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question: how does it feel to watch people you care about be mistreated? how would you describe that feeling?

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we're never making it out of this cave. im so tired its so dark in here can anyone hear me

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i know yall love sharing items from small shops and supporting small businesses and small creators is great, but yall really need to stop sharing items from resin shops that make resin dishware and cutlery until you do further research.

there is a food safe resin, HOWEVER, the vast majority of shops will not be using it. its extremely fucking expensive, and to remain food safe, any dyes or additives used must also be food safe, and the piece will have to have been mixed and cured correctly. anything wrong in that process, and it's no longer food safe.

the vast majority of resins, especially those cheap enough for artists and small creators to regularly use, is poisonous. its a carcinogen. it will leech chemicals, even if given a clear coat or varnish, and you can get very sick very fucking quickly from eating or drinking anything that came into contact with it, and long term exposure could very well kill you- this isn't taking into account any additives to the resin, dyes, or colorants either, the vast majority of those are not regulated for food use.

an absolute boom in resin crafters from over quarantine hasn't helped this situation either. many simply do not know or do not care and will sell items that are suspect at best. partially cured pieces, bad molds, just plain inappropriate items used in resin crafting have gotten very common over the past few years, and still are.

TL;DR: Most resins are NOT food safe, and are incredibly toxic. Do not buy or share anything made of it for food use. Shops selling appropriate food safe resin items will be flat out about it, and are going to be extremely expensive.

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I've made a post like this before but I want to say it again: I'm glad to see people push back against the "Mel is an evil seductress" type of thing, but I'd be careful not to go too hard in the other direction.

Mel is a politician from a ruling-class family who is desperate to prove to her warmonger mother that you can attain power through politics rather than through violence. Guile is one of the forms of strength that is so valued by Noxus. In the book about Ambessa's backstory, Mel and her cousin mutually become friends so they can spy on each other for their parents, because their family is so fucked up. She *is* manipulative because that's how she was raised and that's the context she exists in. The binary that's presented to her is between being a fox and a wolf, that is cleverness and cunning, versus violence. She chose cunning. (I was going to go into a big thing about her season 1 flashback but I think I'll just make that another post).

Mel can be manipulative and not be evil because of it. But she is manipulative. In her second scene in the show we see her flatter Hoskel so that he stays loyal to her. She calls the rest of the council "old fools" behind their backs while smiling to their faces. She gets Jayce onto the council to serve her agenda of being able to keep developing hextech.

People say Mel is manipulative because that *is* how her character is introduced. What the haters fail to notice, though, is that the show then *subverts* the femme fatale character trope that she was introduced as. Her backstory is revealed, showing that her approach to politics is her way of eschewing her mother's violence. Because she is a soft-hearted and caring person. Her character *development* (that is, the way her character changes) in season 1 is that being with Jayce brings out her softer, more idealistic side, a side that she had had to supress in order to try to prove herself as a Medarda.

No character in Arcane is purely good or bad. And Mel is a kind and caring person who behaves in a kind of fucked-up way because of her context. And that is what makes her *so* interesting as character.

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Proposal for new fandom etiquette:

If you read a fic because it was linked/recced somewhere, you leave a comment saying "came from XXX" and that comment doesn't need to include anything else.

Because when all of a sudden there's a lot of activity on one particular fic I WANNA KNOW WHY!!!!!

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remember when i was doing those polls about what you thought about current comic runs? yeah, i thought i'd go back to that, now that enough time has passed to let us see the absolute (and other all in) titles get through their first arcs. today i'm asking you about scott snyder's absolute batman. as always, feel free to reblog to talk more about what you thought of the comics!

the full list of previous polls can be found over here.

now that we're doing more current runs, i'm going to bump these polls to one a week. next week's poll is absolute wonder woman (sunday)

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i do think it's really funny that every single dc comic i picked up this week was like 'batman #161! part of hush 2! it's gonna be out in june look for it in stores!!' and actually. it's not. it's gonna be late. all those ads were lying to you

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i've made it to DAY NINETEEN of a save in the long dark. yes I'm still immediately closing the game if I am attacked by an animal before it can autosave the injuries that would be certain. yes when I left the game last time there was a bear outside my building and I don't know if/when it will leave. yes I think I'm severely exceeding my carry weight and am unsure what I will drop as I move on to explore the next area. it's going great 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

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20 years ago this shit would have obviously been a headline in the onion. no part of this would have been remotely believable and this headline would have been inherently funny.

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There are many benefits to being a marine biologist

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"It's just getting repetitive is all," complained the young lawyer to his colleague. "my cases so far have all been the same."

The elder lawyer nodded sympathetically. "It's like that, especially early in your career."

"I can't take it anymore! My current case is a guy suing a ghost for taking over his body. My last case was a demon suing a living woman for getting a tattoo--this was a breach of their contract for the demon to take over her body--and the case before that was a custody battle between the human who was born in the body and the changeling who had spent his life in it. I'm sick of it!"

The elder lawyer sighed. "Didn't I warn you that possession is nine-tenths of law?"

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Ambessa in the past: "Noxus is full of violent and conniving foes that wouldn't hesistate to take a bite out of my daughter at the first hint of weakness".

Adult Mel returning to Noxus: "I LIKE THE WAY THE BITE MARKS CUT THROUGH THE SKIN!!!!!!!!!!"

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99% of repressors give up right before they successfully don't feel anything. Don't stop shoving it down. You can get through this unscathed

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apparently it does not go without saying, but if you're in high school and you're writing a college essay and have to talk about a big challenge you overcame, never ever and i repeat NEVER talk about your mental health. don't do it. it doesn't matter if you're stable and healthy now, do not talk about it. just don't. ok this has been a PSA.