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The Archivist

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I'm the biggest champion of critical thinking skills you'll meet but what scares me is that all the critical thinking skills in the world only do so much when you're bombarded by new information faster than you can process it. That's why constant exposure to short-form video is so insidious in a way even other social media is not.

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actually, contrary to popular believe i think they’d get along swimmingly 😌

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When Sasha hosts her first D&D session, Michael isn’t invited, really, but it shows up regardless; clutching a character sheet and set of resin dice whose insides swirl around in a way that gives everyone a headache. Jon is ready to kick it out immediately, but Sasha vouches for it, and somehow they begin the game with it in their party.

None of them claim to know the Distortion, but they expected a chaotic character — a wild mage or barbarian, maybe. They don’t expect a lore bard, especially not a human one, and especially not one of such a kindly demeanor. It’s strange, watching Michael switch between voicing its character and describing its actions to Sasha, as though they’re actually playing with two distinct Spiral avatars instead of one.

As the campaign continues, they discover just how many little details it put into its character. He likes colorful tunics and warm scarves. He thinks lilies are pretty. He’s somehow “more of a doormat than Martin”, as Tim puts it. He was an acolyte before becoming an adventurer. Dungeons and Dragons is a game all about constructing elaborate lies wrapped around a grain of truth, after all.

And if Jon Knows something about this character, this strange creation that seems to fit Michael like a second skin, he chooses not to say.

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thinking so hard about how kris is the only human in town and how in the library there's a book called "how to raise a human child" a book made about humans but for monsters and it makes kris so uncomfortable they shut the book as soon as they open it and how every single time I search about autism on google all the results say "how to raise an autistic child" every article being made about autistic people for neurotypical people

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BAN ON CONVERSION PRACTICES IN THE EU. GO SIGN IT. DEADLINE IS FUCKING MAY 17. WE'RE STILL MISSING 800.000 signatures. FUCKING DO IT.

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I DIDNT ATTACH THE VIDEO!!! THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS POST SO LETS TRY THIS AGAIN : (((((

oop- is that a new queer musical proshot that was produced, directed, written, and led by trans theater artists that you can watch right now FOR FREE on YouTube?? YES IT IS BABS, HERE'S TOTALED: A FOLK ROCK THRILLER!!!! MEOW BYE PLEASE WATCH!!!!

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It was so bold of Mcgee to go full Hot Topic on the Carpenter like that.

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there is something so crazy and powerful about having art of your oc that was made by anyone other than yourself. like oh my god you actually exist outside of my own brain that's WILD

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love when stories inflict unspeakable horrors onto a person for no real reason. its not karma. its not payback. its not a lesson. its not your fault. no ones even out to get you in particular. youre not the chosen one or special or anything. it just sorta happened and you were there. sorry man

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When every single Eurovision song slaps and you remember the joke about recession music and now you’re contemplating everything lmao.

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maybe we’ll meet at a bar, he’ll drive a funky car– wrong. he’ll be driving a funky off road wheelchair.

(i’m calling them cabincore duo from now on)

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Did someone say Cowboy UF skeleton brothers????

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i feel like counter-trolling is an essential skill that kids online aren’t learning and it’s kinda worrying

like back in my day, the day of online forums, learning how to trick someone in to getting themselves banned was an essential skill. if you could tell someone was a chud, you would ask them short, leading questions and watch them get frustrated and post longer and longer rants until they said something that would catch a mod’s attention and get them banned and/or at least publicly humiliated. 

and guess what? that’s the exact same tactics the alt-right use now. these people are exclusively acting in bad faith. every interaction these people post online is done with the intention of getting someone to respond to them so they can screenshot the massive paragraphs of text and laugh

so, what’s the solution?

dare ‘em to post dick pics.

don’t acknowledge the content of the stuff they post. if you see someone trying to engage you in bad faith just dare them to post pictures of their penis until they either get frustrated and leave or get frustrated and do it. either way they lose. 

this is the tactic used by the fans of a podcast (that i haven’t listened to) called the Chapo Trap House, and 4chan’s /pol/ users fucking HATE them. they hate Chapo Trap House and think they’re crazy because Chapo Trap House fans refuse to engage in meaningful debate and repeatedly demand dick pics. they get frustrated and leave. it works. 

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