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another car opinion is that they shouldn't have touch screens

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what do you mean you havent used mindfulness techniques to accept the state of the torture labyrinth as is yet. its like youre not even trying

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Scientific fraud is the most baffling thing ever to me like do they think they're just going to make a huge breakthrough and no one will notice that it's fake by trying to replicate their results

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The first rule of cable management is "out of sight, out of mind"

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The bed they like to cuddle in the most is hard to take pictures of, but I persevere

Bonus: the plastic shelves they bullied me into keeping because it's too cute to see them in the window when I get home

I love you so much I hope we get reborn as housecats who sleep together like puzzle pieces

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cutest adorable horangi and kkachi

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banging my head on the wall BEGGING people on the internet to learn what an Inside Thought is. like you do not need to express every nasty opinion you have, and if you do so publicly, you gotta accept that people are gonna get mad at you for saying shit like "i find gay men repulsive". social media is not your private diary, it is public. there are consequences for saying terrible things, such as thousands of people thinking you're an asshole.

PLEASE learn what an inside thought is. you do not need to share everything that goes through your head. you shouldn't.

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One day I woke up and everybody knew what a labubu was

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The fact that im getting raw dogged by life everyday. Don’t have any medication to take the edge off. Nor any addiction, I don’t even got a religion or spirituality to fall back on. Im facing this life stone cold sober every goddamn day??? Why???

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One of the most addictive tropes in fiction is a girl who is ready to sacrifice herself for the greater good and a guy who will never let that happen, even if it makes him the villain and even if everyone else has no problem with her being sacrificed.

I think it's whats so appealing about love and deepspace but I also see this trope in buffy the vampire slayer and many, many other works of fiction.

It goes like this: a girl/woman, groomed from a young age to prioritize everyones needs over her own (sound familiar?). Taught to take on responsibility for her family/friends/the world and willing to do it because she is good.

And yes, she's strong and a badass and is still fighting to live but... everyone would break under all that weight eventually, and everyone around her is happy and willing to let her be the sacrifice so that they don't have to do anything outside of their comfort zone.

And then there's him. A boy or a man who rejects this idea. He may be introduced as a villain/bad guy because he doesn't seem to have any interest in saving people and being good.

And he watches this strong, smart and hopeful person that's so full of life and so loving that she's willing to get hurt to protect the people who wouldn't take the slightest risk for her.

Often she's also mistreated by them, like in Buffys case where not only did her friends not provide her with any support, they jumped at every occasion to judge her, gaslight her and use her for anything they needed (housing, money, protection, emotional labour...).

So what does he do? He protects her. With all his might.

I think that's what people have misunderstood about the appeal of the "bad boy" in fiction.