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"My lips are chapped, there's never enough bandwit, and gas prices are still too high!"

[thecarouselgamesblog]

⚠️PLEASE DON’T SEND ME DONATION POSTS, I CANT DONATE. I APOLOGIZE IN ADVANCE.

[cortisolandnoroepinephrinetoxin]

Comfort character posting… bro I need a refund who is this /j

[tcoc]

I love Skylanders, I grew up with it, but...

The reaction of certain sects of Skylanders fans in regards to the trailer for the new Spyro game is very very annoying, incessantly whining that Skylanders 7, which let's be completely honest to ourselves, was NOT high on TFB's agenda in the first place is really... embarrassing. I hate that this vocal minority is negatively polarising me against a childhood franchise of mine Why are we arguing? We should be happy! With the triumphant return of Spyro, perhaps the same can eventually apply to Skylanders...

[mightyart]

Every win for Spyro is a win for Skylanders

[sweetpea67]

The foster care and adoption centers are really fucked up and a huge chunk of the kids in it should not have been removed from their parents in the first place, and this is absolutely a serious issue with roots in racism and classism and white supremacy.

But I also want to push back against this newer assumption that adoption is somehow always evil and violent and tragic and that we should get rid of it entirely.

My younger brother is adopted. His bio mom is my cousin, and she wasn’t ready at the time to raise a child. The adoption was completely voluntary and totally open. We are close to both bio parents and they like to check in every now and then to make sure my brother is doing all right. There was no shady child trafficking, no lies, no predatory practices. The only cultural difference is that he has Polish American ancestry on his bio dad’s side, and we have gotten geneological information in case he ever wants it (which he doesn’t yet).

Literally the only “trauma” (for lack of a better word) my brother has ever experienced from his adoption are the rude remarks of random kids who feel the need to opine on how weird adoption is and how the two of us aren’t “really family”. None of this can be blamed on the adoption itself; it’s prejudice, first and foremost. And by automatically assuming that every adoption scenario is violent or traumatic or abusive (not that we should automatically assume it’s the other way around either!), we actually tacitly accept this level of harassment and play into the amatonormative, heteronormative, etc. idea that “blood = family” which also demonizes stepfamilies and families of choice.

Also, I’m wary of any argument that adopting a kid is morally wrong because I’m pretty sure the only thing everyone refusing to adopt would accomplish is more kids aging out of the foster care system and ending up on the streets.

Adopted parents shouldn’t be put on pedestals, they shouldn’t be treated as uniquely good, and abuse shouldn’t be excused. Adoption agencies and foster care systems should be held accountable for misdeeds, and the violence they inflict on POC and other marginalized groups. But even once we get rid of the kyriarchy, we’re still going to have kids whose immediate (or even extended) family members are dead or unavailable. We’re still going to have people who don’t feel ready to have a child but who ended up giving birth to one anyway. We’re still going to have stepfathers and stepmothers who want to legitimize their relation to their spouse’s bio child. Family reconciliation is a good goal, but it’s never going to work 100% of the time and we need to stop insisting that it will.

[bearlyfunctioning]

Comic #355 : Chronic pain is isolating - Website links here ~ Here's a comic for the spoonies, the suffering and the lonesome. Let's take ibuprofen together 🐻💊 That's right it's a double length comic! I had a lot to say that wouldn't fit in 4 panels 🥲

[modmad]

New Into the Inkwell pages just dropped! Huge thanks always to @celebi9 and @lizzybeanbutt who are collabing this chapter!

Read this whole Doctor Who comic from the very start here.

[sophiethelazy]

There's turbo from turbotime remake: tournament league

The new turbotime game that released in 2014

And he is the one of the two main protagonists of the REDLINE au besides Jasper

And it has a similar gameplay and mechanisms to new mario kart or crash team racing games and compare to classic turbotime it's VERY different for example turbo himself is a confident and cocky and immature but genuinely nice and wel meaning young adult with dante and Leon's humor and personality

I also gave him a pet bunny because why not?

He's such a nice little fella I hope his doesn't get messed up and get infected with a virus

[jefpoo421]

[borroweddice]

Daydreaming Knight - risograph print inspired by a small illumination in the ‘Lancelot du Lac’ manuscript from ~1310, by me @borroweddice (IG)

[cssandraa]

Tea or Treat!

[fluentisonus]

it feels so evil that you can't still access your university online library after you graduate *remembers my principles* it feels so evil that everyone can't access to that stuff all the time

[hollyevolving]

That is very true.

If it's of any help, jstor allows individual users to register for free Independent Researcher accounts with access to 100 documents per month.

[aromanticbastards]

it's a bit more work, but DBIS is a service for finding data banks for subjects! it's agerman project and thus mostly set out for subjects one can study in germany, but it's usable in english and the data banks are international, and quite a lot of them are specifically collecting open access stuff (and for stuff that's not open access... let's just say that's easier to find if you know exactly what document you are looking for).

[softlywool]

I felt so inspired by Amandas outfit on the red carpet that I had to draw Ragatha in it ~

[echokelly]

I love it when people describe something that's too big as "fuck off". like this thing is so large. leave.

[hellsitegenetics]

String identified: t c tg tat' t g a "c ". t tg ag. a.

Closest match: Halichoeres bivittatus genome assembly, chromosome: 3 Common name: Slippery Dick

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[katjohnadams]

[ironinkpen]

When writing couples, I like to use the Kiss Rule:

If they have to kiss for you to know they’re in love, you’re not writing a romance right.

[demytasse]

I couldn’t agree more with this. As someone who has been married for 7 years (together for 9), kissing hardly proves anything of love, at least on its own. The starry-eyed lover type of intimacy is cute, but using it exclusively is like eating fondant off a cake. It’s sweet, looks polished and pretty, but lacks robust the flavour of combined elements — fillings, frosting, toppings, and the cake itself.

It’s gestures often overlooked, silent acts of respect without calling attention to them. Subtleties mixed with the obvious.

The good, bad, and the ugly.

playful banter, ribbing, insults/backhanded compliments

recognising ticks/tells and how to respond (e.g. specific throat clear before they speak)

tolerating inconsequential bad habits (e.g. puts dishes beside dishwasher, not in it)

listening to the same stories multiple times as if they were new

developing similar quirks (e.g. particular laugh)

inside jokes

mock fighting, mini competitions

blatant honesty, humble apologies, knowing when to drop an argument

saying nothing/talking for hours

tending to illness or injuries

pokes, pet/pats, head/shoulder bumps, bites, tickles, cuddling, long gazes, stroking hair

grooming, restraighten clothing, touch up hair, brush off crumbs

singing and dancing together

understanding your partner’s hurt rather than just apologising

trust and respect

knowing how to cheer the other up, how to piss them off, humour them

reassurance (e.g. I’m here to talk, you’re doing a great job, your insecurities don’t define you)

associating sights, smells, touches, songs, phrasing, etc with them (e.g. “I saw a pigeon today and thought ‘is this my partner?’”

hating dumb things they do, but finding them hard to live without and secretly loving them

compromising, sacrificing, reciprocation

Love is unspoken, tolerant, and a spectrum of emotions.

It’s accepting that you’ll fuckin’ hate their entire being at times, exclaim with vitriol, “god, you’re so fucking annoying” while you smile and know that it’s trivial in the grand scheme.

It’s real. It’s healthy. It’s fun. That’s what I try to encapsulate in my sappy romantic fiction because realistic fluff is so much more gratifying.

I hope this helps.

[orteil42]

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

[dynamaxed]

hi! carey means needs help still - he's the voice actor for frylock in aqua teen hunger force! adult swim screwed him badly and pays no residuals and barely paid him during the show's run. he has heart failure and survives on con earnings, plushie sales, and donations while waiting for disability to get back to him. posts used to make the rounds for him, but haven't in a while, so i wanted to make a new post!

if you'd rather buy a plushie - here's the shop he and his wife run!

[punkitt-is-here]

quirky fourth wall breaking character but theyre just fucking. wrong about the medium theyre in. they keep making references to cinematic techniques and directorial styles and the other fourth wall breaking character is like "dumbass we're in a fucking comic book" and they are in a video game.

[totally-cis-offical]

Well currently they’re in a tumblr post but I see your point

[moon-of-curses]

we're actually in a youtube video if this turns out to be funny enough