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would've started saving money in kindergarten if i knew my life was like this

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First thing you see after you zoom in is how you die

How you dying 👀

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The same goes for cookies! The cookies might not look ready yet but they are!!

at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you

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Once again I am begging English speakers to learn their own language. The past form of "lie" (as in lie down) is not lied, but lay. I can't believe that I, a non-native speaker, have to correct that. 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

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STOP no more live-action remakes. We're going the other way now. Animated Casablanca. Animated The Godfather. Animated Oppenheimer. Animated Fight Club.

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As much as I enjoyed the slightly more gradual buildup to the PresAux crew and Murderbot actually trusting each other in the show, I hope that when Season 2 drops they don’t keep the energy for ART.

ART and Murderbot’s friendship is built on them speedrunning the weirdest fucking relationship stages you can imagine. You can’t make their development slower. I need to see ART going “I know we’ve known each other for a week but you should let me perform surgery on you :)”

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One of my favourite things is how unbelievably weird naming conventions can be.

I'm mostly familiar with Japanese naming conventions, but historically speaking, you occasionally meet imperial princes that are called "rice field village" (田村 Tamura) and "big sea person" (大海人 Ōama, where the fuck did you guys get your inspiration from), who receive a Chinese-style posthumous name that they never used during their life, and that's what they are generally referred as afterwards. Then you have people who are simply referred to by their rank rather than their title (who the fuck are you??), people who change their name like four times in their life because they get a new name bestowed upon them every once in a while, sometimes even a new clan name (who the fuck are you again??), people who have really similar names because certain groups tend to use the same characters over and over again to imply a familial relationship or a teacher-student relationship, then you have people using different names for their poetry, and different names for their art (which might also change during their life).

Meanwhile I've had several instances in Japan when people refused to handle my paperwork because the name I wrote down didn't match the name on my ID (I criminally left out my middle name). 🤪

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I love going to bed. I lay down on the comfiest object I own (bed) and my only job for the next 8-10 hours is to be as cozy as possible

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Chalk in milk, alum in bread, lead in cheese and many other products - if you let companies do it, they absolutely will start again with this shit.

Not to mention all the products that were advertised as "healthy" but were abso-fucken-lutely deadly. We need regulations, or we will be poisoned up to our gills.

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this is, as the kids say, frying me (a glasses wearer)

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Influencer is pretty derogatory at this point tbh, but I vote for PAID ACTORS instead.

i think we need to bring back calling people internet famous instead of calling them influencers like there needs to be something borderline derogatory injected back into it

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Right below this on my dash is someone saying "get those abs off him" soooooo. You're not alone in this

Hehe, I feel slightly justified. :D

I'm not sure why I feel particularly frustrated about this right now, maybe it's because I've been seeing a lot of talk about the bodybuilder-type physique on social media lately.

I feel people have absolutely lost perspective what an actual human body looks like. If you train your body for function rather than aesthetics, be that for sports or in the context of work, the likelihood that you end up looking like a gym bro is relatively low.

Not to mention that maintaining a gym bro physique is very "expensive." It takes a very specific type of training and diet to turn you into the guy with the rippling muscles, and for people who aren't hitting the gym basically every day of the week, maintaining that look is simply not realistic.

Someone who does a lot of physical work will likely have at least somewhat muscular arms and legs but probably won't bulk up too much because that might be a hindrance rather than an advantage depending on the work you do. Not to mention that you can be physically strong without the rippling muscles. Some people simply don't build a lot of muscle mass, or the type of activity they do and diet they have is not conductive to "bulking up".

So it's very weird to me that people always use muscles as a shorthand for 1. physical competence and 2. physical attractiveness. Quite aside from my personal preferences, I think it perpetuates a stereotype that's very unhealthy, and should preferably be left in the past.

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Things where my cultural understanding hits a brick wall: blowing your nose in public is considered rude in Japan, but sniffling around like a pig on a truffle hunt somehow isn't.

I am literally thiiis 👌 close to beating a man to death in the library. Go to the toilet and blow your fucking nose, goddammit.

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one of the most boring lessons I’ve learned is that when a task feels overwhelming, you just have to start doing it. Even if you’re not sure how to do 90% of it, look for one small component that seems close and start there. Sometimes it’s reading one article on the topic, or searching one related term, or literally just googling how to do the task. Do anything other than thinking about it. The process of working on a thing inherently makes it less scary.

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I know this is a first-world problem, but I really hate it when characters in fic are constantly described as muscular, built, huge, thick and god knows what else, and I feel it's often happening to people who aren't even particularly jacked in canon. I get that tastes differ, that is legitimate, but I do notice a pattern with certain characters and certain fandoms.

Apart from the fact that I personally find a less muscular/leaner build more attractive and don't really want to read about rippling muscles, the constant repetition of physical attributes takes me out of the story. And I feel these repetitions happen more often when someone is Beefy(TM). Not sure if this is an Ace(TM) thing but sometimes I start wondering of Character A is actually attracted to Character B, or just their muscles. Like. Physical form is not a stand-on for personality, and if the story has more to say more about someone's bulging muscles than about their personality I'm going to have some Questions.

I'm just voicing some frustrations here, but this is something I just fundamentally don't comprehend. Personally, the stuff I notice about people is, for example, the movement of their fingers when they work on something, or little idiosyncracies that make them them. The way they smile a little crooked, or the way they make their presence known in a room. The way they turn to you when they pay attention. Things that are also physical, but not inherently tied to their physical attractiveness. I feel that if you want to actually describe a character as fully attracted to someone else, you have to also lean into that. Which not enough writers do, if you ask me.

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i really like this thing where websites will have separate "log in" & "sign up" buttons and if you click "log in" it takes you to a sign-up screen anyway so you have to click "i already have an account" and then it will ask if you want to sign in with your facebook account or with instagram or linkedin or deviantart or whatever, and if you choose "username & password" it asks if you want to put in your username or use your thumbprint, and once you put your username & password it emails you a confirmation code, and once you put in the code it says "do you want to give us your phone number for future sign-ins? do you want to sign up for facial recognition? do you want to give us your bones? give us your fucking bones?