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okay everyone reblog and tell me your favorite perfume. but if your favorite is glossier you… don’t bother

#one of my current favorites (I’ve been going very slowly through a bottle of highly-scented lotion) #is Le Labo’s The Noir

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sometimes im like "wow holy shit im being really fucking annoying. i should stop talking" and then i pull out my magic 8 ball and it says "youve always been annoying and your friends chose to talk you anyways. youll be fine" and im like wow thanks magic 8 ball. and then the ogre attacks me

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TIL that a recent study out of the University of Kansas found that it takes about 50 hours of socializing to go from acquaintance to casual friend, an additional 40 hours to become a “real” friend, and a total of 200 hours to become a close friend.

via reddit.com

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Tumblr, waking up to the boops on April 1st

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i am a woman at war with herself, torn forever between my love of detective fiction and my hatred of cops and cop media

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(preview pages, more below)

NEW TYK FANCOMIC WOOHOO HELLO! An adaptation of the second half of chapter 65 of TYK, in other words, THE "Are you sincere" scene! (yes, again). 🎉 43 pages! 🎉 Link to the full comic > https://www.pixiv.net/artworks/116988959

Or just click HERE

And of course, some preview pages and more below!

First half of the comic for your enjoyment! I intend on making another post detailing the process and some of my thoughts and reflections on it.

I'm very happy with how it came together, and am extremely thankful to all the people who supported me throughout the process of making it. SableFan, Moose, Bichen, E, Siv, Ailsa, Li, Azur, and all the MGZ people, y'all are rockstars!! This is my first TYK chapter adaptation in a long time, and I've been meaning to make it for a very long time but was unable to do so for personal reasons. Being able to finally put it out is extremely meaningful to me, so this "little" comic is, in more ways than one, very precious to me.

I hope you can enjoy my interpretation of what would be one of the most famous scenes of TYK.

More musings about that scene here.

#this is so so so so so so good

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i do think theres something sad about how largely only the literature that's considered especially good or important is intentionally preserved. i want to read stuff that ancient people thought sucked enormous balls

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listen. i know it's not 2014 anymore and i know it's just a throwaway line and that the russo brothers didnt intend for marvel action blockbuster captain america the winter soldier to become the tragic gay love story that never was but man. having steve say "it's kind of hard to find someone with shared life experience" in a conversation about romantic relationships right before the bucky reveal is so cruel. it's not just about steve and bucky obviously having the shared experience of being "out of time," it's the fact that they've both been stripped of their humanity in opposite directions. steve is a legend, he is an american hero and a national icon before he is a human being the same way that bucky is a weapon and a killing machine before he is a human being. steve knows that anyone who falls in love with him in the 21st century fell in love with captain america first, and that's just not him. but then the one person who knew him first and knew him best and loved him (not captain america, that little guy from brooklyn) so much he died for it is alive, impossibly. and it's a miracle because he's back and it's horrific because he's back under the worst possible circumstances. but to steve, the winter soldier is worth tearing the world apart for because he's always been bucky first. they find each other and suddenly they're human again. and maybe, despite it all, being "out of time" becomes a blessing, because in this century they'd finally be allowed to love each other the way they've always wanted to. like real people do.

like. no. the captain america trilogy isn't about two queer men traumatized and alienated by war and modern life rediscovering and reclaiming their humanity through their love for each other. but. i mean. it couldve been

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I lost the post on my dash where this would have been a fun addition but these are the krill that blue whales eat! Some people think krill are like nearly microscopic or something but they are very decently sized shrimps

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yandere this and tsundere that how about doing your laundere

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there’s something endlessly hilarious to me about the phrase “hotly debated” in an academic context. like i just picture a bunch of nerds at podiums & one’s like “of course there was a paleolithic bear cult in Northern Eurasia” and another one just looks him in the eye and says “i’l kill you in real life, kevin”

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it’s december 1 where’s the christmas tail kitten bring him to me

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I always wondered why the Western Zodiac and the Chinese Zodiac were both called zodiacs if one was associated w astronomy and the other w time in general. Like what defines a zodiac that the word is only used to describe these two things? Looking up the word “zodiac” in the dictionary didnt help bc it only talked about the western one.

Well, I decided to look up the etymology for zodiac and it turns out it comes from the Greek for “circle of little animals.” I love humans

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More people should abandon Internet discourse and get into observing/engaging with local politics. I say this not because local politics often offers more meaningful opportunities for effective praxis (although it does), but because local politics often offers just as much highly toxic and entertaining petty drama.

I highly recommend city council meetings. You might make yourself an informed voter and active community member or something. You also might get to watch an ongoing soap opera of old men ready to murder one another over trash collection ordinances, and unlike the Internet, none of them can effectually tell one another to kill themselves no matter how hard and how clearly they are thinking it.