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I think we as a society tend to forget that the movie "Freaky Friday" starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Mark Harmon hinges entirely on the narrative's assertion that Chinese people have magic powers

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every time i look at websites for benjamin moore, sherwin williams, etc. i wonder what qualifications you'd have to have to be the guy who names the paint colors. i think it's my dream job. imagine:

i enter a building, where a single $8000 lounge chair sits in the direct center of an otherwise empty ultra modern room with impossibly high ceilings. i take a seat. within seconds, a hoard of identically dressed people approach me, one of them delicately handing me a single paint swatch.

i examine the color. pale green. i squint for a moment. furrow my brow.

"memories of spinach," i proclaim. unsure murmurings from the crowd, but i raise a hand to silence them.

"nay........ ruminations upon kale," i amend, and the murmurings become excited. there is a smattering of applause.

i go home. one hundred thousand dollars have been deposited into my bank account.

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although current magic: the gathering designers claim that black mana is not evil, the traits associated with it, both mechanically in game (sacrificing your own creatures and killing others', etc.) and in the narrative (ambition, selfishness, power), demonstrate that it is an antisocial force at least. the decision to associate the Swamp as a source of power for black decks is part of a long history in European cultures that reviles swamps, bogs, and other wetlands as evil places. this mindset contributed to the mass destruction of wetlands across the world until very recent scientific endeavors showed how important wetlands are. in reality, wetlands are extremely complicated, unique, and environmentally crucial ecosystems which exist in myriad forms on every continent save antarctica. to combat colonialist thought, i propose a radical change to the mtg paradigm by replacing the Swamp basic land type with one that truly represents a spawning ground for evil: the Parking Lot.

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THE MYTH OF "CONSENSUAL" ATTACHMENTS

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Reblog for sample size, etc. etc.

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shadow the hedgehog is cool. gunblades are cool. vampires are cool. scythes are cool. white hair is cool. we need to stop lying about what is not cool

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"people show their true colours in life threatening situations" no, they show you what they act like when they're mortally terrified, an emotion notorious for literally turning your entire brain off to the point where people who go into those situations as a profession need to be literally trained on how to not have that happen

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I wrote another short story and this one is very short so it is definitely normal. It has no space to be weird.

How to escape the well

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currently obsessed with british murder mystery tv shows where all the murders happen in the same town in every episode and everyone's just like oh yep there goes another one, just another day in shirefordtonstead

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detective activities

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What the fuck was I going on about

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no but how much audacity and sheer entitlement do you have to have to tell people they need to stop posting their darkfic and porn fic and any other fic you don’t like to ao3 so you can have a safe space when ao3 was literally created as a safe space for writers to post their content without fear of it being randomly wiped out by pro-censorship assholes with an agenda like what has happened to plenty of other fic archives before?

“but a lot of us see ao3 as a safe space to get away from that kind of nasty content” - lol you can see the middle of a busy interstate as a safe space all you want too but that doesn’t mean that you get to walk into the road and scream at all the cars going by that they’re the ones infringing on your safe space either

ao3 is not, has never been, and will never be a site meant for nothing but children’s stories. you can “see it” like that as much as you want but there’s a difference between fiction and reality and that view of what ao3 is like is as fictional as the stories posted on it.

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nights watch onboarding process has to feel categorically insane but especially in adwd. like hello this is our boss. yes hes sixteen years old. yes up until like last tuesday everyone thought he was a terrorist. yes we democratically elected him. no hes not cool hes kind of a hardass. yes hes too short for his own sword dont point it out. no he doesn’t talk to anyone except for his weird freaky giant wolf he has some kind of unholy brain enmeshment with. are you swearing the kid lifetime fealty vows through the religious conversion blood sacrifice ritual or in regular church? yeah everyones been going with the old god blood sacrifice thing. i don’t know what it is. the bird can give you your w-2.

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oh my god the smug westerners are back to saying you can vote out fascism and democracy is thriving in india are you guys fucking stupid? like do you even know how "undemocratic" these elections were?

muslim voters were beaten up on their way to polls? my own parents were kicked off voter rolls 'accidentally' two months before elections? two chief ministers from opposing parties are in jail on trumped up charges? the bank accounts of congress were frozen requiring candidates to fundraise personally last minute? opposition poll watchers were harassed? in several seats candidates were intimidated into dropping out? surat was uncontested! in indore, a day before the election the opposition candidate switched parties. do you genuinely think the lesson bjp is learning here is to be more democratic or to rig elections harder come on be for real.

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the reason Jenny Nicholson's review of the starcruiser hotel is so damning imo is that she went in completely non-cynically. if you've watched her previous videos it's apparent she loves both star wars and theme parks; she's basically the ideal customer for an experience like this. she was clearly trying to engage with the story elements and experience everything the trip had to offer, she likes kitschy animatronics and special effects - and she still had such a bad time! it's blatantly obvious the actual customer experience was an afterthought to things that would make good photo ops and tiktoks, and the whole trip relied on the functionality of an app that seems thrown together last minute. as someone who also loves star wars and theme parks, it's a real let down - but this is basically what disney has been doing since they bought the star wars ip, so I guess I'm not surprised.