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I’ve been waiting since March to post this…

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when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. when all you have is a paintbrush, everything looks like a canvas. when all you have is a cock, everything looks like the exhaust pipe of a 2014 honda civic. so yes, to answer your question, i am stuck. please call the emergency services

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Binghua is probably the most problematic scum villain ship by pure volume of problematic intricacies but in the funniest way possible

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is dating a ghost necrophilia?

Please refer to the flowchart.

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I love how the general consensus in Scum Villain ABO AU's is that whatever Shen Jiu's secondary gender was, he was lying about it.

Omega? Obviously he's going to cover that up. Potential weakness! Probably related to past traumatic experiences! No one can know! He's going to pretend to be either a Beta or an Alpha instead.

Alpha? Hates it and everyone else and has no interest in playing the type. Hides it less because of how other people might respond and more because he's having some kind of complicated dysphoria about it.

Beta? I've never see it but I bet he'd disguise that as well. He's totally an Alpha, don't ask questions, fuck off and don't violate the mile-wide personal space bubble.

Whatever Shen Jiu is, we all know he'd be wildly uncomfortable with it.

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Hate it when cis people ask unnecessary and invasive questions like "are your experiments ethical?" And "where is that screamimg coming from?"

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Nie mingjue is so girl coded i cannot believe no one ever talks about it, like, bro's parents died, he had to raise his little brother from a young age, he was harsh but everyone knew it was out of love, he had a hereditary condition that would affect his moods and cause his early death if left untreated, he was popular amongst men, had his concerns about a shady guy completely ignored by everyone around him which caused his death, his tits were so iconic that his dead body was reconized because of them

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I agree with you that it simply might not have been thought through by the writers, but I think you could construct a watstonian reason. I just thought it might be a neat worldbuilding thought experiment.

The first part is that it used to be a very rare technique that very little people could learn. But two things changed.

1. Iroh developed the technique of rerouting lightning. This would make teaching lightning probably a good chunk saver for bystanders and teachers.

2. Up to this point, people had very little incentive to learn it. For most people learning it would not be worth the great risk until they had a real use for it. For the royal family and other high ranking benders it the prestigewas worth it, but for most people it's not. Now it's a sellable skill.

For the second part, yes you are right that it seems like a incredibly unsafe way to generate energy. But it could also be cheaper than the rest. And a city that just leaves orphans on the street might not be very concerned about worker safety.

Fire benders are possibly cheaper than earth and water benders. Partly because because those two are applicable to more different works that are better paying. And secondly because of discrimination after the 100 year war against fire benders.

For fire benders tending a fire from different fuel, why spend money on fuel when you can just endanger your employees for cheaper.

not to complain about a great and now kinda old show, but in Avatar: The Legend of Korra they have a scene showing lighting bending being used for power generation and like sure that's a very cool thing to see and it really sells that people in A:tLoK have electricity, it's also really really dumb

firstly and probably most importantly, it kinda undercuts the idea in AtLA that lighting bending is a master technique, only really usable by the most accomplished fire-benders

but also like, they clearly understand electricity, they have all sorts of funky tech, but like there has got to be an easier way to generate the stuff, lighting is going to be all sorts of highly variable, couldn't they have just like a standard generator, big spinny thing, big magnets

if you've got to have benders working in the power plant, have earth-benders working in teams actively spinning the turbine, or water-benders using their bending to generate big water currents to do the same

if it really needs to be fire-benders, have them actively managing the fires in a standard usual burn stuff to (heat water and) generate steam to push the turbine kinda generator

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friendly reminder that YOU 🫵 can make even the most relaxing innocuous activities into high stress situations if you’re mentally ill enough. always believe in yourself and your incapacity to conquer catastrophic thinking!

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why would I need enemies when I already have my brain doing a great job at that

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i would hire shang qinghua as my lawyer because i believe wholeheartedly that if we were losing he would start loudly crying and would not stop until the judge gives up and declares me innocent

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We don’t talk enough about how fanfiction writers love to give character large amounts of non-specific paperwork they hate doing

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me: what if i did a follow up to my twilight/squidward crackship my roommate: yo i have the best idea

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I don't want to make ““doctor’s appointments””and ““schedule a follow up.”” I want to be coaxed gently into a crate and taken to the vet.

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Doylist explanation: They keep making new electric mouse pokemon because they're frantically trying to recreate the success of Pikachu. Or at least because it's tradition at this point.

Watsonian explanation: A major predator of rodents is birds of prey. A mouse that can deliver electric shocks to flying-types has a much higher chance of living to produce more offspring. Thus, convergent evolution fills this niche in every region. "Pikachu" is just the pokemon universe equivalent of "crab".