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decentralize and clean up your life!!!

use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.

use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).

use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.

get rid of bloatware

use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite

use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.

use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.

use storygraph instead of goodreads.

use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions

use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.

use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp

make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge

use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google

use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)

use flashpoint to play archived online flash games

find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books

burn your music onto cds

use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe

use unroll.me to clean your email inboxes

use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail

remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X

remove bloatware on samsung X

use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta

use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.

feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3

last updated: march 18th 2025

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I literally heard myself wheeze at one point reading these. 😂

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*squinting into the fog* who goes there?! Willem Dafriend, or...

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some ds9 sketches, also Kira inspired by @pien-art's design 🧡

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she needs comfort to go back to sleep (33)

Don’t roast me for answering the same prompt twice bc this is different!!! MSR, IVF arc.

“Mm. Tell me about the house.”

Scully rubs her nose on Mulder’s sleeve. She’s rumpled and sleepy against him.

It had started with the hormone injections, which turned her stomach and kept her restless at night, feeling paradoxically distant from and beholden to her body. The waiting was difficult, both corporeally and not. It made her terribly anxious. Like Karen Koseff once suggested, she imagined her thoughts as the banner at the bottom of a newscast—Are you pregnant? Are you pregnant? Are you pregnant? Soon she got tired of reading.

So instead, every night, Mulder tells her about the house. Mulder with the warm arms and their smooth, hairless undersides. Mulder with the imagination.

“Which room tonight?”

She smiles, eyes closed. “Living room.”

He starts, slowly, to scratch her back. “The older kids have a soccer tournament this weekend,” he begins, speaking in the soft monotone that feels like a back scratch in itself. “They came in with their cleats on and tracked mud everywhere and you got mad.”

He feels her grin and gathers her closer. His bare foot cups her calf; she can feel his hairy legs, his slippery basketball shorts. “You decided you wanted beadboard all around the downstairs, and you wanted it to be blue. So this morning you woke up early and painted and it’s half done in this—teal color like your bathroom. Smells terrible.”

“Mm.”

“The baby’s asleep. We gave her pumpkin pie for lunch and she passed right out. You’re asleep, on the sofa. A big sectional. Under the skylight that we thought was too expensive but was definitely worth it.”

“There’s a skylight on the first floor?”

He pinches her, light and painlessly. “Excuse me, this is my story.”

She slides a cool hand under his t-shirt, against his hot skin. “More.”

“The dog’s been scratching at the floors, driving you crazy. Ruining the wood. But you can’t fault him. You love that guy. He’s your little buddy. And if you’re asleep on the couch, he’s right at your feet. You wake up every morning and he’s sharing your pillow.”

“I like that,” she whispers.

“It’s finally starting to get cold. I chopped a whole bunch of wood this morning with my big muscles—“

“Mm.”

“And I’m bringing it in, stacking it up. Gonna build you a toasty fire. When the kids go to bed we like to sit and watch the way the flames make the walls all soft and shadowy. The baby really likes that, too.”

“How’s she?”

“Eating better,” he assures. “She likes peas now.”

“What else?” Scully’s eyelids grow heavy. When she speaks, she slurs.

“I’m reading in the chair,” he continues. “Something good from your bookshelf. In an hour or so, I’ll go start dinner. It’s a Saturday. We’re gonna have chili, watch the game.”

“Where’re the kids now?”

“I told them to walk the dog.”

Scully yawns. “Can you tell me what they look like again?”

Now he grins. “Too tall, both of them. Freakishly tall, in fact.”

“I like that,” she mumbles.

“The boy looks like you. Your coloring. He has this… red hair that sticks up straight like mine and lots of freckles. Gap between his front teeth when he smiles, total bookworm, loves to gross out his sister. Worms, all that.”

Scully’s head drops, slack on Mulder’s shoulder. He starts to whisper.

“The girl’s way better at sports, though. Looks a little more like me. I mean, they’ve both got a nose, but her hair’s dark. She wears glasses. You tried to show her how to put contacts in but she doesn’t like how they feel. She’s sensitive and quiet and always right. She’s so beautiful, Scully. And they’re both difficult as hell. Argue all day but won’t go anywhere without the other—“

Scully snores.

He cups her head where it rests against him for a while, imagining.

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I got lazy

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Oh yeah there's a part 2 of the horse desensitizing that I love.

🐎: Hey what's with that tiny predator, the one you're hold- WOAH WHAT THE FUCK WHY IS IT UP SO HIGH

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Love the x files because half the episodes are just a guy getting murdered and Scully will say "ok he was shot twice in the chest," and the Mulder comes over and goes "actually he was killed by a pair of shapeshifting aliens that can take on the form of a bullet and have been known to kill people by shooting them in the chest. Here's an x file from 1935 on it." And then he's fucking right.

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you thought you'd seen the last of my x files studies huh?

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Hamster Escapes the Most Dangerous Prison Maze 🐹

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I don’t know if I posted this here yet so here you go. (loud audio warning?)

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Deanna Troi side profile and nose appreciation!!!

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or something

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started watching another 30 year old show

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The Hunger (1983)