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I wish I could live here irl…

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So my monitor just crashed and I lost the entirety of the little farmhouse I was building ☹️

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One day I woke up and found out that The Sims x Super Smash Bros was now a thing, the game would generate a random sim for people to play as every time, and the Final Smash Move was to Woohoo.

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Reblog to make it die faster

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tumblr users complaining about tumblr

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current wip: hoarder’s house

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Meet the Queen of Clubs, the bisexual pride knight! Her armor is engraved with floral designs and in her hands she wields a powerful magic sword made from petals! ♣️⚔️ The Pride Knights Playing Cards, art prints and uncut sheets are now available for pre-order here: prideknights.com ⚔️🌈

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Love how by late game in stardew valley you can cast spells and teleport and change the weather and talk to animals and commune with spirits and dwarves and shadow entities but the only person who even acknowledges that you aren't a normal farmer and you've literally become a wizard is the one other wizard in town

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Hey @staff if I snooze tumblr live, I definitely want to snooze forever, not just 7 days. It’s ridiculous that I have to go into my settings and retoggle every week for this stupid feature no one asked for.

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“I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”

— Nicholson Baker

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Today is Election Day in the US. 🗳

My reach is small—and my influence essentially nonexistent—but it still feels important to say something, especially knowing how important the midterms are this year.

Turnout of voters aged 18–29 is on the rise—51% voted in 2020, compared to just 39% in 2016—which is fucking amazing. But, even at 51% turnout, young voters still have the lowest turnout of any age bracket. And turnout always drops for midterms, something we cannot afford to have happen as our hairline majority in the senate hangs in the balance. Maintaining and growing that majority is our best chance at protecting reproductive freedom, LGBTQIA+ rights, expanding gun reform, etc. 

I’ve seen a tweet making the rounds about how voting isn’t a valentine to a candidate you love and support 100%, but rather a chess move toward the world you want to live in. And I might not be a chess player but I think that’s a pretty damn good way of putting it. The platform of the particular Democrat candidate(s) on your ballot today likely does not perfectly reflect your ideals. But, pragmatically speaking, a vote for them is a vote against a Republican (whom I hope I can safely assume, dear mutual, reflects none of your values). A vote for them is—at minimum—a vote to hold the line of crumbling democracy against the terrifying slide into christofascism, and at best, may actually pleasantly surprise us all and lead to something positive. I never would have imagined Biden passing student loan forgiveness when I voted for him, and yet, here we are! 

Of course, there is so much room under the sun for critiques of the two party system, corrupt politicians, Citizens United, the electoral college, etc, etc, etc, and unfortunately there will always be those who insist that voting “doesn’t matter,” or in some way makes you complicit in upholding an imperfect system. But I truly and firmly believe that it’s not either/or, it’s “yes and.” Gerrymandering and voter suppression wouldn’t be a thing if voting didn’t have power. And abstaining from voting is about as effective politically as abstinence-only birth control. If you have the ability to vote, please, please make it a priority today. 🥲🇺🇸 

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Coming out of Lurker's Hideaway(tm) to reblog a well researched and lovingly presented documentary about a disaster you've never heard of, that killed more people than the Titanic, and has been unfairly hit with a shadow ban for no reason whatsoever. Go ahead and give it a watch to support Caitlin and her team that have been working on this tirelessly for months.

Now back to my regularly scheduled lurking *mwah*

So apparently Ask a Mortician has gotten told this video “violates community guidelines” for showing “non-graphic dead bodies without educational intent,” “excessive law enforcement without educational intent,” and “blood and gore.” (Spoiler: none of those things happened.)

It’s a documentary on a disaster you may never have heard of, the USS Eastland. It’s done with incredible quality, research, and heart, and it’s all but been delisted. YouTube is refusing to give answers as to why. (I have my suspicions, which are “she came down pretty hard on a shitty corporation in this video and it hit just a liiiiittle close to home.”)

Caitlin has asked that if viewers enjoyed the documentary or found it helpful, we share it directly with others. So I am here. Y’all know how important history is to me.

Make this important to you too.

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Being ephemeral scares me because it dulls my feelings and makes me wander in madness. Art by AnastasiaTrusova linktree

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So...how’s everyone doing?