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i know a bunch of people are looking for new hip-hop and rap artists to listen to -- can i please please please direct your attention to darrnell bradley. i found him through youtube recommendations about a week ago. he does character raps for anime & other fandoms n his lyrics are. So Fucking Good. his style is a blend of modern hip-hop and early-aughts alt emo bullshit & even though i don't share a lot of fandoms with him, i have loved Literally Every Song I've Heard Thus Far. including for fandoms i'm not in.

(the shigaraki song below gave one of my partners such powerful autisms that she Immediately had to show me his backstory episodes. i now know more about tomura shigaraki than i do about any of bnha's actual protagonists.)

here are some specific mood-based recs:

ruthlessness/righteous fury (miguel o'hara)

"wow it's fun being the most powerful person in a room" (gojo satoru)

I Am So Fucking Mad (jinx arcane)

well. that's gonna haunt me for a while (tomura shigaraki)

crazy girl fucks me to death asmr (general yandere. trust the process)

the guy has less than 8k youtube subscribers and less than 5k spotify listeners which is. crazy. check his stuff out it is. So Fucking Good.

#boosting this for my weeb friends

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what i cannot abide about baseball is the spitting

#true.

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#i need 2 be at the lake

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Northanger Abbey (2007) dir. Jon Jones

#ugh they r so cute. #austen

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New addition to the Exposure category, ome of the kids treats the puppies to an Accordian Recital! (Okay just accordian making noise but they don't know the difference)

#oh my god i need to make accordion noises at some puppies

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dark eyed junco + black capped chickadee ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚ two of my favourite backyard visitors

#HOMESICK!!!!!! #next week i will see you again...

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hi! what the fuck? don't fucking blorbo tag a stranger's noncirculating personal post abt their disability. i don't know you and to my knowledge we've never interacted. this is overfamiliar and frankly quite rude. it isn't plain bad heroines it's plain bad me.

also, incidentally - in this case, tagging "sorry" doesn't make it less rude: in fact, it is more rude, because it indicates that you know this is inappropriate and chose to do it anyway.

please work on your understanding of interpersonal boundaries.

god my hip hurts so bad today that being horizontal is actually WORSE than being upright. CRAZY!!!

#usually i wouldn't bite back like this but did you read the post. i am in quite a lot of pain and don't need this today.

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god my hip hurts so bad today that being horizontal is actually WORSE than being upright. CRAZY!!!

#building a TOWER OF PILLOWS and swearing loudly irl

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bought a frozen white pizza w spinach & garlic & multicheese and was originally going to cook a chicken thigh to shred onto there for more substance (i don’t have any mushrooms or bacon) but then couldn’t stand the idea of waiting for chicken to cook and was feeling desperate until i remembered the humble can of anchovies i bought some years ago (expired 2022. whoops) and sure enough who was there at the back of my shelf to save me? the anchovy

#small preserved fish tag #let me know if u want me to delete this but like. literally. #recipies

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I wonder: Do Americans know about american school buses? Not their existence in general, but how they're seen overseas.

Over here, they're one of the symbols of America, on par with the Statue of Liberty, the flag, the Eagle, and well ahead of any chain restaurant you can name. People won't know any US states, but they will know these vehicles.

The thing is, here in Germany, we don't have dedicated school buses. The general idea is that kids go to school on their own. When that's not practical, they're expected to use (and given free tickets for) public transit. Public transit is designed around this requirement; there are many places where there is a bus, and anyone can get on it, but the route and timetable really only makes sense for school children. In case a dedicated school bus is really needed, that's generally subcontracted out, and the lines either use something like a Sprinter Van for smaller routes, or a normal city or interurban bus (often a used one that's a bit older). School trips are normal public transit, or a rented bus, typically a coach or regional bus.

It's not a perfect system, in the past couple of years there's been an epidemic of people bringing their kids to school in their cars instead of letting them walk, which is less than ideal. It is what it is. But building a dedicated network of public transit lines only for students, and building dedicated vehicles only for that, has never occurred to anyone here.

Of course we know about these buses, from movies and such, but they're as foreign here as cacti or pick-up trucks (actually we're seeing more and more of these here) or yellow cabs (all europeans will assume all cabs in the US are yellow until they actually visit).

You do see these buses here at times, because people still generally like the idea of the US, even if they have a lot of issues with a lot of details, and so folks bring them over, along with stretch limos and stuff (also not really a thing here). And of course, if someone goes to all that trouble, they don't do it to haul school kids, they rent it out for city tours or as a party bus or whatever.

So you see these yellow things as a symbol of faraway places, scenic vistas, some vague undefined idea of freedom that doesn't necessarily hold up to any contact with reality, and it's just a huge part of the whole US aesthetic.

And then you go to a student exchange with the US, and you finally get the chance: You yourself get to ride in one of these iconic chrome yellow buses! It looks just like in the movies! You get in, you drive in them a little…

…and you realise they're shit. Just the worst buses in the western world. Terrible suspension. Uncomfortable seats with weirdly high backs (so they don't have to put seatbelts in, they just restrict how far kids can fly in an accident). Everything made out of the cheapest materials. Turns out the reason why the US uses school buses like that instead of normal modern city buses, which the US has, is to save money and because they just hate kids.

And then it hits you why US Americans say "as American as apple pie", a dish that is made and enjoyed literally anywhere in the world, instead of "as American as yellow school buses". Of course the Americans already knew all this. They got tortured by these things forever. It would never occur to them to see this as a symbol of America, it's just a normal part of life for them. It's a symbol of school and school life and sometimes normalcy, and tells us that these actors getting out of it are supposed to be teenagers, nothing more.

But most people in Europe have, of course, never ridden on these buses. So when they see them in movies and TV, that's a giant big yellow signifier that we're not in Hessen or Wallonia or wherever anymore. A symbol of a different world, one that may be at most a once-in-a-lifetime-experience for most people, just like a picture of a tropical beach, Incan Pyramids, the Great Wall of China, or Hildesheim (there's no reason to go there twice). And I think Americans don't know that, and that's fascinating.

#yeah i briefly lived with german family when i was 5-6 and my mom was freaked by how strange taking a normal bus to school was for me #she was like is raising my kid in america going to give me an american kid. and then never internalized that and continues to be surprised.

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Ursula K. Le Guin, "Learning Latin in Old Age" (from Finding My Elegy: New and Selected Poems, 2012)

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Somewhere in Armand's dreamscape.

I swear I started this picture three days before the trailer. I felt like I manifested it yesterday.

#GOD yes. #iwtv

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for the next emoji update they should add an ouroboros

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Lol, tiny bumper stickers for your phone, including “My other phone is a burner”, “Caution: Extremely Online”, and “I brake for Notes app apologies”.

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a face you'd find on the side of a milk carton

#yum. #dunmeshi

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chinese cold noodles in a spicy nutty black vinegar sauce 😌 (recipe)

#recipies #want this...