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thedreadblog · 3 months ago

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My dash has been interesting as of late. I follow people who love Veilguard, are okay with Veilguard but definitely are disappointed with the plot holes and General Vibe, and people who absolutely hate Veilguard, and all the discourse that comes with all three of these kinds of people.

Can't say I'm not informed lmao

#I belong to the second group #love the game but definitely see the gaps and have parts where I'd have liked to see...more #I don't participate much with the discussion - don't feel like I have much to add #but truly I love seeing and reading the different opinions and posts because it's an angle I myself would not have seen otherwise #I can see the discourse of a specific ship and ... sort of understand the person who went 'blocked' last week #I guess?#but then again: isn't Solavellan of the same kind of make?#(and yes I get that people mischaracterise Solas when thinking of this ship #but again: isn't that what the DA fandom has always been doing?#it's just that Solavellans have had the time to dig deeper because it's been 10! years!)#(maybe I'm too easygoing and wanting to see the good things? I dunno?? but my stance is kind of live and let live #ship and let ship #they're not real people #it's fine #really #truly.)

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nathaniacolver · 5 months ago

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arcane ships be like

i love a show that teaches equality (😭😭😭)

#guys i don't actually ship jayvik but it was necessary for the reference #sorry for the quality btw i threw this together #timebomb #jayvik #caitvi #arcane #arcane spoilers #arcane season 2 #EDIT: multiple people have pointed out that the labels i've used aren't the characters' real sexualities. and they're right #there's actually NO labels in runeterra so i shoulda said m/f m/m and f/f relationships #but you guys already gave this 13k notes so whatever bro #just know!!! they are more than whatever nathaniacolver post labels them as! :)#EDIT AGAIN AFTER THE FINALE: I DO INDEED NOW SHIP JAYVIK. DAFUQ #DOOM IS DOOM #edit number 3 or something idk man people keep asking stuff:#i made this after act 1 and before acts 2 & 3 so this is an ACT 1 MEME #and yes timebomb are whatever the frick you want them to be. *sighs*. i should've said f/m relationship so bad

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cumaeansibyl · 2 months ago

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I was just browsing around here at random and I think the current generation of social media users need to re-learn a certain truth:

the Secret Service will investigate all perceived threats to the president or top government officials, even if they are clearly unserious.

Now, they aren't going to arrest you for joking about it. They are going to show up at your house with printouts of your tumblr and other social media and ask you some very pointed questions and it's going to be extremely uncomfortable. They want you to know that they know what you said, and that if you were planning to do more than talk, you should stop that, because now they have their eye on you.

And yeah, in the back of their minds they're thinking "what if this seemingly harmless poster actually turns out to have a gun and a plan, and we dismiss them because we think they couldn't possibly be serious?" But mainly the first thing.

Let me make one thing clear: I am expressing neither approval or disapproval of this practice. I am stating the fact that they've done this for decades -- it's not a particular feature of the new administration. And given that their one and only job is keeping some very unpopular people alive, it makes sense that they're being damn sure no one slips through the cracks. Because it only takes one.

Oh, and just for the record, if you use common censorship techniques to talk about "unaliving" or "k*lling" someone you shouldn't, they can still find you. Some of these people have been on the social media beat for years by now, you know they speak fluent TikTok.

Be safe out there, okay? Don't get put on a list for a dumb joke.

#by and large you can say all kinds of hyperbolic violent shit about random people and not draw LEO attention #it won't be regarded as a 'true threat'#(fuck you mullenweg)#but y'all i'm serious they are SUPER sensitive about the president #because among all the people joking and venting are also plenty of people mad enough to make a real plan #we don't hear about most of them because they're stopped before it gets that far #but like. imagine the obama years.

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deadpoolian · 9 months ago

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Even Funko ships them

#deadpool and wolverine #Deadpool #Wolverine #Poolverine #Funko #i know a lot of people hate funko but they're real for this ad #deadpoolian

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rookamell · 7 months ago

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This might be a very controversial take but Sybil being fat with no hair and Adora being weird about golems and Granny being old and a virgin and Magrat being ugly and Agnes being fat and Nanny being Nanny and Cheery existing does more for feminism than 90% of intentionally "feminist" media produced in the past 5-10 years actually

#discworld #im still on my discworld shit sorry!#terry pratchett #gnu terry pratchett #like they're real people and a lot of them have glaring attitude problems and i love them

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nanabanonana · 1 year ago

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the plague upon the [redacted] tag 🙄

i swear y'all are my villain origin story

#why are you whining about ships #if you actually cared about the shit you're talking about #you'd do real political activism instead of fighting for the rights of fictional characters #which i will remind thee #are fictional #they're not real people #they're CONCEPTS #jfc touch grass #nana talks tag #this is why i hate getting into fandom #i just wanted to read nice fic and see nice art #and all i see are you whiny shits doing ship wars

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bedupolker · 2 months ago

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So, I'm friends with someone who runs the freezing and storage side of a sperm bank, and she has often complained to me about the drama and flaking and paperwork snafus involved with "known donors", like your mouseworld couple calling in a brother. I don't know if you had any plans to explore that as a complete story, but know that if you do, the soil there is rich.

Honestly everything I know about sperm banks I've learned through sitcoms and I'm intrigued by your friend's stories

#i put in jackson labs as kind of a cop out #they're a (REAL) facility that develops and ships out different strains of lab mice #never worked there but i knew a lot of people who did #i think it was less jackson labs = spem bank #and more rusty saw something to do with mouse genetics because mice probably don't have #the equivalent of sperm banks #mouseworld

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skullsandcorals · 1 year ago

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"I'm dyslexic. I'm not stupid."

#🤧🤧🤧#pjo/hoo #percy jackson #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo #disney pjo #the lightning thief #some of you people istg #I get where they're coming from but Im getting real tired of people treating Percy like he's genuinely stupid #brother you are talking about a kid with dyslexia and ADHD PLEASEE think about how you talk about him as a character 😭😭😭#I know that the Tweet is probably about the show but STILL.

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paintedcrows · 5 months ago

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Totally Normal Trigonometry Things

#more of these terrible freaky guys! (mostly) old man Ford edition #Some post canon stuff! Love the idea of Ford gaining weight post-canon <3 (Did I initially forget Bill's cracks? Maybe. Maybe..)#idk if theres any redeeming going on tho. Almost nevermind all that au energy yknow. They're vibing & making it everyone elses problem #last two are based on my Ford cosplay and that is a real sticker I do now questionably own. I thought itd make a funny picture and it did #and to the people who wanted to know where the tongue was going I hope I didn't disappoint lmao #cw suggestive #i think. Bill's a goddamn triangle. at what point does it become enough to tag that. probably at the point i gave Ford freaky love bites...#cw injury #cw body horror #Billford #Gravity Falls #tbob #Fan art #Bill Cipher #Stanford Pines #Ford Pines #Grunkle Ford #Bill/Ford #Bill x Ford #Fanart #GF Fanart #artists on tumblr #my art

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m3lth3ph4nt0m · 23 days ago

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some future sif and gay people <3 i like long hair sif <3

#isat #in stars and time #isat fanart #in stars and time fanart #isat siffrin #isat isabeau #siffrin #isabeau #isafrin #yea they're bonding earrings #[sighs longingly] change i wish gay people were real #these are from a while ago #i realised how much backed up art i have so uh. ill be consistent for the first time ever???? pog????#mtg's bullshit

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inkskinned · 3 months ago

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you know, you know. no gods, no masters, no kings on pedestals. everyone is fallible. death of the author. you know! you are balanced about your intake of media - you allow the wiggle room, the grace, the gratitude, the skepticism. nobody above criticism.

but still. a weird gut-punch feeling, something akin to betrayal. you read the article. surprise! an author you love is actually: a serial fucking predator.

well, shit. what now. no, you knew he was a person (all people are), but now you're wondering - what have i overlooked by accident? what messages have i internalized that are strange and cruel? and also, like, what the fuck?

his actions lay a thick glaze on top of everything. like each place is now ruined, opaque in a new way. but okay, fine, you've done this before. you knew better, right? you've been betrayed by many a cherished childhood author.

still, this stickiness. fuck. can you pick up that book again. will you read it to your children. you've recommended it to others - will you ever do that again? and of course, of course, no parasocial relationships. you were theoretically above this kind of sentiment. but the artist informs the art, right.

so it's not something as clear-cut as feeling he owed you, specifically (a stranger) better behavior - just that you kind of, in a distant and odd way... sort of trusted him to do better. it's not like a real trust or something speakable, just the faint hope that the product (good books) was a thin representation of the soul. now it feels like the product (good? books?) was a mask. in some small or insignificant way, your previous support of this person lent them power. your money and your time and your laughter.

and the thing is - you have this terrible, echoing sensation. how many times will this happen? over and over. you find out that the singer you love is actually a predator. you learn over drinks that your favorite high school english teacher is in jail for what he did to her. you listen to the news idly and suddenly discover that a woman you used to idolize has been abusing her kids for an actual eon.

what can you touch without the static melting off. you can't even really complain about it too much (you were supposed to know better, and besides, you don't want the same re-split "it's not your fault, love what you love" basic advice), but now it's here. somehow, it feels like - you let him into your life.

it's not that things need to be pure or an artist has to be like, endlessly perfect, mindful. demure. it's more just this terrible truth that has been replayed through your veins so often it feels criminally vain. power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. did you want any one person to be worth that power?

it's just that he wrote books where he seemed to understand that. he seemed to know about hierarchies and unfair systems and bigotry and privilege. you thought they were books about what it means to struggle. you thought they were about having power and still using it for good rather than for control. he spooned you a narrative of being a good guy, a kind soul. you fucking bought what that fucking monster sold.

maybe that's why they were fantasies, after all.