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politics, social issues, and good omens or whatever, personal blog, f 30s

[phantomrose96]

When you meet Edward Elric he gives off the impression that he's the short-tempered hot-headed "violence is the answer to all life's questions" kind of protagonist, and it's in fact incredible character craft that he's actually the character who ends the series with a negative-3 kill count.

[phantomrose96]

people killed: 0

direct orders of "you really really need to kill this guy" ignored: 1

ongoing murders being committed by Ed's own friends/colleagues that Ed got in the way of to specifically stop that murder from happening: 2

[phantomrose96]

God's worst soldier Edward Elric. Showed up as the youngest member of the Amestrian army, took millions of dollars from them, never followed a single order, helped dismantle their fascist regime, left with a lower kill count than he arrived with, then fucked off to go be a house-husband. Character of all time.

[aka-blaa]

You know, when you said "negative-3 kill count," I, who haven't seen the anime, thought, "He resurrected 3 people?????" But I'm seeing here on the wiki that apparently resurrection in this anime is a terrible idea.

[phantomrose96]

Official addition to this post.

[tlirsgender]

They don't tell you this but besides the Beloved Mutual there's also the Longterm Follower who you don't follow back but they're always in your notes and you're kind of watching them. Checking on the longterm follower's bio every so often like turning over a log. She's trans now good for her

[tlirsgender]

Longterm followers I am putting fresh leaves and hrt in your enclosure

[tlirsgender]

Realizing I'm somebody's longterm follower who they don't follow back but check in on every so often. This is what's happening when you see the [Following] in your notes

[bluering8]

listen to me, this is so so important: you've gotta get used to really giving it your 60% as a default. like don't half-ass it necessarily but try not to go over 70% or so of an ass. you'll feel better and live a happier more fulfilled life, and on the rare occasions where you do need to lock the fuck in you'll be able to pull off bullshit that the sad miserable wretches giving it their 100% can never dream off, because they're busy draining themselves dry and you have energy reserves to spare.

[smokingchagga]

This is actually what I was adviced to do at the work rehabilitation program I went to. Hasn't left my mind since. 10/10 solid advice

[depsidase]

[surprisemoose]

What kind of Millennial™️ are you?

Avocado toast millennial

I am bird watcher now.

I ran a marathon for fun?

Yes, I am currently working on five fiber art projects…

Other millennial stereotype that I will write in the tags.

I am unfortunately not part of the greatest generation aka here for the result

Remaining time: 3 days 53 minutes

Please share!

[koiagain]

Stop Humidity the air is trying to touch me Inappropriately

[scrying-mind]

Europeans have gotta stop saying that Americans never travel just because we don't often travel internationally. Like, sure, I'd travel internationally too if I could cross four countries in four hours. My drive to visit my partner when I was in college was the equivalent of going from Austria to Bosnia and Herzegovina. When my family moved when I was a kid, it was literally equivalent to someone from Lisbon, Portugal moving to Kraków, Poland. I just recently went to visit my spouse's family, which is the equivalent of a Parisian going to Brest, Belarus.

Houlton, ME to San Diego, CA (both US cities) takes 50 hours to drive with no stops. That's one of the most extreme cases, but I just don't think that Europeans realize how truly massive this country is.

Also, many people who live close to Canada have made the trip in at some point. Same with Mexico. It's just that an abysmally small number of Americans live as close to these countries as most Europeans live to two countries over. Those two are also very large countries, so it's not easy to just travel through them and go somewhere else.

It wouldn't be so frustrating if it wasn't generally said with a condescending air. Obviously this isn't all Europeans, but there's a vocal few who love acting like Americans are inferior and uncultured for not doing something that is infinitely harder for us than it is for them.

[scyllas-revenge]

The money is a huge factor as well. Sometimes you can find a domestic flight in the US for under $100, but that’s pretty rare and usually only during off times. I usually have to commit to spending $300+ for a weekend visit to see my parents or to go to a friend’s baby shower, and I’m not even leaving the country!

The US just doesn’t have the extreme budget airlines Europe does (even Spirit Airlines, may it rest in pieces, was nowhere near the low price point of something like RyanAir. I got a RyanAir flight from Ireland to Denmark once for €14- meanwhile I’d consider a $114 domestic flight cheap in the US).

That combined with our abysmal PTO offerings means we’d have to shell out tons of money- potentially thousands if someone was to take a spouse and kids, say- just to fly abroad for a couple days. I’m hardly the first person to point this out, but it just makes my blood boil when I think about it.

[apollosunn-moved-deactivated202]

anyone else relate

[midnightclover]

[luna-azzurra]

If you're a new writer and you're asking yourself "is this too personal, is this too much, will people think this is weird" that feeling is the exact location of your actual voice. The stuff that makes you want to close the laptop is the stuff nobody else could write. The safe version is always worse. Always. I have never once read something and thought "this would have been better if it was a little less honest." go further. It's always go further.

[catchymemes]

[wumbreon]

May we all know decadence such as this

[charlesoberonn]

"godless beast" and it's literally Dionysus in animal form.

[the-haiku-bot]

“godless beast” and it’s

literally Dionysus

in animal form.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[savannahsdrabbles]

It’s always my favorite character

[just-a-space-rabbit]

[thirstkanaphan]

[prokopetz]

It's fun when the robot character in the sci-fi show gets cut in half because nobody working on this type of media knows anything about robotics and you never know what you're going to find inside. Green printed circuit boards? Meat and viscera, but like in a weird colour? Just a shitload of goo?

[prokopetz]

I especially like it when the robot appears to have realistic musculature which operates via contraction, suggesting some sort of fluid-driven or shape-memory-based actuation, and then it gets dismembered and a bunch of random gears and sprockets go flying everywhere.

[prokopetz]

You're a sci-fi robot who just got cut in half by the Big Bad (don't worry, you'll get better). What's inside you?

Printed circuit boards (blinking lights optional)

Gears and sprockets

Endless bundles of wire

Some sort of translucent crystal

Meat and viscera in a weird colour

Random geometric shapes

The cut is mirror-smooth, like I was one solid mass of metal

It looks like... car parts?

I'm actually mostly hollow

Just a shitload of milky goo

Other (specify)

Cheese sandwich

Voting ended onJul 13

[teaboot]

I like to think my engineers foresaw the likelihood of my bisection and designed a clean break point with that in mind, leaving a small compartment filled with confetti

[sodor-memetime]

[tincar87]

Broke: In the 60s men used to wear eyeshadow because of the lighting

Facts: Spock and Bones wear eyeshadow because they're cunt

[awaiting-my-clearest-skies]

[heyvamin]

humans can be museums too, filled with history they can no longer touch