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Warped medullary rays found on pieces of wood that resemble animals

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I wish him back to life!

GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S PINOCCHIO (2022) directed by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson

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Grandma blows your brains out 🥰

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Okay so apparently J.K. Rowling called Lolita a "tragic love story" (allegedly) and people aren't talking about this until now for some reason. (Tumblr's doing that thing again so here's a link.)

Lolita is a book about a pedophile and his twelve year old victim. It's not even written as a romance.

He marries her mom just to get close to her child, considers killing his wife when she talks about maybe sending Dolores ("Lolita") to a boarding school, and kidnaps Dolores after his wife dies from a car accident. None of that is romantic. None of that was ever written to be romantic.

She's supposed to be the author of one of the best selling book series in the world. How the fuck did she become the author of one of the best selling book series in the world when she doesn't understand that a story about a pedophile and his twelve year old rape victim isn't a romantic one?

Dolores is also the name of one of the villains in Harry Potter. I wouldn't have thought about it as more than just a coincidence if JK Rowling didn't say that Lolita is one of her favorite books for being a "tragic love story."

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WAIT I HAVE AN AWESOME HOUSE DESIGN

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Follow-up: An online friend from South America says: Depending on their country, they meant "dog that looks like a churro" or "good-looking dog" Both are pretty good options

The other day while walking our corgi, we came across a Spanish-speaking family, whose little kids wanted to pet the dog. So we stopped and they did that. My Spanish is terrible, but I think I heard one of the adults call him a “churro perro,” and I deeply hope I heard that correctly.

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The other day while walking our corgi, we came across a Spanish-speaking family, whose little kids wanted to pet the dog. So we stopped and they did that. My Spanish is terrible, but I think I heard one of the adults call him a “churro perro,” and I deeply hope I heard that correctly.

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By LabradoriteKing on Pinterest

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fighting the problematic stereotype of 'only the bad guys are weird sex perverts' by making the good-hearted protagonist an even weirder sex pervert

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"meteoric rise" is such a weird phrase. literally the main thing meteors don't do

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Gradually getting more bland and cookie cutter

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Men will date a convicted embezzler and say "all women are gold diggers"

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To defeat algorithmic censorship, we must do something I call "reverse euphemism". Instead of coming up with "clean" versions of taboo terms, we need to use the taboo terms to refer to mundane things, thus forcing the censors to allow them.

We already started doing it with "rawdogging". We should keep going.

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CQL ads were wild 😩 they censored the drama but forgot about the ads hahahaha

For context: in the original novel, WWX confesses to LWJ by saying, “You’re really great. I like you."

And then he goes on, "...or in other words, I fancy you, I love you, I want you, I can’t leave you, I whatever you. I want to night-hunt with you for the rest of my life." 💛

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Fearing such hits as “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park,” “National Brotherhood Week,” “The Masochism Tango,” “The Element Song,” “Be Prepared,” and “Lobachevsky”

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someone got really mad at me for being pro-pornography so i'd like to be annoying for a little longer:

-there are enormous problems with exploitation in the porn industry that harm and endanger the people within it, and that harm is carried out mostly against women and minorities

-this is Bad

-however the last century of passing laws against pornography hasn't actually helped any of those problems, and what sex workers tend to advocate for is the legitimization of their labor, so that they can then access the same protections and regulations that people in other industries can access

-for instance football players, miners, roofers, and warehouse workers are also exploited and endangered by their professions, have to work long hours, and can end up traumatized and disabled by unregulated and unsafe working conditions. these people are used up and thrown away by powerful bosses they can't individually challenge.

-however because these industries are not de facto illegal to participate in, when these people form unions and demand better working conditions, they can at least fight for their rights.

-sex workers, who engage in heavily stigmatized work that's also often illegal, have little recourse to demand better treatment.

-even if you don't like porn, and especially if you don't like porn, if you care about the women who are exploited in pornography, you need to advocate for the legality of pornography.

-the more illegal the porn industry is, the less safe and fair it is, and people will still be working in it, no matter how illegal it is.

-again: the porn industry should be regulated like any other industry and subject to laws guaranteeing fair compensation for labor, safe working conditions, and legal resources for workers suffering exploitation and abuse.

-once it is legal to do sex work, then women can bring charges against the men who have broken their contracts and abused them.

-and that is why i push back against posts saying that pornography is evil. it is an entertainment product, made by people, to meet an ongoing demand. criminalizing the consumption and production of it may slightly lessen the demand at the incredible cost of endangering everyone involved. and i think that is what's evil.

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