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[eccentrix]

I did it. I beat you, stupid Tumblr. You said I couldn't do it, but I finally talked to a female stranger. I was on the train home from London and someone sat next to me and I looked over and it was this beautiful woman. It took about five stops for me to dinally turn to her and say "Excuse me" to which she turned and gave me room to get up. From her perspective, the guy sitting next to her who looked like he was about to throw up just needed to stand up. I couldn't speak to her after that, but I gave myself points for trying. I initiated contact, at least. So, I was standing on the train and I noticed another woman alone at the back of the carriage. I sat across from her and immediately started "Hi, I told myself I'd talk to a pretty girl today, so..." She countered; " Sorry, I don't speak English. No English." So I replied, smiling, "Okay, good, great. Thank you!" I'll take it! After however long, probably about two years, maybe longer, I've finally done it and I never have to come here and update you on this again.

[eccentrix]

OkCupid is the loneliest place in the world. I have never felt lonelier than messaging dozens of people and spending significant time on each message and never getting a reply. My reply rate is less than 10% and dropping, since I haven't had a reply in weeks. Sometimes I think my messages are broken, because this many people can't be this rude. I've actually sent messages asking for replies just as a test, just to witness some human interaction, and I got nothing back. The worst part is when I've seen that they've visited my profile. I'd turn off visitor notifications, but that stops other people from knowing I visited them, which I don't want to do. No, the worst part is I'm not even looking for a romantic partner, just a friend. I just want someone to do something with sometimes.

[martymcflyinthefuture]

Today is the day Marty McFly goes to the future!

[eccentrix]

I still haven't spoken to a stranger, for anyone still following along.

[witwitch-deactivated20160508]

have high standards ladies, you deserve it

Set the bar high. Don’t date men who watch porn. Don’t date men who say “bitch”. Don’t date men who disrespect their mothers. Don’t date men who laugh at sexist jokes. Don’t date men who think you owe him sex. Don’t date men who think being a girlfriend has a job description of things you’re required to do for him.

You deserve better. You deserve respect. If he makes you uncomfortable, you don’t have to put up with his bullshit. Dump his disrespectful scumbag ass in the sewer where he belongs.

Don’t waste your time with a shit dude, your time is more valuable than that. Be ready and single for when the right person for you comes along. Never settle for anything less.

[lord-tachanka]

But men should have extremley low standards, and not care if a woman is fat, stupid, or ugly.

[witwitch-deactivated20160508]

This post is about women dating men who respect women, who will make them feel comfortable and safe and cared about. This post is about women setting personal boundaries for respect. It doesn’t say anything about men’s physical or mental attributes.

And your reply is about women’s attributes as if we’re toys you can purchase from a store.

That says a lot about you and how you view women.

[terfsichore]

Men if a woman is racist towards you don’t date her! Men if a woman looks down on you because she’s rich and you’re working class don’t date her! Men if you’re gay don’t date her! You can find a cute boy to date instead! Are you happy now you absolute manbaby?

[148364341]

OP is talking personal values, the shitdick is talking mostly physical qualities. I think he might be forgetting that if we return the favor he won’t have any chance at all.

[witwitch-deactivated20160508]

oh damn that burn was so hot no amount of Mountain Dew could help him cool off

[eccentrix]

Lips that touch porn won't touch these.

[martymcflyinthefuture]

Today is the day Marty McFly goes to the future!

[eccentrix]

The Three Types of ASMR Video

It's obvious that different people are affected by ASMR in different ways, and the ASMR video-making community has informally assembled itself into different categories to fill these different needs. Here, I will explain some of the different types of ASMR videos I've observed. I'm not claiming that this is a new idea, because I don't know whether it is or not, or that this list is comprehensive, because I'm sure ASMR is evolving all the time. Let me know if you have any opinions or better names.

Utilitarian

Utilitarian ASMR videos exist solely to create tingles. They include very little interaction with the audience other than making sounds and shapes designed to trigger ASMR in the viewer. They often explore a wider range of triggers than other ASMR videos and get through them more quickly, seemingly with an aim of helping the viewer discover what works for them and what doesn't.

Some examples here

Recreational

Recreational ASMR videos are all about recreating an experience, such as having a haircut or a massage or receiving a medical examination. These often involve roleplay but can just be a simulated experience without any pretext.

Some examples here

Emotional

Emotional ASMR videos are designed with the aim of making the audience feel good and safe and protected. A (usually) maternal figure will make eye contact with the viewer and speak softly and tell them how much they mean to them. Tapping and other commons triggers will be a part of these videos, but the main focus is on creating a personal, calming connection between the viewer and the ASMRtist.

Some examples here

[neutroisenjolras-moved-deactiva]

“a writer’s character’s viewpoints don’t reflect the writer’s viewpoints!!!” actually, they do.

that doesnt mean having a, for instance, homophobic character means the author is homophobic. but how is the homophobia treated? is it criticized? is it excused, idealized? is it framed so that the homophobia is clearly wrong? does the inclusion of homophobia in the narrative serve a point?  

writers, especially professional published writers, know that their writing has an impact, and the morals they put forward in their work reflect deeply on themselves. they know how they frame and present their work can completely change the result and effect it has. 

so maybe the character’s viewpoints don’t say much about the writer, but how the writer presents this character and its viewpoints says a hell of a fuckin lot about the writer.

[eccentrix]

This is why period pieces always have “And this was a bad thing to have done.” after everything anyone does.

[anotherwastedurl]

daphne groeneveld for antidote ss14 by cuneyt akeroglu

[eccentrix]

All I understood was super saiyan 14.

[thinkoutsidethestate]

no borders

[eccentrix]

I don't like this because I'm a pedant.

[theforce]

i was 14 and i was walking through a mall by myself at 12am after my shift at coldstone creamery lol and a bunch of men started whistling and meowing and getting really close to me and they kept asking me questions and i kept not answering until i didn’t know what else to do so i said “i’m only 14” and almost in unison they said “we don’t care” i was so fucking scared i didn’t know what to do and they kept talking about how i looked and how my body looked and what they would do i was on the verge of tears i was all alone in a huge mall i knew i couldn’t outrun them all i felt totally hopeless until a maintenance worker came up to all of us with a huge industrial broom in her hand, i thought she was going to yell at all of us for being in the mall after hours bc she probably thought we were all friends but instead she cursed all of them out in spanish, threatened to press a panic button on her belt and then proceeded to walk me to the basement garage and waited with me until my mom got there to pick me up she had a death grip on her cart the whole time and a face of steel she looked so strong and i just kept saying thank you and she kept saying not to thank her because she had to stop them.

that was the moment i realized women were the most important beings on this planet and we have to protect each other bc nobody else is going to, she didn’t even know me, we couldn’t even communicate that well because of the language barrier, she could have lost her job for waiting with me in the parking lot but she looked out for me when she didn’t have to, she had nothing to gain from it, i’m 21 now and i tell everyone this story even though it happened 7 years ago, what she did that night helped me form and shape lot of my beliefs early on. 

[actuallunalovegood]

i was at a grocery store really late one night and some old guy kind of eyed me as i walked out of the store next to this other lady. She and I made eye contact and i knew she was scared too. we loaded up our groceries into our cars as fast as possible and I had way more bags than her so she got done faster than me. I panicked because i was sure she was going to leave so i just hurried faster, shaking a little, and then i noticed she sat in her car, watching me and making sure nobody came near. She waited not until all my groceries were loaded, or until my cart was put away, or until I got into my car. No, she didn’t drive away until I drove away. 

And that was the moment that I realized how much women need other women. That we can’t win this war without each other and we have to be looking out for each other, every second. 

[ofgeography]

my last year in new york city, i got off the subway around 9 or 10p.m. i only lived about 5 blocks from the f train, but i hadn’t gotten more than two before a woman’s hand suddenly touched my arm. 

"that guy behind us is following you," she said. "he was watching you leave the train car and followed you up."

i hadn’t noticed him, or at least not noticed him following me. when we stopped outside a grocery store, he stopped half a block back and loitered. the woman linked her arm with mine and walked me several blocks out of her way to my front door and made sure i got inside safely.

another time, nocigar and i were walking home and at a stoplight a stranger grabbed my arm when i wouldn’t respond to him and tried to physically drag me over to him. she—who is, by the way, not a very physically imposing girl—ripped his hand off my arm and snarled, “don’t fucking touch her.”

protect your friends. protect strangers. there are good men in the world, but don’t wait for them to do something if you can do it yourself.

[eccentrix]

@natnovna Top ten most important beings on this planet, go!

[omnistruck]

I haven’t really seen talk of this so I thought I’d highlight it myself as a little PSA.

I know the zodiac meme is really popular, and also that people like to reblog zodiac/horoscope posts in general. That’s cool! It’s your blog, you do you.

But I’m humbly requesting that you guys tag your zodiac/horoscope posts for your Muslim followers, as it’s haraam (forbidden) for us to even read them. The reasoning for this is because zodiacs, horoscopes, fortune tellers, psychics, etc., are essentially claiming to know the future or the unseen, and according to Islam, only Allah can know that.

If that isn’t enough incentive, here are two ahadith (sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)) explaining the consequences of a Muslim’s exposure to this kind of content:

“The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: ‘Whoever goes to a fortuneteller and asks him about something, his prayer will not be accepted for forty days.’”

and

“Whoever goes to a fortuneteller and believes what he says has disbelieved in that which was revealed to Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him).”

I know in these quotes it refers just to going to fortune tellers, but the idea extends to all forms of fortune telling—tarot cards, psychics, even reading the horoscope in the newspaper or on social media. Reading them alone, regardless of whether they believe it or not, will invalidate a Muslim’s prayers for forty days, and I don’t want that to happen to anyone. I don’t want the risk to be there for anyone, you know? Sure, accidents happen, but sometimes they don’t, and that’s not good.

So please, now that you know, take the couple of seconds to tag these kinds of things for safety’s sake. And feel free to signal boost this post as well!

Thanks for your consideration!

[eccentrix]

I think it's cool that Allah left the code for what's going to happen in the future somewhere out there in the universe and then forbid anyone to figure it out on the threat of prayers not counting for 40 days. I don't know what effect that has, but most people probably don't pray to Allah once a day for forty days regularly, so it's an achieveable, rewarding goal with relatively few drawbacks.

[eccentrix]

I'm not two-legged, that's very offensive. I'm a person of legs.

[eccentrix]

Yik Yak is not a place I thought I would find discussions like this.

[jeffgerstmann]

After a trip to PAX South I’ve decided to get into the tabletop game naming business. Here are some samples of my work.

Red Dungeon

Darkness: Quest for the Lantern’s Light

Card Assault

Two of You Are Nazis

Be A Better Liar

These Dice Are Dragons

Beer Pong But With 20 Sided Dice

Someone’s a Spy or Something

Our Cards Are Also Typed in Helvetica Bold

Fuck! A Game For Adults

[eccentrix]

I want to play Two of You Are Nazis.

[530775916-deactivated20190724]

what i really don’t get is straight couple comedy. why are you so mean to each other and why do you act like you hate each other. why are you so jealous and suspicious of each other. why are you together if you’re both apparently attracted to other people and not each other. what the fuck is wrong with you, that isn’t healthy. 

[eccentrix]

Why do comedians lie? :(

[revolutionary-afrolatino-deacti]

source 1; source 2; source 3; source 4; source 5; source 6

[skepticamongthefaithful-deactiv]

WELP.

[ameliated-deactivated20131222]

Stop what you are doing.

Read those.

Right now.

I’ll wait.

If you don’t want to read, I’ll explain the key bullet points, but please read them afterwords:

This is not “we didn’t protect him enough.”

This is not “the government screwed up some random detail or accidentally let his killer loose.”

The 111th Military Intelligence had a team taking pictures of his balcony during the assassination.

They brought in a Special Forces 8-Man Sniper Team from the 20th.

Memphis Police withdrew their regular protection detail from him.

A jury of 12 people, six black and six white, found the United States Government guilty of conspiracy to commit murder.

YOUR GOVERNMENT. MY GOVERNMENT. THE GOVERNMENT OF, BY, AND FOR THE PEOPLE, SHOT AND KILLED DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING. And the media never reported the case.

MLK was ASSASSINATED. By a government YOU PAY FOR.

I hate those posts where someone tries to pressure you into reblogging. I almost never ask you to reblog.

This shit is important.

Reblog this. I don’t care what kind of blog you have. I don’t care what you normally talk about.

Reblog this.

[a-spoon-is-born]

holy shit

[frank-e-sleep-no-more]

this is always on reblog

[yaaaskuza]

The problem with most of those sources is that they refer to each other. BUT, I do find this believable simply because it’s on the King Center’s web site, and they do provide an actual transcript of the trial.

This is fucked up.

[yourlifeisapie-blog1]

Holy shit. I mean I really do NOT like the government but this… Wow.

[post-scarcity]

This is a proven fact and we’re on record affirming that this is how it happened. This certainly doesn’t encourage people to become advocates for social justice, but we should do so regardless of possible consequences. 

[revolutionary-afrolatino-deacti]

just so you know #MLKDay

[eccentrix]

People of the world, for the first time ever, blood has been spilled thanks to Your Government.