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im in the my friends ocs fandom

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So apparently F120A is gaining a little bit of presence on SCP Tumblr. Apparently.

This pleases me.

Have a list of personal, non-hub recommendations from my personal favourite canon on the wiki.

SCP-7293 - Cast For Ursine (BitOddInnit and SYTYCFanon)

A Remixcon entry that mashed up SCP-5464 and SCP-1313. Nice, lighthearted read for those looking to dip their toes in a little.

Always Darkest (UNCGriffin)

A tale about Iris Dark. Also about being trans. Also about the magical soul prison which houses the souls and consciousness of all your dead relatives. We all have one of those, right? Right?

SCP-8435 - The Law Without Land (OliverMemphis)

The most recent addition to this list, both chronologically and terms of rising in my favour. It's a very worldbuilding heavy article, but it does it absolutely masterfully and somehow manages to make fictional politics fun. If you read nothing else on this list, read this.

Esterberg (City) -- Wikipedia (Jasiu06, Jerden, MontagueETC, Ralliston, Zygard)

On the other hand, have you ever wanted worldbuilding in the purest, most undiluted form possible? How about a fictional wikipedia article from the 2030s, a decade after the collapse of the Veil?

SCP-8007 - THE PYROCLASM PROTOCOL (Dino--Draws)

The Ring of Fire is made of giant fucking dragons. Seriously, go look. They're right there. Probably one of the best articles of the 8000 Contest, and a really good standalone piece.

And that's what I'd recommend until you get a little deeper. Have fun, the five people reading this who haven't already read all of the above!

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don't worry i explained this to Place a while ago and he was confused too

why are they called millimeters if theyre not a milligram

because units of measurement are sons of bitches, and also because millimeters are a length and milligrams is a weight.

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it measures thermal conductivity, apparently. idk i just found it in my unit converter app

also the UK uses a chaotic mess of imperial and metric. our road signs are in miles and yards. we buy drinks by the pint but any other liquids by the litre. the average builder or engineer has half their tools in inches and the other half in millimetres. we have the stone, which equals 14 lb and is only used if you're weighing people. the British gallon is slightly more than the American gallon. we're more or less agreed on Celsius now but we were still using Fahrenheit up until like the 1970s.

this is a strange country

why are they called millimeters if theyre not a milligram

because units of measurement are sons of bitches, and also because millimeters are a length and milligrams is a weight.

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can confirm that units of measurement are insane, as demonstrated by my favourite unit of all time

the international British thermal unit inch per hour square foot degree Fahrenheit

why are they called millimeters if theyre not a milligram

because units of measurement are sons of bitches, and also because millimeters are a length and milligrams is a weight.

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tagging @dino--draws for no reason in particular

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for what it's worth, my online experience is sufficiently curated that most of the times i hear the phrase "old man yaoi" it's in reference to a specific pair of 500-year-old entities who look like identical elderly men but are actually demigods acting as personified embodiments of the concept of societal progression, which feels like the exact opposite end of the spectrum of tumblr insanity

I think the surest disproof of all this "Tumblr's aging userbase" stuff is how deeply uncomfortable the community is with acknowledging that people over thirty fuck.

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“I want to speak to a manager,” the middle-aged woman said in her stern I-used-to-be-a-soccer-mom-ten-years-ago voice, looking down at me over the top of her Gucci reading glasses.

A wicked grin split across my face and the gates of Hell opened up behind me, releasing a gust of hot wind that whipped my apron around my body and forced the woman to shield her face. Demons came forth, dancing around in flames with songs of, “She wants to speak to a manager. Did you hear that? She wants to speak to a manager!” before erupting into earsplitting shrieks of laughter, none louder than my own cackling.

I took in the woman’s look of utter horror before my eyes rolled back into my head and I growled,

“I am the manager.”

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DO ANY OF YOU LISTEN TO JHARIAH???? listen rn. stop whatever you’re doing. go listen to either RISK RISK RISK or FLIGHT OR THE CROWS by JHARIAH!! GO DO IT

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I just got a reply by someone who apparently namesearches racism (to argue against it existing), sex work (to argue it shouldn't exist), and factorio (to argue for it).

do people just roll dice to pick their three hills to die on?

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Autumn Vibe Or as we Californians call it: fire season

and there is no such thing as winter

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I think that Elon Musk is an object lesson in moral philosophy.

Like, he's the epitome of self-interest; the closest thing real life can produce to a Randian hero. And by any reasonable standard, he's won at life! He's the richest man ever to live, and he's getting richer; he controls the channels of information and communication; the government of what remains the world's only superpower waits on his command. If capitalism had a victory condition, he would surely have achieved it. And yet...

He's empty. He's an absolute sucking void of neediness. His own children hate his guts. He pays professional gamers to run up impossibly high scores in every game under the sun because the pale glow of being praised by epic bacon chuds online is the closest thing that he can feel to love.

Like. I can't tell you what a soul is, but I think you neglect it at your peril.

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"the magnus archives sounds cool! what are the content warnings?"

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okay i'm aware that Misali probably is intending to/already has done this themself, but i took a look at the data (so far) and there's some really interesting stuff in it

firstly, no letter scores extremely high or extremely low:

as far as i can tell from the formulas, these tiers correspond to uniform divisions of the ranking scale, so S tier is anything scoring above 5 and F tier is anything scoring below 1; both of these tiers are completely empty (as is the A+ subtier). we end up with a sort of lopsided bell curve, with a slight bias towards lower scores. the mean ratings of all 1179 letters average 2.754, with a standard deviation of 0.741. (the letter scoring closest to this average is ɦ (small letter h with hook), with 2.757.)

the number of ratings received by each letter also follows a rough bell curve:

the letter with the fewest ratings is 𝼩 (small letter s with mid-height left hook), and the fact that that's almost certainly displaying as an invalid character for you is presumably why most people skipped it. where it gets interesting is if we compare each letter's score to the number of ratings it received:

assuming that each letter had a roughly equal chance of being presented to someone, this would seem to suggest that the letters that are hardest to have an opinion on are also the letters which are rated less highly by the people who do have opinions on them. speaking only for myself, i can say that i skipped over any letter that had more than one diacritic, and those (plus the ones that don't render properly for me) make up 65 of the 100 lowest-rated letters, but only 1 of the 100 highest-rated.

we also get access to the standard deviation of each letter's ratings (i.e. how much the ratings tended to cluster around a particular value vs. being spread out). if we plot each letter's average score against its s.d., we get:

which indicates that letters with very high or low ratings had pretty significant consensus around the result, whereas letters in the middle of the rankings had much more variation in popular opinion. in other words, there are no letters that were consistently ranked as "mid" by most respondents.

miscellaneous stats (at time of writing):

the single highest-ranked letter is ɤ (small ram's horn), scoring 4.667; the lowest-ranked is Ấ (capital A with circumflex and acute), scoring 1.228.

of the unmodified, unaccented letters used in ordinary English, the highest-ranked is lowercase x, scoring 4.352 (in 20th place); the lowest-ranked is l (lowercase L), scoring 1.749.

Ɐ, Æ, æ, A are A-tier. ꞵ, B, Ꞵ, b, ʙ, Ƃ are B-tier. ȼ, ç, č, ʗ, Ȼ, ꞔ, ĉ, Ć, ƈ, Ċ, Ƈ, ć, Č, Ꞔ, ċ, Ĉ are C-tier. Ḍ, ď, ḑ, Ḑ are D-tier.

poll idea that's too big for tumblr. what are your favorite letters?

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Placeholder McDoctorate from the SCP Foundation is “The Main Character” by Will Wood!

Requested by: anon

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everyone go fill out this form there are squirrels in it

poll idea that's too big for tumblr. what are your favorite letters?