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So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?

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Who knew that signing up for a book club would lead to this revelation?

#oingo boingo #island of dr moreau

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God's strongest soldiers are retail workers that have to listen to that dog shit music all hours of the day

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Oh wow, I see this post the same day I learned how insane the whole Jason death poll scenario was. What a coincidence!

If y'all don't know how the poll came to be and was executed, read under the cut, but I'll tell you right now, it's because of SNL:

Okay so, almost nobody liked Jason when he was introduced as a carbon copy to Dick Grayson, and they still didn't like him when his personality was retconned to be a bit more rough and rebellious God forbid Dick Grayson doesn't stay Robin forever ig. One of these people was Batman's new writer Jim Starlin.

Starlin has literally admitted that when DC wanted to write a character dying from AIDS to spread awareness during the epidemic, he crammed several votes for it to be teenaged Jason into the suggestion box. He really disliked Jason. He was itching to kill him off, it's almost funny reading about it. Everyone else was thinking of killing Jason off as well, but just because the fans hated him it wasn't like personal. Batman's editor, Dennis O'Neil, was actually the one who came up with the idea to do a fan poll on whether Jason lived or died, because he had seen the pole before.

On Saturday Night Live.

Apparently in the 80s, there was an Eddie Murphy skit where he had a live lobster with him, and on the screen SNL put two phone numbers on there: If you called one phone number, that was a vote to let the lobster be. If you called the other, that was a vote to boil the lobster on live television. It cost 50 cents to call either number, but a shit ton of people called, like, you could've bought a house with how much money was spent on those two 1 -900 lines (The end result was letting Larry the Lobster live if you wanted to know)

So the Batman team decided to do just that: Buy a house Set up two 1-900 phone numbers (Also deciding to charge $0.50 to call), one that decided Jason lived, one that decided he died, and advertised that readers decided his fate on the back of the most recent comic issue.

Surprisingly, it was a close call; a little over 10,000 called, and Jason Dies beat Jason Lives by only 72 votes. I found this Reddit ask page that asked about who voted what and why, and I linked it but I'll tell you right now, a few people voted to kill Jason just because they didn't think DC would go through with it.

Like, I'm sorry but that's wild to me, imagine spending at least 50 cents on one phone call (Which is $1.30 nowadays I checked), maybe making more than one call because some people did, to kill off a character, and then expecting the publisher that charged you 50 cents a call to just, not do that, to just go like "actually the kid lives anyways fuck you."

So that's that, but one of the funniest aspects of this story to me is that there was some discourse about the poll results and subsequent Canon death of Jason Todd, the Batman staff received a lot of angry letters and phone calls but that's not nearly as funny as the fact that supposedly, a lawyer set up his Dial-up internet to make his phone call the Kill Jason line 85 times. A fucking lawyer

No one's ever found out if that's fully true, or even if one person did make that many calls, but I like to believe my friend's conspiracy theory that it was actually Jim Starlin himself rigging the polls. It probably wasn't him but wouldn't that be so funny?

A small reminder that he was voted to die.

#dc comics #jason todd #red hood #death in the family #one person who replied to the reddit ask said they voted kill and felt guilty lmao

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So in January, I decided to read the original Under The Red Hood arc cuz I liked the movie and I've been wanting to read Red Hood comics for a while now, and not only did no one bring up just how many DC characters I'd see cameo in this arc, but it's still incredibly funny to me that Batman has this moment of, "Could Jason really have, come back from the dead?"

before going up to two of his friends and asking them to describe what it was like when they canonically came back from the dead

#i had no idea resurrections were already established in Batman lore like that #batman #red hood

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me and the bitches i pulled by being aroace. is that anything

#one piece

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if this website tanks i’m writing in my journal i don’t have any more create accounts left in me

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A little animatic I've been thinking about doing for some time.

Song: Buttercup by Jack Stauber

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“i was thinking about how i don’t actually have anything of my own that i can keep. i very luckily have some material things, but every material thing goes away eventually. they can get lost, broken, stolen or just deteriorate, including my body. once i die this will all become nothing. and i was thinking about what do i have that’s really actually mine? that can’t be taken away? and i know this is corny but this love that i feel in me, that i’ve created in me, that i’ve built in me, held on to—it’s mine for as long as i want it, for as long as i don’t give it up or let the world take it away from me. and i really do believe that to love is the best thing i ever did in my life. better than any song i've ever written, any achievement by far. to love is truly the best and most beautiful thing i ever did. and then as i was thinking about that, i started thinking about how sad it was that once i die, i couldn’t leave behind this most beautiful thing that i have. i guess it sort of dies with me. so i wanted to write a song about how i wish that when i die i could at least leave all this love behind in the world.”

mitski explains her new song “my love mine all mine”

#I knew the second that I found out the name of tis album I'd be unwell in a good way #She delivered on that ESPECIALLY with this song

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hannibal fans be like 'cannibalism is so romantic' bro go to therapy

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#no but like steve would totally ask penny this #btb #bigtop burger

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reblog to teleport your mutuals to a massive party when jkr dies

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The plot of Sofia the First

POV ur a tired detective but this stranger is eyeing u from across the bar and it seems he wants to invite u over for a drink

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1850s Tumblr Dashboard Simulator

👸🏻 girlbossladyjane Follow

It really makes me sick to see people giving money to penny weeklies when Franklin's expedition STILL has not been found 😭 There are good men out there trapped in unimaginable temperatures and literally all that's needed is a little more funding for another rescue mission yet all you guys seem to care about are your vulgar little stories...

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the franklin expedition is dead as hell

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Disgraceful thing to say but I'd expect nothing more from a M*lville fan

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👨🏻‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏻 hartgrindisreal

Sorry for posting so much about Tom Gradgrind/James Harthouse from Hard Times lately. It turns out that I was getting arsenic poisoning from my wallpaper? Anyway I took a seaside stroll and I'm normal now. Check your walls y'all

#whyyy did i assume they were committing unlawful actions together like where did i even get that from lol #hard times isn't even that good by dickens standards tbh

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Just painted this

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RIP Napoleon... you may have been unable to conquer Alexander's Russia but you sure as hell conquered Alexander's bed

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HERITAGE POST

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How does this have less than 100k notes you could literally not avoid this post back in the 20s lol

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poets just aren't dying young in mysterious water-related incidents like they used to :/

#as useless and degenerative as i find 'the living poets' and i'm glad we're finally moving on from them #i have to agree with op in this respect

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🎀 thefopdiaries Follow

I finally got a daguerreotype of myself ^_^ Porcelain urn for scaling

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i think i hauve consumption

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They found oil in the ground??? WTF. THIS IS LITERALLY THE WORSTTTT. FUCK MY LIFE FOR REAL THIS TIME

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I swear this website has 0 reading comprehension skills. Darwin NEVER claimed we "evolved" from apes like if one of you guys actually bothered to open his new book you'll see all his arguments are backed up by evidence. He actually makes a lot of sense

#sure there's nuance like i don't fully agree with all of it #but his general theory of natural selection seems pretty sound imo

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Of course these are the finalists lmao this website is so predictable. Anyway vote Heathcliff if you dont i'm going to assume you're a phrenologist

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It's not problematic to acknowledge the fact that Heathcliff was a brute like he literally killed dogs in case you forgot. #rochestersweep

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I love the implication here that Rochester never did anything cruel either. He literally locked his wife in the attic and lied to Jane about it 😭 like that was a pretty significant thing that happened

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And? God forbid women do anything

#why'd you have to pit two bad bitches against each other #anyway i'm not attracted to men but still went with rochester #bc in terms of living quarters thornfield hall > wuthering heights easily

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Not the Russian tsar dying immediately after hartgrind became canon

#i know dickens hasn't technically confirmed it yet but like. SOMETHING was strongly implied ok #see: my previous post #dickensposting

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LORD HELP ME. THE BODY LANGUAGE. THE WAY THEY'RE LOOKING AT EACH OTHER. AHHHHHH

#this installment!!! im-- #dickensposting #i can't fucking cope #dickens wants to KILL us he wants us DEAD....

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Hi guys sorry I haven't been posting lately it's been so difficult getting to California 💀 I'm finally here now though just need to find a pickaxe and soon I'll be digging! :-) wish me luck lol

#gold #gold rush #gold rush grind #california #adventure

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