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What if u hunted me for sport would that be romantic or what

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Never underestimate my ability to find parallels

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AU where Steve and Eddie date but Eddie breaks up with Steve so he can make it big, and then just…never makes it.

He plays in a wedding band now.

Typically Gareth books their gigs but that’s going to stop as soon as Eddie sees the welcome sign welcoming them to the wedding of Steve Harrington and, “Are you fucking kidding me?”

“Think of the paycheck, man.”

This happens and that happens, and suddenly Eddie’s back is against the wall of an empty hallway, Steve’s mouth on his neck and - “This is wrong. So wrong.”

“Hm?”

“You just got married.”

Steve pulls back to give him a look like he’s the biggest idiot to walk this planet and asks, “So?”

“Since when does Steve Harrington cheat?”

“Did you even look at the bride? Like at all.”

“She had a veil.”

“She took it off,” Steve smiles like he’s not cheating on his wife. He gives Eddie a peak on the lips, “It’s Robin.”

“Rob- it’s Buckley?” Eddie asks incredulous. “The lesbian.”

“Yeah, man,” Steve says, pulling Eddie’s tie off. “I got to be married or thirty to get my inheritance. We made a deal.”

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You're about to close on your very own, suspiciously affordable and comfortable house. Just before you sign the contract, the realtor shows you the required legal disclosure: your new house is haunted by the type of presence you'll get from this spinner wheel.

Of course it is.

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10D Chess

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unironically i love this website and the people who post here because like 4% of them are even more pedantic and specialized in their knowledge bases than i am, and they are ALL HATERS. these are my people, sincerely. i support them uncritically even though all of us are REALLY annoying

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the tv show "the torment nexus game is bad" being a poignant critique of wage slavery and class disparity and capitalism that is popularized in the west by big tv corporation bc it makes them money, then being turned into "the torment nexus game is bad: the game show" by the most souless and therefore most popular youtuber because it makes him money, so then big tv corporation makes their OWN "the torment nexus game is bad: the OFFICIAL game show" to make even more money off the "the torment nexus game is bad" fictional critique of capitalism tv show, and then it turns out that many allegations of torment nexus-like conditions come out of both reality tv game shows but there aren't any consequences. and then Bigger Corporation goes to the soulless youtuber and is like. lets make another "the torment nexus game is bad" -esque game show to make us a lot of money because the people stuck in the torment nexus love that shit. it's called "the torment nexus game is fun :-)" and then the writer of the "the torment nexus game is bad" posts on twitter that he fucking hates his own story and what it has become. you would think this is a plot from a heavy-handed early black mirror episode but it is unfortunately a plot from real life

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Hey, you are not an embarrassment for not knowing how to do certain household chores/basic self-care. They do not come naturally to us. A lot of it takes practice! Maybe you had a neglectful guardian. Maybe you had one that was very coddling and never thought to teach you. Maybe you haven't lived in a place where these things were available to you or needed. Doesn't matter. It's okay to not know and far more common than you might realise.

That said, this website provides very simple instructions on how to do everyday tasks such as making your bed, using a washing machine, cooking different foods, washing dishes, taking a shower, etc. All you have to do is use the search bar to find the task you're struggling with, and it'll come up with what you need + other related how-to's:)

If you're having trouble navigating it, let me provide you with some examples:

How to clean dishes by hand

How to make your bed (with visual demonstrations of each step!)

How to fold clothes (with visual demonstrations of each step!)

How to take a shower & dry yourself off (also provides ways to shave beards, armpits, legs and genitals)

How to shave legs, armpits, beards, pubic areas, etc. (a more in-depth guide)

How to mop the floor

How to sweep the floor

How to swallow pills

How to make small talk

How to make eye contact in different situations (or how to avoid it while still looking natural)

It's also perfectly okay if these don't help or aren't appealing to you. Unfortunately, nothing helps everyone.

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My mother is all into homesteading and off-grid living videos right now. Every time I check up on her, this is what she wants to talk about.

It gives her a sense of peace and purpose I guess. Which is good, she’s been struggling to find that with her injuries and condition. She’s learning skills, and feeling prepared for “the worst”. Like I can’t get her to stop watching conspiracy theory bullshit on YouTube so at least this kind of content alleviates some of the anxiety the other content amplifies, because she feels like she can do something now to secure her safety later.

But to get through these conversations, I have to tell myself— hey, if natural disaster comes our way, some of this might be useful. But I know she’s not just thinking a big storm or natural disaster. She’s preparing for the collapse of society. And I don’t know how to break it to her that we wouldn’t survive that. You can make long lasting candles with crisco? Cool. Where you going to by crisco when society collapses? You’ll stock up now? Ok cool. What will you do when it runs out? Honestly, before it runs out, what will you do when people with guns come to take your various stockpiled supplies?

If we hit a point where society collapses, we’re done for. Food, medicine, etc. we can’t survive without society, without a world where people are working together trying to help each other out.

So, I’ll go through with this shit in the name of natural disaster preparedness, and because it helps her. But that’s as far as I’m willing to put energy into it. I refuse to prepare for, bet on, or hope for the collapse of society. I’d rather spend my energy trying to prevent society collapsing, what little part I can play in that. I’d rather spend my energy supporting people in my community. I’d rather work and build towards a better future, not prepare for the worst.

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star trek au.

steve is sent to tarsus iv after barb holland dies in his backyard. his parents send him off to live with aunt, light-years away, hoping the colony life will calm his rebellious streak.

everything changes.

its awful, at first. steve is used to being surrounded by people, to freshers and replicators and holos. eventually, he gets used to the chores and the old fashioned tech, but he's still lonely.

robin helps. she works in his aunt's lab, too clumsy to work in the fields like steve does. after his shift is over, watering and weeding and hauling done, they'll sit under the fan in his aunt's office and recount every movie they can remember to each other.

when the fungus creeps into his aunt's field, they think its her experiments. they burn all the crops, and steve is out of a job until his aunt can run the numbers and find out what went wrong. until they can start over.

so steve starts babysitting. its way more fun than field work, even if he complains the whole time. the kids are funnier and smarter than his friends back home, and their parents are kind, the way he wished the harringtons could be. max teaches him to ride a vehicle with wheels. mike and nancy teach him to cook. dustin explains starfleet comms systems to him so many times that steve thinks he might actually be beginning to understand. he, el, and lucas go fishing every sunday. will and jonathan try to teach him how to paint the view from his house, even though it always ends in a mess and a playful, colorful fight.

but the fungus spreads. and steve has never been hungry before, but he knows its fucked that his rations are bigger than the wheelers' and the hendersons' and the sinclairs', and that theirs are bigger than the hoppers' and the byers' and the mayfields'. he doesn't know a lot about whats happening, but he knows its wrong. so he eats as little as possible, gives what can't be saved to the kid, and stores the rest. he ignores the constant pit in his stomach.

the pit grows when his aunt pulls him into her office one night, her face haggard with hunger and horror. because she just helped write a list of people who get to live through this famine, and his name is on it. so are mike and nancy, and lucas and erica, and that's it. claudia henderson made the cut, but not her son. he looks too different, costs too much. not susan mayfield, the hardest worker he's ever met, or her daughter. not joyce byers and her sons, not el hopper. not robin, who saved him.

everything changes.

his aunt must see the disgust on steve's face, because she tells him that it doesn't matter if he's on the list or not, if he fights this, he'll be dead. they all will.

steve nods, forgives her. smiles. goes to his room, pulls the bag out from under his bed. climbs out the window.

he goes to robin first, holds her while she cries. steve can't cry yet, his mind too busy spinning plans. they'll go to the wheelers' first, because they won't be watched, but steve knows there's no way that mike and nancy will go quietly if jonathan and will aren't there. then lucas and erica, if they want. then the byers, then the mayfields, then... the plan continues to spin.

joyce is already gone by the time they get there, but the boys are huddled together in their fort. he and robin don't let them look. susan isn't gone, just missing, but steve knows they're running out of time. it takes too long to convince max to leave, so by the time they make it to the hoppers', the soldiers have beat them to it.

el is covered in blood. max screams, and its only the phaser shots from the front yard, paired with jim's shotgun, that keeps them from getting caught. steve picke up el, and they run

they hide next to the fishing hole, even though all the fish are dead. its familiar, its isolated, its quiet.

they get through all of steves food in a week.

two days later, steve leaves in search of more. five hours later later, he helps eddie munson kill a man.

everything changes.

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stfu this is so fucking cute and wholesome 😩😩😩🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼

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Infinity Nikki Boycott/Girlcott/Protest participants, please steer clear of misinformation and trolls.

I have been seeing a lot of misinformation and trolls ragebait on the Infinity Nikki boycott/girlcott/protest.

In this post, I want to help clear some misinformation and misunderstanding. This might be a long read so if you truly care about the truth, I implore you to take some time to read through this post.

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First, I want to address the on-going misinformation about the '11-pieces is too much, we want lesser pieces'. From the CN stylists side, the issue has never been that '11-pieces' is too much or 220 pull is too expensive.

The main concern about the '11-piece' issue is the unethical practices that Papergames & Infold have been using. We need to first understand that gacha system is designed to obfuscate the real-money cost of virtual item, so that player may feel detached from the real cost. Thus, by increasing the pieces to 11 for a full 5-star set, is essentially the same as increasing the real-money cost of it.

The developer has been subtly increasing this guarantee ceiling/max pity since launch, from 9-piece (180 guarantee ceiling/max pity for 5-star a full set) to the current 11-piece (220 guarantee ceiling/max pity). And in-between these increase, the developer has never once came out to give a proper reasonable explanation until the recent backlash by players. Then they were forced to come out to issue a statement to explain that they are increasing the pieces to a 11-piece cap because they wanted stylist to have more customisation options.

While it is great that stylist can get more pieces for more customisation, this is just a guise to say that they want players to pay more for customisation—which would have been fine if they had said it like it is.

But they doubled down on their unethical practices, increasing the prices and lying about the truth that they want players to pay more for customisation. Let's be honest with ourselves here for a moment and think, if they truly want stylist to have more pieces for more customisation, they could have easily put the extra pieces into the 'Deep Echoes' (where you get your make-up & props for hitting a pull threshold).

This '11-piece' issue has always been because of Papergames & Infold unethical practices and opaque pricing on virtual item (in this case, the 5-star outfit set).

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Second, I want to address the 'you should/shouldn't/can/can't do that to support the boycott' issue. I have seen many versions of people talking about what one should do or should not do if they want to support the boycott.

Here I will offer a perspective from the CN stylist & myself. The general consensus among CN stylists is to NOT spend money on Infinity Nikki so that the developer will see that the stylists are discontent with how they are treated.

In no circumstances that the CN stylists have ever advocate that stylists should not play Infinity Nikki because they are supporting the boycott/protest. Many people may not know this, but majority of CN stylists do NOT hate Infinity Nikki. In contrast, they LOVE Nikki a lot! They want Infinity Nikki to be successful, so stylists and prospective stylists can experience the comfort and joy that Nikki had given them.

To demonstrate what I meant; in CN Nikki community they do not usually refer themselves as stylists. Instead, they refer themselves as Nikki's Mom/Dad 【in Chinese the word is 暖妈/暖爸】. They treat Nikki like their own daughter, so there is no reason that they will discourage people from playing Infinity Nikki because they support the boycott.

So to wrap up this section, do NOT let anyone tell you that you should or should not play Infinity Nikki because you support the boycott.

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Lastly, I want to keep this section brief, please be gracious and kind to one another, this includes the employees of Papergames & Infold. It is okay to express your view and opinion, but please do NOT attack other people or the developer's employee because they disagree or not share your view/opinion.

Everyone is just doing their best for Infinity Nikki, because they want Infinity Nikki to be successful!

That is all I want to say, thank you if you read everything I have shared.

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usamericans do you realise that a stereotype we have about u is that you really really love ice. like the amount of ice you put in your drinks and all your ice machines are really silly to us. do your fridges genuinely produce ice????

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For those who don't get the reference, I'm pretty sure Shaboozey's turquoise beads look was inspired by the beaded corsets worn by the Dinka warriors of South Sudan. That's how I immediately read it, anyway.

LOOK AT THAT TURQUOISE GRILL THOUGH.

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like idk how to break this to you but most of the time straight men are homophobic and misogynistic because they hate gay people and women, not because they're secretly gay