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Computers are very simple you see we take the hearts of dead stars and we flatten them into crystal chips and then we etch tiny pathways using concentrated light into the dead star crystal chips and if we etch the pathways just so we can trick the crystals into doing our thinking for us hope this clears things up.

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Elias: My Archivist is broken.

Oliver Banks: Have you tried turning him off and turning him back on again?

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What Your Favourite Magnus Archive Ship Says About You

Jon/Martin- You are a firm believer in the inherent eroticism of pining from afar. 

Jon/Tim- You are a firm believer in the inherent eroticism of deep seated mistrust.

Martin/Tim- You regularly call for ‘missing Tim hours’.

Sasha/Tim- You wanted good things for Sasha, and really, who wouldn’t?

Jon/Georgie- You have very strong opinions about Jon being alt in college.

Daisy/Basira- You want a girlfriend who can and will fight you

Melanie/Georgie- You hypothetically want a girlfriend who can fight you, but really you want a girlfriend who’ll hold you

Sasha/Melanie- You have written at least one fic about Archivist Sasha

Sasha/Jon/Tim/Martin- You think the only way the found family trope can be improved is if they all smooched.

Sasha/Jon- You are heterosexual

Elias/Peter Lukas- You realised far too late that shipping something ironically will inevitably lead you to shipping it sincerely

Elias/Jon- You just want Elias to step on you.

Michael/Gerry- You think that there is no better trope than opposites attract. You also probably have very strong opinions on Gertrude Robinson.

Michael/Jon- You are a monsterfucker. 

Michael/Sasha- You think season 1 was the best season.

Helen/Melanie- You think season 4 was the best season.

Jon/Gerry- Your addiction to sad boys, doomed by outside forces has grown so big that one day you were like ‘hey, what’s better than one sad boy? Two sad boys’

Jon/Oliver/Gerry- This is the same joke as Jon/Gerry but even more so and you have a thing for goths.

Gertrude/Agnes- When the phrase ‘tied together’ was said, you heard ‘soulmates’.

Jonah Magnus/Barnabas Bennette- You love things that are so sad, can we get Fs in chat?

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not putting my face on this site in case the fae try to steal it but I am proud of this beadwork

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I’m running a DnD campaign with my siblings and mom, who are all big MythBusters fans, so obviously I made Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage NPCs. Adam is a human and Jamie (JAM13) is a robot. Adam claims to have built JAM13, and is not satisfied with his inability to emote properly, but is very satisfied with his walrus-like facial hair. JAM13, however, claims to have grown Adam from a test tube and named him after the biblical figure, and says he is “clearly a very primitive approximation of a human being.” Insight checks on who is lying are useless because both of them fully believe they’re telling the truth.

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I think all computers should have cd slots and all phones should have headphone ports send tumble

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People are allowed to prioritize things that don't include being in touch with you. No, I'm not saying that it's totally fine if your friends never answer your texts or contact you, but just because you all have phones capable of constant communication, that doesn't mean you can expect anyone to be constantly available to you. People are in fact allowed to put down their phones to work, to connect with people in person, to relax or just to have fun or cope with a bad day. And if someone doesn't answer your text or call immediately your first thought should be "they're probably busy with something else" not "clearly they don't care about me"

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not to enforce gender roles but a computer should NOT fucking have apps okay. if I wanted an app I'd go on my phone my laptop is for Programs. I mean this.

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(incomplete) list of my favourite little bits in Halsey's new album (because I've been listening to it on a loop for the past week):

the general concept of overlapping identities, genres, timelines and voices. Most of the songs are, at least in part, sung with layered and intertwined voices and harmonizations and it adds so much "texture" to them, if you know what I mean, so of course moments when they really come out tend to be my favourite. It's like Halsey is having conversation with all of their past and perceived selves, childhood self being the most prominent among them. Music is a dialogue between all the layers of you, and your life and all the people you know and know you and this album truly plays with that theme and explores it in depth.

"it was never mine (it was never mine)",

the laugh right after "would they laugh at how I died?",

"it's just me (it's just me)" repeated echo in the child voice,

the way they sing "because I slip up when i should have played pretend" (that made me go feral the first time that single came out),

the slowdown and the softening that comes at the beginning of the "I don't like the lie I'm living", then doubling down on the harshness in the next verse, and surrendering into the timid "so who am I kidding?"

the "disintegrate" in Letter to God (1974)

and honestly, all the mutual parallels in the Letters. They are great interludes.

the inflection she puts on antihistamine,

the way they sing "body's keeping score" bit,

the softening and slightly slowing down of the voice on "see you soon so we can race" in Dog Years,

The distant scream of "I've seen enough!" that goes in the background,

the barking and whines at the very end, mixed with the discord,

the inflection in "I met my little twin" in I believe In magic

"I wanna be cool I don't wanna be pretty"/"I spend years becoming cool" parallel,

the rhythm of "i can always reassemble to fit perfectly for you",

inflection in the "perpetually believe" in Hurt Feelings,

doubling of "my eyes tell me that he's harmless despite what my heart has to say",

"just another trick that hasn't happened yet" tying the trickster/magician theme of the whole album together,

"and I'm stiffer than a board, lighter than a feather"

"I never loved you ... in vain",

honestly, just entire Darwinism. Don't force me to pick. The vibe, the lyrics, the instruments, the soundscape is all SO GOOOOD

(the way Life of a Spider makes me cry) (seriously, the open vulnerability? The way the whole song is just piano and their voice, carefully spun, beautiful and fragile?)

the reverb that goes after "every single line" in Great Impersonator

Overall, the album is great and repeated listens only enhances the experience (as it tends to be with all of their albums).

I'm certain I'll find many more tiny facets that I like as I'll re-listen more (and I probably forgot a lot of them, because I always get too caught up in the full song, I forget to note down the details 😅) , but thank you for indulging me in my rambles for now (and feel free to add your own favourites! <3).

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