letting the days go by

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[beroebluejeans]

*pastel cartoon of artfully mud-splattered Cordelia Naismith and Aral Vorkosigan smirking at each other, arms crossed*

House of the Dragon meets Murderbot in SHARDS OF HONOR, a swoony new sci-fi romantasy by debut author Lois McMaster Bujold, perfect for fans of Andor.

Enemies-to-lovers ⚔️

Forced proximity 🏕️

Marriage of convenience 👰🏻‍♀️🤵🏻‍♂️

He falls first 😍

“Touch her and die” 😠

Silver fox 👨🏻‍🦳

“Gorgeous!” -Emily Broccolini, #1 NYT-bestselling author of An Heir of Storms and Sapphires and A Queen of Tornadoes and Topaz

“Screaming, crying, throwing up 😭💕” -Goodreads reviewer

“Step on me Cordelia 😩🥵” -Goodreads reviewer

[isaacsapphire]

You forgot

🏳️‍🌈 representation

[beroebluejeans]

^ absolutely, and only because I made this post before I got to that part

really proud of what I’ve done:

and a great point here:

[deadgenerations]

there are a few games I've played where the most sensible response to problems of in game economy seem to loop back to "god this needs a credit system"

[deadgenerations]

playing Morrowind made it extremely obvious to me why systems of credit were invented, and the gold doesn't even weigh anything in that one!

[deadgenerations]

but on that note: god it must have sucked to try and use money that had actual weight to accomplish anything beyond personal finances. paying your employees would cost more the farther away they were from the source of the currency because carts are food-powered. thank you digital banking!!!

[moonwalkingdrummer]

Eh… pardon me for asking, but who’s that little old man?

what little old man?

that little old man

oh that one. Thats my grandfather

your grandfather???

that’s not your grandfather

he is, you know

that’s not your grandfather, I’ve seen your grandfather, he lives in your house

oh that’s my other grandfather but he’s my grandfather as well.

how do you reckon that one out???

well everyone’s entitled to two, aren’t they? And this is my other one

[prokopetz]

Level 1: Asylums are scary because there's crazy people there.

Level 2: We shouldn't treat mental health facilities as objects of horror because it stigmatises mental illness.

Level 3: Asylums are scary because there's psychiatrists there.

[phaeton-flier]

(lens warping effect) in an efficient market, arbitrage opportunities like me would not exist. but this is not an efficient market

[scribeherself]

I think one of the gentlest things in the world is when a friend just gets your weird little brain. like you say half a sentence and they finish it. you reference something incredibly niche from seven years ago and they’re already nodding. they understand your strange vocabulary for emotions that don’t have real words yet. it’s being seen and known and still loved. maybe especially because you’re known. god. what a gift.

[janmisali]

here's another idea for a poll! I think this will have some interesting results. this sentence is here to pad out this paragraph so people who don't read posts will be more likely to accidentally miss these instructions. if you're reading this, please select option eleven. here's another sentence to make this block of text look longer. anyway here's my fun poll idea!

try to create a normal (bell curve) distribution

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Remaining time: 3 days 18 hours

[princessdraconic]

Hero, in recognition for your courage and temerity in the face of my absolute evil, I grant thee a ring of maidenification.

[contemptible-scoundrel]

this shits gonna flip into a clean 500 gold pieces for sure

[princessdraconic]

Of course it will, should it leave your finger~

[contemptible-scoundrel]

my friend you are off your rocker if you think this thing is even getting close to one of my ring slots I know better than to make that mistake after putting on one of your amulets and being turned into a newt for a week

[princessdraconic]

you were really cute as a newt. . .

[imsobadatnicknames2]

I feel like advertising is probably the funniest place anyone can choose to predicate their moral arguments against AI on the basis of environmental impact because like. The advertising industry is already probably the most wasteful i dustry in terms of environmental costs vs. actual value it provides, to the point that adding AI to it amounts to a very small drop in the world's biggest bucket. Like.

"Using AI to design flyers looks cheap and tacky" 👍 I completely agree.

"Using AI to design flyers is bad for the environment" I can tell you with 100% absolute certainty that the environmental impact of printing hundreds of paper flyers which will be looked at exactly once and then thrown in the garbage is like. Several orders of magnitude bigger than the environmental impact of generating the picture that will go on said flyers.

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Like I find it hard to think of a position that more succinctly communicates "I never think about where anything comes from or how it's produced or how it's disposed of or the environmental costs of any steps in that process unless there's some sort of moral panic telling me to be concerned about it" than thinking that the "AI" part of "ads made with AI" is the part that's bad for the environment.

[anistarrose]

if you are a parent, or may become one, or you are otherwise likely to arrive in the situation of caring for a child while they eat, promise me this: if a child doesn't like a certain food or food group, you will ask them WHY. and specifically, you will pay attention to either confirming or ruling out "it makes my mouth itch" or "it makes my stomach hurt," both of which are medically important info that children may not provide unprompted. which i know because this PSA has been brought to you by "i spent my entire childhood and much of my early teens eating peas and lentils while wondering why everyone else liked the Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation so much, like were they a bunch of legume masochists or something, before i finally realized that Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation was in fact a sinister demon appearing only to me, and her true demonic name was: Legume Allergy"

[brainrockets]

Do not let your child suffer from spicy bananas!

[helicalsymmetry]

i actually don't give a shit what 'human nature' is. i don't care what we're 'meant' to live like, and i'm not interested in projecting a vision of whatever validates my political/ideological beliefs onto the past. it's natural for humans to die of diseases and injuries. it's natural for humans to hit each other to death with objects. i don't care if my body is 'meant' to be a persistence predator in an (unrealistically) idyllic hunter-gatherer society because actually my body is 'meant' to lay down and die of nerve dysfunction. defy and overcome your fucking nature and do what you want without hallucinating the support of a thousand dead apes.

[sadhoc]

thhis polll is nuts to me bc in 2020 during the portland wildfires and the pre vaccine era of the pandemic, i tried to sign up for a "mutual aid n95 giveaway" list, via my twitter account, and they banned me for having an anime girl pfp (it was rakka from haibane renmei) and having a locked account (i had a job and was closeted). i messaged them like "is there any way i can appeal this?" and they said "no" because apparently my anime girl icon and locked account meant i was either "fash or a creep or both." anyway they approved my roommates so they both got n95s but didn't share them with me. because i had an anime girl icon on twitter and didn't want my boss to find out i was trans.

anyway you all are going to get people killed (mostly trans women, bc we all know who suffers the most from pedojacketing). fuck off if you voted either of the top two options

[ultramanzer0]

is prev a warrior of light or an agent of darkness

warrior of light

agent of darkness

Voting ended onJun 4

[dailymanners]

I find it quite strange that even though Tumblr is known as The Neurodivergence Website, a lot of people on here seem to assume that they're the only neurodivergent person on here, and/or that they're the only person on here who understands The Neurodivergent Experience, so they're quite eager to assume that every post on here was written by someone who's neurotypical and needs to be lectured on The Neurodivergent Experience

[acrisius-ii]

UTENA STOP TRYING TO BECOME A PRINCE THE LAKERS NEED A CENTER

[self-loving-vampire]

I find small talk discourse annoyingly low on nuance. So much of it doesn't seem to take things like context or the subjectivity of all the definitions into account and I feel it definitely should.

Like, a lot of the people who don't like small talk are often talking about not wanting to be bothered by strangers who don't even have something to talk about when they'd rather be left alone.

Relatedly, I feel like there's a false binary between "small talk" and "deep topics" that is further worsened by the fact that people have very different definitions for both of those things.

For example, a lot of pro-small talk posts seem to define "deep topics" as being exclusively things like philosophy or traumatic experiences, but the anti-small talk people define it more loosely as "any conversation that has a specific topic that people have an interest in discussing at length, as opposed to using the conversation as an extended greeting/familiarity-building".

So it can be anything you feel passionate about, or really anything you have a lot to say on. Not just conversations about how you started drinking since your wife died or whatever.

This includes a lot of things the pro-small talk people would themselves sometimes seem to define as "small talk" just because they're not Serious Topics.

Things like talking about your D&D campaign, some historical event you find interesting, your favorite movie, your Elden Ring build, your special interest in card games, or whatever else you want to talk about beyond just following a social script to put other people at ease and/or fill awkward silences.

[self-loving-vampire]

Some people just don't want to get roped into a conversation with a stranger in the first place, whether that involves nosy personal questions or discussing the weather.

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

I got hired to do a stand-up comedy set at the trope villain convention. It was a great gig. Really appreciative crowd. They were absolutely cackling the whole time. It was a little weird at the end though when all of them stood up and started clapping very slowly, before saying, in unison, "Well done, my friend. Well done."

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

One of them said he really liked how relatable my comedy was. Apparently it made him feel like we're not so different, he and I.