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it’s honestly crazy that like. in theory literary icon jean valjean would do crazy numbers on tumblr, fanfics, etc. he’s a dad. he’s canonically hot and ripped. he has a tragic backstory and self esteem issues. he’s got nuclear levels of catholic guilt. he’s even unmarried so you can old man yaoify him to your heart’s content. man was built in the blorbo factory. but the book he’s in happens to have 20 college age twinks and the musical film based on the book came out in 2012, creating the perfect storm of oncelerfication that defines the fandom at large to this very day. anyway they could never make me shut the fuck up about you jean valjean

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that oafish homie u keep around for his considerable physical strength and little else

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You have this post till midnight September 1st 2025, you may do whatever you like with it, but afterwards reblogs will be turned off

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*points at your girlfriend* you know that thing would summon you as a skeleton warrior if you died right?

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I believe this whole heartedly with my full chest

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I don’t care how long the wait was, silksongs development should be the INDUSTRY STANDARD.

Crunch culture needs to die.

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Increasingly grumpy at the lazy shorthand portrayal of misogynistic men as members of the He-Man Woman-Hater's Club.

Yeah, people like that suck, but they don't have nearly as big of an impact on your life as your boss, who is lovely and charming and genuinely likes you but gives all the good projects to male staff for reasons he probably isn't even aware of.

Or your advisor who is awesome and helpful and also genuinely likes you, but says things like "Don't worry your pretty little head about it," and writes more effusive recommendation letters for your male colleagues.

Or your dad, who loves you and your mother very much, but still thinks you'd be happier at home with the kids instead of gallivanting around with a fancy-pants job all day.

People are messy. Good people swallow some shitty social norms. Misogyny isn't limited to incels.

I am cranky, I'll see myself out.

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PSA: if you want to describe a story as a 'Romeo and Juliet' story, please do make sure that the two houses are alike in dignity.

The original reasons the two houses hate each other - if there ever were any - are otherwise left unspecified, but the one thing that gets made clear right at the start is that those reasons are not socioeconomic differences. Please consider alternative cultural references to describe a forbidden romance between people of different socioeconomic status. There are a whole bunch of those too.

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the thing that bothers me with 7 deadly sin based characters is when they cant decide if they embody the sin by suffering from it or by drawing it out of others. ie. if your gluttony demon is a guy who loves eating then your lust demon should be a gooner sex pest. and if your lust demon is a seductive girlboss then your gluttony demon should be a 5 star chef. does this make sense.

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Something I always find really fascinating about like...any fantasy story or fanfiction which is at least somewhat historical (like basically anything pre-19th century) — is how OFTEN people talk about clothes not fitting by a little bit and therefore needing to buy completely new clothes that fit.

Stories will tell us: "oh they lost/gained a little weight and need to buy new clothes." Or in the same vein, "she just found out she was pregnant and didn't want people to know just yet so she bought new clothes." Or "suddenly none of his clothes fit so he had to buy all new ones." Or "they grew taller so they needed new clothes."

And it's like. Oh! Okay! So you don't know how clothing works before the invention of sewing machines. Like. At all! You don't know what large seam allowances or like, fasten/wrap to fit clothing looks like. You are not aware of like, loom width measurements being a factor here.

No one is going around buying brand new clothes simply because they grew an inch somewhere when everything they own can be taken out at the seams first, extended or modified with extra fabric second, and possibly even just tied less tightly as a third because the clothing style is actually just "giant rectangles with ties or belts."

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A professor gave us an extra credit option: take a picture of yourself outside, doing something that you would not usually do. We were told not to take it too seriously. Here is my entry:

I maintain that sticking my head in the mailbox is not something I do on a regular basis.

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I saw a poll going around about "Do you think it's a good idea for 18 year olds to get married, yes or no, no nuance" and idk I have some thoughts about that lately. (creating my own post because I don't want to bother the op, no one bother the op)

Do I personally think it's a good idea for 18yr olds to get married? No. I think at that age you're pretty young to get married and your choice in partner is not likely to be great. Maybe you only just met your spouse (and thus don't know them that well). Maybe you were high school sweethearts and while you know what your spouse is like while they're going through those years, you don't know what they're going to be like after college or after joining the workforce, and those years can be crazy formative. Maybe, though I hope not, you're marrying someone that your parents picked out for you or otherwise arranged, in which case there's a lot wrong (and you should have protections from familial abuse).

However. I also don't think that there should be any restrictions on 18yr olds getting married. At 18 you are a legal adult (in the majority of countries) and thus you have the right to make even the stupidest of decisions about what happens to you and your body. You can get regrettable tattoos. You can wreck your lungs smoking. You can go into debt buying the world's most expensive car. You should be able to chose to marry your dumb high school sweetheart and you should also be able to chose to divorce them a year later.

I feel as though there's this growing sentiment of "well sure this person is technically an adult, but they're still *young* so they should be protected from making bad choices" and that's. Hm. Young or mentally young or emotionally mature is something that people seem to have a difficult time defining on a level that can actually be logistically enforced or implemented. And we see these days what can happen when people *do* try to implement "but you're so yooooung (and dumb)" policies like what's happening with trans people where "legal adult" is still too young to transition so maybe 25 is the new limit at which you can transition but blah-blah debunked science about brain development so maybe the new limit should be 30 - " etc etc.

At 18, as a legal adult, you should have the freedom to make the decision to get married. You should have the freedom to make any dumb, regrettable, poorly thought out decision that you want, and you should have the freedom of an adult to either reap the rewards or suffer the consequences of your decisions. That's life, baby. Your hand cannot and should not be held forever until some arbitrary time at which some random person thinks you're "old enough". We have an obligation to respect people's rights to make choices that we think are bad. We have an obligation to respect people's rights to do things that they can't take back because we think a hypothetical future version of them could regret it.

We have an obligation to treat adults as adults.

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Shitty things about being isekaied #34; every time I use the restroom I automatically reach for my phone I left in my jacket pocket back on earth, and my hand goes exactly where I keep my knives on my belt, so I always walk out of the john with a fresh hand wound

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Money fucking sucks. It distorts everything: relationships, decisions, timelines, who gets to feel safe and who doesn’t. It turns something like “home” into a math problem. That’s brutal, and unfair, and I hate it so much.

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ultimately the best way to prevent abuse is to organize society in such a way that everyone's needs are met wothout having to rely on a parent or employer or boyfriend or any one individual. obviously wont stop, like, manipulation or so on, but the ability to dangle basic needs over someone's head is one of the most powerful and consistant tools of abuse out there. if someone is able to just leave, and know that they will have access to food and shelter and clean water and education, that will enable so, so mamy victims of abuse to do just that.

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method actor this method actor that. toshiro mifune played a guy getting shot at by arrows by getting shot at by arrows

and yeah i believe it. ^ this is the face of a guy getting shot at by arrows