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The Key of MGY

@keyofmgy / keyofmgy.tumblr.com

Historian, anthropologist, archaeologist by education. Geek by nature. SASS, DESPAIR, AND RAW TALENT.

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Oh boy oh boy you're gonna get a Rare achievement for this one

Containment Breach

when u exit hyperfocus mode and ur immediately hit with every status effect ever

Oh fuck I gotta pee. Wait wait, I can’t stand up I’m gonna fall over. Shit I haven’t eaten in like 23 hours. Damn I’m thirsty, maybe I should— fuck why am I nauseous? Oh, I didn’t eat, right. It’s WHAT time? 3AM? Do I even have time to eat? Shit, I forgot to take my meds earlier. Or did I? Damnit. Why is my head pounding, oh, right, haven’t eaten and I’m dehydrated… fuck I still gotta pee

*minimizes word document and stands up* My body:

quick what is everyone doing right now

okay reblogging this again just to say that i love love love reading these,, like it's so incredible how we're all doing such vastly different things at the same time...ik it's an obvious thing but it's also insane to think about.

In case you haven't been keeping up with the latest in Reddit drama:

  • CEO backhandedly threatens to seize control of shuttered subreddits that are protesting, by replacing the mods with more pliable/amenable ones
  • He couches this as the need to respect the will of the people, because the entire narrative he's been spinning is that only a few people are ruining the site for everyone
  • He also de-legitmizes all the hard work mods have done cultivating and maintaining popular subreddits by equating them to "landed gentry"
  • Some subreddits (like r/apple) reopen under duress, because they don't want to have their hard-earned communities stolen from them
  • Others (r/gifs, r/aww, r/pics) decide to go the malicious compliance route. After all, if this is all about respecting the will of the people, then let's by all means give them the same sort of narrow pathway forward that the CEO himself is offering
  • They put up polls with 2 choices: Either everything goes back to the way it was before the protests, or every post must be John-Oliver-related (i.e., sexy pics of John Oliver, gifsets of John Oliver, etc etc etc)
  • I mean after all, let's give the people choice, just the sort of choice you're offering mister CEO?
  • John Oliver wins in a landslide
  • Meanwhile, John Oliver - who has been conspicuously silent on Twitter since May1st (as he respects the writer's strike) - breaks his silence to give blessing.
  • He doesn't just give blessing though - he starts supplying embarrassing photos of himself to stoke things
  • The people have spoken

thinking about how peoples blorbos tend to be men on here (makes sense with the trends in fandom of men being prioritised etc etc) SO please reblog and tag your female blorbo(s). this is NOT the post to be like “[male character] becuz he’s a woman to me” i Will come to your house and bite you. anyway i’ll go first mine are susie and julie from dbd and carly jones from house of wax 🖤

The kid isn't lying. A certain metallic medal on the cover is your 100% guarantee that the book is miserable. You name it, they've got it. Genocide, hate crimes, dead or dying pets/friends/family (half the time the protagonist pulls the trigger), manic pixie dream girls but for 10-year olds (spoiler alert, she always dies or is taken from her family).

I hated those books so much as a kid. They didn't teach me valuable lessons, but they sure fucked me up and gave me anxiety.

The year is 2021. It is May. Fourth grade has just finished for my kid and we got the reading list for 5th. It's 3 books long. One of those books is One Crazy Summer. Another is The River, sequel to Hatchet. The laridge to Teribithia.

In May of 2021.

I wrote a strongly worded letter to the schools and the school board that was ignored. When she started 5th grade in August, I asked her ELA teacher about the choice of books and the woman was flabbergasted. She issued no such list. She never would have, not knowing her students or their reading levels, and certainly not with those books in 2021.

To this day I still don't know where that list came from. But that was some goddamned depressing shit. (I did like One Crazy Sumner, tho. Solid story, there!)

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Pets die. People die, including children. It’s far better to learn about death and work through those emotions with a fictional book, that you can always put down if gets to be too much, than to have to first learn about death when a person or animal you cared about has died for real.

Awards like the Newberry and Printz are given out every year—there’s a winner and two runners up/honor books. Every year. Claiming they all are “miserable” is ridiculous, anti-intellectual hyperbole, and a complete twisting of a kid’s amusing observation.

Parents have a right to try to control what their children read, but they absolutely do not have a right to dictate what every other child at their kid’s school reads. I’m glad that school ignored the letter over what was apparently an optional summer reading list.

This website loves to get up in arms about right-wingers trying to ban books with LGBTQ themes, but turns around and makes the exact same “protecting the children” arguments when it’s death or other topics they don’t personally like. Censorship is censorship. It’s not “better” because yours isn’t homophobic.

Bridge to Terabinthia is one of the most commonly challenged books in the United States, according to the ALA. Objecting to it is not saying anything groundbreaking or special.

There's this weird tendency among fandom types where they'll take a character, and insist that they are fans of them, before changing their design, age, pronouns, backstory, blood type, species, hometown, favorite color, zodiac sign, medical history, and every other facet of their being.

They will then violently insist that this version is superior to the canon one and act like they "fixed" them and it's like. Buddy that's not the same character anymore. That's just your own oc commiting identity fraud. Like. I get the desire to experiment with different interpretations of a story. But first of all it's okay to just make an original character if that's what you really want to do. And second of all, are you even really a fan of the character you "fixed" if they're a completely different person afterwards?

Like. Idk dude for somebody who claims to be a fan you sure don't seem to like them as they are :/

Gonna remember "buddy that's not the character that's your OC committing identity fraud."