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Today I found out my dead grandpa was a massive shoplifter and every ice cream sandwich, Little Debbie roll and candy he gave me was more than likely stolen. He always had little gifts for me. Gifts he had stolen. Apparently Walmart was his favorite spot to steal from. I thought I couldn’t love and respect my grandfather any more than I already did but I do now. Poppy, you were a real one.

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What it says on the tin! I'm hosting a little secret santa/gift exchange focused on Touhou yuri pairings this year. Feel free to join if you're interested!

Edit: applications are now closed!

↓ Guidelines & schedule & application form under the cut ↓

GUIDELINES:

SFW only (serious/darker works are OK, but nothing R18)

your wishlist & the gift you create must be focused on yuri/GL pairings from Touhou (this isn't a general Touhou secret santa)

no AI, what you create must be yours

if you have to drop out and can't finish your gift please contact me ASAP! emergencies and the like are absolutely okay, but try to make sure you'll be able to complete your gift before you consider joining

SCHEDULE:

nov. 7th to nov. 17th → applications open, use the form to join!

nov. 19th to nov. 24th (at the latest) → you'll receive someone else's wishlist to work on, by ask or DM

dec. 25th to jan. 8th → post the gift you created on your blog! don't forget to @ the user you made it for and, if possible, to tag it with #thyurisanta (or @ me) so I can keep track of who's already finished

APPLICATION:

Fill this form to join!

If you have any question just send me a message or comment on this post. Let's make this end of the year a fun one!

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Merry World Philosophy Day!

It's World Philosophy Day, and Maribel("Merry")'s major is that she's a cognitive scientist who more specifically studies/majors in cognitive relativism (aka factual or epistemic relativism)! Or even more specific than that: Because Merry lives in the future and she is an enigma, her major is more based around spiritualism and/or occultism (her actual major's an enigma of its own). Anyways, whatever you think her major truthfully could be, it's all subjective and relative to your own experiences. 😉

Merry and Renko both saw two small mammalian creatures as they were strolling along, but it was too dark to see them properly. Renko thought they could be a nine tailed fox as a closer look that one of them had nine tails. Merry thought of them as being a youkai cat with multiple tails as one was moving in a strange way. Whatever their "truth" was, they were definitely, truthfully strange youkai.

The general definition of cognitive relativism is that the truth is subjective and everyone has their own view, or their own "world," of seeing things. Merry travels all across different fantastical places in search of the supernatural in her own dreams, but she must always keep in mind that every event that she has ever seen, every report that she will ever write will only be from her own telling, her own "truth." Renko also only records Merry's telling of her dreams, and Renko's written words of what Merry tells her story is a different "truth" of its very own!

How others define cognitive relativism is, in and of itself, subjective. Relativism was also heavily criticized by Plato and still is criticized by many scientists today(and most likely in the future) like Renko who majors in unified field physics. She believes in the opposite, she believes that there is an absolute, objective "truth." Renko only joined the Hifuu Club to prove Merry wrong, but she later opens up more to Merry's research on the occult, of others' "truths," and Merry's own abilities of visiting other worlds in her dreams.

Also the photos were taken in various locations in Manhattan. First one was taken at The Astor Courtyard at the Met that was made as a cultural exchange between the US and China in the 1980s. It is replicated and inspired on one of the courtyards at the Garden of The Master of the (Fishing) Nets in Suzhou City. The second photo was taken in a café somewhere within the Central Park area.

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I am so so proud how Isolde turned out, I recently started playing Reverse 1999 and I love it so much!

I’m glad I’m getting back into drawing, I’m more active on Insta and looking for more art moots there too! 🫶🏻

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It's awesome how so many Western MLs had an Anarchist phase because it makes the whole "Clearly you haven't read Anarchist theory" argument a complete nothing. Chances are the ML in question has read more Anarchist Theory than the upset Anarchist themselves. And considering how many self-identified Anarchists do not in fact read theory, there's probably a negative correlation between "reading Anarchist theory" and "actually being Anarchist"

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i love how for 99% of deltarune you just assume sans isnt in this game and then you turn a corner and he suddenly appears, implies he fucked your mom, tricks you into hanging out with papyrus, and gives you a fake phone number that insults you when you call it. i fucking love him

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This is like a month late but kotika bullied me into posting it anyway so here i am

Based on Machine Love my JamieP (banger song you should go listen to it)

textless version

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baggy pants teto

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Quick blaze as i heard it's her birthday this week ^o^

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birb (why is she so pissed tho)

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🌙✨null moon🌙✨

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sominc umweashed

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i'll go with you anywhere (compilation under the cut)

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Learned some Interesting Facts about SEGA yesterday. Context below the cut!

The context of this comic: Before SEGA made video games, they were an American company that supplied slot machines and coin based games to stationed American soldiers in Japan. When gambling became illegal in Japan, they switched tactics. In 2005, SEGA was bought by and merged with the pachinko company, Sammy Corporation, to form “SegaSammy Corporation”.

Usually, the buyer is put in the beginning of the new name, or the merged company loses their name altogether. But because gambling is outlawed in Japan and Pachinko is like legal gambling with several extra steps, it’s not like Sammy Corp is exactly seen as wholesome. So they put SEGA’s name first, given they have a better reputation. I should add that I cannot definitively say that is exactly why they did the merger and put SEGA’s name first— That is merely just a bit of speculation on my part. I could be wrong! Maybe I am. But that’s the context.