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Okay, something about that kinktober (with no kink) thing that I noticed is this: every fic must have a conversation about a safeword being used, and then use it in the scene. Obviously this comes from the fact that they're treating fictional characters like real humans yadda yadda yadda

But like... the hope behind a safe word is that you're not supposed to use it unless something goes wrong. So like.

This is unironically what they're doing oml

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i took a pic of me watching the pickle rick episode to piss people off but like somehow i managed to take the pic so that the frame on the tv was…. a different frame to the reflection on the desk?

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instead of words there is squiggles

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every time someone says “look how they’re looking at each other! they’re in love!” about a non-canon ship i just think of the kuleshov effect for a second but then i come to my senses and decide to have fun

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‼️NOT THAT BIG OF A SPOILER FOR THE NEW SUPERMAN MOVIE BUT STILL‼️

The funniest thing about the new Superman movie was that the civilians of Metropolis fled to Gotham out of all places to not be in danger 😭

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i loved kypto sm he truly was The Dog Ever

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My child said to me:

“Other-donkey, Elsa likes macaroni kiko”

Can you understand what this sentence means? Write down your guess before I reveal the answer in the next tweet

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The Animorphs are child soldiers. Meguca are (arguably) child soldiers. Put Jake Berenson or Homura Akemi in the Wards program, even in the notoriously bad Brockton Bay Wards, and they would think it was too good to be true. Just the idea that fights to the death were the exception to the rule and that there were adults who knew what was going on and were both willing and able to help would be pretty mind-blowing.

I have to admit, I’ve never understood or liked the whole “Wards are child soldiers” statement that flors around the Worm fandom. Like…even putting aside how often it’s repeated both in and out of universe that the Brockton Bay Wards are the exception and most Wards don’t see nearly as much action… they’re still not child soldiers???

Teenage cops, sure. I wouldn’t personally agree (because the Wards have more oversight and accountability than your average American cops do) but it’s not an entirely inaccurate comparison. They are essentially hybrid cops/firefighters.

Child soldiers, meanwhile…no. For one, Wards aren’t forcibly conscripted into service. It’s a choice they make- not a completely free one, but a choice nonetheless. They get paid, they get healthcare, they even get to choose if they’ll attend certain fights! It just makes no goddamn sense that people keep saying this when on every level that comparison is just not true.

The Wards program tends to get a lot of flak (well the PRT/Protectorate does in general but that’s a separate convo) in the fandom- and it’s an odd mix of people saying either the Wards program is terrible because it forces kids to fight people (it really doesn’t) or because it doesn’t let the kids fight more people with less oversight and restraints on acceptable levels of force.

It’s weird!

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mourning that as a STEM student I never got to take the Be A Good Person class that's part of every mandatory humanities track and so I'll never be able to be as moral as a philosophy major like Peter Thiel

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when i say i like hiking, i don’t mean “eight mile backpacking trip with special gear and an emergency beacon” sort of hiking, i mean a three mile loop to go look at pretty things and then a huge brunch after.

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damn.

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