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Water types, my fav ☺️

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ohhhh i get it, it's called OUR DRAWINGS - PRINCESS MOVIE | Full Animation Film | Artist because it's a full animation film that is also a princess movie & it's about drawings that belong to us. artist

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I know I don't really post a lot anymore (mostly cause I got a new phone and I use mobile a lot and I don't wanna relog in), and I wanna put this under a read more just to rant >.>

I forgot how much I dislike certain people in my local Magic community, because they act entitled just by virtue of working in a game store. My friend stopped in a local game store a couple of weeks ago to ask about preorders for the final fantasy set, and they said they hadn't started yet.

Now it's like a couple weeks until the set releases and neither of us heard anything from any other store in the area, no social media posts, nothing. I asked a discord I'm in for commander if preorders were happening, and someone (who I basically already disliked because his past comments came off as generally negative) replied to me that stores are always doing preorders months in advance, and basically I should infer from a store waiting until last minute to do preorders, and that there's a reason why.

Like, okay, super helpful, thank you for not directly answering my question and being condescending about it at the same time 👍. It frustrated me to the point of being like "oh yeah that's why I don't go out to the stores here to play anymore".

/endrant

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"Punishment works!!!" We're drowning in three to four generations of people so pants-shittingly terrified of ever being wrong that half of everyone has constructed a worldview wherein they never even consider the possibility that they could be wrong and the other half behaves like one wrong move will make anything or anyone explode violently into a million irreperable pieces. I don't think it works guys

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Pokemon request: Kabuto with a little knife taped to it, please? [Stabby the roomba joke]

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Might actually go insane

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ok im going to #seriouspost for a second here. I don't think Harry Potter is a manifesto. I think it was a flawed passion project that millennials latched onto because of the fantasy of sticking it to their mean teachers and arbitrarily categorizing themselves (hogwarts houses; it's the thinking millennial's astrology). I think the fact that the series got popular when and how it did was very much a product of its time.

I don't think Harry Potter is the biggest symbol of JKR's bigotry. I think the most flagrant sign of that was how she responded to critics. I watched her become radicalized in real time. I watched how she doubled down on her racism when she was called out for the ways she promoted her tragically mid fantastic beasts movies. I watched her chase marginalized teenagers with a double digit follower count off of twitter for daring to criticize her thought process, and no one with any kind of power standing against her because she was the one who was paying them. This isn't to say Harry Potter is without flaws. This is to say she really didn't give a shit about that. Getting rich and powerful is a hell of a drug, and she had enough sycophants that she had no reason to care about what her critics were saying.

She was convinced that she was a martyr; a voice for the unheard; a leader for the ages, so of course her detractors were the bad guys. And I think we should take this to heart. We should see this as an example of how easy it is to get radicalized; if you think of yourself as a paragon of virtue, you are going to think that whatever you see as good and right is an objective fact. Most people don't know this, but the majority of terfs start out as trans allies. You are not immune to propaganda! You are not immune to falling into dangerous ideologies!!!

This is why the most important thing you can do as an activist is to listen. Do NOT think you're above being wrong; do NOT develop a god complex; do NOT form an identity out of being right all the time. Involve yourselves in the groups you claim to speak for. Listen to trans women; share resources that help trans women; familiarize yourself with the diversity of experiences that trans people have and the struggles they face.

No, none of you are as bad as JKR because you don't have her money or her power. You will likely never have the capacity for harm she does. But check yourselves. Do not affirm yourselves into thinking you always have the moral high ground. Watch yourselves; humble yourselves; check yourselves for signs of cult behavior and internalized prejudice. You are always learning. You will always be learning. Do not allow yourselves to get a power trip from brushing off marginalized voices.

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saw the 20th anniversary pride and prejudice 2005 rerelease today

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the big three questions of media analysis: what the author wanted to say, what they actually said, and what they didn’t know they were saying

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thinking about how when you experience a lot of shame in your formative years (indirectly, directly, as abuse or just as an extant part of your environment) it becomes really difficult to be perceived by other people in general. the mere concept of someone watching me do anything, whether it's a totally normal activity or something unfamiliar of embarrassing, whether I'm working in an excel spreadsheet or being horny on main, it just makes my skin crawl and my brain turn to static because I cannot convince myself that it's okay to be seen and experienced. because to exist is to be ashamed and embarrassed of myself, whether I'm failing at something or not, because my instinctive reaction to anyone commenting on ANYTHING I'm doing is to crawl into a hole and die. it's such a bizarre and dehumanizing feeling to just not be able to exist without constantly thinking about how you are being Perceived. ceaseless watcher give me a god damn break.

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"bring back blocks" take off your nostalgia goggles man. I lived it and blocks sucked. if you didn't like a world or a mechanical theme you were stuck with it for a year. and by the third set even if you liked it they would often Fully run out of ideas for interesting cards with the block themes

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His water dance

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