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Like Homestuck trolls!

I dislike the inclusion of a lot of modern Queer Rep Terminology in spec fic (fantasy more than sci fi) on basically aesthetic grounds. But also on to be slightly more principled about it, I feel like forcing the writers to actually describe their characters' identities and sexualities without recourse to a labelled bucket they can just slap and say 'yknow, this!' would be very artistically fruitful.

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the first law of tragedies: the end is already written and inevitable. the second law of tragedies: your actions are all your own and you can choose to get off this ride whenever you want. the third law of tragedies: we both know that you are never going to do that.

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mr sandman was playing in this gas station and the cashier and i both sang “man me a sand” at the same fucking time without hesitation

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Wed, Bed, or Behead the Witch Princess from Slay The Princess

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Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey. Photograph by Daniel Ibanez, 2024

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maybe if we torture this kid harder our lives will get even more awesome

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the color blue reminds me of you

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I love the concept of Tooks. "Everybody in the Shire is very very businesslike and respectable and has no use for adventures except for this one entire family of mad lads who also run the municipal government"

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I feel like I'm insane when I am reading some of my own countries news articles.

"Biden starts WW3" "Biden inches us closer to nuclear war" "Biden is making it impossible for there to be off ramps to this conflict".

To be very clear, the "off ramps" would, obviously, be concessions by Ukraine, to give up territory, and people. People who did not and do not want to be a part of Russia. The people saying this shit will not proclaim what these off-ramps are, but when you read between the lines, it is clearly Ukrainian concessions.

Do I think this had anything to do with Him Who Is To Be President? Yes, yes I do. Because He has made it very clear that he is biased towards strongmen and dictators and obviously favours Putin and the Russian state in this conflict.

People in places that fought hard to get out from under soviet control, something that internationally we jingoistically applauded, now there is a building narrative that maybe they should give up a bit, stop being so difficult, cede some of themselves, and just...."COMPROMISE".

How do I feel about long ranged missiles? Threats of nuclear war? Escalation? Scared. Terrified. I can only imagine how scary it is for those in countries who share close borders over there. WW2 is not a distant memory of heroism, success, and great victory for everyone. For many, it is a recent scar, leaving horrific damages that have not even truly begun to heal.

But I do not, for a second, think that the solution is Ukraine giving up and giving in. Not when they have faced so many previous genocide attempts. Not when giving a little means giving up PEOPLE, and not when the Russian government is interested in regathering their former subjects.

But it is so weird to see this information being passed through the sieve of Putin.

"Well, Putin said if the US did this, then he will react such a way, so this is the fault of the US now". No? No thanks?

If Putin takes action, if the Russian government takes action, that responsibility lies with them. I am not interested in a narrative that everyone should have to meet Putin where he is comfortable. Otherwise, escalation is their fault.

I'm not stupid, I know that my knowledge is limited, I know that my perspective is also limited. I know things are sometimes more complicated than they look to me.

But I do know that there are a lot of people invested in just using this to decry Biden, and that those people have a very specific narrative and agenda. And you should be absolutely sure that you aren't playing right into it just to dunk on the Fisher-Price level net that is Joe Biden.

Because I sure as shit am not comfortable at ALL with how the media in my own country has covered some of this. In my opinion, it shows that the next 4 years are already having an impact in the way journalists report, and I find it concerning.

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I said "Forgive me father, for I have strayed from the light of nothing ever happens-ism." And the Lord replied, "There is nothing to forgive, my child, for nothing even happened."

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Todays izutsumi: being a little shy

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Remember: if you ever safeword in "public" (a BDSM club or a filmed BDSM scene), you need to change your safeword immediately.

It's a massive security risk to have your safeword leaked. Others could gain access to your BDSM scene without your consent. They could safeword on your behalf, creating a denial of service-top* effect!

* I didn't write this just to make that bad pun, but it did retroactively become the reason for this post as soon as I thought of it.

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Georgia the country. Not the US state.

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vampirebicth said: gods are real. all of them. they have an impact on the world around them - they change laws, inspire cruelty and charity, comfort people and cast them out. real communities are built around them, some of the last still sticking around. people devote their whole lives to them, make art for them, pray to them before they do anything else to fix things. just because we made them doesn’t mean that they’re not real.

yes and Marvel characters are also this real, although hopefully have inspired fewer murders (so far).

obviously fictional characters, literary devices, and even mathematical abstractions are “real” in the sense that they are instantiated in the minds of human beings and encoded in speech acts and books and movies without being real in the sense of being agents that actually exist and act in the world outside of people thinking about them.

the mosquito that sucks my blood exists and does things even when I’m not observing it, but Dracula only exists in our thoughts and words.