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I feel so bad for the annoying women at work. Like I actually feel sick when we’re interacting and I feel the annoyance occurring in my brain like she really doesn’t mean to be this way and she just doesn’t want to feel alone or rejected. you can tell she’s experienced being an outsider everywhere she goes it’s only a matter of time. And it’s not cool chic or edgy but in the ugliest most desperate and dehumanizing way. They always start hopeful. they want to connect and they go searching for someone receptive to her so she can find her people but everyone turns away from her slowly and u hear it in her voice. It’s happening again. she starts hesitating to speak and when she does you hear a shaky child ending every sentence like it’s a question. Testing the waters to know if she’s wrong for even trying. And then I realize I took her smile for granted now that it’s gone.. I have to make it up to her I can’t let something like this continue. Life is so hard for people everywhere, so building a tolerance for being irritated is nothing in comparison especially if the reward is less pain and loneliness in the world I will always be the bestie you have my word

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I've survived my first day on Tumblr

Achievements:

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I know I say that I'm kinda nuts for doing the amount of visual research I do, but at the same time: Specificity is SO much more compelling and real feeling, and imo not getting references often makes things look more amateur.

Eg. drawing a sofa- my mental image of a sofa is something like this:

Like. Its a sofa. It works. But it's not very convincing, the pillows are kinda wrong at the back, and it's not really giving any information about the owner. Even if you want a basic sofa... What kind of basic.

comfy and cheap?

kinda rigid?

inherited? ------

who does this comfy cheap ikea sofa belong to anyway?

guy living alone?

teenage girl?

Grandma?

Anyway I'll get off my soapbox but specificity is sexy and fun and it can do your storytelling for you!

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its so fucked that not only did they erase our languages and beat and kill our people for using them but they stole the words of important tribes and important people and used them for the military and for trees and for food and for summer camps. average native american name is seen by non ntvs as a joke or something to use or consume, not a human being

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Not to curse us all by speaking it into existence, but I wonder how long it'll be before we get earnest arguments amongst the extremely online about whether it's morally permissible to take a paycheck from the gestapo ICE because (checks notes) good health insurance and student loan forgiveness

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Anti public defender sentiment NOW of all times has GOT to be a psyop and I’m not being hyperbolic

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....So, um, does this not freak anyone else out??? Is it just me??? Because like, this sounds like actual hell for all the kids involved. Their entire childhood and teenage years has now been dedicated to filming a (unneeded) reboot of Harry Potter to the point they can't even go to school at any point with this type of school being set up for them and them only, and even then the school stuff is second to filming, being at hours that let's be real, any other kid would be fucking resting and such in, not having to race to do school work because they spent their normal school hours filming. This is literally actually giving vibes of WB trying to find any loopholes they can to have the kid actors film non-stop to the point it won't be surprising if stuff comes out about behind the scenes some time after the reboot is done with. Btw before anyone says this is normal on sets with kids, last I heard a-lot of film sets aren't setting up schools for the next decade basically of the kid actors life, they have tutors coming onto set at best to handle the school work with the kid actors and when they done with filming finally, the kids go back to school like normal. This is basically set up to mess up the kid actors chances at education and developing like kids should while in education let alone their chances at socialising outside of fellow child actors and the adult actors around them...all so that a terf can make more money for her bigotry and replace the cast that turned against her.

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my two-volume hardback set of Empires of Eve: A History of the Great Wars of Eve Online by Andrew Groen finally arrived, and i think it's a heck of an achievement that Eve was able to do something that no other MMO has accomplished, which is to have meaningful "history" in a way that can be explained and explored from the outside

like, it's not just that player alliances and player wars are a thing in Eve, or that territorial control in nullsec creates interesting patterns you can chart on a map, although obviously those are important. it's that player factions are organic, created from the ground-up by players, which means real-world forces of the kind that help to unite or destroy any social group are a factor in Eve Online wars; the lack of servers and the unified game world means everyone is playing together in a way that gives the outcomes of conflicts lasting stakes for the game world; and because of the way the Eve economy is designed, people aren't (just) fighting for the fun of pvp, but are motivated by structural concerns like "we need to claim territory to make ISK" or "our alliance has too many players to effectively farm the territory we control, so we need to expand." that means you can tell a coherent 30,000-foot view of the story, and recognizable patterns emerge like "this alliance expanded too quickly and was too socially fragmented, so members corps weren't motivated to fight on its behalf and it collapsed as soon as it was invaded" and "these alliances claimed 'ancestral rights' to territory bc they were the first to settle it five years earlier when the game was released" and "shared language and culture bound this group of pilots together so they kept fighting even though they were badly outnumbered." and all that stuff is just in the opening pages.

and although i get why that kind of game design is always going to be inherently a little niche, it's a hell of an achievement. i feel like heavily simulationist mmos have never really been that popular, and the market has been turning away from the "pure" mmo more and more anyway, but it feels like a space that's woefully underexplored nevertheless. maybe it always will be, idk.

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God the 11 year old girls you put on this earth to climb trees and play with plastic animals are buying foundation at the drug store

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Tuira Kayapó brandished her machete in the face of a government official who was trying to convince indigenous leaders to accept a mega-dam project in the Amazon, 1989

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You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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Everything needs to be glass, if it can’t be glass it needs to be ceramic, if it can’t be ceramic it needs to be wood, if it can’t be wood it needs to be stainless steel, if it can’t be stainless steel it needs to be stone, if it can’t be stone it needs to be glass