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Growing.

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i think some of you guys are insane 👍 it's actually possible for a 16 year old to be online friends with someone in their 20s. source: teenagers are actually people who can talk to other people about shared interests.

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hello character who is desperate to be a good person; i want to play a game. in front of you is the one person you will never be able to save. you have the rest of your life to make peace with this. there are no defined repercussions if you fail, but we both know you're going to attempt to win regardless. your time starts now

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A phenomenon I’ve seen in fandom with a large central ship is that people will have their shipping goggles activated at such an intensity, they doggedly erase character traits that don’t contribute to pushing forward romance. The two individuals in the relationship are rendered utterly one-dimensional through the loss of any individual aspects of their story or personality that could be interpreted as an obstacle to shipping.

This makes fanon interpretations of the characters boring and uninteresting to read about because they have no character traits other than being in love with their romantic interest. I like shipping as much as the next guy, but I hate fandom-at-large’s tendency to only engage with a story through shipping, and especially to the extent that the characters are barely individuals, and do not exist outside of the central romantic relationship

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One of my least favourite dialogue tropes is when a man tells a woman, “You can’t do that” or “I wouldn’t do that if I were you” and she says, “Why? Because I’m a woman and therefore too weak to handle this/can’t take care of myself?” or something to that effect and the guy replies with, “No, because everyone who tried that ended up with a bullet in their brain” or something equally reasonable and not gender-specific that paints him as the rational not sexist guy and the woman as an irrational paranoid feminist who searches for sexism in everything. This whole scenario is built on the idea that sexism is over and women’s fears and suspicions don’t have a leg to stand on. It’s also self-congratulatory pseudofeminism bc it’s supposed to make the viewer/reader/listener feel that in this specific work of fiction women are treated respectfully and as equal with men.

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Did your OC have any good life before they became a villain?

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part of being an ally to trans men is not being a dick to cis men for their appearance btw

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i feel like i'm losing my mind why has the AI debate pivoted away from material/labor concerns back to debates about Real vs Fake Art. cannot express just how little i care about relitigating Art and high art and low art and skilled vs unskilled art. what i care about is the treatment and compensation of workers, the power corporations are exerting over intellectual property and creators, the continued extraction of resources, and the omnipresent glut of spam and disinformation with few or no regulations/resources that filter out the SEO AI generated nonsense

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Kabukimono's Tales of Tatarasuna (part 2)

Posting this on tumblr. This series was first posted on twitter and IG since January 2023.

The people of Tatarasuna taught him many things...

[My comic masterlist] [Kabukimono Tale of Tatarasuna series]

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snake comparisons :D

long haired Regan is the younger version (around grad school), when they first got aetherized.

of note: the tshirt that doesn't fit now that they've grown several inches, the gradual shift in wardrobe towards formal wear, and the split lip from not being used to having big fangs in their mouth lol

also of note: in the top right is Regan's twin brother :)

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Happy 20th anniversary to the best lawyer game ever!

This will be available as a 1.5m long, high res and layered PSD soon! Check out the full-stitched version of this illustration: https://poipiku.com/3827235/5413373.html

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they would NOT fucking have communication skills that good

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Has Chuuya ever used corruption in front of the ADA. Just so Dazai can swoop in and save him? Dead Apple parallels

oh you bet he did! agency walked on eggshells around chuuya for a week after that

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Also some oc stuff I did recently!~ Devin is one of my main ocs and he has a very big lore and story :)) though recently its been getting some lovely updates! Aerife (air-eef-aye) is the god of knowledge in my world :)) He and Devin are best friends and we love that for them teehee- the type of best friends to hang out fora wqeek and cause a decades worth of fuckery LMAO

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Sunshine boy! Oh gosh I really love him even though he's not my first legendary espers ( ^-^)> 🌹

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if there's one thing we can learn from this booping experience it's that we need to give people notes and interact with them for tumblr to be fun and thriving

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[Image id: Digital drawing of Agumon and Takuma drawn to look as if made in blue charcoal against a white canvas. Takuma is crouched on the right side if the canvas, looking dumbfounded and in awe as he tentatively reaches to touch Agumon's head. Agumon is sitting contently and docile on the left side of the screen, drawn in profile and facing Takuma and tilting his head to the side happily.]