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in my head the star wars equivalent of tswift is some human woman named tay’lor spiff or something and her stans are losing their minds over theories that she’s secretly a jedi singing about the horrors of war, even though she’s from a neutral system that hasn’t seen so much as a moral panic in 50 years

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love when i ask a customer a clarifying question and they just repeat themselves verbatim. "where's the small tubs of prawns?" "which kind?" "yknow, the small tubs" bestie i am asking because we have four different kinds of prawns and they're all in small tubs. please.

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Spot on 😆

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cannot wait for chilled to play mcc. receiving clips from his stream rn where he is saying he does not know what happens in the event and he has never watched it. "is it parkour? capture the flag? building? i have no idea" he has never even made a tool in minecraft let alone used an elytra. he only just realised it's In Eight Days and he's away for four of those. he is going to do the absolute worst anyone has ever done <3

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So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)

Reblog to increase sample size!

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All ten MCC Season 4 Kick Off teams!

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TEAM TIES MCC????????

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my other problem here is i autistically imprinted on nancy & jonathan during s2. and then i squinted a lot during s3 and straight up didnt bother watching s4. so now the major chunk of the fandom is taking at face value writing decisions that i personally think are hot garbage

and also. nancy wheeler lesbian IS a good narrative arc, yes. but sometimes characters don't actually have chemistry they just don't have any other developed relationships. if you are breaking nancy & jonathan up it can't be for The Other Lesbian, especially when what you're taking as chemistry is mostly just robin character assassination

my ideal stranger things fic that no one is going to write including me is. nancy/jonathan transitioning over time to nancy&jonathan but from an outsider perspective nothing has changed. nancy realises she's a lesbian and starts dating women and, also, gets engaged to jonathan, because marriage means having them in your house and she has already found the one person she is comfortable having in her house and no she doesn't want to sleep with him what's that got to do with anything. jonathan is autistic aroace. meanwhile steve/eddie ARE the people who start dating in high school (or close enough) and then stay together the rest of their whole damn lives. robin does not find her forever woman in hawkins and this is fine because she was not expecting to. let them all LEAVE.

however the party is the Everyone Dates Each Other So Much We Need A Diagram To Explain It friend group. mike/el and lucas/max yes. also lucas/will and max/el and eventually mike/el/max and also sometimes mike/max/lucas. dustin isn't dating lucas or will but very few people believe them about this. "friends make out sometimes!!!" dustin yells indignantly in the byeclair apartment his name is on the lease of (mike & el have an apartment, max will choose which of these apartments she lives in any day now). mike eventually comes out as trans fem which makes will & dustin go oh that's why the puppy crush faded. at one point steve spent a day going round giving them all multiple shovel talks.

also joyce is a lesbian. thank you for coming to my ted talk

at this point stranger things is a bad enough television show it's unethical of me to say "i wish more adults with fic-writing tendencies watched this". however it sure still is a show i scroll the ao3 tag of and wish badly for the ability to filter out anything written by anyone under the age of 21

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at this point stranger things is a bad enough television show it's unethical of me to say "i wish more adults with fic-writing tendencies watched this". however it sure still is a show i scroll the ao3 tag of and wish badly for the ability to filter out anything written by anyone under the age of 21

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Honestly where does Sam Reich think he gets the right to come into the homes of innocent viewers and sing the Do the Wenis song the exact number of times to make us involuntarily memorize it

I had plans for those neurons, Sam! I had goals, nay, DREAMS for them until you hijacked my defenseless eardrums and tattooed your rhythmic legacy into my psyche!

One day you will have to stand at the gates of heaven and defend your actions, and WHO WILL DO THE WENIS FOR YOU THEN, SAMUEL? WHO WILL DO THE WENIS FOR YOU THEN

anyway great episode

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relatedly. any of youse bought caterpillar brand work trousers recently. are they worth the price tag

already starting to noticeably wear thru the knees of my work trousers so am trying to find the most formal-passing reinforced knee trousers. decided to double check the formality is in fact uniform policy. apparently the policy is i have to specifically wear the exact trousers they gave me, something i have not done once because those trousers don't have an elastic waist and i am autistic, so. love when a policy is actually just store manager's discretion but it doesn't say that because fuck forbid we admit the rules aren't universally applicable

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already starting to noticeably wear thru the knees of my work trousers so am trying to find the most formal-passing reinforced knee trousers. decided to double check the formality is in fact uniform policy. apparently the policy is i have to specifically wear the exact trousers they gave me, something i have not done once because those trousers don't have an elastic waist and i am autistic, so. love when a policy is actually just store manager's discretion but it doesn't say that because fuck forbid we admit the rules aren't universally applicable

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there is no unlived life or alternative reality where everything went right…. there is only here and now what are you going to do with it

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I become exhausted when post-consumer/reuse ideas become trendy because I'll see someone on the community page asking where they can get 20 1-gallon milk jugs for their indoor gardening projects and the answer is obviously the waste bin, after drinking 20 gallons of milk. But they dont mean that, they mean where can they buy them new and already clean. But the point of using gallon jugs is to make clever use of things you already have, not to buy more.

Like when pallet gardening was a thing but people wanted brand new clean looking pallets instead of going to the hardware store loading dock and asking if they could take broken and used ones.

Like yes we get that ot looks cute and it's a solution to a problem but the point of it was to use things that would have been otherwise tossed.

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