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witchesversuspatriarchy

Any guesses?

arrowquillpokemon

game: has any kind of elemental based fighting system

me: apply pokemon logic

gluttonousgoddess

To be fair Pokemon element logic is rooted in normal logic.

arrowquillpokemon

yeah, everyone knows a wrestlers biggest weakness is the local pigeons

karnalesbian

go outside and try to suplex a bird

dolleyeresponse

tell me how bug resists fighting

karnalesbian

go outside and try to suplex a bug

#Julian Larre

gallant-designs

Sailor Moon Season 1 - Things Adam likes as Minimalist Posters

And I also uploaded it as a print to redbubble in case anyone is in the mood to have it on their wall, or above their toilet or whatnot.

I will probably be slapping it on an iphone case later too, and then moving on to Sailor Moon R with some chibiusa action. The plan is to do each season, so we shall see where it takes me.

ispyspookymansion

What happened between Austin and palaye? I'm a new fan catching up on everything

That's the thing? We don't know. Austin was their merch guy and then suddenly he wasn't. He didn't say what happened but there was a strong implication there was some sort of falling out. He sold all his merch and had comments like "here is this shirt from the first tour and that's all I was paid" and posted on his IG that he had nothing to do with Palaye anymore and don't ask him and his IG was nothing Palaye related anymore.

emogothchildren

Aw Austin’s back!

sosocats

Can we talk about this, Palaye friends? Austin and Palaye ended on bad terms.

Austin didn't say what but he sold *everything* that he owned, with smirky remarks and was done with them.

You could tell, there was anger there.

Now everything is fine? Like, they could make up. Sure. Cool. Awesome even.

But... I'm still curious, you know?

#palaye royale #remington leith #emerson barrett #sebastian danzig

Yeah c'mon

Lake Michigan

Ocean*

I mean, Lake Michigan is big enough to be a sea. All the Great Lakes are, they’re not considered seas because they’re not all at sea level, they’re all freshwater, and they’re not directly connected to the ocean (they’re only connected through rivers and lochs)

Small lakes don’t have noticeable waves but because the Great Lakes are so big there’s enough room for the air to downdraft across it (which is also why in Michigan you get lake effect weather and so it can be a blizzard one day and 70° the next)

grumpycakes

My grandmother, who grew up in Puerto Rico, when seeing Lake Michigan for the first time with my grandfather exclaimed, “This is not a lake, it is a sea!”

61below

Lake Superior has tides. They’re not as dramatic as the actual ocean’s of course. But still. For every storm that kicks up 200ft spray and waves that crash over the tops of the lighthouses on the piers, there’s days when you can’t tell where the water meets the sky.

Lake Superior doesn’t have a monster, Lake Superior IS the monster.

shaddy24

One aspect of Lake Superior that supports that its the monster is that it doesn’t give up the bodies of people who die in it. Due to the cold, the bacteria that produce gases that typically make corpses float in water don’t work very fast, and so they don’t bloat the body up enough for it to leave the bottom.

It’s a dangerous lake, prone to vicious storms and when it gets you, it holds onto your body forever, refusing to relinquish it back to the surface.

kaijuno

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot describes Lake Superior beautifully with the lyric

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down

Of the big lake they called ‘gitche gumee’

The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead

When the skies of November turn gloomy

Actually, that whole song is very haunting and beautiful. Every November 10th my school would hold a silence for the people that died.

kaijuno

This is the music video including footage of the ship before she sank. Idk if it’s just because I’m a Michigander and grew up hearing about this wreck every year, but this song sends shivers down my spine and makes me tear up. It’s just… haunting.

cloudselkie

When I was on my way to Connecticut a few years ago, I had a layover in Chicago and it was my first time seeing any of the Great Lakes in person. Around here, most lakes are green or brown. I was shocked to see that Lake Michigan was in fact, the same color as the ocean - bright turquoise. I thought there had to be dye in the water or something. It couldn’t be real! But it was, and the water is crystal clear.

impossiblepluto

Oh looks it’s my favorite topic, the great lakes

tricksrabbit

Art by hoki11_

djkoenig-deactivated20140905

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(ʘ‿ʘ✿) “what you say ‘bout me”

(ʘ‿ʘ)ノ✿ “hold my flower”

chronically-ill-dandy

✿＼(｡-_-｡) “Kick his ass, baby. I got yo flower.”

kahguyaht

i found it

the original post

i found it

eviesrealitychangesdaily-deacti

this should have the opportunity to be on everyone’s blog.

i-wanna-diepacito-deactivated20

I hope you guys are happy. You have no idea about the lengths I went to to find this post and get it on my blog.

smooththegoofyshark

Everyone on this post is deactivated, this is like finding a fossil

worldheritagepostorganization

World Heritage Post

lord-hunkyhair

@hellsite-hall-of-fame @hellsite-hall-of-girlfriend

artisimpossible

I have a question for readers, but I have a super small following here so it's probably not the best sample size BUT

If you could get books directly from your favorite authors (so you don't have to worry about publishers gatekeeping out stories that you'd love and that they really want to write) in a way that also lets the author keep a way larger portion of their sales (so they can afford to keep writing without fearing for their livelihood), what, if anything, would discourage you from doing this and drive you to want to buy from big publishers/retailers instead?

Poll

Nothing! I'd buy direct from authors

Availability -- I can only access books in a limited number of ways

Price -- I would just use whichever option was cheaper

Quality concerns -- I trust big pubs to vet what books are good or not good

Social factors -- I only read what's popular, what my friends suggest, etc.

Time -- it's most important to me that accessing books be quick & easy

I don't want to support authors & would rather support big businesses

Voting ended onFeb 22, 2024

sosocats

I wish there was a better way to respond to this? For me, I'm in Canada. Shipping to Canada can be difficult in the sense, that it's expensive for small businesses. Or it's not available to us.

There is an author that I love and they released a novella. I want to read it. I want to buy it. But they don't ship to Canada. Bookstores in Canada don't carry it. I have no means to get my hands on this book without spending over $50 on this and spending that much is a hard sell for me.

So it's not just price, it's availability.

This poll is great for Americans but... that's about it.

artisimpossible

I hear what you're saying, but I literally put the availability option for people in your exact case--the book is literally not available to access because it is indie, and accessing indie books outside of their country of origin is extremely difficult. How is this just for Americans? Like, if there are genuinely considerations for other countries that I completely missed, I appreciate the info because I have limited knowledge, but what you're describing is literally in the poll and was literally the first consideration I thought of for why people may not buy direct from authors even if that were an option.

Also, I understand that for some people it may be *more than one option*, but I didn't leave an "other" category in the poll because most of the time, *everyone* selects that one without clarifying, and for most people, one consideration ways more heavily than the other, so for the sake of the poll data being even vaguely useful, I made it where you can only pick one answer. But even then, you reblogging the post and explaining your answer is just as valuable (if not moreso) than a poll option. The poll just generally means more respondents because it takes less work to respond.

sosocats

I did not expect my response to be seen, never mind responded to.

I had an issue of interpretation of the options. Sorry. I did not read "availability - limited ways" would... extend that way? I looked at the list and went, "well, price is the answer" because that's what it is? Because it's not so easy to get my hands on things, it makes things more expensive. But I'm not choosing cheaper because I prefer to shop from Amazon or whatever. That's not it. So I guess it's how I interpreted how things were displayed here? But that's why I reblogged.

I reblogged my answer because I thought it might be more helpful than ignoring the post altogether and to provide a perspective that might not have been mentioned. No ill will intended.

The last thing I do want to say is that my experience is that a lot of Americans don't understand the difficulties that people in other countries have about obtaining things. Most of my friends are American and I love them to bits but so many times I talk about how books are at $40 each here and I get "Oh! Try Books-A-Million!" which is insanely helpful of them but, BAM does not ship to Canada. Never mind paying the exchange rate of CAD vs. USD. Which, in how I read "price- I like things cheap!" is a different response than "price - because life is expensive and hard to get a hold of"

I'll be honest where I say your response sounds a bit sharp (but it might be my interpretation again) and that is really not my intention to debate/ argue. I just wanted to give an opinion, that's all. If I was to answer the poll, I would love to support authors.

artisimpossible

I have a question for readers, but I have a super small following here so it's probably not the best sample size BUT

If you could get books directly from your favorite authors (so you don't have to worry about publishers gatekeeping out stories that you'd love and that they really want to write) in a way that also lets the author keep a way larger portion of their sales (so they can afford to keep writing without fearing for their livelihood), what, if anything, would discourage you from doing this and drive you to want to buy from big publishers/retailers instead?

Poll

Nothing! I'd buy direct from authors

Availability -- I can only access books in a limited number of ways

Price -- I would just use whichever option was cheaper

Quality concerns -- I trust big pubs to vet what books are good or not good

Social factors -- I only read what's popular, what my friends suggest, etc.

Time -- it's most important to me that accessing books be quick & easy

I don't want to support authors & would rather support big businesses

Voting ended onFeb 22, 2024

sosocats

I wish there was a better way to respond to this? For me, I'm in Canada. Shipping to Canada can be difficult in the sense, that it's expensive for small businesses. Or it's not available to us.

There is an author that I love and they released a novella. I want to read it. I want to buy it. But they don't ship to Canada. Bookstores in Canada don't carry it. I have no means to get my hands on this book without spending over $50 on this and spending that much is a hard sell for me.

So it's not just price, it's availability.

This poll is great for Americans but... that's about it.