theonewiththevampires

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Correct.

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One of the funnier recurring things I bump into around here is people rocking up in the notes on one of my posts critiquing indie tabletop RPGs for this or that and going "golly, I sure am glad I'm exposed to tabletop RPGs exclusively via Dungeons & Dragons podcasts, which never do anything problematic".

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i think ultimately a point of contention in the iwtv fandom is that one side is very into strict soulmates and monogamy whereas another side wants everyone to be in love despite whether they should be or not

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This!

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the distortion of "there is potential profit we did not earn" as "there is money we lost" is fascinating and disgusting to me. "megamediaconglomerate lost $1,000,000,000 to piracy this year" is a flat out lie. it is not true. they did not have a billion dollars, that they now do not have. they felt entitled to one billion dollars, that they did not have, and still do not have. it's an infuriating perversion of the truth

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no you do not need to hold fictional characters "accountable". they are not real.

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"all vampires come to resent their maker" actualy just a statistical error. vampire lestat, who has made 10,000 fledglings, all of whom resent him, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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Why do people like high speed rail so much?

Because its public transit, not private transit.

Its significantly cheaper to travel long distances compared to other options like flying or driving. In a lot of cases it may even be faster than flying, and even when its slower, its not slower by a large amount. Its better for the environment, and trains are just cool.

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standing in the crosswalk and holding up a sign that says "i did not stop walking because i'm being polite and letting you go before me. i stopped walking because i, the person with the right of way, wanted to make sure i could trust that you were actually going to stop your car before you reached this crosswalk and weren't about to run me over'

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really enjoying all the videos Muslims have been posting of their cats looking like this

when the humans are up at 4 am for suhoor

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PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE OPEN FOR GENDER IDENTIFIERS ON US PASSPORTS

Right now, you can submit a comment for consideration on the proposed changes to US Passport law that will include requiring a change from "Gender" to "Sex" on all passports and require that people identify with their sex assigned at birth.

THIS IS THE LAW THAT WOULD BAN TRANS PEOPLE FROM UPDATING THEIR IDENTIFICATION

Please take a moment to click through and submit a comment. This kind of thing is fast, easy, and is one of the many ways to show your support of the trans community to the people that need to know how many of us there are.

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My favourite idea from the prank writers’ story board for IWTV Season 3.

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Saying that a certain group of people is too privileged to complain about the way that things are is its own sort of defense of the status quo

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theyre laughing but i want that for real

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Can I get a shoutout to the amazing Inuit whose hard work and ingenuity brought Franklin's ships back from the mists of history?

Louie Kamookak, who passed in 2018, was an Inuit historian who used Inuit oral histories and Franklin searchers' notes to relocate HMS Erebus in 2014.

Sammy Kogvik is an Inuk Canadian Ranger who rediscovered HMS Terror in Terror Bay in 2016 (he actually sighted it earlier, but it was formally announced in 2016!)

I haven't seen a lot on Tumblr about these gentlemen, so here they are!

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Heavy on the Arctic part