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Also, I'm quite suddenly not going to be able to afford all my bills this coming month, so I will be hyping up my commissions and working as quickly as I can. But, like I said in my previous post, my health is at the unbearable-can't-push-through point so if anyone has even like $1 to spare, it would be so appreciated if you could send me a Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/batwynn or, if you'd like access to a bunch of exclusive art, sticker club stuff, comics, and NSFW stuff, you can join my Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/c/Batwynn

No pressure, of course. I know everyone's going through it right now, and I'm genuinely so sorry to ask this yet again. I don't know what else to do right now, and please believe me that I've been trying to find any kind of remote work that I can do for like 2 years now and nothing has panned through. I am trying, I promise that I'm trying.

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i didnt know you were allowed to do things for the sake of wanting to do things. i thought you were just supposed to keep that locked inside your ribcage and let it rot you inside out until youre limping around as the desiccated corpse of who you could have been

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Dude, (prev, not OP) you are just telling on yourself by who you follow. I have never seen a single post on this webbed site that was anything but derogatory about him.

No one in my feed even mentioned him before about 5 years ago when his toxicity became obvious.

The first time I became aware of him I was watching a TV show with friends and they described one character as an 'Elon Musk' type as though that was meant to make him sound cool. At my blank expression they explained him in a way that made him sound like a rich tosspot, and I was like, 'But you get how that's bad, right?' After that he wasn't a blip on my radar until he started loudly asshatting on Twitter.

Your experience is not universal. Your feed reflects YOU, not all of Tumblr.

Do you know what this site thought of Elon Musk before he started supporting Trump and gave that Nazi Salute?

Going how far back? Ten years ago, we didn't talk about him and nobody cared. He was not in the wider public consciousness. Those who knew who he was mostly thought "oh yeah he's that rich guy who wants to look smart" and nothing much else was said. I think his first bump in popularity was when he married Grimes, and then he was just the weird rich dude Grimes married. I did not know who Grimes was and still kinda don't. She had a Tumblr blog and then made some music and had a baby with a weird name and then vanished kinda post-divorce afaik.

Then I think maybe five years ago ish he sort of started showing up more as a sort of weaboo man-baby deal? Pictures of him in Les Mis cosplay, dressed as a furby, and showing off empty Diet Coke cans and a fake replica gun on his nightstand circulated.

My impression was that he was just like. If that creepy awkward guy in class who unironically does the Naruto run and thinks katanas are magic was spawned out of the ether with infinite money.

And then I think maybe after that was how stupid he is? That became public knowledge shortly after-like how the safety vests in some of his factories are in washed-out neutral colours cause he doesn't like neons. Or like... how he seemed to be giving off the impression that he was a genius inventor, despite not actually making anything or having any kind of education se can speak of? All I know is like. He was an owner with PayPal and then bought Tesla?

And simultaneously if I remember correctly he was kind of always about "if we don't let the nazis talk on twitter then we're basically á dictatorship" or whatever, banging on the free speech drum and going on about how jokes used to be funny, then bluffed about buying twitter and somehow got legally shoehorned into ponying up and actually doing it for WAY more than it was worth, almost immediately making it worse and tanking its value.

Now it seems kind of like an Emporer's clothes situation where everyone knows the Emporer is naked, but instead of getting embarrassed and covering up, the emperor just keeps doubling down harder. Meanwhile his whole entire ass is just. Out

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Bahaha, I just follow a select group of people with excellent taste, and have also been here forever.

You guys want to play a game? REBLOG and put in the tags why you follow this person

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a child came into the nature center and saw tadpoles for the first time and when i told him they're baby frogs he thought i was lying and i suddenly realized that if you're 3 and don't know that tadpoles become frogs it does sound pretty fake. this kid will not fall for made up shit online he is a born skeptic.

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tucson aint got much but it does have a bridge shaped like a rattlesnake

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Definitely a post on tumblr.com

I ain’t afraid of no goats.

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I love when you find an author who just has a good flavor to their writing. It could be the way they handle characters, the way they use certain tropes or themes, even the specific lilt of their words. Its familiar and comforting and carries across different stories, like coming back to a place of comfort and recognizing the furniture.

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Every single thing in this image is SO late 90s. She's practically Dana Scully, with a bigger gun.

she’s right

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Three hours is still quite a bit for a novella. The Shawshank Redemption is a pretty faithful adaptation of a novella and it's only half that amount of time. I did start to understand why they needed to add in some stuff this episode, but I also think they've lost what makes the book seem tense and urgent.

I didn't MIND the aliens mating - it added character in their responses and reminds us that the aliens are actually the natives and makes them more than just convenient monsters. It also wouldn't surprise me if there is more plot planned for those critters.

But yeah, I don't know why people didn't attempt to do more for Gurathin earlier. Murderbot points out that the company has a vested interest in keeping them alive, and we've seen that they have very advanced medicine. I just don't think there's an in-world explanation. The explanation is the plot required it.

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A few preliminary thoughts:

The cold-open Gurathin backstory infodump was pretty clunky even by the standards of this show, but I do like the "we can talk about this" as refrain for incorporating emotional complexities & conflicts into the group's understanding of itself. In the books, SecUnit remarks on the team being without drama and conflict--at least, in terms of its frame of reference--but no group of humans is free of conflict and complex emotional dynamics. I like that they're showing that the PresAux team, and by extension Preservation society, have specific cultural practices for managing these things, instead of just being magic Emotional Intelligence Elves. Subpoint, the call-forward to Mensah admitting to SecUnit that they can be naive helps to underscore that these cultural practices work. Mensah seems surprised to hear Gurathin say that she's naive, but by the time of the conversation with SecUnit, she's incorporated it into her understanding of the group's emotional dynamics.

Murderbot, I feel like the fact that you have actually detected an incoming hopper is a key detail that you could maybe share, in order to get across the urgency of the situation.

Mensah, "stay alive" is a goal, not a plan.

I do not get what the scene of the hostile fauna mating was for. It wasn't terrible, and in a 26-episode season it's the kind of thing I'd love to see for worldbuilding and characterization, but I'm not quite grasping why that was important enough to add to the story when they're dealing with a runtime of (minus previouslys and credits) not much over 3 hours. Anybody have insight into something I'm missing about it?

Sidebar, but I dig how modular the crew uniforms are. I noticed the zip-off shorts early on, but I only just realized that the vest, the jacket, and the coat are all actually the same garment.

The first-aid kit that they use to cut out a chunk of SecUnit's spine doesn't include anything for treating infection and reducing fever? Really?

They're really hammering in the difference between the PresAuxes' reaction to a dead human enemy vs. a dead hostile SecUnit, huh?

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video game challenge: [4/7] male characters – Astarion (Baldur's Gate 3)

This is the first time in 200 years I've seen these streets in the sunlight. You can forget just how much color there is in the world.