market their books. Most of them, presumably, do write some of their own stuff! But many "prolific" indie writers are absolutely using ghostwriters to speed up their process, get higher Amazon best-seller ratings, and, bluntly, make more money faster.

When you see some godawful puff piece floating around about how some indie writer is thinking about having to start using AI to "stay competitive in self-publishing", the part the journalist isn't telling you is that the 'indie writer' in question is planning to use AI instead of paying some guy on Upwork to do the drafting.

If you are writing your books the old fashioned way and are trying to build a readerbase who cares about your work, you don't need to use AI to 'stay competitive', because you're not competing with these people. You're playing an entirely different game.

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goalies in soccer are to the other players what medicine cats are to other warriors. idk how to explain it but you get the idea

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Java stop using pink and blue challenge

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about to say something mean but i feel like every "male-specific" issue is something that also happens to women its just that a lot of you dont seem to see women as people

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Runningwind

First Mention: Into the Wild (chapter 13; page 158)

“What has happened?” called a tabby warrior named Runningwind.

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Gender is so weird guys

I'm one of the girls, I'm a girl's girl and I'll cry if you say I'm not, but I'm not a girl's girl.

I'm also Just Some Guy, y'know? I'm a little weirdo, a freak, a little girl with dirt on his knees and fire in his eyes.

I'm her husband but I'm also her girlfriend.

I'm neither a man nor a woman but a weird recluse writer who lives on the edge of a cliff where its always stormy.

I dress like an alt older brother from an early 2000's movie but also like a 90's lesbian (sometimes it's the same outfit).

In conclusion, labels are weird. I'm a boyfriend and a girlfriend, a husband but not a wife, a girl but not a woman, a guy, a man, a friend.

All that being said, he/him and they/them are still very much my pronouns (never she/her).

Peace and love!!