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do publishers realize that advertising books using fanfic tropes spoils the experience of reading an original story. stop telling me it’s enemies to lovers and there was only one bed and unrequited love hurt comfort golden retriever black cat timeloop major character death. why do i give a fuck if i don’t know any of the characters and now plus i already know the entire plot of the story. that’s what ao3 is supposed to be for

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sometimes I read a radioactively bad take and just sit there like "not only do you not understand this story but you fundamentally do not understand how stories work in general, and you have never considered that your discord with every piece of fiction you come across could possibly be a problem on your end"

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was math your worst subject in school?

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So Tom Lehrer was Jewish, and you will see a lot of Jews, and people who know about Judaism saying, may his memory be a blessing, or z''l, which is short for the same phrase in Hebrew. and, in fact, I said may his memory be a blessing on another post. but there is another saying that is often said by Jews to mark a death, which I feel is much more appropriate. That phrase is Baruch dayan ha'emet, meaning "Blessed is the true judge." Baruch dayan ha'emet is often abbreviated as BDE.

I can't think of anyone who would more appreciate the double meaning in BDE than Tom Lehrer, or anyone who embodied the other meaning of BDE more.

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Just to clarify, there's a bill that would STOP credit card companies from controlling who's allowed to spend money on porn or "risque" (read: queer) content. If you don't think big business should be able to tell you what to spend your own damn money on, call your senators and reps to let them know! It's the Fair Access to Banking Act, H.R.987 in the House, S.410 in the Senate.

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list link here

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Like a new friend!

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im reading a book & uh. wow. trans men&mascs really have been getting institutionalized as insane and killed for centuries huh

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Yeah tbh I’ve done it on a pan on the stove and it turned out fine?

Have you seen nilered's video about making coffee from scratch?

It's euhhh..... interesting....

Oh god what did he do now kfjdslkjf

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they're called human rights because you get them by being human. No ifs no buts. Everyone gets them. Yes even those people

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It’s okay to save things for Best, but Best actually has to come one day.

A brief moment of rationality from the bird place.

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As I’m dipping my toes into the military history I’m getting even further perspective on just how weird Rome was.

Like I knew they were weird. I’ve been into Roman history for a long time. I’ve just never looked at the military side of it much in detail. I’m more interested in domestic and political stuff.

Like I knew for sure that Rome was a very militaristic society. Almost all citizen able bodied men served in the army at some point in their lives. They liked being aggressive. This is known.

What I didn’t know is their policy on surrender. Which is that you (not Rome) will surrender.

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I’ve seen the shortened version of Cab Calloway’s St James Infirmary Blues from the Betty Boop Snow White 1933 cartoon on Tumblr a few times, thought you’d all like the full version.