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a video that starts "how to dress to make your man OBSESSED with you 😍" and it abruptly cuts to somebody dressed as a huge and uncannily realistic white whale

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saw an elderly woman walking around with a tote bag whose design were the four AO3 fic category squares and she very excitedly asked if i was a reader or a writer bcs nobody else at the con had recognized it, and after telling her that i've been writing fic since fanfic.net, she solemnly nodded and explained that she'd been reading fic since "the days of personal websites" but that she only started writing fanfic when she was 47 and oh my god when i tell you that i genuinely teared up on the spot!!!!! like!!! HELL YEAH???? LITERALLY NEVER TOO OLD TO START WRITING. NEVER TOO OLD TO WRITE AND SHARE YOUR FIC.

her enthusiastic "i'm a very nice and bubbly person, i swear! but i love writing angst and major character death :)" nearly took me the fuck out.

icon. legend. diva. i wish her nothing but a kajillion million comments and kudos. i hope her fic updates crash AO3. i hope she knows i'm promoting her to my personal patron saint of AO3.

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shes having a big adventure on my pee wee cause im #HERMAN

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no matter how hard i try i will always be that little girl wondering why everyone is better friends with eachother than her and begging to be loved

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idk i think what is interesting about astarion to me is the fact that you have a guy who started out an asshole (normal type) and then spent two hundred years in a very carefully and specifically crafted (by the writers of the game) Become A Terrible Person Or Die nexus. like it wasn’t just a Torment Nexus, he wasn’t just in hell, i feel like this is very important not to forget, he was in hell but it was specifically a hell designed to, over time, kill the empathy of anyone trapped in it, kill their brain’s ability to prioritize other peoples’ survival, to numb one’s conscience.

and then he gets yanked directly out of that nexus and despite that the fact that he spent, again, two hundred years in a situation that was sort of a rock tumbler for the human soul, there’s still a pebble left in there. and it’s a pebble that can be grown if placed in the right environment and provided with a support network.

so i think it becomes interesting because it really does i think force you to start thinking about the limits of free will even on as basic a level as the human personality. i think the fact that he becomes such a different character based on player choice, that his end morality is so hugely dependent on player choice, is uhhh. a big part of what the devs were going for probably.

it makes a lot of people really uncomfortable to acknowledge some bad people would be good people if literally nothing changed except they had a good support network and different circumstances. especially because it means the opposite is also true. which is even more uncomfortable.

you know that part in the beginning of fellowship of the ring where gandalf is talking about how gollum is ultimately only like that because of the ring and gandalf thinks his story is sad? astarion is kinda like if they sexualized gollum.

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saying this as a person who’s physically disabled. But the reason that doctors love to say physical disabilities are actually mental illness is because the general consensus is that the right way to treat a mentally ill person is to force them. When a doctor says my dysphagia is “just anxiety” what they are saying is that there is a class of people, people with anxiety, who should not be given any support or accommodation. Because the way to treat an anxious person is to make their life hell until they “shape up”.

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The Powerpuff Girls S01E08

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Who's winning the Ugly Horse With A Fucked Up Neck contest??

ohhhhhhh wowwwwwwwwwwwwwww hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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s/o to this skeleton babe from 1936

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good afternoon i just wanted to send out a very heartfelt reminder message to everyone: take care of yourself, you matter, please dump your fucking boyfriend, nobody deserves that kind of torture. set yourself free. dump him.

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Welp.