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So I'm playing Stray Gods

#GTJDBJDJDKD LITERALLY #stray gods

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Fossil sink

#OH MY GOD HI 🥰🥰🥰

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spn: *ends*

misha:

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Quick dump of the rest of my Fantasy High sketches. I love Riz. Like, could there be a character more tailor made for my interests? Feral anxiety-ridden green goblin with a flat cap and vest who’s a total dork and into noir vibes, who also happens to be Ace?

Yeah, that’s for me thanks.

(I’m only two episodes into junior year, so no spoilers please!

#RIZ MY PRECIOUS BOY #fantasy high

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#on a date? yes

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adults are always talking about how “kids will do anything to get out of school” and okay, first of all that’s not true, but I think we really need to ask why that idea holds so much sway.

children’s brains are hard-wired to take in new information and acquire new skills. consider, for a moment, just how thoroughly our society had to fuck up the concept of education for it to be a normal thing to assume kids are universally desperate to avoid learning.

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People tend to throw out the phrase "extremely specific kinks" as though that inherently implies something transgressive, but in my experience, the overwhelming majority of extremely specific kinks are so innocuous that you could see them in public and not even clock them. For every person who can only get off to having their nipples electrocuted, there are a dozen who are volcanically aroused by seeing their partner wearing one specific pair of socks.

#the fact that op listed those out in alphabetical order is sending me

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i didn't mean to take those tags in bad faith, but even if we were best buds, I'd be rly uncomfortable with that joke. it's way too close to "oh you're asexual? bet i can fix that ;)" i genuinely can't think of anyone in my life that I'd laugh if they said something like this.

and I'm not the only person on here? there are lots of people seeing your tags that are complete strangers to you. and i don't even know you that well. we're mutuals and we share some interests but we barely know each other.

but even if none of that were true, you can't use "it's not mean if i'm quirky, you should know i'm joking because i'm Insane" as an excuse to say whatever you want. i do trust that you didn't mean harm but that doesn't mean it's not harmful. watching your tongue or censoring yourself are not the same as being considerate? and maybe I'm being too sensitive, in which case you can block me or I'll block you or whatever.

it's a good post but uh. I'm ace and what the fuck do your tags mean

like. feeling sexual attraction 😭😭😭😭😭😭

#idk what else to say abt this like. im genuinely sorry that ppl have taken things you say in bad faith in the past bc that shit sucks #i don't feel like this is bad faith tho i just don't think it's ok to joke abt making aces feel sexual attraction #it absolutely is your blog and i understand that if i don't like smthn you say i can just bail and block you. i think i just wanted to say - #- smthn instead of just bouncing bc i like you? and i'd miss you if i did that? #and i don't mean this in a mean way. bc i like you and i think you're funny and smart. but i don't think of all my mutuals as my friends #i mean maybe we're friends in a very broad sense? and that's not anything to do with you specifically. it's just. #i feel like we tend to get a pretty small sliver of ppl on here. we share random things abt ourselves in posts and tags #but that doesn't mean we actually know each other #idk man. you're allowed to be upset but so am i

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it's a good post but uh. I'm ace and what the fuck do your tags mean

like. feeling sexual attraction 😭😭😭😭😭😭

#yeah that's fair! rbing to see if anyone wants to add #i believe you that that's a normal interaction for you but idk it's kinda like. if you say that to a bunch of strangers online. #without the context of knowing you very well. it's not great #like. i definitely like you from what i see of you! but there's a lot of jokes that i make with my irl friends that i wouldn't make with you #and it's just bc it's different contexts #like those posts that talk abt how ribbing a friend affectionately is very different from saying the same thing to a stranger online #i hope that makes sense 🙏

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my dear madam. there's no need to joke about making asexuals feel sexual attraction. that sucks in a major way

it's a good post but uh. I'm ace and what the fuck do your tags mean

like. feeling sexual attraction 😭😭😭😭😭😭

#like. are you high rn. ik it's not a joke abt 'fixing' us but it's still pretty gross #'im gonna make a lesbian sex scene so good that gay men will start feeling attracted to women' hey what the fuck #ive gotta assume you didnt mean anything by it you just weren't thinking. right?

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Reblog to give the person you reblogged from the ability to finish their WIPs

#PREV YOU CAN DO THIS!!!!!!!

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It’s a sad song 

#THE LIGHTING IS MAKING ME INSANE #hadestown

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it is my hope and dream that everyone on tumblr can go outside and visit a gay bar or go to a queer event and see that our community is very beautiful and very diverse and that half the internet discourse isn’t real

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in light of police across the country cracking down on pro palestine protests with brutal force, it feels like a great time to remind everyone to shut the fuck up around cops. don't make small talk, dont act friendly, don't fucking engage with them!! if you are arrested DO NOT speak without a lawyer present. protest organizers, get into contact with local pro bono lawyers who can be there for your arrested comrades. no matter what, if cops are there, shut the fuck up unless you are actively doing a protest chant. dont tell cops why you were there, dont tell them if you're affiliated with the school you may be protesting at, dont tell them if you came there with anyone, dont tell them anything!!!

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in 2015 I needed a job really bad for reasons not worth getting into. i was living in ohio for like 6 months & i just applied at every place within a 30 minute drive from me and i got a call from the local Game Stop mere minutes after submitting the online app, which was obviously a red flag but I wasn’t in the position to be picky.

so they tell me when to show up for orientation & I get there the day-of but the store is closed & locked. i text the manager & he says back “oh yeah. i manage two Game Stops and open them alternate days.”

apparently the Game Stop I originally applied to is open Mondays Wednesdays Fridays and the other one is open Sundays Tuesdays Thursdays Saturdays.

They’re 15 minutes apart. I don’t ask whether it would make sense to just have one store locally that is open daily, bc maybe the guy knows something I don’t.

So I get to the other Game Stop and walk in and it seems like there’s no one working there. There’s just a single woman in there wearing an ankle length leather trench coat. She didn’t greet me when I came in & she’s just browsing.

After ten minutes I ask her if she’s seen any employees and she’s like “oh I’m an employee.” She’s not wearing a name tag on the trench coat.

I tell her I’m here for training and she tells me the manager hasn’t come in yet. “he falls asleep playing xbox all the time but if he’s on live we can try pinging him to wake him up.”

I play Xbox and that absolutely doesn’t sound like a thing you can do in the way she’s describing it but once again maybe she knows something I don’t.

I ask if we have an Xbox that we can use to “ping” him and she says “yeah the one in the back we play on.”

She has an English accent by the way, a very specific & posh one which usually wouldn’t be relevant but we’ll get there.

So before she leads me to the Xbox-in-the-back she goes “oh damn. our internet has actually been down all morning, I forgot. We need to call the provider and have them come out and fix it. Can you do that?”

Can I call an unnamed internet provider and schedule them to come do service at a business where I don’t even technically work yet? Idk. She gives me their number and I call them and they put me on hold.

People are walking in and she’s not greeting them. She keeps browsing and people assume like I did that she’s another customer so they’re coming up to the counter where I’m on hold to ask me for help, and then I have to say I can’t help them and to ask the woman in the trenchcoat, and then she says “we can’t sell you anything. internet’s down.”

this goes on for 30 minutes and every time the store is empty she’s chatting at me and I’m on hold and then a man walks in the door and he says “sorry I fell asleep on live again haahaahaa” so this is the manager and the minute she starts speaking to him she no longer has an English accent which has me confused because it did not sound fake.

It was regionally specific and very natural.

the manager asks what I’m doing and I say I’m on hold with the internet provider and he gives me a thumbs up and walks to the back.

so I ask how long she’s lived in the U.S. and say I’m always interested in the way people can sometimes go in and out of accents and she says “oh I’m American. he asked me to stop doing the accent so I only do it when he’s not here.”

Suddenly I wonder what I’m doing here and I tell her I need to leave and I give no excuse but at this point I don’t feel like I need one? She said okay! See you later.

The manager didn’t contact me and that night I got offered some other retail job I jumped on.

Three months later the Game Stop manager texts me and asks if I can cover a shift in an hour and I say back “I don’t think I work there? I left an hour into my training. And we never spoke again.” And he texts back “hahahaha right on.”

And you may think wow, what a strange experience that all was but recently I have spoken to friends who did work at Game Stop and when I tell them this story they don’t even blink. Nothing I say surprises them. I was at the average Game Stop

#what in the goddamn fuck.

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thinking about how both kristen and buddy died so easily. how they were treated as disposable sacrifices by both their church and their god and their community. thinking about "helio wouldn't have let that happen" and thinking about kristen dying on the first day of school despite being the chosen one. thinking about how the religious conservatives are always the first to cry "think of the children!" and then being the ones to harm their children the most in the end.

#oh god oh fuck. jesus christ. #fantasy high