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THE SOPRANOS Season 3 | Episode 9 "The Telltale Moozadell"

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Instructions for how to download a Youtube video using VLC on Reddit

Instructions for how to navigate the underworld on an Orphic gold tablet

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devastating news for the discourse poster: “media literacy” in the modern age includes the ability to identify which posts are bait

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I’ve been meaning to paint a gray, cloudy botw/totk piece for so long!

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it's very frustrating that when you do something mature---something that really demonstrates how much you've grown as a human being and adult---no full orchestra immediately appears in your kitchen to play verdi's triumphal march and/or an arrangement of tina turner's "the best" at top volume.

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I don't fault the Steven Universe crew for deciding to make it basically canon that the fifty-odd recurring human characters who are the only ones we ever see on screen really are Beach City's entire population, and explaining away the incredibly overdeveloped service industry for such a tiny community with "it's a tourist town" – it's a very economical decision! – but that just makes the fact that we only ever get Steven's perspective on events extra annoying, because can you possibly imagine the kind of bullshit the rest of the townsfolk must be dealing with any time they're not on camera.

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posts about the alt-right pipeline being compassionate towards young men while radical leftists shun and shame them are not fucking saying "the men are becoming violent because feminists are too mean!" and if that is your takeaway you need to get off tumblr until you've better honed your critical thinking skills.

those posts are talking about how effective the language and approach you take in your activism can be. this is literally cult deprogramming 101. if someone is being taken in by a violent or dangerous group, that violent or dangerous group is usually offering them compassion and solace while working hard to convince them everyone else in the world is their enemy. you are under no obligation to coddle or act compassionate toward these men and their violent ideologies, but if you have the means to try, it is something that you can do to make a tangible difference.

radicalized people are often only one loving friend or family member or external voice away from being de-radicalized. of course that is not always the case, but it very often is. a lot of y'all rightfully understand that you do not carry the burden of being that voice, but a lot of y'all also have a lot of internalized ideas about morals and punitive justice and have simply written off these people as deserving of only the worst and not worth saving.

ten years ago, my grandmother was a fox news watching republican who voted red in every election and very well could have fallen down the qanon rabbit hole if not for me and her daughter challenging her compassionately, walking her through hypotheticals that validated her feelings & proving why they were false, & being patient with her despite our extreme division in political ideology. it was frustrating fucking work! but i decided i wanted to do it, because i could see the horizon and i could see me making a difference!

"misogynists have been saying feminists are too mean for years, get new material" that is not the fucking POINT. the point is that you, feminist, can be the compassionate voice that guides your brother, your father, your cousin, your grandfather away from fucking becoming or staying a nazi. you can show them compassion and companionship. you can be the woman they think of when their alt-right bros try to convince them that women are the enemy. and you can choose to crystallize that image of yourself so wholly in their mind's eye as worth protecting that they may very well choose to reject those harmful ideas.

it's not saying you HAVE to do it! it's saying you CAN do it! don't you 'firebomb a walmart' people all love taking change into your own hands? where the fuck is that energy right now, huh?

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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster, on account that a bunch of monsters can turn you into a monster by biting you. Vampires, werewolves, zombies. those are the big ones, there are others

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im developing cataracts in my right eye and ill be getting surgery for it on sunday so art might be paused for a bit next week ...

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shocking that omegaverse verisimilitude didn't resonate with a wider audience. and I thought this was the pretentious and horny website

delving into my tumblr drafts to try to find something to post and all that's there are bullet points about the verisimilitude inherent in omegaverse heats and an attempt at a joke so incomprehensible it could qualify as speculative fiction

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Choy Moo Kheong（Singaporean, b.1950）

Blue Whispering Day 2022 Acrylic on Canvas 139.7 x 114.3 cm via

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#“he even owns a tail" #<- OP are you SURE he doesn’t know what furries are - @anakinsthot

alas, I have explained the concept to him at least four separate times and never once has the glazed look of incomprehension on his face been anything close to faked

there are some people in life who would so obviously benefit from knowing what furries are that it becomes a tantalus-esque tragedy watching them live their lives in ignorance. unfortunately my father is one of these people, and he will not stop sending wolf animojis to the groupchat