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Apple TV Murderbot + Text posts

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(Going off of the initial Japanese release dates as to which generation was current at the time excluding remakes that came out during that period. For simplicity's sake)

For example I turned 10 in 2007 so I would be starting in the Sinnoh region! Bonus if you tell me your partner Pokémon 👀 doesn't have to be one of the three starters!

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There's this place where you can find ingredients from all four seas. East Blue, West Blue, North, and South. They call it the All Blue. Nobody knows where it is, but there's fish there that have never been seen. You know, rare seaweeds. Spices that have never been tasted. It is a cook's paradise, and I'm gonna find it one day. That's my dream.

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Happy Pride to these two and their bullshit /affectionate

maybe the art of queerbaiting hasn't been lost after all.

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Bond girls are out. Blanc girls (underprivileged women who screw over rich assholes with the help of this silly detective) are in.

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but you see, bunnies own the moon collectively

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check out the mourning doves’ new single “hooOOOO hoo hoo hoo” if you get the chance. sound of the summer.

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"Oh, so he/she/they played THAT type of character, so they think this is ok-"

I am begging you to learn what the word 'acting' means, Susan.

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Detect evil but it becomes increasingly clear that whoever calibrated it had some really weird moral stances.

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super simple low-effort ao3 summary methods that are 1000% better and 1000% less annoying than just saying you suck at summaries:

copypaste the first few lines of the fic. u already wrote ‘em. let ‘em be their own damn hook

if ur feeling fancy & don’t mind showing ur hand a bit, copypaste the first few lines of the fic that u feel are esp. Important or Interesting - the ones where u first start getting into the real meat of things

state the main tropes! theyre probably already in ur tags - just say them again - maybe as a full sentence if ur feelin fancy. or with a joke if ur feelin Extra fancy

ask a question. pose a hypothetical. eg what happens if u take [character] and put them in [situation]?

make an equation. [character] + [thing] = [outcome]

just write like a one-sentence summary of what the fuck is going down. just one (1) sentence. doesnt matter if it doesn’t cover every important aspect. or if it sounds bland. any summary sentence is gonna be miles better than “idk i suck at summaries”

just…explain the fic like u would to a friend? it doesnt have to be a polished back of the book blurb. it can just be “[pairing] coffee shop au, but like, still with murder, and also i made everyone trans. enjoy”

just stick a meme in there

honestly who cares

just put literally anything but a self deprecating comment in there & ur golden

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Devastated that rbs were turned off. I need this on my blog.

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My default assumption whenever I see people pitching fits about how characters or ships or the color of the wallpaper or whatever else they don't like must be evil, is that they are a teenager.

They are a teenager who has never used anything other than an algorithmic feed on a social media app to find fannish content, they don't even know where the settings page is, and they're having a real bad time. They have to get up early in the morning, school is awful, all their clique-y peers have been mean to them about their weight, their teachers are impatient, they just got seven hours of homework and their last class was gym. And they are eternally frightened that they're secretly a bad person and their only current recourse against this is to be like, at least I know that pineapple on pizza is a sin.

Approaching things from this angle has never steered me wrong. Even when the person in question is not literally a teenager, they're still pretty much letting their inner kid drive the bus right now.

"A four year age gap is abusive!" okay champ. Screen time's up. Let's get you a protein shake and a nap.

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Everything feels better when I remember the Tiffany Aching quote “It doesn’t stop being magic just because you learn how it works.”

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I don't know which trans girl needs to hear this but you don't need to have sex ever if you don't want to. no matter who your partner is. if the thought of having sex makes you feel anxious or uncomfortable, or even if you're just not in the mood for it, you don't have to. it doesn't matter if your partner really wants it or if they'd feel insecure that you don't find them attractive or whatever, you can just say no. don't let anyone pressure you into sex that you don't want. you are not a sex object made to please other people. you deserve to have your boundaries and sexual autonomy respected, and that includes the right to have no sex whatsoever, if that's what you want.

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a feel like the new generation of fanfic readers NEED to understand that clicking on a fic (interaction) does nothing. ao3 has no algorithm. your private discord discussions of fic do not reach the authors. if you do not actively engage with writers they will stop posting. this isn’t social media this is community.

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person in fandom: eeeyikes!!! i hope im writing this character in this short little fanfic right >_< eeekkk what if my takes on my meta are all wrong and everyone will Kill me!!

guy in professional comic industry: okay lets mischaracterize every single character that appears in this comic for 50 or so issues