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I don't wanna @ anyone because I understand how fast things seem to move in today's landscape of streaming shows dropping entire seasons in one day, and networks pumping out new series constantly to try to attract more subscribers with no intent to actually maintain those shows over time but I just saw someone self-deprecatingly lament that they are still thinking about a show that ended almost a year ago, making fan art and playlists for it, and I want to be very clear:

you can still create fanworks when it comes to old media!! PLEASE do!! there are always going to be new fans who will appreciate it, and veteran fans who are dying for new content and new perspectives. also, less than a year is NOTHING. the original Star Trek series was on TV six decades ago and there are still people losing their minds over it, writing stories and reblogging gifsets daily, and that's only one example.

a fandom lasts as long as there are people who love a thing, even if it's only a handful of people. love what you love and write and draw and make gifs and playlists about it!

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Rules: Color the sentence that's true for you

I was tagged by @elvenmother!

i’m over 5'5 / i wear glasses or contacts / i have blonde hair / i often wear sweatshirts / i prefer loose clothing over tight clothes / i have one or two piercings / i have at least one tattoo / i have blue eyes / i have dyed or highlighted my hair / i have or have had braces / i have freckles / i paint my nails / i typically wear makeup / i don’t often smile / resting bitch face / i play sports / i play an instrument / i know more than one language / i can cook or bake / i like writing / i like to read / i can multitask / i’ve never dated anyone / i have a best friend i’ve known for over five years / i am an only child

I coloured things green for yes, blue for a qualified yes (have done so but not frequently or recently).

Tag yourself if you'd like to do this one!

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I just saw a post talking about how trans men are made to feel hated and misgendered by "fuck men" and "men dni" sentiments and I didn't want to derail it but it did start me thinking about how I, as a trans woman, am made to feel by those sorts of sentiments.

I'm worried that I'll join a "woman only" space and not be seen as one. I don't pass as a woman but I am one. Do I fall inside or outside of their category for what a "woman" is.

I still get nervous when I hear people talking about how much they hate men because not only did do I still look and sound like a man, I used to be a man and I'm not suddenly a different person because I've transitioned. All the hate they spew used to be directed at me so why would they stop now?

I don't know I'm not someone who can well articulate these sorts of things or talk about these issues but I always feel uncomfortable when peeople say those types of things around me and I feel like other trans women might as well

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unpopular opinion: Vimes is kind of drama queen

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spin this wheel: https://pickerwheel.com/pw?id=6WpHU

tell me your thoughts in the tags. genres mostly pulled from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genres

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Enough about favorite books. What’s a book you read and absolutely hated? The book you’ve got a bone to pick with.

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every time im shown a baby (usually a coworker's) I've learned to coo because it's the expected response but seeing a baby does nothing to my brain. that's a worm who might start screaming. but apparently everyone finds babies cute? is everyone else also pretending or am I the problem ?

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My freighter, fleet of starships, and preferred multitool on my current save in No Man's Sky. Yes, I've gone with an MDZS theme for naming them (apart from the multitool). I have just one slot left open for salvaging additional starships with, which I'm greatly disappointed by; I'd like to also have ships for Jiang Yanli and the remaining two juniors, and possibly Nie Mingjue and Wen Ruohan as well (I think the Iron Vulture would be very suitable for him).

Some of the starships I have earmarked for specific purposes, such as Ghost General being for fossil storage, and Lan Qiren holding some of the special items needed for settlement building upgrades, but mostly they just hold building materials such as metal sheets, glass panes, carbon fibre, and so forth.

I think the next time there's an expedition to play I'm going to go into it with Jin Ling as my ship, as that one is still in need of a lot of storage space and technology augment upgrades.

Yes some of them have suspiciously regular technology layouts; once I've "finished" a ship in terms of unlocking storage spaces, I sometimes used the NMSSE to go in and neaten up the layout of the tech section instead of leaving it weirdly tetrised

Also yes, I am very amused every time I gate back to my freighter and see the message "Returning to Cloud Recesses".

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is commercially available beef made from bulls (male cattle) only?

no, it's made from a mix of steers (castrated bulls), the occasional regular bull, and younger female cows (heifers). ranchers raise the cattle and determine which ones to send in for processing, and dairy farms also send young bulls or older cows in for processing occasionally.

all cattle are killed and processed at the same plants, their age, breed, and quality of their meat determines the grade it gets which is what you see in the meat aisle when they make it to a supermarket.

an older dairy cow or a bull would probably get a USDA Select grade (lowest quality, tougher and good for stew), while a younger meat breed steer or heifer would be more like USDA Choice or Prime (tender, good for steak).

and now you know how that works! you can use this knowledge the next time you're in the supermarket- I think it's good to know who you're eating.

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I posted this everywhere else on wwx his birthday except for here so well. Happy wangxian everyone

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Jul 9 - Started yet another scarf today and am already about 1/3 of the way through it. I'm going to need to start making more complex and/or bigger things soon so I blow through projects less quickly.

Made dilly ground beef for supper, served as usual with egg noodles and steamed green veggies.

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Randomly curious:

Everyone I know would know of these, and many would have some in their kitchens. So now I'm curious how far that knowledge goes.

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technology has changed so much over the years, it's nuts to think about.