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Buying a car

English added by me :)

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ok i need some perspective after a conversation with my friend

apply your own definition of 'fluffy', and i'd love to hear everyone's opinions in the tags!

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(I'm gonna show you) how it's done, done, done

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KPOP Demon Hunter Spoilers!!

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Can I get that K-pop demon hunters fun fact please? :D

Today You Learned about the origin story of the Derpy Tiger!

[And also the magpie. And also, yes, the people who made the movie also call him Derpy.]

You see, Derpy Tiger and the Magpie are based off of a traditional bit of Korean art: Minhwa, specifically a subgenre called hojak-do which portrays tigers and magpies. You'd hang up these images to ward off bad spirits. But as time went on, the images started to evolve:

You might be thinking something like, "Hey, wow, that tiger looks a bit dopey, but I can't say that, because that's traditional Korean art and that'd be offensive." But guess what! You totally can say that because it's entirely intentional! See, traditionally, the idea was that the tiger represented the noble, aristocratic class, the people meant to protect society and look all serious and shiz. But around the 1600s, there was a shift where people, at least the artists, were getting kind of fed up with aristocratic BS, and started mocking the traditional image by making the tigers look... well, Derpy.

And so you have the magpie in these images, which symbolized common folk, which is not a very 'noble' creature, which yet looks much more dignified compared to the symbol of the ruling class.

So Derpy Tiger isn't just a parody of traditional Korean art of tigers... he's entirely in line with the fact that the art is a parody of a "noble" creature, being portrayed as being a bit... well, derpy.

The makers of the movie get into it here.

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From the media that brought you "Millennials are killing [insert industry here]" articles for years and years and years, now we have....

"Hey, Gen Z, we're gonna relabel vacations into something else now and tell you how you really should be wary of taking vacation because it might impact your financial future."

This is a goddamn dystopia, we know this, right?

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Problems I can solve but it'll take a lot of work are so much more annoying than problems I can't solve.

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"SecUnit would write fanfic"

"It would only beta read and leave comments"

SecUnit would install itself as a moderator of the Sanctuary Moon fandom wiki page. SecUnit would, for the simple transgression of being annoying - delete your account, IP ban, find your personal email address and send you a citation-laden 5 page explanation about how you're wrong titled "Banned for life (idiot)"

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(Part 1? lol)This got more ridiculous than I intended but here we are, a little rujinu aquarium date shenanigan inspired by @galaxyspeaking ‘s great aquarium date concept! I have a part 2 sketched out that’s more romantic and sappy but we’ll see if and when I get to it 🐠

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ok not to be that guy but like. labor rights and working class rights can coexist with 24h services and late amenities. its certainly hard to do so without worker exploitation in this political and social environment, it’s not a conflict likely to resolve overnight. but 24h services are important and especially valuable to those of us that are disabled or are on a different circadian rhythm. in fact more professional, health, and government services should be available or at least possible to work on asynchronously (if applicable) during late or odd hours, while workers also get sufficient pay for their labor and proper consistent scheduling. this would be much easier on the workers with night schedules if the entire professional world didn’t grind to a halt at 5pmEST

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Im good at being strange and ignored

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the fact that no one questioned erika having "sam reich sux" shaved into their head a few episodes earlier really speaks to their character. we all assumed they'd just do this for the hell of it. truly bisexual chaos gargoyle of all time.

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Hey someone suggested I use ChatGPT to figure out adulting today, and as I was going through the mental list of places I'd rather look, I realized "beloved strangers on Tumblr dot net" was on that list.

So if you have an aspect of adulting that you're really good at-taxes, budgeting, cooking, insurance, credit, time management, house upkeep, anything-please feel free to reblog with any tips.

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writing tip: searching "[place of origin]ish names" will get you a lot of stuff and nonsense made up by baby bloggers.

searching "[place] census [year]" will get you lists of real names of real people who lived in that place.

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god people are weird in cars

you’d think most grown adults would have the capacity to wait 90 seconds without throwing a tantrum