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a smartphone is a sort of cursed amulet

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Parker Pigeon 🩶 Douglas

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daily Pokèmon #0038: Ninetales

honestly i love how this line specifically shows how much pokemon design changed with the years. kanto ninetales and vulpix can be mistaken as normal animals with more fluff, while the alolan ones have more cartoony proportions its not a criticism!!!! i really liked seeing the differences!!!!

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A thing that has been helpful for me is realizing that Temperance shares a root with the verb "to temper" as in "to temper steel", and that Temperance is not masochistic denial of pleasure, but instead taking the time to develop the wherewithal to go "well what the fuck am I gonna do with this?" You can temper eggs into a nice omelette, or lemons into lemonade.

You can temper emotions into something useful that, if it can't make you happy, at least doesn't hurt as much. Anger, for instance, can be tempered into compassion. You're angry at the current administration's fuckery? Why? Probably because you, and everyone else, does not deserve this shit. In fact, it'd be great to go stop that shit, and prevent it from happening again, because you have compassion for yourself and others, and therefore do not want this shit to happen tonthem. Boom. Hammer out the impurities of self-righteousness and learned helplessness and turn that anger into a tempered steel tool to go fix things.

This goes for all of them. Anger tempers into compassion, disgust into respect, fear into knowledge, surprise into curiosity, joy into peace, and sadness into love. Temperance is a virtue, but the virtue is in using that big human brain of yours to work with what you have instead of just flinging the shit you're in around like an ape.

It's helpful for me to see Temperance as agency in that I remember that I always do have at least an inch of agency inside my own head that nobody can ever take from me, and the remember that the false Temperance of unthinking denial serves no purpose save as an excuse to get out of the work of improving myself.

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Unusual Curses

Doesn't know what doors are. Can't learn.

Slow, inexorable transformation in a tumblr sexyman.

You don't turn into a ravenous wolfman every full moon, but you're utterly convinced you do.

Every car you enter becomes a cybertruck.

Transparent skin and glowing bones.

You constantly hear Doug Walker reacting to everything you do in your head.

You can't perceive cats anymore.

Everyone you love will die, in probably a maximum of 90 years.

Can't ever enter Nevada.

Will instantly die if you ever see a tiktok.

Every meal you eat is mashed potatoes. No matter what you intended to make, order or buy, it's mashed potatoes.

Thou cannot walketh where a passenger pigeon flew this tenday (this was a bigger problem 200 years ago).

In seven days, Sadako will do a corporate buyout of your workplace and fire you.

You are simultaneously desperate to find truth but have limited perceptions and subjective biases that render you fundamentally unable to ever be truly certain of truth, as well as fearing death while being unavoidably mortal, unlike most people who are immortal and know the universe directly.

Fuck this. Fuck you. Crabs upon you.

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some backgrounds I did for @gin-juice-tonic 's game!

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can i interest u in a box of friend??

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Are you aware of the multi dimensional warren that has been put out for your arrest

Bruh I’m so much bigger than a rabbit

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one time around 7 years ago my friend texted like "come over i need to show you something or ill go insane." so i went to his apartment and what he wanted to show me was that he had accidentally dressed himself in like an olive green jacket over a white tshirt with black slim-cut jeans (ie accidental komaeda cosplay). and see, that wouldve been funny enough on its own, but at that moment i happened to be wearing a blue hoodie with shorts and flip flops,

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cardinal sin….? no…. they wouldn’t…. would they?

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the impact "bnuuy" had

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I was about halfway done with animating Popplio and Scorbunny when I realized, huh, wouldn’t it be cute if you could choose to play with wild Pokemon instead of just battling with them?

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Everybody always calls me a silly goose but never a handsome goose or clever goose...

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I think people on here operate on a very weird definition of "conventionally attractive" where anything humanoid is already too normal for them. When society at large is like "if you're not skinny and white and able bodied and cisgender you're basically unfuckable"