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I get my media recommendations the old fashioned way: by watching someone I follow on here go on an unhinged reblog spree of media related content until I eventually decide to go "alright, what's all this then"

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Proposing a new tumblr filter where you get to ritually burn instead of drown pictures. Some posts deserve this it must be said.

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Marilyn Monroe ! Shen Qingqiu <3

Behold! Tis done

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oh cool im sure that makes for really good performances

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an interesting linguistics find! so I'm reading this text from 1908 and it keeps referencing "hp" in the context of "not being at full hp" "applying your full hp to a task" etc

and I'm like....... okay that is a perfectly normal way to describe energy and reads totally clear to me, but I KNOW you don't mean hit points/health points which is the first place my brain goes, so what are YOU using hp to mean

and it's not explained in-text, which means it was common enough to not warrant explanation to the 1908 audience, so gotta look elsewhere

horsepower. turns out it's horsepower.

and I'm absolutely FASCINATED that a commonly used initialism from 1908 now stands for something different AND YET the contextual meaning is still the same to a 21st-century reader

I could hand this guy my nintendo switch and he'd be like, ah yes I understand, this ''''pokemon'''' loses horsepower throughout the fight

language is amazing

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okay I am begging people to understand that it is not "planned obsolescence" or "corporate greed" for manufacturers to stop selling things because genuinely better technologies become available. I just had someone arguing with me that they should be able to buy a new nickel-cadmium battery for their 25-year-old cordless vacuum. NiCd batteries were outlawed a decade ago for very good reasons. if you really want to have the same effect as using one you can just go out and shoot 10 people with Bullets That Give You Cancer and then rip out your own kidney

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AITA for panicking?

So I have a long standing crush on this absolutely perfect, divine, beautiful man that fate has cruelly been toying with for many years. He is everything to me and more, he is the reason why I am alive today and that is not an exaggeration.

I've recently reunited with him after a very long time and things have been going very well between us. We get along swimmingly, he seems just as drawn to me as I am to him - but something happened last night that I think set us back quite a lot and I don't know how to make up for it.

We were hanging out together, everything was going well as usual, we were sat in a beautiful carriage led by four skeletons - you know, the whole nine yards.

He looked gorgeous in the dim light and he was so close, all my feelings for him came crashing down on me, all the years of longing and devotion and love - and I just couldn't help asking, "Gege, will you marry me?"

I didn't realize I blurted that out! It was in my head and meant to stay there! Of course it was too early to ask that!! But it simply came out of me before I could stop it - and he looked shocked.

I figured he would have probably said no and refused to ever see me again (after all, what creep just asks that kind of thing out of nowhere?!) and I immediately followed up with a laugh and said it was just a joke.

He got kind of quiet and seemed off the rest of the night. I didn't know how to explain the truth to him and I felt horrible and ridiculous for even opening my mouth in the first place so I left it at that.

So AITA for panicking and telling the man I'm in love with that I was just joking when I proposed?

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ever since i was a little girl i wanted to be a man with a homoerotic years long incredibly intense friendship with another man

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the resurrection (2025) by ben tuna (via ig)

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Watch Me Struggle Online For Free

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hyperfixation please stay with me long enough to complete the project. hyperfixation do not fade. hyperfixation finish what you started for the love of god

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im going to learn embroidery weaving pottery oil painting hagiography miniature crafting fiddle arabic mandarin spanish perfect french and im going to do it all within the next six months.this is true and incredibly possible and doable and i will do it all

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"exercise will give you more energy" gets said a lot as a common piece of health advice but I think it needs to be expanded into "exercising will make you tired while you do it, and you will continue to be tired immediately afterwards, sometimes even the next day too, but over months of consistent exercise, your muscles will get stronger and therefore get less tired out by everyday activities, making you feel like day-to-day life takes less physical energy than it used to"

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I love a woman with a loud ass laugh. I love a cackle. I love a guffaw. Love when a bitch laughs so hard it scares the dog. Be unapologetic in your joy.