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reading the source code of a videogame and playing it perfectly in my head

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Temporarily pausing the breakdown because of how garbage this paragraph is

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New Taylor swift song called fuck like a mountain rat

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"he would not fucking say that" but its about a character being a leftist. he would not fucking believe that

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idk who needs to hear this but when your english teacher asks you to explain why an author chose to use a specific metaphor or literary device, it’s not because you won’t be able to function in real-world society without the essential knowledge of gatsby’s green light or whatever, it’s because that process develops your abilities to parse a text for meaning and fill in gaps in information by yourself, and if you’re wondering what happens when you DON’T develop an adult level of reading comprehension, look no further than the dizzying array of examples right here on tumblr dot com

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early to bed and early to rise leaves a man so fucked up that he dies

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I do just want to say thank you for discussing the current transphobia in the UK, especially the Cass Review. I've seen very little discussion on here about it, and quite a bit of that discussion has involved "TERF island" jokes or people just seemingly only using it to joke about how the english are terrible people which um. Bad fucking taste to make those jokes in response to a report that's very much infantizing trans people and wants to stop teenagers and young adults from being allowed to transition at all, including social transition some-fucking-how.

I realised I was nonbinary at the age of 15, applied for transgender health care with the NHS shortly afterwards, and I'm now 21 and only just recently was I seen by them for the first time. I was told it would still be another year at least until I could receive any help transitioning. And now the politicians in this country think I'm "too young" to know my own mind and identity, that I need to wait until I'm 25 to receive any help or support. Will I actually receive that when I become 25? No. They'll keep making transgender healthcare more and more restricted until it's practically banned. The report states that people with depression and autism, like me, are most likely to be transgender, watch them soon say they need to restrict it for those people too "because they're unsure and ill!"

Essentially, what I'm saying is that people need to care about the people in the UK affected by it's rapidly increasing transphobia more than they care about shitting on the country and it's politicians. Yes, we all know it's pretty shit here! Joking about the TERFs in this country does not help your trans siblings there, no more than telling them just to leave the country does!

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"con artist" is maybe the profession with the biggest gap between How Cool They Are In Media and How Cool They Are In Real Life

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any merlin fans out there..... have a wip

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any merlin fans out there..... have a wip

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there was a tiktok I made a while ago basically saying "your abusive ex boyfriend is more likely a misogynist than a narcissist" and while most people agreed some said I was victim blaming(?) and that I couldn't know what their ex is like, and while obviously I don't, every fucking person describing their narcissistic ex is describing a typical misogynist. ask yourself, is this behavior you associate with narcissism directed at women or does he treat his male friends the same way? is his general functioning in life impaired?

many people don't seem to know this, but a mental disorder is NOT based on symptoms alone, it's based on how much the symptoms actually impair you in daily life. most people could look at a list of mental disorder symptoms and identify either themselves or someone else with them. as far as a narcissistic personality, we all know people who appear more self absorbed than others, but this is typically subclinical narcissism (presence of narcissistic traits without significant impairment of functioning) which is not a disorder. there is also a misunderstanding of what npd is. a narcissist is not a supervillain invincible to emotion. npd is a defensive reaction to trauma that lead to deep insecurity and fear of being seen as weak or vulnerable. so narcissists aren't actually "in love with themselves" at all and often are diagnosed when seeking help for other issues such as substance abuse resulting from their struggles.

this focus a lot of abused women in online pop psychology have on narcissism is particularly concerning because it completely glosses over misogyny which is literally a huge factor in violence against women. people really only know misogyny as a surface level thing. they don't know it can lead to family annihilation, for example, and is one reason most family annihilations are committed by the husband. it's always "this man is a sociopath" "this man is a narcissist" when the man's behavior is driven by ideology. I am so fucking tired of everything being tied to mental illness and left at that. you know what this leads to? courts "fixing" abusive men by...giving them anger management therapy. guess what? it doesn't fucking do anything because the problem isn't mental instability leading to anger, it's targeted, purposeful abuse. we are getting nowhere

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house in 2024 bc i see ppl post this

- chase makes "lol americans experience gun violence" jokes

- cameron engages in online discourse and starts a lot of arguments with "as a doctor..."

- foreman uses 4chan but just to sit in shock at the things he sees on there

- house is a mod and frequent poster on r/newjersey of all things. only wilson knows, not because house keeps it a secret, but because its so weirdly out of character that nobody would ever bring it up

- wilson sends reels of edgy standup comedians to house on instagram

- cuddy frequents gentle parenting forums, occasionally uses tactics on house

- taub used to run a food review channel on youtube but stopped when people called his videos "mukbangs"

- thirteen introduces herself with her name and pronouns, everyone makes a joke about this at least once

- kutner is a hamilton fan

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Romeo + Juliet (1996) Trivia: Shakespeare described Tybalt swordsmanship as “showy”. To transform this into flamboyant gunplay, John Leguizamo worked with choreographer John ‘Cha Cha’ O'Connell to create a flamenco-inspired style.