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i have a youtube video about the use of jumpscares in horror games playing in the background while I work, and it reminded me of the single worst jumpscare i've ever experienced, which happened while I was playing a little game I like to call... Google Maps. (you play Google Maps by turning on street view, zooming in to somewhere that looks interesting, and clicking on any 360 photo views that people might have uploaded. i have spent many hours of my life playing Google Maps)

Anyway, spin this guy around to see something that legitimately made me jump so hard that I damn near threw my drink across the room

(more info under the cut if you're worried about what you'll see)

there's a fish very close to the camera

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that's me in the corner

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Oh yeah: while I was at the Animals Place, I got to pet a corn snake :)

Apparently I also have the wingspan of a turkey vulture

But do you have the ability to vomit acid into the face of predators like a turkey vulture?

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found this three year old draft buried in my files. is it funny? I don't remember

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OP made a mooncake sofa for the Mid-Autumn Festival (cr 闲人祝幸福)

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this is one of my favorite poems. a four year old wrote it.

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What a delightful basket full of Meatball

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guy whose voice sounds the same when hes begging to cum and begging to be killed

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I'm trying to get a bed delivery set up for my new apartment, and it's reminded me that mattress stores are in Labor Day Hell™️ at the moment. My condolences and I hope you can get some breaks 🫂

Yeah, it’s very likely I won’t be able to eat on my 12 hour shifts. The company pays a modest fine and I go home shaking and drained to do it again the next day.

Honestly celebrating the wins of laborers by mistreating the workforce and extending hours feels like the summation of the US at the moment.

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Periodic rent-lowering-gunshots:

Fiction is not reality.

You can enjoy things in fiction that would be awful in the real world. Like playing a murderhobo in a game! In the real world, being or supporting a murderer-thief would be pretty damn awful, while in the game it's just good fun. Same with anything else you choose to do with the pixels on the screen, like kinks that don't affect anyone real, so they're okay in fiction, but would be pretty damn bad in real life.

No one else is responsible for your online experience. They are required not to harass you, but they are not and never will be obligated to not post about ships, kinks, or tropes you dislike just to avoid you seeing them. It's up to you to blacklist words or phrases, block tags, or even block users as needed to avoid seeing content that upsets you.

No one can force you to read anything against your consent. Any content you don't like seeing can be instantly avoided by closing out of the offending post/fic.

You are not owed an online experience free of discomfort.

Nothing that happens in your imagination can ever make you a bad person. Words you write or read about fictional characters will never make you a bad person.

The claim that media consumption influences real-life behavior is intellectually dishonest and serves only to excuse the behavior of real offenders.

Fiction is a safe way to explore horrifying or confusing concepts. Therapists agree that fiction, even (or especially) about taboo topics is a good coping mechanism, especially, but not exclusively, for trauma survivors. Fiction is to adults what play therapy is to children. This doesn't stop being true if the work in question is of a sexual nature.

Sex isn't an inherently worse or better motivation than anything else. A work written to create feelings of arousal isn't dirty, shameful, or in any way less pure than works written to entertain, provoke moral questions, or for other reasons. And worth noting is that multiple purposes can exist in the same story, especially fanfiction.

You aren't entitled to an explanation for why someone reads, writes, or otherwise enjoys certain works, kinks, tropes, ships, etc.