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You can be talking to someone and she'll be like, "Oh I made a silly mistake. Women don't deserve voting rights teehee." And you'll be like, "What." And she'll be like, "Oh I'm sorry! That must sound so bad out of context. No it's this Tiktok meme where, if you're a girl and you do something dumb, you say 'Women don't deserve voting rights teehee.'"

And you'll be like, "That sounds bad." And she'll be like, "No no. It's totally not that bad. It's just a meme. Men say it too. Like if a man does something silly he'll be like, 'I am like those women who do not deserve to vote.'" And you'll be like, "Does that make it better?" And she'll be like, "Well there was one guy who tried to make 'Men shouldn't vote' a popular meme. But it never caught on and also he got yelled at a lot."

And then you drop it there because like, you're harshing the vibe.

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People on the ao3 subredit get so mad when you point out you wanna read fanfiction of the actual characters of the media you have consumed and not the fandom commodified version of them. Like idk if you take every interesting character and transform them in the same trite dynamic of masculine top man x hyperfeminine bottom twink flower shop au angst hurt and comfort in this oddly american setting and do it ad oltranza with all the medias turning into that why are you even writing for those fandoms to begin with!!!

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Sometimes being in environmental law means that your schedule for the afternoon gets completely thrown because a colleague standing the middle of some woods calls to tell you that there’s gunk in the stream and it smells bad.

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back on the flight rising grind yuh 🔥🔥 first one is a comm, other two are my dragons

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love when my internet gets bad and im just scrolling the dash looking at the diagonal gradients

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hey uh new type of ao3 spam comment just dropped. (I know it's spam because the fic they left this comment on . doesn't have chapters. lmfao). Report this kinda comment as spam and don't take it personally it is literally recycled bullshit

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I feel like a thing I wish was more generally acknowledged across fandoms is that "I don't find this character sympathetic" and "This character was not intended to be sympathetic" are obviously connected but are, ultimately, two completely different statements that may not overlap at all.

Ultimately what you think about any given character is a completely subjective issue that has no right or wrong answer. The narrative may be trying to evoke sympathy for them, and you may just feel that it flat-out was not successful in doing that. You may look the author straight in the eye and say "Nope, I see what you're trying to do, but f*ck this guy actually, he's The Worst and that's all there is to it". And no one can tell you that you're wrong for doing so.

But when it comes to picking up on what the story is trying to do, whether you ultimately think it did a good job or not, I would argue there's at least some measure of objective reality. And I feel like people sometimes end up conflating them, so you end up with these posts like "I can't believe people sympathize with this character when the story clearly just wants you to hate them!" and it's like... yeah, I think people sympathize with this character because the story is very clearly and intentionally painting them as sympathetic. I could point you at a dozen different scenes that are clearly meant to evoke sympathy for This Character. You don't have to have found any of it compelling, but at a certain point recognizing it's there is a simple matter of reading comprehension.

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did u go protest today

good evening officer

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A lady and her guard

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chocomint pudding miku

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"ruthlessly repressed violent sadist" is already a peak character concept, but "ruthlessly repressed violent sadist who everyone tries to take advantage of" has yet to be beat for me

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So I might have gone a bit crazy today and made almost 130 stamps :P

Most of them are Off stamps so go get them if you want!

I'll give y'all some of the examples

Get them here!!

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Aaaa!!!! these miscellaneous Batters from across time

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Happy Father's day to one of the best father ever (he released his child from any and all kind of suffering).

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“abandonment issues girl x devoted til death boy” trope my beloved

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do you guys know about the internet roadtrip? right now somewhere between 500 and 900 people are collectively 'driving' a car on google street view trying to make it to canada. it's fun i recommend it