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hey hey hey

Assigning you a song that makes white people go nuts (from experience)

#everybody want to rule the world tears for fears #I mean I like the song

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#I put Bleach because I don't remember after pokemon #it could have been Inuyasha or Ranma 1/2

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#only pets have had fandom names irl

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my atla posts are going around again and rereading some of the responses to me lol

I really think I ignored how weirdly this person wrote at the time and how they bragged about being deeply intellectual when they admitted they couldn't follow an argument and believed in a flat arc as a concept

They also followed it up with this banger:

why should I read a science journal to learn the structure for literary (or in this case tv show) analysis?? I also literally have an English degree, I read and wrote actual essays including on tv shows/film not just books

I was definitely casual and snarky at that time because it's the internet not an essay I'm submitting for a grade and I'd had multiple people intentionally misunderstanding me at that point

but I still had evidence for my positions and structured my arguments and didn't mischaracterize anything or state anything factually untrue (when this person mixed up Aang entering the spirit world with him entering the avatar state in the s1 finale)

I really skipped a lot to stay on focus with some of these people lol

#wild times in late 2020 lol

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I still can't believe that a fic that was just supposed to be a few thousand words long and that I started like last September is now over 100k

truly you can accomplish great things if you let yourself have fun and be insane about something

#and I'm still excited about the stuff I haven't gotten to yet!!!

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I'm back to report that there is not really any King Kuei fic on ao3 and for some reason his tag is just Kuei which why??? Why cant he be King Kuei??

#I actually think they dont have titles for the rest either like yue is just yue but idk it bothers me more w kuei

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commenter: I loved all the politicking and actually King Kuei is my favorite character so I was excited to see the mention and I also liked all the clothes and etiquette

me: yeah if you like that stuff I could see how you would like King Kuei as a character there's definitely a wild historical/fantasy cdrama style au where he goes from a puppet who doesn't think anything is wrong to finding out from a bunch of kids there's a war on and his most trusted advisor is lying to him then he's usurped by a 14 year old princess like a week later and cast out of the palace but instead of wandering the countryside and meeting the people he rejoins his surviving generals to create a rebel government and tries to learn politics then boom the wars over and he has to figure out world peace with a sixteen year old boy king, an isolationist chief grieving his daughter, and another chief who has mostly been operating as the captain of a war ship, and a twelve year old arbitrator and they all know about as much as each other about doing any of this

me:....actually that sounds really good has anyone written this??

#I have not actually responded to this comment yet lmfao #just plotted an entire fic instead lol #atla #fanfiction idea

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Hey, happy Earth Day! Who wants to talk about climate change?

Yeah, okay, fair, I kinda figured the answer to that would be "ugh do we have to?" What if I told you I have good news though? Good news with caveats, but still good news.

What if I told you that since the Paris Agreement in 2015, we've avoided a whole degree celsius of global warming by 2100, or maybe more?

Current projections are 2.7C, which is way better than the 3-5C (with a median of 3.7C) we were expecting in 2015. It's not where we want to be - 1.5C - but it is big, noticeable progress!

And it's not like we either hit 1.5C and avoid all the big scary consequences or fail to hit 1.5C and get all of them - every tenth of a degree of warming we avoid is going to prevent more severe problems like extreme weather, sea level rise, etc.

This means that climate change mitigation efforts are having a noticeable impact! This means a dramatically better, safer future - and if we keep pushing, we could lower the amount of global warming we end up with even further. This is huge progress, and we need to celebrate it, even though the fight isn't over.

It's working. Keep going.

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vice news

ironically i am working right now so i can’t do a full post on this like i would really prefer to do… but these are the most cartoonishly evil people that you could possibly imagine, even in a society as flawed as the one we’ve built for ourselves. these are bedrock groups devoted to protecting the american worker and consumer. massive huge giant waving red flags 🚩

#Aclu has been dog shit for a while so not surprised there

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#hockey #pwhl montreal #ann-renée desbiens

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So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?

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weirdest thing to be annoyed about but I had another sync issue w dropbox and it somehow ended up eating my writing history and I hadn't copied it all down yet

so I went from 22k this month to 16k and that just annoys me

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I can't believe grey's s19 just ended like that wtf

#grey's #Ok well now I'll have to go illegally watch it

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I definitely have a pet peeve about people who can't take differing opinions

maybe this is because I've found myself on the outside when it comes to stanned characters/ships too many time or just because I've liked enough rare pairs but

I do not like it when people go agree to disagree to shut down a conversation and be like it's just an opinion

like a) your opinion should still be evidenced, b) the conversation especially when it involves other people not just the two of us is not beholden to your whims alone and c) I usually want to know why someone thinks differently than me which means you need to talk not brush off a different opinion as agree to disagree

I think it's also because I don't really vibe with stan culture either, I try to keep my feet on the ground and understand the criticism of my faves even if I don't agree, I'm not gonna stand there and act like there is anything in this world that doesn't have flaws

my favorite show can have bad episodes, my favorite character can have poor writing, my favorite artists can have bad songs, my favorite actor can have bad performances and be in flops and it's especially true when it comes to real people, I don't actually know them and they're not my friend

the negative consequences of a parasocial relationship and being unable to take a differing opinion or any criticism is not an opinion either you can just decide to agree to disagree on