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If you dare come at me about banning straws, I will throw you into the sun cannon. I’m disabled, I’m crippled, I need disposable plastic straws, and all those pricey ridiculous alternatives aren’t working as well. Plastic straws were invented for the disabled.

Way to shit all over a vital access need because you think straws are worse than corporate greed.

We all care about the turtles, the seals, the oceans, obviously. Notice how the easiest thing to yell about was something that would barely affect anything but appealed heavily to emotional discourse.

The disabled community is huge, and it can be joined by anyone. Most of those As Seen On TV products were invented for us. Society still mocks us and ignores us, and often outright harms us in multiple ways.

Communicate better. Listen better. But stop putting us out in the cold because you are inconvenienced by our simplest needs.

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Our fandom forbearers did NOT suffer through Anne Rice, strikethrough, and other bullshit for fucking ACOTAR and Harry Potter fans to fucking ruin it for all of us by selling fanfiction. I am not losing novel length yaoi epics because some of you don't know how to act in fannish spaces and yes I do blame the booktokification of fanfic but I also blame those of you that treat fandom like content to consume and not a community to engage with.

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Knives Out 2019 | dir. Rian Johnson

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i entirely get why people are like "actually knights were historically land-owning nobles waging war on people" and reminding people that idealised modern conceptions of knights are not historically accurate, it's just really really funny given that people have been idealising the institution of knighthood since like. the twelfth century or earlier, go take it up with fucking chrétien de troyes

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Teaching methods on Kamino change drastically after the Jedi Order starts to supervise the clones' training, which leads to a sort of generational/cultural shift: Clones of the first generation were exposed to considerably more brutal conditioning methods and objectification in their training than clones that would finish their training during the war.

Additionally, the Jedi encourage clone cadets to embrace, value, and insist on their self-worth, as demonstrated by, for example, Yoda and Plo Koon in the early episodes.

Hence, we can observe this stark contrast between Rex and Fives when confronted with a situation that requires them to stand up for themselves, as most prominently exemplified during the Umbara Arc.

Throughout the show we see multiple instances of Rex's struggle with prioritizing his loyalty for the Republic over his and his brothers' needs, while Fives is willing to die for what he believes is right.

Rex's individuality seems more defined by external means, constructed through his (forced) service as an extension of the Republic. Fives's individuality seems more defined by intrinsic means, constructed through his (forced) service as an addition to the Republic.

I like the idea that this difference between Rex and Fives might reflect (it's just me speculating) the effect of the Jedis' philosophy and influence on the clones' training.

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the entire fournival plotline in the original dragon's dogma is such a relentlessly cruel joke on the player. you know that annoying landlord who made you evict a family? he's on trial, so go find evidence. except every single piece of evidence points towards him actually being well-liked by everyone and you're actually building his case

go out of your way to find more concrete testimony outside of the walls. except it turns out that not only do the soldiers in the far-flung fort like him, but they love him so much that they're personally sending an advocate back to town with you

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It’s always insane to me when people DM me to yell at me about breaching their DNI because I reblogged a post from them

Like how chronically online are you that you’re checking the blogs of everyone who reblogs from you

And I genuinely mean that. Even if the post only has like 10 notes at best. How much free time do you have to check the blogs of all 10 of those notes, and then go OUT OF YOUR WAY to message anyone who doesn’t fit your strict guidelines for human interaction. And I know some of y’all don’t just check but you DIG, because some of the stuff I get DMed about is not advertised on my blog as soon as you look at it.

How do you all survive outside of the internet when every persons political opinions and stances on fictional content aren’t displayed to you right off the bat.

Like I’m not kidding. That’s not normal. You are not the normal one in this situation. Please put your phone down for at least a week and go outside.

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Structural racism.

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For the last time: Mary Shelley and Lord Byron were friends. She didn't hate him. His death was a very painful loss to her. She didn't write Frankenstein because she was stuck in a house with him and he was an unbearable person. For God's sake, just read her journals and letters.

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the problem with dragon's dogma is that it's so blatant with its nihilism-poking metaphors that you sound completely unhinged when you point out basic things like "the ur-dragon is a play on words, meant to be read as ur-dragon, as in, the original primordial concept of the dragon as the demon against which power must be discharged" and "the city that exists as a comforting existence in despair is named after søren kierkegaard"

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rule

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As anyone who knows of me would expect, I think Barriss should've appeared more in The Clone Wars, but her development isn't as inexplicable or random as it looks. I think the best way to interpret Barriss's change is that, over the 3.5-season gap between appearances, she sees what the audience sees: an escalating, unending war causing more and more death which will eventually kill her and everyone she knows.

Barriss is a secondary character in a tragedy with its ending already written, she realized this, and she took it very, very poorly.

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As anyone who knows of me would expect, I think Barriss should've appeared more in The Clone Wars, but her development isn't as inexplicable or random as it looks. I think the best way to interpret Barriss's change is that, over the 3.5-season gap between appearances, she sees what the audience sees: an escalating, unending war causing more and more death which will eventually kill her and everyone she knows.

Barriss is a secondary character in a tragedy with its ending already written, she realized this, and she took it very, very poorly.

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when programs fucking autocorrect <3 to ❤️ and :) to 😃,,,, do you have any idea what you’ve just done?? what you just fucking destroyed ?

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Actual roman epitaph for a dog