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when i say my gender changes to the tune of the bit i mean a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do and if he can’t then god forbid women do anything

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nimble, a border collie-papillon mix, wins the 12” class in the 2024 masters agility championship. the first time a mixed breed has won at westminster ever.

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just saw this... omg what merch line is that/where did u find these?

It appears to be a Japanese pop up cafe with merch for Duel Monsters! They've done similar cafes not too long ago for Arc-V and GX.

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the thing worse than shipping a rare pair is having a wildly different vision of said rarepair than the 10 people that also like it

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"Haha I want the feel of tumblr in another community but I want them to be user-funded. Bleebus.shart seems like the answer but they won't let me upload files above 8 megs so..."

I am saying this so gently and with no condescension: no website with two braincells to rub together will allow you to upload 8 meg+ files without the cash outlay being offset by VC or data brokering. Nobody. If they say they are doing it, they are lying to you about how the website is funded or they have the budgeting skills of a 10-year-old.

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MY BOY-

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ICONIC

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Friend isn't having such a great time with the seasonal allergies for some strange reason.

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I love when a meme gets so many steps away from its source material that it would be completely incomprehensible if I didn't know what today's date was

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adding songs from musicals to character playlists is so stupid like yeah this works just ignore some of that really specific stuff

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To me the most fun part about fix-its is placing dominoes.

Tragedies often consist of and ecalating series of actions and circumstances that, in isolation, were not clearly leading to the tragic end but form a chain of cause-and-effect directly towards it in hindsight. In equal but opposite fashion, I love starting with small inoccuous changes to canon that in themselves do not obviously fix everything but start a new chain that leads to a better ending.

It's kind of impossible for fix-its to feel fully natural– the reader by definition knows what the original ending was and that this ending will be happier because the writer wants it to be– but it is possible for them to not feel contrived. A big deus-ex-machina, or a character breaking with their pre-established tragic flaws to suddenly make all the "correct" decisions almost always feels unsatisfying to me.

But a few carefully placed small domino pieces slowly knocking over bigger and bigger tiles until the entire story has radically changed? That's a lot more fun.

It recquires the author to both correctly identify the original chain of cause-and-effect and understand the characters well enough to know how they'd react to different circumstances. Because if the story feels like it's fixing the wrong problem or the characters don't act like themselves the magic is lost. But when it works? When it clicks and the reader sees the domino chain laid out in front of them? It's beautiful.

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*me, getting ready to hit you with a sick-ass keyboard smash*:

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What is the funniest pokemon move