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As , the United States, potentially heads into another forever war I can only think of this quote.

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Fully convinced that “rowdy” is some polite society way of calling someone a faggot

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i have never seen a clearer metaphor for being a closeted gay male than murph playing maxwell gotch, a character who is lured by the promise of sweaty, muscular men creating intricate rituals to touch each other and who frequently bites off his delicate white gloves to show his dirty bruised knuckles. happy pride everyone

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kind of obsessed with rowdy as a euphemism for queer in cloudward ho. you're rowdy. you're too loud. you cause trouble. you make me uncomfortable. you're not being how i want you to be. you go places and you do things that i don't think are proper. you don't live how i think you should live. and you're so in my face about it. you're one of those..... rowdies. like come ON that's so good.

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y'all know that whole left-brained/right-brained thing is fake right? and the "brain fully develops at age 25" thing? and the "we only use 10% of our brains" thing? yeah they're all complete horseshit please yell at anyone who says them

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Actually, 'Zelda' is the name of the princess. The guy who runs around smashing everyone's pots is just called 'Zelda's monster'.

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If tumblr shuts down you can find me in living in a shotgun shack. If tumblr shuts down you can find me in another part of the world. If tumblr shuts down you can find me behind the wheel of a large automobile. If tumblr shuts down you can find me in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife. It tumblr shuts down I'll send myself an ask that says "how did I get here?"

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finding an error in someone else's fic: awe. we are all human - this is totally understandable and doesn't bother me whatsoever. it is almost endearing to know that others are not perfect, and in their excitement to share, they made a small mistake.

finding an error in your own fic: a merciful death is too kind for me. i deserve to be burnt on a pyre or publicly executed at dawn

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Reblog to give prev the power to write their fanfiction

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a single typo literally has the explosive power of a nuclear bomb like i just read back possibly the most beautiful scene ive ever created feeling so proud of myself ready to start thinking about the nobel prize in literature etc. etc. and then suddenly

“It’s oaky,” he whispered.

it’s oaky. what is this. a wine tasting

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hey, did you know that the world is a better place because of your creations and art and writing, no matter how niche or how many people see it

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I was teaching kids today and they got fixated on the usual ‘are they dead now?’ question when I was talking about historical figures. So I was just like ‘Yes, they’re dead now, everyone who was alive in the 1800s is dead now.’ and then one kid was like ‘Except for you’.

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another of the ways in which fiction absolutely lied to me and not prepared me at all for real life is friend groups.

Every story always has the one specific well defined friend group where everyone knows everyone else and is equally close to each other and dont hang out with anyone else outside of the friend group. Did you ever notice how absurdly pervasive that is in fiction?

im real life friend groups are this amorphous thing where not everyone knows each other and have different relations with each other and you will usually have multiple friend groups completly isolated from each other who in turn are conected to other groups totally divorces from yours and sometimes you will also have some one on one friendshios with some people who are not part of any group, and some times you will spend your time with people who are not "friends" but friends of friends or coworkers or what have you and its so incredibly messy and complicated and i dont know if any piece of fiction was ever able to truly capture that in its full complexity

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Honestly the Murderbot show is doing a great job showing the difference its helmet makes. At first I thought they’d want it down most of the show so we could see Alexander’s face (ya know, because they hired an actor and not a stunt double), but it’s really becoming clear that the helmet being on or off is part of the story. And honestly helmet!Murderbot IS significantly scarier.

Murderbot with its helmet on (especially with the robotic voice treatment) is a (literally) faceless killing machine, and no one knows what it’s going to do next. Murderbot with its helmet off is a perpetually confused, anxious, and stressed person who wants to get this over with so it can go back to its shows and be left alone.

This adds a lot of nuance to whenever the PresAux team asks/begs it to take its helmet off. The team desperately needs to gauge its “human” facial expressions in order to feel safe vs. please god let me stay in my helmet if they see all my involuntary facial reactions they’re going to Ask About My Feelings again.

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a year too late but I finally watched The Acolyte