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at base i just think "women are more prone to mysticism and magical thinking due to their fundamental and irreconcilable soul differences from men, which is why astrology is inherently female-coded" is a much more overtly misogynistic thing to argue than "astrology is a noxious pseudoscience" could ever be

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whoa whoa whoa, are you enjoying yourself right now? rookie mistake. you're supposed to be afraid and angry... yeah no all the time. how else will you prove you care about all the problems?

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tumblr poll: would you mind if someone, in an enclosed public space, shrieked out a piercingly loud single angelic note? (70% yes / 30% no)

response one: no I wouldn't like that, my ears are sensitive. yeouch!

response two: eh I wear noise cancelling headphones most of the time, probably wouldn't even notice, you do you

response three: lol if someone ever did that around me I would tackle them and make every person in the vicinity call the police at once, inexcusable freak behavior, if you're alright with this then there's something medically wrong with your brain

response four: if someone's screaming in public it's probably because they're mentally ill and having a serious episode, you selfish fucks, you can't call yourself a leftist unless you're completely cool with public screaming at all times under all circumstances

response five: the problem, you see, is that the children use tiktok,

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Among the most bad-faith, genuinely bizarre responses that’s incredibly popular on here (frequently from insightful, thoughtful people!), is the thing where someone says “this behaviour, while not the end of the world, is kind of an annoying, thoughtless move. It would be nice if people did that less.”. And then the response is “so you think people should call the cops on people who do that thing???? You think they should be executed on the sidewalk in front of their families for doing this thing???”. Like I’m somewhat sure that’s not actually what is being said, actually! Sometimes people *do* call for criminalization of being an annoying asshole in shared spaces, and that is an unambiguously bad thing that should be pushed back against, but someone solely doing the equivalent of rolling their eyes about it is not necessarily doing that. People have the right to be irritating as hell, and the people around them are freely allowed to think “Christ, what an asshole” about it. Especially if that being annoyed at someone is entirely limited to complaining about it on a dying microblogging site, like please be serious here and stop making up people to get mad at

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“The old magic persists thanks to it’s unfathomable power.”

No, the old magic persists because the new magic can’t run the legacy spells I need to do my job, and keeps trying to install spirits I don’t want or need onto my orb.

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been stewing on an analytical approach to fiction which I call "is this book afraid of me?" and in order to answer this question you determine how hard the book is trying to make sure you don't come after the writer on twitter

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what if she was called chappell bone and instead of a singer she was a necromancer who raised strong as fuck skeleton warriors

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Mmmm medication :) I love you medication. Modern medicine makes my life so much better. "Ohh you're so young maybe you'll want to taper off..." no thank you, I will keep taking the pills that resolve my symptoms :) thank you pharmacology I love you

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uh oh! one of your organs has mysteriously vanished! Spin this wheel to find out which one!

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Important update: the Linguistic Society of America’s annual conference has an event called Word of the Year, and we recently voted for this construction (“the X I X’ed”) as the most creative word of the year: https://americandialect.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2024-Word-of-the-Year-PRESS-RELEASE.pdf

The professional word nerds are DELIGHTED by this meme and what it can tell us about how verbs work ❤️

underrated form of humor: just making shit up in past tense

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uh oh! one of your organs has mysteriously vanished! Spin this wheel to find out which one!

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there's a fascinating line of "left wing" thought that never seems to die which basically amounts to "homeschooling is good actually"

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Branderson needs to stop giving us really fucking cool concepts and then just being like "teehee wait until I write the sequel." What do you MEAN feruchemical nicrosil stores the ability to use investiture and tapping it can give someone powers? You mean you could transfer the ability to use aon dor, metallic arts, or, most interestingly, surgebinding? What do you mean the tenth heightening gives powers nobody knows about? What do you mean there's unique interactions when different types of investiture are used together that we know very little about? What do you mean using investiture too much PERMANENTLY alters your body and we only see like 3 examples of it total? Mean to me. Mean.

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