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repo! the genetic opera is one of those movies where you watch it and youre like Damnn this would be so good if it was good

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it has been extremely fucking weird and uncomfortable to watch certain corners of this website start replacing calling people transfem or transmasc with “tma” or “tme” in casual contexts. i do not think we should be treating identity as interchangeable with what bigotry you think someone would face, whether or not you agree with the tma/tme model being useful.

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very very minor but sincerely annoying pet peeve: when people understate a villain's motives to make them sound as unreasonable and petty as possible

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Growing up, did you have a public social media account at a very young age (Under 12), and feel the pressure of both having to frequently post to maintain your following, and not do anything controversial to get you cancelled?

Yes

No

I had my public social media account since I was 9 and a lot of my childhood was spent in stress and guilt and frustration over it... Not to mention cancel culture can be RUTHLESS. I got sent what I can only describe as a "how to kill yourself" guide over discourse drama when I was 11...

I had my public social media account since I was 9 and a lot of my childhood was spent in stress and guilt and frustration over it... Not to mention cancel culture can be RUTHLESS. I got sent what I can only describe as a "how to kill yourself" guide over discourse drama when I was 11...

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will always associate caffe nero with a trip to belfast where me and my friend practically lived in them

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In a Caffè Nero

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skyscraper is such a rad fucking thing for a building to be called but its the status quo so its normal and nobody talks about it

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"marriage is the ONLY way to get these protections" "there is NO WAY to hack a legal arrangement to cover everything that marriage grants" "kiddos you don't remember what it was like before we could get married, we finally got rights because we could get married" Okay But You Recognize Why That's Bad, Right. Like that is really, really bad that you have to enter a specific type of relationship to get legal rights. That is A Problem. You recognize that that is Not A Good Thing, Right

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"writing is not that serious," I say, "I am doing this for fun, it is my fun hobby, and Writers Online could really stand to be a lot less precious about it." then I turn around and say "for this fanfiction of a children's video game I am trying to do some Kazuo Ishiguro shit"

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daily affirmations:

i am kind

i am in control of my emotions

it does not bother me when someone is in the kitchen while i was planning to be in there alone

everyone in the house has the right to be in the kitchen

i am kind and in control of my emotions even when someone is in the kitchen while i was planning to be in there alone

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Hamster Escapes the Most Dangerous Prison Maze 🐹

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no animal was harmed during the making of this video. not one. for the few minutes that we were shooting film, the guns of each hunter fell silent. the industrial bolt throwers observed a moment's peace and the jaws of every predator hung softly open. no fish bit any hook and the bait worms held off on drowning only until the cameras stopped. the tails of ruminants ceased to flick just as their attendant flies, in unison, landed on their flanks to catch their tiny breaths. a spider instantly stopped winding silk around a wasp, patiently waiting for the caesura to end. a young veterinarian paused with the syringe in their hand. somewhere, a colicky baby stopped biting its mother's nipple and nursed happily for the very first time. we're sorry. we're sorry it couldn't have been longer. we didn't know this would happen.