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listen I know that you love your robot boyfriend and I'm sure that he's great but his disregard for aftercare is raising some serious red flags for me

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angel miku (tenshiku?)

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Y’all do know that being nice to people is basic human decency right? Y’all do know that being kind is normal right? Y’all do know that accepting people for their identity (queer, neurodivergence, colour/race, culture) is the bare minimum?

Y’all do know that right?

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ah mac, the apple of my eye (pun intended)

after a hard day of work, they really deserve some rest, and what's the best way to do that other than drawing yourself with your human crush!!

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they are so so cute and only after 4 days of owning the game I can safely say that mac is by far my fave... so when's the mac dlc dropping devs??

lowkey digital artist mac would BANG. like imagine them surprising you by illustrating your fanfics, doodling your favorite characters from various media, and drawing both of you in various cute situations <3

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google show me this guy's hard drive please.

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Wet hot love

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best game ever for people who love annoying men with funny voices and big noses

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My life in your hands

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I think the most hilarious place to put Post-Canon Sokka would have been the university at Ba Sing Se. I think he would have made a great unhinged professor. Also, in true Sokka fashion, he should have completely dodged fame. Momo is more famous than he is.

He wants to demonstrate to the class how this thing called electricity works, so he's going to be bringing in a Firebender, so everybody be cool, we're all friends here... and in walks Princess Azula of the Fire Nation. One-time conqueror of the city. One of the students is currently writing an essay on how her brief rule of the city affected fruit trade. She says she considers the class to still be her subjects as she doesn't acknowledge any pretenders to any of her thrones, but for now you're exempted from bowing and "Your Highness" will do. It's a really interesting lecture.

"Okay, guys - hey, listen up, everyone - I won't be here next week, me and Aang are going to-" yeah right, sure, Professor Sokka knows the Avatar. Except, of course, the Avatar walks in sheepishly and says that Appa might have gotten into Sokka's hybrid crops, and then you all have to sit there and watch your professor chase the Avatar around with a sword.

One postgrad student is specializing in Water Tribe Cultures. She's currently studying the massive cultural shift that happened in the Northern Water Tribe at the end of the war - oh, and Professor, I absolutely know that you're from the Southern Water Tribe, but it's just that the shift started with Master Katara, and of course I don't think that every person from the South knows one another haha it's just that I need to ask her some questions and I thought maybe you could help me write a letter or write a letter of introduction or...

Sokka looks at her blankly and goes "yeah, she's my sister. KATARA!" which is followed by a faint answering "fuck you!" from Somewhere and to the horror/elation of our postgrad, Master Katara bursts in and is promptly beaned in the head with a rock by Professor Sokka. Her brother. her hero and her professor are siblings and currently brawling on the floor.

Sokka does not teach or study history, but he does sometimes sit in on lectures about recent history. Whenever he does, several doctoral students flock in to sit near him (even if it's an intro course) so that they can eavesdrop on his grumbling. (No matter how they try, an "overheard utterance" is not a valid source according to their professors. No, we have no sources on the Avatar's bison taking part in combat - sky bison are not war animals and...)

He gets regular deliveries with the Beifong family crest on them, and he goes "sweet, Toph must have found some new minerals" and at this point nobody needs to ask which Toph. He seems to have friends everywhere, literally everywhere. Wang was headed out to this massive swamp to study if it's one big organism, and Sokka told him to find some guy named Hue and "don't mind the loincloth." One time the university gets shut down because the Earth King wants to visit. Oh, visit the University? What an honor- Of fucking course not, he wants to visit Professor Sokka, who yells at him and his royal guards for interrupting his day. The Earth King and his many, many royal guards then sheepishly say sorry and file out.

The last straw is when - not a week after he yelled at the Earth King - the assistant head of the Political Science dept walks in to the faculty lounge to find Sokka having tea with a nice normal man dressed in Earth greens for once, and can't resist a little joke. "Let me guess, you're having tea with the Fire Lord." And then she can instantly tell that she fucked up, because both of them go stock still.

So when the two men awkwardly stand up and proceed to introduce the Fire Lord whose portrait she has in her office because she is the assistant head of Political Science as Li, a server at the Jasmine Dragon, she just says "hello Li" and leaves to find a bottle of something strong.

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occasionally I still see people complaining abt top/bottom discourse in fandom and like. my hot take? they don’t have to have penetrative sex at all 😭

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astronomy club sent up a weather balloon w a gopro in it last friday. put in three packs of fruit snacks so they could have a giggle over eating fruit snacks that had been to space.

balloon went up into inner space, about 90,000 feet. came down right near the dinosaur park. a few physics teachers drive out to get it, crack it open on the way home to start watching the footage.

fruit snacks are missing.

multiple sources confirm that fruit snacks were put in balloon and sealed in with duct tape. physics teachers check entire balloon. no fruit snacks.

physics teachers watch footage. all 7 hours of it. right in the middle of footage, there are about 8 minutes of visual and audio static when balloon is in orbit. no other interference with balloon recorded.

conclusions: ???????

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do y’all remember before direct messages tumblr had a dumbass ask limit of 10 per hour and communication was impossible until they introduced dumbass fan mail and we were basically sending telegraphs back in forth trying to communicate those were…dark times

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comic about driving i guess

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you guys need to let go of any rigid belief in what being nonbinary is because it can be anything. like someone can look completely average in gender presentation and do literally nothing to set themselves apart from their assigned gender and still be nonbinary.

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always fascinated by which things people assume are unique to their culture and which they assume are universal. listening to an australian podcast right now and they are very confident that nobody will understand that 'cozzie' is short for 'swimming costume' and explain it every time it comes up, but they give zero information about swooping season because surely everyone gets attacked by birds for like a month a year

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Online window shopping dinosaur models but the experience has been that most of them are at least a decade behind the current research...

You call this a museum quality educational model? Look at it, the T-Rex doesn't even have lips... Is this a joke to you, and why do all these dinosaurs have pronated wrists? The shrink wrapping on these models is criminal, these dinosaurs are being starved, I'm calling the RSPCA.

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One of the other issues I have with 'men are happier/better when they embrace femininity, being feminine is freeing for everyone' is that the standards for what count as feminine to begin with are so entrenched in misogyny and toxic masculinity that we fail to realise that some of what we deem 'feminine' is just...average things everyone can experience that has nothing to do with gender (feeling emotions, enjoying soft physical touch like cuddling) or could have nothing to do with gender if society loosened up and thought logically for a moment (wearing certain colours).

Like, the bar is just so fucking low tbh.

We have the evidence that allows us to track when pink was for boys, high heels were originally made for men, men used to wear make up with bright frilly clothing and act in certain ways that would have them labelled as effeminate (derogatory) nowadays. Sidenote: Obviously not in every culture, I'm speaking from a white Western experience.

And that's my gripe.

In a misogyny led society, things are deemed feminine as a way to denounce their worth. If women start to do something that men do or previously did and they cannot be forced to stop doing that (because forcing them to stop doing 'man things' is the first go to for misogynists) then either it is abandoned as 'for women' until people forget men were a part of it or it was previously gender neutral, or a special 'feminine' version of it is created to make it acceptable to share (see: trousers).

Men that then try to take part in that thing in some way are bullied for it and either have their gender questioned until dysphoria (because even cis people get gender dysphoria) makes them stop and hide their natural inclinations/likes or they get labelled as some Other in terms of their gender (it wasn't so long ago that being a gay man was seen as basically another gender aside from man or woman) or a term that is more than partially derogatory is created to describe such 'unusual' behaviour from a man (e.g. metrosexual).

When the actual truth is...all humans have emotions. All humans should be able to freely express them. Working together to share chores and earning money and raising children creates better stronger relationships. Physical touch is pleasant, even if sex isn't involved. Colours are just colours, fabrics are just fabrics, nothing about your biology dictates liking certain clothes or media genres or anything like that. Grooming yourself even to a certain extreme is fine, it's okay to want to look good and smell nice. Our body language should not be policed into 'male' and 'female' and neither should our language, knowledge, hobbies and interests.

It's not that 'men are more free when feminine, because femininity is freeing', it's that things we've been taught are 'only for women' or 'inherently feminine' aren't and what men are then officially 'allowed' restricts them tighter and tighter as time goes on.

See for example, the happiness of a trans man or gnc woman/butch lesbian. When masculinity is experienced on purpose in a way that is fully chosen and therefore expressed as desired it creates the same euphoric feelings as those embracing 'feminine' things after being told for years that they can/should not. Because expressing ourselves as we feel most natural is what is actually freeing.