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I remember you describing a previous anon as having "Classic Extinction avatar self righteousness" Do the avatars of other entities also tend to have certain personality traits? What personality traits would you associate with the avatars of which entity?

These are hurtful stereotypes, and quite often true. Here are a few things I’ve observed.

Avatars of the Vast tend to be flighty, fickle - they don’t process the importance of things quite like the rest of us do, being so in touch with cosmic insignificance.

Spiders, of course, are manipulative, but beyond that they also tend to be so very arrogant. Many of them are fighting over the same smooth, smug mannerisms.

Avatars of the Corruption are almost universally clingy; sometimes like a bad friend, always like a bad cold.

Avatars of the Dark and End both get characterized as boring and preachy, and while they usually are, I find that dryness is often on purpose.

Watchers are usually intelligent, yet foolish. Even when we know we shouldn’t go putting our eyes where they don’t belong, we can’t help it. We’ve been called the most annoying of avatars, and while I am offended, I also cannot deny this.

Hunters are furry.

I have yet to meet an avatar of the Flesh without some artistic passion for their gruesome work. Very creative.

Strangers are usually the artistic type too, but that is often an attempt at creating for themselves a sense of identity they do not have.

Avatar of the Buried love to hibernate under the earth’s crust for decades. I don’t know if that counts as a personality trait, but it’s something I’ve noticed.

Avatars of the Lonely are, you guessed it, antisocial.

About half of the avatars of the Extinction are self righteous about the sins of man while actively leaking radioactive waste into the groundwater, but almost all of them dress like this is cyberpunk. You can pry black and acid green from their mutated dead hands.

Avatars of the Slaughter get horny about their work more than most - save for those of the Corruption. It’s called bloodlust for a reason.

Spiral avatars are often tricksy little pranksters, and they are mean to me just because I can’t resist looking at things that don’t make sense until my head hurts every time.

Avatars of the Desolation are assholes.

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remember how utterly inescapable how i met your mother used to be with the memes and references and barney and bro code and wait for it... and then the finale was so hated it vanished overnight

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Beautiful women everywhere on campus but unfortunately I still use tumblr on my desktop in common areas so Im making my chances pretty slim

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Yaoi Has Been Proven Scientifically

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Back in 2013, I posted a Welcome to Night Vale fic and someone commented, “I’m autistic and I see myself a lot in the way you write Carlos. Did you intend for him to autistic?”

And I was like “I’m flattered you think so! No, he’s not intended to be autistic, but I’m glad you can see yourself in him.”

Now twelve years later I spent some time this evening trying to track down that comment to give a very belated clarification. Whoever you were stranger, hey. I only said no because I based Carlos heavily on me, and since I wasn’t autistic, Carlos wouldn’t be either. Well. I’ve learned some stuff in the intervening decade that strongly support your literary analysis.

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It's a lot healthier to go for a daily walk than to sign up for a gym membership you won't be using because you hate that kind of exercise. It's a lot healthier to eat a frozen meal than to skip a meal because you were too tired to cook something healthy. It's a lot healthier to take a quick shower than to procrastinate an elaborate routine for days. Don't aim so high that you won't be hitting anything!

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Sometimes, I Wonder if I Accidentally Bumped Off JD Salinger

This story is true and goes back to 2008 when John Hamilton at Penguin commissioned me to design the book jackets for JD Salinger's entire back catalogue.

Mr. Salinger was alive then, in his early 90s and, by all accounts, a belligerent and grumpy recluse. The chain of command was unusual and went like this. Salinger directed all his feedback via his New York lawyer, who then communicated with his London lawyer, who then communicated with Penguin, who then communicated with me, in my tiny home studio in North London. This process was somewhat intimidating, and went back and forth for weeks. It must have cost him a fucking fortune.

John told me Salinger was a very sensitive and emotional man and had always hated the first book jacket design for 'The Catcher in the Rye', a book which to this day still sells over a million copies a year. He had instructed Penguin to redesign the jackets using lettering only. "No pictures!" Salinger had stated. That's when John thought of me.

I designed three options, and Salinger chose the third — bespoke Inline Roman Capital letterforms with minimal and carefully considered flourishing to add a touch of refined elegance and unify the set. Salinger was shown the designs and signed them off himself, making only one change to the ‘Catcher’ jacket. He wanted the junction on the 'Y' in 'Rye' raised, which he felt made it more legible.

A day later, Salinger died. John said signing off the jackets was probably Salinger's last creative decision.

To this day I sometimes lie in bed at night wondering if the surprise of my stark, graphic and (back then) avant-garde new covers for his life's work tipped the poor fella over the edge. Fuck me, I hope I didn’t accidentally bump off JD Salinger. I just want to get this off my tits after all these years. Rest in Peace, Mr Salinger. What an intense privilege to be involved in a project of such literary magnitude.

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Spin the wheel!

You are offered $20,000. In order to get the $20,000, you have to listen to the album chosen by the wheel from start to finish in one sitting. No breaks, no turning down the volume, no taking off the headphones. You have to listen to the album in its entirety.

No "I don't know this album" option, search it up yourselves and listen for a few seconds, expand your media diet

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"Go to college or you'll end up being a janitor."

Me: -goes to college-

Me: -tries really hard after graduation to get a job in my field-

Me: -finds out my field is fucking toxic-

Me: -tries to find a new trade so I don't have to be a janitor-

Me: -ends up being a janitor anyway-

Me: this is the best job I've ever had, actually.

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My 4 year old nephew loves to paint his nails. Any time he sees someone wear nail polish he asks if he can have some too. The most difficult part is getting him to decide what color, because he he wants all of them.

Nail polish is for everyone.

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if I meet u at a party I will often hand you my phone and say something like "this is a list of names for girls. please read through and then add one." the list is special because you can only add to it in person; I won't add something that you tell me about over text. however, I think it's okay for me to share it here. without further ado, I present: girl names (names for girls)

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Anyone with a milk allergy needs to be on high alert. In the midst of a flurry of ongoing food recalls, the FDA has updated its initial recall of a handful of Cal Yee Farms' chocolate products to the highest risk level. Originally, the FDA announced a recall of numerous Cal Yee Farm products because they may have contained undeclared milk, soy, wheat, sesame, FD&C #6, and/or almonds. The recall has now been elevated by the FDA to the most serious level of recall, Class 1, for only a few of the affected products: the company's dark chocolate almonds, dark chocolate apricots, and dark chocolate walnuts because the chocolates contained undeclared milk.