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So did your parents ever explain why you shouldn't get involved in anyhting potentially occult or supernatural? Or why the focus was on stuff like Dungeons and Dragons or Harry Potter and not characters who predated them like Dr. Strange or Dr. Fate?

Most of this question can be answered by noting that most of these examples were irrelevant to my childhood either by How Old I Am or I Didn't Know They Existed.

Harry Potter didn't exist until I was in college! I remember the day, while I was employed at the Warner Bros Studio Store during art school, that the managers had a meeting and told us that The Next Big Thing, By Corporate Decree, would be something called Harry Potter and the Philospher's Stone. And we would sell it. And we would have exclusive rights to sell it. And by god it was going to be the big thing or fucking else.

So that didn't come up much with my parents, no.

Also, I'm not sure I knew who Dr. Strange or Dr. Fate were until I was in my twenties. They wouldn't be an example I'd know to bring up.

And so the focus was on contemporary things I knew about, like He-Man or Disney's Gummi Bears or the Black Cauldron PC game I got for my birthday and got to play like five minutes of before it was discovered that there was magic in this.

(five minutes was enough to get frustrated and stuck in it, anyway, so not the hugest loss)

I got to watch Star Wars, which ""promoted eastern religion," because "it was good."

so

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people born in 24 Are 2000 now

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REBLOG IF YOU HAVE STRETCHMARKS

This way people can see they’re not alone. I have them and this would help me see that.

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i'm so glad goncharov happened when it did, right before prolific public use of AI. that was pure honest gaslighting straight from the heart. real human whimsicality and trickery thru blood sweat and tears. we were a family. and we all gonched, together. you cant replicate that with any machine.

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(insp)

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apparently people who have been to Galaxy's Edge in Disney say the blue and green milks are bad and leave a weird chalky feeling in your mouth and I am just

in awe

how do you mess up a beverage so bad Disney

I know you can afford quality control

It's really very easy. If you want blue milk to be something guests carry around in the park to refresh themselves while shopping/in line or whatever, you have three options, any of them would work:

Milkshake

Smoothie

Milk tea (maybe with boba. Get it? Boba? Star Wars? I'm funny)

If you want it to be exclusive to restaurants or whatever then just make it actual milk, dairy or plant-based, tinted blue. Maybe put it on a dessert menu. With cookies.

There, I fixed it. I'll take my check now.

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One time when I was feeling really insecure about my art my mom said "hey check this out" and sent me an art thing and I was like HOLY SHIT MOM THATS SO COOL DID YOU MAKE THAT and she was like 'no that's yours from highschool' and I still haven't really recovered to be honest

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clocking in for another day at the i dont wanna factory

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microdosing macrodosing by taking a normal amount

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Me talking about Phil Lynott, the songwriter of "The Boys Are Back In Town"

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this is purely for fun and I've certainly been guilty of a few of these things myself in my years of fic writing. don't be weird in the notes and don't use this as an excuse to insult someone's writing.

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Denzel Washington being an absolute whore in MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (1993)

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Look, I love me a good platonic marriage/partnership story. You know I do.

But. My friends. My babes. My guys.

Two people being in a lifelong, literally or effectively married platonic partnership are not obligated to forever forgo sex and dating with all other partners until death amen. POLYAMORY EXISTS. It exists for a reason! You can be married to the 100% nonsexual love of your life and still want sex to be in your life, and it still can be! Without feeling gross or empty or like a traitor, even!

(and yeah, this also goes for marriages/partnerships that DO already involve sex, but y'all are not ready for THAT conversation.)