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started taking birth control recently because reasons and boy howdy i do NOT like the randomass periodic nausea/vomiting fits

#i thought it was food poisoning at first #but it happened again today #and internet says nausea is a side effect of birth control #also til what it feels like to have vomit come out the nose - it's awful #zombie talks #unsanitary #emetophobia

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unsung benefit i think a lot of ppl are sleeping on with using the public library is that i think its a great replacement for the dopamine hit some ppl get from online shopping. it kind of fills that niche of reserving something that you then get to anticipate the arrival of and enjoy when it arrives, but without like, the waste and the money.

#our library's receipts don't do that but they do include the due date to return them so i like them anyway

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Yume 2kki - Victorian Drains (Carnival Town)

#yume 2kki #urotsuki #gif

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a raven father (i call him "pants") I've been feeding sometimes likes to sit outside my window and either wait for more food or just listen to the stuff I'm watching while I draw. Today's a colder day so he likes to fluff up a bit, and I kid you not :

this is an accurate representation of my view

#bird

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by talos this can’t be happening is a mandela effect because the actual phrase is by the gods this can’t be happening and i’ve never heard anyone say the former in game

#til #skyrim

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I just want to say that I love your silly season post updates, and I honestly wait for them after every race. That being said, I am fairly new to Tumblr, and I'm kind of afraid to ask what the John Green cock post is.

HAHAHA well my friend

back in the day we used to be allowed to edit other peoples posts (insane ik) and john green (irl john green who wrote the fault in our stars and hosts crash course) was pretty active on tumblr at the time and posted Something that someone edited to be this:

yeah we got editing other peoples posts taken away after that :/

sorry for the bad quality

#i remember those days #people did that to tumblr staff's posts too #i'm guessing that's the reason they changed it #tumblr

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i mean this from the bottom of my heart: no one is impressed by your loud ass car. actually we talked about it and we all want you dead.

#'wow ur no fun' you try having autistic sensory issues around loud shit and see how 'fun' you remain

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I had a tattoo client ask if I ever used AI to design tattoos for me. Man I spent the better part of a decade doing shitty bit work as a graphic designer and now that I have the space to do whatever I want, I'm gonna let the computer generate random garbage for me? What next should I have a computer that eats my dinner and fucks my wife?

#art

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Dress Worn by Pattie Boyd for a flight from London Heathrow to Los Angeles with George Harrison, Neil Aspinall and Alexis 'Magic Alex' Mardas on 1 August 1967

Designed by The Fool

1967

Christie's: The Pattie Boyd Collection (Lot 11)

#fashion

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the thing about them fandom puritans is a lot of them are also into some weird shit but they'll either not know it (can't really blame them for that one, lack of education and all) or they'll come up with the most batshit, contortionistic mental gymnastics to try to convince everyone "mine doesn't count, so don't judge me, but you should bully those other degenerate perverts"

#zombie talks #probably the weirdest one i ever saw was a hiei/yukina shipper #who insisted they're genetic clones of their parents #so obviously they aren't ~really~ siblings #even though it's directly established in canon that their mother gave birth to them both #look. ship the incest. it's fine. #it doesn't have to mean condoning it in real life or even in the characters' home canon #you don't need to come up with weird arbitrary reasons for why your case is different #fanfiction #shipping #post inspired by an essay i found on ao3 where the author tried to justify their favorite incest ship #in a way that boiled down to 'people can ship what they want but also mine's better than those other disgusting ships' #(no it wasn't the hiei/yukina shipper)

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#palestine

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me every day without fail: I'll do [chore] when I get home

me when I get home:

#me

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like with lolita I feel like even when people are defending the book they tend to go too far in the wrong direction and flatten it into "well obviously the book isn't sympathetic towards pedophilia, you're supposed to hate humbert and think he's disgusting at all times" and I just feel like that's reductive bc like. the book is absolutely not sympathetic towards pedophilia but imo you ARE supposed to find humbert funny and kind of tragic and charming and that's like. the point! like he's intentionally written to be all these things!

if the book wanted to just be like. a straightforward condemnation of pedophilia, then humbert wouldn't be the narrator. but it's not a book about child sexual abuse being bad -- like that kind of goes without saying, you don't really need to argue it -- it's a book about the ways humbert justifies his abuse to himself, and to the audience. it's a book that's largely about how stories are told, and the way personal and cultural narratives can be used to justify even the worst imaginable behavior. humbert doesn't describe himself abusing a child, he describes himself being 'seduced' by a 'nymphet'; he likens his relationship to that of dante and beatrice or petrarch and laureen to establish historical legitimacy and lend a sort of tragic romanticism to it. it almost feels like the book is less focused on the story itself, and more on the way humbert spins it. he isn't written to be an obviously hateable monster, he's written to be erudite and tragic and funny, and that's because the book isn't trying to teach you that child abuse is bad, it's demonstrating the ways that being erudite and tragic and funny can be used to normalize and justify something that you already know is bad. imo it's largely a book about the ways that someone can construct a mythology to convince themselves of anything, and how if we don't think critically about what we're told then we can fall into the same trap.

it's also absolutely a story about reading past the lines to figure out what's actually going on. like it's funny that the book has become such a touchstone for discourse about Media Literacy bc I really think that 'media literacy' is like. one of the core themes. like the book kind of requires that you ignore the way humbert writes to make out what he's actually describing; the worse his behavior gets, the more flowery and beautiful his writing becomes. the story the book tells if you buy into humbert's mythology and the story it tells if you don't are dramatically different.

like the ways that the book depicts dolores suffering are there, but you almost have to read past the narrative humbert presents to see them, right? like when he complains about dolores being irritable and cruel and moody, he's presenting the picture of a fickle and unreasonable WOMAN who is toying with his emotions. but when you read what he's actually describing instead of the way he describes it, it reads like a fact sheet on spotting child abuse! she has mood swings, she lashes out at people, nothing makes her happy, she cries herself to sleep most nights. if we read humbert's account at face value, she's a fickle seductress who gets a sick thrill out of hurting him; if we recognize his bias and intentions in writing it, she's a deeply depressed and traumatized child still attempting to resist her abuser despite everything she's been through. like it's as close to an exercise in 'media literacy' as a book can get in that regard.

#lolita #vladimir nabokov #writing

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The last three digits of your current follower count is the Dewey Decimal Classification subject on which you must immediately give a 15-minute presentation.

How would you do?

#167 - hypothesis #not any hypothesis specifically #but the concept of hypotheses itself #probably would spend it differentiating the term from 'theory' #assuming the stage fright doesn't get to me

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Yume 2kki - Eyeball Cherry Fields (Toilet Room)

#yume 2kki #urotsuki #toilet #gif

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my number one skill is being sooo cute and my number two skill is the ancient curse

#yugioh

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#give me a t give me a 😉 what's that spell? t-eye blink! #fanfiction