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I don't know why I have to keep telling you heathens this.

MCR didn't inspire Twilight.

Muse, Rachmaninov, and Debussy inspired Twilight. And Beck and The Prodigy. You know, so long as we're leaving Meyer's own original ideas out of it.

I visited the world where Gerard Way was visiting family in Minneapolis on 9/11 so he kept his Cartoon Network job instead of becoming a musician.

It's pretty similar to ours. He didn't go into cartoons as you might expect, but he is way more famous in the comic book world.

As for butterfly effects, MCR doesn't exist, so Twilight doesn't exist, which means 50 Shades of Grey doesn't exist. I couldn't find any references to Stephenie Meyer or E. L. James, so either they didn't go into writing or they didn't use those same pen names.

Robert Pattinson was in Harry P*tter and then mainly independent stuff from then on out.

Kristen Stewart is somehow a bigger star than in this world? She was in Red Revenge, 2012 Soviet film about WW3 happening in the 60s and then in the 80s the survivors come over to the US to find out of anything survives of the cowardly US leadership that started the war. (yes, they shoot Reagan. He's out of his mind and it's shot like Old Yeller). She's been in a lot of USSR films since then, as this greatly raised her profile.

Taylor Lautner seems to have become a writer instead of an actor. He wrote one of the later seasons of Firefly, after it went all season-long-arcs. He technically cameo'd in season 6 but it was just as a guy who ran a casino station. He had like three lines, two of which were "get off my station!" and "guards!"

I didn't see any real differences in the music world. Sometimes you take out a band or form a super-group with interdimensional exploration, and it changes the whole field. Like if you take out Nirvana the 90s look very different, or if you help the Back Road Boys form then the 2010s are all about the retro-country revival. Anyway: MCR, as good a band as they are, don't appear to be one of those "linchpin" bands that affect the whole musical landscape.

BTW, the weirdest one of those? Michael Fucking Jackson. He's a super influential musician, inspired so many others, the king of pop, right? NOPE! If his music career is skipped, then it only affects his siblings and the one hit wonder "Somebody's Watching Me" by Rockwell.

Strange, right? There's more downstream time effects on the music industry from taking out David Hasselhoff!

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Would something bad happen if people in general started radically-honestly narrating their inner lives like full on HPMOR or glowfic characters on their tumblrs?

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A lot of talk about "fatphobia" on here is like if gay guys were politically getting away with tarring men who weren't sexually attracted to them as bigoted. Which is a shame, because actual fatphobia - like, rhetoric that paints fat people as sexually unattractive and therefore subhuman - is super common and one of the most odious forms of bigotry that's still genuinely politically viable in higher U.S. intelligence brackets.

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so i just learned that people fucking dove inside a god damn iceberg and good to know that even for cave divers, who in my opinion are already a special kind of unhinged, and i say that with all affection, there are people even more unhinged than that

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putting a polaroid of you on my unhinged conspiracy board and linking you with a red string to a post it note that just says "gay"

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Sometimes it's just the middle of some random day and in the middle of doing something unimportant my brain goes *ding* and offers me up a thought like,

If other people were less important to you, you wouldn't place such high value on your solitude

And I just have to live that my life changed noticeably while I was microwaving a hot dog.

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this is what is happening between us when i like your vent post

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Yeah yeah most video essayists are shit. Most of everything is shit, restating Sturgeon's Law is a banal observation, stop pointing to the pile of shit and see if you can find anything good in the world instead

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people on ithkuil twitter: i consider the possibility of there existing a consistent relation between ornamental home design with a degree of softness and the ruling class as determined by material good ownership.

people on toki pona real life: talking! you feel?

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I never understood this: How is the story supposed to express an opinion about who was Good, except by showing you who wins? Otherwise you're just letting the reader keep their prejudiced first impressions of how worthwhile each character is and not making them think very hard. Right?

there is the naive "characters who do good things should get rewarded by the narrative; characters who do bad things should be punished by the narrative"

I think I am in agreement with the rest of the blogs I follow that this is kind of stupid

however, if you include in the category "good things" actions most people can agree in real life would be wrong (murder, mutilation, arson, etc) but which are framed as "punching up" or are against unsympathetic targets, suddenly this position seems to have a lot of adherents, and I think it is even stupider

y'all are not true supporters of women's wrongs if you only support them in violence you consider spiritually righteous

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Owe Zerge (Swedish, 1894-1983), Victoria Mortis, circa 1921

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Eh? If Trump wins?

I was thinking it'd be interesting to see how he'd handle catching the proverbial car, when the car despises him and isn't great at running the country.

if Trump wins it'll be interesting to see what Musk does

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Because today doctors will tell you your feelings aren't pointing to anything real no matter whether your feelings are pointing to anything real or not, and no matter whether the doctors can help you. At least people in the middle ages thought feelings could mean things and people should attempt to cure their diseases. They were often outlandishly wrong? Right, individual modern doctors are so different. I love living in a post-Snow, post-Pasteur world, but a lot legit hasn't changed, or has changed for the worse.

Why does basil smell so fucking amazing

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You win the Internet, good sir /g

timothee chalamet’s full name is “timothee hal chalamet” and I have never seen a name that looked so much like an anagram

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There's this meme going around lately that "all fics are the same", that to "engage with a work through fic" essentially constitutes projection and that to engage with works only through "fandom" constitutes emotional immaturity

because, the meme says, "fic" is a matter of girlbossifying the female characters and blorbofying the male characters and making them kiss each other according to a prewritten script, having sanded away anything dark or complicated about canon

and like

all I can think is,

"oh, 90% of y'all were entirely fake fans the whole time, if y'all only ever read a few fics, and ones that were that bad; us true fans are more of a rare breed than I thought"

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High Horse.

Original comic post.

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