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Sainte-Chapelle, Paris. January 2018.

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I still think the most devastating enshittification I've ever seen has been picrew. One of the few dress-up game websites left that's not flash-based and it's become DRENCHED in ads. You can't open the home screen without being blasted by at least three or four ads. You can't open two picrews in a row without watching a video ad first. When you have a picrew open the ads cover up the different options and sometimes even stack on each other so you have to hit like 2 or 3 different x buttons to get it to go away, only for more to appear seconds later. Evil world

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reblog Mulder’s drawing of bigfoot titties or be cursed for 12 years and 12 nights

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huge fan of how whenever you try to address that the trend of black characters consistently being seen as less attractive and interesting due to traits that people famously laud white characters over is a systemic occurrence and even if you don't realize this about yourself it's important to recognize the pattern there will always without fail be at least 30 different chucklefucks going "so true i just didn't like him because i like this white character more but you're so right 🥰" it's awesome actually

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The Class 1 was issued because of undeclared milk (allergen) and is specific to the chips pictured here sold in March. It’s also specific to a few states. The article lists the states and manufacturing numbers if you need to check.

Just figured those details were critically important. “Class 1” could mean a lot of different things from a total nationwide product recall to a limited pull resultant from an affected production line. If you do not have a milk allergy or do not live in the listed states or did not buy your chips in March, you are fine.

Class 1 recall on Tostitos. (Class 1 means they can kill you if consumed.)

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one of my fave posts honestly

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I think a lot of people are forgetting that on tumblr fandom used to be practiced very differently. now everyone fucks off to their discords or tumblr groups to discuss everything with a select few, making tags be nearly only used for posting some finished fanworks or not at all

a decade ago people didn't have tumblr groups. people didn't even have dms. if you wanted to talk to anyone about anything you had to make a post, or send an ask (which more often than not would get published and thereby become a post in the end too)

so next time you think "I have a fandom thought but I have to find a small group of hyperspecifically like-minded people to share it with in private" remember all the freaks you could be missing out on meeting by keeping the tags dead. use tags, make friends. fuck discord.

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MANNY JACINTO arrives at the Hermès Menswear Fall-Winter 2025/2026 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 25, 2025 in Paris, France

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gonna be real with you chief, treviso-minrathous situation would be a no-brainer for a warden rook, especially when the initial arguments are "this city and the surrounding waters will be blighted" vs "a coup might happen"

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too lazy to retype this but . insane interaction w coworker last night

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June isn’t technically dead either if you did the Dark Ritual in Dragon Age Origins. Kieran and Morrigan both carry fragments of an elven god’s soul, power, and memories.

DRAGON AGE VEILGUARD SPOILERS BELOW

I haven’t seen anyone else talking about it but something just occurred to me.

I wondered why Elgar’nan and Ghilan’nain were the only Evanuris to escape the fade. There is a line of dialogue somewhere that explains that the other Evanuris were dead, and they were the final two to survive.

We know that in order to kill the gods, we must first kill their bonded Archdemon to render them mortal.

It only occurred to me on my second playthrough that the reason for the other Evanuris’s deaths is because of the Grey Wardens.

Five blights ended and five archdemons slain, leaving only Razikale and Lusacan alive and waiting. Each one of those previous archdemons was tethered to an elven god, and when they were killed, that rendered the gods mortal.

So what I think happened next was that they either died of old age, loss of power, or they succumbed to the blight that was trapped in the fade prison with them.

I wonder which god the Hero of Ferelden killed

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One difference between the Lord of the Rings books and the Peter Jackson films that I find really interesting is what the hobbits find when they return to the Shire.

In the books, they return from the War, only to see that the war has not left their home untouched. Not only has it not left their home unscathed, battle and conflict is still actively ravaging the Shire. They return, weary and battle-scarred, to find a home actively wounded and in need of rescue and healing. All four launch themselves into defending their home and rousting those harming it, and eventually succeed. But their idyllic home has been damaged, and even once healed, is never quite again the Shire they set out to save.

In contrast, in the Jackson films, they return to a Shire shockingly untouched by the horrors of war. The hobbits of the Shire talk, in the Green Dragon in Fellowship of the Ring, about not getting involved with issues "beyond our borders," and it seems those issues have not invaded their sanctuary. After having been bowed to by kings, dwarves, elves, and men alike at the coronation in Gondor, their only acknowledgment upon returning home is a skeptical head shake from an older hobbit.

One of the most poignant scenes to me in Return of the King (and there are a considerable amount) is the scene where Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin are sitting in the Green Dragon. The pub patrons bustle around them, talking loudly, clapping excitedly, drinking cheerfully, just as they had in the beginning of the story. But the four hobbits sit silently, watching almost curiously at what was once familiar but is now foreign to them. Their home has not changed. But they have.

Which is the deeper hurt? To come to your home to find it irrevocably changed, despite all you did to keep it untouched and the same? Or to return home but no longer feeling at home, because it is only you that is irrevocably changed?

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i think i would enjoy grazing. were i a cow ...

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Yasuke in Assassin's Creed Shadows

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AS OF MAY 14TH THIS PETITION HAS 9,342 SIGNATURES.

658 signatures left for a government response!

more fucking petitions because this clown car country cannot stop with the bigotry for 30 seconds

uk people it takes 5 seconds and you checking your email to verify

everyone else: rebloge please

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I was incredibly lucky to be a guest artist for @wanderlustgame_ (twitter/X)! We have Damon feat Theo and Suki! 🥰

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