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The worst thing about digital photography is that it completely took the wind out of the sails of the standard horror trope where you take a bunch of photographs and then, only upon developing them in your darkroom, realise that there's a bunch of spooky ghost shit in them.

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Are you paying attention, little mouse?

#bg3 raphael #hot damn #awooga

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These are late night thoughts but. Alright Gortash and DU drow didn't fuck. They never fucked. I'm not a Durgetash guy this is a Dorin home.

But did Enver wanna fuck that.

Is that his type.

Gortash specialists weight in.

#pfft

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“she’s got legs for days” pfffft not impressive. i;ve had mine for years

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I think there are two totally valid sides to weaponized incompetence that often talk past each other.

I've totally had partners who did stuff like "How was I supposed to know that the vacuum would burn out if you try to vacuum up a ball of yarn and keep running it while it's squealing and smoking. I guess you'd better do all the vacuuming from now on! 🥺"

But I've also had roommates who would be like "Ugh, you said you cleaned the counter, but it looks like you just brushed the crumbs off, wiped it down with 409, and then wiped again with water to remove residue! You have to use this special 17 step routine that involves accounting for barometric pressure & star sign, takes 48 hours, and is based in a very specific family trauma." where the results is "Ok, if you require the counters to be cleaned that way, you have assumed counter-cleaning duty."

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What do y’all mean by you can open orange with hands that thing is unbreakable what the hell

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i am sorry i am afflicted with a serious illness called "i literally Opened your message, typed out a response, got distracted by something or the other and never pressed send, assumed you never replied and now it's been 3 months"

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ALT

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you ever just sit and realise u can’t remember 80% of your childhood? like … what happened? who am i ..?

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i wanna make a hated foods poll hang on

#celery #doesn’t matter what it’s combined with #can’t stand it

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Rants at the Hairdresser

her, behind me trimming my hair: "it's so wild how big cars are. Seems a bit dangerous, ya know?"

me, enjoying the smell of the stuff she sprayed in my hair: "Yeah, apparently that's because it's cheaper to have a car classified as a 'light truck' since you can get past safety regulations and they have different frames."

her, who has paused working on my hair: "Wait, are you serious?"

me: "Yeah, apparently it's a lot cheaper for companies to do that. And it really sucks since driving one of those cars is super dangerous, but it's even more dangerous for other people, especially if they're in a smaller car. Since it would be more safe to be another driver if they ALSO have a 'light truck,' everyone is caught in a cycle of getting bigger and bigger cars. All of which are extremely dangerous and have made being a pedestrian even more dangerous."

her: deep in thought, silent.

me, happy that someone is letting me rant about this: "Oh, the new Cadillacs are the size of tanks. That's not an exaggeration, by the way."

her, stunned: ???? "what the actual hell???"

we're silent for a bit

her, hesitantly, since I look like white trash and she has at least 10 piercings and pink hair: "I feel like America has been that way for a while... ya know?"

me: "Oh yeah, I totally get what you're saying, like, putting profit over people's safety?"

her, assured now that she knows we're both too commie pilled for this kind of conversation with someone else: "Yes! Exactly! It really sucks, right?"

me: "God, tell me about it"

I was very happy with my haircut, btw. She's so good at her job. :D

#bruh

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why is explaining a villains sad backstory always taken as an effort toward excusing their actions. why does the conversation need to involve the question of excusing anything rather than just making their present behavior way more interesting by complicating their feelings or their motivations. why is acknowledging complicated feelings or motivations taken as apologism in and of itself. why is everyone so incredibly boring

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“BUT ITS CANON!!!1!1”

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I'm just going to leave this here, because this woman said what I've been trying to articulate for ages much more effectively and succinctly than I've been able to

#all of this #we cannot do another four years of trump #he’s the reason we lost abortion rights #he wants to roll back all the environmental protections we have left #he literally told the coal and oil execs to give him money for extra rollbacks in office #he will make the genocide happening even worse and spread it #vote blue #not voting is helping trump full stop

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🔹 Someone else's fiction cannot cause you physical harm.

🔹If someone else's fiction is causing you emotional or psychological harm, or distress, you can put it down and not read/watch it.

🔹Your emotional well-being is not the responsibility of fiction writers.

🔹Someone else's fiction is not about your personal trauma.

🔹When reading or watching fiction, you always have the power. You can always stop. You are never reading fiction without your own consent.

🔹Fiction writers are not responsible for other people's mental health.

🔹The content of a piece of fiction does not reflect on the morality of its author.

🔹Just because someone writes about bad things happening, doesn't mean they want those things to happen.

🔹Don't like? Don't read.

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On a job application: “What is your preferred name and gender, we value diversity, so be honest.” Me: 

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fun funeral facts

embalming, the process of chemically preserving a corpse, is typically not required by law. unless you need to transport the body long-distance or postpone the burial, it’s 100% a vanity thing.

a body still rots in air-tight conditions. so “protective” or “sealed” caskets are basically a scam, and anything fancy like metal is a waste of money.

want a beautiful casket for a viewing, but think burning or burying an expensive piece of hardwood is a waste of money and trees? rentals exist.

you don’t need a coffin for cremation. the minimum requirement is that the body be in a “cremation container,” which is a simple cardboard box.

home funerals are an option. you don’t need to hand the body over to a funeral home, and you can keep their involvement to a minimum.

natural burial sites exist. you can have your unembalmed body straight up thrown in the dirt to be tree food, if you want.

there are a lot of funeral homes that will prey on your ignorance and vulnerability in order to get as much money out of you as possible. they may imply optional certain services are legally mandatory, steer you away from cheaper options, charge additional costs for what’s supposed to be all-inclusive services, etc.

one person’s death is another person’s profit. know your rights, do your research, and apply the same scrutiny you would to any other business.