mechamangamonkey

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“Medieval peasants couldn’t handle my Spotify playlist” but could YOU handle a medieval bard relaying the epic of Beowulf over the course of an hour? Humble yourself.

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i feel like now is the time to start passing around that post again about how ao3 does netflix levels of data serving and stores library-of-congress amounts of information on an absolutely insane shoestring budget and when people get pissed off about the otw raising more money than they need that they "couldn't use" it just shows they don't know shit about how unbelievably expensive it is to run something like the archive (+ all the legal advocacy/open doors projects/etc)...

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I dunno man I thought it was pretty clear with where it stands, maybe you're just stupid?

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In your ideal world, what happens to Germany after WWII? Because I saw you reblog a post saying they never paid the consequences for what they did, and idk, seems like they actually suffered a lot for it

why is this ask assuming im going to prescribe some collective ethnic punishment for germans lol i simply hold the embattled and controversial opinion that ""ex""-nazis shouldn't have been placed in positions of power in every west german institution as well as nato and the UN

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i hope luigi mangione is proven innocent & gets to sue a ton of companies for slander and win & i hope he gets enough money to rebuild his life and get any help for his chronic pain that he needs & i hope he’s able to disappear from the public eye entirely if that’s what he wants

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happy pride month once again, here’s a redraw of this iconic medieval art

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when one of your shy mutuals puts something WILD in the tags

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I'd still trust you with my life doctor tbh

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I continue to run into people that are confused as to why Americans have screens on our windows and it’s really quite simple.

Bugs

Diseases carried by bugs

Other assorted wildlife such as dogs and teenagers

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i love having the hubris to go 'sure i'll try that, how hard can it be' about every creative skill under the sun. jack of all trades master of shit fuck but who says you have to be a master??? maybe i want to sew a mediocre plushie and code a janky mod and write a bland song. im having fun. im in my lane. im learning and im thriving.

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when i look up a knitting term, the last thing I want is an ai overview. I want a 60+ year old woman with no understanding of lighting or helpful camera angles who still manages to give the most concise and clear explanation of how to execute purl 2tog through the backloop. ai summary fuck off, where is phyllis?

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you have to put in the work to get a hypervigilant parentified former child to relax around you and becomes just some goofy little guy: you can’t fake it, they pick up on it instantly, you have to actually be a consistent and trustworthy human being who takes care of their shit. then it’s like the years of parentification and exploitation and objectification fall away from them on the spot: they get softer, they show their emotions more, you can see the kid they used to be before they weren’t allowed to anymore, and you get to drop your own parentification and history of exploitation and abuse and be a kid with them like equals.

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so i wore a pride flag pin to work the other day and the kids were all interested (obviously) (find me a classroom of preschoolers who are not obsessed with rainbows) (i'll wait) so they crowded around to see.

"aww!" they said, "it's a flag!!"

but the thing is: they're little. a lot of them don't really have a handle on all their mouth sounds yet.

such as, notably, that tricky tricky "L" sound.

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I'm keeping an eye out for heat stroke in my area and I can't figure out what a full body flush would look like on dark skin since all the pictures are just fake training pictures. Anyone have video/pics of a heat stroke flush on black skin?