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breaking news tumblr user oat-malk finds login details to its old blog

i will be logging in to @microweave and maybe discontinuing this account 🫡 mutuals i will try to find you and follow you again

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Apparently it’s just “speaker feedback” from the “audio configuration” between the space station and the starliner but i have trust issues from this podcast so I’m not buying it

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Beetles

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playing pentiment (fantastic fucking game by the way) has really reminded me how crazy disco elysium is from a production standpoint. i mean who in their right mind would not only make the decision to have a game with that many branching dialogue paths, but to have it almost entirely voice acted! that’s nuts! all those additional lines, all those additional dialogue clips for something only a small fraction of players will actually see!

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You see it's quite simple: if they call the earth Gaia, it's fantasy. If they call it Terra, that's sci-fi

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Stephenie Meyer's sci-fi novel The Host is like. it's almost so much. the alien bodysnatchers at the center of the plot are like Animorph's yeerks if they got really into cottagecore. no, they don't want intergalactic war and domination! they want intergalactic peace and domination! they make every planet they visit a peaceful socialist utopia and like, okay, yes, they have to violently take over the bodies of a planet's native inhabitants to do it. yes, they have to suppress the unwilling minds of their host bodies. yes they are for all intents and purposes committing a genocide of their chosen planets' initial inhabitants and then puppeting their husks around playing at homogeneous, sanitized versions of the cultures they destroyed. the alien main character mentions that even episodes of the Brady Bunch were scrubbed because they were deemed too violent. and they call themselves souls, which is so loaded on so many levels. impossible not to read into the spiritual connotations, especially when written by an author coming from the mormon church which so highly values mission trips. just by sympathizing with humans who don't want to be possessed, by helping them hide out and stay free, our protagonist becomes a pariah, an outlaw from her own society. peace is valued above all else but not peace for the colonized, who are meat to be processed. it's better this way. they had so much potential but squandered it with foolish violence so now we have the right to overtake them and make them live correctly. isn't it beautiful now? isn't everything perfect? there's like almost so much happening in this story except Stephenie's a fucking mormon so she never draws any meaningful connections to anything and the happy ending is that the alien brain parasite protag is gifted the body of a beautiful coma patient that she can "ethically" puppet around, easy peasy problem solved. also there's a fucking love triangle.

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similarly, i am of the 'fuck cars' variety of leftist (with nuance i don't have time to explain in a quick reblog) but i fall into the pitfall of Big Machines Cool. i see a beautiful car and i clench my fist because it gets my heart racing but it can't let anyone know i think the car is a gorgeous model with a pristine interior and a clean paint job to boot because that would undermine my political standpoint and i really don't think machines like this should be mass produced for public availability in the capacity that they currently are but man i bet sitting in that thing and going full speed down an empty freeway feels better than sex

big respect to all of you fellow leftists who very morally and self-analytically say things like "if i came into wealth my lifestyle wouldn't even change, i would still eat instant ramen every day and watch tv" like that's very noble of you but could NOT be me. if i had endless money i'd be throwing that stuff around. paying off my friends' medical debts and student loans and donating to charity yes, but i also want a waterslide in my house and a ridiculously decked out home cinema and a fully staffed petting zoo and a LAN party computer lab. does this align with my beliefs about how excess wealth and assets should be distributed? absolutely not. do i get childishly excited over the idea of a backyard rollercoaster regardless? yes. i want a loop de loop with fireworks and sound effects.

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big respect to all of you fellow leftists who very morally and self-analytically say things like "if i came into wealth my lifestyle wouldn't even change, i would still eat instant ramen every day and watch tv" like that's very noble of you but could NOT be me. if i had endless money i'd be throwing that stuff around. paying off my friends' medical debts and student loans and donating to charity yes, but i also want a waterslide in my house and a ridiculously decked out home cinema and a fully staffed petting zoo and a LAN party computer lab. does this align with my beliefs about how excess wealth and assets should be distributed? absolutely not. do i get childishly excited over the idea of a backyard rollercoaster regardless? yes. i want a loop de loop with fireworks and sound effects.

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a comic about meeting your younger self :)

Thank you for reading :)

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and i'm going to.

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“oh no we need to practice for our fake dating” is the funniest trope to me cause like. there are so many people who force themselves into a shitty relationship they hate just because of amatonormatiivity that it’s an ingrained part of popular culture to joke about hating your partner.

which is to say, oh my god you dont need to hold hands and go on fake dates, you don’t even need to agree on a single detail of your cover story beforehand. you can literally stand 6 feet apart at all times and look profoundly uncomfortable and all anyone will think is “yikes™. not my problem”

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brown works so hard and does so much and everyone is so mean to her. coffee chocolate hair leather tea wood eyes broth a warm coat autumn leaves caramelized onions the crust on a loaf of bread. all things good and warm and kind are brown. bitch!

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I wasn’t crazy about this piece so I wasn’t intending on publicly posting it again, but it keeps getting stolen every five minutes so I figured I’d put it here so people at least know who to attribute the original thing to lmao

[Digital illustration, Procreate App, 2020]

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Is he "female socialized" or is he just a standard flamboyant sensitive artsy gay dude who would honestly be indiscernible from any other fem gay guy if you didn't see him as a walking vagina first and foremost.

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dude your poem fucking bit me

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When a “funny” dude likes you and anytime he sees you anywhere he will be like “yoooo wassup it’s Jelissa!” (Or whatever) like “omg Miranda is here whaaaat” for literally no reason why do they do that