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im trying to go to sleep but i cannotttttt stop thinking about this and laughing

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Reblog if you didn’t write My Immortal

We’re going to find the author by process of elimination.

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Trying to be less allergic to colour, my headcanon for 70s Ocelot.

#metal gear solid #revolver ocelot #other’s art #I love this so much #I saw this and then went… I could do this with my hair #proceeded to cut my hair #my impulse control is nonexistent but it looks good

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"womanizer" is one of those words that should mean something other than what it does.

example "i'm a womanizer. i see a guy and i womanize him."

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What's your opinion on Monster Fuckers?

I'd actively avoid these people

Ew wtf!?

I don't really care all

They're cool

I am a Monster Fucker

I have no what that is

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one time i had a dream that tiktok users deemed “kid” as a slur and that you HAD to refer to them as minors otherwise you would get harassed and threatened with doxxing. you couldn’t say “when i was a kid” anymore for example you HAD to say “when i was a minor” instead

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i thought my laptop was on its last leg because it was running at six billion degrees and using 100% disk space at all times and then i turned off shadows and some other windows effects and it was immediately cured. i just did the same to my roommate's computer and its performance issues were also immediately cured. okay. i guess.

so i guess if you have creaky freezy windows 10/11 try searching "advanced system settings", go to performance settings, and uncheck "show shadows under windows" and anything else you don't want. hope that helps someone else.

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googling ‘jobs for autistic people’ and realising that everyone still thinks autistic people are either sheldon cooper or really tall toddlers

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let’s settle this shit but do NOT reblog if you’re gonna be modest about it like a little BITCH. anyway privilege check tell me which ones apply to you: hot, funny, can dance, can do math, can spell, can drive, can cook

#I view myself as a mangled vampire but apparently I’m considered hot #funny in the way of gallows humor #can do math and spell but due to uhhhhh not great home #and I can cook mainly Asian since I try to make food my mom grew up with that she can’t get easily now #can’t drive because I don’t feel safe with my eyes and that leads me to be made fun of all the time by family #I have so many mixed feelings most of these because it just makes me feel really depressed

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this is too cute.

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do you know where "no beta we die like x" comes from and how it is used?

The term "beta" in this context is short for "beta reader" - a person who reads a fic while it's still in the editing stage and helps the writer get it ready to post. Some betas check grammar. Some check canon compliance. Some are sensitivity readers. There are lots of things that betas can do.

So functionally, saying "no beta" means that the writer didn't get this checked by a second person before they posted it. It's a warning that there might be errors or typos etc. It's mostly used when an author has written something quickly and is posting without doing a lot of (or any) edits first.

As for where it comes from? It all started with a bumper sticker.

This image was an internet meme at one point, and it got meme'd on in the form of "no ___ we ___ like men"

Here on tumblr, one of the versions that got really popular was from now-deleted user @grec1a who created this version:

From there, it migrated to AO3 as the "no beta we die like men" tag, and very often the word men is replaced by the name of a character who dies in canon.

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I saw a comment by someone on reddit who said they no longer comment on any fanfiction because of the risk of it being AI and ... that just seems like such a cop out to me, not to mention incredibly cruel to authors.

Please please please do not stop commenting on all fics or interacting with authors because you are worried about things being AI. The risk is slim, and the damage you do to authors by doing this is awful.

Writers put so much effort into their fics. For people to openly admit they still read and consume these fics, but choose not to comment on anything because of the possibility of someone using AI for their writing is incredibly selfish. You're punishing authors by doing this. You're not being moral or helpful or crusading for any useful cause - you're just hurting authors.

Ironically, by doing this, you're actually more likely to cause authors to stop writing (silence does this), and people who can't write will fill the gaps left by creating AI writing - so you're making the problem worse, not helping anyone.

If you want to support authors and writers, then SUPPORT them! Reblog work and send authors asks, leave comments and kudos, and above all don't punish people with silence.

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Reblog so everyone can hear what they need.

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So I’m turning 20 this year, yeah yeah I’m child, but it was always so weird to me. While I have been informed that my high school experience was more akin to a community college, students often being expected to get specializations along with their normal degree, it was always weird for me to think about the generational differences.

In high school, there was never really many parties. Outside of class, most of the time me and my friends spent together outside of class was crying in the back of storage rooms. Even at the college I’m attending now doesn’t have parties often.

My grades starting in 7th grade were transferred for high school, freshman year of high school my grades started counting for college.

I think for my generation of the things that contributed to this was how much larger the importance of college was hammered home to us. We were always told that you need a college degree to even have a sliver chance to make a livable wage.

College and degrees was a conversation that started in my 4th grade class in elementary school, scholarships when I reached 6th grade. This expectation to be ready to be an adult hit earlier. In my case, I actually was enrolled in a college prep course starting in 7th grade.

So yeah, with how the system is set up now, there feels like there is no room in life to be young anymore.

Maybe this is the wrong platform to pose this question given the average tumblr user but

Is it just me or did our generation (those of is who are currently 20-30 ish) just not get the opportunity to be young in the 'standard' sense?

Like, everyone I talk to who's over 40 has all their wild stories about their teens and 20s, being young and dumb, and then I talk to my friends and coworkers and classmates, and we just... dont.

#millennials #gen z

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