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Oh. Oh Laios. We've all been there, haven't we.

And ofc Laios is annoying but Falin is attractive. Falin is manic pixie dream girl, the same traits in a guy are insufferable.

(It's dehumanising for everyone)

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i cannot fucking do this

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Here is a Draft I Wrote on August 24th, 2023

Hello. Today is my 46th birthday. I am really happy to be here. I am especially happy to be here because my previous selves did so much work--including when they did not want to be here--to make sure that I would have a chance to walk in the woods on a very hot August day and marvel in gratitude.

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Some ND Stevenson art: famous paintings recreated with only emojis (yes I'm calling it art. If nothing else it made me laugh.)

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Update: I put a video through a youtube downloader and that seems to have worked.

What's everyone doing about the new youtube situation?

They give you 3 videos with adblock and then their given options are disable adblock, pay for premium, or dont watch.

Firstly Id like to sue them about accessibility and migraine+ triggers but thats not feasible for me personally.

On a larger scale, Im wondering if we mass report that its making mistakes (ie lie) could we confuse them into thinking theyre not correctly detecting presence or absence of ad-blockers. Or can they tell. Trying to report theyre asking me for a screenshot?

In the short term, my vpn isnt working so I cant try that.

How do we get around this fucking insidious restriction?

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What's everyone doing about the new youtube situation?

They give you 3 videos with adblock and then their given options are disable adblock, pay for premium, or dont watch.

Firstly Id like to sue them about accessibility and migraine+ triggers but thats not feasible for me personally.

On a larger scale, Im wondering if we mass report that its making mistakes (ie lie) could we confuse them into thinking theyre not correctly detecting presence or absence of ad-blockers. Or can they tell. Trying to report theyre asking me for a screenshot?

In the short term, my vpn isnt working so I cant try that.

How do we get around this fucking insidious restriction?

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Since November? Like 5 months ago? Not, idk, 15 years?

Holy shit, they got Voyager 1 working again!

15 billion miles away and NASA was able to tweak code packages on one of the onboard computers and it worked and Voyager 1 is sending signals back to earth for the first time since November.

Incredible!

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I am fucking dying

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I've been rewatching Avatar: The Last Airbender because why not and I'm losing my mind at Zuko's proper introduction. I don't know if it's hindsight, shifting characterizations, or just me not watching this in a long time, but this was amazing.

We start off showing he's an impatient and very angry kid. Reasonable, and the sort of flaw we might expect to see in a villain. Kinda funny that he expects to go up against an adult and fully 4-Element realized Avatar, but the kid is desperate and Iroh clearly expects his nephew to get the banishment-denial kicked out of him.

What's important here, though, is Zuko's introduction to the Southern Water Tribe.

Here, we have a very intimidating entrance where his entire ship just sails through the ice right up to the village's front door. It's quite ominous and this is our first proper introduction to how the Fire Nation interacts with a foreign people.

Sokka charges, I'm assuming fully prepared to die, and Zuko casually knocks him out of the way. Okay, so clearly the Water Tribe are entirely outgunned.

He asks "Where are you hiding him?" and the people of the Water Tribe go silent. I assume they're either just too scared to talk or actually protecting Aang.

Whatever the case, it's important to note that the Southern Water Tribe know the terror the Fire Nation can inflict. We have a whole episode dedicated to tracking down a division of raiders. Sokka was able to not only identify the ash-mixed snow as signs of an incoming attack, but estimate how many ships the amount of ash measures to. These are a people who have experience being terrorized and are probably expecting something terrible to happen.

And then, after they don't answer, Zuko grabs Gran-Gran. There was a horror sting to it, and everything the tribe knows about the Fire Nation suggests that Zuko is about to threaten or straight up hurt her to get answers. Classic "terrorize the elderly" bad guy stuff.

And then...

He goes "He's (the Avatar) be about this age and is a master of all four elements!?" and lets her go.

And all of a sudden, the tension that was built up is shattered as Zuko went "I know, I'll give them a reference for the person I'm looking for because clearly they're confused and I wasn't specific enough."

This went from a show of villainy to a show of Zuko being totally socially awkward and misreading the situation entirely. Not helping is that when he does try to menace them a moment later, his fire is slow and angled quite safely.

It still worked on the Water Tribe because they're understandably scared, but all I could think of is that this was the equivalent of a playground bully trying to make someone flinch with that fake-out lunge thing.

Because the fact-and something we'll come to learn-is that Zuko is TERRIBLE at being a Fire Nation oppressor. He's capable of doing morally dubious things and is a competent fighter. But he's lousy at terrorizing people and cruelty-that's kind of the point of his banishment.

And while we can see the story paint this picture of Zuko's true character as the story goes on with hints of good and conflicting loyalties, here we get to see just how bad he is at being "the bad guys".

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how to find literally any post on a blog in seconds (on desktop)

there are so many posts about ~tumblr is so broken, you can’t find any post on your own blog, it’s impossible, bluhrblub~

I am here to tell you otherwise! it is in fact INCREDIBLY easy to find a post on a blog if you’re on desktop/browser and you know what you’re doing:

url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant. every single post, every single time. in chronological order starting with the most recent post. note: it will not find #croissants or that time you made the typo #croidnssants. for a tag with multiple words, it’s just /tagged/my-croissant and it will show you everything with the exact phrase #my croissant

url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant/chrono will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the exact phrase #croissant, but it will show them in reverse order with the oldest first 

url.tumblr.com/search/croissant isn’t as perfect at finding everything, but it’s generally loads better than the search on mobile. it will find a good array of posts that have the word croissant in them somewhere. could be in the body of the post (op captioned it “look at my croissant”) or in the tags (#man I want a croissant). it won’t necessarily find EVERYTHING like /tagged/ does, but I find it’s still more reliable than search on mobile. you can sometimes even find posts by a specific user by searching their url. also, unlike whatever random assortment tumblr mobile pulls up, it will still show them in a more logically chronological order

url.tumblr.com/day/2020/11/05 will show you every post on the blog from november 5th, 2020, in case you’re taking a break from croissants to look for destiel election memes 

url.tumblr.com/archive/ is search paradise. easily go to a particular month and see all posts as thumbnails! search by post type! search by tags but as thumbnails now

url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio will show you every audio post on your blog (you can also filter by other post types). sometimes a little imperfect if you’re looking for a video when the op embedded the video in a text post instead of posting as a video post, etc

url.tumblr.com/archive/tagged/croissant will show you EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant, but it will show you them in the archive thumbnail view divided by months. very useful if you’re looking for a specific picture of a croissant that was reblogged 6 months ago and want to be able to scan for it quickly 

url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio/tagged/croissant will show you every audio post tagged with the specific phrase #croissant (you can also filter by photo or text instead, because I don’t know why you have audio posts tagged croissant) 

the tag system on desktop tumblr is GENUINELY amazing for searching within a specific blog! 

caveat: this assumes a person HAS a desktop theme (or “custom theme”) enabled. a “custom theme” is url.tumblr.com, as opposed to tumblr.com/url. I’ve heard you have to opt-into the former now, when it used to be the default, so not everyone HAS a custom theme where you can use all those neat url tricks. 

if the person doesn’t have a “custom theme” enabled, you’re beholden to the search bar. still, I’ve found the search bar on tumblr.com/url is WAY more reliable than search on mobile. for starters, it tends to bring posts up in a sensible order, instead of dredging up random posts from 2013 before anything else

if you’re on mobile, I’m sorry. godspeed and good luck finding anything. (my one tip is that if you’re able to click ON a tag rather than go through the search bar, you’ll have better luck. if your mutual has recently reblogged a post tagged #croissant, you can click #croissant and it’ll bring up everything tagged #croissant just like /tagged/croissant. but if there’s no readily available tag to click on, you have to rely on the mobile search bar and its weird bizarre whims) 

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"So what do you do for work" ask me literally anything else. Ive lied and claimed a hobby as work, and then they pressed like "huh you can survive off that? You make enough money?" and you just plaster on a smile and nod and try steer the conversation.

See also: "Im so broke, should I buy this frivolous item? Yeah I think I will." Then youre not broke, are you?

i just gotta have my weekly “i am frustrated w employed people” moment. because i just feel so isolated in every conversation, i feel envious of their income and ability to live an independent life and buy things. if thats u I truly do need you to recognize and be conscientious of the fact that even though there is much wrong with the environment and expectations of employment, still that it is a privilege to be able to participate in it, because it means you at least have that base level of worth to society so that you can participate in it as designed. ppl like me cannot.

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I think it was put 10 million years ago just for cats

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Modibodi period briefs are $45 and boxers are $70

Thinx ranges from $17-$38 plus $50 sleep shorts

Period.co is charging $15 to $40

Some sponsored posts on my search, saalt is loading badly but I see a $30 a couple $50s a $70 and the other one wont give me a price at all, weird.

Heres an article collecting and reviewing various period underwear, I opened a few and I see $40 and $50:

Conclusion: OP Im not sure if youre talking about something specific, but $30 seems like its on the cheap end for period underwear, nevermind Specially Made Transmasc Period Boxers TM.

Tbh I imagine period boxers might be an option to lessen dysphoria, both in terms of gendered underwear shapes and styles, and dealing with menstrual products that could be bothersome and dysphoric. So $30 for period boxers looks quite reasonable to me, actually.

Is it maybe not the best example of the point you're trying to make? Can you think of a different example perhaps?

I think the most annoying pattern I see online is a company making wildly expensive things target towards trans men/transmascs and people start making fun of trans men/transmascs over it and then when I check the company it turns out it’s ran by a bunch of cis people and they just want to make money by scamming trans people.

Like people will say shit like “lmao those dumb trans men are making special overpriced boxers! Don’t they know they can just wear normal boxers! Lmao they want to be special sooo bad.” and it’s just a product trans men aren’t asking for and that cis people made to overcharge and scam trans people .

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what are you doing??