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Sharing this cos I love this binding!

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Kid today (probably like 6 years) came up to me and was like "teacher teacher what's your name" and i was like "asha :) also im not a teacher" and he was like "okay asha asha asha I need help" and i was like "okay buddy what's wrong" and he showed me this chunk of metal he'd found sitting in the sun that he was just carrying around and it was super sharp and super hot from the sun and he was like "my hand hurts :(" and i was like "ok. put that down. does it still hurt?" And he did and was like "no." and then he picked it up again and immediately went "my hand hurts :(" again and then I was like "kid. put that down and stop touching it" and he was like "ok but when I touch it my hand hurts :(" and i was like "Please Just Stop Touching That. If you dont touch it your hand won't hurt" and this went on for like another 2 minutes before i got him to realize that if he stopped touching the metal it would not hurt. Kids are so fucking weird man

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my opinion on the current porn ban is that it benefits the state to have its people filled with shame. they want you to be ashamed of yourself and they want you to hurt others who aren't ashamed of themselves. these changes will not benefit the marginalized

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as a pink lover. The ""universal""" hatred of the color pink by young girls is due to the heavy expectation of femininity forced on them. It is an expression of frustration at gender roles. It is not internalized misogyny. No you will not inevitably start liking pink as an adult and if you do that is not healing your inner divine feminine or whatever we're saying now. Its a color. 😁👍

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Hair to dye for

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eternally confused by people like this who seem to think shelters intentionally label dogs in a way specifically designed to deter you from adopting them instead of just like… reporting the behaviors they’ve witnessed during the dogs stay at the shelter because that is literally all they have to go off of

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Hi all! I want to boost Birdie Sam, self-described as a Tlingit 2spirit multi-media artist, speaker, educator and content creator. Birdie goes by showme_yourmask across all social media (Youtube, Instagram, TikTok, Threads).

I've known and deeply admired Birdie for a couple years. They are a tireless climate and Indigenous justice activist, as well as a skilled and inspiring artist. Also a maker of awesome wearables: I've been a fan of their orca-focused activist pins and stickers for a long time!

Birdie's father, Bob Sam, is a lifelong repatriation expert and cemetery caretaker in Alaska, who has dedicated his life to bringing home Indigenous people who were taken from their homes, died, and were buried and forgotten far away.

Recently Bob has experienced housing upheaval among other difficult things, and Birdie is flying him from Alaska to their home to stay with them while he rests and heals.

Birdie is trying to raise $2,000 to support their father—an extremely achieveable goal, already at $797 raised!

If you have anything to give, please consider supporting Birdie and Bob! It would be great if you could match my $5 donation!

You can also support Birdie by becoming a patron or purchasing from their shop, and just generally engaging in their content!! Thank you so much!

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Say what you want about labubu and the horrible consumerist culture around it- I’m talking about the actual design of the dolls. I understood her so much more when I found out that she’s supposed to be just a little girl.

As someone who used to be Just A Little Girl, I don’t think I’ve seen a more accurate representation of what being Just A Little Girl is like. Idk how to explain it. It just captures the feeling of being a chaotic little beast that mixes shampoo to make potions and drawing all over yourself with mamas makeup and making worm hotels so well.

I feel almost a kinship with this terrible little elf girl. I’m so sorry labubu. You deserve better than being the face of scalpers and TikTok consumerist culture. They don’t understand you like how you should be.

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I've remarked in the past that one of the big reasons the whole "pay us a bunch of money to put your OC in our game" thing some video game Kickstarters do rarely works out is because the sort of person who's willing to pay a thousand bucks to put their OC in a video game tends also to be the sort of person who thinks it's reasonable to expect the game's entire narrative to be re-ordered to their liking because they contributed 0.1% of its production budget; it's not, of course, so what you typically end up with in practice is a random asshole who shows up, lectures the player character about how their deal is so much cooler than the game's actual plot, then never appears again.

More recently, I've been reading Chris Longhurst's Bleak Spirit, and I was struck by something it said on the topic of how to play Soulslike-style NPCs in a tabletop RPG: to paraphrase, their essential tragedy is that they all think they're the player character. Every one of them has a personal quest which they're convinced is the most important thing in the world, and they view everything through that lens; when they look at you, they literally can't see you – they only see the role in which they've cast you in their private epic. What dooms them, time and again, is being confronted with the fact that it's not about them.

Those two threads got tangled up in my brain, and now I have this horrible vision of a Soulslike video game whose world is populated entirely by people's crowdfunded OCs. It might even work!

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"I love you but you're doing wrong in a way I cannot condone" and "I hate you but you're being wronged in a way I cannot stomach" are top tier and I need more of them.

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My vampires CAN walk into the sunlight but doing so would reveal what they would look like if they aged normally

Younger vampires don’t have much to worry about but older vamps have reason to avoid sunlight as they age. They are still immortal, but their aged, sunlit selves are significantly weaker than their non-sunlit forms. Vamps over 100 years old run the risk of crumpling over, fully immobile, but still conscious

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I hate to be all "cis good" on main, but if it weren't for the cis queer women that welcomed me into womanhood idk where I would be

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hey so with the rise of internet censorship and everyone having to upload their literal fucking ID to the internet just to access spotify. here’s your reminder to go download all your fics, all your important sites, all the educational shit you constantly relookup. download everything, screenshot. fucking whatever. just make sure you have it.

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Happy Lughnasadh!  As of this week (1Aug - 7Aug), we start teetering on the slope of the astronomical sine curve and are heading into the long downhill slide. The northern hemisphere is about to start losing daylight at precipitous rates.

If you have light-sensitive SAD, or any other sort of season-related mood disorders, NOW is the time to start

taking vitamin D, or

scaling back on commitments, or

preparing spoon-free options (freezing meals, picking out outfits, planning activities in advance) that can allow you to keep up self-care when things go bad, or

considering using the light box, or

getting serious about tracking your symptoms, or

setting up plans with friends and family about what kind of support they can give you and how to let them know you need it, or

talking to your doctor about meds, or

putting serious effort into your daily self-care routine to make it as habitual and subconscious as possible, or

scheduling nap times, or

any other form of self-care that you know or suspect will work for you. signed, your friendly neighborhood astrophysics nerd with a seasonal mood disorder

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We need to bring back free the nipple

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