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within fifteen minutes i have found two different grown adult men who have dating app profiles that say their worst fear is:

werewolves.

one was funny. two is like... hang on, do we actually have a werewolf problem in this town?

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I’m in the woods placing cardboard cutouts of morels in the leaf litter to trick and bamboozle people

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DID MY YAOI STICKERS ARRIVE

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Mice straight up go on missions and no body talks about it

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As someone who has operated live CCTV cameras:

It's adorable when you make faces and wave at the camera

I always say hello and wave back

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So on my posts about racism or transmisogyny, I often see tags that basically say “I don’t understand this but I’m going to reblog it anyway.” If you see a “social justice” type post that you want to reblog but don’t understand?

Don’t.

I know this goes against everything you’re used to hearing on this website, but listen. Reblogging posts you don’t understand is basically the equivalent of blindly repeating whatever you’re told. Even if you’re right, if you don’t understand why you’re right, you could be spouting utter bullshit and you wouldn’t even know it.

When I see “I don’t know what this means but I’m gonna reblog it anyway” it sends a lot of messages. It says that you care more about seeming right than being right. It says that you want good ally credit without any of the work of being a good ally. It says you’re on my side because I can make a post sound good, not because you actually agree with me on anything beyond the surface level.

So instead of just reblogging that post, save it for later. Like it, draft it, bookmark it, whatever. Go to the op’s blog and skim through a couple of pages, see if you can find some context. If the post is old, you could try asking for context in a non-condescending way. “Is this post referring to something specific?” is a lot better than, say, “Does this even happen? I’ve never heard of this.”

If that doesn’t help, do some more research. Google, search tumblr tags for recent posts on a subject, ask people who have EXPLICITLY stated they are willing to educate. Maybe in the process you’ll find more posts with a similar message to the original, but in easier to understand language. Maybe someone else already added a reply that adds useful information onto the op.

And maybe all of that takes a long time. Maybe, by the time you finally understand what the post was talking about, it’s months old and no longer relevant. Maybe you don’t even want to reblog it anymore. Who cares, fuck that post. You learned and grew as a person. That’s more important than looking good on a blog.

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I am looking neither respectfully nor disrespectfully. I gaze without recognition of your form, and without understanding.

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I think I’m going to think about this youtube comment forever

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Teller was tugging on Penn’s jacket and wanted a hug but Penn swatted him away like the fucking ogre he is

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fun thought experiment. for this purpose, you have to move back with your parents because it's an in-person job in the same city they are in. of note, this could be a temporary thing (as you can move out) but you would be expected to stay at this job for at least a year.

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antwithabindle.com/careers

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How To Tell Your Cat That You Could Walk To His Food Faster If He Weren't Weaving Under Your Fucking Feet In A Beautiful And Intricate Idiot's Ballet

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[ID: Five screencaps from Taskmaster. Greg Davies says, "Unfortunately, I do have to disqualify you." John Robins leans forward in his seat, gasping in disbelief, "No!" Greg says slyly, "No, I'm only joking." John shouts at the ceiling, "Oh, my God!" Half laughing and half panicked, he says, "I'm actually sweating." End ID.]

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