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Ezra, Lex (Alexi), Niko •22• They/them •Bi Ace Enby •ADHD• Go Pens 🐧• Witchcraft: @lex-and-magic.

About Me

I guess it's time to make one of these. Hi, I'm Lex or Ezra. Either is fine with me. (I'm also chill with Niko). I'm nonbinary and use they/them (+ he/him?) pronouns!

I'm a taurus. I love hiking, hockey, and crafting. I'm a Biology major with a focus in Mushrooms and Plant Pathology. My research tags are: #ezra comp biology bs and #updates from ezra. My main ramble tag is: #ezra rambles. My sewing tag is: #ezra sews.

Speaking of hockey: If you want to avoid my hockey posts you should blacklist #hockey, #pens lb, (if you don't want to listen to commentary): #ezra talks, and #love thy goalie. My main teams are the Pens and the Kraken.

Icon credit to [Seattle Kraken Insta].

If you're looking for my podcast recs they'll be here: The OG recs, Even More Podcasts, and The Space Podcasts.

If you want my The Magnus Archives blog it's @mike-vast-crew .

#The Adult corner is where the horny stuff gets filed.

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Anonymous asked:

Wait wait you can't just drop that off and not elaborate. What do you mean is there a mafia presence in Wales?? Please spill, what things did you notice??

Okay so bearing in mind that I have ADHD and Chronic Terrible Observational Skills:

  • I am in Cardiff
  • For a concert I am attending solo
  • Doors open at 5
  • 4:15 ish I go 'hmm I should eat something'
  • Cardiff is - unsurprisingly, being tiny and yet home to FOUR concert venues - Very Busy
  • Find McDonald's
  • McDonald's is very full. I recall my last concert related McDick's experience, and promptly bounce
  • Directly across the street
  • Is an Italian restaurant
  • It looks closed but fuckit maybe I can beg for like. Bread or some shit
  • Go over
  • Am immediately pounced upon by the hitherto unnoticed chain-smoking woman hanging out by the door mostly hidden by a potted ficus(?)
  • "I was wondering if you were open and if-" "yes yes we are open what would you like?" (strongish Italian accent)
  • Inside restaurant is Deserted
  • Explain that I'm sort of in a rush, am assured it's fine
  • Order chicken milanese which is generally a pasta dish with a breaded chicken component
  • Am led to seat nearish the front and promptly provided with a pint of coke in a glass tankard
  • Am then provided with a front row seat to an absolutely incomprehensible series of people entering and exiting (and in one case walking directly into) the door to what I can only presume is the kitchen
  • Starting with the guy who had been sitting at a table chain-smoking over a pile of papers
  • I counted at least three people exiting at least twice without actually entering in between
  • Am finally brought food
  • It is a breaded, butterflied chicken breast approximately the size of my face and a small pile of pasta approximately the size of my fist
  • It is all delicious
  • Chain-smoking papers man reappears, now wearing a chef's apron labcoat thing
  • Go up to pay, chain-smoking ficus lady is now having a very loud argument in a language I did not recognise but was not Italian Welsh English French russian Gaelic or Spanish
  • She sees me, says, and I quote 'ah little girl lost, one moment' and promptly hangs up
  • I am 27 and only nominally female
  • I am not remotely lost
  • She charges me for the pint of coke but not the food
  • I try to point out that she hasn't charged me for the food
  • 'do you want to pay for the food?'
  • '.... Not if I don't have to?'
  • 'good'
  • I leave. The door is now full of half a dozen very tall very Italian men and one absolutely adorable cocker spaniel
  • I ask if I can pet the dog (I have my priorities straight okay)
  • I am allowed to pet the dog. The dog and I are now best friends
  • The dog lead holder asks me in extremely accented but impeccably correct English if I had enjoyed the food
  • 'yeah it was great!'
  • Everyone laughs a bit
  • I smile and pet the dog and realise I'm now late for the concert and hurry off
  • I see a post on Tumblr about mob fronts and several connections are made in my brain all at once
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Everyone I've mentioned this to has gone 'was the food really good?' as a like initial litmus test for front-likelihood so I'm glad to see we're all on the same page here

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I'm really enjoying all the other mob-front stories in the notes! Clearly all mob front eateries produce criminally good food 😀

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As someone who grew up in NY: Italian, food is criminally good, always empty but never goes out of business, mostly only take cash, and weird operating houra. Bonus points for identifiable family members.

Honestly living where the mob does usually means safe neighborhoods and well-run businesses. Bc they tend not to shit where they eat.

Read some actual comics, Kyle.

Superman is an incredibly kind and tender character. (If he’s not being written that way, then he’s not being written well.) He inspires hope not just through his heroics, but also through his kindness toward other people. That’s his thing. Don’t you DARE call tenderness a “weakness.” Get your toxic masculinity the hell away from me and go read a badly written Batman comic if you want a “tough” male character.

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Why on EARTH would someone think Superman being tough and Superman being kind are contradictory?

Is that a Snyder fan telling someone that “you’re wrecking the character, create something new instead of making an interpretation that’s so off-base”?

Because Snyder is the guy who wanted the Greek Gods to all be Kryptonians and the Amazons to be descended from them.

Where's that comic where Superman comforts Billy?

I saw that tweet by Gunn and thought “So, like regular Superman?”

Kyle sounds like Lex Luthor who believed that Superman doesn’t have a Civilian identity because such a godlike being would see it as beneath him. Also here you go @simon-newman

These few pages legit make me cry

That's not just for acting, that's life advice. Seriously deep wisdom right there.

Only the strong can be gentle, because the weak don’t have the option of causing harm. Gentleness is the virtue that Superman can best exemplify, by being so strong that the only thing stopping him is himself.

I am so glad that someone who actually likes Superman is writing Superman now

While I still have little to no hope for 'Discovery/Warner', putting Gunn in charge of their superhero stuff at least one positive sign among all the bad ones, his Guardians of the Galaxy movies weren't perfect, but they were consistently the best part of the MCU, and he seems to have a genuine appreciation for the spirit of the source material

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no idea whats happening with artfight (kind of? i know a bit but… its given me a headache so im ignoring it) but i am just 

going to go back to animating this revenge

something is up with artfight?

tl;dr staff mass quit bc they were not paid

what the fuck?

QUICK CORRECTION-

the mods are volunteers, they weren’t paid nor did they ask for pay

what they’re upset about is that Takaia is pocketing all the donation money rather than using it to update and improve the site, plus a lack of communication on getting things done yet refusing to let more mods/staff pitch in, so they’re quitting as protest. the moderators want the event to keep going for the sake of the participants, but ArtFight’s future is dubious unless Takaia cleans up their act.

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This does not mean to not continue using the site

Put stress on the servers, continue to report suspicious behavior. We need to make it clear that they need moderation teams and to treat them better with respect. We need to make it clear that the servers need to be better and paid for else the site will go down with the sheer number of users.

  • Do not donate until the owner stops taking money
  • Do not put direct pressure on their mod team, if you want to ask questions specify that it should be answered by the admin team.

I wish the leaving mods the best, I hope the remaining team members the best. ( Except for the owner. )

This was not the only piece of information that was brought up but was the largest. This comment by ELGURITCH on Toyhouse goes into depth on the suspicious actions of Takaia made in September of last year. The forum post it was commented on goes into depth with the other things.

I have my own god awful experiences with the admin team. I’m glad people are coming out about the groomers that were reported on the site. I hope people will be finally safe and well.

Get yourself a cat who can do both.

[ID: Two images of Dearborn the Tortie; in the first, she is lying on a brightly-patterned quilt on an orange chair, with her eyes very green because the pupils are super narrow in the sunlight. She looks like she's paying very close attention to something she's about to murder. In the second image, she is lying on a blue quilt on her side, head turned over her shoulder, looking up at the camera with wide dark pupils and an expression of extreme innocence.]

Sam, I can't find the other setting, how do you tortie?

A'Tuin can only do option two.

Ah, I think you must have gotten the custom package, with the special Concealed Murder Face. It's common in aftermarket models. You might have to call the dealership to have them unlock that mode. :D

[ID: A picture of A'Tuin, a current foster kitty and mother to foster kittens; she is a tortie, lying on a cushion with her face smooshed up against a second cushion, staring into the camera with huge innocent eyes.]

damn did you know if you don’t have a mailing address the post office had a “general delivery” service where you get your stuff shipped to a participating post office and they hold it there for you for up to two weeks

this is such a useful thing for people who are unhoused or moving or on a road trip or in an unsafe home situation. I’m a little shocked I’ve never heard of it before now.

I used this once to move to bumfuck nowhere Colorado for a job. Had no car, no nothing, so I lugged a 50 lb chest from the post office to my hotel room I lived out of for three months. Changed my life for the better. Thanks, general delivery!