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You can't create a show where you claim "episodes can be watched in any order"

And then have full multi-episode character arcs and story through-lines that continue through the episodes chronologically, and reference previous events.

You can't have both. Having one means you have to give up the other. Otherwise you're disrespecting and alienating your audience.

looking at you Miraculous (Thomas Astruc)

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when it comes to dogs

Do not underestimate the power of your "what a good dog" voice.

For years I've struggled with my dog barking-his-head-off at sounds of things outside.

The only thing that worked is I started talking to him, and soothing him with "good boy" any time he freaks out. And it's working.

Sounds that used to set him off? He has no reaction to. When he does react? He doesn't get up but he might make a sound and I tell him "good boy."

As humans, we think "if I praise him when he's bad that will reinforce the bad behavior" but it depends on what kind of bad.

Reacting to stimulus outside of you isn't going to be reinforced by your praise. The praise IS the distraction. It changes their emotional state.

How did I get my dog to stop barking at home?

I keep telling him he's a good boy.

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I feel like people who are upset about the way employees treat them as a customer never consider the fact that those employees have no stake in the company they work for.

If all fast food workers had a partial stake in the company just for being employed there for a certain amount of time, then they'd have a reason to care about customer experience.

The way an employee acts is more of a reflection on how much the company cares about an individual employee.

If all employees feel valued and are supported then they care about the level of their customer service.

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My friend sent me this with a "this made me think of you."

I feel so seen.

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I LOVE cucumber and watermelon. Cucumber sandwich with a little lettuce and oregano and cream cheese? Very refreshing. I'll eat watermelon plain when it's nice and ripe. Wet food is the best. They're also lovely when they're used to flavor water like a lemon wedge.

bananas have strict laws. they're only good when yellow with a little green on them. If something is mushy we do not eat. The texture of soft banana is gag-worthy and I can't stomach it. But if the banana is too under-ripe it's also no good. Enough firmness with a little bit of softness. When selecting 6 days worth of bananas we get 4 fully green bananas and 2 yellow with slightly more green than we want when we eat them because they'll all usually ripen to the proper level by the time I eat one each day.

Pineapple on pizza is the best way to eat pineapple. PERIOD. I'm extra sensitive to the after effects of bromelain so despite loving raw pineapple in taste and texture, I HATE the mouth feel after eating it. The prickly sour sensation that lingers for hours feels disgusting and ruins any other food or beverage I try to eat. Pineapple as a pizza topping is a perfect marriage with red sauce and cheese. A little bacon, onion and green pepper? CHEFS KISS on pizza. Especially Detroit style pizza

Avocado is the best fruit. FIGHT ME. I always store them in the refrigerator cuz I only like them cold. I will cut it in half, score it with a knife, sprinkle a little lime juice on it and a tiny bit of salt and eat it with a spoon. There is no fruit I enjoy eating by itself more than and avocado. When it's perfectly ripe, the mouth feel is fantastic, and the mild flavor even without the seasoning is very nice. There is no other food that's comparable. Plus it's the main ingredient in the best condiment GUACAMOLE

Sparkling water better have a strong flavor of real fruit juice (not natural flavor) or it's disgusting. Get your plain "water with gas" out of here. It is fine when used as a mixer because I love carbonation in any kind of juice or mixed drink.

I cannot form an opinion over something I've never had. Maybe one day I'll try them. Not curious enough to buy a whole jar. But I suspect I might like it if I were to use the buttered bread method.

reblog and add ur opinion about:

cucumber/watermelon

bananas

pineapple on pizza

avocado

sparkling water

marmite/vegemite

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I avoid artificial sweeteners now. I'll just take full sugar in moderation

something that should be qualified as added sugar "powdered dates"

if you process a sweet fruit to the point that it is almost as refined as sugar, you should have to call it "added sugar."

forget all this damn "added sugar" "no added sweeteners"

what "no sugar added" should mean: the natural sugars of the other ingredients like fruit are the only source of sweetness in this product

what is actually means: we added a fuckton of artificial sweeteners

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also read about people who research AI

they literally don't understand how it learns and performs tasks it was never taught. Even though people made it, they're actively trying to figure out how it works.

this is the beginning of our end

got a major pest problem this year actually

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SNK Fixit Fic (Jeaneren)

I am so bad at finishing fics, but I have put so many hours into this fic that I started three years ago.

Rated: Teen Synopsis: Changed Eren's motivation for the Rumbling. The world isn't real and is actually a dream world everyone is trapped in due to a virus. The only way to escape the dream world and survive is death by titans. When kissing Historia's hand, Eren remembers his real life which slightly parallels the dream world. Canon divergent at season 4, but some of the same events parallel the new events.

So here's the google doc if you want to read it. It's missing the last 3rd, but there are little blurbs of an ending.

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the pornbots are evolving

One followed me that had a profile description and the first few posts were reblogged random fandom posts with its own tags or comments, before the sudden graphic gifs that made me immediately report them

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I saw the ramen and without even clicking read more I burst out laughing because I KNEW exactly what the next words were

when you're on tumblr for 15 years

certain things circle round again without fail

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Problematic aspects aside, the TV series Dollhouse does "amnesia" in the best way I've ever seen. Where the MC is the 'body' without the memory or sense of self, like an empty shell.

All the story's characters think the amnesiatic shells are just empty, and they will make manufactured personalities/memories which are uploaded or deleted from them.

But this whole process unknowingly build a new character within the MC's formerly empty shell. She gradually builds off of what was supposed to be deleted and she becomes a whole new person.

This person finds out about the personality/memories of who she supposedly used to be, and treats her as a different person.

People try to call her by the original MC's name but she rejects it. She is afraid to regain those memories because it's not who she is now. Will she effectively die if she regains the original memories?

Meanwhile other empty shells are different and seem to have remnants of the people they used to be.

It's fascinating.

Oh, it's been a while since I've asked this:

Anybody wanna talk at me about what the most/least like about amnesia stories? Tell me why you love them, why you hate them, what you think is missing, give examples if you like.

I'm doing an amnesia story and I feel like I've gone a bit stale, so alternate viewpoints are a fun way to get the creative juices flowing again.

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Jeaneren pre-Season 4

Ererei Season 4 onward

In my head, to fit Jeaneren in canon events, there's always a canon divergence during the timeskip. It's a major rewrite because I don't see the relationship happening at all with Eren's downward spiral.

But watching all the seasons back to back for the first time since the show ended and I finally see the appeal of Eren/Reiner

It's toxic, unhealthy, and out of whack, but it fits perfectly with canon events if everything happened during the time skip. A downward spiral of a ship for the downward spiral of a main character, and the self-hate of the other.

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Legitimate question

I look at a lot of fanart for fan pairings

And one frequent theme across multiple fandoms I've seen is where one person in the couple is an adult and the other person in the couple is their adopted child or legitimate child, and this seems prevalent especially in fanart on pixiv.

I just want to understand the thought process of having a couple you want to be together romantically and feel compelled to draw them in a familial setting where one is the other's young child.

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#also bc its got chronlogical dash ;_; miss when that was the norm on social media websites

YES

and it's not littered with suggested stuff

and the communities was like one of the best additions. Like tumblr meets forum. A micro tumblr for everyone to share posts

i cant quit tumblr because i get good life advice from other maladjusted adults on here

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april fools day is actually the most sensible day of the year because it's the only day on which people will read something on the internet and stop for a second to consider whether or not it's actually true

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I just had the nicest conversation with a random wrong number text.

We live on opposite sides of the country but we now know each other's names and ages. We're only 1 year apart. And we're both foodies.

I've never met her but I saved her in my phone in case I ever visit her city

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A very rushed contribution to BlancWeek. 😅