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i love hearing about the declining birth rate like yesss that is a major problem considering our dominant economic model. a problem i plan on contributing to 👍 joining the war on declining birth rates on the side of declining birth rates

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@vic-fandom

I've been playing Stellaris for 8 years and this is absolutely the wildest fucking galaxy I've ever seen

I'll try to explain this so people who don't know the game will understand it.

my empire, the Fen, spawned in a totally isolated part of the galaxy, sandwiched between, on one side, an ancient empire with technology centuries ahead of mine and no interest in letting me through their borders, and on the other, a "devouring swarm" species that kept trying to eat me. so I basically hunkered down behind a whole bunch of defense platforms and didn't meet anyone else until halfway through the game.

that situation lured me into a false sense of calm.

about an hour into the game, another ancient empire from the other side of the galaxy "awakened", slaughtered the devouring swarm in less than five minutes, and started closing in on my borders right around the time a violent warlord popped into the middle of my territory through a wormhole.

shortly after this I accidentally imploded my home planet into a black hole.

then, because apparently I had accidentally set the "crisis" option to "ALL", the galaxy was attacked by:

ghost invaders from the dimension where telepathy happens

a rogue AI that made half the robots in the galaxy turn evil

a "scourge" from outside the galaxy intent on consuming everything, including my ships

another rogue AI that wants to erase all consciousness from the universe

in response to this I leaned hard on my bioengineering technology and created a sort of space Godzilla the size of a planet. the entire galactic community then decided that makes me the real problem, and every single civilisation declared war on me.

I evolved my space Godzilla until it got big enough to eat planets, at which point a sort of space Cthulhu emerged and started rampaging through the galaxy trying to challenge it for dominance.

so now, I'm just running around eating planet after planet trying to make my space Godzilla strong enough to fight space Cthulhu, basically doing ranked competitive genocide with the other remaining crisis factions. the galactic population has dropped by like 70%. a dozen empires have fallen. my economy is crashing because apparently this situation is bad for trade and general citizen morale. somewhere there's a planet that keeps sending me notifications because the indigenous species is about to achieve FTL travel and I'm just like. oh buddy. pal. you do not want to be out here.

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love when someone makes one of those fake censored posts and dozens of people fall for it completely disregarding the fact that anyone can easily just post this picture

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when drawing requires you to draw

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if i need to check my internet is working properly i always go to crouton.net

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It’s so infuriating that teen smoking rates were at an all time low in the US and we were on track to basically eradicate smoking and nicotine addiction in teens like it was flat out uncool to smoke and then They came out with nicotine injector flash drives that light up and taste like cotton candy. And have lead in them.

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being a manager sucks balls half the time but the cashier kids im in charge of trust me enough to dick around in front of me so ive been keeping a running list of the shit they say that makes me laugh randomly: -"guys, is it cheating if you play fortnite with your ex" [4 seperate others, immediately]: "YES" -"there must be like… infinite sentences" -"bro what bro what the fuck bro what's that mean bro why'd you say that bro what" <distraught response to a girl randomly greeting him with 'hey there big boy' in an old timey transatlantic news reporter accent

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Tgcf designs of my faves

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[ the root of the problem (is my love for you that grows) ]

Feng Xin/Mu Qing, background Hua Cheng/Xie Lian, hint of Pei Ming/Shi Wudu, Mu Qing/Pei Ming (mentioned in rumors)

chapters 2/4, 77k

hanahaki disease, angst, angst with a happy ending, the author cooked this in hell, miscommunication, Feng Xin POV, Pei Ming deserves a raise and maybe a medal, he’s the only person in this fic with brain cells, Someone Give Feng Xin a Hug, Someone Give Mu Qing a hug, Feng Xin and Mu Qing are Idiots, like certifiably, this is so stupid guys, if anyone would just TALK the plot would fall apart like a house of cards

Feng Xin has begun to notice that Mu Qing is acting... strange. Missing spars. Acting cold. Calling him 'Nan Yang' like they aren't f-f-friends. It's driving Feng Xin insane, and he IS going to get to the bottom of this.

a.k.a. Feng Xin's No Good, Very Bad Week where he cries, like, at least five times (the author didn't count), is very VERY dumb, and slowly loses his sanity during a very dramatic mid-life crisis (any point of your life can be a mid-life when you're immortal).

or, the hanahaki fic from hell that has consumed the authors life.

Also known as, the hanahaki fic I keep mentioning cryptically that I’m working on but never post about.

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Is it self shipping if you make an oc to be in a relationship with a character you kin? /genq

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if you c*nsor anything in a post you are l*gally required to put all of the omitted v*wels at the end as a footn*te

*eeoo

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My Chemical Romance playing the same Chicago venue the day after the Oasis reunion show is so funny to me. Like, you know at least one of them will be in attendance at that one.

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Top 10 photos taken seconds before disaster (the muppet joker fucking died)

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The best photo I took at Dashcon 2

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I like that people are just agreeing on this dynamic with them

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