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Shallan Davar

Artist, Natural Scientist,

Character from The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

Figure in 1:34mm scale from Brotherwise Games

Images: Figure of Shallan standing in a fighting stance holding a Shardblade. Details in Alt Texts.

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“From whence you came” is a classic place to send back a foul beast

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Sometimes I love the internet, actually. Incomprehensibly huge place but also so small. Saw a video on Instagram where Crayola was announcing they’re coming out with a box with some limited edition previously retired colors, including Dandelion. This video had hundreds of comments and almost all of them where “omg where’s the dandelion crayon girl she’s going to be so happy” and it was such an unimportant thing, but it was just cute

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every time I do a web search, right at the top I have AI info dumping on me

just give me the top result please

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tumblr is actually just an endangered animal nature reserve for cryptids

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For the ones that need it today

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I really am too far gone when I'm mentally projecting world-specific innuendos/puns onto innocent character dialogue 😭

Navani: "the sphere had broken, the one Gavilar had considered most precious out of all his spheres"

Me: 👀💀 "you're talking about your dead husband's *spheres* Navani?!? 👀

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Historical context is of course very useful for important things like Politics and Science and everything, but will also open your eyes to things like, uh... the way the clothing/textile/crafting industries try to use the word "natural" as an excuse to sell shoddy and bad quality goods and make you think that's normal.

God knows there are worse things going on in the world, but it really pisses me off when I see companies advertising "Real Shell/Pearl buttons!" like that's supposed to be some upscale selling point, and the buttons in question are the thinnest, roughest, most crudely-made buttons in existence... 🙄😒 "But they're made from Natural Materials! You can't expect Natural Materials to look refined and consistent like synthetic ones!" They are lying to you. THEY ARE LYING TO YOU! And I know this because I've seen "real shell buttons" from 100 or even 50 years ago. And most of them are sturdy and smoothly polished, of a consistent thickness, and sometimes even finely carved. The buttons on nice men's dress shirts? Those are the cheap, plastic IMITATIONS of what people expected actual mother-of-pearl buttons to look like! "Natural" isn't an excuse! Your product is cheap and badly and lazily made! And I'm so sick of this, because I see it EVERYWHERE. "Linen-look" has become shorthand for "coarsely woven fabric with visible slubs" and that drives me CRAZY because do you KNOW what kinds of linen I have seen??? Antique linen so light and fine and smooth you can't even SEE the weave unless you magnify it!!! A fragment of a linen damask tablecloth so smooth and glossy, it looks like SILK? 😭 (On that note, "dupioni silk" is so roughly woven that it would have been considered hardly fit to sell a century ago) "This fabric is woven of Natural Materials, so imperfections will be inevitable!" 🙃 No! 😀 You just made it cheaply and sloppily, and that was your choice! 😊

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If I ask nicely will people reblog this and tell me what their most common breakfast is? Not your favorite necessarily, just what you have for breakfast most frequently? 🙏🏽

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*exports you as a jpeg* *and turns the quality waaaaay down*

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How come semi trucks in Europe look like “toot toot :)” and in North America they look like “HONK HOOOOOOOONK >:|”

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concept: a fantasy cowboy who rides a dragon instead of a horse

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he needs enrichment

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How many of the 8 As (autism, anxiety, ADHD, aromantic, asexual, agender, agnostic, atheist) do you have?

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-1

-2

-3

-4

-5

-6

-7

-8

Anon would like to clarify that, for the purpose of the poll, self-diagnosis counts for autism, ADHD, and anxiety, and that any who identity on the aro or ace spectrums counts as aro or ace.

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The threat was loud and clear: Report your so-called “DEI” employees or else. What exactly “DEIA or similar ideologies” means is up in the air, but the message was out there. And so was the email address of the DEIA snitching hotline. Fake emails quickly started to roll in. ‘I don’t care, fuck these McCarthyite bastards,” one BlueSky user said, with an screenshot attached of an email to the hotline where he ironically reported Donald Trump and JD Vance for being “put in their positions solely because of their race and/or gender despite the fact that they are wholly unqualified for their jobs and, in some cases, have criminal records.” “Anyone have a script to fire off a billion e-mails an hour??” another user asked in the replies. “Anyone can email anything of any size even if it crashes the site,” one X user noted. The scope and effectiveness of this latest phase of Trump’s anti-DEI crusade remains to be seen.

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my body is a machine that turns impulsive thoughts into regrettable decisions