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Childhood bullying is so annoying because like, those years exist in a liminal space where you were learning about the world to some degree, but also existing outside of the real world. So you learn a lot of things that only apply to school dynamics. But your brain doesn't understand that, because you evolved to spend those years learning about the real world.

So like, consciously I know that all my coworkers are not going to team up against me to freeze me out because they hate me. That is not something adults do, and if they did, it would be really fucked up on their part and not mine.

However, that DID happen to me with my classmates during my formative years. So my brain recognizes it as a possibility. Because "that shit only happens in middle school" is not a concept that is evolutionarily baked into my brain, but "we've experienced this before so it might happen again" absolutely is.

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there's this annoying tweet going around on twitter dunking on "cringe Tumblr Prose" i.e. overly flowery or trying-too-hard-to-sound-literary posts and whatnot and god it's sparked such a miserable conversation because all im thinking while going through people pointing and laughing at all these posts and pieces of writing is. lord, yall dont know how to have fun or be genuine. i'd rather read a thousand cringe but earnest pieces of writing than read constantly irreverent uber-ironic pieces done out of fear of the social media panopticon of shame. like so what if it's goofy and pretentious-sounding at times. it's fun. do you guys remember when you did things for fun?

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One of my favorite elements in the TF2 comics are the recurring beats implying that all things being equal Heavy would much rather be a morally righteous action hero in the tradition of Dolph or Arnie- rejoining Team Fortress to crush "evil men," implicitly doing so extensively as part of his tragic backstory, going in guns blazing to rescue a buddy from the Korean Mob, rallying everyone to go fight Merasmus's monster army during the Halloween party, getting the big climactic set piece fight with the deranged supervillain on an island base. But he's held back from the role he was born to play by his association with the Mann Family clusterfuck. He wasted the prime of his Rambo years shooting people in the desert for no reason.

Which ends up being sort a recurring beat, for many of the characters who aren't life-outcome agnostic in the manner of Pyro or Medic. Scout instantly finds extensive romantic success the second he lets go of Ms. Pauling and detaches himself from the badlands. Spy coming to terms with, and making up for lost time with, the family he was out in the Badlands to avoid. Engineer trundles along in his support capacity until his contract is up, smart enough to warn Helen's potential successor away from the same path but never able to break away from it himself until her death forced his hand- never exposing himself to the true pointlessness of the practical problem he was on retainer to solve. Demo implicitly realizing that for all his vaunted family pride in mercenary work he's spent the last several years on the second-string relief team that none of his peers took seriously. Saxton realizing that the joke of an ultramasculine adventure hero with a desk job has worn kind of thin and he's removed himself from his native genre for no real reason, to no personal fulfilment. Soldier.... is actually in the exact same general life situation but with a wife and kids along for the ride, good for him.

Ultimately it turned into a story about how the characters have outgrown the excuse plot- a story about how all of these people have much more interesting stories to be involved in, more compelling things to be doing than what we've spent the last seventeen years watching them do. And now they're free and clear and on their way.

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Canonical TF2 names:

Scout: Jeremy Willis

Soldier: Jane Doe

Pyro: unknown

Demo: Tavish Finnegan DeGroot

Heavy: Mikhael (often goes by Misha), last name unknown

Engineer: Dell Conagher

Sniper: Mr. Mundy (first name possibly Mick, unconfirmed)

Medic: Herbert Ludwig

Spy: unknown

Miss Pauling: Flo Pauling

The Administrator: unknown (several fake names, all confirmed false)

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one of the most important things you can do as an ally to trans women is defending her first. it’s important to be aware of her own needs and her fears of being removed for causing problems so you don’t alienate her from a cruel but necessary family connection or something, but while keeping that in mind, if you’re in a social situation where someone says something shitty or implies something transmisogynistic to her, don’t just sit there and wait and watch what she does and how she might stand up for herself, stand up for her. in the past when transmisogynistic things happened to me while with friends, almost every time they flattened behind me and silently waited to see how i dealt with it. save your girls the stress and the loneliness and be there for them first, be around them, be beside them, make them know you have their back, especially if you’re not a transfem; people will actually listen to you when you say it’s bigoted

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TF2 7TH COMIC SPOILERS

Hey TF2 fandom I feel like we’re not talking about this part of Saxton Hale maybe continuing the whole cycle of the war by telling these two to “work out the details”

CAUSE LIKE… BIDWELL AND REDDY

BIDWELL, REDDY

B, R

BLUE AND RED

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I’ve shared this bit of advice before, but it’s worth sharing again.

I am almost 8 years on HRT and before I even started taking estrogen, spiro, or progesterone, my doctor looked me in the eyes and asked a very important question…

She asked: “Do you want big boobs?”

I said yes, I wanted something that matched my frame.

She immediately told me: “Then do not go on a diet, maintain your fat, because your body will be using that and whatever you’re eating to build up your breasts and other features.”

And bless her because I’m rocking an H Cup these days.

So my trans girlies who are just starting out, I offer that bit of advice to you as well.

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How to make an animated video (tutorial) (2024)

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how my brain picks a new favorite character who sucks

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bouba and kiki

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"I want to live in a world in which teenagers can fulfil their natural purpose of being annoying" and "I do not always want to be annoyed by the teenagers" are compatible sentiments

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save the last dance

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source

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why did cabinet man decide to use his lungs to collect change. money is absolutely covered in germs from being passed around, so he almost certainly would’ve caught some kind of respiratory illness