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Idk if you want to change literally nothing about yourself, not even your pronouns, and just identify differently i still consider you trans. Literally doesn't matter to me. It hurts more trans people to exclude people who are happily identifying as trans than it benefits. You use she/her and like pink and skirts but also like being agender? Idgaf welcome to the club. I love you
farcille isn't "toxic yuri." nothing remotely toxic about them, they both treat each other with a great deal of care and affection and respect. just because marcille is willing to do forbidden necromancy and arguably cannibalism for her wife doesn't make her toxic that's just what you do for a woman with broad shoulders
post nut clarity does not properly convey the gravity of the pre nut insanity. like truly.
Its weird for me to think that dolphins existed at the same time as queens and knights and shit like that. I feel like dolphins were invented in the 80s by crystal shops to sell porcelain statues to divorced women
its all about the jaws and the paws
i said the jaws!
and the paws!
and just a little bit of style
neurotypicals will be like "you can't self diagnose" and then diagnose everyone they dislike as a narcissist
I keep seeing people recommending Open Office as an alternative to Word, and uh... look, it is, technically, an open source alternative to Word. And it can do a lot of what Word can, genuinely! But it is also an abandoned project that hasn't been updated in nine years, and there's an active fork of it which is still receiving updates, and that fork is called LibreOffice, and it's fantastic.
Seriously, if you think that your choices are either "grit your teeth and pay Microsoft for a subscription" or "support free software but have a kind of subpar office suite experience", I guarantee that it's because you're working with outdated information, or outdated software. Most people I know who have used the latest version of LibreOffice prefer it to Word. I even know a handful of people who prefer it to Scrivener.
Open Office was the original project, and so it has the most name recognition, and as far as I can tell, that's really the only reason people are still recommending it. It's kind of like if people were saying "hey, the iPhone 14 isn't your only smart phone option!" but then were only ever recommending the Samsung Galaxy S5 as an alternative. LibreOffice is literally a version of the same exact program as Open Office that's just newer and better – please don't get locked into using a worse tool just because the updated version of the program has a different name!
strong contender for my new favorite tee k.o. shirt
concept: cooperative legacy horror board game where each scenario removes more and more of the coop elements and replaces them with drawn out cutthroat antagonism, until the true horror dawns on you and you realize its slowly been transforming into a game of Monopoly
Discworld Heritage Post
School district book bans have been getting a lot of attention lately, but this article focuses on censorship of web media in American public schools. Schools are censoring access to a massive array of information, and not just things deemed "sexually explicit."
It should be illegal for Private Investors to buy single family homes.
It's a sad fact that every long running universe based upon themes and tones of isolation, limiality, and cosmic horror gets worn down by overexplanation, overpopulation of the universe with entities, overuse, and eventually irony and financial exploitation. Derlething happened to Lovecraft, it happened to SCPs, it happened in record times to the backrooms.
If you try to build a collective work with vibe of subtle unease and liminality, someone will invariably introduce a guy that looks like this:
I wonder if this is more indicative of a social shift in what is generally found unsettling or scary rather than just being 'uninspired'. Horror has always had themes throughout the decades directly correlating to what was going on in the world. Just by example, in the 50s, giant monsters were popular, mirroring the looming threat of nuclear weapons and mass destruction brought on by war. In the 60s there was more of a shift towards the realistic, a focus on not trusting your neighbor, not even trusting yourself if you start to stray from the straight and narrow. This site gives a much better breakdown decade by decade.
So I actually find it very interesting that today there's a recurring theme of a grinning, pale, faceless man in a suit popping up in modern horror. Who of us hasn't been under the thumb of the archetypal corporate crony at some point? A man without a face at a desk somewhere, with morals that have nothing to do with humanity and everything to do with juggling a few fractions of a penny, secretly in control of everything. A lot of today's suffering is a line of portraits of men in suits with empty, empty smiles that you are essentially powerless against and they go around cannibalizing everything and being behind every rotted policy or gutted social safety net. Death isn't a ghoul in a cloak anymore, he's a white man in a suit with a grin like a scythe. You can distract yourself with all of the abstract, alien concepts you like but he is always there; he's your job you have to get back to, he's the insurance that won't cover your medication, he's the bureaucrat funding the nightmarish wars like they're stocks to have shares in. Of course he doesn't have eyes, because he doesn't have a soul, and he'll certainly never see you as a person. Is he grinning because he's shamming his best attempt at appearing human? Or is it because he's genuinely, perversely happy to have all of this power, to the point of total social detachment, bordering on uncanny valley in its deranged appearance. If I can be dramatic (might be a bit late for that), I'd even say the horror games that seem to be made to put toys on shelves with colorful characters meant to be Youtube thumbnails first and creepy concepts second just loops back around to this spiritually and literally: it's capitalism. There's a man in charge, and it isn't you, and he's going to fuck off untouched with his money regardless of the state it leaves everyone else in.
I mean it's that or because Slenderman was really popular for a while.
Toothpaste companies must really hate people who are allergic to mint toothpaste, which a lot of people are! Apparently it's NOT supposed to burn like minty hellfire? (I'm fine with mint candy, it's only mint toothpaste that hurts)
I've been using Tom's fennel for years, but am now trying to find one with fluoride in it, and finding a toothpaste that is no mint and yes fluoride should not be such a huge and infuriating quest. still got some more grocery stores to search, but not even the children's toothpaste in the nearest one had any that were suitable.
alright the lyrics I put in the tags on the original post & in a later addition were kinda rough because I couldn't think of replacements for all the religious lines, but it's been rotating in my mind all day so here's a better version of Minty Hellfire:
Advise me, my dentist, you know I'm a hygienic man of my flossing I am justly proud.
I brush every surface, my gums shed not a drop of blood, no single cheat day ever I've allowed.
Then tell me, my dentist, why it's never good enough, why the pits of rot still mar my teeth.
I must switch to fluoride? But every option I can find is full of minty pain beyond belief!
Like fire, Hellfire, this fire sharp and fresh. To clean my enamel should not inflame my flesh.
It's not my fault! I'm not to blame! It's Colgate, Sensodyne, and Crest who've set this flame!
It's not my fault, if every brand has added twenty times more mint than I can stand.
Protect me, oh grocers! Don't let the menthol touch my lips, don't let its fire sear my mouth and gums.
Provide me with fluoride, but not laced with the fires of Hell, and I'll keep all my teeth for years to come.
Hellfire, mint fire, is all that I can find. I may be required to order paste online.
(Thank you again to everyone leaving suggestions in the notes, I have a grand Toothpaste Quest ahead of me! Checked another store today and found no paste, but I did get strawberry kid's mouthwash that says "maximum fluoride", so hopefully probably that won't burn.)
im the prettiest canary in this mine
what the fuck is that smell
