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i love this website i just feel at home here you know

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“Hot and bothered” in the sense that it is 90 degrees out and I am extremely annoyed

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You're all goofy

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a detailed list of things i hate

hot weather

high temperatures

heat

warmer than average conditions

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you punch nazis!

(requested by anonymous)

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Dear everyone who is currently working on a Thing, whatever that Thing may be,

Good luck with the Thing. You can do the Thing. You will do the Thing. You just have to do the Thing.

Best wishes,

Someone who is also doing a Thing

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"tumblr humor is only funny to tumblr users" NOT true. those bitches on pinterest love us.

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I'll preface this by saying how backed up by canon this is obviously depends on what you count as canon but-

I feel a lot of the time the batfam no killing debate is framed as pragmatism vs. the sanctity of life and that's sometimes true but I actually think quite a lot of arguments for killing rogues are in fact also arguing for life being sacred.

I think characters like Jason, who view controlling crime through any means as a moral right, aren't using that tactic because it's the "easy" way. This page from UTRH is one of my favorite moments for a reason.

It's easy to get caught up in the tragedy of Jason & Bruce here, but Jason has a very lovely and visceral speech that I want to look at.

"The entire graveyards he's filled, the thousands who've suffered, the friends he's crippled.....evil, death worshipping garbage."

And it really comes down to this right? Do you think it's a worse crime to play God and take a human life with your own hands, to destroy their chance at redemption than it is to kill them- even if it means they fill up graveyards? That's not really metaphorical, by the way. Even at the lowest estimates, Joker is in the triple digits of innocent people murdered.

Part of what sets Jason off isn't just that his own death is unavenged - we see him holding newspaper clippings, and just in those we see at least 8 people killed.

I think that for someone like Jason, who was a murder victim, allowing someone like the Joker to live is violating the sanctity of human life. It makes you responsible for the blood on their hands ("I thought I'd be the last person you let him hurt"). And in Gotham? There's practically rivers of innocent blood.

So I don't think saying Jason doesn't value human life really holds water. I think you can make an argument that Jason sometimes has a very calculating view of human life, that he believes that he can play god, that he believes the ends justify the means- but he does value lives.

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did i consume this piece of media or did this piece of media consume me

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I actually do feel like the "unemployed friend on a Tuesday" meme actually helps de-stigmatize unemployment because it frequently affirms that when you don't have a job you're more likely to be getting up to some weird shit rather than just lazing around. But I also feel like the unemployed friend is frequently up to some random shit because there's a whole pile of miscellaneous life tasks that full-time employment keeps people from. The unemployed friend is helping their cousin move, or babysitting, or checking in with a neighbor with mobility issues. The unemployed friend is a walking thesis on the inflexibility of our current labor landscape and just how much work exists outside of work.

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One of the (many) things that so many of the very angy Jason Todd stans get very wrong about him IS for sure who he could “take” in a fight, but also not for the same reasons you’d think. Like, it isn’t “Cassandra would kick his ass/win because she’s better” it’s “Jason is smart enough to not even try her, and feels zero amounts of shame in running from any fight he knows he can’t win.”

That guy will Leave, dude. He ain’t embarrassed. He doesn’t have anything to prove against her. He’s not concerned about his macho image or his fighting prowess or anything like that. He’ll run from a bigger predator because he’s smart and he’s a survivor.

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The curtains were blue because everything in the room was carefully colour coordinated, reinforcing the character’s stylish and controlled characterisation. The curtains were blue because everything in the room was a different colour, reinforcing the character’s eclectic and globe-trotting personality. The curtains were blue because the character is elsewhere established to hate the colour blue, subtextually implying that their deceased spouse was responsible for that decoration choice.

The curtains were blue because throughout their filmography the director consistently uses cool tones to mark moments of distance between characters. The curtains were blue to tie the events in that room into the broader oceanic motif of this particular novel. The curtains were blue because the assonance evoked a contrast with the following stanza of the poem.

Even the curtains looked expensive: floor to ceiling velvet drapes, in a flawless royal blue. She tucked the saucer up on the windowsill and tied back faded blue curtains with a loop of string. The narrow blinds were the same navy blue as the pinstripe suit of the man who served eviction notice that sent them to this office.

The curtains were blue because the author’s childhood home had blue curtains, which they discussed in their letters related to their feelings of comfort in that place. The curtains were blue because the author’s childhood home had blue curtains, which they discussed in their letters related to their feelings of grief in that place.

The curtains were blue as an allusion to the contemporary joke about literary criticism, an extension of the author’s autocritical approach that will be further discussed in section seven.

The curtains were red, as a pun on;

The curtains were read.

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i actually need to know people's thoughts on this because at least in my experience the answer to this has drastically changed since i was on tumblr in the 2010s and its driving me fucking insane

*im talking about fandom takes specifically. not someone being horribly evil about a real-life issue or or blatantly factually incorrect. literally just harmless fandom disagreements or differing interpretations of a text/character/etc.

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*looks at books* too tired for you *looks at films* too tired for you *looks at art supplies* too tired for you *eyes fall on tumblr* oho ho

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not to sound like a medieval peasant or a catholic but i resent anti-carb propaganda so much like bread will never be evil it is holy it is divine it is one of life’s most simple yet decadent pleasures. love is stored in the bread

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My hobbies include reading, writing and doing neither of those things

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