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gender euphoria is looking rly hot to other queer people and offputting to everyone else

#YEAH

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The fact that homelessness is controversial tells you everything you need to know about conservatives.

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the catholic old white guy asked me to explain lgbtq+ to him and it was honestly kind of funny

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i think makeup can be artistic expression i also think sometimes people are lying about it being about artistic expression and would in fact be a lot happier if they had never been told they had to wear it

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clean water is such a luxury that we tend to take for granted.

i found out that wild animals can drink dirty water only because they've been acclimated to its contaminants since birth. because of this, any changes in the water can cause outbreaks of severe illness. animals raised on clean water would have just as much trouble with wild water as we would.

anyway, unrelated but Fuck Nestle

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vampires have been drinking human blood for centuries they don't give a fuck about guys on eight different antidepressants. they were sucking on asbestos factory workers

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I am slowly losing my mind over the shift towards video as the default media format.

I do not find this to be an efficient way to absorb information. I am bored and distracted by the time the largely unnecessary introduction is over. I can't use ctrl+f to find the specific information I'm looking for. If there are instructions to follow, I don't want to have to constantly pause and back up to the part I need.

At least give me a fucking transcript.

#i feel this in my soul #setting videos on 1.5 or 1.75x speed my beloved and beloathed

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"Kill yourself" is basic. "I hope your fandom gets a new installment that is objectively a great work but also tonally dissonant from the previous ones in a way that generates a huge newbie boom of people uninterested and hostile towards the history of the franchise" is smart. It's possible. It's terrifying. It's happening right now.

#sobbing

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this is assuming its on art you normally wouldn't jump to reblog. i myself only rb stuff i really really like so .

The 'rude/demanding' tone would be stuff along the lines of "if you like but don't reblog I'll [threat]" which i see surprisingly often, both serious and more silly

#maaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyybe #it won't make me *more* likely to reblog it but it's not an automatic 'hm! i will ignore this now'

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#get rid of the depression and slowly deteriorating hip & related chronic pain #but I'm keeping the adhd and the nerve damage arm #those are MINE #oh and I'd get rid of the chronic fatigue #that's no fun

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leitmotifs never get old to me like holy shit dude there’s this melody that corresponds to this one guy and if you hear the melody it means the guy is there. holy shit. and sometimes it refers to ideas too not just guys. has anyone heard about this

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after several discussions that left me baffled, let me throw this out to the masses: do you look at ao3's icons when you're looking for a fic to read?

#okay i put other just bc #i absolutely know what they mean #ratings/decision to use archive warnings (''chose not to use'' and ''no apply'' are not the same) #ships (m/f f/f m/m gen/none other) #completion status #but i generally look more at tags #i'll filter certain tags to begin with #skim the tags as i'm scrolling #and read the summary #sometimes i'll glance at the icons but they're not my main concern

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as someone with a bachelor’s degree in english, i am inexpressibly tired of people telling me to get highly specific jobs that often require highly specific degrees. “just go write for a magazine!” you need a journalism degree for that. “just teach!” you need a teaching certificate, and also fuck you. “just go work at a tutoring place!” tutoring children with learning disabilities, which make up the majority of the clientele at those places, requires not only a teaching certificate but a specialized master’s degree. “just go work at a library!” you need a master’s degree in library science to be a librarian. it is actually a highly skilled and extremely competitive field. you don’t just “go work at a library,” you train for years in the vain hope that you will get one of handful of available jobs. “just go work at a library.” the nerve. the unmitigated gall. “just go work at a library.” ugh.

#as someone with a BA in english desperately trying to figure out a career field #(i am a library science dropout) #this post resonates in my soul

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Cry it out

No face blurs version

#mysme

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My cutie patootie Saeyoung Choi. I’m going to drown him in cheek kisses 😭😭

THIS MAN IS WAITING FOR YOUR KISSES! HAND THEM OVER! HE MADE SURE YOU SIGNED THE AGREEMENT FOR 707 KISSES AS SOON AS HE COMES HOME FROM WORK! YOU GET 606 IN RETURN!

#no but this cg specifically. after hes been so dead inside for the whole vae until this point #HE LOOKS *HAPPY* AGAIN AND I AM SOBBING OVER HIM #mysme

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Ahem

which greek god are you (but somewhat detailed)

My best friend made a quiz! I'm gonna start a chain because she'd like that and I can. This was mine,

No pressure at all :)

@coffee-without-anesthetics @lastdivantruther @bunniezai @spiderbends @irish-journal @someonebeatmetotheseusernames @shroom-sprouts @lyloneliness @lotus-pear

#joining the hestia streak 🫡 #quiz

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@roach-works // Melissa Broder, "Problem Area" // Mary Oliver, "The Return" // @annavonsyfert // Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer // Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance // David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories // Tennessee Williams, Notebooks