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Minecraft Piglins fuck me up. Like, they’re one of two/three seemingly sentient species, but there’s clearly something wrong with them.

They’ve got bastions throughout the nether, huge buildings that at one point were clearly lovingly constructed. Not only were these buildings functional (apartment complexes, hoglin stables), but they created art. Not just carvings, but music. Not even villagers have created music discs, only piglins. Piglins also had access to the overworld at some point, they have a number of items (carrots, water bottles, string, iron) that could only have been obtained from the Overworld.

But… something happened. At some point in the past, something happened, and Piglins lost the ability to maintain their buildings. The buildings fell into ruins, and even though the Piglins stayed with the ruins, they couldn’t salvage them. They just wander the broken hallways.

What happened? Well, we don’t know for sure. But… Piglins are afraid of Zombie Piglins. Even though Zombie Piglins won’t attack them, Piglins still try to get away from them. Despite this, Zombie Piglins don’t appear infectious. Piglins don’t even turn into them when they die. Instead, Piglins turn into Zombies when exposed to the Overworld. The Overworld infects them, and unlike Zombie Villagers, there is no cure.

It can’t have always been this way, Piglins would’ve needed to be able to access the Overworld at some point to get materials. But something went wrong. And here you are, exploring the ruins of a society and left wondering what happened. Or maybe more importantly, are you next?

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Just a heads up for the people seeing this specific post (since it seems to be blowing up):

This is fake. death/lifts added a fake screenshot, the articles within the screenshot are fake and nothing within them is even remotely true. Facebook has not and is not even considering purchasing Tumblr or Tiktok. Additionally, death/lifts reblogs content from known fash creators and the OP, amish/sicario seem to be in the same circle as them. Please do not allow this misinfo to spread.

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Wish there were more normal guys in the scifi genre. Just want to see some regular folk

Can we please have main story characters who look like People

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Wait why do they need a hallucinogen to safely navigate space in dune?

*gasp*

LET ME TELL YOU... ABOUT MY WONDERFUL SPECIAL BOYS...

THE SPACING GUILD NAVIGATORS.

So a major facet of Dune's world-building is that it's taking place after an event called "The Butlerian Jihad"--sometime after humanity colonized space, there was a massive purge of "Thinking Machines"--we completely wiped out all computers and AI. "But Nite," you're saying, "We need computers to do so many things! How the fuck are people in Dune functioning without computers?! I mean they're in fucking space!!!"

Well, fun fact! A lot of the technology in Dune is in fact, analog! We're talking like weird fucked up mutant children of clockwork and VCR-core! It's wild stuff! Some factions in Dune (like the Tleilaxu) probably have computers and robots hidden away somewhere, but AI is a HUGE taboo in the Dune Universe.

"But wait, we still need computers to calculate stuff."

Well yes, and that's where Mentats come in.

Mentats are humans who have been conditioned from a young age to basically... do what computers do. They can run rapid calculations, store insane amounts of memory, and combine human logic with perfect calculation to advise and instruct.

But there are some calculations that even Mentats can't handle, and that's where my special special boys the Spacing Guild Navigators come in:

See... the thing about Spice in Dune is it isn't just a hallucinogen. It literally expands consciousness--it makes you no longer perceive time linearly-- so spacing guild navigators have conditioning similar to mentats, but this is paired with being dosed with massive amounts of Spice until it mutates their bodies into fucked up fish people and they can't survive outside of a spice-infused tank. So that combination of pinpoint accuracy calculating capabilities with a mind that has been bombarded with so much Space Acid you can plot out the movements of celestial bodies results in a being who can calculate safe FTL travel through the stars!! That's a fucking person in that tank!! It's so fucked up!! I love them!!! And that's how Dune uses Spice to safely navigate space!! That's why Spice is vital to space travel!!!

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The conversation surrounding cultural appropriation has been so severely mutilated by white “allies” that the original intention behind that conversation has become almost unrecognizable in most social contexts.

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"When Dionysus does arrive it is always unexpectedly, his magical wand thrust into the air like a lightning rod, symbolizing his connection to his thunderbolt father. And his lunar mother. His celebrations only become calendrical in the time of Roman rule, but are first characterized as almost mushroom miraculous, popping up in full swing, without any real pretense or planning. His celebrations were emergent behavior. When enough people felt his presence, smelled mead fermenting in rainwater flooded beehives, felt vines constricting and stroking the walls of civilized life, a type of chaotic wildness would coalesce into a new sort of group behavior. The Bacchanal swarm. The Maenad’s ecstatic frenzy. Women are characterized as prides of lion, hunting the hillsides for prey, working as one feline mind as they sought out an ancient feast of raw meat and blood. Dionysus is like his symbolic vine: he twines and entangles and embraces. He is a foliage of faces, a network of connections, rather than one fixed, monotheistic identity."

-Sophie Strand-

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i want to be cute and dainty but i also want to have rough sex with everyone

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okay not sure how to approach this gently but say that, hypothetically, you own some essential oil sprays purchased from a huge department store chain. and there is a recall because they contain deadly disease causing bacteria that has confirmed deaths and has infected and killed who knows how many people because of how rare and difficult to diagnose it is in the united states:

do not throw out the bottles. do not dump the product in the toilet. do not allow the deadly bacteria into the soil, water supply, or landfills. it is an extreme biohazard. do not throw it out. do not throw it out. do not open the bottles.

put on gloves, double bag it tightly in resealable bags, put it in a cardboard box, and give it back to any of the chain's stores. disinfect everything in the room where it was used while wearing gloves. wash sheets and blankets on hot. consider using bleach.

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Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.

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Ooh, I HATE that

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Love my Aedes ladies! Even though there are so many invasive ones lol

I liked their leg stripes so I took a picture ... is it a mosquito or something else? They were found in the Bronx, NY.

A fancy lady! I love her. She's a mosquito in the genus Aedes, probably Aedes albopictus, the Asian tiger mosquito, which as the name implies, is not native to New York :)

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I still haven’t recovered from this

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i think star trek should write an in universe reason why some series don’t have swearing and some do. make it a universal translator glitch or something.

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The shit Bruce has to do to maintain Brucie Wayne literally keeps me up at night. I think about the comic panel where the security guy was like, “check the bathroom, he accidentally locks himself in there sometimes” at least 3 times a day

And on my Bruce Wayne isn’t Batman post I was like, yea he definitely does that shit. Like does he just go about his day, looks at something and goes, “yea, it’s time to be stupid”

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Turned the aro/ace flag into a beach sunset.

^ Tried doing aroace colors

Don’t let anyone tell you your not valid

Ps: I’ll make some other flags too because I really like drawing them

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I see this a lot in leftist circles but mental illness, trauma and abuse will exist with or without capitalism, your “mental illness is a social phenomenon” might be true for your depression and your anxiety but I beg all of you to think about psychotic people, systems and people with personality disorders when you make posts like that. It might be true that we wouldn’t be labeled as mentally ill but we would still need resources to help us cope, there’s still something we would need help coping with and you should focus on making that help available and accessible and free of bigotry for all of us instead of living in a “no mentally ill people” pseudo progressive eugenicist dream.