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Actually I think my main political motivator is that I hate nonmalicious people being punished. I was never punished growing up and the whole concept of it repulses and angers me to see. Nobody should get arrested if they didn't willfully hurt someone. Nobody should get fired from their job or fined money or even berated once ever for an honest mistake. It just makes me furious to even think about for some reason, and to me the person inflicting the punishment is the only one who deserves one for real.

I dont know what ever instilled this in me except maybe that public school teachers were nasty to me about "not listening?" That's the closest thing to a punishment or penalty I've ever experienced in my life. That doesn't feel like it accounts for the almost excessive blind rage I feel at the notion of someone wrongfully jailed for even one minute of their life.

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(x) id lose my fucking mind. imagine climbing nearly 10k ft of elevation thinking you're the first to ever do it n turns out someone beat you to it a millennium ago

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We need to study the powerful psychic field around tumblr posts that causes people to hallucinate entire lines and paragraphs that are not present in the actual text

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People are so much more sad, and desparate, and lonely than you think. I have had three incidents in the last four months were a technician I was working with was being either dangerously unfocused (we work with high voltage), or just flat out angry with their coworkers, and every time when I just pulled them aside to say hey, this isn't you, you're nice, and you're competent, so something must be up - what can I do to help - they have responded by bursting into tears. One guy was struggling to get his wife moved into a care home, one guy just got served divorce papers, and the other hadn't slept a wink the night before because his daughter had the pukes.

I haven't spent my whole life responding to people being rude, or stupid, or dangerous with knee jerk compassion. It's a new habit. The first time I did that as the lead for my lab, it was because the guy genuinely was so good natured that I knew something had to be off. But the other two times were just me going, alright, lets see if it always goes this well, and so far, it has. I'm almost 30, and I just figured out that the #1 reason people are shitty are because they are going through shit.

I don't think you have, like, a moral obligation to respond to people being jerks with knee jerk compassion. But it has made my life so much easier the last four months that I would recommend trying. For your own sake. Please.

(I'll step off my soapbox now. Enjoy your Sunday.)

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i know people (understandably) hate on first-person narration but ougghh the perspective the reasoning the characterization not just through what they see but how they see

living in someone's head and they are the filter between you and the world and they're wrong about it sometimes! the unreliable narrative potential of it all! realizing that what they think and what they say are not the same and no one knows!! no one knows but you!!

there is something so so wrong with them but no one knows because it's all in their head and only you get to live there. my horse is very pretty and looks like the stars sometimes and that's normal for a horse yes. everyone hates me but they're being nice because i'm doing better than the last person in this job (my mom, who's dead now but it's fine i'm fine i'm fine. i'm literally fine.)

((they're not fine. but you're the only one that knows. you're the only one that knows and you can't help them.))

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Reaper Files

THOMAS ELY

SUBJECT #08189764

1/21/1892 - 11/11/1920

GENDER: MALE

AGE AT DEATH: 28YRS

HAIR COLOR: BRO

EYE COLOR: BLU RED

PLACE OF BIRTH: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, USA

PLACE OF DEATH: WASHINGTON, DC, USA

SPIRIT TYPE: VENGEFUL SPIRIT DEMON

CAUSE OF DEATH: HOMICIDE, GUNSHOT WOUND

IMMEDIATE RELATIVES:

SHIRLEY ELY (MOTHER, DECEASED)

CHARLES ELY SR. (FATHER, DECEASED)

CHARLES ELY JR. (BROTHER, DECEASED)

FRANCIS ELY (BROTHER, DECEASED)

NOTE:

DO NOT ENGAGE.

PREVIOUS NOTES:

11/11/1920 - ELY REFUSES TO LEAVE THE LIVING WORLD BEFORE ATTENDING HIS OWN FUNERAL. CASE STILL IN PROGRESS.

11/20/1920 - ELY SUCCESSFULLY TRANSPORTED TO SPIRIT WORLD. MOVED TO APARTMENT #0213.

05/02/1921 - ELY EMPLOYED IN THE REAPER DIVISION OF SECTOR #001 AS REQUESTED BY SALLY BAKER. FILE ADDED TO SECTOR NOTES.

07/31/1927 - ELY GIVEN FULL ACCESS TO REAPER FILES BY REQUEST OF AMA AND SALLY BAKER. NO FURTHER ACTION REQUIRED.

01/13/1939 - ELY GIVEN FULL ACCESS TO THE CASE FILE OF “THE EXECUTIONER”. ELY IS NOT PERMITTED TO GIVE FILE INFORMATION TO ANYONE OUTSIDE OF SECTOR #001. ABSOLUTE CAUTION IN THE INVESTIGATION OF THE EXECUTIONER REQUIRED.

06/22/1940 - SALLY BAKER AND THOMAS ELY GIVEN CHARGE OF THE INVESTIGATION OF THE EXECUTIONER. ELY’S REQUEST FOR FULL ACCESS ON SHADOW CORRUPTION RESEARCH WAS GRANTED. SEE ATTACHED FILE.

10/02/1943 - ELY’S SOUL OFFICIALLY MISSING AFTER A MISSION IN NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, USA. ELY ADDED AS A VICTIM OF THE EXECUTIONER. SEE ATTACHED FILE ON THE INVESTIGATION OF THE EXECUTIONER.

10/30/1943 - ELY FOUND IN ANCIENT PLAINS, ILLINOIS, USA. SOUL SHOWS NO SIGNS OF CORRUPTION BUT IS UNDER SUPERVISION UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. SEE ATTACHED FILE.

11/27/1943 - ELY STATES NO MEMORY OF DISAPPEARANCE BUT SHOWS NO SIGNS OF SOUL CORRUPTION. INCIDENT REMAINS ON FILE FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF THE EXECUTIONER. ELY IS GIVEN PERMISSION TO RETURN TO SECTOR #001 REAPER POSITION BY GABRIEL.

12/24/1943 - ELY IDENTIFIED AS THE EXECUTIONER. INVESIGATION OFFICIALLY CLOSED. SECTOR #001 REAPERS DOUGLASS MITCHELL, SARAH YOUNG, JULES AUCLAIR, AND WINIFRED BLOCKWELL ADDED TO ELY’S LIST OF VICTIMS. VICTIM LIST ESTIMATED TO 97 SOULS LOST. THOMAS ELY HAS BEEN BANISHED TO THE LIMBO DIMENSION IMMEDIATELY BY ORDERS OF GABRIEL AND IS CONSIDERED HIGHLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT ENGAGE FURTHER.

05/17/1944 - THE DAMNING OF SOULS PREVIOUSLY DEEMED AS MORALLY GOOD HAS BEEN RULED ALLOWED BY ALL GODS INVOLVED IN THE AFTERLIFE. SEE CASE OF THOMAS ELY AS PRIME EXAMPLE.

05/20/1944 - ALL VENGEFUL SPIRITS OFFICIALLY BANNED FROM BEING INVOLVED IN ANY POSITION THAT ALLOWS ACCESS TO THE LIVING WORLD. VENGEFUL SPIRITS WORKING AS REAPERS IN ALL SECTORS FORCED TO RESIGN. LAW ADDED TO THE RESULTS OF THE CASE OF THOMAS ELY.

10/17/2022 - YOU CAN’T GET RID OF ME.

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People can handle evil characters(for the most part--usually they twist their behavior and water it down) but people really can't handle good characters that lose their head or lose themselves and have a moment of fallen grace. Fandom has shown this time and time again. They really look at them as worse than the initial evil.

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Hello, I hope this email finds you and kills you. I hope this email hunts you down like a trembling prey animal crouched on all fours

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I know the point of being a good writer is having the ability to be flexible in the type of content you write, but I still find it absolutely WILD that these 2 things were written by the same person

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oh hey, someone put that thing i was mad about yesterday into words!

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The next time you want to call a sequence “Well animated” do yourself a favour and rewatch it with the sound muted. Often times ir’s only after you remove sound from something that you can truly see if the animation underneath is actually good or not, or if the music/acting is manipulating you.

….but on that same note, “Well animated” does not mean “Fluidly animated”. Because something can be VERY well animated and have few frames if those frames are in the right place, or have a shit ton for frames and be badly animated because it’s over-animated and moves way too much.

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I think it's a shame that "Oedipus complex" refers to fucking your mom instead of the actual point of his story, fulfilling your destiny through your attempts to avoid it. It just so happens his destiny was to fuck his mom

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who wants to go to the aquarium with me i want to stand in cold rooms for two hours straight and look at jellyfish and maybe pet a small stingray

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standing up and blacking out for a few seconds is just transitioning from a cutscene to the actual gameplay

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Whenever I feel like hope is lost, I google "tarantula saved from burning building" and read all the stories about firefighters rescuing one of the world's most hated animals because they're someone's pet and it doesn't matter if you're scared of spiders or think they're gross, their lives have worth and they deserve to live just as much as any other pet

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