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hearing that your characterizations are good is like. the best thing to hear as a fic writer.

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FUCKING getting you! get here so I can get FUCKING get you!

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okay now I'm curious and I dunno if this is really such an archaic foreign thing to young people today or if I'm just out of touch

Please reblog, I'd love to see a lot of responses!

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Personally I think that battle sims like showdown would still be a thing in the pokemon world. Cuz like picture this: you are ten years old and the only Pokémon you have access to is the elderly family Sunflora. You love Sunny to death but also literally every media you consume involves Pokémon battles and champions and cool ass fights. Sunny is too old to fight and your neighbor’s Gothita is too young. One day on the playground your friend tells you about this cool website that lets you battle pokemon on the computer. Later that night you boot up the family computer and instantly realize that this website lets you play as GROUDON (!!!!). There’s no going back from there.

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*makes aus for own ocs* i am my own fandom

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Tumblr is good for creative types because the tag system lets you be truly deranged about how much you like it without feeling as Exposed as a Comment Section

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✦ Commission with pretty Umbra and Fem!Drifter :З ✦

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"How could the enforced anonymity of imageboard culture ever seem like a good idea?" is a question that reads very differently when one's formative experience of social media involves web forums circa 2000 where it was impossible to decipher what any given thread was talking about because every single post included a signature that was ten times as long as its actual content, is all I'm saying.

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babe wake up, full canon accurate and up-to-date map of the star wars galaxy just dropped

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Add another one to the list of hilarious examples of why generative AI doesn't produce correct answers, just statistically likely ones.

(Customers asked for how-to videos, which the company doesn't have. The AI chatbot decided that a million internet users linking to this video after similar requests couldn't be wrong.)

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man sometimes i really want to get back into welding but then i remember that the guys from the first course i took won’t be there and change my mind

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"why we build the wall" from hadestown is really gonna trip up future media analysis students. they'll be like "ah a piece of media from the 2010s referencing building a wall to keep out the poor, clearly this is a reference to the president of the united states from 2016-2020", and then their professor will have to be like "actually the concept album for this musical came out in 2010"

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you gotta have freaks and gross weirdos in your life it’s imperative to understanding the truth of humanity

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somewhere out there right now is a kid with curly hair being raised by people who have wavy hair at best and those people are giving them 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner and telling them to dry brush it. and that kid is gonna spend all of middle school and high school hating their hair and moping over the flat iron. they're being told right now that if they don't dry-brush their curl pattern into oblivion every morning it means they're unkempt and gross even though they naturally have the kind of ringlets that a thousand bridezillas would commit horrible murders for every june. it's happening right now it's an absolute epidemic and a tragedy every time

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saw a twt thread asking ppl abt fave multiple eitos ending. was genuinely surprised to see almost no one say 10/together forever. like it's mine and it's not close bc like. while it's comparatively less "oh my fucking god" than 09/11, i love it for how much it recontextualizes...not only endurance match but also a massive amount about eito (and aotsumi) in general?

like it's where he comes closest to winning. genuinely does win, honestly. takumi admits defeat, and while he does try to kill himself by way of sirei before eito can kill his friends, he also does so out of guilt/penance. and if eito doesn't want that - which he doesn't - then it's able to spark enough willpower for eito to just take over fully early. he. has the power to get what ending he wants.

which makes it feel so revealing that 1. he doesn't know what he wants, and 2. he doesn't want takumi to die. like that "isn't this what you wanted, for me to die?" "of course not!" exchange fucking kills me.

like-small tangent, but. takumi and eito's kill counts of each other are heavily lopsided - takumi can kill eito a fair bit. eito? kills takumi a grand total of once. and it's at a time when he's not in his right mind/not fully in control. like to put it into perspective nozomi kills takumi more times than eito does. i thought at first well okay, it's because we the player stop boss fights against him from becoming lethal, but it's still weird, right? you'd think if he wanted to kill takumi that badly, there'd be a few deaths to him of like sneak attacks and stuff. but no! and with together forever context, it feels like it's because, cards on the table, he just doesn't want to kill takumi.

(this also makes endurance match hit more for me! it's. not. his life he's begging for. because he is going to win. it's takumi's.)

like that's what makes together forever magical to me. eito gets an absolute victory over takumi, and what does he do? ...he willingly backs down and takes a much lesser victory so their time together can extend forever and ever. it's just. so much that that's what he wants, if takumi's going to stop fighting back.

like it sorta shoots a hole in the idea that it's just hatred or just revenge. given the opportunity to have takumi get exactly what he gave him, or to have takumi give up and admit defeat, he'll pass it up in favor of being with him forever. it's. deeply revealing for what he wants, and what he wants is more time with takumi over his actual evil plans. it's great. what on earth is wrong with him.