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i had a dream that time travel was invented and too many people choose to travel back in time to save the titanic from sinking (the question of whether unsinking of the titanic deserved so much attention in the face of human history was the subject of both heavy academic and online discourse), which caused a rift in the space-time-continuum that led to the titanic showing up indiscriminately all over the world’s oceans and sea in various states of sinking.

this caused a lot of issues both in terms of fixing said space-time-continuum and in terms of nautical navigation, and after a long and heavy battle in the international maritime organization it was decided that the bureaucratic burden of dealing with this was to be upon Ireland, much to their dismay. the Irish Government then released an app for all sailors and seafarers so they could report titanic sightings during their journeys, even though they heavily dissuaded you from reporting them given the paperwork it caused.

anyway i woke up with a clear image of the app in my head and needed to recreate it for all of you:

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An anime where the art style seems to have a huge problem with Same Face Syndrome, all the characters fall under like 5 diferent types and every single person of the roughly same age and gender look like the same damn character wearing different wigs. There's a whole episode about how someone changed their haircut and the protagonist spends the whole episode trying to awkwardly avoid situations where they'd be forced to admit to the New Hair Person that they actually aren't 100% sure which friend they are.

Halfway through it turns out that the protagonist is face blind. The art style is deliberately like this as a way to illustrate how they can't fucking tell most people apart by face alone.

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Elvis, what are your thoughts on crocs?

Woah mama. No...

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Comedy series about an evil wizard where in every episode they discover some Ancient Secret of Magic that will allow them to surpass their rivals and bring the world to its knees, and every episode they learn the hard way why modern wizards don't do it that way anymore.

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who have you become in the wake of all that's happened here?

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Jason: I don't really want to be Danny's Boss. It brings a weird power dynamic into play.

Wes: You mean like the weird power dynamic of him being your king?

Jason: That's different. That's hot.

Wes: Just because you could read about it in a magic fantasy novel doesn't make it any less awkward for HIM, Jay.

Jason: But- But it gives him an excuse to play up the 'evil king' thing, and cackle maniacally.

Wes: His parents are supervillain scientists. He might have some negative associations with that.

Jason: ...okay, fair. I guess I can be understanding or some shit.

Danny: Why do I always have to walk in on the weird kink discussions when I'm supposed to be going to work?

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The author’s poorly disguised love and adoration for existence and humanity despite its flaws and hardships

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I like to call Alexander the Great Big Alex sometimes because in a lot of languages including Greek he’s basically called Alexander the big or Alexander the huge because that’s how they express greatness in that language.

Also calling him Big Alex kind of strips away some of the mystique around him. I don’t fully respect anybody that tries to be worshipped as a god while they’re alive. And yes that includes every pharaoh of Egypt and most Roman emperors.

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Nauseated and ravenous at the same time is a terrible combination that should not be allowed to exist. Much like menthol and capsaicin, you'd think that they should cancel each other out.

And yet They Do Not.

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Sex Isn't Real And You Can't Have It

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It's very clear that Andrew Tate and other "redpill" influencers of his ilk didn't understand The Matrix (or maybe didn't even watch it) it they think that escaping the Matrix means living a life of luxury and fame. They got it exactly backwards.

Escaping the Matrix in the movie means living a life of hardship and discomfort. But it's a life that is full of genuine experiences and connections that aren't designed to exploit you.

To hammer the point even more, the motivation of the traitor character is to live a life of luxury and fame inside the Matrix, not caring that it's fake.

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i post in a few communities focused on helping people identify ai-generated images and something i'm noticing a lot is how many people are paying for a "business logo" and receiving an ai generated image.

y'all, even before generative ai, if a business logo is commissioned, you are owed at the very least a raw .psd file. standard practice is to provide a vector image, because a logo needs to look good at several sizes, but a raw editable .psd is the bare minimum. receiving a .jpg or .png is not accomplishing the directive of providing a logo, at best you are receiving a logo concept.

maybe tumblr isn't the right audience for this but i have to vent my frustrations here because this is a scam that could be avoided just by people understanding what it is they require. you don't even have to be good at telling if something is ai or not to avoid this problem, because ai cannot vectorize or provide layers! aaaaghh!

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I know that lesbian is also a word that can refer to someone from the island of lesbos and when Herodotus says that a king “sent his lesbians” to do something he’s referring to soldiers from lesbos

but I can’t get the image out of my head of a king or general pointing at a city and yelling “go, my lesbians!” and then a bunch of gay women running in to burn it down

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