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DO NOT look up information about 2:22 online if you're in/near Ireland and might actually go SEE Colin in this play.

It's one of those you really don't wanna be spoiled for!!

I shall even refrain from making the jokes I'm dying to make right now... just to save from potentially spoiling anyone.

But after the run is over... ALL BETS ARE OFF.

#signal boost #because that's probably good to know i think #2:22 a ghost story #colin o'donoghue

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purpose of this poll: basically im wondering if my gran having a pistol was a typical american experience

#yeah my friend's dad back in germany had one #and there was one in the apartment we moved into (??) #but idk if that one worked #but my friend's dad used to go hunting #so i assume his worked #oh! i also saw my neighbour's at a distance #in ireland #when he was out shooting birds (bastard) #polls

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Imo shame and blame have no place in this whole issue when it comes to consumers. Same goes for many other issues. You matter, and what you do matters, and your choices matter, but that doesn't mean you're responsible for everything under the sun. It just means you aren't completely powerless. If and when you have a choice, that choice matters. But sometimes you don't have a choice, or all the options suck in some way. Nothing to feel guilty about.

Individual behaviour only really matters in contexts like this in the sense that it's part of a group effort. A general shift in attitude can and does lead to change, and everyone individually does contribute to that. So in that sense, what you do and support and ask for matters. But it's not about, say, you personally avoiding 100% of plastic and feeling guilty if you don't. It's about doing what you can so that overall, plastic use goes down. The point is overall improvement, not achieving some individual level of perfection or purity. This is also why stuff like "you criticise plastic use but you drive a car" isn't the gotcha some people think it is. It's a tactic to distract from the actual problem and the actual goal and the actual culprits.

The idea that we all individually have to be perfect is counterproductive because it's all or nothing, so you end up feeling like if you can't do everything, you might as well do nothing. If you can't be 100% perfect, there's no point in even trying. And now that I type that, I wonder if maybe that's exactly how certain people want us to feel.

I don't think "everyone in the global north is personally complicit for buying a cell phone" is a useful way to understand the slavery and genocide involved in mining for phone parts. I'm not saying "oh you have to have sympathy for people in the imperial core" I'm saying that trying to argue that everybody is at fault based on the country they live in really let's the billionaires who set up the mines, decided to use slavery to produce the phones in order to cut costs, didn't look for another natural resource less deadly to mine to use to make the batteries, aggressively marketed the devices, used their little gig economy upstarts to make it so you literally can't get a job or navigate a city among other things without one, planned the obsolescence, punished people who try to repair their own instead of buying a new one, made it impossible to recycle the materials, and so on off the hook for what they've done. Like sure we all have cell phones, I'm typing this on one, but why do we all have them. And why are we expected to replace them every year. It's not because all Americans are greedy, it's because capitalism feeds off of suffering and there's very specific people at the top forcing that to continue.

#been thinking about this a lot lately #and i think this gets twisted a lot #and it's frustrating af #and does not help at all #i hope i managed to word this right #my brain is not working right today #but i hate that blame game holier-than-thou crap so yeah

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Honestly the fact that 5 years is considered a long lifespan for a phone now is kind of ridiculous. I had a Sony Ericsson that worked great for about 10 years, and even then it would probably still be kicking if I could've replaced the battery, but of course by the time that was necessary they weren't making it, or parts for it, anymore. Before mobile phones, we had landlines, and you might need a new phone once every 20 or 30 years. I think my grandparents had the exact same ugly green phone the entire time I knew them.

And the point isn't that in the olden days everything was better or to brag about my old phone, the point is that things can last. We have the technology to make things last. I just refurbished my netbook that I bought in 2010 - it needed a new keyboard, and I upgraded the RAM as well. It still works. It fell down a flight of stairs a few years ago and a corner chipped off the case, but it still works. I installed Ubuntu on it recently so now it can even run Scrivener. It works. Things can last.

This planned-obsolence, buy-the-new-thing-cause-it's-shiny nonsense is just that. They build it crappy so it breaks within 2 years and most people are fine with it because hey, it's an excuse to buy a new, even shinier thing. Or they don't have a choice, or they feel like they don't have a choice, because those are actively discouraged.

But it doesn't have to be crap. Even with this current trend of throwing everything away immediately, things you buy don't have to be crap. There are often still alternatives, they just might take a little extra effort to find and maintain.

#yeah i'm back on my soapbox #it's so frustrating tbh #because there's no way they're not better at making stuff #they just choose not to make good stuff #and slap a shiny plastic cover on it #and make it so thin it'll snap if you're not careful #and sell it to you as stylish and shiny and cool #aghhh i hate it

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#my last nokia packed in after 8 years #so i needed a new one #which is now about 1.5 years old #but i'm expecting it to at least match the other one #especially since it's more basic #it just does calls and texts #and snake #polls

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Submitted by @sky-the-snail-fanatic

#oh so many #i love music in other languages #not gonna count songs in english because come on #so: a few irish ones #a few french ones #a few swedish ones #2 in norwegian #i can take a fair stab at a few in spanish #one or two in italian #and uh #dragostea din tei #aka the numa numa song #which is in romanian #i don't think any of them are from eurovision? #it's a random mix of pop and folk and trad songs #can't vouch for my pronunciation for any of these btw but yeah

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I do not want to bitch on OP's post but dear lord this is vile 😭😭😭 I have stats hidden on AO3 and I simply read summaries, check tags and decide if the fic sounds interesting or not??? Like a fic might have very little kudos but it might still be something I happen to enjoy waahhh do these people not go to library and just browse books bc the name sounds interesting to them???? Do you need other people to decide what to enjoy???

#yeah i never look at stats at all #and like #doing maths? #to figure out whether a fic is good? #based on other people's opinions?? #that just seems like several bad ideas folded into one tbh #there's no algorithm or equation that'll tell you what you like #and why would you let other people tell you what you like? #i just read the summary #and see whether it sounds interesting #i swear without comments and likes/kudos etc #some people wouldn't know what to think #or enjoy #ALSO tangential but #“good enough to read” sounds kinda arrogant to me tbh #you need other people's feedback to even *know* whether it's “good” #but it does have to be “good” to be worthy of you #and we're talking about fanfic! #“i calculate whether it's good enough to read from the kudos ratio” okay literature critic #yeah this is all just wild to me

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Submitted by an anon.

reblogs for bigger sample size appreciated

polls can be submitted to this blog via asks or submssions

#this happens fairly regularly #usually i do nothing #it only bothers me if they're aggressive or rude about it #but that goes for takes i agree with as well tbh #and i unfollow in that case #there's a brand of bitterness i just don't want to be around #even if i technically agree #about me

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my cat: "I spend half the day cleaning my fur and I always go to the designated poo spot to do my business and bury it when I'm done, don't want any nasty smells, gotta be clean, clean clean clean"

also my cat: "let me just throw up right in my bed and then complain that it's dirty now"

#WHY #THIS COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED #cause and effect kaylee #cause and effect #random nonsense

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About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning

If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:

These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:

But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.

Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.

If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.

Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.

Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.

Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.

#if you want to make an ao3 account #i have invite codes! #happy to share #we don't have to be friends or even know each other #ao3 #fucking bots man #and once again this is somehow linked to ai #because of course it is

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the only crimes they committed were being too sexy. and murder

#accurate #man their whole aesthetic is a+ too #alternatively though: #one is the devil incarnate #and the other is a pure cinnamon roll #which is which? you decide #and then you can argue about it for YEARS #ouat #hooked queen

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365 days of captain swan :: day 346

#take a leap of faith! #oh killian #emma is not the woman for that #(until she is) #captain swan #the lighting in this scene though <3 #and the colouring here <3 #pretty gifs #ouat

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Endlessly diabolical how you can't say words like rape and suicide uncensored without either being criticised by idiots or punished by conglomerates.

#isn't it just tiktok? #i thought it was just tiktok #and maybe on yt you might get demonetised #which... is a whole other thing #but wouldn't it be cool #if there was a counter trend #where people just say the things #and everyone else supports it #and suddenly *that's* where the money is #just saying #also honestly #censoring the word does absolutely nothing #when we all know what it means

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Does Luke know how to swim?

definitely not, the rebellion has to teach him

(donation doodles! // tip jar)

#i like how they're just watching him #like that's how they teach him #stand fully clothed by the pool and shout #and take turns jumping in to save him #(and to watch the other) #(probably) #tbh that sounds exactly like how it'd go #star wars #art by others #han x leia #luke skywalker #also btw loving the canonically-accurate height difference

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Dreamed last night that I was hanging out with Ryan Gosling, and he kept talking about the Barbie movie and how proud he was of it, and eventually I had to confess that I hadn't seen it. And he was all "... but you want to see it, right? You'll come watch it, right?" and I didn't want to hurt his feelings so I said sure, absolutely, let's watch Barbie.

So we went to the cinema--me, Ryan, and some people I was friends with or possibly mutual friends, I don't know, I have no idea how dream!me even knew Ryan Gosling. Anyway, the movie played, and Ryan was pointing out the bits he liked best, but the other people kept talking to me, and somehow I missed most of the movie which I wasn't all that upset about. Thankfully Ryan didn't notice, he was very earnest and seemed to just assume that everyone loved the movie as much as he did.

Anyway I woke up feeling vaguely guilty for not appreciating Ryan Gosling's greatest work, I'm sorry Ryan.

Also I'm once again blaming Tumblr for making me dream about an actor, the only thing I've ever seen Ryan Gosling in is Crazy Stupid Love and that was years ago, but he's been all over my dash lately so I'm blaming you, all of you who put him there, you know who you are.

#first chris evans now this #i feel like it's not entirely on me for hurting his feelings either #he wouldn't have BEEN there if not for you people #random nonsense

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I'm curious. Reblog this if you know how to cook

I don’t even care if it’s macaroni, ramen or those little bowls you stick in the microwave. Please, I need reassurance that most of the population on tumblr WOULDN’T STARVE TO DEATH if their parents couldn’t fix them food or they couldn’t go out to eat. 

#yeah of course #but also #i'm pretty sure everyone can cook #even if you think you can't #you'd figure it out if you had to #the basic stuff isn't really hard #about me #random nonsense

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ONCE UPON A TIME APPRECIATION WEEK Day 5 - Favorite Parallel(s) - Regina Mills

#character developmentttttt #honestly she grew so much #and i was very proud of her #regina mills #ouat