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Thank you for featuring my reply!

When it comes to research, my opinion is that it's always great when it's there, but sometimes, the writing or art alone can convey what is necessary for the scene, and making it extra realistic is not a must at all. Artistic liberty is a thing for a reason, and missing something when researching is perfectly normal.

Someone might nitpick an anime for featuring a monogamous couple of (non-anthropomorphic) great white sharks caring for two pups who should be old enough to be independent by that point, but, first of all, this has no bearing on the plot, and second of all, that's more of a tiny insignificant nitpick and not a serious criticism of an anime that isn't even really about sharks (a huge loss on their part, more shows should be specifically about sharks).

It can be fun to nitpick things like writing or specific real life facts the plot references, but it should never take the form of harsh criticism. Angry Youtube critics who exaggerated their negative reactions for comedic effect have inadvertently raised an entire generation who believes that this is how you should review art, and that absolutely sucks. We were supposed to laugh at the Nostalgia Critic, not become him.

It's okay if the writer uses more than one word to describe a single character. It's okay if there is a made up word here and there. It's okay if the writer didn't know that crocodiles weren't introduced to Japan until way after the Meiji restoration, and that the word for "crocodile", "wani", used to refer exclusively to sea monsters and should have been used as such by the early Tokugawa era characters.

Nitpicking such small details and pretending that they are serious writing flaws is asshole critic behaviour and should not discourage people from making art.

Devastating to have more evidence that done IS better than perfect

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Her blood pressure is way up due to all of this.

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Maybe my services aren't necessary, considering official media provides meme redraws.

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Happy happy family alright, but how Joey, and only him, got into Whites family?

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🆘Hello, i,m hosam from gaza please help my brother Ibrahim who suffers from Down syndrome and his family by donating or sharing the support link in your story ,Your donation makes a big difference to us 🙏🏻❤️‍🩹🫂 ، link in bio 🍉

https://www.gofundme.com/f/gkatu-please-help-save-my-family-from-gaza

Sadly I cannot donate due to sanctions, but I will gladly share the link!

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🚨 We Need Your Kindness to Survive 🚨

Hello, My name is Mosab Elderawi, and I live in Gaza with my family. Life here has become harder than I ever imagined, and I’m writing this with hope in my heart that you might hear our story.

The ongoing war has devastated my family. We’ve lost 25 family members—each one a beloved part of our lives, taken too soon. I miss them deeply—their laughter, their presence, their love. Every day is a reminder of this unimaginable loss.

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We are now facing daily challenges to survive—things that most people take for granted, like food, clean water, and a safe place to sleep. The harsh realities of life here have replaced our dreams with the constant fight for survival.

Our Current Situation:

💔 Lost Stability: The war has left us without work or a stable source of income. 🍞 Basic Needs: Food and water are becoming harder to afford with rising prices and scarce resources. 📚 Dreams on Hold: Like so many here, my family’s dreams have been replaced by the need to simply survive. 😢 Unimaginable Loss: Losing 25 loved ones has left a void that can never be filled.

How You Can Help:

I’m sharing our story with the hope that someone out there might care. Even $5 can make a big difference for us, and if you’re unable to donate, just reblogging this post can help spread the word.

Your kindness, no matter how small, is something we’ll never forget.

What This Means to Us:

Your support is not about changing our entire situation—it’s about giving us a little relief, a little hope, and a way to keep going. We are not asking for much, and we understand if you can’t donate. Sharing our story is just as valuable to us as a donation.

Thank you for reading this far. It means the world to us to know that someone is listening. Your kindness gives us strength and helps us believe in a better tomorrow.

With all our gratitude, Mosab Elderawi and Family ❤️

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Hello🤗❤️

I hope you are well🌹

Can you help me get my voice heard

and share my family's story?🙏🏻

Can you Reblog my pinned post from my blog or donate 10$?

By helping to reblog my story, you could

save a family from death and war.🌹

Thank you very much🌸

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Sorry I cannot donate due to sanctions, but I can reblog the post!

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blorbo thoughts

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💥🙌👏

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Reblog and put in the tags any new favorite character(s) you’ve gained this year.

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I legit do not care why you’re doing it, you don’t ask for legal documents from people for a discord server

“But the minors!” Yeah, they can steal an adult relative’s ID, censor the name, face, etc etc until it only shows the DOB, and you have no idea you’re actually letting a 13 year old into your nsfw channel. They don’t even have to steal one, they can grab one off Google Images for their state and censor any detail that would indicate it’s fake and then show you that.

And no, I also don’t care that it just means you won’t have access to nsfw channels. YOURE STILL ASKING FOR PERSONAL INFO. THIS IS FACEBOOK LEVEL CREEPY.

But yeah sure, the people who think you’re engaging in a serious breach of privacy are the creepy ones here.

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This request was sent to us and we made a poll in response to it. Send any Blorbo-related question you want to our inbox and we’ll make a poll on which people can vote with their own Blorbos in minds

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we’ve always been here (and we’re not going anywhere)

@ravens-play-exy-too / the handmaiden (2016) // frida (2002) // wilde (1997) // oscar wilde in a letter to leonard smithers // dickinson (2019-2021) // emily dickinson in a letter to sue dickinson // brokeback mountain (2005) // our flag means death (2022-2023) // e.m. forster, selected letters of e.m. forster // kill your darlings (2013) // black sails (2014-2017) // eleni prineas, finding the lesbians: personal accounts from around the world // anne with an e (2017-2019) // gentleman jack (2019-2022) // portrait of a lady on fire (2019) // a league of their own (2022) // virginia woolf in a letter to vita sackville-west // carol (2015) // james baldwin in an interview with richard goldstein // sappho, fragment 147

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Cringe started as a verb describing a physical reaction, i.e.: "I cringe when I see [x]."

Modern slang has turned cringe into an adjective describing anything to which a person might have such a reaction.

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This shift in language is illustrative of a shift in culture.

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For a while there, in the early 2000s, there was this big sex positivity movement and we talked openly about kink and queer sexuality and creating a culture of consent that broke away from traditional conservative ideas of moral respectability.

And now we are in the midst of this giant purity culture backlash, this giant push for rigid conformity all over the internet. Anything that deviates from the norm even remotely is ridiculed.

And this cultural shift is perfectly encapsulated in this singular linguistic shift, this verb becoming a noun.

The Revenge of the Pearl Clutchers

That's what "cringing" is. It's pearl clutching.

When the pearl clutchers turned cringe into an adjective, they turned a reaction into an accusation. The pearl clutchers don't want to take responsibility for their own kneejerk emotions. They want to blame YOU.

They are saying, "My disgust isn't the fault of my own backwards prejudices. It is YOU who are inherently disgusting. My inability to cope with even the slightest deviation from norm is not the problem here. YOUR refusal to rigidly conform is the problem. I am not the one who is cringing. YOU are the one who is cringe."

Fuck 'em.

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Take the word back.

Cringe is not something people are.

It's something judgmental assholes do.

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Yet another queer space was violently raided by the police in Russia today. People were lawlessly detained. Everyone's scared as fuck.

We are honestly this close to having our own Stonewall.