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Hello everybody, tread with caution. 20+

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hope is a skill

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

hope is a weapon you are trained to wield

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favourite additions

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[tenaciouswritingdragon]

You cannot hide this in the tags, bestie. This is too lovely to keep a secret.

[wonderwyrm]

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World Heritage Post

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hope is a skill

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

hope is a weapon you are trained to wield

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favourite additions

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[tenaciouswritingdragon]

You cannot hide this in the tags, bestie. This is too lovely to keep a secret.

[wonderwyrm]

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World Heritage Post

[thehumantrampoline]

This is your reminder today that Irene Adler in the original Conan Doyle story is literally not a criminal. She never commits a crime.

[thehumantrampoline]

Nor is she a seductress in any kind of negative or manipulative sense - she has a mutual relationship with a powerful man who then breaks up with her, and afterwards she keeps protection against him in the form of evidence that the relationship existed. She HAS blackmail material, she even waves it at him threateningly because he treated her like shit, but she never even uses it.

Irene Adler is not a thief, femme fatale, or blackmailer. She's just a cool lady that wants to be left alone.

[thehumantrampoline]

@delphi-star You do recall correctly!! She does not give a shit about that man! She's happily married! She tipped him for being a witness at her wedding!

If your Sherlock Holmes adaptation has a character whose identifying qualities are that she is a seductive criminal in love with Holmes, you have created a character that is basically the literal opposite of Irene Adler and you should name her something else.

[draconym]

I just saw an acquaintance use "👖🛝" in place of the word genocide and. like. at what point are we going to decide that this kind of self-censorship is too degrading to abide anymore.

[draconym]

"grape" "sewer-slide" "the panini" I feel like I'm surrounded by Rugrats who overheard the grown ups talking about the news.

[draconym]

I'm tired of seeing people excuse algospeak because "corporations are making us do it." Why are we all letting them do that. The Internet is real life. Get mad about it.

[lunnitavaldez]

I love them so much that they evoke maternal instincts in me 😔

[oleicat]

"The new animal farm is just what a rich liberal thinks about our society " okay so thats because the original story is like that as well

[oleicat]

When Orwell was alive, he worked for both the British imperial army in his youth, and for the cia later in his life. To act like he is not hilariously biased when it comes to the subject of communism and socialism is just plain revisionism of his life and the society that surrounded him. He wasn't a progressive writer, and this must be taken into mind when analyzing his work.

[cat-goo]

it has been repeated a thousand times, but his works aren't some "anti-authoritarian" anything. he was a man who had a deep disdain for the working class and the idea of the working class doing revolution. he had no problem being the boot on other people's throat. he had no problem making lists of political dissidents to report to the police. he wrote some dogshit novels about what he thought the USSR was like (he never went there or really studied it) during the second world war. he also wrote "I should like to put it on record that I have never been able to dislike Hitler" in his 1940 review of Mein Kampf. the only reason he is so well regarded is because the CIA pushed his works onto TV and into schools as anticommunist propaganda. he was always a worm and his works are just bourgeois wank.

[probablily]

sometimes i agree with a post but i dont like your attitude

[khytal]

[wifiwuxians]

song lan dragging a yangbubu through the streets of yi city (or anywhere)

[wifiwuxians]

now see him fabulous

[fisheem4mmal]

Oh my gosh

[red-garden]

I wish Liu Qingge was real so I could hold him real close and listen to him breathe as we fall asleep. Sandwich his legs between mine… put my ear to his belly and listen to his guts make noises….

[poppetsisters]

A crossover for the ages.

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Prequel

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The Climactic Battle

[asteroidtroglodyte]

What

[pillowspace]

I've been doing this thing on youraislopbores.me today where I ask people what one of their favourite fanfics is, and every time somebody gives me a specific answer, I locate the fic and let the author know in the comments that when an anonymous stranger was asked for their favourite fic, they answered with this one

[pillowspace]

I've done this for 7 fics so far

[mithartu]

i don't ship them i just think they could get ragebaited into having sex with each other

[rue-x3]

SY & SJ swapping tips on being a hater and now SJ is subtly shifting any metallic objects he carries on him so the sunlight reflects into the eyes of those that annoy him and Shen Yuan learning how to make like luck-zapping talismans that work as a constant bringer of minor misfortunes

[mortalityplays]

there is no single argument against including trans women in sports that doesn't boil down to "women aren't supposed to be good at this" and it's fucking insane to me that every woman in the world isn't up in arms about the way this issue has laid institutional misogyny bare to the bone

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then again it has also revealed how many misogynistic cis women believe in their own exceptionalism to the point they feel they benefit from "women aren't supposed to be good at this" and will use every tool in the white imperial torture kit to ensure the acceptable categories of 'woman' and 'good' remain shallow and narrow enough for them to force themselves into a position of supremacy.

[exeggcute]

the sunk cost fallacy has been my favorite fallacy for as long as I can remember. so at this point it's probably too late to pick a different one

[terri-theslime13]

I just heard about the recency bias, and honestly I think it's gotta be the best one ever

[blueflyingturtleontheway]

Everyone is saying that the bandwagon effect is the best bias, so they have to be right

[embrace-of-the-cold]

I once had this one logic professor who said that appeal to authority is the best fallacy. She's an expert in logic, so she must be right.

[heterodox-heterographer]

What? Everyone knows the no true Scotsman fallacy is the best one, are you sure she’s really an expert in logic?