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Y'all, I just got my Bioshock Infinite inspired tattoo done!

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It’s October! You know what that means... 🎃 (via kxvo)

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Straight up, I was in my psych class and my professor was telling stories about her baby. And she said you know you really love the child cause it's ugly and wrinkly and looks like an alien but you're still happy you had it. And my god was that just i c o n i c.

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“Writing is the only hobby where people consider themselves a failure at it if they don’t become professional. My advice to writers– I’ve known a lot of writers who have that “I’m gonna write this book, and I’m gonna sell it, and I’m gonna be rich and famous” [attitude]. If they wrote it and sold it and were rich and famous, they would hit their base expectations and be merely satisfied. And instead, if they miss that, they are angry, bitter, and they grow increasingly twisted up inside, psychologically, and they’re really unhappy. Do you like it? Is it fun? Do you enjoy it? If you enjoy it, every time you write, you have completed something that has paid you off.”

— Patrick Rothfuss, The Wednesday Club, 07/11/2018 (via mudkippy)

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broke: top replaces mcr in the emo trinity

still broke: top is a part of the emo quartet

woke: the emo trinity is an iconic title held by the bands panic at the disco, fall out boy, and my chemical romance, the biggest influences of the emo scene during the mid 2000s, their status as pillars of the emo scene are honored by the name emo trinity, top has not been around for this, they do not deserve to be called a part of the emo trinity or the emo quartet

ascended: also Paramore is so much deserving to be a part of the emo quartet as they also have been a part of the emo scene and had a big influence on it, you guys just hate female fronted bands :|

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i’m still super bitter that mass effect andromeda didn’t get it’s Quarian Arc DLC

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…feEL THE RAIN ON YOUR SKIN NO ONE ELSE CAN FEEL FOR YOU ONLY YOU CAN LET IT IN

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writer problems: trying to figure out how many chapters you’re going to stall until An Event™

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Miles talks about why Rooster Teeth has stopped putting some shows on YouTube. With YouTube demonitizing many videos for ridiculous reasons (for example this hit a lot of LGBTQ+ content recently) it’s likely that RT will move further and further away from YouTube. 

Shows like Camp Camp and Red vs Blue are still free to watch on the RT side. An RT account is totally free, only a First member account costs money. You can still watch Camp Camp and many other shows without paying anything. Only some shows are First member exclusive and for most shows First members only get them up to a week earlier. 

I can’t stress this often enough, watching RT shows illegally really might get them cancelled, so if you love the shows, please watch them on the RT side. Viewing numbers on the RT side dropping because people watch the shows illegally will sooner or later get the shows cancelled. 

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I spent all day doing sidequests instead of progressing the main story

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Since joining Tumblr, I’ve met a lot of young queer people. Look, I’m a bisexual man in a gay relationship, and I’m approaching 30. I was still a kid when Matthew Shepard’s story was being covered on the news. I remember thinking, “I better keep my mouth shut about these feelings I’m having.”

And then I met Dominic when I was 12, and people could see how in love we were. And we got the shit beat out of us. The year I met him, some kids in the grade above me held me down against the bleachers in our gym and stomped on my hand until my fingers broke. Instead of sending me to the nurse, the teacher sent me to the assistant principal to explain the situation. She asked why the kids had beat me up. I said, “They were calling me gay.”

Her response was, “Well, are you?”

My, “I don’t know,” earned a call to my parents, and I was outed. Efforts were made to keep me from seeing Dom. Throughout high school, Dom’s stepmother intensified these efforts. He slept in the basement of the house. Although he was an incredibly talented student, he was prohibited from participating in any extracurriculars. He suffered a lot of physical abuse during those years.

The day he turned 18, he packed up everything he had and walked to my house, and we’ve lived together ever since. Things are better, but they’re not perfect. I’ve had trucks pull up next to me at stoplights and, seeing the pride sticker on my car, through old drinks and garbage into my window. I no longer speak to my dad’s side of the family. I haven’t been to see them for Christmas or Thanksgiving in years. One of my uncles had cornered me at Thanksgiving when I was 17 and said, “I’m not going to judge you, but I’d be happy to break your neck so God can do the judging a little sooner.”

I joined a support group for trans and intersex people. When I joined, 40 people attended regularly. Within the year, the group was half the size it had been. Some couldn’t make it anymore, because they were staying at the shelter, where their stay hinged on them agreeing to instead to attend homophobic sermons. Some were put in correctional therapy. Five of them died. Three of those, I didn’t know, but I knew Alex, the 19 year old who was fag-dragged in Kentucky and died a day later in the hospital, and I knew Stephanie, who went home to Alabama to care for her mom in hospice and was beaten to death with a baseball bat by her mom’s boyfriend.

Tumblr is not reality. The dynamic here does not reflect the dynamic out there. Here’s the part where I finally make a point, and it might be extremely unpopular - but guys, value your allies. Value each other. We are met with enough hate in our daily lives to enter an online safe-space and meet more hate from our own, over petty things. Don’t go after one another over every little thing you find problematic.

Learn to see nuance. Maybe the word “queer” bothers you, and you see a gay man using it as an umbrella term. Maybe someone called a trans man a trans woman because they’re confused about terminology, but the post where they did it was voicing support for the trans community. Maybe someone is just asking a question, wanting to learn more. Stop. Attacking. These. People.

Allies are being driven away. Members of our own community are being ostracized. Others are feeling nervous and estranged, and it’s largely because of places like Tumblr, where the social justice movement is quickly becoming violent and radical. I am begging you, stop nitpicking “problematic” things and start directing your efforts to create real change. When it comes to comes to your allies, forget the “social justice warrior” mentality and put down your torch. Educate calmly. Be respectful. Be understanding. Be forgiving. And I’m certainly not saying that your anger doesn’t have a good place - when you are met with bigots on the street, congress members who want to pass hateful laws, violent protesters, abusive parents, prejudiced teachers, that is when you need to be a warrior. That’s when it counts. In the real world. When you have the opportunity to protect people from real harm. Attacking your would-be allies via anonymous asks is just going to lose us ground in the long run. And we don’t have time for that, not when trans women of color are being murdered every day, not when states are still fighting against marriage equality, not when there are politicians in office who believe that trans people are possessed by demons, not when we’ve just lost 50 brothers and sisters to one gunman, not when the media won’t even admit that the attack was homophobic.

Please step back. Look at the big picture. Look at where we are, globally. Don’t just log on to your safe space and attack your allies over small missteps. That’s like washing the dishes in a house that’s on fire, kids. Let’s fight on the battlefield, and when we come home to each other, let’s just focus on bandaging up our wounds so we can go out and win the war.

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mood whenever another online multiplayer game comes out instead of a story-driven single player game

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I’m not saying I’m definitely an NPC, but if I am a protagonist, the game I’m starring in is probably free-to-play.

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Singaporeans say "scissors, paper, stone". So like, idk bruh.

i cant believe americans on tv really say rock paper scissors like???? its paper scissors rock omg do u irl americans actually say rock paper scissors????

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The AH boys taking photos with a disposable camera during Off Topic #118 

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Top 15 Off Topic moments as voted by my followers - #15 Team Nice Dynamite Jump