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how many times do we need to say it disability benefits aren't worth the effort of a scam

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also something black sails does that a great majority of shows do not is that it has this like, extremely efficient character economy. it always annoys me when shows keep bringing in characters that serve a purpose for a couple of episodes and are then disposed of (in recent memory the americans would not stop doing this); in black sails minor roles are fulfilled by the same tertiary characters... dufresne, idelle, de groot, mrs mapelton, featherstone... in a lesser show i think none of them would've made it past season 2 and their roles would've been filled in by a new rando. it just makes everyone feel like a fully rounded human being; and the repetition of the familiar makes the writing feel more (for a lack of a better way to explain this) intricate? complex? epic, in the old school sense, than it otherwise would have if "guy whose head silver stomps on to show us that he means business now, no matter the cost" was just a new character we've known for half a season

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My absolute favorite kind of mentor and protege relationship is when the mentor absolutely cares about their protege and wants them to succeed

--but they are passing on lessons that are just so, so incredibly toxic and harmful, fully believing them to be the key to success.

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i actually think its incredibly funny that people can just log on to the internet and get in a fight with a guy in another country. what a privileged time we live in. you used to have to go to war to do that

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i don't fully understand what's going on here but this is so beautiful

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the older I get, the more the technological changes I've lived through as a millennial feel bizarre to me. we had computers in my primary school classroom; I first learned to type on a typewriter. I had a cellphone as a teenager, but still needed a physical train timetable. my parents listened to LP records when I was growing up; meanwhile, my childhood cassette tape collection became a CD collection, until I started downloading mp3s on kazaa over our 56k modem internet connection to play in winamp on my desktop computer, and now my laptop doesn't even have a disc tray. I used to save my word documents on floppy discs. I grew up using the rotary phone at my grandparents' house and our wall-connected landline; my mother's first cellphone was so big, we called it The Brick. I once took my desktop computer - monitor, tower and all - on the train to attend a LAN party at a friend's house where we had to connect to the internet with physical cables to play together, and where one friend's massive CRT monitor wouldn't fit on any available table. as kids, we used to make concertina caterpillars in class with the punctured and perforated paper strips that were left over whenever anything was printed on the room's dot matrix printer, which was outdated by the time I was in high school. VHS tapes became DVDs, and you could still rent both at the local video store when I was first married, but those shops all died out within the next six years. my facebook account predates the iphone camera - I used to carry around a separate digital camera and manually upload photos to the computer in order to post them; there are rolls of undeveloped film from my childhood still in envelopes from the chemist's in my childhood photo albums. I have a photo album from my wedding, but no physical albums of my child; by then, we were all posting online, and now that's a decade's worth of pictures I'd have to sort through manually in order to create one. there are video games I tell my son about but can't ever show him because the consoles they used to run on are all obsolete and the games were never remastered for the new ones that don't have the requisite backwards compatibility. I used to have a walkman for car trips as a kid; then I had a discman and a plastic hardshell case of CDs to carry around as a teenager; later, a friend gave my husband and I engraved matching ipods as a wedding present, and we used them both until they stopped working; now they're obsolete. today I texted my mother, who was born in 1950, a tiktok upload of an instructional video for girls from 1956 on how to look after their hair and nails and fold their clothes. my father was born four years after the invention of colour televison; he worked in radio and print journalism, and in the years before his health declined, even though he logically understood that newspapers existed online, he would clip out articles from the physical paper, put them in an envelope and mail them to me overseas if he wanted me to read them. and now I hold the world in a glass-faced rectangle, and I have access to everything and ownership of nothing, and everything I write online can potentially be wiped out at the drop of a hat by the ego of an idiot manchild billionaire. as a child, I wore a watch, but like most of my generation, I stopped when cellphones started telling us the time and they became redundant. now, my son wears a smartwatch so we can call him home from playing in the neighbourhood park, and there's a tanline on his wrist ike the one I haven't had since the age of fifteen. and I wonder: what will 2030 look like?

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[talking to my therapist] and 31 is NOT too old to "fujo out" for starters

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@dont-call-me-algernon !!!

These two works are necessary for my existence

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haven’t done pixel in a while so here’s a sleepy nya

(feel free to use as long as you link back to my acc!!)

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haven’t drawn them in a bit

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Takes One To Know One (9091 words) by randomnickname Chapters: 6/? Fandom: Soul Eater Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Giriko/Justin Law Characters: Justin Law, Giriko (Soul Eater) In the frozen mountains of Wyoming, bounty hunters Justin and Giriko team up for a man-hunt. Soul Eater western AU.

Chapter 6 is up! It's time for all that rain to be an even bigger pain in the ass. Hypothermia galore!

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Takes One To Know One (9091 words) by randomnickname Chapters: 6/? Fandom: Soul Eater Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Giriko/Justin Law Characters: Justin Law, Giriko (Soul Eater) In the frozen mountains of Wyoming, bounty hunters Justin and Giriko team up for a man-hunt. Soul Eater western AU.

Chapter 6 is up! It's time for all that rain to be an even bigger pain in the ass. Hypothermia galore!

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if gay marriage became legal in 2018 when season 14 dean was walking around in the world. he would have gruffly asked cas if he wanted to get married. 2015 dean is not in a place to do this because it's season 11 his boyfriend is literally possessed by satan and they aren't coparenting yet they're just buddies who are in love with each other and not talking about it. but in 2018? raising a baby? crucially everything else about s14 is still the same there is no huge swing in the plot that focuses on their romance there is no offscreen development of their relationship romantically. they are existing in the world as s14 dean and cas. everything is exactly the same. it would be like if the first 15 episodes happened and then after lebanon dean goes. whats with all the rainbows. sam voice. do you not read the news. gay marriage was just legalized. dean voice huh. [slaps his knee] well. cmon cas we better get a move on if we're gonna get this done.

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completely personal preference obviously but i hate when there's a time travel fix-it and everything goes smoothly and the protagonist is just cool and confident with all their knowledge of the ruined future. nooo shut up. what is even the point if they're not an emotionally traumatized mess frantically trying to fix things and fucking up as they do so, keeping secrets and alienating their loved ones, causing new and interesting problems and barely scraping through to an eventual better ending

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😭😭😭what the hell how did i deserve readers like you aaaah <3

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GOD'S OWN COUNTRY (2017) dir. Francis Lee

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having the black sails gene is like i don't think people understand that he truly is the best protagonist that has ever been put to television