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Nintendo: Animal Crossing (2002)

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Anyone else feeling particularly radicalized by the TikTok ban?

I’ve been on edge all day. Scrolling through the app seeing all my favorite creators say goodbye. Crying at the thought of their small businesses failing. It’s been heartbreaking to see.

Unanimous. The Supreme Court voted unanimously to ban this app. Before gun control. Before healthcare reform. Before anything. The whole government is more worried about a fucking app.

It’s because they don’t want us communicating. If you keep the ants separated it takes a lot longer for things to happen amongst them. All I’ll say is this.. let this radicalize you, we need your rage.

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I've been keeping it off my face as much as I can on video, but I'm livid about the TikTok ban.

I have about 100,000 followers on that app. I joined during the pandemic. I was lucky to find a community full of incredible people, many of whom I now consider lifelong friends. Because of the community I found on that app, I found space to experiment with my gender presentation. I was able to come out as nonbinary (to feel SAFE ENOUGH to come out as nonbinary) because of that app.

I've seen a few Tumblr posts in which people gloat they never got into TikTok. Good for you. You won't suffer emotionally, and that makes you feel superior. But if you have no concept of what that app has meant for more than 170,000,000 Americans (that's half of all Americans!), many of whom do not have access to community in physical spaces, kindly sit down.

The ban constitutes the largest mass layoff in American history. We will lose billions of dollars in our domestic economy. Over 7 million small businesses are shuttering because of the ban. You will feel the effect of that whether or not you were on the app. If you can't grasp the significance of that, again: kindly sit down.

The language of the TikTok ban has set a dangerous precedent for the American government to shutter any tech platforms they deem "dangerous" for arbitrary, undisclosed, nebulous reasons. This will affect Americans' ability to organize, spread information, and protest. They have effectively banned our right to assembly in digital spaces. This is the greatest infringement of free speech that has ever occurred in the United States. If you can't grasp the significance of that, either: kindly sit down.

This is bigger than "never falling for the TikTok craze." This is an enormous governmental overreach sanctioned by our own Supreme Court. It's bigger than teens doing silly dances you can sneer at from your smug high horse.

And if you can't grasp that: Kindly. Sit. Down.

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A lot of people on Tik Tok have migrated over to the Chinese app RedNote, and the Chinese users are so fucking funny about it. I saw one comment that was like "Welcome, I was the Chinese citizen assigned to spy on your data, I missed you"

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Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922) dir. Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau // Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) dir. Werner Herzog // Nosferatu (2024) dir. Robert Eggers

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𝕹𝖔𝖘𝖋𝖊𝖗𝖆𝖙𝖚 (𝟤𝟢𝟤𝟦) — 𝙍𝙤𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙩 𝙀𝙜𝙜𝙚𝙧𝙨

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cause the best parts of a vampire besides the fangs are the (tender) hands

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people act like the whole "Harley always goes back to Joker and stays in the cycle" isn't something that canonically in the main timeline she put a stop to almost a decade ago,,,, like yeah it was an important aspect of their relationship and something her character dealt with because it's a very common thing in domestically abusive relationships, but the Harley Quinn character herself wasn't reliant on that formula, it was literally just a realistic depiction of the cycle of abuse. One that she's since been able to develop past despite being part of an entertainment industry that tends to never allow serious lasting character development

The fact that a part of her understood what was happening to her wasn't healthy doesn't mean that Harley herself should never come to that concrete definitive stance that she deserves and wants better.

yeah, Harley always went back to The Joker when she was in love with him, but she's not anymore and she hasn't been for a long ass time. They weren't even in the Honeymoon phase when Rebirth starts, he's as horrific and nasty as he gets and she breaks away from him more and more until #25 of her 2014 comic where she ends the cycle for good. She's had 2 entire other comics since then, her 2016 one with like 75 chapters, and her current one with 46 chapters as of rn. In the rebirth timeline, she's literally been broken up with Joker longer than they were shown being in a relationship together.

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YIN and YANG, SUN and MOON… Sasuke and Naruto 💕

[ it’s actually a love story ]

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Goku is on Namek fightin that Frieza guy…Goku uhh…flyin or doin somethin over there…

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they’re all going to laugh at you!

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Dandadan | Ep9 | I don’t care how much other people will take things the wrong way, but I don’t want you to have the wrong idea, Miss Ayase!

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NANA (2000) Illustrated By: Ai Yazawa

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Nana (2006)

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— ♡; Hachi and Nana︕ : icon matching.