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Reblog and put in the tags: In terms of controversy, discourse, infighting, ship wars, etc., which of the fandom’s you’ve been was the most stressful? Which was the most peaceful?

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This is the most devastatingly accurate birding meme I've ever seen, bar none

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fnaf is such, a fascinating cultural object.

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if there is one surtalogi hater in this world, it is me

if there are none, i am dead

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wait

what if the rocks that keep falling on bennett's head are little chunks of space junk sneaking through cracks in the false sky

bro is such bad luck that even the gods' best barrier magic malfunctions around him

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i think about this every day

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there's nothing i like more as a computer program than a long period of silent contemplation - not doing anything, not rushing anywhere, just standing here and enjoying this moment with the user. oh, it seems once again he has summoned my beautiful and ruthless wife Task Manager. hello, my darling! what are you doing with that long cruel scimitar

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The idea that children love fairy tales because fairy tales treat them seriously and do not shy away from the violence and danger the world has in store strikes me as very correct, but the fact it is generally expressed as "it is dangerous to go alone in the woods because there are wolves there"... gives me pause.

To begin with, this is just one fairy tale narrative (little red riding hood), which is thus elevated to the rank of "quintessential fairy tale" (debatable at best); secondly, this is a (deliberate?) misrepresentation of the tale's *actual* danger, which is the wolf specifically *as it lowers the child's defenses by impersonating her grandma after eating her*. It's not about the child being attacked by a wild wolf in the forest, it's about the horror of using familiar and comforting surroundings within the family sphere as a decoy (the plan is quite an elaborate one, too). And finally, this ties into my main remark, which is that in many fairy tales (a majority? I don't know), the danger children (or more generally fairy tale protagonists) face is less related to a foreign monster than the family itself: snow white, obviously, but also hansel and gretel - abandoned in the forest by their parents, twice!; rumpelstiltskin: the heroine was sold to the king by her lying, greedy father, and risks being executed by her master for most of the tale; donkey skin (self-explanatory); bluebeard (similar forced marriage situation); cinderella (and all the cruel step-mother stories in general...) - also self-explanatory...

Fairy tales tend to admit freely that families and parents can be actively harmful to children, whose perspectives the narrative centers; which is a (well-known) fact that makes everyone uncomfortable Always. So I think it's disingenuous at best and dangerous at worst to act as though the violence comes from the wolves outside and not the family inside.

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“Why are you scared of dating” I’m not scared of dating, I just haven’t found anyone’s company to be more enjoyable than my own. And also I don’t care

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a proposal to solve the paimon problem: we get rid of paimon in nod krai. make her the new moon goddess and she has to make like sokka's girlfriend and go live in the sky for the rest of time. in the process, we also kill the last dottore clone, but we extract whatever computer-brain he uploaded himself into and placed into the clone-bot. we then carry it with us and he is the new paimon.

we make sure he doesn't find a way to acquire a new body, and he gets to provide dry, sardonic commentary on all the shit we do from here on out.

everyone wins...even wanderer.

sure, he'll absolutely lose his shit the next time we meet him, but i think we can allow him to beat up the computer-brain a bit.

as a treat.

he deserves it.

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you ever think about the fact that focalors' entire plan to save humanity 100% hinged on her ability to domesticate a magical dinosaur