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i want 60 thousand votes by next thursday

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going thru mood swings makes me feel like a sim its so embarrassing

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wait do those tin can phones really work?? I thought this was all a myth.

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Well as long as we’re talking about the ancient internet, who remembers this.

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I still remember the nurses who laughed at me after major spine surgery when I was walking around with my butt out because I didn't know to bring shorts to the hospital and wasn't allowed to double my gowns due to the incision location. I still remember the aid who told me that I smelled after days of being unable to move my limbs or get out of bed while sweating uncontrollably from spinal shock and agonizing pain. I sat and cried after that because I had overcome so much that hospital stay just to be dehumanized. Never did they ask if I wanted something to cover up or assistance bathing. Just laughed at me and joked with each other.

I also remember the nurse who checked on me extra during the night with a hospital stay in the middle of covid because they kicked my mom out and I have trauma about being in the hospital alone. She made extra visits to make sure I was okay just like she promised my mom. I remember the nurse who held my hand and called me honey as my limbs trashed and shook from spinal shock.

Basically being a good nurse and being a bad nurse to patients does stay with a person. It's been years and many other hospital stays since a lot of these instances and I still remember them clearly. I know nurses are burnt out, traumatized, and exhausted. Nurses deserve better treatment. But so do patients.

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So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)

Reblog to increase sample size!

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People are getting really really fascist about peaceful protesters and it’s getting scary lol

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Mythbusters is great because Adam Savage will be like “Could Sir Arthur have built a surface to air missile with Middle Ages technology? Probably not. Anyway here’s how to make a bomb.” And Jamie will be like “If all goes well this will not blow up instantly and kill us.” And the three other guys are trying to see if you could kill a person by throwing an egg really fast.

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“Lord Byron gets up at two. I get up, quite contrary to my usual custom … at 12. After breakfast we sit talking till six. From six to eight we gallop through the pine forest which divide Ravenna from the sea; we then come home and dine, and sit up gossiping till six in the morning. I don’t suppose this will kill me in a week or fortnight, but I shall not try it longer. Lord B.’s establishment consists, besides servants, of ten horses, eight enormous dogs, three monkeys, five cats, an eagle, a crow, and a falcon; and all these, except the horses, walk about the house, which every now and then resounds with their unarbitrated quarrels, as if they were the masters of it… . [P.S.] I find that my enumeration of the animals in this Circean Palace was defective … . I have just met on the grand staircase five peacocks, two guinea hens, and an Egyptian crane. I wonder who all these animals were before they were changed into these shapes.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley on the lifestyle of Lord Byron (via timemarauder)

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i dont “have ptsd” that’s all just the wizard’s curse

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its me boy im the seventh cool textile hobby you wanna pick up speaking to you inside your brain listen to me boy you DO have time for me you wanna do me so bad

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Okay so a surprising number of people followed after the Qwilfish story, so I’mma share more Pokemon stories

As briefly mentioned in the other story, my area growing up was particularly notorious for kids with R4 Flashcarts. Reason being, there was a store at a local mall that stocked them and operated for years before finally getting shut down.

To put it simply, they’re fake DS cartridges with an SD Card slot that you could play free games on. Sorta like an emulator, just slap a copy of the game on an SD card, pop it in and you’re good to go.

So basically half my school had them. They also kept their Save Data in files on the SD Card, so you could easily view them on a PC, and modify them with specially made programs. This is how my buddy made his Snorlax learn Explosion (and I’m also willing to bet he maxed the stats on all the fucking Qwilfish beyond levels they should normally be at) Anyways, I was a pretty big frequenter of the Serebii.net IRC chatroom, and was into trading pokemon online with other people by exchanging friend codes. It was basically a better version of the GTS. Naturally, legendaries were pretty sought after, Shinies were a very hot commodity, and event pokemon pretty much only ever traded for other event pokemon. So one day, one of my buddies comes up to me after having recently attended the qualifiers for one of the World Championships. Typically they hand out rare event pokemon during these. So the motherfucker brought TWO games with him, and he was actually able to get more than one Event Pokemon. The kicker? They were Shiny Milotics. And he gave the other one to me. I was over the fucking moon. I mean, what kid wouldn’t be? It’s a fucking MILOTIC. They’re already the $100 bills of the Pokemon world. Get one shiny, and you’ve got it made. Plus it’s an event Pokemon?? You couldn’t make me trade it for anything. And that line of thought gave me a dastardly idea. I put it on my R4, pulled the save data up on my laptop, duplicated 6 boxes worth of them, and went straight to the Serebii trade chatroom.

“Trading Event Shiny Milotic, LF Events”

My inbox lit the fuck up. Dozens of people wanted in on this. I got Deoxys, Jirachi, Shiny Ubers from Gen 4, you name it. People traded anything for these things. Everybody wanted one.

AND I FUCKING DELIVERED

I had 6 boxes of the fucker. I didn’t need to be picky about what I was receiving. I accepted them all. Shiny Zubat? Fuck it, sounds good to me. I remember running low at one point and duplicating even more of the guys just to make all the trades.

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Fast forwards to 2014, and I’m getting into competitive Pokemon in X and Y. Learning about how to raise and train a team, all that good shit. I haven’t touched my DS Lite in a long time, and even longer since I last played one of my Pokemon games. Low and behold, while looking into what was legal in the competitive world, I come across Pokecheck, a (now dead) website for checking pokemon legitimacy (among other things). Basically you connected your old DS to it, showed it your trainer profile, and it would grab all the data behind your pokemon and show it to you. (You could also just upload a pokemon file from the save editors). You could check IDs, hidden stats, even what the unique pokemon ID number was. It was so cool, it would even tell you how many other people uploaded that exact same pokemon to the database (which, would mean it was cloned). … and I suddenly remembered I have a file in my documents…

“… I gotta know…”

that’s just the number of them that people thought to check for legitimacy And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the story of how I flooded the market.

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Ways to poetically say "forever" if you're an elf

"Until the stars go out": classic from Cuiviénen, never lost its charm.

"When Laurelin frosts": rapid decrease in popularity for obvious reasons.

"While Telperion has leaves": rapid decrease in popularity for obvious reasons.

"Unto world's end": used once and very rarely thereafter.

"When the sun freezes": nothing quite like a reprise. Rapid decrease in popularity for obvious reasons.

"Until day comes again": popular in Angband, with varying sincerity.

"While Gil-Estel shines": If a fuckhuge winged dragon couldn't stop it from shining, what could?

"Until the last ship sets sail into the West": 95%+ of uses were by the guy building the dang ship.

"When Fëanor apologizes": What exactly he is apologizing for is sometimes included, but largely deemed unnecessary.

"When the world is mended": steadily increasing in popularity and decreasing in sincerity.

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guy who has chronic pain and fatigue: man why can't i do more stuff

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"objectively physically attractive but in possession of negative rizz" is one of my favorite character concepts. i think it's so great when there's an absurdly hot person who's just a complete fucking loser. the mood is unsalvageable the moment they open their mouth kind of deal. you get no bitches because you're so sucks.