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The UK may be about to ban VPNs!!!

RED ALERT! THIS IS REALLY BAD!

EVERYONE IN THE UK NEEDS TO PUSH BACK ON THIS NOW! LIKE RIGHT NOW!

If you live in the UK you should sign this petition against the age verification rules linked to this becasue they this law is already a legal and privacy nightmare!

and contact your MPs!

Contact Ofcom here:

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Oh my... Wall carpet

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krillin penis blast

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"i do not dream of labour" is one of the worst pseudo-marxist taglines that western leftists have co-opted because when you ask them what they do dream of, they say traveling, studying, and creating art. broski, who's flying the plane to take you to prague? who's the security at the library with the texts you're studying? who are the clerks in the museum showcasing your art? like bro, you do dream of labour. you just dream of someone else doing it so you don't have to! you merely want to outsource the labour and make it invisible.

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I am not trying to be disrespectful but sometimes you use big/sophisticated words in your cowboy fic (it's the first one I have read of yours and I am enjoying it a lot!) and it makes me think you use AI or something similar. Again, I do not mean this to be rude but I'm curious if you do.

i use 'big words' because i have a law degree.

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𝙱𝚎𝚎𝚝𝚕𝚎𝚓𝚞𝚒𝚌𝚎 (𝟷𝟿𝟾𝟾)

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im going insane i need to write a silent hill fic but it's going to sound like fog fog fog rain rain fog fog fog rain rain rain

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I really dig the official Paralympics logo for the shooting competitions

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The destruction was not enough for them, the lives that were lost were not enough for them, the genocide and famine that ravaged us and our children were not enough for them????

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The beautiful Lucía Dressed in white satin with ribbon and lace.. 🎶

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MY completely original and not at all filing-the-serial-numbers-off mediterraninlandsteppe neolithironbronze ages eurasian societies mythical Amazons-inspired bullshit straight up infantry fighters & high priestess female characters.

can you guess what animal is at the center of their spiritual and cultural life it's not easy it's very subtle

formal inspiration bits:

fig. 1:

late bronze age scythian pants later greek/roman pteruges (leather strips "skirt") neolithic cucuteni-trypillia earthenware & statuettes-inspired body paint and chiton patterns punic "sign of tanit" (body paint) iron age weaving worn as krajka/kushak-style belt and edge of headdress premodern (at least medieval, likely of earlier origins) kichka styled as horse ears instead of horns ancient greek chiton & veil celtic "torque" style bracelet achaemenid empire bracelet late antiquity byzantine gold bracelet middle minoan II/III bronze age breast ornament/necklace late geometric/early archaic era bronze horse statues (body paint and fibula) late bronze age etruscan spiral bracelet archaic era (circa 550BC) rhodian siren aryballos :)

fig. 2:

ancient greek "boeotian" shield gorgoneion-inspired apotropaic design bronze age "tower" shield with later roman "scutum"-inspired decorations left cuirass mostly inspired by the 3th century BC italiote Ksour Essef cuirass right cuirass mostly inspired by the bronze age anatomical "Marmesse" cuirasses + archaic period "bell" greek cuirass (with Ksour-Essef cuirass inspired shoulder clasps & hints of later anatomical cuirasses design elements) scythian pants, scythian shoes late greek/roman pteruges neolithic cucuteni-trypillia earthenware & statuettes-inspired body paint hoplitic (ancient greek) greaves iron age weaving as pattern again hellenistic period Tanagra figurines (one) (two)

lore bits:

the veil is not a modesty thing in their culture (as depicted on fig. 1 the "modesty" "standards" are vastly different), it is almost exclusively used by the priestesses by whom it is used as insulation material to get real high off the smoke of sacred herbs (like one would put a towel over their head when leaning over a bowl of boiling water to clear out the sinuses. but with psychotropics instead) and through which it is said a priestess does her scrying and can see the future or the dead by holding the veil up against smoke, against the sky, against a landscape, etc.

the main animal of spiritual, cultual, cultural, and social/societal importance is the horse. spiritually and cultually, it is seen as a psychopomp: an animal who carries on its back the soul of the dead from this world to the other. it is seen as a comrade, able to carry the wounded out of battle like fellow soldiers can, and as a mother archetype, carrying its rider like a mother carries her child. it is as such a symbol of solidarity but also of strength, of vitality, and from observing the behavior of mares, of fierce protection yet of not tolerating bullshit. this makes, for them, the centaur both a revered neighbor (lol "neigh") (also centaurs exists in this. not the point) and an ideal: animal instinct and human reason, animal strength and power with human conscience/consciousness using and channeling that strength and power. as most members of this society ride horses, the "control of" (partnership with, rather) of an animal that big and powerful is like microdosing on controlling forces beyond one's grasp (the divine). socially and societally, the horse is at the center of their economic surviving system as it aids in travel, in agriculture, in warfare, in games (that serve cohesion of the community), in construction, in entertainment and spiritual life (string instruments using horse hair), etc.

the second main animal of their spiritual life, with lesser social/societal importance, is the snake. it is a chthonian animal associated with death (crawls on and burrows in the ground, realm of the death), but also with rebirth (molting), both very important to the community as many who were not born in it (like the main character of the story) (not pictured there) (oh yeah i haven't mentioned it. those are parts of the supporting cast. WINK) but rather came there, came after a death (social, spiritual, mental and, for some but very few, literal/physical).

the third animal of their spiritual life is the lizard, associated with rebirth through molting also, but more important due to its behavior of autotomy: self-amputation and discarding of the tail when caught by a predator in order to escape, and regrowing it later.

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my humor 2016

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fandom spaces were better when the media creators didn't know we existed and we didn't want them to find out.