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some people seem to think aotearoa new zealand is just fields and hills and grass. maybe some mountains. maybe a fjord or two. which is so fascinating to me because we have so many different biomes and landscapes it's bonkers.

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Splatoon universe garfielfd

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So, hyper-obssesing over The Summer Hikaru Died since getting a first taste from the anime, you should totally watch it. Reading the Manga while the anime comes out ep by ep and I can’t help but muse on the title and its implications when considered with the Horror genre tag this story sports.

The title can be interpreted in a few different ways. “The Summer Hikaru Died”.

The story takes place during the summer and we know from the start Hikaru died at the start of the year. The title is not saying the real Hikaru died in the summer. The title could be saying:

This summer Yoshiki confronted “Hikaru” about him not being real and thats when Yoshiki could start mourning Hikaru died. The old Hikaru in Yoshiki’s heart died this summer.

OR: a metaphorical interpretation. Hikaru can means Light or Radiance depending on kanji used. This could make the title read as: “The summer (the) light died”. This could be a metaphor for how many children loose hope when they grow up in this modern world. Or to extend it to encompass the queer theme in the story: the summer that I gave up on queer love, as Japan does not have the best queer rights at time of writing. These would be bleak interpretation but not terribly far fetched ones.

OR: This summer Hikaru died for good, the identity of Hikaru died this summer - this is making assumption about the ending of the manga. The Author, Mokumokuren, has stated this story is a coming of age story. Yoshiki is coming to grips with his friend’s death and the idea of the future is brought up repeatedly through out the story - what are the kids going to do once they’ve finished high school? With these factors in mind, I think the ending of this story is “Hikaru” ‘dying’ in some way and Yoshiki moving on with his life - moving away. This title interpretation: This is the summer Hikaru died, and how Yoshiki moved on. Not the happiest ending but horror doesn’t always have a happy ending. Ties in more with the coming of age angle Mokumokuren is telling - apart of growing up is dealing with the grief of loss, and part of grieving is moving on as much as you want to hold onto the past.

But I’m not Mokumokuren who will take the story where ever it’s going and I am here for it!!

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Male writers writing female characters:

“Cassandra woke up to the rays of the sun streaming through the slats on her blinds, cascading over her naked chest. She stretched, her breasts lifting with her arms as she greeted the sun. She rolled out of bed and put on a shirt, her nipples prominently showing through the thin fabric. She breasted boobily to the stairs, and titted downwards.”

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No tech CEO or NYT bestselling novelist will ever match the creativity of a humble French postman who decided on a whim to spend thirty-three years building a surreal, majestic palace with the bricks and mortar of his dreams.

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You are a fan of internationally-acclaimed K-pop group Huntrix. They drop a new single to wild success and its debut performance is canceled without clear explanation. Huntrix's management says something about a medical condition with the lead singer.

At the same time a new boyband debuts with a song that tops all the charts. The boyband doesn't seem to have a management company. Or names. Maybe that doesn't matter because their sound IS catchy. Huntrix is completely out of the public eye except for two appearances alongside this new boyband where they are there exclusively to beef. It's maybe a PR stunt. It's maybe because Rumi is exes with one of the only two named members of the Saja Boys.

People start going missing at a rate 4x the national average. You probably wouldn't even know about this except that 3 of the missing people were big names on Stan Twitter so it's kind of a big deal. There are four different high-traction posts claiming all the recent missing people were Saja Boy fans. But that's like claiming all the recent missing people drank water and breathed air.

Rumi is still on medical leave but Huntrix management is saying Huntrix WILL be at the K-pop Awards. Someone on Twitter's uncle's friend works in a recording studio and he says Huntrix is debuting a song which tells the Saja Boys to die. The exes theory gets a lot of traction. Twitter tries to doxx Jinu to confirm the theory but no one can figure out who he is. Twitter tries to doxx the other Saja Boys to the same lack of success. One account said she had "a lead" but her Twitter has been silent for 72 hours since.

Rumi is back from medical leave for the K-pop Awards just in time to have a massive falling-out and break-up on stage. This probably devastated you but you don't really remember it. The Saja Boys invite everyone to a concert. A lot of people who went don't remember going, and you'd call that suspicious except you also went and don't remember going.

Somehow no one in the crowd of 10,000 thought to record the concert on their phone. Maybe there was a "no phones" rule but usually there are still leaks. No one has any video or photo evidence of this concert happening. However you all collectively remember hearing "What It Sounds Like" at the concert (before it debuted 4 days later from Huntrix's label.) This does not make a lot of sense because this was a Saja Boys concert, supposedly. Someone says they saw Zoey impale at least one of the Saja Boys. You would brush this off as a stupid rumor but 2-dozen other people are saying the same thing and you a little bit remember it too.

There's a lot of people saying "Let's wait for an official statement from the Saja Boys" on Twitter but they've been saying that for 2 weeks now and no one has seen or heard from them since the concert. There's a lot of people saying "Zoey killed them fr" which was a joke at first and now, is not not a joke, but it hits a little different.

Most of you are kinda over SB Twitter at this point so you kind of don't care anymore but there are a few remaining fans who've doubled down on the doxxing effort to figure out if they're okay. It's not going well. One person claims to have found Jinu's identity but everyone thinks she's stupid because that guy died literally 400 years ago. YES the royal court's painting of him looks identical and yes that guy was a singer too, but come on, the K-pop look is 90% make-up anyway.

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*through gritted teeth* the world is GOOD. people are kind. Humans are NOT inheritly selfish. you will make it through this year. recovery is possible. people you don't know yet will love you. You are going to do things you can't even imagine right now. You are going to read a rlly good book. You are going to eat some rlly good food. You are going to experience joy again. Things can get better. Situations can change. You can choose to be kinder. The world can change for the better.

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*through gritted teeth* the world is GOOD. people are kind. Humans are NOT inheritly selfish. you will make it through this year. recovery is possible. people you don't know yet will love you. You are going to do things you can't even imagine right now. You are going to read a rlly good book. You are going to eat some rlly good food. You are going to experience joy again. Things can get better. Situations can change. You can choose to be kinder. The world can change for the better.

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Graphic design is my passion. I think I’ve made the best vaporwave infographic of the first Punic war ever

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may be a hot take but i think the fact minors can access 18+ content by just clicking a button that says 'yes im totally over 18 trust me' is like. totally fine tbh. its a non-issue. i dont care if curious teenagers are looking at porn. they've been doing that for as long as porn has existed. id rather teens explore their sexuality through images on the internet than rush into real life experiences when they're not ready for it yknow. the UK is trying to put stricter age verification in place (which in turn is becoming an online privacy nightmare) and like. for what. who is it helping. why is this a problem.

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D:

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we’reくコ:彡 entering squid territory

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Seriously if anyone wants to learn actual stuff about the DPRK (North Korea) that isn’t just the racist and scandalously inaccurate caricatures you see in western media check out books by A.B Abrams: Atrocity Fabrication and Its Consequences (about multiple countries but the DPRK is featured in two chapters), Immovable Object, and Surviving The Unipolar Era.

As a taste. Here are some screenshots from chapter 7 pages 425-426 of Atrocity Fabrication. (In addition to the citations at the end of the chapter the author used for these paragraphs)

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obviously there's a difference btwn someone who cannot do a task Literally Ever and someone who can do it under great duress in an emergency but i feel like these conversations ignore that the latter person, if their entire life becomes "an emergency", is going to become the former person in about 2 weeks - 2 yrs depending. if you are the type of person who says "i can't prepare my own food" and really mean "i can force myself to prepare my own food if i would die otherwise" and you are forced to prepare your own food All The Time lest you die, how long do you think that "emergency" skill is actually going to last? and how many other skills are going to go down with it? or: what else is the person sacrificing, on purpose or not, to stay alive under those circumstances? it may be Almost Every Other Skill They Have. this is where things like "autistic regression" come from!

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I love you black transfem butches and studs. I love us. We're so fucking cool.

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She was a 50 y.o. Siberian woman from 2500 years ago, living a nomadic lifestyle, and look at her tattoos...

Look...

I'm going to cry