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What is the real argument against racial nationalism, when the dust has settled? It's petty to favor one's own race above another. Normally, I would say it's not that petty, but the people out in the countryside aren't doing anything to prove themselves. Allegedly, they're all burnt out. What happened? And anyone who did want to make a name for themselves got subsumed into what would be considered the globalist singularity of leaning, if they want to survive

I should be put to the sword for before, but I'm just going to keep talking

Earthbound - there's an allegorical story you partake in with a band that's in debt to this theater. At the current inflation we're at, we're *still* not in range of what American food allegedly costs according to this game, and ten thousand dollars is considered a lot for the band.

By now, that's a good deal on a used car loan

I've heard Earthbound summarized in review as a game about growing up, but if that was the whole scope of it, what do you call Mother 3? I think those same people wouldn't want to talk about it (it's not released in the West)

Update I think it has something to do with living independently *despite*the modern world, because then subsequently in Mother 3, the exposition is about a supposed world of people presenting as they do today that never *knew* modernity.

Update I just thought about the ending of Animal Farm. Essentially, if you were going to have narratives that simple and straightforward, I could see how something like Communism would be proposed as an alternative to that if you're like in elementary school, but where you see it happening is on college campuses. Isn't that supposed to be a collegiate environment where people are enlightened or something?

Update This is true: no matter how much I struggle, it's in vain - despite the fact that acceptance comes through being able to follow instructions through the system as it is, that's not the same thing as "elitism", even though that's the way I look at it.

Update There are already all these white males who dropped out of society because they didn't want to partake in it. There should be a shill campaign to create an even larger psyop campaign by these people. Standardize your most powerful meme flyers/posters, and have them up everywhere.

Update Trying to help, so write a persecutory book called "People Are Stupid" when it comes to "politics" which aren't really functional in a sense that could work out in less than a generation even remotely, subtitle: "People Are Stupid", triggering the whole meaning of Denzel Curry's lyric "I can see the devil grinning" before you even get a chance to start - then what am I supposed to do? Nothing?

Update I get how other countries can be turned into Socialist shitholes freely, but this happening here implies someone with agency was deliberately left out.

If you *are* a midwit rationalizing the exclusion of people for reasons that seem realistic to you but are arbitrary ultimately, the best you can do is back the fuck off, at this point.

Update Because of what people have said about the fact that he's got the motive now, and what tends to happen in presidents' second terms, given it's the last term they'll be in office, a Trump second term is about the only thing I could actually talk about here that would really be worth talking about. That might be closer - and that's implying a lot - ideally, it would be what these people feared he would be during his *first* term, which wasn't to be. In 2016, that campaign talk is what people considered otherwise to be what they called "shed talk" Talk is already as if the country itself is forfeit.

8/2 night If I ever wanted to do a Q&A in any form whatsoever, I would have to be not shadowbanned

Do I like bacon? Yeah When I was at the Trout Lodge as a kid, they had all-you-can-eat, and bacon was there, so I got a full small plate full, and there was hardly any left in the kiosk.

Mother 3's pork-related products made me want pork products in real life really bad, like pork rinds, and actual pork, which are actually good

Actual Q&A material on the internet seems like the kind of entertainment of, here, come touch my toes - and then it stretches on for five hours

Recently I had my family bring back a meal from Steak 'n' Shake, and for some reason only this time did I make the judgment, this burger is good in a way that would keep me coming back that fast food wouldn't. Although I went to a newly-established A&W restaurant and thought that was getting up there too.

I don't want to eat fast food anymore, except for - Taco Bell

Come to think of it, is there anything I would - if I had actual funds - honestly pig out for?

If money wasn't an issue If money wasn't an issue I'd go to fuckin Red Lobster and test all the different sauces they have with the newer crab legs. (and then fuck a billion hoes and OD)

Say give me five billion things of your cheese biscuits

That might be partially why I don't make an effort to get money - I would get fat so fast.

The chicken nuggets at KFC were actually comparable to Chik-fil-A's

There was some Greco-Roman philosopher who said pleasure was the measure of highest ideal, so in theory there's no limit on those Red Lobster cheese biscuits

Continuing to contribute to the economy is all arbitrary now anyway - the sky's the limit if you're willing to completely put yourself aside for it Let's go in-depth on rich people food

I don't know much of anything about it, but one time when my family took me to such a restaurant, they had heated containers just for the sauces. It was probably called Au Jus, but it was cheese-based. Also for the first time the red cabbage tasted like something you would actually want to eat for its own sake. It was a Bavarian restaurant.

I decided I want all my meat at least medium-rare - I've basically heard the meme about it but never tried the actual bloodied kind The restaurants will leave it overly dry in certain cases, if you don't vie for this

A1 sauce, used like it's regular sauce, makes me barf

Update I think a lot of my demeanor is ironic, because I'm not really wanton like

Let's talk about the actual sensation of not even the regular butter sauce crab legs come with as the combination, but other sauces as well that improve upon Buttery, velvety

Long story short, if you know your sauce combinations right and that doesn't spur you to eat the whole white meat in the crab from the main body, it's like chicken legs have a whole other side to them.

Okay. It can be acknowledged formally: a tradeoff of being gangstalked to the point of being demotivated from having a wife and kids in life personally - is having all the money left over from your occupation exclusively to yourself.

Right, there's nothing about regular food that makes me *want* to have a day job (considering I accepted from a young age hermitdom)

I almost left out. The favorite food I decided for the Mother series is Fettucine Alfredo. I tried it, back before I crashed my own car one day, at Pasta House, and they do it completely plain. That used to be enough, when I was a kid, but they really just leave it like that.

In a way, it's very detrimental to this type of experience that with the weekly pay I already get for chores, there can always be a steady supply of cheap white rum. That means I'll never work toward the same kind of satisfaction. I'll just have this *virtual* sense. My chores really pay for it.

That still doesn't address that I - genuinely - don't want to live alone.

I loosened some of my anxiety with regards to the online course material by talking to my parents about whether they would kick me out of the house once I had a paying job or not, and apparently they won't until I'm steady and everything. But there's still a limit to the timeframe if I have a job. I don't want to go out there.

Update after some chicken with sauce I honestly think the cheesy biscuits are even better.

Update Even if I said the niggers word, I don't believe I'm racist

Between "he who knows what is right and does not do it has sinned" and the metaphor of the straight and narrow path, there's an image of Christianity being legitimately hard that people don't seem to get

Best go-to for last outburst is the parables of men who were given seeds to sew and how one didn't produce anything from it

Thinking about it, do people just think what the founding fathers left us with is just easy-come, easy-go? Probably, as they're beyond hope

It's one of the main boomerisms, that we don't care what happens to society after we're gone - all that matters is that we lived our lifetimes to their fullest.

Update I've never gone up to the recipes that my mom has that she browses through casually and said, I want to actually personally *try* on one of these, with the intention in mind of *getting* something out of it

If I *wanted* something, maybe I would fucking *try*

Half of what people in general seem to enjoy seems to me about as tolerable as eating coleslaw

I can't vie for my interest without it being taken as a diss, to my parents

"I'm the one who buys it, I know how good it is. When Bonnie goes shopping, she buys shit. Me, I buy the gourmet expensive stuff because when I drink it, I want to taste it."

I don't even talk like that ever, but it may as well be, "well *mom*, you're just such a failure" - "I couldn't get anything unless I pushed you out of my way"

Update I still don't get what's so bad about alcohol within reason, other than the fact that you'll have a big tummy-ache. You throw up with eating too much candy also.

In the end, that's probably the specific reason they don't typically sell above 40% ABV in grocery stores, because at that limit there really is a reasonable limit you can tell just by feeling how full you are

Unironically I just don't get much out of much (in life) There is now a thunderstorm (another boom) [That last set of parentheses was shadow-removed]

Update Pussy isn't a topic you talk about, but dammit, I'm not talking about how the incredible Hulk would fare against the Hammer of Thor

Ironically the sex appeal of anime most of the time is trying to sell those kinds of things to you so you'll watch them

Well I still don't

Update If there was any means by which to sample lots of different things like you can on the Internet with food preparation, I would probably be into recipes Have to pay for everything just to know what it tastes like

Like being in a chef's environment would definitely contribute toward that Also, they say white people don't season they food, but my parents definitely do, although the way they do, it's usually not enough to the extent that I'm wanting to get out the dipping sauce

Update I just don't even understand the motivation behind being a nerd about things. I just don't.

Update That's true - when you have a narrative that actually creates feelings that are fulfilling, that's different. But then how does that motivate people to make these comparisons like how would the Incredible Hulk fare against the Hammer of Thor constantly 24/7? It must just be riding the coattails of the hype

Update when it's practically morning The fries they served in the $20 box at KFC were actually good

8/3 I slept for probably 19 hours again

I'm going to live the rest of my life as a recluse, hoping to stay out of trouble

I have enough Blaze Rods to enter the End in Minecraft, but not enough Ender Pearls. I have about four more. The nearest End portal has been tracked down and given a shortcut down to, from a location that's easy to remember because it's right at the entrance to a cave opening up to the sea.

Update I've been shipping them down to one at a time in anticipation, and I can't get the last one.

Update I got to the End, but it only started me out with a platform hovering above thin air with the rest of the place spawning far off, and the End Dragon just rammed me off with the first swoop.

I don't know exactly why, since it doesn't add up anyway, but in retrospect, I kind of thought that phrase that came around and also died around 2012, "fuck religion", was cool. Organized religion is very lackluster. Does that mean people actually sought solutions that would normally be frowned upon? No, it was more like the people *seeking* those solutions were doing so only out of religious *extremism* and so saying that was to undercut that. On the far end from that interpretation is Nietzsche on "God is Dead", which you have to know the man's takes on the religion to understand. You have to remember, those at that time were just douchebags. That's not really

Every force in the known world with regards to America has been to just switch the channel and give up on trying to fix its problems within a generation or so, for the past many years.

So I'm supposed to just sit here.

Update I've heard - once - that 4chan users are moving to Telegram.

I don't know how to actually find people on social media. Also is there a point in it

Update So I'm in perfectly good shape, for the most part. But there's no point in pursuing a future with white people in it, and also that would be incestuous.

Every other race has a right to their autonomy by all means - evidently white is a globalist race and that makes us beholden to all races

Update If you don't have the demoralization take on things, you have to have inferior emotions - so what we're supposed to say here is that, it doesn't matter how clearly truth can be spoken - that just highlights more concisely: the people themselves are not more than a medium of bodies to be manipulated - in Quake 4, they gave the name "Stroyent" to the solvent of organic material

Are they better than that?

They're not

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He couldn't take the level of trolling that got built up

Update I had a dream about Halo stages, originally about a multiplayer map that turned into a singleplayer campaign scenario somehow - it was a giant blimp moving very quickly across a country/seaside, but the viewports looking out near the top were so hyperrealistic, it was like they could never pull that off in an actual game

I will honestly pay out of pocket for an external hard drive, since Halo MCC is extremely heavy just by itself. A lot of what I keep downloaded is limited to like 3GB apiece.

Somebody give *me* the education I need to shitpost in game mapping format, and eventually when I get good I will have people pay *me* - I don't expect to get anybody to sign up for a deal where they have to wait until that to get paid back

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I archived it in case gangstalking decides to be assholes

What would be a good testing map to start with?

Okay, the idea is even if the engine itself ends up being not desirable or something, I'll only keep it to basic maps that are testing what I thought would be the ideal for this engine with its strengths. Basically if it can't pull off a Mario B3313 vibe alone, then it can't go as far as my own Mario 64 nightmares.

After witnessing what else has been made, I don't think I would even personally update on what engine I would render game graphics with beyond this unless it incorporated new things like RTX ray tracing. And that sounds too expensive to be "open-source" per se. (at least for now)

*Essentially* I would be learning the basic means by which to work with more modern engines than GZDoom - never done anything in true 3D, and its 3D is very inefficient, even in simplicity.

I know I thoroughly regretted the *first* time I thought to myself, there isn't anything to initimidate me anymore; I'm going to look up the search terms for the worst I can look at and then try - just try to haunt myself with it if I even can -I already gave that story

"Find Me (Intro)" - every time I feel like screaming for venting, it takes the form of "AAAAAAAA", and that is a reminder of Frazzledrip, so I don't want to remember that

Okay - so I get the idea of how generally in games, even the badguys are stylized in a way that reflects what the authors would actually feel with, so in reality there's a conversation implied by the whole media - but generally with black people in rap music, posing as the bad guy is the entire medium, practically - why unironically bait people, ordinary people, into violence

Yeah, we know about that gang that's really going on here - why don't you come up and test us, bitch

Update That we don't just have flavored crunchy pretzels makes me marginally angry

Update I already took the testing by which you could have an autism diagnosis judged by conjecture alone and, knowing that, made sure not to give any freebie type of answer that would contribute to that, and I just got the most extreme depression diagnosis intstead. Also, about the IQ segment of that psychological testing - just goes to show how inaccurate it is, because after all these years, a test like the actual IQ test I took as a kid online more recently gave the same thing, while they just said oh, I'm mid, have about just 110 - I was taking my time, and it turned out there were only a few questions so it was speed-based only I'm just glad I didn't tell them any of the go-to "you just have autism" answers

Point being, if there was an actual autism spectrum diagnosis, I would accept this

But in either case, ultimately that testing is secondary to what I experience to be my condition

But a lot of people out there aren't warned - if you let them have freebies on subjective answers like "I'm very antisocial, I can't tolerate other people", you'll already have your autism diagnosis.

It's what I'm saying even with the IQ part of that kind of testing: if you even take your time and don't rush it, you're giving them a "freebie" that you're just mid altogether. In reality they're rushing you in a way that actual IQ tests do not.

The way I took my time was, until all personal doubts were removed, I would not answer. I just feel like it's the more responsible thing to answer when you have your answer clearly, not rushing like it's out of the bathroom with toilet paper still stuck to you etc. Just take an actual IQ test and don't lean on that. I was saying if there was a test of the quality of an actual IQ test for autism spectrum, well then maybe it would actually have been well thought-out. My parents acted genuinely like they had put me through the works.

Again I'm wavering dangerously close to that Stroyent comparison necessitation where there's nothing left to talk about but that ad infinitum, because the people don't go further into depth, but further into complexes from there - forever and ever and ever

Like if it's an opinion that you're supposed to out with when you have one, what? Nobody ever put two and two together when it comes to "the religious" saying people will go to hell and actual real-life ramifications "Boy I love boomers boy I love boomers" - the runaround for *them* is, "look, I love when my offspring are hated in their own country" - talk about the jews - well, what do you think ("my baby")

I honestly - no, if it were someone outside of my situation, and that were me, I would see no reason my parents wouldn't get what I've just written out, but in fact it's even worse than what I've implied because even after the tests wanting an autism conclusion didn't yield that answer, they *still* said perpetually [I *am* being gangstalked], you should put down an autism diagnosis for IBM Skillsbuild because (xyz mandation - at best, they mean you have to give them *some* reason)

Update There's no application for more than a midwit IQ anyway because how society is fucked up is more complicated already than its origins in what would have justified these positions to unbiased people in the first place.

Update If that's the most pressing matter to be talking about, okay, let's compare the college-provided psychology scheme to a regular restaurant. If the thing is crawling with cockroaches, etc. - you get the picture (that's not what people are seeing - they get a *marvelous* experience)

Update Basically, if I didn't have the actual IQ test as is standardized, there would be no reference to say the IQ test provided by college-provided psychologists isn't valid for what it is. No, it wasn't even in range.

Like the easiest way that comes to mind would be a systemic-level address of having a survey where you compare people of IQs that clearly stand out from the norm then take these college-provided psychology IQ tests to demonstrate a consistency in falling out of range. Then it would probably be Ron Paul'ed (ignored) or "Our problems began when we attempted to publish our findings"'ed.

I'm like, you can't just *talk* to normies. *This is what it entails.*

Update I don't care about myself as much as all that. Please leave me alone.

Update I'm an evil evil bastard.

Update I was seriously going to set up a ko-fi - when I set up a PayPal months ago, that's when the place set up a new law over $2500 fees for every alleged damage to the company name - that's when its membership started to tank But I was going to take the other option from ko-fi still and set up a Stripe account so I could see what would happen purely out of spite The only way to unlock my actual bank account information is with a phone call message - have to hope the thing doesn't wake anybody up from across the house I would get: I think the thing is with alcohol I really can't get more than I'm currently getting, or else the bottles will clang together and set them off - we're not talking about a car loan here, I can't drive myself before I just have a job It would be, coming soon: more pork rinds I would have to pretend that I'm saving more money than I am, which works to an extent Even with that I would have to convince somebody that I can spend my extra money on things like eating out in order to even get to spend it on such things - for now, the best I can get away with without that is just stuffing as much into the trunk from Wal-mart as I can get away with without it being completely out-of-the-ordinary

I'm going to actually try to lose my weight, because it's not a good thing

Even if I have to actually work for it, having a list could still be a motivation to actually do it, as opposed to take another 19-hour concatenated set of naps

Update So I would have to keep it in the closet so no one knows I'm going over the budget of my chore money, but what would I get

I've decided even one Monster energy takes about as long to get out of your system as alcohol in general - about a day and a half, maybe less than that

Update My parents are already buying the juices that taste better than Mountain Dew - raspberry lemonade and pineapple juice

Update after some food I actually love clams. Clam Chowder, when it's not just reduced to what is essentially potato chowder, is amazing.

8/4 night Whatever anything means, it's about culling the outliers back into mere existence.

This is why I take day naps now I could get snacks, with money that I earn, but then I would get fat

If I go outside to walk or run for exercise, I'll be gangstalked

Update The country's not in a good position, but how is that new with regards to the *rest* of the West? I just want real reactions, not shitposting. *Some people* are remaining blocked.

Update If you work more than one day in your life, lower your tone with me. Meme: *LOWER. YOUR. TONE.* (Reverb voice: "Lower your tone.")

Wagie: "Now let me tell you about my life" Me: "How about no" (I'm just here being Pepe doing breakdancing N.M.P.)

All these boomers screaming that all these non-wagie zoomers can't open a can with a proper can opener don't realize that they have: - Mulatto broccoli

In other news, are politicians humans? Women at night in get-togethers are like, let's talk about boys / shoes or something Men at night in get-togethers are isolated like, I go to work every day, I come home - is this all there is? for everyone to chime in in droves, yes! Now get back to work wagie even though it's nighttime - "that's no reason not to"

Meanwhile politicians at night are creating the stipulations in the laws that are fucking us royally day after day - are they humans?

"Look" - I don't think anyone today qualifies as what we call "patriots" - we're a *mockery*

If nobody donates to my *Ko-fi* because I can't set it up, that means I can't near-immediately go to KFC and get something of the caliber of the $20 box but this time all to myself the next day

Update It only now just hit me, in theory every Blockbuster should be out of business by now. We have one local. Okay. It was by the Little Caesar's, which I actually like

Critically speaking, I can probably describe *why* I like certain foods, but when it comes to liking certain traits of beauty among women - well I don't have an explicit preference

I have a grandpa, the one on my dad's side, who couldn't stay married to my grandmother on that side because he wasn't faithful There *was* another divorce on my dad's side of the family

That's the same grandfather who went around the world touring different locations, all with a laptop apparently with a large amount of flash drives to back it up

I hear the meme of people making a "tier list" - okay, I said Steak 'n' Shake ranks higher than "fast food" per se. What else?

On Ko-fi money, a starting investment for a motor-scooter could take me to the most immediately local restaurants, and I would feel like an idiot and get gangstalked with all of the self-doubting feelings being echoed back at me through the color-coding of every car that passes and every random passerby. My uncle who is now in prison ("dfj") as well as my older cousin who lives in that very house in his place now both used a motor scooter to get around in place of a car - the older cousin lost his license and is still without it, in the middle of that period of time

I really wish I had more experience like the all-night lock-in at my grandma's old church (she is in the old people's home now and just said she feels like it's her time to "move on") [My light just flickered almost out for a split second]

I don't like political disingenuity, but that doesn't excuse my super evilness (that's according to midwits) I don't want to be seen that way Common Filth said you gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet Of course that was in reference to racism as a sociopolitical factor on the Internet

I think it's plain you just don't talk about what I want, where it's about what could be done independently by a concerned citizen - I've heard that hasn't happened for many years now

So what will I do? I'll keep talking about my preferences on things like KFC

On a tier list, which would rank higher, Little Caesar's or KFC?

Battle Against a Mobile Opponent - YouTube *shitposts for 3 hours* (I'm sorry)

Update My mom literally told me I "need" to learn to budget

Assuming I *had* a budget

An implicit tier list in itself: would I still go to...

All the choices you could try at these different restaurants - I don't know if they'll bring it back to spook me or what, but BK's double/triple/quad bacon stacker meals

The every-so-often nacho fries at Taco Bell with the cheap combo boxes

I wish I could be stupid like Beavis and Butthead getting nachos

I like the 5-layer beefy burrito, specifically because it has that nacho cheese as the outer layer

Making an assumption - I know you *can't* - but just making the assumption - yes, I know you can't technically If you could reheat this stuff and have it be just as good or near just as good to where you don't really notice the big difference - could stock up on 5-layer beefy burritos

I don't think we have any burger restaurants around here where you could say, give me that medium-rare

Honestly, if I was held to this, I would just want to start with things like, best pizza? Best burgers?

Also, when it comes to fast food, I could be harshly critical, but there's a subjective layer when it comes to these things, like how a few days ago we went to Chevy's for Father's day, and I brought up how I must have plebian tastes or something because Taco Bell tastes sweeter to me than even the Smothered Burrito there, and he replied basically, yes, they do put more sweetener in their food, so you're actually right.

Am I autistic because I can't get enough of the slob of corn they have at Chevy's when it's just this little scoop? I wish my mom would prepare salsa anything like what they do for the appetizer there - it's always way too strong and in-your-face whatever flavor it is

I already mentioned the Red Lobster cheesy biscuits Have 400 lbs. of the - I looked it up - new Bairdi? crab legs

Go to KFC - what's the best shit Too much mac & cheese I'll have two number nines

*3 years of ranting with obtuse enlargment video filter* and a large soda

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I want people to be able to carry on without me in a way that isn't just shitposting - those people actually doing that are going to stay blocked, because I'm not taking that anymore

I like spicy chicken wings where you get them at a side in a restaurant that doesn't really specialize in them, but I've never been to a restaurant like Buffalo Wild Wings and really experimented with the extremely hot sauces

I actually made the personal decision Taco Bell's Fire sauce is better than the Diablo sauce which got released more recently because it simply has the better flavor, and that's really all you're going to get out of it because it's just Taco Bell

*I don't even get into people's tier lists because I don't see anything outstanding even in their S ranks*

I've heard embarrassing things about people who frequent Buffalo Wild Wings, but that's the go-to restaurant I've actually heard of where you get to challenge that meme that, for white people, asking for the really hot sauce really means getting that mild sauce for white people There are other places, but that's the most standard restaurant chain for that I've heard of

Tier lists proper are I think how you get what I've heard people say like of Burger King, it's the restaurant equivalent of soil - unless you're trying to compare it to an arbitrary standard, there's no reason to believe that - not shilling. It's just fast food

What makes me think is like when you have a simulation of food in a game like Earthbound, the concept is all that's presented to you, so you get to turn it into your ultimate ideal of the thing in your head. So you have burgers and pizza delivery as some of your standards.

That's kind of a hard call - that's where, in saying A&W burgers were getting up there with Steak 'n' Shake, I was thinking they're something that actually sounds like the culture of 50's diners with burgers and the like Aside from that, it's pretty much, any restaurant that will actually ask you how you want your burger done on the inside, that's actually good I don't honestly want to make a tier list with fast food

I've never really had that experience of what they have in media where the pizza's cheese is just dripping off the thing

Basically that entire meme of the guy who looks rich doing fast food reviews that kept getting spammed on ghost's livestreams - he's acting like there's taste in that that's above me - I don't get it

Okay so getting to the point the $20 box at KFC had a small assortment of their sauces, and that made me want the Buffalo Wild Wings

Blasphemy against men will be forgiven but not against the Holy Spirit

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Are there any in-game characters or companions you ship? (both 101 games)

Pork x Beans (do these guys have a ship name?) (they're old gay husbands and they have EVERY RIGHT to be the adoptive dads to Sparck, Mellori, AND the Wizard)

RatCat (Ratbeard x Catbeard) (i ship em in the 'they're divorced and still snarky at each other' way. fun to read and write. old gay ex husbands)

Stalliold (Stallion Quartermane x the Old One) (they're terrible for each other but in the most dramatic way. SUCH a fun dynamic to write! old toxic gay ex husbands)

Wizbat (the Wizard x Bat) (listen I love him as a character and so do a lotta other people. also, i love me a tsundere nerd whose character arc involves learning how to make FRIENDS. i wanna love my besties)

Wizsein (the Wizard x Dasein) (i made some memes ages ago and sent em to val's askbox explaining Wizsein. i'd search for em now but it's past midnight and ya boy is TIRED.)

Malvia (Malistaire x Sylvia) (the canon couple that started it ALL, baybee!!)

Subodirk (Subodai x my Pirate OC, Dirk) (I don't ship Subodai with every instance of the Pirate, but I ship him with my pirate if that makes sense. IDK if this counts but fuck it it's past midnight so I dont give a fuck. Anyway they're besties and brothers-in-arms and their motto is "fellas, is it gay to swear undying loyalty to your homies?")

and uh. joke ship: Therapy101 (Therapy x almost everyone in W101 and P101) (there is so much MESSED UP SHIT from the Wizard being a child soldier to Azteca's demise to the Wizard nearly DYING canonically thanks to the Well of Annwn to all the shit Morganthe went through to Mellori and Bat and Rat and Scorpion all being the direct product of a godly divorce like THAT'S not gonna fuck em up for all eternity to the Pirate losing their parents at a young age to Subodai losing his parents at a young age to El Toro losing his parents at a young age to Phule being raised by someone who always called him a MISTAKE like my guy that's how you give a robot self esteem issues to the Wizard being fucking ISEKAI'D TO-)

#ask #anon #wizard101 #w101 #pirate101 #p101 #im not tagging every character im sorry #leah speaks :3

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iloveabunchofmovies · 4 years ago

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'The Mitchells vs. the Machines

If you think killer robots and memes are inherently full of epic win, turn on The Mitchells vs. the Machines right now and enjoy the best movie-watching experience of your life. Okay, now that those people are gone, let's get real: This movie is fine. The animation is absolutely stellar, and there are some great performances from great actors, but there's only so much you can do with a script that really needed another pass or two. I don't have much else to say. It's a world-class production built around a first-draft script, and it stinks because it should be better. There are moments when you see the movie this should have been, but they are only sporadic moments. It's mostly sweet, though, and while I don't think I got a proper laugh out of the movie, I found a fair number of gentle chuckles. Ten year-olds who think nyancat is the most awesomest thing EVER are going to be in Heaven. Fortunately, there's still enough for the rest of us to find some enjoyment, too. (Jake's Pedantic Gripe: The Mitchell family is from Michigan, just like me! Early in the movie, the dad mentions a coupon, which he pronounces the correct way. Later, the coupon is brought up again, but now the dad and his daughter say, "koo-pon." What the heck?? And why is everybody drinking Shasta? If you're going to strike a licensing deal with National Bevarage Corp., let your characters drink Faygo. If I'd seen an animated bottle of Rock & Rye, I would personally spend the rest of the year lobbying for this movie to get a Best Picture nomination.)

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I’m ranking every movie I watch between my 33rd and 34th birthdays right here on Tumblr dot com because I am some kind of idiot person, I guess.

Moonrise Kingdom

Fatty Drives the Bus

The Mitchells vs. the Machines

Pork Pie

Incredibles 2

My Fair Lady

Thunder Force

#Movie review #the mitchells vs the machines #Netflix #Animation #Faygo

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purplesurveys · 5 years ago

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821

When was the last time you held a puppy? This is crazy timely. My mom brought home a puppy and surprised us all just a few hours ago! He’s a beagle and we’ve named him Cooper. I’m honestly a little more stressed than excited because 1) I’ve never cared for a puppy before and now I’m stressing out over vaccinations, vitamins, dog food, etc, 2) Cooper has proven to be a bit of a biter, and 3) so far Kimi is extremely afraid of the new situation and he jumps when Cooper gets too close – Kimi’s 12 and doesn’t jump anymore, so that is saying a lot. If anyone has any tips on how to make two dogs like each other or at least not kill one another while they’re in the same room, please let me know because ya girl’s at a loss :( What kind of operating system does your computer have? My laptop is operating on macOS. Who was the last person to make you genuinely smile? My dad. Cooper is meant to be a Father’s Day gift for him, so the way his whole face lit up when we brought Cooper to him absolutely made my day today. Are you good at telling when people are lying to you? Yeah. Most people have certain tics and can’t look at me straight in the eye. Last time you slept out on a couch? April, I think.

Was the person that last slept over at your house a boy or girl? Girl. It’s been a while, too. I’m usually the one sleeping over at her place. Who's name first comes to mind that starts with the letter "P"? Pia. I went to high school with her, but she’s a good casual friend so I still keep in touch with her. When did you last cut your finger nails and or toe nails? Last month for both. My toenails are still short but my fingernails have gotten a bit too long now, but tbh I wanna see how long they get before it bothers me haha so I’m not clipping them for now.

Would you say that your 2010 is starting off well? 2010 definitely started off well but it went downhill as fast as possible. It’s my least favorite year because my two best friends settled abroad, leaving me alone; my mental health started going completely bonkers by that year; and my mom was then carrying out the stress from her then-job towards her kids. Do you have any kind of jewelry on at the moment? Nopes. Would you say you use "lol" too often? Yes, even though I’m not actually laughing. It’s since evolved to make a sentence sound less harsh or mean, and I usually use ‘lol’ for that purpose now. If I genuinely laughed out loud at something, I’d type out a capitalized, stretched-out LOOOOOOOL. Which is better, facebook or myspace? I never experienced Myspace and Facebook is sucky, so neither. I stay on the latter for the memes and to be connected with relatives living abroad, but that’s it. Are you more of a dog person or cat person? Dog.

Have you ever felt an earthquake? Yeah, lots of them. They’ve all been very light though and the only reason I noticed them is because I had been sitting very still in bed or on the couch. When was the last time you vacuumed a room? I’ve never done that; my mom prefers to do the cleaning around the house.

What was the last concert you were at? Paramore, two years ago. What kind of pants do you have on? I have shorts on. I haven’t worn pants in a couple of weeks, and before that I hadn’t worn pants in three months. You can only shop at one store for the rest of your life, what store is it? The grocery. Gots to be practical. What is the third website you went to in your history? Know Your Meme. HAHA I wanted to know the context of a particular meme from Spongebob so I looked it up. Why is your lucky number your lucky number? I don’t believe in lucky numbers. I don’t even have a favorite number.

What is the last meat product you ate? Pork. I didn’t pay as much attention to dinner because I was fixated on the puppy. My dad’s cooking was great as always though. Have you ever donated to a cause? Yes. Sometimes, groups that are oppressed, such as maltreated factory workers from shitty corporations, would visit in the middle of a class lecture and talk about their experiences re: not being paid, being forced to work in unsafe conditions, and some will pass a box around where we can put in money to help them out; I’ve definitely donated to some of them. Would you say you're a generally well liked person? I wouldn’t use ‘well-liked.’ People just don’t fuck with me because I can be pretty stoic, and also because there’s no dirt to dig up about me anyway. How many pets currently live in your house hold? Two, now. What's something you'd like but you can't afford? I uhhhh technically can’t afford anything right now because I’m not getting an allowance and I also don’t have a job lol. How many of hours of sleep do you get a night? 5-6. My body clock suffered a bit when I got sick a few weeks ago because I kept waking up through the night then. Before my fever I slept 8-10 hours every night, but my body refuses to go back to that routine now. Does anyone have your heart at the moment? Yup. QUICK! What's on your mind right now? I started thinking of Gabie because of the last question; but I’m also still stressed over my two dogs not getting along. Pepsi Vs Cola - What's your choice? I don’t like soda. Are you watching TV right now? If so - what's on? I’m not. The living room TV is on, but I think it’s one of my siblings playing the PS4.

#survey #surveys

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mcrmadness · 4 years ago

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"I’m not from the US” ask set: 4, 7, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 22, 26 :) :)

Thanks! :) Here is the ask set if anyone wants to send more asks!!!

Sorry for taking so long with the answer, I got bit too excited and had a busy weekend so I’ve been writing this a little bit every day because I managed to make tired on each time because of the amount of text I’m apparently able to produce because I’m a proud Finn who loves their country a bit too much :D

4. favourite dish specific for your country?

Hmmm. This is interesting question, our cuisine reminds the German one a lot to begin with and I feel like it’s just so very... basic (like: potatoes and meat/sausages + milk products). There’s also many regional dishes that I haven’t eaten because I’m from the East Finland and those are popular in the West or so, and some of these sound really disgusting too. And I want to leave out desserts like mämmi or other foods like Karelain pies and focus on actualy dishes not... So I’d say my favorite is Karjalanpaisti aka the Karelian hot pot (UK)/Karelian stew (US) so it also has bit of Russian roots for it, too. It’s more common here in the East and I don’t know about other families, but that is what my mom makes as the main food for Christmas but sometimes she cooks it even if it wasn’t Christmas. So it’s just beef, pork and liver stew and eaten with potatoes. The broth also tastes sooooo good if you put butter on a rye bread and then dip the bread in the broth! I usually don’t eat the beed/pork pieces because I have to chew them for so long that they become so dry and lose all the taste, but I LOVE liver. And during the few past years my mom has bought local, organic Highland cow liver and made us our own stew without the beef/pork (unless beef is organic since I only eat organic meat) and omg, it’s just so good :D

And another one worth mentioning: fried vendace! It’s a small fresh water fish (’muikku’ in Finnish) and it’s a famous dish (’paistetut muikut’) especially here in Finnish Lakeland. These are always the highlight of the summer when the vendace/fish restaurants open and you get the summer’s first (and often the last too because of money lol) fried vendace meal from a restaurant :p

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7. three words from your native language that you like the most?

- Niin kuin / Niiku / Niiko. This is a filler word, you can start a sentence with it or put it anywhere. It basically means the same as saying “like” in the middle of a sentence in English. Like, the way I’m doing now. It depends on the dialect which version one chooses to use, “niiko” is not typica for my dialect but I’ve adopted it to my speech anyway.

- Kylömä. This is a dialect word, typical for my dialect, it comes from the written word “kylmä” which means “cold”. Here in the East we like additional letters, especially vowels, so this often becomes “kylymä”. And when wanting to make it even more Savo dialect-ish, you say “kylömä”.

- Häh? / Täh? That’s right, German is not the only language with a word for the question mark mood - Finns also will say “hä???” when something goes over our heads. I think it comes from the word “mitä” which means “what”, which then has evolved into “mitäh” and from there to “täh” and finally to “häh?” But I’m not a linguist, it just sounds most logical for me like this. I also like other Finnish interjections and I wish I had similar words in English.

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13. does your country (or family) have any specific superstitions or traditions that might seem strange to outsiders?

Finland isn’t really that superstitious anymore. Back in the day, before modern religions, Finland was very much superstitious and especially into magic a lot. And there were gods everywhere, if you saw a face in the tree, it could have been nothing else but the forest god. And what still playfully lives from these eras of magic and spells are the spells we’re talking about during Midsummer. Mostly they were about running around naked and doing random things like sleeping with flowers under your pillow in order to see your future parten in your dream, or do things in order to get good luck at future marriage. But I don’t know if anyone does those anymore, we just playfully joke about them every year.

Talking of Midsummer, I think I need to mention here our tradition about: drowning. That’s right, in Finland there’s always a number of people drowning during Midsummer because alcohol and swimming don’t go together but people still go swimming while they’re drunk and then accidents happen... So, whenever the Midsummer approaches, everyone is wishing for good weather so they can go out and have fun and get drunk with others (except for me because I’m an introverted teetotaler who hates people and heat waves lol) but at the same time we’re wishing for a bad weather so as little people would drown as possible. The better the weather, the more people will drown. But still if the weather is bad, it makes everyone angry because they wished for better weather but at least more lives are saved, then... So you can basically never win, as long as people will go swimming while drunk and forget to look after their friends (because they’re also too drunk to notice someone disappeared).

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14. do you enjoy your country’s cinema and/or TV?

Not really. There only a few comedy shows that I really like - Kummeli being the ultimate best and I pretty much grew up with that show. I don’t like Finnish drama series nor movies because I just can’t stand the acted Finnish. It sounds the same as normal spoken language too but I just can SEE from the people they are acting and it gets on my nerves so much. Plus Finland loves melancholy so we can’t even have police series without it being about human relations instead of investigating stuff and people are just constantly lying, angry at each other and crying 24/7. I don’t like that sort of negativity at all, it makes me just angry myself.

Plus Finland only has like 5 different actors that are in every goddamned show and movie, and then we also have just like 3 different people who are hosts in radios and tv shows and like... why??? Kinda tired of seeing the same faces everywhere all the time!

But I have to mention that a few good movies have come from Finland during the past couple of years: Tom of Finland is actually a great movie and it’s great for anyone interested in the LGBT+ history (especially the gay community’s) too as it tells about this Finnish artist whose drawings have inspired many today’s praised LGBT+ icons too. I don’t know if you can find it with foreign subtitles or so yet as it’s mainly spoken in Finnish. The same director also made a movie about Tolkien, this one is entirely in English (apart from a few pseudo-Finnish words here and there because Finnish inspired Tolkien a lot in real life too) but it was a good movie anyway.

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15. a saying, joke, or hermetic meme that only people from your country will get?

Well, in Finland we have this phenomenon called “Suomi mainittu, torilla tavataan!” aka we get so excited everytime Finland is mentioned anywhere even a little so everyone gotta “meet” at a market place to celebrate it. It literally means “Finland mentioned, let’s meet at the market place!” No matter what is the original language of where the mention is, and it doesn’t matter if we don’t understand the language, if we can clearly tell it’s about Finland, we need to leave a comment in Finnish and go crazy about it because our lil country was noticed somewhere finally.

And here’s an extra one:

Source. Write “Finnish bus stop” on Google and you get tens of these photos. We really love our personal space.

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16. which stereotype about your country you hate the most and which one you somewhat agree with?

I don’t know if we have any wrong stereotypes? I even tried googling this and I agreed with every single one of them? :D But I googled a little bit more and apparently people tend to see Finns as very rude because of our introverted and emotionless nature and I have to disagree with this one. Yes we’re introverted (but still extroverts exist too, I myself am an ambivert) and especially our monotonous language can make us seem very emotionless as well, but the “rudeness” comes from the fact we show our respect by not paying too much attention to others. We even run away from people we know if I we happen to see them in a supermarket and they didn’t see us yet, we’re ust shy! :D I’m also pretty sure that the dark, Finnish sense of humour (we’re the kings of dank memes btw) can also often go way over other people’s heads and what we meant as a deadpan dark humour can seem like something very offending to those who have gotten used to a very different and more light-hearted humour.

Finns can seem very pessimistic. I was once watching a video, because I’m learning German, about how different the people of Berlin are to other Germans and they have this very similar “attitude” to things as people from Nordic Countries too: instead of saying “oh that’s a great one” we tend to say “well it could be worse”, but we mean exactly the same with this.

Finns are also very humble and we just HATE bragging and we don’t like it at all if someone else is bragging about themselves, which is why especially Americans easily get our nerves. We even have a saying that goes “self praise stinks” because no one likes someone who loves themselves too loudly. That’s why we find it hard to take in compliments and instead of a “Oh thank you!” you get something like “Oh that was nothing, really, not a big deal at all...” but on the inside we’re very flattered, just too shy to show our true feelings.

I guess this answers to the both aspects of this question!

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19. do you like your country’s flag and/or emblem? what about the national anthem?

The flag is a white one with a blue cross and yeah it’s nice. It looks calm and it’s just... simple. At least I don’t have trouble remembering which color is which unlike with all those flags with two or more stripes. I legit cannot remember in which order they go in which countries’ flags and whether a country as horizontal or vertical stripes. So at least that is nice, otherwise I probably wouldn’t be able to draw the Finnish flag either. I associate the colors with Finland because they’ve always been there so I couldn’t even imagine a different kind of flag at all.

The emblem then is a yellow lion on a red background, with some swords. And flowers because... why the heck not? No but I honestly have no clue why it’s a lion. There’s never been lions in Finland? Other than in zoos and our biggest wild cat species is lynx so... why a lion? (I clearly have to do some googling here.)

The national anthem is a bit boring one and I don’t know if I’ve ever even read the full lyrics. At least I never could memorize them... but I guess it sounds like... Finland.

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22. what makes you proud about your country? what makes you ashamed?

I’m proud about lots of things. There’s many things Finland has done right and what other countries should really learn from, e.g. how to deal with homelessness. And how a democratic country actually works. And how cops should actually be like - there’s more racism from other agencies than from the police in Finland, and withing the past 20 years only 7 people have died from polices’ bullets and they were occassions where these people were going to harm other people or themselves. And every time a police uses their gun, that will be investigated thoroughly to see if anything was done wrong there and if it looks like there was no right to use the gun, there will be consequences.

There’s also lots of things that cannot really compared to the other European countries, like the laws about animals, for example. I eat organic meat that comes from Finland because it’s nothing like the meat industry in other places in Europe (I think all Nordic Countries are a lot like Finland with this). An ex-friend once tried to convince me of why also organic meat is bad and animals get treated badly but this person did not understand that you can’t send me photos from farms in another European country far from Finland because it is so far from how things are in Finland to begin with. Our animal right laws are a lot stricter than anywhere else in the Europe and I really trust the agriculture of Finland and there are no big secrets, most farmers also have voluntarily signed up to a website that shows their vet checkup results etc. publicly, which is great because it means they care about the animals too and not just about making money. (Of course Finland is not perfect and occassionally farms with terrible animal healthcare issues are found and there’s still lots of things where we could improve, but I’m saying that, at the moment, animals in Finland [and Nordic Countries] do have a lot better rights and lives than anywhere else in Europe or even in the World we have only a small portition of the problems that are present in other European countries’ intensive farming habits on a daily basis.)

And from here we get to what makes me ashamed: our justice system. It’s way too easy on people! I mean, our “lifetime” is not lifetime, every goddamned murderer will get to walk free after a decade or so, sometimes a lot earlier if they are behaving nice, and we have already had so many cases where someone has got out and then killed yet another person. But for some reason we just can’t keep murderers behind the bars because apparently Finland believes that sociopaths won’t kill ever again if they behave nice in the jail (which btw are more like hotels here). And what about rapists, child abusers and other assholes? Oh, no jailtime, fine is fine!!! Or maybe in parole but nah, why bother put them behind the bars :) And despite the great animal rights laws, the consequences in animal rights crimes are nonexistent. You might get fined and they can forbid you from ever owning an animal again, but absolutely no one is supervising this. There’s so many animal hoarder/abuser cases where animals have been taken away and they’ve been fined and told that they are not allowed to keep animals anymore, and it won’t take too long until they again have a house full of animals, or they are again charged for animal abuse. And nothing ever changes.

But I’m also really ashamed of those loud asshats who keep shouting their right-wing views. What especially gets on my nerves is that when ever a transgender person is mentioned, these people just can’t keep their mouths shut but they just have to be there in the comments saying how... okay I don’t even bother saying what they say, you all know what transphobics say so all that bullshit and it just annoys me so much because I KNOW they are doing that on purpose to be provocative but I so wish I had some huge mallet I could beat sensibility in their heads but I also know they will never change their minds because they’ve already decided to think like that and they want to just upset others with their opinions. I just hope everyone would walk away from them because if no one answers for them, I’m sure they would stop eventually because no one bothers to continue bullying if there’s no one around to bully anymore.

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26. does your nationality get portrayed in Hollywood/American media? what do you think about the portrayal?

Very rarely. Usually it’s another “torilla tavataan” moment if Finland is mentioned in an American TV as it’s so rare, and usually then everyone will know about it even if they wouldn’t be interested in the media. Usually there’s been a Finnish person or a person with Finnish roots making that media whenever it gets mentioned (e.g. Iron Sky was made by a Finnish team). But usually it’s rather annoying because of course Russia is always mentioned everywhere and sometimes even Sweden! But Finland? Neverheard. Which probably is the reason because most Americans have never even heard of Finland and they have absolutely no clue where that is and if that is even a real place.

More often Finland is linked to Santa Claus but even then they get it wrong because Americans believe Santa comes from the North Pole and the North Pole is not in Finland (and Santa comes from Finland and not from the North Pole :D). And one common belief is also that there’s polar bears in Finland. No, there is none. Just regular Eurasian brown bears but no polar bears.

#lokigodof #mcrmadness' random stuff #ask games #finland #finnish #long post

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galactibabe · 4 years ago

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50-60 please <3

issa long boi

50. favourite picture of your idol

Could I ever pick a favorite picture of Robert??? No but I’ll pick a good one n-e-way, bitch he’s gorgeous

I’d like to think he’d find me endearing and take me on a date where he’d keep his hand on my ass the whole time and he’d do that thing where his arm’s around my shoulder and he pulls me in to kiss my temple and he laughs into my hair and ugh I simp

51. starsign

Taurus!

52. something i’m talented at

ruining every romantic relationship I’ve ever had? supporting my friends? being a whole whore for Robert Anthony Plant CBE? take ur pick buddy

53. 5 things that make me happy

my cats, music, painting, eef, and that “mmm, monkey” meme from kung fu panda

54. something thats worrying me at the moment

the usual “is my streaming career ever gonna take off and actually become a career or am i wasting my life doing something that nobody will ever care about” stuff

55. tumblr friends

i don’t really talk to any of my moots except @americaspencil on occasion, f in chat for the ones who moved to twitter but never deleted their blogs

56. favourite food(s)

my mom’s lasagna, i make real good stir fry, pork dumplings, english muffin pizzas, tacos, kfc biscuits fucking SLAP

57. favourite animal(s)

any and all cats, sharks, lizards, moths, beluga whales specifically (bc they pog all the time), snakes are rad, snow leopards

58. description of my best friend

i don’t think i really have one? i have a friend group that’s been the same core 5 people for 5 years now and that’s nice

59. why i joined tumblr

this used to be a wwe blog if you can believe it and if you still follow me from those days, congrats for putting up with me lmao. i only watch ppvs now and the product is ass but w/e

60. ask me anything you want

you did not ask anything so i will bestow upon you a fact about me today. Ship of Fools has been stuck in my head for a few days and i have no idea why. i listened to it today bc i thought that would satisfy my brain but no. why must robert always have a firm grip on my soul

thank u for query

#Anonymous #i rambled here oopsie #Percy #stuff abt v!

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thelaughinglazaretto-blog · 5 years ago

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I’ll level with you. When I first heard about the virus I didn’t think anything of it. BUT the noise surrounding it kept getting louder until reaching cacophony status. In my mind the mark of an effective virus is not about being able to kill, but rather to spread. Not to take anything away from Ebola’s nastiness, but the old dog just doesn’t get to play much because she kills all of her toys. Coronavirus is much more sinister from its incubation period to its asymptomatic carriers.

I remember having multiple conversations about its spread and symptoms. All I could think of was The STAND, my favorite “STAND” alone book. I’m too much a fan of horror not to at least CONSIDER that the worst might happen. And then of course you have Stephen himself come out and say THIS IS NOT LIKE THE STAND, separating his fictional global killer, Captain Trips from COVID-19.

I find that the virus can be quite comically tracked by popular memes on facebook. They started out playful and dismissive. Then came the toilet paper and grocery crisis memes. OVERREACTION. HOAX. PANIC. PLAGUE. Then the essential personnel memes. At last we have arrived at the Stimulus Check, Spanish Flu, and Protesting memes.

Just to give you a bit more context, I am a social worker in the prison system with the focus on maintaining mental health in a prison unit. Prisons are among the WORST places to have any type of virus. Even in non-pandemic years there is a requirement to wear a facial covering if an employee is unable, unwilling, or simply refusing to be vaccinated for the regular old store brand flu. In a perfect world the prison acts as a CLOSED SYSTEM where nobody could spontaneously acquire COVID-19. In reality the unfortunate flaw in that system is that Correctional officers and other assorted staff members cannot be expected to stay on the unit INDEFINITELY and thus the prisons are OPEN systems.

You may be wondering, is psych, mental health, and/or social work “essential?” I’ve got a letter that says it is and I’m thanking my lucky stars that I am still working. That brings me back to “What Worked for Me.” There was a period of calm before the storm inside the prison, so I’ll start in the FREE-WORLD.

Natural disasters tend to leave stores wiped out. In my corner of the world we regularly combat hurricanes, but to say “I wasn’t surprised,” would be a boldfaced lie. The water, bread, pasta, meat, toilet paper, and baby wipes had been cleaned off the shelves. My technique was simple. Find and track the pulse of the chain and local grocery stores. Before the virus numbers started jumping I went to the store almost every day. I found out that the locally owned meat market was able to stay remarkably well stocked with chicken, pork, and beef products while the Franchised grocery stores struggled. The best times have been Saturday and Sunday mornings as the stores are opening. ESPECIALLY for products that the stores have been struggling to keep in stock (toilet paper, disinfectant wipes, and cleaning products).

I spent a fair time being convinced that there was no benefit to wearing a mask especially if it wasn’t a rarer-than-gold N95 mask. “WASH your hands! Don’t TOUCH your FACE!” That information focuses on how a person can contract the virus rather than how they can spread it. In a perfect world people would know the instant that they’ve contracted this flashy new version of the coronavirus (or they just wouldn’t get sick at all) and they could A. Stay Home from Work, B. Cover their face to prevent the spread of their sickly droplets. As we don’t live in a perfect world the ideal scenario would be for everyone to wear some form of facial covering to prevent UNINTENTIONAL ASYMPTOMATIC SPREAD.

I COULD be an asymptomatic carrier of the virus. But I doubt it. I have not been tested up to this point (4/22/20). I have not experienced anything other than seasonal allergy symptoms in the year 2020. I haven’t traveled out of the country. No fever. No difficulty breathing. I have masked up diligently every time I’ve gone to the grocery store in the last month. I follow the same logic from work. If I am sick and don’t know it I refuse to be the virus’s tool.

It helps me to imagine that I’m Hobbes in the movie “Fallen,” and that Azazel can’t possess me if I’m wearing a mask. TIME IS ON MY SIDE, YES IT IS. For anyone who hasn’t seen it, Denzel Washington and John Goodman in a 1998 horror flick where they face down a particularly nasty vir-, I mean demon, with the ability to possess people by touch and through the air. Sounds familiar?

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hisho-eisei-hei · 5 years ago

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@asagao-onna

(tumblr, y u keep borking the format???)

Shizune is not a big eater, except at parties where she will mostly ‘graze’ on hors d’oeuvres. While she is not a vegetarian, Shizune will not eat any kind of pork products, or anything that is made from pigs, this is brought on from how long she has been looking out for Tonton and now can’t stand the thought of eating pork.

Due to frequent failed relationships or dates that never happened, Shizune is known to indulge in comfort food. This can either be her scarfing several bowls at Ichiraku or nursing a bucket of ice cream in her pajamas. She is quick to burn off the excess the next day.

#headcanon tag #asagao-onna

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gemennair-rb · 6 years ago

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21 Questions Meme

Tagged by @actuallyfeanor, thank you so much! <3

Nickname: Gem

Zodiac: I’m a Pisces, though it doesn't really mean anything to me.

Last movie I saw: Velvet Buzzsaw, that new movie by Jake Gyllenhaal, an actor who I love, in Netflix. It was an okay movie, nothing mind-blowing. Could definitely be better, though.

Last thing I googled: Trust me, you don’t wanna know.

Favourite musician: Queen, Mumford and Sons, Kodaline and Breaking Benjamin, for a time.

Song stuck in my head: Doing All Right by Queen and Half the World Away by Oasis due to the self-indulgent modern au Russingon fic I’ve been writing which I’m still not sure if I should publish.

Other blogs: My art blog, @gemennair which I made 4 months ago, and one other super private one which will never see the light of day.

Do I get asks: Yep, I do! I get more on my art blog though.

Following: 449, still haven’t cleared out the inactive ones. Will probably never will cause I’m a lazy schmuck.

Followers: 455, and 1,558 on gemennair.

Amount of sleep: What is sleep?

Lucky number: I don’t know, maybe 20 cause that’s my birthdate?

What I’m wearing: Right now, I’m wearing black shirt and red shorts.

Dream job: Nothing really, it’d be nice if I can be a concept artist or a production designer though.

Dream trip: To go to Hobbiton in New Zealand and just take a hiking trip there.

Favourite food: Lasagna, Prawn Katsu, Mozzarella Katsu, Puto Flan, Maja Blanca and BBQ Pork Chops.

Play any instruments: Noonnee but I really want to learn. I played a bit of ukulele back then but nothing more.

Languages: First language, Tagalog and English as the second language.

Favourite songs: This is haard, but I’ll list everything I’ve been listening to recently, here it goes: Red River Valley, I See Fire In Your Eyes and That’s the Way It is RDR2 ost, Little Talks by Of Monsters and Men, the entire soundtrack of A Star Is Born 2018, Doing All Right, Teo Torriate, ‘39, Hammer to Fall, Don’t Stop Me Now, Stone Cold Crazy, Keep Yourself Alive, Las Palabras De Amor, Millionare Waltz and many more from Queen (perhaps everything from them really), the entire album of In a Perfect World by Kodaline, Nightfall in Middle Earth by Blind Guardian and Babel by Mumford and Sons.

Random fact: You’ll never know how uninteresting you actually are until you encounter a question like this cause I cannot think of anything for the LIFE OF ME.

Describe yourself as aesthetic things: A hot cup of white coffee sitting untouched in a wooden table during a particularly rainy night, a cat gazing outside a window, droplets of rain dripping from autumn leaves and the crackling sound of a fireplace with a turntable playing a vintage vinyl record in the background.

Tagging @veryverymagicbread, @rosengreen, @thenastyelf, @hauntedsiriel, @mi-kat, @kacorkiraly and everyone who wants to do it. Feel free to ignore if you’ve done it, though!

#21 questions meme #about me #thank you for the tag againn

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gristlegrinder · 6 years ago

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tagged by @sainterly hello!! i’m so sorry, i told myself i was going to do this and then immediately forgot until i found it in my likes again, like, a month later. rules : answer the questions in a new post and tag 10 blogs you would like to know better tagging: .................nobody because i’m an awkward mess

under a cut because I’m not good at being concise

(A)ge: 19

(B)irthplace: New York!

(C)urrent Time: …8 in the morning. I haven’t slept.

(D)rink You Had Last: I, uh, had one of hose starbucks doubleshot energy things around 9PM last night. yes, this is connected to the last answer. it was delicious and worth it.

(E)asiest Person To Talk To: Hm, depends? There’s a lot of people who fit this bill, but if I’m gonna be honest the answer is prooobably myself just because I’m one of those people who talks to myself constantly whenever I’m trying to work things out.

(F)avorite Song: Well, The Past Is A Grotesque Animal, definitely. Recently, I’ve been in love with Homecoming Serf, Fuel, I Listened, Proof, and Holy Water.

Not necessarily my favorite songs, but I recently made a playlist for my tabletop group and it’s got a lot of current lex bangers on it. And A Woman, A Woman, A Century Of Sleep has been today’s loop-on-repeat track, so that counts for something.

(...I’m bad at answering this question.)

(G)rossest Memory: Surprisingly, I don’t have a lot of these? Coming up with one is hard. I dropped a can of soda on my foot when I was eight and I remember one of my toes having this really nasty purple bruise for a week afterwards, I guess?

(H)ogwarts House: I was a self-identified Ravenclaw for the longest time, but recently I was re-housed into Gryffindor. And I’ve moved far, far enough past my pretentious “ew gryffindors are all fake fans of HP who just like it because it’s the ‘good guy’ house” phase to absolutely embrace this switch.

(I)n Love?: I’m not gonna @ them here but I love my girlfriend!! Nin’s a babe

(J)ealous Of People?: Yeah, that sort of happens. But I’m trying to get better at reminding myself that it’s ultimately useless to hold myself up to other people.

(K)illed Someone?: ;) only past iterations of myself!! existence ain’t permanent

(L)ove At First Sight or Walk By Again?: Both are probably bad ways to approach relationships tbh.

(M)iddle Name: I hate it, so we’re not mentioning it.

(N)umber Of Siblings : 2-4 depending on how you see it! Two half brothers, two stepsiblings (our parents have since divorced, but we still chill and see each other as kinda-siblings, it’s complicated).

(O)ne Wish: Certain individuals currently associated with America can drop dead finally, and also maybe I finally work up the damn courage to start bugging people about uh, religious conversion things and uh, therapy.

(P)erson You Last Called: Probably my dad.

(Q)uestions You’re Asked The Most: I get a lot of surprised you’re nineteen?!s from classmates / parents’ friends / online people, but I don’t know if that counts. Then, like, generic questions about how school’s going, I think.

(R)easons To Smile: I move back up to uni at the end of the month, and I’ll be living alone! My classes next semester are all really fun! Audio/Video Production, Film History 1895-1950, Film Theory. I’m finally making progress towards getting my driver’s license!

(S)ong You Last Sang: When I’m home alone, I’m basically jamming out nonstop, so:

— Q.U.E.E.N. has been stuck in my head for days.

— Guardians has been my muse for a character I’ve been designing? so it gets mumbled-under-my-breath-sung a lot.

— The Dismemberment Song is probably just my favorite thing to belt at the top of my lungs. in general.

(T)ime You Woke Up: …………uh, see previous answers, because I still haven’t slept, (as for yesterday, I woke up around noon).

(U)nderwear Color: I never really cared for “what color is your underwear” questions on a get to know me meme (but teal).

(V)acation Destination: I’m going to Seattle in three weeks for a couple days! Really excited because the tabletop game I run is set there, so it’ll be cool to see some of the places I have as plot points. And a friend’s got me excited for the thought of doing a road trip across America after we graduate. Biggest dream travel spots are Liverpool (points at my gf), St Petersburg, Tokyo, and Antarctica, though.

(W)orst Habit: Saying I’m going to do things and then the ADHD brain crashes for like, a week, and all of the things I need to do pile up and then I don’t get to any of them. Also forgetting to reply to skype/discord/etc messages.

(X)-rays?: I’ve never broken a bone in my body, or really ever been hospitalized as far as I can remember.

(Y)our Favorite Food: Cochinita pibil (which is a Yucatán slow-roasted pulled pork marinated in Seville oranges, it’s good shit), biscuits (sausage gravy optional), lately I’ve been craving cocktail shrimp.

(Z)odiac Sign: Libra!

#lex.txt #i promise i still think you're cool and want to chat more i'm just so so bad at this

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brigdh · 7 years ago

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Reading Definitely Not Wednesday

Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey. A space opera set in the relatively near future. Humans have colonized Mars and the asteroid belt, and a few scattered populations make due on the moons of planets further out. There is, however, no faster-than-light travel, no contact with any solar system beyond our own, no sentient AIs, and no aliens. A major theme of the book is the culture clash between those who live on Earth or Mars – the superpowers of this future – and those who live in the Belt, where mining is the preeminent economy and life is the hardscrabble sort where even water and oxygen have to be imported, never mind concepts like justice and equality. Different characters move from one place to the other or switch allegiances, but their origins are as baked in as we would regard ethnicity or nationality. As one character puts it, "A childhood spent in gravity shaped the way he saw things forever." Corey (who is actually two separate dudes writing under a penname) does a wonderful job of fleshing out the background worldbuilding. I loved references to fungal-culture whiskey, Bhangra as the default elevator muzak, hand gestures exaggerated to be seen through a spacesuit, and largely unintelligible localized slang (“Bomie vacuate like losing air,” the girl said with a chuckle. “Bang-head hops, kennis tu?” / “Ken,” Miller said. /“Now, all new bladeboys. Overhead. I’m out.”). It feels like a more detailed world than a lot of sci-fi does. Which is good, because the characters are not all that compelling. The two POVs are Jim Holden and Detective Miller. Holden is the second-in-command on an unimportant spaceship that works as a freight hauler, moving ice back and forth between the Belt and Saturn. Things change dramatically when a mysterious someone attacks their ship and kills everyone except for Holden and a few others, and he finds himself centrally involved in the runup to war. He has the most generic action-movie-hero personality I can imagine, with no discernable characteristics except 'idealistic' (and I really only know that because other people keep telling him he is), kinda nervous about being suddenly thrust into command but doing a good job, a womanizer (but see, it's okay because he just keeps genuinely falling in love with so many women!), and earnest. He's fine. He's not even objectionable, just incredibly boring. He comes with a crew of entirely indistinguishable followers that I couldn't keep straight, but that's all right because most of them get killed off so I no longer had to try to remember who was who. He also develops a romance that is 100% unbelievable, but I suppose that's what action-movie-heroes do, so who's even surprised. Miller is a detective on Ceres, the largest city in the Belt, who's been hired by a rich family to track down their anarchist, slumming daughter. Miller is an incredibly cliche noir protagonist - alcoholic, divorced, not as good as he used to be, cynical, a little bit corrupt but underneath it all he still remembers his good intentions – but at least that means he has more of a personality than Jim, even if it's a personality you've seen a thousand times before. On the other hand, Miller becomes obsessed with this dead/missing girl in a way that is painfully stereotypical Manic Pixie Dream Girl. Two things kept this from ruining Leviathan Wakes for me. One, Miller is at least somewhat self-aware about it: This was why he had searched for her. Julie had become the part of him that was capable of human feeling. The symbol of what he could have been if he hadn’t been this. There was no reason to think his imagined Julie had anything in common with the real woman. Meeting her would have been a disappointment for them both. And two, there's a twist near the end that allows Julie to finally have her own voice in the text, and not exist solely as Miller's imagined dependance on her. It takes almost half the book for Miller and Holden to finally cross paths, at which point the missing-girl mystery and the war plot combine and take a twist for a direction I DID NOT SEE COMING. I am ambivalent on whether to spoil this; on the one hand, I read it unprepared and it was incredibly awesome to experience it that way. On the other hand, I suspect this is information that will be a determining factor for many people on whether they want to read it or not. So: halfway through, Leviathan Wakes takes a wild jump and becomes about a zombie outbreak. I would not have previously thought that 'space opera' and 'zombie apocalypse' are two genres that should be combined, but the tension and excitement skyrocket once the book takes this turn, transforming it from average quality to 'I CANNOT STOP READING, MUST FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENS NEXT'. So, good choice! The sequence with Miller and Holden trapped on a small space station trying to sneak their way past zombie hordes is one of the most thrilling I've read in ages. Leviathan Wakes is the first book in a series (apparently it was originally supposed to be a trilogy, but there's currently eight books out with at least one more planned, along with a batch of short stories) and has also become a show on the Syfy network that I haven't seen. I feel like I've spent a lot of this review complaining, but honestly I mostly enjoyed the book and am planning to read the sequels. The fact that people seem to like the characters from future books more than these ones certainly doesn't hurt! Pig/Pork: Archaeology, Zoology and Edibility by Pia Spry-Marques. A nonfiction book about everything remotely related to the farming and eating of pigs. I expected from the subtitle and the author's personal background that archaeology would be the main focus, but it turns out that's really only the first two chapters, which cover the Paleolithic hunting of wild boar and the original domestication of pigs. The other chapters turn to topics as diverse as experiments on feeding farmed pigs leftovers from restaurants, the spread of foot-and-mouth disease, a special Spanish ham called ibérico de bellota which can only be fed acorns, genetically modifiying pigs so their manure would contain less phosporus, sunburn in pigs, minature pet pigs, organ donation between humans and pigs, the terrifying tapeworms to be acquired from eating raw pork, why pork is a 'white' meat, how to make sausages, theories on why pork is neither halal nor kosher, the use of an enzyme from pig pancreases in wine production, EU food-safety regulations on traditional pork dishes, Cuba's 'Bay of Pigs', the Pig War between the US and Canada in 1859, and Oliver Cromwell's favorite pig breed. Basically if it has the remotest connection to the title, Spry-Marques has included it. She even includes recipes for each chapter, though some of them are clearly more for amusement than actual consumption – I can't imagine anyone having just finished a chapter on how eating raw pork will give you cysts in your brain is eager to try figatellu, a type of uncooked sausage from France. And it would take a braver foodie than me to taste "Asian-inspired pork uterus with green onion and ginger". In fact, as is probably not surprising for any book which touches on factory farming however briefly, you will probably come away not wanting to eat pork at all for a while. Spry-Marques's writing is breezy and conversational, which kept me turning the pages even when the structure was a bit scattered. I wish it were more focused, but it's a great book for anyone who enjoys popular science, history, or food writing. I read this as an ARC via NetGalley. Song of Blood & Stone by L. Penelope. A YA fantasy novel with some unusual elements. Rather than being set in vaguely medieval England or a dystopian sci-fi future, we're in a country where the technology seems to be around 1900: cars and electric lights exist, but they're restricted to rich cities, and someone coming from rural poverty might well have never seen either. Magic exists, but comes from one's heritage; you're either born with it or not. In Elsira, where our story is set, it's rare to the point of nonexistence. Our heroine Jasminda, however, does have magic, due to her father having been a refugee from the neighboring country of Lagrimar, where magic is common. Elsira and Lagrimar have been constantly at war for hundreds of years, but are separated by a magical Barrier which allows no one to pass through, except on rare occasions when a temporary breach happens and violence erupts. Elsirans are light-skinned and Lagrimari are dark-skinned, so Jasminda has dealt with fairly severe racism throughout her life. The story starts when Jasminda runs across Jack, a Elsiran soldier just back from spying in Lagrimar who has super important information that must get back to the capital as soon as possible; unfortunately Jack has just been shot and is closely pursued by a troop of Lagrimari soldiers. Jasminda and Jack team up, fall in love, and try to prevent the coming outbreak of war. The most revealing thing I can say about Song of Blood & Stone is that it's very, very YA. (As you could probably guess, what with its title that fits exactly into the pattern of the 'YA title' meme currently going around tumblr.) Almost everything that happens is easily predictable from the back cover (Jack's long-withheld backstory is clearly supposed to be a shocking twist, but it's obvious from the moment he appears), the prose is mediocre but fine, good and bad guys are clearly signalled, the real world parallels (racism, treatment of refugees, domestic abuse) are good-hearted but extremely Social Justice 101. On the plus side, the beginning was the worst part and it got better and better as it went along; several developments near the very end were so interesting that I'm tempted to read the sequel, despite my initial boredom. Overall it's not a bad book, but I'd only recommend it to people who are extremely affectionate of the most repetitive tropes of the YA genre. I read this as an ARC from a GoodReads giveaway.

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