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Hieee if you don't mind answering how's the reentry coming? I found your account and would be interested in maybe talking but I just wanna know a little more about you to make sure we don't have bad fandom overlap or sumn. No pressure I'm just curious!

I should probably answer this w clarification nd stuff. Turns out! I was not a Mizuki fictionkin! I simply hyperfixated on a character so hard that I believed I was them. This is common dw about it-

Sorry for anyone this may disappoint and I hope u find sourcemates soon <33

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anyway love watching iron lung [the markiplier playthrough] because i'm a dumbass who doesn't understand how co-ordinates work

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anyway love watching iron lung [the markiplier playthrough] because i'm a dumbass who doesn't understand how co-ordinates work

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anyway love watching iron lung [the markiplier playthrough] because i'm a dumbass who doesn't understand how co-ordinates work

[akiyamaamia]

anyway love watching iron lung [the markiplier playthrough] because i'm a dumbass who doesn't understand how co-ordinates work

[akiyamaamia]

anyway love watching iron lung [the markiplier playthrough] because i'm a dumbass who doesn't understand how co-ordinates work

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anyway love watching iron lung [the markiplier playthrough] because i'm a dumbass who doesn't understand how co-ordinates work

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Wait, why is “The Dodo” bad?

I got quite a few questions and responses about why the online brand / website / Facebook page “The Dodo” shouldn’t be supported. Here’s a quick rundown:

Misguided Anti-Captivity. They are often blatantly anti-captivity, or use anti-captivity language and/or promote anti-captivity views. They use language such as an animal is “trapped” in a zoo or an animal was “saved” from a zoo. They actively support and often get quotes from representatives from ZooCheck, an anti-zoo and anti-captivity organization, and support HSUS (Humane Society of the United States). Their reports on tragedies of animals being injured or dying at zoos are overwhelmingly full of blame, toxicity, and disrespect. Their ideas of anti-captivity are incredibly limited and misguided – they are often pro “sanctuary” with the idea that all sanctuaries are better and they rarely discuss any kind of conservation.

Anthropomorphism over Accuracy. They are wildly, ridiculously, inaccurately anthropomorphic. For example, a picture of a bear leaned against a wall is captioned as: “He looks desperate, depressed, despondent. He stares up, seeming to search for a way out.” They described an owl resting on someone’s shoulder as “missing the man who saved her so much she couldn’t stop hugging him.” A kitten “looks at his rescuers face to be reassured everything is okay.  One of their most recent articles is about a cow “shedding tears” and crying because it is sad. Overall, they are much more concerned with ‘tugging on heartstrings’ of animal lovers than with being accurate about animal behavior. 

Unsafe Animal Interactions and Inappropriate Pets. Despite being anti-captivity when it comes to zoos specifically, they have often published videos of exotic pets and/or inappropriate free contact with wild/dangerous animals. 

Lack of Primary Sources and Information. They often lack any resources to accurate information about their “news”. Recently they made a 45-second video which claimed that basically any elephant on display (from a Ringling Circus to a rural south Asian performance) was automatically and certainly being abused and tortured. There were no sources or proof to back this up, no resources to explore, nothing. They rarely have any kind of scientist or animal care worker as a source for any video or article, just activists. 

Stealing and Editing Videos. You’ll notice almost every video on their site is made by them and hosted there, not shared from somewhere else. They take videos from other sources, add music and text, and call it their own. They almost never link to the original source. 

Overall, “The Dodo” is not a news site. It’s a brand. It’s a website designed to get views and make money - it will do anything just to get those clicks. But it tries to sell itself as news, and therein lies the issue. They use strong language, buzzwords, and clickbait titles in order to push a vague, biased agenda that hurts those of us who work in zoos and other animal facilities.

Here is another strong, detailed breakdown of some of their common practices written by Why Animals Do the Thing

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skinny ppl learn to shut the fuck up when the conversation isn't about you challenge

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people when trauma victims act traumatized especially in a way that is unpalatable to them because it involves lashing out and unpredictable moods and having boundary issues rather than just being demure, sad, and consumable

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holy shit watch this until the end for a wild easter egg. not gonna spoil it and not sure when this aired but wow

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Biologists: so this person has XY chromosomes and some indication of past masculinization, but is clearly medically and biologically female in many other ways, resulting in dominantly female physiology that is represented in numerous ways

Some guy: see, you drooling liberal cuck? Biology says you're either XX or XY and there's only two genders 😎

Archeologist: so this person has a bone structure that generally overlaps with male metrics, but is placed with artifacts, clothing, and burial implements consistent with women, indicating that they were a woman within the society they lived in.

Some guy: see, you drooling liberal cuck? When archeologists dig up your bones they'll say you're a man 😎

Historian: so the modern language and connotations we associate with transgender individuals was really only solidified in the 20th century due to major prejudice and setbacks. Before that, there were many instances across largely independent cultures of what we would call both transgender people and gender nonconforming cis people, often as separate concepts. The language used to identify them is often messy, however, and has been permanently altered by the way we interpreted and translated it in our own society.

Some guy: see, you drooling liberal cuck? History says that this gender stuff is a modern millennial invention that just popped out of nowhere 😎

Psychologists: trans people are at much higher danger of mental illness due to the combined stress of dysphoria and the constant barrage of transphobia present in our society. They should have access to mental healthcare as a result.

Some guy: see, you drooling liberal cuck? Psychology says that these gender people are just mentally ill 😎

Doctors: so while HRT does have some side effects, they are extremely minor, especially compared to similar medicine. The regret rate for it is less than 1%, lower than even some physically life saving medical treatments.

Some guy: see, you drooling liberal cuck? This medicine is poisoning our kids with vile side effects and there are people who regret it 😎

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you're a stupid fucking anti-sjw lol. This blog is stupid. I hate you crackers white people SUCK go suck a dick.

looks like I triggered more sjws. Keep sending these asks they only fuel my logic. 

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it's like meeting a celebrity

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I hope he sues for libel.

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the fact that pro-monarchy arguments have degenerated, over the past few centuries, from “the king rules by divine right and is accountable to nobody but god”, to “uhm the royals generate a lot of income from tourism” will never stop being extremely funny to me