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Grace Chasity telling Lumber Axe how much of a prude she is

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ETA a new option:

(From a source I will not link.)

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please donate to alaa's fundraiser (verification)

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Spin the wheel and let it randomly assign you a gender identity.

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if shes your girl then why have i slowly been replacing her parts until there’s nothing left of her original body? is she then still your girl?

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have i told you guys about the time that i classically conditioned my kindergarten class

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A writer friend told me something that broke my heart a little bit today; they're going to quit publishing their fanfic.

My instant thought was that they had been trolled or attacked or that something terrible had happened in their life because this person is so passionate about their writing. It wasn't any of that. Engagement with their works has been going down, as it has for many of us. Comments are like gold dust a lot of the time, and just looking through the historical comment counts on old fics on ao3 demonstrates this trend very clearly. It was not simply the comments dropping off which caused them to decide to stop posting, however.

My friend came across a discord server for their fandom (I should point out here that their fandom interest and mine diverged a couple of years ago, we stay in touch but don't currently read each other's posts because I'm not into their fandom and they would rather gouge their eyes out with a wooden spoon than read anything Star Wars) and specifically to share fic in that fandom. They joined, because we all love a good fic rec, only to discover that their latest multichapter fic, which has almost no comments and very few kudos, is being hotly discussed in this server as one of the best stories ever. Not one of these people has bothered to say this to them on the fic. When they asked, none of participants could see the point in telling the author of the fic they apparently loved so much that they love it.

This discovery has absolutely destroyed my friend's love of sharing fic. They share because they love seeing other people's enjoyment, and fic writers do that through comments and kudos/reblogs/likes because we don't get paid. There is no literary critic writing a blog post/article about how amazing the story is for us to copy and keep/frame. There is no money from royalties. All we have are the words of the people reading our works.

Those people on that server could have taken five minutes of the time they spent gushing about how amazing my friend's story was to other people and used it to tell the one person guaranteed to want to hear that praise how much they loved it. They could have taken a moment to express their opinion to the person who spent hours upon hours plotting, writing, editing, and posting those chapters. Instead, they deprived my friend of thing that keeps them sharing their writing, and in the process have killed their love of it. My friend now feels used and unmotivated.

I won't be sharing a link to their fic, they said I could share their experience but not their identity. I know they plan to post one final chapter. I know they intend to express their hurt at being excluded from the praise for the thing they created, and I know they intend to announce that as a consequence they will not be posting for a long while, if at all.

So please, I beg you, don't hide your love of a story from the writer. It's just about the only thing we have.

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you guys HAVE to take “is dumb” off the end of your username. you have to take “my shit rambles” out of your talking tag. you have to stop apologizing for existing. I get so sad for every url I see like “[name]’s-stupid-reblogs” and every blog I open with a title like “pointless posts” and every opinion post I see tagged something derogatory by op!! speaking as someone whose post tag used to be “makes bad posts.” stop actively putting up roadblocks for yourself!! why do we always say bullying is bad but never when we’re bullying ourselves

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the new animated segment for game changer had SO MANY little references and jokes, so here’s a list to celebrate them!!

With context bc it’s more fun when more people are in on it

If I missed any or if you know a reference I don’t, please let me know :)

Almonds, Brennan Lee Mulligan’s perfect gaming snack

Golden ear - prize in make some noise

Box of doom - recurring prop across dimension 20

Books - references to dropout shows

Of dice and men - dimension 20/mice and murder

Complete penance - total forgiveness

Stinky hamper - dirty laundry

Jam it by sight - play it by ear

Suspicion - paranoia

Erm, factually - um actually

Very unimportant folks - very important people

Union magnet - dropout is pro union and workers rights

Whiteboard - Gilear and his yogurt from fantasy high

Photo - fig faeth and wretchrot from fantasy high

2 mugs that are sold as dropout merch!

The ball is rolling up - a starstruck odyssey

Face for tv - very important people

Breaking News Network - No Laugh Newsroom

Free Brian from ??? - Brian David Gilbert on um, actually, in which he and ify nwadiwe joke that he isn’t forced to live on set, he chooses to

Change ALL games - game changer

Feed brennan - brennan is a huge foodie. See: almonds rant

Chompskys coffee - recurring fake brand across collegehumor/dropout canon, usually potato chips

Brennan Lee Mulligan at his computer and idk who that is in the back (someone help me out)

Chompskys again!

Nico Romero: crew member for game changer (set decorator, prop master, presenter, etc)

Portrait of Vic pretending to eat a Chompskys chip - very important people

Limit reached! Reblog with more to come

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There is no "after the revolution." No "ideal world." I don't care how much progress we make, we will always fail someone, hurt someone, and the best thing we can do is accept that, and keep striving to make it better as we go.

And don't get me wrong, I don't say this to discourage anyone from trying to make that ideal world. Quite the opposite.

I feel like it's very naive to continue to approach these big changes we want to make in the world as if there's an "after it's all over" when we don't have to worry about it anymore.

We should always be striving to make life better, even when life seems pretty damn good.

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The fact that I’m saving things I want to Reblog in drafts because all my fandoms have like 20 different tags

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I’m sure someones already said this but I often see Tumblr described as a hellsite. This is fundamentally incorrect.

Tumblr is the faesite. Everybody is super confused and lost, you keep running into random places. Somehow you end up stuck there forever after interacting a couple of times. The people are all strange, everybody simultaneously seems to be from the future and the past as if time is meaningless.

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I had a nightmare where I would die if I couldn’t type the name of the voice actor for Mabel form gravity falls, I don’t the voice actor’s actual name but in my dream her name was Pamela Young (she was like a horrific fusion of Pamela Foster and Sheila Young) but my phone kept glitching out and not allowing me to type, and I think general McNamara was yelling at me the whole time

you ever have “cry and scream yourself awake” level nightmares that are immediately the stupidest premises imaginable the moment you actually wake up

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Me instantly blocking people that have their hogwarts house in their bio