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[fismoll7secinv]

sending mental apologies to mutuals

[fismoll7secinv]

📢 NO LONGER APOLOGISING 📢

you will be subjected to my current obsessions

[ultimatedirk]

Lucien Tavelle, you make me oh so very sad

[valtsv]

always a huge fan of when a creator avoids plot armour accusations by having their character be increasingly aware that the only reason they're not dead yet is because they're being "saved" for something "greater"

[mobius-m-mobius]

Blanc and his Watsons 🔎💕

[pealeii]

[acreaturevoidlikes]

100% accurate

[frontmansdefender]

wigginsgolf on instagram

[baddywronglegs]

A friend wondered why he hadn't heard back from a potential client after he emailed them following what he thought was a promising meeting.

Checked the email he'd sent them.

"It was nice to meet you toady."

Ah that'd be it.

[retroject]

I found a lovely snail at work who was dried out so I let him have a shower and he seemed to enjoy it!! 🐌🚿

[scififantasystuff]

[longingforrotkehlchen]

He sleepy. Me too. And I want to dream of mandarin ducks.

Mandarinente ♂️ (mandarin duck) am Pfaffensee, Stuttgart-West.

[ladydei]

@duckprintspress

mandarin ducks!!

[what-even-is-thiss]

Taking up Japanese as a side project for myself has reminded me of something.

So like a long time ago I had a professor that I absolutely adored. She happened to be Japanese American. She grew up speaking Japanese at home but never really spent a lot of time in Japan. She mostly spoke with other Japanese Americans and read books.

So one day early in her teaching career there’s an exchange student from Japan who’s having a hard time understanding a concept so she explained it to him in Japanese and then he looked absolutely rattled. Like in shock. Pale.

This is how she learned that the way she speaks Japanese makes her sound like a gang member.

Japanese doesn’t exactly have cuss words in the same way as English does but imagine that the nicest professor you’ve ever had pulls your paper over and says “Okay listen here you little piece of shit I’m gonna fucking explain this to you. Violently.”

[cloacatak]

This (studying in Chile for a year) is more or less how I realized my two PhD-having, tenured professor expat parents raised me to speak the most disrespectful and swearword-riddled version of Spanish possible (with plenty of ancient slang I didn't know was slang thrown in). It was like:

[expressions-of-nature]

by Marina Fomina

[roadhogsbigbelly]

i think the reason "fiction affects reality" trips so many people up is because they think it means "engaging with media that depicts uncomfortable subjects will taint your soul" when really all it means is that "fiction is meant to reflect certain ideas of the world intentionally or not, and it's going affect your perception of it, if you don't go in with a healthy bit of skepticism"

[roadhogsbigbelly]

like playing a first person shooter isn't going to turn you into a school shooter, but that doesn't mean that Call of Duty isn't like. explicitly military propaganda.

or (for a more specific but also weirdly common example) enjoying horror movies isn't going to turn you into a serial killer, but if you watch a lot of horror where the killer is "a gender confused man who kills women whilel dressed in drag, because his repressed female split personality hates his attraction to women because it gives her gender dysphoria" than you should like. be a bit criticial of what you're enjoying. or something like that.

[unsolids-your-snake]

But at the end of it, the point shouldn't be "certain kinds of stories should not be enjoyed by anyone bc they will warp you" and more like "please use your brain sometimes when watching/reading/playing things because every single story has messages in it about important ideas"

Even if sometimes the message is "the author/artist etc put zero thought into this idea bc it's something people make blind assumptions about"

I don't even think you Must Perform Criticism Of Thing Or It's Bad And You're Bad

Just like, have thoughts idk, be curious about what things mean, have that be something that matters to you sometimes

[szyszkasosnowa]

Holy shit guys I just duck duck went Moby Dick and THE LOGO TURNED INTO AN UNHOLY HYBRID BETWEEN A DUCK AND A WHITE WHALE????

[rosslynpaladin]

I can't get over DuckDuckWent as a past tense of using duckduckgo as a verb. Like yes youre right BUT

[suckingham-phallus69]

Fun fact! If you duck duck went vocaloids, they have icons too

[genderednipples]

[kyraneko]

holy fuck there's more of them?

[redshift-starfire]

They also do it when you search Linux

[kropotkindersurprise]

We salute an absolute icon 🫡

[gaylor-moon]

[captain-price-unofficially]

[ladyofspoons]

this blog supports punching fascists

[drmajalis]

Matt Frank (@mattzilla85.bsky.social)

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[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

Three yaks dance in Lhasa city (cr 情满拉萨，吉吉)(If you do not reside long-term in a high-altitude environment, please avoid intense physical activity at high altitudes, as it may trigger altitude sickness.)

[e-nord]

to my moots, who may be in need of a good cheer: @amethystina , @goaheadandflysomeplane , @fismoll7secinv , @thepointlessmasterpiece , @zenyteehee , @antiqua-lugar , @luyi , @kiaroscuro , @sssrha , @shhhsoftnwet (and to all the moots who changed username and I cannot trace back too!)

[veryberryskye]

yeah i like to give my blessing to the most pathetic looking weak little knight at the tournament. she can’t even look me in the eye when i give her my flower and she stutters out that she’ll do her best or something of the like. i think its funny when she has to cry and beg my forgiveness and i get to say “such a shame, i suppose my hand in marriage will have to go to someone else…” and then i get to hear her whimper like a dog. ive done this like 6 times alrea-

did she just win.

[the-stew-goblin]

I shall prepare a stew for the wedding! Extra salt!

[veryberryskye]

wait wait wait stew goblin wait

[peachdelta]

get ready for the wedding

[adestroy]

The first time I watched ‘The Devil in the Dark’ I was like, no notes. Great episode. The second time, however…

[ampervadasz]

[ofkindnessandchaos-deactivated2]

OMFG.

[all-aboard-the-bane-train]

Very curious doggo

[castle-engineer-deactivated2019]

Reminder that puffins are extremely social and like to fit in with their friends, so they will adopt mannerisms and interests of the group. So there is a good chance this little guy is trying to be friends with the photographer by showing his interest in the camera.

[willow-wanderings]

TIL photographers are a lot like puffins, cuz we also make friends by showing interest in your camera XD

[dykelliewilliams]

Reminds me of the time researchers were trying to get puffins to land in a specific area so the put decoys up to draw them in but the decoys only had 1 leg and

[legally-a-bastard]

this is so fucking cute

[thedankmemes]