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No LGB without the T!

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Story where everyone is gay and also a kinda shitty person

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Listening to a podcast

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settings I would love to see more in fantasy:

Deserts, but like, positive. Deserts portrayed as beautiful places full of life and wonder. Desert as homeland, desert as a place of beauty and intrinsic value.

Mountains. Andean-style settings where the world is mountainous and the land is organized into altitude zones, where uphill/downhill are more meaningful than east/west

Island archipelagos. We’ve gotten a few in fantasy recently but 1) I want More 2) I want someone to do a Fantasy Kula Ring

Something inspired by Tiwanaku or Chavín de Huántar

Independent city-states. They all are unified by basically the same culture but they are all also politically independent variously at war, making alliances, happily trading, in a trade war, conquered and subordinate to other city-states, founding new city-states, travelling to the central temples of other city-states’ patron gods, etc.

Full of prehistoric animals that never coexisted with humans but they do in this fantasy world because they’re Cool

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Stop shaming people for their body count

Who cares how many people she's killed so long as you love her and she looks pretty with blood on her face.

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post by @theeffens on TikTok

I used to staged fist fights with my friends in 711. We would actually punch each other and then end the fight by making out.

People were always really confused and shocked.

The employees didn't really care we were fighting and would laugh.

Years later some guy started a fight with me at a show and once we were grappling on the floor I instinctively started making out with him.

He immediately got up and left the show. Technically I have won every fight I've ever been in 💪

losing my mind over this a little bit. new type of guy.

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today i learned that the finnish word for ‘hazardous waste’ is ongelmajäte, which can also translate as ‘problematic garbage’ and my roommate and i immediately agreed this is a word that belongs on tumblr.

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The inherent conflict of being alive is that your cells just love water. Great stuff for cells. Excellent for transporting things around in, really helps counteract gravity and make that 3rd dimension fully accessible. You as an organism however, want atmosphere. It's got all those awesome gases, like oxygen. Those gases are great! But they're not very good at getting in the water. Lots more of them outside the water.

Now some organisms went ahead and said "well, our cells want to be in the water, we're made of cells, we're staying in the water". And I respect that! Gotta respect that. Lots of 'em stick to the surface, get a little bit of the good gases, but keep themselves nice and watered up (wet) to keep their cells happy. Some make do with whatever cool gases have managed to dissolve into the water, thanks to a process known as "churning that shit up" that happens on the water's surface. Doesn't work out great for them, but you know, they made their decision and they committed to it. You gotta respect that.

Now some organisms, especially a lot of old ones, were afraid of commitment. They hung out at the water's edge, breathing all the gases and shit, but still needed to make sure they could stay wet. Like, their plan was to leave the water, but stay wet. Not a great move, if you ask me. Usually it works, but only until it doesn't. You ever seen dried up moss? Ask it how it's "stay wet but not in water" plan went. It can't answer you. It fucked up. That's what you get for not committing.

Now trees though, trees had the other idea. Trees and some other plants were like, no problem. I'm gonna take my water with me and never ever let it go. They developed specialized cells and shit. They got whole layers dedicated to keeping the water the fuck in. They got other cells dedicated to hunting down any water in a square fuckometer and taking it for themselves. That's hustle. That's a game plan. Some plants got so good at it they saw these dry-ass stretches of land that saw rain less often than you saw your mother smile as a child and were like "okay but is the amount of water not literally zero? Yeah? We're good."

The moving orgisms tried to copy trees, naturally. Making hard outer layers to trap the water in for their cells. But it was pretty weak. They kept going on about needing holes for the moisture to leave, and wet surfaces for their eyeballs. Then some of us got stupid and decided maybe we only needed like a half-decent layer protecting our water. "Semi-permeable" they marketed it as. Oh it's fine they said. We'll live somewhere wet, they said. Yeah how'd that work out for that moss again.

And now I get a headache if I go like 3 hours without drinking a glass of water. I should've been a pine tree.

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if i had a william dollars, i would make a game where you play a courier in a pre-industrial setting, carrying parcels to various places on a route. and the game would start with your first day on the job, getting your map and your camping supplies and your first day’s advance pay, and then your boss goes okay let’s get you your mule. and you go to the stables and you meet your mule. and it’s like, okay, standard video game mount, you know how this works. you press a to pet the mule.

the mule does not allow you to pet it. the mule attempts to bite you.

from this point on, every interaction with the mule is obtuse and difficult. if you kick the mule, it will not go faster. in fact, sometimes it will goes slower. if you dismount, it wanders, and you cannot whistle to bring it to you— it may even intentionally walk away from you when you try to climb into the saddle. you have to always be ready to steer it away from the side of the road if it sees some tasty-looking grass or another equine it wants to pick a fight with. any time you get too close to a ledge, the mule stops moving and you have to dismount and slowly walk it around the ledge by the reins while it screams and brays the whole time.

the only bargaining chip you have is the ocassional bribe of a carrot or apple, and even then, there’s like a 10% chance that the mule will decide that this particular carrot sucks and it doesn’t trust it.

this is not a courier simulator. this is not a mule simulator. this is a begging simulator.

eventually, you run into bandits on the road. they are armed with knives and clubs, and you have neither. in fact, you have very little ability to defend yourself, other than trying to wrestle and shove bandits one at a time. you’re well and truly fucked. that is, until the mule oneshots bandit with one kick. you can’t fight. the mule, however, can.

the mule also has keener senses than you and is a naturally suspicious animal. half the time, it’s snorting and stamping at a tree because it moved weird, but sometimes, it’s stamping because it noticed an ambush waiting for you, or a wild dog creeping in the bushes. it also may be your first day on the job, but it is very much not the mule’s time day. your map is ten years out of date, with rivers that have since shifted and landmarks that have since been torn down and rebuilt elsewhere, but the mule has taken this route countless times. whenever it isn’t pulling towards a tasty-looking bush or trying to fight a barn donkey, it finds the path easily, and will even direct you towards safer passages not marked on the map or shortcuts you wouldn’t know about.

eventually, you run into a scarecrow on the side of the road, and the mule flat out refuses to continue until you walk up yourself to show it that it’s only a scarecrow and not a monster. then, haltingly and complaining loudly, it lets you lead it across the scarecrow’s path and away. after that, it doesn’t get any easier to handle, it’s still a complete monster the whole time, but you can pet it.

about halfway through delivering parcels, you run into the other courier in your company, heading the opposite way from you, also riding a mule. but this mule is screaming the whole time, moving somehow even slower than your mule, and keeps trying to turn its head to bite its rider’s boots if given half the chance. you lucked out. they gave you the good mule.

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My secret is that my wife was in an extremely bad period in her life when she entered into a contest for knitting supplies. She loved knitting as a teenager and wanted to get back into it as an adult, but felt like we couldn't afford it. She wouldn't buy anything, and wouldn't let me get anything for her because it would be "a waste of money." So when she got an email from a knitting newsletter she followed talking about the contest, she entered and won third place - a little basic kit that got her excited to start and started pulling her out of her dark place.

This is when you go "aha. You cheeky devil. Did you cheat slmehow? Is that your secret?" But no. My secret is, I faked it all. I created a fake knitting blog, and sent it to her as "something I found." I ran it for a few months talking about made up craft projects with photos off the internet and things. Then I faked the contest, sold some of my possessions to buy the "prize" and let her win. Six months later I stopped posting and she didn't even notice. She still talks about that prize she won as turning her life around, and she'll never know I invented the whole thing.

Now this is some real lover shit!!!

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I yearn for the day I can look in the notes of a post about transmisogyny without seeing 200 people shit on trans men for no fucking reason and I yearn for the day I can look in the notes of a post about transmasculine issues without seeing 200 people shit on trans women for no fucking reason

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People make mean jokes about tattoo trends and I want to be clear that their opinions don’t matter but also. It’s always fine line and stamps and bows and Studio Ghibli tattoos they’re taking the piss out of and I just want to be clear, other than the fact that those are, yknow, the kind of tattoos that girls like, with TWO exceptions EVERY SINGLE TIME I’ve been tattooed there has been some dude in there getting a lion. Just wall to wall fucking lions. To the extent that one time I was convinced this one dude was getting ANOTHER LION until the artist turned around with their iPad and it was actually a photo realistic picture of Heath Ledgers Joker. Which was worse.

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"I don't have a problem with [insert minority group here], I just think they need to make their own spaces instead of coming into the existing ones WE, the majority group, have" you will not see the light of heaven you segregationist fuck

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this is my sticker club reward for july 2025! only available this month, sign up here

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incredible scenes in josh johnson's yt comments

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you're so pretty. like, you're absolutely gorgeous. have you thought about tidying your room slightly to temporarily but significantly increase your quality of life? you are so beautiful