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i can’t believe we’re getting an old friends video game AND a documentary this year. i keep forgetting about and then remembering and every time it’s like the most exciting revelation ive ever had

@thinken-emojie it’s not out yet but yes!!

from what i understand it’s going to be like neko atsume but with the pups from the sanctuary!

so i just found these wip screenshots on the game’s official website and im weeping

In response to the racist fuckbags being racist fuckbags on my post about non-white elves, I want to promote a DnD 5e world setting I came across on Twitter called the Wagadu Chronicles.

You can find them here:

https://twitter.com/WagaduChronicle?s=09

They are self described as "An Afrofantasy World |

5e Pen&Paper Adventures & an upcoming online game"

Honestly it looks rad as hell, and you should all check it out.

The only way we can help

Guys! They also have a shop where you can buy t-shirts that provide them money for planting the trees in Brazil!

Also each t-shirt you buy is 20 planted trees! Check out their shop!!

Please reblog this, they need as much help as they can get.

hey if you’re a fan of Polygon’s Unraveled series and wanted to see what that style of humor and general format looked like in a Magic: the Gathering context, you NEED to watch this video

All of the Magical Girl anime that I have seen so far

Rules:

1. I am only including shows that are considered Magical Girl anime to most people, so shows that are just general fantasy like Slayers, Fairy Tail, etc will not be included in the list.

2. This list will feature all the subsets: Magical Warrior, Magical Idol, and Cute Witch.

3. This list will only feature Japanese animation, I will do a separate list for Western Animation.

4. I am including shows, movies, and ovas

5. I am only including series that have seen at least 1 episode of; or for movies/ovas have seen the whole thing. So shows where I’ve only seen a clip of will not appear on this list.

Sailor Moon, have not finish.

Cardcaptor Sakura (original), have not finished.

Madoka Magica (including Rebellion), finish.

Princess Tutu, finish.

Revolutionary Girl Utena (including movie), finished.

Heartcatch Precure, have not finished.

Creamy Mami, have not finish.

Shugo Chara, have not finish.

Magic Knight Rayearth, have not finished.

Little Witch Academia, finished the OVAS, have not seen the show.

Kiki’s Delivery Service, finished.

Tokyo Mew Mew, have not finished.

Shin Cutey honey, have not finished, and is not sure will finish (lol).

Mary and the Witch’s Flower, finished.

I would include Kill la Kill but its status as a Magical Girl anime is pretty torn in the Magical Girl fandom. Plus I’m most likely not going to be able to find a sfw gif for it lol.

Gosh, I love all of these. I don’t know how some people don’t like magical girl anime.

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Today the lady behind me in line at the grocery store checkout politely tapped my shoulder and when I turned around she motioned toward my giant bundles of kale and asked: “what do you do with your kale? Do you cook with it, or make juice, or…?” And i admitted there in front of god and the world “oh I feed it to my peacocks.” And she just looked so taken aback that I said “I’m sorry that’s not the answer you were hoping for”

And that’s how I learned other people don’t really know what to do with kale either. We’re all pretty sure it’s edible, though.

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People are sending me kale recipes like they honestly believe I will try to eat bird food

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I’m sorry I’m hung up on the part where op owns peacocks

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Purple ones:

And peahens. This one sleeps on a fluffy rainbow unicorn stuffed animal:

Her name is Artemis and she’s allergic to food.

This is Stan. His color morph is called Cameo so I named him Stan Lee:

He’s Artemis’ boyfriend.

They both love kale. I suppose someone’s got to.

OP Tell them I love them!

Are they good guard birds?

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That depends on your definition of ‘guard.’

They won’t defend other birds from predators like raccoons or weasels or coyotes or anything. They’re just as likely to get eaten in those cases.

However, they will harass snakes and other small, novel animals like mice, rabbits, wild birds, etc if they can get away with it. They will also yell at anything they disapprove of including but not limited to:

  • Your car
  • Neighbors
  • that one leaf that moved in the wind
  • the wind
  • deer in the woods
  • a hawk overhead
  • an airplane that might be a hawk overhead
  • each other
  • a noise they heard
  • a noise they thought they heard
  • sparrows
  • seriously, fuck sparrows specifically, they are DISALLOWED, completely intolerable, must chase off, shake train, and/or yell about it
  • that one kiwi fruit that was up to no good
  • the feather that fell off their own body and scared them
  • thunder (how dare the sky yell at them)
  • the sun arriving
  • the sun departing
  • sometimes predators I guess

Alienate Nazis from your content. Make them feel like it is not for them and is explicit in working against them. Whatever ways we can make Nazis feel socially unsafe and unwelcome on the basis of being Nazis is a good deed done.

I’d be happy to do this. Shall we do the same to SJWs too?

Putting “SJWs” on the same level as Nazis? Groundbreaking edge.

SJW’s are as bad you dipshit ass bitches

This is a list of known Holocaust victims. Not a list of all the victims, just those whose names and fates were known even after the destruction of records from the camps. There are 4.2 million names on this list. This does not include modern victims of Nazi violence. It also does not include people killed on the battlefield while attempting to put a stop to this.

Now tell me again how SJWs are just as bad. Be prepared to back up your arguments with a list of names of murder victims. I would accept a list in the hundreds of thousands if that’s what you have, to put SJWs within one order of magnitude of the Nazis.

Saying “x thing I don’t like is worse than Nazis” is a way of normalising and protecting Nazis my dude.

Yes, because pushing people further into isolation will actually solve the problem. (spoilers: no it won’t. You’re just getting the satisfaction of sweeping the problem under the rug without actually taking any effort to actually get people to change and become better people). Have you ever heard ex-Neo Nazis speak on their time as Neo-Nazis? Probably not, you strike me as the kind of person that would deem them as “once a Nazi, always a Nazi”, no matter the circumstances. So many people are broken away from Nazism by having that isolation broken. By being given forgiveness when they least deserve it from the people that have the least obligation to give it to them. Nazism and White Supremacy thrive in isolation, providing heavily filtered “sources” that reaffirm their biases, and trying to make sure that nothing can get in to disturb the carefully constructed lies. By forcing them back into isolation, congratulations, you are actually helping the movement sustain itself.

Anyway, hug all Nazis apparently. Me and my Jewish ancestors are the real problem. Uwu.

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I need to talk about this point because what @dangenesis said up there really bothers me. The idea that coddling nazis is somehow important to helping them not be nazis, or that people making them live with the consequences of their actions is what keeps them being nazis.

It bothers me because it’s a faulty conclusion reached through a series of useful facts. I’ll elaborate.

Isolation and insularism are common elements in authoritarian groups, of which nazis are a perfect example. You’re dealing with people who are emotionally immature who integrate themselves into a social hierarchy in order to feel a sense of security. The social structure that they build and participate in keeps them isolated and prevents them from maturing and learning to question their fundamental beliefs. This allows the social structure and all of the people in it to continue perpetuating their ideology, which again they built in order to feel a sense of security that they otherwise lack.

It is absolutely true that breaking that isolation is one of the best ways of freeing someone from the grip of authoritarianism, but it’s not anywhere near as simple as @dangenesis suggests.

There’s a musician named Daryl Davis who famously does this with KKK members. Davis himself is black and has helped free many people from the KKK by befriending them and using his friendship as a prybar to help them question their white supremacist beliefs. Davis has also spoken openly about how difficult and unique his work is and how it can’t just be done by anyone with some spare time. It takes a significant amount of work and free time to accomplish, owing to how difficult it is to actually change someone’s mind, especially when you have to not just educate them, but also teach them how to be emotionally mature.

Okay, now to the part that made me personally angry:

  • It’s functionally impossible for us to approach the problem of nazis like Daryl Davis does. Some of us have the time, energy, and resources to pull it off and will do so. Meanwhile, the rest of us need to keep the nazis from hurting people. And in the end, while people will convert some nazis away from fascism, we save far more people by helping them learn to reject fascism before they’re ever recruited. Yes, this means that you’re educating kids so that those kids don’t grow up to embrace white supremacy. Most of the fascists are going to keep being fascists and the best you can hope is to keep them from killing people and wait for them to die of old age.
  • Similarly, our efforts to oppose them do not sustain or in any way aid nazis or other authoritarian groups. They are entirely self-perpetuating and our efforts to stop nazis from doing terrible things are not the reason they keep doing terrible things. They do not back off just because we back off. When we back off, they escalate, because the whole point behind a fascist ideology is to sieze power and then start murdering people to establish a complete totalitarian control over a white supremacist state.

This made me angry because it took some good points, like the way we can free people from authoritarianism through care and guidance, and then used those points to make some really shitty conclusions, like the idea that you can’t harshly critizie nazis without just helping sustain them. That’s a completely crap argument, and insulting beyond belief.

And finally, here’s a salient comment from the amazing Alexandra Erin:

15 reasons to build an herb spiral for your garden (By Jean Bardot, Natural News)

Whether you’re a city mouse or a country mouse — with a high-rise patio or 1000 acres — building an herb spiral near your kitchen allows you to partake in the sustainable permaculture revolution and have fresh organic culinary herbs at your fingertips. An herb spiral is a compact vertical garden built on specific principles allowing for individualized management of wind and water flow to create the ideal garden in a limited amount of space.

The spiral is a natural form that provides an efficient method for managing space, storing and sorting. Using the natural universal design of a spiral, the forces of gravity and water flow are utilized to their fullest allowing for proper drainage downhill. Herbs that thrive on drier soils live at the top, whereas those needing more moisture reside at the bottom where water collects. This form allows for planting of a widely diverse number of plants, and creates natural, sunny and shady areas — a perfect miniature microclimate landscape environment. The herb spiral as a permaculture form that allows you to create your own ecosystem and become self sufficient. The format can be adapted to large gardens if space is available.

Stone or block building materials allow for retention of heat and insulate plants in colder weather or at night, while acting as the backbone for the structure. Collect water at the bottom and have a small fish or frog pond or even a bog and grow edible water plants. An herb spiral can be built even on a concrete foundation and filled with the richest biodynamic, organic earth to support any plants included.

The spiral should always be built to move in the direction of water drainage in whatever hemisphere it’s located in — for example, in the Northern hemisphere, water runs off in a clockwise direction and the opposite is true for the Southern hemisphere. This allows for optimal positioning of the pond at the bottom and reduces evaporation. The spiral can be built as a round or oval shape to take advantage of the movement of summer sunlight.

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15 REASONS TO BUILD AN HERB SPIRAL FOR YOUR PERMACULTURE GARDEN

1. Maximize growing space to grow more food. 2. Multiple microclimates available for optimal plant growth.

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3. Healthier plants where growing needs are met and companion planting is easy to reduce insect problems and foster beneficial plant relationships for better growth. 4. Aesthetic garden focal point.

5. Maximizes space even in very small areas on top of concrete or in high-rise buildings. 6. Harvesting access is easy and all plants are effortlessly accessible. 7. No bending, everything is at waist height — hooray!

8. Save money by growing your own food. 9. Eat organic, using heirloom seeds and avoid pesticides and genetically engineered seeds. 10. Reduces maintenance, little weeding and easy to turn and mulch.

11. Manage water amounts and use natural forces to perpetuate the growing season. 12. Reduce building costs when you use local available materials. 13. Use drip irrigation or a small sprinkler for easy watering and irrigation.

14. Create a bio-diverse habitat for creatures who come to visit. 15. Build an herb spiral to grow medicinal herbs to avoid Big Pharm drugs.