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notachair · 6 months

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Since atla is again having an extra surge of popularity, I'm shooting my shot:

[ID: (Rest of image description in alt). At the bottom of the image sits the text: "Zuko: Okay. Well, I can't remember how it starts, but the punchline is "leaf me alone, I'm bushed."" ID end].

Did we ever find out what the setup for this joke was? I feel kinda haunted by it. If not- anyone wanna make their best or worst guesses?

edit: I now know what "I'm bushed" mean, but go ahead anyway 👍

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#atla #the way I was early out for this next surge in popularity 🤗 I was in a different phase by 2020 #it's not like it haunts me day and night but it does bother me thinking back on it. please tell me I'm not the only one 🧍‍♂️#I'll have to reblog the 'closure is a myth' post jk #what kind... of joke is it? leaf pun on leave i get. I'm bushed however I dont get. it implies the punchline sayer is a bush at least I #think. but what prompts the 'i am bushed' I dont get. is it not contextual? is it a phrase ive not connected like 'leaf me alone'?#is there anotger layer between leaf and bush? again what kind of joke (social:joke purpose. what is funny? only pun?) + (in-joke set up)?#is it about the kind of bush it is? is it between two plants? the plant & someone picking on the plant like a teamaker collecting?#is it about a plant that has grown into bush and thus (somethingsomething)?? is it not a plant at all? other elements? iroh *what*.#if the creators actually had a setup in mind- I fear it will be lame. but yet I am haunted #it must have cracked someone up for him to try relay it. (set in term of endearment here) 🧍‍♂️👈 *poking him*#either way. me 🤝 zuko @ being bad at remembering & relaying jokes 😁👍#at least in that instance anyway #I mainly stick to irony & sarcasm. running along with an mistaken assumption or replying w something silly & blowing it out of proportions.#puns if I'm lucky. ect. fun when I can reference it later tho I try not to overdo it. not like I'll likely remember it for too long anyway #now to lay in wajt see if anything happens....#avatar the last airbender #zuko #atla zuko #a:tla #my rambles #its lie and not lay is it not.....

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directactionforhope · 7 months

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A weird reason I'm optimistic about the future/humanity

I keep thinking about making a post about this on reasonsforhope, and then not making a post about it, for what will become obvious reasons, but anyway here's a thought:

I get asked fairly often (relatively often? I don't get a lot of asks these days because I'm terrible at answering them) how I maintain hope and optimism in the face of everything.

Good question! I wonder that sometimes too, honestly, because I try to stay very aware of the world and very self-aware about my optimism and how realistic it is. (Three cheers for evidence-based optimism.)

And honestly, a really, really significant part of the answer is that I think the past - in general and especially during specific eras - was Significantly worse than the vast majority of people realize.

Like, the past kind of sucked, imho! People died all the time of all sorts of things! And then we had a solid 500 years of Big Time Atrocities. (aka 1492 to like. roughly the 1980s.)

In comparison, the 2000s have mostly been a really big improvement in a lot of ways, imho!

Weird argument for optimism, I know, but it is the basis of a lot of my optimism.

Why do I think things will change in the future, given that?

Well, mostly, it turns out that photography/film/the internet/phone cameras/social media/the general democratization of communication/the modern concept of international law all it way harder to get away with doing atrocities! And also, we now have scientifically validated proof that yes, people really can change, and no, no one is innately or hereditarily evil, and no, not even members of that one group you really hate, which personally I think is very reassuring! And a useful thing for society to have proof of!

#me #not an action #dafh not an action post #life #the future #cw genocide #and by the way this is I think true #even in spite of the genocides going on right now #like it feels super fucked up to even say that but we really DID used to commit SO MANY atrocities #btw I'm in no way trying to deny or downplay the severity of genocide or what's going on in gaza right now #it's just. historically. humans really did do so many atrocities.#like idk living in the 2020s sucks in some very real ways #but we also don't live in the early 1940s or say the 1850s or or or #so yeah #that's my two cents hope it's worth something to some ppl or at least not too upsetting

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humandisastersquad · 1 year

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FINALLY got this fuckign job app done

#this is my number 1 preference of company so I spent way too long agonising over the cover letter #and updating my resume since I haven’t touched it since like 2020 #uGH why did they have to open so early #ik the answer is for degrees that do mid year graduation (which imo my degree should too)#but also hhhh I thought I’d have until next month to start working on this stuff aahhh #holy personal post batman

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mountmortar · 4 months

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cons of owning a personal laptop that weighs in at 2.2lbs max (and also owning a macbook air for direct comparison) is that no matter how many times apple shills preach about how light macbook airs are, they're never going to be as light as your personal laptop. macbook airs are heavy to you now. there is no escape

#so i bought a refurbished m2 mb pro because i needed either mac or windows for school and i refuse to deal with the headache that is windows #and this thing is like. 3.4lbs. like don't get me wrong it's an absolute beast with an unreal battery life and i love it but also compared #to my personal laptop....everything is heavy now. i have been forever ruined. spoiled rotten. etc #also my personal laptop has a 180-degree hinge which i utilize daily and i'm always afraid that i'm going to forget about that #and forcefully open my mac way too hard and just snap the fucking screen off or something #**also the reason i had to buy a whole new mac instead of just using my mb air for school #is because my mb air is quite possibly the shittiest early-2020 i3 mac you've ever seen in your life #the battery life is godawful. watching videos in a browser will crash it. it took me factory-resetting that thing to make it somewhat #functional again and i wouldn't dare try coding on it anymore after the nightmare that was two semesters ago #my new mb pro however.......literal beast mode activate. on par with my personal laptop. i'm impressed

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astrxealis · 1 year

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okay rambles but i started creatively writing in like ... 5th grade? and. oh god just a little encouragement to anyone looking to get into writing or insecure or whatnot, but HELLS, maybe it's to he expected with my (obviously) very young age and inexperience with writing then, but my writing was really. yeah. Yeah. but then i'm what... a lot older now, obviously, and my writing has gotten leagues better. i'm probably not a good example for this bcs childhood years development stuff are different etc etc BUT practicing writing more and whatnot really does go a long way :]

#⋯ ꒰ა starry thoughts ໒꒱ *·˚#my writing in 2020 is a lot different than my writing now even! especially so compared to my writing from 2010s #reading a lot of media is also really important :] i always read a lot of books BUT i only started to really read poetry since the pandemic #which were uh basically my early teenage years so idk if i'm a good example for this bcs childhood brain development and stuff (???)#BUT STILL ..... playing games like ffxiv and being really invested in the lore and writing + reading more poems and being fascinated with #more authors and pieces of literature + expanding my general vocabulary knowledge whatnot ... it all really goes a long way!#oh man i'm pretty proud of myself actually. i do love my writing. as imperfect (as all things are) it is.#i had a lot of Pauses with writing throughout my uhh relatively short life thus far since i'm NOT yet an adult and all aha but yeah!#so bless ffxiv again for bringing back my writing spirit... and other medias and whatever <3 #rn i have to thank bg3 for bringing back my Creative Spirit bcs i've been writing a lot more again and having/working on my creative ideas!!#okay i just wanted to ramble a bit lol ^_^ there!#idk my being a writer is very important to me. and my journey as one too.#i want to make a book one day! most feasibly would be to make a collection of short stories :] a bit similar to 'm is for magic' maybe bcs #i grew up with that lol neil gaiman i adore you <3 #i have a very special original world in my head but i am a little selfish and want to keep them all to myself... oops. or who knows!#anyway i have a lot of ideas and i adore writing and literature sooo much <3 #anyway. okay. leaving it here.#cheering on every writer author whatever out there !!! unless you're a sucky person of course yuck bigots but yeah ^^ <3 #huge writing inspo for me is uhhhhhhhh. thinking #ffxiv! does ffxiv count. esp drk quests. and shb as a whole. and then... edgar allan poe? neil gaiman? yeah?#can't remember anyone else good gods but i love vivid and imaginative storytelling and writing descriptively :] a bit of prose but also #quite simple in its eloquence (???) unsure honestly oh gods anyway BYE rambles over apollo signing off beep boop AGHHHHH (screams)

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leqclerc · 1 year

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Help girl I’m doing it again (thinking about 2019-2020 until my tummy hurts)

#sometimes im fine and other times i get hit by a crippling wave of nostalgia :)))#charles's early years at ferrari and his meteoric rise and the online shift in response to that and the character study fics #everything to do with seb and charles and how that developed and ebbed and flowed and the massive media coverage of this new big rivalry #the way everyone was gearing up for a continuation of that in 2020 but then the pandemic happened #the insanity of the twitch era in the wake of the lockdowns and the emotional turmoil of seb's announced departure #the condensed 6 month season that somehow felt like it went on forever and was simultaneously far too short esp knowing what's coming #and just....the way things were in the online community at the time?? all that creativity and brainstorming and sense of togetherness #im aware im probably romanticizing it a lot but ironically the further away we get from those times the more i miss them ig??#we've had some good times since obviously but idk it feels like the zeitgeist of that time can't be replicated & a part of me feels so sad #idk this isnt making any sense but sometimes i'll see a photo or gifset or clip or whatever and think only a time machine could fix me #i need to go touch some grass 😭

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seokmatthewz · 1 year

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got to campus an hour before my class started and dear fucking god did i apparently predict that my morning would go so wrong immediately FDLKSDLFKS

#ive walked so much in the past hour and stressed so much too KLFDSKL #i got to campus and had to get off the bus early and walk in bc there was construction going on #so the bus couldnt go onto campus so i walk to the library to print my paper #bc my printer at my apartment has been broken for a while so i was like 'okay ill come early itll be easy ill have time to spare'#so i went to the library to print and the printer wasnt working for whatever reason #so i went to the support desk like 'hey its not working?' and they were like 'oh maybe u deposited the money for the printer wrong'#so i double checked and it was in the right place and it still went back and it wasnt working anyways so they told me to try another printer #so i went back and tried all 5 and none of them worked #so they told me to go up to IT so i did and he said maybe theres an issue w ur card lemme reset the association #so he did and i reassociated it and it still didnt work #so he was like yeah go to the campus card office #so i have to walk across campus to go there and then walk up 4 flights of stairs and i talk to the lady at the booth #and i tell her the issue and she tells me that someone reissued my card in 2020??? i was not in the city KFLDSKFL #so she had to reprint it for me and she said that i could use the printer on the same floor next to the office #lo and behold: it isnt working KFDSLK so i have to walk BACK to the library across campus #and i FINALLY get it printed and walk ALL THE WAY BACK to the building where my class is #and i did all this with a mere 4 minutes to spare before my class started KLFSDKLFSDL #anyways im exhausted FKLDSKLFDS #iri.txt #i dont need to pay attention to this class anymore bc all the work is done so im gonna gif matthew as a treat for my struggle KLDSFKLD

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mbat · 9 months

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the thing is about having to give away a pet and not knowing where theyre going is that when you see pictures online of similar looking pets you take a pause and examine them to see if maybe theyre the same pet, but they never are, are they? but you hope everytime that they are

i dont actually know what i would do if i did see the pets i miss, though

#sorry this is super random i just think about it a lot #my post #weve had a few pets over the years but we usually had to give them away because they had issues we couldnt afford to fix #one in particular was a small cat who was a previously feral cat turned domestic #but feral cats never truly stop being feral at least a little #and she kept digging in our trash when we werent looking and would end up vomiting up whatever she ate later #and it just became way too much of an issue and in early 2020 we gave her away and i just still think about her #she was so small despite being fully grown and she loved being held (the other cats never liked it) and she had such a long tail and #and she would scream about everything but it was the cutest scream and it was never annoying #i love my cat ghost but her screaming is. so annoying #i hope shes happy wherever she is. i hope someones holding her

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fingertipsmp3 · 1 year

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Me: maybe I should cancel that appointment with the mental health practitioner, idk if my issues are severe enough to really need it

Also me: *literally sitting here with my stomach turning because I have class in an hour*

#i had this class on monday like… i know it’s fine #it’s a really tiny cohort but we all introduced ourselves and everyone seems nice #i’m just not looking forward to having my camera on for the whole three hours (maybe excluding during the tasks?? but probably not)#also i’m worried that i don’t know as much about the subject as i think i do #they put the lecture slides up ahead of time so i went through it and there doesn’t seem to be anything crazy on there #plus i did recap some stuff earlier #the tasks also don’t sound insane. i just don’t want several things to happen #i don’t want to end up in a breakout room; i don’t want to have to show my screen to anyone & show the nonsense i’ve been working on #and i don’t want to be called on to answer a question i don’t know the answer to #i’m just pretty certain that everyone knows a lot more than i do and i’m terrified lol #plus i’m meeting the instructor for the first time.. the first class was with the guidance counsellor and she just went through housekeeping #there’s also just The Doom pressing on me of like. do i even like this. am i even good at this. do i understand it. can i get my head around #this in the time that i have. if i quit what will i do instead. etc etc #it’s way too early to be thinking like that but aaaaaahhhhhhh #i’m so glad i have therapy next friday. and i have something to bring up bc this level of anxiety does not feel normal #like i thought my mental health was rock bottom in 2020 but i didn’t feel this bad about attending my classes that i had then? so……#have i REGRESSED. am i WORSE. oh god #personal

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lovesickgyu · 1 year

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this is THE umpteenth time im saying it but i miss 2020-21 era so much

#especially late 2020 and early 2021 #way way too much #📝 diary

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kittykatinabag · 1 year

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My instincts for shady workplaces are as sharp as ever.

#the room mate just did her first shift today at the place our other room mate works and manages #sure shes never done food service before so its definitely a learning curve #but from her description it sounds like a very weird operating structure #i already hate food service (and most forms of customer service) so im kind of dismissing the offer until im truly desperate #but there seems to be no effort to make sure that people are getting trained #and no effort into making a proper schedule or taking any information to contact employees #also the very weird power dynamic that will appear if both of us were working under our other room mate #whos buddy buddy with the landlord whos also the general operations manager of the workplace #(which already weirds me out a bit too)#lord knows i am familiar with power dynamics due to the events of mid 2019 to early 2020 (see previous entries for real time mistakes)#sometimes i give myself some flak for not trusting people the way my room mate seems to be able to trust people #but in a startling number of cases this adversion to completely trusting people tends to work out in my favor #if it aint broke dont fix it i guess #late night ramblings

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akkivee · 1 year

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remember when jyushi’s speakers destroyed kuukou’s temple lmao

#this is vee speaking #reason number 75814409518 jyushi’s should get a magical girl transformation scene in rhyme anima➕ lmao #i think samatoki’s had a similar illusionary effect in the anime too we love that for our coffin/death themed boys lol #this wasn’t a post for anything substantial i just thought this was funny lol #but now i’m once again wondering what rhyme anima➕ is going to be like MAN october can’t come soon enough #august too!!!!! post 2nd drb has been insane so far lol!!!!!!#what’s kinda neat about the way hypmic has been giving us shit is that it’s sometimes cyclical #like rhyme anima came out in october 2020 and the guidebook came out early september #rhyme anima➕ is coming out in october again 2023 and our dual eps are coming out late august #so it makes me wonder if we’ll get a similar announcement in the middle of the anime similar to the way we got the 2nd drb announcement #*anya voice* waku waku #c: jyushi

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astrxealis · 2 years

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FINAL FANTASY XV MEANS EVERYTHING TO ME ACTUALLY !! i know i never talk about it but it. means everything to me. ffxiv is everything to me and special to me in a way ffxv is not but ffxv is special to me as well in a way ffxiv is not and i think it's beautiful that the many things that 'mean everything to me' are special to me in different, beautiful, varying ways. so, happy 6th anniversary to a flawed but nevertheless beautiful game that means the world to me!!

#⋯ ꒰ა starry thoughts ໒꒱ *·˚#⋯ ꒰ა ffxv ໒꒱ *·˚#me with ffxv goes way back! i finally started playing in early 2019 and i finished the game... 2021 or 2020? but the same day i started #it was. really unintentional and a huge coincidence but it was very very cool fr <3 #ffxv! so i started liking it since i first heard of it ofc. a long time ago. but i mostly started getting into it properly w the #collab it had w one of my first strategy/gacha games 'the alchemist code' <33 i started that game a looong time ago #w the fate collab! so i was really into anime then i rmbr. never was into fate and i'm glad abt that tho lol #but i think rin is cute ^___^ i only ever watched the 1st episode of stay night? but ik zero is the good one so. hm #but also sorry i don't want anything to do w fate LMFAO <//3 ANYWAYS! so yeah. it started w the tac collab #and then i wanted the sims 4 sometime then in 2019! so it was a year or two after ^^ but we got ffxv instead bcs sims 4 is not for kids LOL #yeah... i wanted to install it overnight i rmbr but we just did so the next day. i remember it so well still. yeah #ffxv i owe a lot to! it was my first Comfort Thing. it helped me get more into all of ff and by extent ffxiv! ffx was my first tho <33 #ffxv got me really obsessed w latin stuff. and ffxv is the first video game i really actually finished (fe3h also! <3)#i played thru the whole of ffxv w/o knowing people's thoughts abt it so for the longest time i was. in love w everything abt it #and now it's changed nd i'm critical of it and tbh mostly sad most people only really know 7/15 but whatever they're mid and lame </3 #i love 7 and 15 SO MUCH okay. but i love all of ff and those two games are genuinely overrated (in my opinion!)#yeah...... prompto meant everything to me. my first real favorite character (???) i love the chocobros w all my heart!!!!!#i miss ffxv so much actually. i love that game unbelievably so... and btw i haven't even played thru ANY dlcs. at all.#was never really there for events too. only collab/event i have done is the ffxiv one! bcs it is permanent LMFAO <//3 #interestingly i did that collab before i got into ffxiv. and now ffxiv is. yeah. BTW I LOVE THE FFXV COLLAB IN FFXIV regalia my love #i know a lot of lore of ffxv. i know a huge fucking ton LMFAO i read up so much about it i was literally so obsessed.......................#prompto really means so much to me still actually! also i'm still so in love w the music. wow. yoko shimomura is SO real.#anyways yeah man i have my gripes w ffxv but i think i'm glad that i wasn't there for the... 10 year wait bcs it def made my experience #better as i wasn't bitter to the game! ironically it is now i am somewhat bitter. mostly bcs i think 7/15 (and 13) only fans are annoying #but i still really really love all three of those games. and i think it's funny that so long as they like ffxiv (too) they are perfectly ok #w me LOL. BUT ANYWAYS OKAY I STOP RAMBLING FOR NOW !! happy 6th anniv ffxv. before the day ends for me! <333

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phe-purple-parade · 2 years

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Ugh I think I'm sick for like. The first time in 3 years ):

#it's not covid! but i am sick ):#i also have the hiccoughs rn for some reason #i'm used to being mentally unwell but physically? i haven't been sick since i had pharyngitis in early 2020 #ugh i might have to stay home tomorrow n watch the livestream for class instead of attending #i've been lucky so far ):#hhhhhghgh ik this rly is no biggie but i have not felt this way in 3 yearssss and within that time my germ anxiety has. heightened #so this doesn't help that lol i tried to chill on the rigid behaviour and now I'm sick :/#i have exchanged physical health for a slight improvement in mental health..#i'll tell my psychologist 'see i wasn’t getting sick until i relaxed my rules' & she'll remind me it's not the end of the world to get sick #oh my hiccoughs are gone now yaaayy #i should sleep #but yeah uhh i feel conflicted. but also too tired to care rn

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katya-goncharov · 2 years

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annoying side-effect of the pandemic is that it means that this era is probably one that people are going to keep coming back to, the way they do the 1940s bc of the second world war. the early 20th century is going to be forever immortalised in educational historical fiction and future trashy lockdown novels. while other trends and social media sites will fade into obscurity, kids 50 years from now will probably still be reading historical fiction at school that includes tiktok culture

#it's the way i know far more about the early 1940s than i do the 30s or really the 20s #and more facts about the second world war era than the late 40s or 50s either #and that's... going to be how it is with 2020 and 2021 too i think. it will literally never be allowed to die #and with it neither will the memory of tiktok and snapchat and whatever else was popular specifically in 2020

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somekh · 2 years

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yea its... idk but pengo is doing the fv updates and according to the stopscammingartists blog hes also doing the weird cult attack therapy things on ppl and its like, really scary bc hes supposed to be studying to be a therapist? like man has lost the plot real bad and im scared someones gonna get hurt

this prompted me to post some shit to that blog actually that ive been hanging on to for ages. idk what to feel about it really and i sure as hell wont tell anyone else how to feel, but... might be relevant?

tbh i used to read the glip thread but i stopped in .... god, probably mid-2020? it's been almost 3 years since ive kept up with anything they've done. partly bc i just dont have the energy, and i kinda drifted away from pengo too (we were in brief contact bc my abuser claimed falsely that they were close with him, and he helped me with a lot of that)

i trust him to be reasonable-ish but also fear for his wellbeing. but then again ive seen him go in hard on glip. man i dont fuckin know...

#anon #z speaks #what a wild ass development #pengo is (was?) a reasonable person #so i dont wanna go 'oh wow hes been brainwashed'#there has to be something there that means something #but at the same time im like #fuck if i have the energy for this shit anymore #i lived for way too long keeping up with that thread like it was a daily paper #nice little morning tabloid to wake up to and see what the kfers were bitching about now #around 2020 glip just kinda.... stopped being interesting though and the kfers just started attacking each other #meowthkip retired as a mod and didnt threadban kf members who thought the glip thread was a 'hugbox' anymore #i got tired quick of the thread shifting from 'there are genuine predators in glips space who hurt us' to 'lol glip nonbinary and woke??'#it got boring and irrelevant around then #not that kf was ever good #it wasnt and was never gonna be anything other than basically a tabloid #i think the glip thread in and of itself was a holdover from the early 2010s era of internet drama though #wherein it was frowned upon or got you ostracized to speak ill of popular folk #and when glip was still threatening legal action #there wasnt really a safe place to discuss the tangible hurt they left #so victims flocked to kf for the promise of anonymity and the lack of judgement #the thread was often mocked and called a 'quarantine zone' because the forums regular users thought it was too soft #the one mod kept it slightly cleaner of that but once she left it all went to shit lol #so most people like me who were only ever there for glip to see if theyd maybe change someday saw that they fell off #and we mostly went okiedoke #we have Outgrown the need for this dumbass forum #this is a long way of saying: what a wild fuckin way to learn this LMAO #do i have an opinion on it? not really #not one thats easy

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