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Are you real?

Interesting question. I try to be. Obviously there's a limit to how much of my real self I can comfortably share with strangers online, but I try to be as real as I can be here.

To be honest it's not for the benefit of any audience, as much as it's a kind of self-preservation. Fame of any level is poison to the soul and you have to fight against its effects even when you're only niche-internet famous. People who think you're famous treat you as both more important and less of a person: they treat you like you're incredibly special, but also like you're public property, acting towards you in ways they'd never do to someone they consider "real".

I try not to moan about it too much, as we all do it - it's just part of how our culture conceptualises fame. I do it about people I think of as famous, treating them like they're unreal. But the danger is that if you're not careful you can internalise it and start thinking of yourself as a famous person. And when you start to see yourself as unreal in that way, it kind of drives you mad, and can turn you into a real asshole.

There's no minimum fame level for it to happen, either. I've seen previously lovely people get a hundred fans, decide they're a big deal, and turn into huge dickheads.

The only antidote to the poison I've found is to do your best to stay real, and it's one of the reasons I try to be offline more than I used to, and spend most of my leisure time watching things I don't post about or hanging out with friends whose names none of you will ever know.

So yeah, I think I'm pretty real. I guess I see 'keeping it real' as a sort of spiritual survival strategy, and try to do so as much as possible.

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I think about the show The Society and how it was cancelled a lot

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you can’t kill yourself, the music is about to switch from 4/4 to 6/8. the clarinets are just about to come in bro you can’t miss that

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Easily the best bit in the trouble with tribbles is when Shatner just. Forgets for a moment that he should be holding the tribble like an actual animal and tucks it under his arm. Absolutely headlocks that little fucker. They just left that take in huh.

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they’re dumbasses, brent

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graphic ganseys i was compelled to collage

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You’ve heard of the Roaring 20s........

now get ready for the Screaming 20s - coming to a decade near you in 2020

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TODAY'S THE DAY

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it’s his season!!! that’s our main character!!!

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“I hope Will likes him back” is still the funniest inside joke this fandom has

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Hey. Look at me. Please leave yourself a note somewhere you'll see it later that says "it is going to take years if not decades to get the United States government to the level of functionality it had in November of 2024." If we elect a democrat in 2028, we are not going to be up and running by 2032.

Please make sure you have a reminder in your phone reminding you to not look at 2028/32/36 Democratic candidates and say "why are they not promising/delivering Cool Shit?" because you are going to understand that to get Cool Shit we must have competent people running a decently funded government, and we are not going to have that.

We are not getting UBI. We are not getting single payer healthcare. We are not getting free college or free preschool. We are not redistributing wealth on a large scale. We are not getting free internet. We are not getting ranked choice voting.

If we are lucky, we are going to get an IRS that can collect taxes, qualified schoolteachers, research grants, Social Security, and a government that thinks maybe it should be a priority for people around the worlds to not have AIDS, malaria or TB.

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Critical Role: [7/8] Mighty Nein members Fjord Stone

Magic's new to me; this sword is new to me. I didn't have most of this all of my life. All I had was my words to get out of situations, to try and heal conflict, to try and outsmart somebody. And now all of a sudden, I have this power; and I feel like it's a shortcut and I've been cheating myself. I don't feel like I've put forth the same effort to resolve something because I can just will something into happening. That doesn't seem right to me.

Art by Ariana Orner and Hannah Friederichs. Animation by Kami and Kevin Areopagita.

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i don't know how to describe it but since robert's come back they've just really leaned into him being so iconic. like the incredible lines he's come out with/his interactions with everyone and just his very presence creating such a whoha about everything. like he's a sugden. the sugden. and it's good that everyone knows that!

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Hot Beverage really feels like the foundation of society. Thank you to China for tea, Ethiopia for coffee, and Central America for chocolate.