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Had a moment where I replied to a friend ‘fear is the mind killer’ and then remembered he has no context for that

In true fashion I did not give any

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if this can be a songcall for a piece of media i will be there

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on ao3 like some of these doves aren't even wounded

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SO EXPEDITION 33 HUH

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For those who come after

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one of these things is not like the other, one of these things just doesn't belong

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this is one of those 'very strange niche comparatives' but.

watch 'Stranger Than Fiction' and then 'Atonement' as a double feature. Then revisit this idea.

Not a popular opinion on tumblr I know but I would argue character death is good for stories, actually, and often a death with long narrative consequences is much better use of a character than having them linger with no more important plot beats to hit.

Character death isn’t writers being mean to viewers or something characters don’t “deserve,” it’s an important part of narrative and plotting to give stories stakes and emotional beats. The work making you have an emotion is in fact the point, not something to avoid.

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You’re not depressed. You just need $250,000 in your bank account.

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Me: I'm gonna write a fic so self-indulgent that only me and two other people are gonna give a shit, I don't care. Fanfic is for me!

Me, when the fic isn't immediately enormously popular:

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reblog the money pigeon for a financially stable future

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It doesn’t matter what mental gymnastics you do to justify your consumption of Harry Potter.

Your second-hand shopping, piracy and fanfic don’t exist in a vacuum and it continues to provide JK Rowling with the cultural capital to inflict hurt on vulnerable people.

A deeply evil person.

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I need y'all to see how this porn spelled ménage à trois

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I fucking hate that the general response to RFK Jr's eugenist take on autistic people is "autistic people do pay taxes, autistic people do work, autistic people do date!"

Some autistic people don't and that shouldn't make them less worthy of life. Some autistic people do need constant help and support and that shouldn't make them less worthy of life.

Once again we're falling in the right wing trap of :

They make a hateful, fascist statement

Instead of focusing on the fact that it is hateful and fascist we try to show them that they are factually wrong

We throw our own allies and the most vulnerable of us under the bus in the process

We legitimise an only slightly less hateful, fascist view as we go

They have completed their goal of making us accept the still hateful, fascist second version, hurrah. What a victory.

Right now what we're getting to with that is that autistic people who can work and pay taxes are okay, and the others aren't. Fuck this shit.

Same thing happens with the people who are being deported ("they have a visa!", "they didn't even have a criminal record!" -> even if they didn't have a visa, even if they did have a criminal record, deporting them and detaining them in what's essentially a concentration camp wouldn't be okay, you absolute tools of fascism.)

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Oh my god Wisconsin's governor just used a line item veto to secure school funding increases every year through 2425. He struck out a line so it now reads "through the 2023-2425 school year". He's allowed to do this lol