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anyway, look at krile's mtg card, it's now my bg

Bonus Details:

An elpis flower and the infamous squapes

Archon Burger with G'raha reaching for his staff

and the name of the artist's WoL written in Eorzean w/ Krile reading Endwalker raid plans

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They could hear at different frequencies. Maybe one set of ears can hear in ultrasonic, like bats using echo location. And maybe the other side of ears is better at picking up the low subtle vibrations from ground tremors, to detect hooved prey running far away.

Even better if they have the ability to tune out the additional frequencies depending on the task at hand, similar to how eyes can focus on something up close or far away. Just shut down the whole "low sounds" set of ears so that the "high sounds" can pick up bird cries and bat calls unimpeded.

"Why do people find the 'four ears' thing to be so weird?" The cat-girl flicked her top pair back in annoyance. "Centaurs have six limbs and I've never seen anyone ask one of them about it."

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you guys need to let go of any rigid belief in what being nonbinary is because it can be anything. like someone can look completely average in gender presentation and do literally nothing to set themselves apart from their assigned gender and still be nonbinary.

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水晶でできた、私の友

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This.

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I'd rather hang out with someone who keeps accidentally calling me slurs but treats me like a person, than someone who actively polices every word anyone says and acts like belonging to a marginalised group is my only redeeming quality as a person.

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a funny thing about having a Problematic Blorbo is that you'll periodically come across a post along the lines of "um let's not forget that [Blorbo] is a bad person..." listing their various crimes, and if you have a modicum of intellectual honesty you find yourself nodding along and saying yeah it's true... but it's the greyness of their character that makes them so compelling... At the same time though you have a little Saul Goodman in your ear going "your honor in their defense: who cares like omfgggg who caresssssss like come onnnnnn"

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lrb is SO FUN

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For a brief period this past winter we had one where if you knelt with the Valentione bouquet emote you could get the old slide glitch to work again and you looked like you were kneeling on a skateboard with your bouquet

I can't find any shorter videos of it but I remember we were playing with it on Caffeinated Dad's streams..... (digs) Ah yeah, it was this one. All over the place.

Oh, and Cloy Yaeger managed to recreate the dead on the ground slide. URL time stamp should load at 18:43 - and then we spent the rest of that livestream session glitching every way we could for fun.

I feel that if I don’t repost this somewhere every year at some point, I’m living my life incorrectly.

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what you're telling me is that the Japanese have the right of it and Christmas is supposed to be date night for young lovers

Wait hang on. Do ~christian kids ACTUALLY believe that santa is real? I thought that was just in movies??? Like, is "being shocked to learn santa was your parents" a real thing that really actually really happens in real life??? I thought it was like opening the door and setting out an extra cup of wine on passover. Obviously the prophet Elijah isn't actually going to walk in and take a sip. Obviously "santa" is your parents playing pretend. You're all just doing a bit, right???

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Without the context around the conversation, is she: a) coaching him on how to have a conversation with other people or b) telling him that she personally is not interested in his net facts?

The former is a good friend trying to help out someone who is struggling to understand social cues and wants to actually feel included in conversations. The latter is someone who is not being a friend at all, let alone a good one.

this is it. this is the funniest scooby doo clip

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I imagine Hyth is the one who most often initiates the physical affection, so when Emet does it, he's always taken off-guard

(They have been married for centuries)

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Rings my fucking bell, like a perennial fucking plague maiden:

Center harm, not disgust!

When in doubt (and when not in doubt, just swept by problems bigger than you and assured by someone that they know the answer, so don't think right now, just Do!), center harm.

Focus on what specific harm you're reducing with your actions. Make sure it's tangible and concrete. If your actions are minimizing hypothetical harm at the cost of real, tangible harm on others, 9 out 10 times you're on the wrong fucking side, being weaponized by propaganda.

If a conversation revolves around disgust as a driver for action, you're being radicalized. If a call to action depends on your emotional response, you're being manipulated. I'm sorry, this isn't the 90s anymore, social media has eroded the web of respectability of the pre internet society. The primary axis for misinformation to spread in this day and age is emotional response: half the things you believe are true and share as such are not based on fact, expert opinion or personal research. Social media has conditioned us (all of us! You and me and most dangerously of all, the idiots we put in power) that if something feels true, it probably is.

But do you know for sure it is? Do you think it's true because you have first hand experience or actual time spent on reputable sources learning it to be fact? Or just because it aligns with your worldview and it would be nice for you if it were true?

Are you taking action because you're angry and a group of fellow angry folk invited you to join them? Do you have a plan or is this just catharsis? Are you aware of the consequences of your actions or are you drunk on rage and focused only on the immediate future?

Center harm. Center specific actions and their consequences.

Discomfort is not harm. Disgust is not harm. Hypothetical paranoia is not harm.

The reactionary pipeline is real and your self-image as a progressive is not actually enough to save you from falling down the hole. Radicalization is not hinged on politics alone. Saying you're a leftist is worthless if your thought process and actions themselves are indistinguishable from qanon losers. Conspiratorial thought has literally no politics inherently, and your insistence it does is pure lack of critical thought on display.

Center harm, not feelings, not politics, not group think.

Center harm, and remember that individual actions cannot dismantle systemic structures on their own, so anyone who calls for individual action at the cost of community structures is not actually trying to change anything, and instead actively suppressing efforts to make anything better in any way.

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