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Wild magic is fun 🐸🔥 (comm)

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Wilderness from my new book Faraway Dreaming. 🌱🌲 Available on Kickstarter until 24 June, 2025!

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every so often the discourse comes around again that basically boils down to “is it feminist for a woman to want men to be attracted to her” and it’s like. no, it’s not. it’s also not anti feminist. it’s not relevant. it’s nothing. a woman wanting to have sex with men has nothing to do with feminism. being a lesbian or celibate is not “more feminist” than being a straight woman. the point was always “women should not have to dress in a way that is attractive to men solely in order to be acknowledged by them at all” not “women should never dress in a way that is attractive to men for any reason.” sometimes a woman wants men to want to have sex with her. that’s not anti feminist. that’s average. it’s also not feminist just because it’s her choice to do it. it is not related. feminism is about women’s human rights. that doesn’t mean it’s a feminist act every time a woman makes a choice.

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I want to see the fall of LinkedIn during my lifetime

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decentralize and clean up your life!!!

use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.

use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).

use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.

get rid of bloatware

use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite

use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.

use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.

use storygraph instead of goodreads.

use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions

use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.

use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp

make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge

use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google

use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)

use flashpoint to play archived online flash games

find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books

burn your music onto cds

use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe

use unroll.me to clean your email inboxes

use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail

remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X

remove bloatware on samsung X

use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta

use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.

feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3

last updated: march 18th 2025

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madoka magica is sooo crazy imagine being in middle school and your crush dies and you’re so upset that you kickstart a time loop and repeat the same month 100 times over trying to stop her from dying but unwittingly you make her more and more important to the universe’s continuation (because you have effectively created 100 timelines that are dependent only on the survival of your crush) and therefore her death becomes more and more devastating to the world as a whole in every new timeline and finally your crush sacrifices her life willingly to become a god and you’re the only one who remembers her and this depresses you so much that you construct a whole imaginary universe where your crush is alive and you trap yourself and the souls of your friends inside it and then when you realize it’s Not Real, Actually, you pull your crush (who, again, is now god) down from heaven and become the literal actual devil

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neve in suits agenda sketch

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🐥🐣🐤

my telegram: @sir_lance_official

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still thinking about the blumberg article

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Heliora von Valancius

She is, for a moment, a stranger. A figure out of history, or myth. So far from the regicide player who laughs unabashedly at all her many conniving triumphs, Heinrix’s higher faculties left in ribbons on the floor after an hour of enduring her little teases. This, he thinks, is the woman from Heliora’s stories: the one from another life she never quite betrays the details of.

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I am SO thrilled with this amazing piece from @vasiliquemort and how WELL they've captured Heliora!!! The stance, the expression—and especially the way she is backlit, rendering her face in such a way it is harder to remember her distinctive features, harder to pick her out in a lineup... >:) PERFECT crime lord energy, I am utterly in love!

Thanks eternally to @infernaldaydreams for using some of the money from her latest round of commissions to gift this to me—it has truly revived my spirits in ways I've sorely needed these past two months. Creatives supporting creatives is how fandom stays alive and vibrant, and I am truly so glad to have such an amazing and thoughtful friend. 💛

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geese & grackle

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You might think that I'm joking when I say that we need cyborg rights to be codified into law, but I honestly think that, given the pace of development of medical implants and the rights issues raised by having proprietary technologies becoming part of a human body, I think that this is absolutely essential for bodily autonomy, disability rights, and human rights more generally. This has already become an issue, and it will only become a larger issue moving forwards.

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Winter departs. The mountains laugh. The meadows awaken in splendor.

Mushishi Zoku Shou Episode 10 - Depths of Winter

#ArtsAniRequest2025 [1/12] - Mushishi

Prompt: Send me an anime series for which you think I haven't made edits yet that you want to see, and I will make one GIF set.

Anon Asked: how about mushishi?

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mushishi

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