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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, We will remember them.

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Furthermore whoever removed the audio jack from phones should be grilled in front of congress. The fact that I need a dongle to listen to music on a modern telephone while 20 years ago I could have simply plugged a universally standardized cord into the audio jack everyone knew how to use is an anti-human move that should be punished.

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God I wish elections in the fucking US wouldn’t affect literally every other country in the world

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reblog if you need a hug

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also let me know if you are so inclined: if english is your first language, if you speak specifically american or british english, and if you are in the united states, what general region you're in

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You can watch the whole video if you want, but at 13 seconds when he pulls the blob out of the furnace and WHOOOSH it's suddenly a ghost?

Good stuff.

Corning Museum Instagram but their youtube has full demonstrations and livestreams.

Chris Rochelle Instagram has lots of neat things but mostly this ghost.

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Hey, I wanna talk about how we do fandom! I've come to realize that I, personally, tend to differ from many others in that I highly prefer to only engage with a text as it's written, so I don't tend to really like fanon/extremely ooc characterizations and I find it hard to get invested in ships that aren't canon. My way of doing fandom isn't better or worse than anyone else's, but I am curious about how much of a minority I'm in! So:

*We've all seen ships of characters not from the same media and stuff like shipping the concept of ennui with the color blue, okay, I'm asking what you, personally, find compelling!

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theres bikes around the city you can rent but you have to use an app that needs your drivers license. theres buses that drive right to your destination, but if you dont have change you need the app. you can wash your car here if you sign into the app. you can go to the bathroom here you just have to unlock it with the app that needs your location on. you can order at this restaurant if you scan the code and download the app. im losing my freaking mind

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Since the booping has returned, reblog if it's okay to spam you with boops!

I wanna be polite and not spam random people without permission , ,

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I think there's something that needs to be said about encouraging readers to leave feedback.

For me it's not about "tell me my writing is amazing and stroke my ego"

It's more about "please engage with me so that I can experience your joy secondhand and foster a connection with you"

I understand that not everyone wants this in their reading experience, some people are shy and a million other reasons why maybe someone wouldn't want to engage and that's perfectly fine!

But what I'm trying to steer away from is being a passive content creator with passive consumers. What I want to steer toward is fostering a community that is essential to fandom. I want to see your reactions because it makes me feel like I'm a part of something.

On encouraging reblogs —

I understand that not everyone is comfortable reblogging, especially explicit content. This is ok!

But just consider that the only reason you were able to enjoy a fic or fanart is because someone else shared it, and by not sharing it yourself you are potentially robbing someone else of the opportunity to enjoy it as much as you did.

As OPs our reach only goes so far and this website relies on reblogs in order for anything to truly get seen by a wider audience.

So that's really it! That's why I encourage these two things at the end of every story I post. Not because I'm trying to be demanding and "make people feel bad" if they don't do it.

I know most other social media sites encourage mindless content consumption and that's just the way of the world nowadays, but I am from a time when community was at the heart of fandom and I just don't want to lose that.

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We share some fandoms but not all of them. The ones we share, we often engage with together but maybe at different levels.

Ok people with long term partners slash spouses.

For extra points you can tell me in replies and or reblogs what generation you’re in because I have a theory lmao

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Tintin comics were originally in French. I assume the translation was just a bit shorter but they used the original balloons.

(Although apparently he's also one of the earlier comic artists to experiment with using text balloons, so you may still be right)

Hergé goes Upton Sinclair

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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

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I've done it, but extremely rarely. The takes would have to be *really* bad. If I couldn't filter out a specific tag, I'd be more likely to just unfollow if this person happened to be on my followlist.

Do you block people in the same fandom as you just because you don't like their takes?