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°C stands for Correct temperature and °F stands for Freak temperature

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Customer Service Wolf.

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Act I: A Prophecy Born This Day REIGN: THE CONQUEROR 1999 — dir. Yoshinori Kanemori

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baby capybara named Tupi via san antonio zoo

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Because that's sort of the relationship, that she connects with nature and this place maybe more than other students who are just here to go to school. - Jon M. Chu dir. Wicked (2024)

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@pscentral event 33: underrated tv & film ↳ ATLANTIS: THE LOST EMPIRE (2001) dir. Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise

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for almost 29 straight years ive never known a day without a pet and the thrill of it is Still not lost on me. like hi this is my best friend the animal. it loves to be bad. the world is so cruel but we can be best friends with the animal and for that its beautiful too

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when a film or tv show takes place somewhere where you have been, it is your sacred duty as viewer to say “i’ve been there” every time you recognize a place

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I must say, Steven Universe is a lot more enjoyable when you don't need to read through a heaping helping of Tumblr discourse about who's secretly abusing whom this week.

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Steven Mayer (American, 1986) - Edge of the Wood (2019)

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huge shout out to this little kid for writing my favorite poem

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I don't keep plushies anymore for sensory reasons, but these two survived the purge and live in my closet so uhhh, hey tumblr? which option is more cursed?

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Appropriate gym attire and appropriate hand gestures...the girls are loathing!

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(by bachratapetra)

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You know what I'm gonna COMPLAIN!

Vanilla sex isn't "wholesome sex"! Sex is not more pure just because it's done within the framework of a monogamous relationship and free from elements of kink!

"Person is so pure they probably don't even know what sex is." Purity isn't defined by the distance from sex! As if the more a person encounters sex in any context the less pure their soul becomes!

You🫵are not immune to propagating the beliefs and ideas of purity culture!

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One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:

It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and

Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.