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fifteenth doctor laying face down on the floor of the tardis with pink pony club blasting from his jukebox sobbing about gallifrey. aaaand post

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lets be pointy with mama

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Didn't pay my dark bill so the power company shut my lights on

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Today’s aesthetic: keeping the same tab open in your browser for three solid weeks because you’re definitely going to get around to reading and/or acting on whatever’s in it any minute now.

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the year is 2158. what remains of the united states of america is a blasted wasteland. you are a scavenger going through one of the only places for hundreds of miles that hasn't been picked clean, an abandoned mining town in the middle of the california desert. you enter the mines looking for tools and maybe some forgotten valuables. a cardboard cutout of a small man in a pinstripe suit greets you as you descend. he's been here the whole time.

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Not everyone knows this so im gonna tell you. Countries that speak the same spoken language will not necessarily use the same sign language.

For example, American Sign Language and French Sign Language are related and I’ve known ASL users who have said they could stumble through communication with people who use LSF.

British sign language is completely unrelated to ASL however. The two languages have almost nothing in common. BSL is related to Australian sign language but Auslan and BSL still aren’t the same language.

Mexico from what I gather has at least three completely unrelated sign languages, though LSM is the most widely used. Mainland China and Taiwan use completely different unrelated sign languages despite both countries using Mandarin. Portuguese sign language is influenced by Swedish sign language while Brazilian sign language is influenced by LSF. In most of Canada they use ASL but in Quebec they have their own unique sign language that’s still related to ASL and LSF. Nicaraguan sign language is a unique language naturally developed by children in a school for the deaf and is completely unrelated to the sign languages around it in other Spanish speaking countries.

I could go on and on and on. There’s hundreds of sign languages out there and they don’t follow the same geographic lines that spoken ones do. Keep that in mind.

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"I don't have favorites"

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sigh, today i'm thinking about ford settling back into the lab after he first comes home, and seeing the proof of how hard stan worked to bring him home

stan was always the "dumb one" between them, always riding on ford's coat tails and slacking off. but he was able to do, on his own, without help from anyone, what it took ford 12 phds, fiddleford's help, and bill's guidance to do. just based off of ONE of ford's cryptic journals and whatever scattered notes and blueprints he was able to find, all while having never graduated high school.

ford having to confront how hard stan worked, how far he pushed himself, how smart he actually is

EDIT: also, stan only had journal 1, that's NOT the one he was working with bill in! that's his first few years in gravity falls, when ford was just as ignorant as stan was! there probably isn't a lot for stan to work with in there.

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Let’s lay on mama

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hi.

Jonny was right. Tube Sun sucks. Tube Sun Sunday is no longer a thing. It’s Stupid Sun Sunday. Stupid Idiotic Tube Sun Sunday. I hate Tube Sun. You Know the Jurgen Leitner Rant? Replace every instance of Jurgen Leitner with Tube Sun and multiply by a thousand. That is how much I hate tube sun. Tube Sun deserves to die. Tube Sun deserves to never know about apples. I hate it so much. I can’t even put into words how much I hate Tube Sun. It deserves to die. I’ve no words for how dumb tube sun is. It’s like Oedipus, a motherfucker. I hate tube sun so much. Suns are supposed to be spherical. Not Tubular. It’s JUST SO DUMB. IT DOESN’T WORK WITH PHYCICS, IT’S NOT WORKING WITH MY BRAIN, I4GBUI43GUIIVBIBKJSDNCDWINI

ITS NOT A LITERAL SUN ITS A LIGHTBULB INSIDE A SPACE STATION. YOUR BRAIN CANT IMAGINE A BIG LINEAR LIGHTBULB?? NO WONDER YOU HIDE BEHIND ANONYMOUS, FACE ME LIKE A REAL MAN YOU L5 NO IMAGINATION FREAK FUCK YOU AND FUCK JONNY SIMS AND HIS SPHERICAL INSISTENCE

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Don’t be afraid to be different! We have always been individuals with our own styles and preferences, even when it comes to ensuring that Haroldus Rex interfectus est!

(In case you didn’t already know, I have a Patreon where I talk more about things and do art refs and tutorials)

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collecting posts of this type

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A friend and I were discussing what we're like when we're sick and we decided people usually fall into one of these five 'sick modes': *Everyone is probably multiple of these at different times depending on how sick they are and with what but we think most people have a mode they default to and become more often than the others*

Delicate Consumptive Victorian: you feel tragic and mournful but also beautiful in a sad way, you are in bed, sipping hot tea, others should quietly whisper about how you are too good for this world, too beautiful, too tragic... And bring you more tea

Sick Dog: you are curled up in a ball, you don't want anything, you don't need anything, but it would be nice if others could still ask you if you need anything

Sickly Child Emperor: you are dying and it's everyone else's problem, you need pillows, no! you need soup, no! You need absolute silence or you will not be the first one to die today

Plague Pit: you are curled up probably on the floor, no one touch you, no one look at you, this is between you and God and you already know He has no mercy left for you

Warrior General: you are not sick. You are in perfect health and you don't know why anyone would think otherwise. Illness is an enemy that can be intimidated and you must remain strong for your men! (You are going to pass out at the most inconvenient moment possible)

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Has anyone else noticed that they do this?

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All technology should be understood on its social context. Except spaceships, which are inherently morally good and righteous, and anyone who opposes them is irredeemably evil.

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there are books out there - many good - that cater to your extremely esoteric interests. #never kill yourself