hihereami:

I think so much of the outlook over fandom would change if many people treated it like it is: a goddamn hobby.

A fandom group is no better nor more revolutionary than a knitting club. It can replicate any real world biases and discriminations and it can also be used to raise money/group people towards causes. It can foster connections that will turn to actual real political action or it can just be a gathering of people who don’t know much about each other outside of it.

It can be lovely to experience when you’re surrounded by a lovely group and it can be hell when the group is full of cattiness and pettiness . It can be inclusive or it can be exclusive when you’re surrounded by bigotry.

Because it’s a group of people - it’s going to have problems. And when there’s a conflict or people are pointing shit out, it needs to be solved so its members aren’t spit out in the sake of “avoiding drama”. Because it’s a group of people, it’s not automatically changing the world in a blaze of self grandeur. Because it’s a group of people with a common hobby, it can impact its members lives for the better and give them a space to express themselves.

Fandom is a goddamn knitting club. It’s not this inherent great, subversive force of good nor this den of evil that’s traumatisizing the children. Chill out.

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tiredspider:

new genre of videos youtube’s algorithm has decided I needed to see

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fallingtowers:

awesome

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lostlightsperceptor:

nonegenderleftpain:

helixsnake:

I remember someone saying “mad scientists in fiction aren’t scientists because there’s never a control group”

I think if you’ve created an elixir that turns people into goat men you have sort have gone past the need for a control group. The control group is not going to placebo themselves into goat men. You can probably not run the control group, and safely assume that none of them would have turned into goat men. That said, having a control group for that would make the mad scientist seem extra crazy and be really really funny, especially if he was carefully testing them for goat like features from the dyed water they drank instead of the elixir

@aydascomprehendsubtext

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alanabloommd:

since we are talking about people who deserve a higher salary i think teachers should be making six figures a year btw. if state superintendents who have never set foot in a classroom can make that much so should the teachers. teachers are quite literally the backbone of our society and if teachers were actually properly compensated we wouldn’t have a shortage or bad teachers who are continually burnout because of a lack of proper compensation.

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a-m-e-t-h-y-s-t-r-o-s-e:

kaijuno:

kaijuno:

This was in Sioux Falls South Dakota! The green sky is caused by large hail stones within the storm refracting back green light to the observer.

More pics from that day

that last one is where Courage the Cowardly Dog lives

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baejax-the-great:

I don’t think Grey Warden eyes should glow when they sense darkspawn. I think their eyes should go completely black and their faces should turn grayish as they feel the call of their kin underground

Glowing eyes would make them easier targets in the dark of the Deep Roads

Black eyes with ghoulish faces would terrify the bedraste* out of any normies unfortunate enough to witness it

*like bejeezus but for Andraste

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politijohn:

Source

Long over-due

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