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Anyone else stuck in a freeze response for years and years and years and years

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He’s trying to catch them all

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I fear those 43 research center monkeys will never be captured and will cause an invasive primate problem in South Carolina.

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There's something quite charming about relatively small objects that are way heavier than they look. ooohh you're one dense little freak aren't you

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While it was a longshot, I do appreciate that Gimli did try chopping the Ring up with an axe first. It was worth a shot, and they'd have all felt like bloody idiots if they took the Ring all the way to Mordor only to find out it could have been chopped up by an axe all along.

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oh uh. scuse me. just a lil snail crossing your dash

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I attended a seminar on Legal Issues and the LGBTI community and one HILARIOUS side effect of same sex marriage getting legalised was in reality…horrible for estate planning and property disputes, but also sounds like an incredible fic premise

Before same sex marriage was legal a fair few gay couples got married in foreign countries; it had no effect in Australia but it was the principle of the thing. When it became legal, their marriages took effect in Aussie too.

This was wonderful for couples who were still together, but for couples who had broken up, and hadn’t bothered to go back to that foreign country to get divorced (and they rarely did)…they suddenly found themselves married again.

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dude

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"why would you leave this in the tags??" on the leave it in the tags website?

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I'm sure some smart person with a masters in polisci or whatever is going to make a full video essay on this soon, but the short version is this:

The reason she lost is multifactorial.

There is not ONE reason. There is not ONE person at fault.

Some Arab-Americans refrained from voting! They are not at fault. That wasn't enough to swing the election.

Some black and Latino men swung right! Black and Latino men as a group are not at fault. They are not enough to swing the election.

Some people refused to vote because of Palestine.

Some people refused to vote because her campaign was too short to convince them, because Biden's frailty turned them off, because they thought she didn't have an economic plan ready when she did.

Some people couldn't vote because they died from the pandemic, which disproportionately impacted demographics that traditionally vote blue.

Some people couldn't vote because they were systemically disenfranchised, which disproportionately impacted demographics that traditionally vote blue.

Some people don't understand the economy.

Some people had their votes coerced by controlling spouses or parents.

Some people are just selfish. Some people are just mean. Some people are just bigots.

Some people are accelerationists.

Some people were bribed by Elon Musk.

No ONE of these things is what swung the election for Trump.

All of these things are at fault, and none of them. You won't get anywhere by blaming a specific demographic, and you won't convince anyone by choosing one cause when they can point out fifteen others.

Things are complicated. There are many factors. The sooner you recognize that, the better you'll be able to change things for next time.

Stay alive.

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WHO tf keeping pads with no wings in production?? Put it in your draws and by the time you walk out the bathroom it’s down the street buying scratch offs at the corner store. Like girl

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Everyone has goth sex hormones it came free with your fucking existence.

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pleased to announce I’ve gotten good at posting

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Count Dracula in the original novel was so many different things all woven together.

On the “allegory for real evil” side of things there’s:

Count Dracula as a relic from a dark and violent period of history

Count Dracula as an aristocrat sucking the life out of the lower classes

Count Dracula as a sexual predator

And on the “supernatural horror” side of things there’s:

Count Dracula as a disease that modern medicine cannot possibly explain or cure

Count Dracula as an unnatural bestial predator just barely maintaining the mask of humanity

Count Dracula stealing the free will of his victims and causing their personalities to die while their bodies continue to walk about

He’s a multilayered villain where every new layer is just a new kind of villainy.

But various adaptations over the past century have basically invented the idea of Dracula as a seductive corrupting force, decided to make that his whole deal, and then decided that Dracula must not be that bad and people in Victorian England were clearly only scared of him because they were scared of sexuality.