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And, if you dig deep enough, this is still less of a punishment for the rich than the poor. If a frycook loses a day's wages, they're probably skipping some meals or paying a bill late. If a CEO loses a day's wages, there probably will be no noticeable change in said CEO's life.

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"Humans taste terrible, please drink this as soon as possible so that you have time to marinate."

Tomorrow is the day you will be sacrificed to appease the spirits of the village. As you struggle to fall asleep in your steel cage, you notice a scaly hand place a strange potion, along with a note, in front of you before retreating into the shadows.

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How come you're all about "feminism" until it's time to protest? We haven't seen you make a single fucking post about the LA riots and it's really disappointing.

Hi friends. This is your reminder not to reply to questions like this. You do not need to self-report your behavior. This is a guilt trip designed to make you violate your own Miranda rights.

Also, they are not riots (Freudian slip, fed?), they're peaceful protests and are a democratic right under the first amendment.

where to find your local protest donate to legal funds my local immigrant support network

be safe out there, i love you.

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The green tint on the Marikitty had me briefly thinking she was Maomao.

Firstly, I adore you lady noire doodle, do you think you’ll do more? You perfectly captured the ‘cats are a liquid’ hug. Second: How do you feel about cat loaf?

kibty

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I assume everyone assumed you already knew.

I strongly recommend checking Wikipedia on every media you enjoy at least once. Specifically check for an "adaptations" and/or "media" section.

In regards to Discworld, there's a wide array of adaptations. Most Discworld novels have both at least one each of abridged and unabridged audiobooks. Four stories have been released as comic books, with three more having been announced. Cosgrove Hall (British animation studio) animated an exerpt of Reaper Man they released as the 8 minute "Welcome to the Discworld" and then did full adaptatiojs of Soul Music and Wyrd Sisters. Sky One followed up their success with Hogfather by adapting The Color of Magic and Going Postal. The Amazing Maurice was released as a 3d animated film in 2022, and there's a sequel on the way. The BBC had (has?) The Watch, a TV show loosely adapted from the various appearances of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch throughout the books. (Pratchett's daughter was originally involved, but distanced herself from the project as it strayed further afield.) And that's basically just the major stuff. There's short films inspired by Discworld, unauthorized films, radio plays, stage productions, and a decent number of video games.

Similar dives have led me to the (terrible) early 2000s Polish adaptations of The Witcher and the Bleach Rock Musicals.

Whatever you're into, there's a chance there's more of it than you think.

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To be fair to Chat Noir, everyone in that line wants to kiss her.

i was just thinking about how if ladybug needed all 3 of their bonus partners at once they’d have to form a line to give their miraculouses back at the end of the battle and….

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To be fair, that's why it's called "BAD fanfiction". "It's like fanfiction written by someone who actually wants to write something original but doesn't know how, so they're just mashing existing properties into roughly the shape they want."

Please please please can we stop calling unnecessary sequels and remakes by big companies “bad fanfic”??? Even the most poorly-written fics are somehow born from a love of the original text. A soulless cash grab made people who don’t give two shits about what they are actually creating is not “bad fanfic” and will never be.

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"The name's Iron. Cold Iron. My sister, here, is Sunshine Silver. We can take care of your village's beastie problem, whatever it may be."

"Your parents named you IRON?" Shouted the fey, while screaming in pain. "yes they did."

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I'd word it more as Republicans promise to block the doors while they burn your house down and Democrats promise to keep them from blocking the doors (and then fail to do even that), but you're definitely closer to the truth than the OP.

Also, calling people with concerns about the Democrats "pissbabies" and lying about their concerns is the actual reason Democrats lose. You don't get to insult and disregard people and then get mad they didn't vote for you. "You're a worthless idiot and I refuse to listen to you or do anything for you but if you don't support me you're a bigger monster than the ones I refuse to actually fight for you."

Whenever these entitled babies are like “Democrats need to EARN my vote and not just be non-Republicans!” this is what it sounds like:

Republicans: We will burn down your house and laugh while doing it.

Democrats: We will not burn down your house—

Pissbabies: OMFG are you serious?? You think THAT’S enough to get me to vote for you?! Not burning down my house isn’t enough!

Democrats: No, listen, look at this plan we have to help build a better house—

Pissbabies: OMFG you actually expect me to read this bullet point list summarizing your larger policy proposal????? You’re not shoveling dumbed down info directly into my mouth via tiktok???? Fuck you, this is why Democrats lose

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My first few chapters have a lot of Childhood Flashbacks, so, here's a rainbow of children in preparation~

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Kermit for Pope

I was trying to find out if Kermit was eligible to be pope and I found a blog that says he's the perfect example of a catholic priest

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I'm straight* and the number of times queer or straight people have been genuinely convinced I'm queer is quite high. Honestly, I think most people without a very heteronormative mindset assume I'm queer within moments of meeting me. (It's probably an autistic thing and/or a "not an asshole" thing.)

*Not a zero on the Kinsey Scale, but well under even a one.

are you easily clockable as queer

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Tying in a reply from a different branch of this post before I add my two cents:

Dana Simpson and @sprinkledsalt are both missing (deliberately?) what @lovethebluebox, @calcinator, and @bug-the-chicken-nug are saying. The Democratic National Convention keeps sliding further and further to the Right while acting entitled to the votes of Leftists they don't even try to earn. And Leftists are told that they're simultaneously too small of a group to care about AND a major voting bloc that hands the election to the Republicans by not supporting Democrats.

There's also the assertion that Leftists have ever-shifting demands. Congratulations, that's the political version of "all Asians look the same". Most Leftists actually have fairly consistent demands, Democrats just don't care to make the effort to tell us apart. (And the differences are usually different approaches to the same problems, not fundamental disagreements on what the problems are.)

Leftists would stop being a problem nearly immediately if either of two solutions were enacted:

1) Democrats stop taking Leftists for granted and actually try to earn the votes they act entitled to.

2) The US neuters the spoiler effect by switching to a more representative election system. I'm personally partial to ranked choice with "none of the above" as a listed option, but I'm open to discussion on other options.

Neither major political party is open to either of these options, because they can only hold on to power by denying the citizens any actual say in government.

(Bluesky's nuclear block function means the original post isn't visible here, but the context is yet another leftist doing the "Dems bad, don't us for refusing to support Dems, etc., etc." song and dance)

You know, the second to last post is true for a lot of these Very Online leftists, I think. They actually do know the parties aren't the same, deep down, but they can't possibly risk being seen as Cringe and a bootlicker by saying so, leaving them to hope everyone else acts like an adult and does the work for them

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"Sorry this is a day late, I was going to get some writing in backstage at the fashion show, but I got turned into a statue."

Can you imagine how bizarre the “sorry for not updating sooner” notes on Adrien’s AO3 works must be?

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Trump Towers. Trump Hotels.

Please call this recession the Trump Slump.

We need to put Trump's name on this.

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I hold to the belief that the change from "first-world" and "third-world" to "developed" and "developing" was meant to disguise that the US is no longer a first-world country.

"developing country" is not a great term but if people insist on using it i demand we also use "undeveloping country." for example I'm from the u.s. and my country is currently in a state of undevelopment

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biggest reason i make so many flop posts on here is because everything i do reeks of the desperation to make a popular tumblr post. this is deliberate, because it is what protects me from ACTUALLY making a popular tumblr post. so long as i crave it, tumblr fame will never find me. it is only when i turn away, and accept my fate of obscurity, that people will lay their eyes upon me. and it WILL be because i tripped and fell on my stupid face while i was turning