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still thinking that the current trend of scifi short stories we see online about humans in space ("humans are space orcs", "earth is the australia of space") is a scifi version of american exceptionalism propaganda with a scifi flavour.

and i think i figured out what those stories have in common that bugs me.

it's always the aliens who find the humans so special, unique, weird, scary, etc etc.

Those stories are always about the aliens looking at us.

Never about the humans finding wonder in the differences of the aliens.

Litterature reflects society. And I think this current society does not find wonder in people who are different.

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first practice test

my result: 80%

teacher: "congratulations!"

me: I dishonored my family.

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this post is so 2016, it's both about Pokémon Go AND Hamilton the musical. wow.

alexander hamilton would already have caught all 150 pokémons

burr would stay on his home wifi and catch the ones who spawn in his backyard (and wonder why he’s not as successful as hamilton)

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In honor of the girlies on tiktok doing the most unhinged Hamilton renditions, I dug out these small doodles.

in Hamilton, in the middle of Non-Stop, Hamilton goes to see Aaron Burr in the middle of the night to ask his help for the defence of the US constitution.

before seeing the scene on video i could swear Burr was talking from balcony, in his night clothes and night cap, and Hamilton was yelling from the street in the most fucked up rendition of romeo and juliet ever. 

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learning law terms and i'm surprised that no one else seems to understand whay they mean, and the teacher doesn't explain the translation, just explains their legal meanings and says we should just blindly memorize the legal meaning --- when just knowing what the latin says is the easiest way to remember it??!

people aren't curious enough. i see latin, i translate latin. probably sumoning an ancient demon at the same time.

mutatis mutandis,

ad initio,

contra proferentem

there, you now have a little insurance agent demon on your dash

don't worry, he's not mean, he's there to help you get the best insurance for your buck. he just likes to punish those who make false declarations.

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the more tiktok feeds me that ai voice reading "humans are space orcs" short stories, the more i get the feeling it's just repackaged american exceptionalism propaganda with a scifi spin.

humans are the weirdest, the smartest, the most unusual species ever seen, they get so violent when you attack their pack, they can bond with anything, they are scary, they look innofensive but don't underestimate them, they are the most special boys in the galaxy etcetc

the genre was very cool when it started, but now it's overdone, and seriously it feels like american media now.

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the training for the new job is... demanding. like read 50 pages for the next day demanding. what was the song again, two days into college and i'm three lectures behind...

gotta wake up early tomorrow to finish the last 15 pages because the brain wouldn't brain.

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the more tiktok feeds me that ai voice reading "humans are space orcs" short stories, the more i get the feeling it's just repackaged american exceptionalism propaganda with a scifi spin.

humans are the weirdest, the smartest, the most unusual species ever seen, they get so violent when you attack their pack, they can bond with anything, they are scary, they look innofensive but don't underestimate them, they are the most special boys in the galaxy etcetc

the genre was very cool when it started, but now it's overdone, and seriously it feels like american media now.

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so i'm studying insurance law and in french insurance is Assurances so you'll be happy to know that my condensed notes are full of ASS.

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FIRST DAY OF NEW JOB WISH ME LUUUUCK

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went downtown and stopped at the Indigo store to take pictures 😌

look at my babies

(only Mrs. Victoria buys a brothel was physically in the store but the fact they have the others available online is crazy to me)

Link to get Mrs. Victoria buys a brothel

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I have to read 30 pages for the first day of my job formation and I'm feeling very Elle Woods in the Legally Blonde musical

"Who assigns reading for the first day of class??"

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okay this is for… my 1000th watcher… and I can’t remember her name because I had to reset my xkit and i lost my outbox! she asked for thranduil on his elk or bilbo and thorin fluffiness, and i swaer i was set on drawing something beautiful and majestic and romantic but my brain short circuited and gave me this instead.

followup to this

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it's been four years since i first posted this and it still sometimes keeps me up at night.

i need to add some things to the list: (and in my world Bilbo is consort to a very alive Thorin, so he has a lof of influence over the new dwarves of Erebor).

- in a world where Bilbo stays at Erebor, his rooms are declared a no-shoes zone, so he makes every one take them off at the door.

- his rooms are the whole royal chambers, which includes his and the king's personal parlours, dinner table, and living room.

- It often gets visitors to these rooms, like his friends, and more official visits, like Bard of Dale. The first time was a surprise but now Bard has a couple of nice socks for that specific diplomatic visit.

- The dwarves learned to comply, and are allowed socks, but no one has ever paid much attention to what other people's feet look like or if the socks are clean.

- pretty socks become a trend. nice manucures. surprise toe rings. the dwarves go 100000% in on this new hobbit culture thing.

- and since being a royal is having influence, the whole mountain runs with it. fashion and the notion of beauty has shifted south. there are poems about a beloved's feet (Beautiful in their sturdiness, adorned with jewels, she looks like she walks barefoot on gold--)

- and then the kinks. of course.

- and then, ironically, more shoe fashion. Now they know there can be beauty in feet and dwarves are artists, so they go kinda crazy.

- Bilbo is very perplexed that they started with accepting an element of hobbit-culture, and ended up making more shoes.

- Thorin prefers to walk in his chambers on bare feets. He still constantly hurts his little toe on those damn water buckets.

okay,, more lord of the rings overthinking.

Hobbits.

Don't wear shoes.

So they can't remove their shoes when they enter someone's home.

But hobbits aren't the type to track dirt and mud inside. (That's more the dwarven way, would add Bilbo.)

So, logically, there must be something in the entrance to let them clean their feet.

Something more than a welcome mat. I thought of a dry brush, but I think at some point we need water and a towel.

So imagine that in every hobbit home, on a small table next to the entrance, there's a flowery and overly ornate bucket of fresh water with a nice towel, for guests. And every hobbit is used to just wash their feet clean upon entering a smial, like we all got used to wash our hands when coming back home.

Ok, so let's put that in context:

- The night the dwarves arrive at Bilbo's home, one of them (or all of them) tries to be polite and washes their hands or their face in the foot water.

- During the quest, the first thing Bilbo does when he arrives at a source of water is wash his feet.

- If Bilbo lives in Erebor, he will place a pretty bucket and towel in every room he considers "inside". His rooms, the royal rooms.

- The servants change the water and towels every day, and they have no idea why. There's a conspiracy theory about it.

- If Thorin shares Bilbo's room, he will trip on that damn bucket every single night.

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reasonnable morning hour but you're a night owl with no schedule so you're still sleeping, like 10AM

very important phone call: Hello, is this a good time?

me, who was asleep 10 seconds ago: Yes yes, hello!!! Good morning! How are you??!!

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buttered noodles are just so good. if i get isekaied to prehistoric times my whole arc will be to restart agriculture and animal domestication just to be able to eat buttered noodles again. 17 seasons, at least 3 beach episodes.

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regarding videogames, i used to feel like looking up answers online was cheating. that i should do it "the real way".

and then i grew older, and decided that i'm supposed to have fun. so the moment i stop having fun, i look up the answer.

strangely, no gaming police has come to arrest me, and i'm still having fun.