eddie my love

if you write a strong character, let them fail.

if you write a selfless hero, let them get mad at people.

if you write a cold-hearted villain, make them cry.

if you write a brokenhearted victim, let them smile again.

if you write a bold leader, make them seek guidance.

if you write a confident genius, make them be wrong, or get stumped once in a while.

if you write a fighter or a warrior, let them lose a battle, but let them win the war.

if you write a character who loses everything, let them find something.

if you write a reluctant hero, give them a reason to fight.

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Light without dark, and vice-versa, is meaningless. You need one to accentuate the other, lest it all just be weightless babble without point.

This may be undeniably false, but I find it to be kinda true...

Odd, that.

browsing the website for the hobby store i buy most of my gundams from to see if they have gundam markers and they don't but they do have a shitload of warhammer and other model-related stuff including paints with some of the most unhinged names I've ever heard

Honestly I never really thought about this before, big insight mmm hyes.

@indigopersei is the french language just always on the verge of getting someone accused of assault or..?

my friend, if only you knew

It’s a very dangerous language to learn

Here’s an interesting thing about French! Everything needs to have an article in front of it. That’s why it’s “la chat” as opposed to just “chat”. So, for instance, you could say la fille for the girl, or jeune fille for young girl, but you can’t just say fille, because that means you are calling her a sex worker in a derogatory way.

The moral of the story is, if you want to make something rude in French, just take out the article in front of it. Yes, this works for nearly. every. word.

#now I’m wondering how often my high school french teacher was silently screaming because of this little fact

Every year. Every year there’s that kid who forgets that you can’t translate “I am excited” to “Je suis excitée”. And every year Monsieur Jordan has to slam the brakes before that kid can finish his sentence and then tactfully ask him not to announce to the class that he is horny.

“is the french language always on the verge” oh buddy, oh pal, i am so happy to break this news to you: 

truly the language of love

This says a lot about humans as a species.

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>First, we’ve discovered that about a quarter of all the internet connection in or out of the house were ad related. In a few hours, that’s about 10,000 out of 40,000 processed.

>We also discovered that every link on Twitter was blocked. This was solved by whitelisting the https://t.co domain.

>Once out browsing the Web, everything is loading pretty much instantly. It turns out most of that Page Loading malarkey we’ve been accustomed to is related to sites running auctions to sell Ad space to show you before the page loads. All gone now.

>We then found that the Samsung TV (which I really like) is very fond of yapping all about itself to Samsung HQ. All stopped now. No sign of any breakages in its function, so I’m happy enough with that.

>The primary source of distress came from the habitual Lemmings player in the house, who found they could no longer watch ads to build up their in-app gold. A workaround is being considered for this.

>The next ambition is to advance the Ad blocking so that it seamlessly removed YouTube Ads. This is the subject of ongoing research, and tinkering continues. All in all, a very successful experiment.

>Certainly this exceeds my equivalent childhood project of disassembling and assembling our rotary dial telephone. A project whose only utility was finding out how to make the phone ring when nobody was calling.

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>Update: All4 on the telly appears not to have any ads any more. Goodbye Arnold Clarke!

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>Lemmings problem now solved.

>Can confirm, after small tests, that RTÉ Player ads are now gone and the player on the phone is now just delivering swift, ad free streams at first click.

>Some queries along the lines of “Are you not stealing the internet?” Firstly, this is my network, so I may set it up as I please (or, you know, my son can do it and I can give him a stupid thumbs up in response). But there is a wider question, based on the ads=internet model.

>I’m afraid I passed the You Wouldn’t Download A Car point back when I first installed ad-blocking plug-ins on a browser. But consider my chatty TV. Individual consumer choice is not the method of addressing pervasive commercial surveillance.

>Should I feel morally obliged not to mute the TV when the ads come on? No, this is a standing tension- a clash of interests. But I think my interest in my family not being under intrusive or covert surveillance at home is superior to the ad company’s wish to profile them.

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>Aside: 24 hours of Pi Hole stats suggests that Samsung TVs are very chatty. 14,170 chats a day.

>YouTube blocking seems difficult, as the ads usually come from the same domain as the videos. Haven’t tried it, but all of the content can also be delivered from a no-cookies version of the YouTube domain, which doesn’t have the ads. I have asked my son to poke at that idea.

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fastest reblog in the west

Yeppers. :)

reblogging for study later AND to spread the info.

Irish tumblrs… they know @w4nderingdreamer

A worthy tool for the resistance

the confidence in this mans posture is utterly unshakable i must respect him

The most admirable, noble and majestic energies emenate from this man like light from the sun.

Very funny would recommend

i fucking BURNED myself!!!!!!

Ye must cover ye hands adequately to not be flame-touched by the heat-machine, then stand back from the hot air as the hatch is opened.

Learn this lesson well, it will be useful.

Don't ever hesitate. Reblog this. TUMBLR RULE. When you see it, REBLOG IT.

It's 2 am and I am bored make assumptions about me based on my eye color if you want to

The woods are your home and you secretly desire to carry various animal bones on your person at all times.

All things that you should not have to be rich in order to do

#those things shouldn’t be fucking pipe dreams!

can we get some sex repulsed ace positivity on the dash

setting boundaries with your friends is not a moral failing

not wanting to see discussion of certain topics is not a moral failing

curating your dash and muting certain terms or tags is not a moral failing

you are not required to expose yourself to anything that makes you uncomfortable

you are not "puritanical" or "regressive" for wanting your boundaries respected

you deserve a place in the community. you deserve your voice to be heard.

Me but demisexual

Yeah, suffering shouldn't be seen as a moral virtue. Just do whatever makes you comfortable

Aye

YEEEEEAAAAH

So true, I love my long hair. It is one of the few things this body of mine can actually do right.

AAAA@AAAAAAAAAAAA MY EYEBALLS AAAAAAAAAAA

You never know