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Okay so, got here from a book on animal behavior but: Vulcan stand-up comedy as a competitive activity.

Because most Vulcans don't actually pretend they don't have emotions, it's all about self-regulation, right? And good comedy usually hinges on manipulating the relationship between our faculties of recognition and surprise in various ways, you can get pretty scientific with it.

So Vulcans go to the comedy act, and the idea is the comedian is trying to make you crack up, and the audience is trying to not even crack a smile, and if you do laugh, you lose. Like all in good fun, but Vulcans are both really competitive and really aware of how dangerous that urge can be to a society, so this could actually be classified as highly orthodox Surakian practice.

So of course the comedian has to actually be funny, or there's no challenge and the game is boring.

Which means the really good Vulcan comedians (most of whom tend to extremely dry delivery of their bits) are going to go around playing to packed houses, which mostly sit staring stonily back at them, with occasional breaks when someone loses it and reacts.

And after a show you'll have Vulcans walking out discussing with great approval how very humorous that was, with varying degrees of muted smugness or chagrin depending on if they won or lost.

I bet there are human comedians whose grandest fantasy is being good enough to do a set in Vulcana Regatta and have people going around bragging about not laughing at them.

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WIP BIG BANG SIGN-UPS ARE LIVE!

The 2024 round of WIP Big Bang is now open for sign-ups! Any fandom is welcome, as long as the fic is 500 completed so far and will be at least 7,500 words upon its finishing. Signing up is easy: just fill out the form linked below after you read the FAQ and take a look at the schedule.

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barbie official: we’re gonna put all our movies on youtube for free!

youtube, still selling their movies: huh? what’d they say they were going to do?

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A more detailed response is under the cut if you're interested/want to know what prompted this random ass post:

Just wanted to make a few things clear after I received this anon:

And that anon won't see this post unless they access my page from a different account because - you guessed it! - I blocked them. I have zero issues blocking people, but I don't do it without reason. (This is also assuming your blog doesn't look like a straight up bot, which I automatically block.) If you don't want to run the risk of being blocked by me, it's actually pretty simple:

Don't have shitty takes - like equating kinks to p3d0philia. If I had to guess, I'd say about 90% of my block list is people who have supported or run rampant with some bullshit kink=pedo narrative. This in particular is something I take issue with on a very deep level and will almost always block people over.

Don't steal people's work and/or pass it off as your own (this also includes "transforming" someone's original work without their express permission).

Don't engage with AI chatbots; I think they're weird, inherently devalue the work of human creators, and create a "content farm" mentality to fandom that fucking blows chunks. There have also been SO MANY instances of some asshole feeding a fic into a chatbot without permission that I don't think anyone can really engage with them without the probability that it involves to some degree a stolen work. If using chatbots is more important than avoiding something that has many times over negatively impacted a fic writer, then I don't think you deserve to read fic tbh.

Don't go around being a disingenuous, opportunistic asshole aka I have seen your username pop up several times piling onto whatever the drama of the week is. It's giving parasite. It's giving acting in bad faith. It's giving I need attention on the internet. It's giving clout chaser and trying to gain followers by riding the coattails of drama.

If any of those reasons/explanations seem extreme or over the top to you, you might want to reevaluate how you interact with creators on here. There's a reason why so many have been leaving the space entirely. Some have taken their works to AO3 because of the plagiarism issues or morality police brigading their page and asks (almost always on anon ofc). Some have decided to take down their blogs altogether because it's not worth it anymore.

There's a give and a take with fandom, and so many have lost the fucking plot. I'm not going to spend time, energy, and thought towards my fics just so some random asshole on the internet can try to dictate how and when my work should be used/enjoyed. I'm also not going to let someone who either is a bad person or acts like a bad person would have access to my shit. If you want to be a shitty person, you don't get the luxury of engaging with my blog or my works. Plain and simple. Tbh more people need to call out the bullshit or actively block accounts that do these things because it has created a really tiresome, hostile space.

I owe you nothing, anon, and I make zero apologies for curating my space and experience on this site. If I blocked you, it was for a reason.

catch ya later, ♥Puddles♥

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Kaiba & Yugi sketch <3 Can't wait to finish this

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𝓭𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓪𝓫𝓸𝓾𝓽... 𝐃𝐔𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓 𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐃𝐎𝐌🎲

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WIP word "outside" (because it's that kind of day for me)

And now comes the hardest part of this - figuring out what WIP to use. This would be so much easier if I didn't post my chapters as I go, but here's a bit from The Keep's Ruler, my most recent fill that I'm working on for Phic Phight. This chapter is already live, but eh. I haven't talked about this fic here much.

Skulker flew closer, running a hand along the outside of the machine. Danny noticed he took extra care to not cross the line into the tunnel, and something in him eased. He didn't want anyone to step inside. Ever. "There's no damage to the machine." "Nor did I touch it. I fed ectoplasm into the portal to keep it open." Skulker looked at him, eyes on his chest before continuing his examination. "It was closed from the other side. That's the only explanation." "Who could even do that?" Tucker asked through the phone. "I thought the portal was self-sustaining." Skulker looked uncomfortable, eyes darting to Danny, even as he stepped further and further from the portal. It clicked. Only one thing made ghosts that uncomfortable. "Me. I was powering the portal because it formed in me."

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Random musings about an episode where Spectra disguised herself as a student, rather than a counselor to sow misery within the high school! Spreading gossip, being outright malicious, shattering friendships, and all that jazz! Plus, using that fact she looks like a teen against Danny, since unless cornering her, he couldn't fight her without looking like he's attacking a random student.

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typewriter!

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once again thinking about aroace atem having to deal with rival being so down bad for each other all the time over the most normal shit

like seeing yugi wear a new top that exposes his arms & neck and telling him how nice he looks while seto's beside him trembling with the need to touch, or seeing seto in a super casual setting where he's wearing sweatpants and just being like 'wow you look relaxed! :)' while yugi's brain is melting an he's trying not to drool

every time he notices he's just like "i know you two have both tried to straight up go into suicidal situations for me but i feel like you finally hit the 'too dramatic' stage this time. thats just me tho."

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Psycho Super Lover

When you will destroy another?

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Reblogging would be a great help, but don’t feel pressured to

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Fanfiction Work-In-Progress Guessing Game

Send me a word, if it’s in my wip document I’ll answer your ask with the sentence that it appears in

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early manga yami yugi cuz he is epic