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"con artist" is maybe the profession with the biggest gap between How Cool They Are In Media and How Cool They Are In Real Life

#see also serial killers #crime #in the queue

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#fibrecrafts #art #in the queue

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I can't get over the fact that Dick fucking Cheney said, basically, that Trump is too evil of a dude for him to get behind.

That's like... fuck, idk... that's like Dick Cheney saying a politician is too fucking evil for him to work with. The dude who famously shot a dude in the face and the dude apologized to him. That fucking guy.

#politics #america #charles stross used him as the big bad in a book series #(not technically by name but it’s very obvious) #and it was just like. oh yeah he would do sci fi war crimes too. that tracks #in the queue

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How do you pronounce Miette?

re: this poll (no shade, I just wanted a poll with Mi-ett)

*2: mi-TAY with emphasis on tay

#look I understand looking at a word #and not having the context for how it is pronounced #but also...it never occurred to me you WOULDN'T pronounce this the french way #polls

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#sugar and lemon #or the missing one: golden syrup #polls #food

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just started watching leverage for the first time and so far my conclusion is that they’re like a dnd party but they all have charisma as their highest stat. it’s fascinating.

#leverage #meta #accurate #in the queue

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“Why did you follow this person ? uwu”

I’ve been here for fourteen years, do you think I remember? I don’t know who any of these people are anymore. I don’t know why they’re on my dash. I allow them to stay because they haven’t pissed me off enough to unfollow them yet. “Why did you follow this person?” I’m not sure I ever did. They’re just part of my ecosystem now.

#tumblr stuff #not quite fourteen years for me but Long Enough #longer than I was active on LJ #now THAT'S a terrifying thought #in the queue

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this is Faile erasure

Since the first two seasons of The Wheel of Time made Liandrin a complex and popular character, Dain likeable and Masema hot, I fully expect that Season 3 is going to turn Gawyn and Elaida into fan favourites.

#(acknowledging she is probably more popular in fandom than the other two anyway but she still takes a LOT of flack) #wheel of time #wot book spoilers #wot tv show #wot s3 speculation

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the fact that Stardew Valley is a $15 indie game that came out almost a decade ago with zero microtransactions and is still receiving free DLC updates to this day is absolutely bonkers. There are $50-60 AAA games with paid DLC that have come out more recently and aren’t nearly as actively supported or updated.

#I hope the creator is living very comfortably #stardew valley #videogames #in the queue

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USBORNE IS AN MLM???? holy *shit* that is wild

Honestly thought I'd never hear the word "usborne" again. My mom used to live and breathe that company, and while I certainly don't regret a fair chunk, I do find it amusing as I look back now. I legitimately thought it had fallen off faster than Juice+.

In reference to a post where i mention my kid has the usborne “see inside germs” book.

So if people don’t know, usborne is a weird publishing company that has done indispensable books for British children for generations; they’re in every library, school and nursery, and have shelves devoted to them in every bookstore. They are how many people learned to read, and are the originators of many hyper focuses. They’re famed for doing educational lift the flap books for all ages, like “see inside your body”, as well as as the ubiquitous touch-and-feel series, “that’s not my….” In which a mouse comments improbably on various creatures not being their creature. “That’s not my dragon,” the mouse says, inviting you to stroke a dragon with a patch of fur on it, “its tummy is too soft. That’s not my dragon,” on the next page, where the dragon’s ears are lined with textured paper, “its ears are too bumpy.” This seems like such an inefficient way to find one’s missing dragon, a fact that simmers underneath you through endless repetition. Why does the mouse own so many things (pirates, ducks, polar bears) and why is it interrogating other people’s pirates etc by feeling their legs.

At any rate, turn a parents’ house upside down and these books fall out.

Which is why it’s completely hilarious that they are also an MLM.

Well. Kind of. In the old school sense. It’s less about signing up a pyramid scheme and more about getting a random citizen to buy a crate of perfectly popular books and try to sell them on from their home. It’s very traditional for Mums On Maternity Leave to do this. Pre-social media and online ordering, they’d hook up other mums at toddler group. Today, they post awkwardly on social media. The idea is that buying from another parent is cheaper than the bookstore, and they get to keep the markup. They get intense about things, and I believe they attend conferences. Nobody makes a huge amount of money and it’s unclear how undercutting local bookstores is helpful; it’s also basically the same RRP as Amazon I think.

And the books are perfectly respectable and sell perfectly well in bookstores.

So. Like. This marketing scheme is completely weird. Why?? Why does it still exist? People buy the books normally! You don’t need to promote them aggressively! You don’t need elaborate independent local middlemen schemes! You can just buy them! I have never understood this. I just file it under one of those weird mat leave hustles.

But don’t worry OP. They’re still going. They’ll never stop. The thing is that your mom got bored and online sales probably ate whatever residual profit margins were left and it’s probably very liberating for everyone to grow out of the “that’s not my cow” stage, but Usborne books are going strong.

#I'm 99.9% sure they never have been in NZ #like a very very common children's book brand #but strictly in a boring ordinary you buy them in bookstores way #if I didn't trust you so much I'd think this was a bit #books

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Bowhead whale! The longest-lived mammal, reaching ages of over 200.

[ID: an illustration of a dark grey whale with a white chin swimming in profile to the right. The background is a wavy sea on the bottom and a sky of planets in orbit on top. End.]

#art #the solar system #whales #beautiful #in the queue

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fuck it homebrew boop button. reblog this post to boop the person you reblogged from.

#boop!

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#polls #wheel of time #I voted perrin/dain #for [spoiler reasons] #but I respect the showmakers' choice to double down #on rand/lanfear/ishy #by far the most #like these were all good #but that was SPECTACULAR

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#polls #names #I met someone whose kids were Mat and Nynaeve #they called her Nina mostly #I would only ever give a kid fandom-related names #if they were otherwise middle of the road #if they want to choose something more out there #they can do that later #but it's not fair to put your fandom on your kid like that IMO

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It’s crazy how low self-worth fucks with peoples lives

#good advice #in the queue

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yes yes characters doomed by the narrative always slap BUT what about characters saved by the narrative? characters who have already given up hope and don't know they have a happy ending? characters who believe they are a lost cause, characters who feel irredeemable, characters who think there's nothing left for them, but the narrative does provide a way out? what about the characters who don't expect anything good, who don't even remember how to wish for it anymore, who get the things they need anyway? what about the characters who actively run from being saved getting saved in a way they can't stop or control. what about being saved by the narrative!!!

#tropes #yes good #in the queue

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im not familiar with that movie but ive heard of its homosexuality

#tumblr stuff #lgbtqia #in the queue