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god I could be so wealthy if I had no ethics. that's so fucking frustrating. I'm living paycheck to paycheck because I'm not grifting vulnerable idiots on TikTok. I feel like I have the ability to very easily scam people. I could make a killing with AI. but god. I have morals and ethics and so I get to be poor as shit. I hate this fucking world

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Ironically, hard light is bad for recording sexy time.

It will highlight every pore, every vein, every wrinkle on your nutsack.

One day I will end this ring light fad. It is my ultimate side quest.

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"We're living through the ongoing fascist collapse of the United States but I still gotta clean the kitchen and go to work tomorrow" sure is the mood right now, huh.

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Walter Molino

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"When you're trying to have a hot girl summer, but the governments decide to start WWIII😭😭"

Location: Bumfuck, Oklahoma

"Dying in WWIII wasn't on my 2025 bucketlist 💀🫣"

Location: Sydney, Australia

"Look at the strawberry varenyky I made"

Location: Kyiv, Ukraine

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Actually I love the two throuples in Sense8 because one is Kala in love with her husband Rajan but also kinda cheating on him emotionally (and then sexually) with her boyfriend Wolfgang that she's mentally linked with and then when Rajan finally meets his wife's boyfriend his reaction is

And then Lito,Hernando and Dani doing this

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i dont know why anyone else misses analog board games, but to me, it's because physical parts let me cheat. there's no moving pieces around when someone isnt looking in a chess app, no sneaking bonus pieces out of the graveyard in checkers, no double drawing cards in go fish.

i spent years developing those skills as a Professional Little Brother. what am i supposed to do now, go back to college? learn how to play games the right way? i mean, who gives a shit? the fun part was never the game, it was the Getting Away With It. or, you know, for the rest of my family, Catching The Bastard. now that was entertainment.

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The scene where Vimes kills Swing is so sexy:

Just. Stone cold in the middle of a burning torture chamber. With the sharp edge of a ruler the guy used to do phrenology and torture people with.

Just standing there, watching, expressionless. Samuel Vimes, who spends most of the book protecting people. Who only went down back into the building to give a literal torturer a fighting chance because it wasn't right and fair to let the man burn to death chained to a chair.

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Having haters doesn't make you special. Everyone's got haters. You forget to use your blinker in traffic just once, and the driver behind you is like "fuck that driver, I bet they never use the fucking blinkers ever, fucking dipshit", that's a hater. You're halfway to being born and your older sibling realises they're going to have to share all their shit, that's a hater. And if you don't have haters before you were born, you'll be in the hospital crying your first breath and someone else hears you in the hallway and thinks "oh fuck there's a fucking baby somewhere here." One minute old, did one thing, and already got one hater.

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TIL “Yankee Doodle” was written by the British to mock americans. “Doodle” is thought to come from the German “dödel”, meaning “fool” or “simpleton” and “macaroni,” a flamboyantly stylish type of dress, painting the Yankees as morons who thought placing a feather in one’s cap made them a “dandy.”

via reddit.com

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Art by u/reachling

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The Wandering Tomb 🔔🪦💀

New character I get to play! Shes a warforged paladin who's weapon is a giant censer bell! I meant to get her done before artfight but I was a touch late so I've added her today! >:)

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And then Vimes realized why he was thinking like this. It was because he wanted there to be conspirators. It was much better to imagine men in some smoky room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over the brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn’t then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told their children bedtime stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people. It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone’s fault. If it was Us, what did that make Me? After all, I’m one of Us. I must be. I’ve certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We’re always one of Us. It’s Them that do the bad things.

Terry Pratchett, Jingo

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I don't know exactly how to articulate this but... if you repeatedly show historical fiction women rejecting traditionally female skills/duties and doing swords instead, because swords is obviously the Most Important Thing, you are kind of implying that all the work that has been traditionally done by female hands for millennia was useless all along and not, you know, keeping civilization going. Because it's usually rejected not as a personal preference but as This Is The Important Stuff (male work) and That is The Dumb Useless Stuff (women's work) and that kind of bothers me. The message was supposed to be Vital But Underpaid and Underappreciated, not women's work is insignificant so let's all go do swords.

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Door Appreciation

I was thinking about Door. By, erm...The standards of the D family, he's actually quite a good parent!

He's physically affectionate with Boy, rather than being "traditional" and kind of distant with his son. He's unafraid to show concern for him.

He's quite honest with him; he doesn't try to shield him from the truth for the sake of peace of mind. This is probably also partly because in these situations, underestimating how fucked you are will get you killed, but I think it also shows that he respects him. He treats him as being intelligent and capable enough to be told exactly how it is. He isn't the kind of parent that raises their child on heavy condescension and infantilisation. Although, Boy is 11, so, you know, a bit more being treated like an 11 year old might be in order, but, you know, by the standards of this family's way of life, not bad.

He isn't the kind of parent that raises their child on negative reinforcement. When Boy does something well, he praises him. He encourages his skills, interests and sense of humour. He rewards him when he does well. He's not the kind of parent that rules by shame and judgement, causing their children to grow up feeling inadequate and like they're never good enough. His way of parenting is far healthier than that, and I think it shows in the ways Boy is mostly quite open about himself, like freely showing the family his writing and sharing interests such as gaming with them.

Also, again, by the standards of the D family, he shows concern for Boy's mental health. While he does seem to equate being able to get through it with being "strong", he doesn't seem to hold it against Boy that he's having difficulties, or view it as some failing.

Despite bringing Boy into hunting and teaching him how to use a gun, letting him drink booze, etc, he does have concern for Boy's childhood innocence, and he supports his interests like any good parent would do.

TL;DR: Door looks like he kind of smells of BO, but I think he's a good dad by the standards of the D family. His relationship with Boy is super cute and I love them.

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You know for the first 18-ish years of your life everyone your age is mostly doing the same things and then all of a sudden every year for the rest of your life somebody your age is getting divorced while somebody else just learned what a leaf is and you have no idea what’s going on or what you’re supposed to be doing