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The other thing about rage as an addiction is that it likes to cloak itself in feelings of righteousness. Like, yeah, there’s the stereotypical white male gamebro who needs to invent/buy into elaborate conspiracy theories about how Cultural Marxist SJWs are trying to replace the white race by doing an all-female Ghostbusters remake or whatever in order to justify the amount of time and energy that they put into hating it; or the Twitter dogpiler who needs to conflate “having bad opinions about cartoon series” with “being a pedophile” so that they don’t feel like a bully; but there’s also self-abusing by looking up hateful, bigoted opinions that pertain specifically to people like you so that you can sputter and rage and feel attacked and reinforce your sense of identity because look at the assholes who are attacking you!

What you need is a sort of cutoff frequency in your own brain; just little voice that says, “That’s irrelevant; move on.”

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truly the end goal is not "my close friends aren't annoyed by me and it's all in my head, they're my friends and they love me", it's "sometimes I do annoy my close friends, just as the people I love most will also annoy me sometimes, because this is normal, and we will continue to stay friends, and they're not going to want to immediately cut me out of their life if I do something annoying once in a while"

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i forgot how many people think piracy is extremely amoral. i guess propaganda works wonders. anyway pirate more

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*hitting you with a stick* no benoit blanc movies should not interact. they should not lead up to something. you need to detox from the marvel/sherlock bbc poisoning. they should be completely independent movies (maybe w some cameos/little references for fun) and go on for as long as there are stories rian johnson wants to tell in this universe. i do not want an overarching plot i do not want a team up i dont want a benoit-focused prequel i want some good old fashioned episodic murder mysteries that have nothing to do with each other!!!!!!!!!!! also rian johnson has literally said he's not gonna do a prequel and he wants the movies to all stand on their own

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This explains so much about why 20 somethings are just unable to read to any level of complexity beyond a tweet. The miserable failure of US pedagogy

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okay tumblr’s exclusion from the twitter social media ban list is hilarious but genuinely we do not belong on there. if a real human person asks “where can i find you on social media” and your choice is a swift death or revealing your tumblr, most of us would simply expire. half of y’all change urls every week like you’re in witness protection. just imagine for one second attaching your wholeass government name to your latest two am clownposting and tell me that didn’t send a cold chill down your spine. the only place i ever want to see the words “connect with me on tumblr!” is on the ao3 profile of an author i’m actively stalking. anyone in the world can follow me except anyone i personally know. antisocial media.

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yoongi is always in awe of how grown up jungkook is 🥺 for @kimtaegis​ ♡

bonus:

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HEARTBREAKING: piece of media got incredibly popular and a lot of annoying people started hyping it up and recommending it so you avoided it on principle and you finally checked it out and it's actually very good

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I deleted all social media apps from my phone a while ago and it’s so funny to me how they try to make you reinstall the app. Like, I sometimes will open youtube on my phone in a browser to look up a recipe and youtube tries to make the experience so shitty that I would download the app, but joke’s on them, it just makes me use youtube even less.

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being alone all the time feels fine until you have a normal conversation with someone then its like ohhhh i was losing my mind ok.

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Tips on how to curate a good fandom experience?

get some gross sicko pals to be a gross sicko with. having at least one or two who you can be a hater with too is a must. helps you save face from airing your grieviances in public. and honestly nothing more satisfying that sending some stupid shit into the group chat being like “lmao u seeing this???”.

stay away from anybody who acts like fandom is serious business/activism

never feel like you need to justify your likes/dislikes to some dumb cunt on the internet

something making you uncomfortable isn’t the end of the world & often it’s actually quite good to examine your own discomfort/disgust and what it stems from. builds character.

block/mute/unfollow at the drop of a hat

make sure to cultivate your interests outside of fandom and read things other than fic, this one, i’d say, is ESSENTIAL

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Suchwita, ep. 1 w/ RM

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my alcoholic friends talking to me like I never had a drop of alcohol in my entire life and never had to go through the trials and tribulations of quitting. bitch weren’t you the one who had to come get me from under the bridge in vesnyanka back in 2014 when i smoked too much pot after going to that one horrible ass bar with mad 2for1 cocktail deals, because two taxi drivers in a row refused to let me in after I puked on their cars? 

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tencent: yeah we’re developing faceID AI algorithms to identify people in protests and riots

everyone: jesus that sucks

tencent: also here’s an AI art generator that can turn your selfies into anime!

everyone, apparently: fuck yeah let me get in on that

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i want a shirt that has a QR code on it for some kind of horrible malware so that if anyone ever tries to film me in public their phone will automatically scan the code and be reduced to a functionless brick