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I just finished 'Exit Strategy' and absolutely lost my shit when Murderbot starts to wake up after the gunship incident... I'm just picturing one of those endlessly hilarious clips of a child waking up after major oral surgery, except the child is a killing machine with guns in its arms and is an asshole

I am completely helpless to imagine this scene as anything but a deeply scowling Murderbot with bloody gauze in its mouth just absolutely radiating drunken Upset

Guthrain: [exists]

Murderbot, barely conscious: I DON'T LIKE YOU. FUCK YOU. WHY IS THIS SHIP SO OLD AND SHITTY?

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enter my WAR ROOM.we can discuss such things as STRATAGEMS and TACTICAL MANEUVERS.. and girlsss

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Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).

When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".

When the boat is still being built, your say "it".

When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".

When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".

When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.

If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").

If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")

If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").

If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.

If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.

I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.

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i love you mirror versions i love you possession i love you cloning i love you simulacrums i love you shadow selves i love you digital copies of a mind i love you alternate timeline versions i love you tropes that play with identity and what it means to be a certain person

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if I had a plasma pistol you wouldn't hear from me ever again. i would crouch behind highway guardrails and shoot fully charged shots at teslas passing by me

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due to woke the hanged man tarot card is being replaced by the hung woman

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real

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I do actually like being in hurricanes and tornados, I’m from Florida

me: oh i love books about political intrigue and fancy dinners and petty squabbles

me on a work trip: i hate this fucking city i hate this fucking bar i hate these fucking people

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me: oh i love books about political intrigue and fancy dinners and petty squabbles

me on a work trip: i hate this fucking city i hate this fucking bar i hate these fucking people

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you think people actually have sex? naked and everything? I have to laugh.

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It amazes me how many teslas I see out and about. Like you guys bought one for real? On god? No joke?????

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First rule of reincarnation is to have insane sex with the guy who killed you last time

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PSA: Don't use Open Office

I keep seeing people recommending Open Office as an alternative to Word, and uh... look, it is, technically, an open source alternative to Word. And it can do a lot of what Word can, genuinely! But it is also an abandoned project that hasn't been updated in nine years, and there's an active fork of it which is still receiving updates, and that fork is called LibreOffice, and it's fantastic.

Seriously, if you think that your choices are either "grit your teeth and pay Microsoft for a subscription" or "support free software but have a kind of subpar office suite experience", I guarantee that it's because you're working with outdated information, or outdated software. Most people I know who have used the latest version of LibreOffice prefer it to Word. I even know a handful of people who prefer it to Scrivener.

Open Office was the original project, and so it has the most name recognition, and as far as I can tell, that's really the only reason people are still recommending it. It's kind of like if people were saying "hey, the iPhone 14 isn't your only smart phone option!" but then were only ever recommending the Samsung Galaxy S5 as an alternative. LibreOffice is literally a version of the same exact program as Open Office that's just newer and better – please don't get locked into using a worse tool just because the updated version of the program has a different name!

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posting this so everyone on tumblr can see it too

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From what I can tell, you can sort TLT fandom theories into 3 groups: People who have read Homestuck, People who were raised Catholic, and People who are responsible for the disbandment of more than one discord server.

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Do I actually want to write this fanfic or do I just want to wallow in the delicious daydream like a pig in the mud?