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thank your local trans girl for being alive right now

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doesn’t the term “staff member” make you laugh because those 2 words both mean penis

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Today is a big day on the Spanish internet. Valentine's day in Spanish is "día de San Valentín", which sounds almost the same as "Sam va lentín", which is how, in some parts of Spain , you would say "Sam goes slowly".

Hence, since a few years ago, every February 14th, the Spanish internet is full of "wait for me mr. Frodo" style memes. One of our holiest days of the year.

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18+ accounts? thats quite a lot

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but whatever i don't feel strongly about amatonormativity at all .

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Spin this wheel and tell me if you got something you need/want.

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AROMANTICISM. YOU AGREE. REBLOG

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still thinking about this chat convo from Ranboo’s Dec 16 stream (timestamp around 4:31:00 mark)

Technoblade joined the game

<Ranboo> Technoblade

<Technoblade> Technoblade

<Ranboo> you left, ate, came back, and i am still live

<Technoblade> had to grind more wither skulls

<Ranboo> i have my priorities completely wrong

<Ranboo> oh

<Ranboo> for decoration right

<Technoblade> for now

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Hey everyone, I know it's going to be a busy day for a lot of people, but Google enrolled everyone over 18 into their AI program automatically.

If you have a google account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off.

Then you need to go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and turn off all Gemini activity tracking. You do have to do them in that order to make sure it works.

Honestly, I'm not sure how long this will last, but this should keep Gemini off your projects for a bit.

I saw this over on bluesky and figured it would be good to spread on here. It only takes a few minutes to do.

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some thoughts on connor and amanda because oh boy do they have one of the most compelling dynamics i’ve ever seen and amanda is just one of the most intriguing antagonists ever to me:

connor’s need for approval is such an intrinsic part of who he is as a person

the way he tries so hard to appeal to amanda in the deviant route (and the machine route but i’m mostly focusing on deviant connor) and at first he’s just following orders but as the game progresses he’s scrambling for some sense of her approval to assure himself he’s useful, that he has a purpose, and projecting his own personal sense of self value onto her.

so when she rejects him it rocks his sense of self to the core which is a central theme to connor’s character: identity and repression. who is he without approval? without an order to follow?

and the saddest part of it is that he still clings to her even when her thinly veiled apathy towards him turns into outward disdain. even when cyberlife tries to resume control of his program at the end of the deviant route it’s amanda he still calls out to: for answers? for her comfort?

which makes me wonder post game about the kind of trauma connor has to deal with after finally freeing himself from cyberlife and amanda, who he had once so desperately wanted to please.

i think its interesting when people explore this characteristic of his in post game fanworks. how does his previous relationship with amanda inform his relationships with others? with hank? with markus?

edit: just want to clarify that i am aware amanda is just an ai representation of cyberlife and that connor fears death above all but i still think these two bits of his character completely coexist and heighten each other

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If you all will forgive me a momentary break in form from asks, I want to say thank you to @kayawolfhorse for sending, if I counted correct, 31 asks and filling nearly a week’s worth of my queue with paragraph-long positive asks. I think that is the most asks I have ever had someone submit in one go. I really appreciate you for this, and I know I am far from the only one. You have made a lot of people really happy, and I thank you for your help! It seems to me you are a very sweet and caring person who pays a lot of attention to the people around you, and I know that the people you care for recognize that.

(While I am at it, I would also like to shout out @anpanbun and @mrfroag as two other people I can remember off the top of my head as having done this—They are definitely not the only ones, however, and anyone who has ever submitted a dozen asks at a time is someone I greatly appreciate as being a major reason this blog is successful! If you have ever submitted to me a number of asks, on or off anon, this is a thank you post for you!)

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Post saying “Hey guys can you not say this highly offensive term people have said countless times to not say” in shocking twist summons 100s of the most annoying tumblr users imaginable

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keep going

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Hey remember that a boycott if actually MORE effective under capitalism if you profess you would actually end the boycott under certain conditions.

“Nothing this company does can make up for their bad actions, I will never buy from them again!” Okay so they’ve lost you as a customer and have no reason to try and get you back. You can HOPE to drive them into bankruptcy but Chic-Fil-A is evidence of how well that works.

“This company did something bad. I would not consider buying their product again, UNLESS, they publicly apologized and made up for it by … [donating money to a cause, promoting different content, offering better care to their employees, etc.]” This is actually MORE likely to be effective because if enough people say this, the company m sees them as potential customers of a certain demographic, and is willing to make changes to get those customers back and, long term, make money from them.