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if you’re a baby trans and you haven’t started smoking cigarettes or vaping yet don’t. it’s actually not that hot or interesting. It will just cause you ungodly frustrations and suffering and cost you a bunch of money and be next to impossible to quit

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god bless our troops [the ppl at ublock origin who keep updating the filters to keep working on youtube]

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Back up but with some revisions.

Working on not deleting things randomly.

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bingewatching will never come close to bingereading. there is nothing like blocking out the entire Earth for ten hours to read a book in one sitting no food no water no shower no bra and emerging at the end with no idea what time it is or where you are, a dried-up prune that's sensitive to light and loud noises because you've been in your room in the dark reading by the glow of a single LED. it's like coming back after a three-month vacation in another dimension and now you have to go downstairs and make dinner. absolutely transcendental

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love downloading a pdf to never read. just in case. like lol. you’re coming home with me

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i moved into a new apartment last weekend and my stress levels have never been this high, why is everything going wrong

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the amount of people in the notes who have gone "it took me a sec to realize what that said" should be enough to just officially make aromantic and aromatic synonyms

did i do this right

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Happy pride month specifically to folks on the asexual and aromantic spectrum who oftentimes feel isolated and left out of the conversation. You belong here as much as the rest of us and I hope that you are all loved in a way that is comforting to you.

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Has anybody done this yet

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did i do this right

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Making my own post but I was inspired by another, BUT: happy pride to aromantics and asexuals who have a complicated relationship with one of the above, who don't know exactly where you fall on that spectrum, who are FUNCTIONALLY aro/ace for whatever reason but aren't sure if it's just outside influence causing it or a way you were born, etc etc. Happy pride to complicated identities, complex relationships with sex, romance, and gender, and those for whom none of the current labels feel exactly "right." Happy pride to people with labels that seemingly conflict with each other.

All that these labels are are humans trying to put abstract feelings into words, and sometimes there just isn't a word yet for exactly what you feel, or the words that exist supposedly can't be used together the way that you do it. Sometimes there is a feeling that words just fail for. That doesn't make those feelings less real, or make you totally alone-- there are so many people in this world that certainly, at least one other HAS to've felt the way that you do.

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did i do this right

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Alright, I think I like tumblr now.

A pun post crossed my dash, and I reblogged it with an equally bad pun in return. A couple of my followers find it funny, it's a good day for everyone.

That was on July 7th.

Virality on Reddit was entirely algorithmic. You could garner a couple crossposts, but the success of a post was entirely dependent on whether or not it hit r/all--the main page of Reddit. If your post does that, it's immediately exposed to 10x the number of people and immediately gets upvoted.

On my pun post, I get a couple reblogs. And those reblogs get a couple reblogs--nobody really adds any content to the post, it just gets a couple reblogs here and there.

There's a specific chain of reblogs that I'd like to focus on. The most popular post on this chain has about 25 reblogs on it. Half the posts have three reblogs or fewer. Five posts in this chain have just one reblog total.

But the reblog chain keeps going. And going. It breaches containment many times over. And finally, after a chain THIRTY SIX posts long, at 9:30 AM, July 22nd this morning, it hits a popular account.

99% percent of the people who have seen the post--virtually unchanged from how it left my dash--have seen it because it was curated by 36 different people. That's insane to me.

None of those 36 people know that they're part of this chain. They saw a post, reblogged it, and moved on. If any one of these people had not reblogged, the post would have a fraction of the impact it has.

And yet, after two weeks, the post has effectively hit the main page of tumblr. It was picked up, only because people liked it enough to show it to their followers. There were no algorithms necessary.

You really, truly, cannot get this on any other website.

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TMA nails I made :)

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writing cover letters

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~ The One Alone ~

(Another oil painting I did for class! Supposed to match the Jarchivist one)