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... not gonna lie that sounds like a good exercise to force you to relax a little by focusing on something

As part of her social media detox this girl on YouTube made herself do one hour of understimulating tasks every day and she just counted rice for 60 minutes straight because its no different from doomscrolling in terms of wasted time

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So now, for some reason, we have immigration agents wandering through the scene of the fire looking for firefighters to deport. Not helping with evacuations. Not manning roadblocks. Not providing relief to any of the law enforcement officials doing any of that necessary work. Nope, here comes a group of otherwise unassigned federal agents who decide that the highest and best use of their time is to detain everyone at a given firefighting drop point to check everybody's paperwork. They don't know whether a hotspot will flare up in the meantime. They don't know whether the crew will get sudden new orders. No, this group of federal shit-for-brains sees an active fire zone and can only see Quota. ... So there wasn't even firewood to be cleaned up, there was no work to be done, their "team leader" never showed up and immigration agents somehow knew where to look and which roadblocks they needed to go through to find these teams? Yeah, that does begin to sound less like a rogue Department of Homeland Security operation and more like an intentional setup. As for who did it and why, that's still being worked out.

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this yourube video was so varric tethras coded to me so i had to redraw it

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this "negative" review of guillermo del toro's upcoming frankenstein movie is everything to me

"The Mexican director has chosen to emphasise the romanticism at the expense of the horror. Elordi plays the creature as a misunderstood, James Dean-like outsider with Oedipal issues rather than as an agent of evil and chaos. Even if his face and torso are latticed with suitably grotesque scars, staples and stitches, he is not only the most sympathetic character in the movie but the best-looking one too. It’s left to Oscar Isaac to provide the real villainy as the brilliant but egomaniacal scientist, Victor Frankenstein..."

HELLO YES IT'S ME, MARY SHELLEY CALLING, JUST WANTED TO ASK IF YOU'VE EVER SEEN A GUILLERMO DEL TORO MOVIE OR... I DON'T KNOW... READ MY BOOK?

"The film lurches between scenes of lush romantic melodrama and moments of Grand Guignol bloodletting."

*bangs fists on table* SIGN! ME! THE! FUCK! UP!

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Loading Screen Tip: You can hold the princess to make her feel better.

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like I think it is good and important to be able to criticise porn and erotica for the relationship to the political environment/context of creation etc, but I think that’s not too different from criticising any other art on these grounds. how is the erotica speaking to conventions of the genre? what is the author trying to tell you in what they hold up as attractive? what might the author be saying that they’re not necessarily aware that they’re saying? how does the narrative relate to other dominant cultural narratives? these are all valuable questions to ask and can be answered in nuanced ways that do not involve kink-shaming & do not involve calling people degenerate perverts. yknow.

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"do you know who I am?" is such a funny thing to ask because if they reply "yep" then you're just like "oh" and if they say "no" then that's kinda weak too I guess, or at least it raises the stakes if you announce your identity and they just look at you blankly

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fuck me i guess 🥰

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OH the historical fashion enthusiasts are gonna be SO mad about this

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A little modern AU for you 💕 Warning: she might bite, slash or slit your throat for real! But don’t worry: Shadowheart and Karlach take care of her!😌 I’ve just wanted to draw the best girls from Baldur’s Gate 3 for a long time and finally I found the perfect excuse: look at them, aren’t they gorgeous?🥺💖 I’ve truly learned to love them all: I fell for Lae’Zel first (and, of the trio, she’s definitely my personal favorite❤️); I got to know Mama K much later, since in Early Access she wasn’t yet defined as a character, and I admit that Shadowheart took a while 🤣 I wasn’t a fan in the beginning, but in the end she also grew on me, God’s favorite princess. 🥺💕 And what about you? Do you have a favorite? 👀💖💖💖

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Be honest do you think that actually learning things in high school is important

yeah dude or else youre gonna be that coworker people post about

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i know this is the piss on the poor website but its also something worse and way stranger because every time i give general advice that amounts to “regrettably, sometimes, the problem in a rocky relationship is you” people will pop up out of every crevice to be like “insane take, why are you telling battered wives and abused children its their fault”

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For anyone who played Baldur's Gate 3, you'll definitely know how Lae'Zel is the first to offer herself as an executioner to spare us from our grim fate as Mind Flayers, and how Astarion is absolutely fascinated by discussing how someone would prefer to depart this life! 🤣 So I HAD to use these two as the subjects for this meme redraw! 💕💕💕 I hope you like it; it's always so fun for me to draw Bae'Zel and Astarion.🥺💖 Who do you think would be a good fit in this meme?

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I'm starting to go the opposite direction of all the "you're a literal baby infant until 25 bc your bwain is a baby bwain :(" shit

We should be treating teens as more adult than we do. I don't mean some lowering the age of consent creep shit, I mean presuming competence. Get a job, learn life skills, learn to cook, be fully responsible for a pet, walk places alone (in daylight) or with a friend, have intergenerational friendships, teach skills to littler kids, be someone people can trust with more than wiping their own ass. Be someone they themselves can trust to do stuff and go places. We're stealing children's confidence by treating them like they can't do anything. Treat them like they can and should do many adult things and more will find the confidence to practice at them.

Yes, the brain isn't finished growing when you're like 15. No, you shouldn't get treated like a preschooler till it is. The general experience of adulthood is like 90% practice 10% maturity I think. The maturity is needed but it doesn't account for much if you just do nothing.