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[deisbookofdemons]

"Yes thank you! Especially when you're weak to ice! It's an entire season of pain!" Red then sneezed again.

[agoobersretreat]

@noodlegirl-draws

Decline to answer

"......"

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That's adorable 🤩

That's awful and I hate it, thank you

[evilliyes]

spicyicymeloncat said:

Man I’m so sad, I’m not a hardcore prosek player and I definitely did not have enough crystals to get any of the cards (not even enough to get enough stickers to just buy a card - didn’t even know how that worked until recently). Definitely gonna look up the card stories tho

I’ll be honest -- I heard about the Evillious collab in Japan last year, and some friends tried to get me into it.  I refused and said that I’d download it and play on the grounds that the Evillious collab came to the English version of Project Sekai.  On December 8th, a friend tagged me in Discord, showed the event would be in the English version, and told me that I’d better start playing.

I spent up until the last second of the event farming for crystals and asking a plethora of questions because I really didn’t know what I was doing.  Ultimately, I got about 50,000 crystals, and then got incredibly, disproportionately lucky during the latter half of my pulls.  I enjoy the game and play it a lot more now, but having a consistent group of people who knew the game helping, a lot of dedicated farming, and the rest of the luck I’ll ever have in my life all went into actually getting the cards in the event.

Anyway... rambling aside, I finally managed to unlock both parts of everyone’s story, so at some point I’m hoping to post that.  I need to organize what I want to post about the event as well as figure out how I want to grab some assets.

I’m assuming almost all of my posts will be Proseka-Evillious related in the near future, so here’s to getting the details out to everyone!

[limelemonchi]

freak Pines

[emjaydoubleyou]

this post is fearmongering. the results of this study are concerning and should definitely be a matter of public discussion, but this is certainly not the conclusion the researchers came to.

the point of the study was to assess the risks of exposure to toxic metals- something one of the co-authors notes are “ubiquitous” fwiw- via menstrual products. Their research confirmed that these metals are indeed present in tampons, but no further conclusions are drawn. it is possible the metal entered into the cotton from the soil, which is a well-known phenomenon; cotton is so good at lifting heavy metals that it has actually been suggested as a part of the solution for revitalizing polluted ground.

the authors conclude with an acknowledgement that the study should be repeated- their sample size was 60 tampons- and a suggestion that further testing ought to be done to indicate whether or not these metals can even leech out of the tampon in the first place, let alone whether or not such leeching could occur at levels deleterious to human health.

there is, in fact, a body of research- too small, for sure, but much larger than this single study- indicating that long-term proper tampon use has no observable negative impact on health. i am grateful and thrilled that more research is being done and i hope that this study is the first of many on this line of questioning, but i am really frustrated at this post and the response it got.

obviously, if this study alters your approach to menstrual health, more power to you. consumers should be informed-risk-takers, and menstrual health is double-obviously a very personal choice. but it definitely wasn't the researchers concluding that you ought to “avoid using tampons at all cost," only this tumblr user did. the lead author of the paper, in fact, specifically says that she hopes people do NOT panic about the results.

(the notes of the post were disappointing. people affirming that they knew they were right to be suspicious of tampons all along, or even recommending alternatives that actually have very little to no research regarding the safety of long-term use, etc. it’s a different conversation, but categorical distrust of tampons is old-school misogyny. you certainly shouldn't wear them if you don’t want to, but there is nothing inherently scary or wrong about them, and people who prefer them are not being reckless or crass.)

((if you're really worried about exposure to heavy metals, you may want to turn a critical eye to fast fashion, as an aside))

[envelopandkissme]

this fucks

[bob-artist]

Since the Canada griffin was proudly mentioned recently I figure it can’t hurt to ask if you do happen to have plans to design Canada griffin goslings at some point in the future? (muse permitting)

I DO NOW.

I present to you

honklings

[problemnyatic]

when will we talk about the willful helplessness epidemic on here. So many people on this god forsaken website demand to have any and all things that exist outside their personal experiences directly, personally pre-chewed and spoonfed to them. And when you do, they'll then ask for you to swallow for them, too, because, you see, in THEIR experience..,

[rubyfunkey]

Gay /pos /hj

which part is the half-joke the gay part or the pos part. my friend hannah wants to know

[agoobersretreat]

@brownhairedbookworm

"A little evil!"

"Oh, my bad. A little evil! As a treat~!"

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That's not a thought that even occurred to me thank you for making it so much worse

@taxi-trolls

[evilliyes]

micia-posts-stuff said:

youtu.be/KhngTgK… a link for the intro. I’m happy someone is documenting the event, thank you very much! If you need some screenshots you can ask, I took a ton because I wanted to be able to go back and read everything.

Thank you so much for the link!  I considered taking screenshots, and then got into the opening and realized I’d gotten... exactly nothing, haha.  Oops.

I’ll definitely let you know if I need some screenshots; I appreciate the offer!  Most of my screenshots are the chibi figures, the speaking dialogue, and going left and right on the Sekai.  I think there’s a few miscellaneous ones here and there.  At least the cards don’t go away at the end of the event.

[marisatomay]

twitter is hell but i really hope it doesn’t actually die because this is in contention for the funniest thing i’ve ever read in my life

[kuuhaiyu]

i really can't emphasize how heartbreaking it is that the recent harassment campaign against @/90-ghost (among others; see: 1, 2, 3) has led to well-meaning people telling others not to listen to him. he is one of the most visible survivors of the genocide here on tumblr. his entire journey of escape is so well documented! and yet, it only took a few people confidently pointing fingers to create an entire witch hunt accusing him and other palestinians of being disreputable scammers and liars.

i can't help but feel like the reason why people were SO eager to believe those accusations, is because it was uncomfortable to see posts from palestinians every day asking for our time, attention, money, and support; so when someone presented the perfect excuse to ignore all those posts and asks while also taking the high ground, people just LEAPED onto it. they wanted to believe it, because it would be more comfortable.

honestly, i understand feeling overwhelmed by bad news, by the number of asks and messages in your inbox, and so on and so forth. i understand needing to set boundaries for yourself so you don't get burned out. i think this is really when you have to have a set of principles to fall back on, even when you're tired, uncomfortable, angry, and/or sad. so here's the one i suggest, which has been working for me best: don't make your discomfort with this situation into someone else's problem, and for god's sake don't make it a public problem.

if you hate seeing fundraiser posts or news about gaza, i can't emphasize this enough, JUST MOVE ON. KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT AND SCROLL PAST! all you have to do is absolutely nothing. which is what you were doing anyway, so it shouldn't be hard. if you don't have the heart to read, or reblog, or share, or donate, or support in other ways, at the very least, don't obstruct the efforts of people who ARE trying to make a difference. this is, quite literally, the least you can do.

[spinejackel]

What are dead man walking tornadoes? :O

it’s a multi-vortex tornado. i dont remember the tribe it originates from (i think it was cherokee), but there’s a native american legend…? saying? that goes “if you see a man in a tornado, you are about to die.”

the most infamous shot of a dead man walking tornado hit jarrell, texas in 1997

it did so much damage to the town it caused the scale that tornados are measured by, the fijita scale, undergo revisions, and it made anchoring buildings in the tornado alley region pretty much mandatory. (it took the entire town off the map. only those who had taken shelter outside of the town or in underground bunkers survived.)

two more examples of dead man walking tornadoes looking like a person are a tornado from 2011 that hit cullman, alabama

and a tornado from 1975 that hit xenia, ohio

edit: it has been brought to my attention that the native american “legend” part of this post was a rumor spread by a documentary.

i have been asked to remove it, but i believe in letting my errors stand because i’m not perfect. i make mistakes