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sometimes im not even trying to spam like tumblr just feeds me all of your posts and i gobble it up like a malnourished child from the 1600s eating chocolate for the first time
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I know that realistically you can only fit so many movies into a list of approximately 100, but I cannot take that "How many of tumblr's favorite movies have you seen?" list that's been going around seriously because there are some truly egregious omissions.
Some of it is very clearly recency bias, which makes me wonder if the op truly wasn't on here in 2013 or so, but you're telling me you made a list of "tumblr's favorite movies" that doesn't include Pacific Rim or Mad Max: Fury Road? Because, like, I was there, Gandalf.
I'm a ridiculous human and genuinely couldn't sleep until I tried my hand at a better, more balanced list -- though of course, I have my own biases when it comes to what corners of this website I've lurked in over the years. For what it's worth, I did consult the last several Years In Review, while also drawing on the fact that I've been here for over a decade. But if there's anything that truly doesn't feel like it should have made the cut, blame my mutuals for putting it on my dash all the time.
(And apologies, but I couldn't seem to find Goncharov among the website's listings)
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slowing intuiting the rules and goals of solitaire through trial and error on what the computer does and does not let me do rather than looking up the rules because it's a much funnier way to learn
just learned you can move cards between stacks. how lovely
i did it.
Yay!
What have you learned about how solitaire works?
FIRST RULE OF SOLITAIRE: aces are useless. put them on the top right. SECOND RUE OF SOLITAIRE: two's are about as useless as aces. discard them to the ace pile as soon as possible THIRD RULE OF SOLITAIRE: it's hard. FOURTH RULE OF SOLITAIRE: it's really hard; FIFTH RUlE OF SOLITAIRE: you need to make the cards count down. But watch out. You must Alternate The Colours FOURTH RULE OF SOLITAIRE: make if you already have a red king and only have one more spot to add a king do not add another red king. You will lose. SIXTH RULE OF SOLITAIRE: make sure to do every possible move with cards already on the board before adding cards from your draw pile. You WILL screw yourself over SEVENTH RULE OF SOLITAIRE: good luck. Don't forget to beyourself and have fun
I don'te. Know
I want op to play spider solitaire now lol
#this is making me want to play solitaire again#I have a deck so I could#btw op you win when you’re able to get all the cards sorted by suit#usually guaranteed when every card is uncovered and out of the draw pile#computers will let you automatically win then without clinking through#but it’s also satisfying to get them all up there yourself
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what do you think would happen if i put vanilla extract in my lentil soup, and is this what people mean when they talk about intrusive thoughts?
It doesn't sound very good. Vanilla usually has a lot of sugar helping make it taste sweet I think, so unless you also add sugar the vanilla probably is going to be kinda gross and bitter? And sugar in a lentil soup is probably not great, unless you're trying to transform it into something sweeter.
Idk if it's an intrusive thought or maybe just your brain chewing on ideas.
I don’t think it’d be good but it’d also depend on everything else and how much you add like anything else. You could add a drop and have it not be noticeable and technically it’d be there so the itch gets scratched ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Also, I’d classify it more of an impulsive thought rather than intrusive.
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[image description: a tweet by user @indigenousAI saying
"fun fact: as a DV survivor i cannot register to vote because doing so makes my address public. anyone who is fleeing or hiding from an abuser is automatically disenfranchised from the political process and this is a feature, not a bug"]
I don’t know of the original poster might not be aware
but!
if you’ve been a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking, you can enroll into the address confidentiality program (free of cost!) and be registered to vote as an absentee voter and your name and address will not be made available for the public
it is super easy to get enrolled - the application takes like 5 minutes, but it has to be with someone who is certified to do it (most likely an advocate! try going to a family justice center in your area or calling the Attorney Generals office in your area!!!!)
ALSO :
you don’t need to have any police reports or have a protection order to qualify!!! you just have to sign stating that you’ve been a victim of one of the aforementioned crimes.
Links to the info for every state in the Wikipedia article:
Reposting as Primaries and General Voting are coming up.
this also works for legal name changes, theres a waver.
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Soulmate first words au
Danny is reading Pride & Prejudice in the Gotham library's reading nook, snickering quietly at first and then actually laughing aloud, catching Jason's attention from his seat in the next armchair.
"Do you mind?" Jason asks, irritated that his reading time is being interrupted, gesturing at the quiet peace of the library around them.
"Sorry," Danny manages as he covers his mouth, still laughing, "it's just, nobody told me Jane Austen was funny!"
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FAFO IN MINNEAPOLIS
this asshole had the entire city scared he was going to lead some kind of klan march and rampage through an immigrant neighborhood. he showed up yesterday with about 5 people and "marched" less than one city block before counter protestors super-soakered his ass in 10⁰ weather, pushed him back to his hotel, and ran him out of town. so so so proud of my city
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I’ve been laughing at “fuck this lemon you take it” for several minutes
take this papaya from my cold dead hands is sending me again oh my god
badminton is dont hit the fucking ground you stupid disgusting baby bird
every day this post has more responses that make me lunge back in my chair with the most unnecessarily loud cackle
Hockey is I’m gonna launch this peppermint patty at you and the only way to stop me is violence
curling is my two friends and i really want to put a watermelon in that exact spot, but the floor disagrees
relay racing is "here, you take this leek"
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Bruce Wayne is Danny Fenton's Bio dad but I'm getting sick of comically evil parents so Maddie and Jack had a 3sum with Bruce way-back-when and she never ACTUALLY got a paternity check (they forgot/it didn't matter) but then Jazz gets into knowing her bloodline and family history and does a 23andMe test and then it comes back that her and Danny are only half siblings and they're like "omfg…. did mom cheat on dad??? ….. ITS NOT VLAD IS IT??? OH NO. OH NO" and then Maddie and Jack see it and they're like "oh! lol! that's probably Brucie :)" and then they're like "wouldn't it be nice for you to meet your bio dad? he's such a fun guy. He's funded some of our projects <3" and then they send Danny to live with Bruce for the Summer
cue Batfam shenanigans of everyone trying to keep identities a secret
(This is endgame Maddie/Jack/Vlad)
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The Fenton Parents get the chance to present their work to Bruce Wayne. He looks vaguely interested, and even purchases some personal protective devices and ghost weapons.
Danny's parents are really hopeful that this is the start of something big! All of their inventions are patented and if a big company like Wayne Enterprises decides to make a deal with them, that would meam the first real financial success in years.
Unfortunately, Wayne Enterprises never contacts them again. A few months go by and Danny sees a member of the Justice League using ghost weapons that are exact copies of his parents work without the fenton branding on them!
Did Bruce Wayne really just. Steal his parents designs and then sell them to the Justice League?????
Thats corporate espionage!!!
Danny gets so mad he literally flies to Wayne Enterprises biggest competitor, Lexcorp, and manages to finagle a meeting with Lex Luthor himself. It was suspiciously easy, but the moment Lex heard about an opportunity to get some leverage on Bruce Wayne, he personally invited Danny into his office.
An hour later and Lexcorps lawyers are chomping at the bit to start the lawsuit process. This is basically definitive, legal proof that Bruce Wayne and Wayne Enterprises has ties with the Justice League, that so great for lex he literally has to stop himself from evil villain cackling. Lex gices the lawyers cart blanche to go for the throat on behalf of the Fentons.
Danny is spitting mad! If the Justice League had gone to his parents, they probably would have made them personalized weapons for free. But instead Wayne stole his parents work and then, presumably, sold it to the League. All billionaires really are bastards.
Meanwhile, Bruce had purchased the weapons with the intent on keeping them for the Bat family to use. He removed the fenton branding because the neon green paint literally glowed in the dark and was not good for stealth.
Green Arrow borrowed a couple of the weapons for a ghost problem, one time, and now he is looking at the nastiest lawsuit Wayne Enterprises has seen in a long, long time.
Well shit.
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dpxdc prompt:
“HEY YOU! YOU! YEAH YOU COME DOWN HERE! I GOT SOME QUESTIONS!”
Duke Thomas was not used to people down on the streets calling out to him when he was on patrol as Signal.
Like, yeah people noticed him. Hard not to when he wore bright yellow and ran around during daylight hours. Getting noticed was kind of the point to help reduce crime. But Gothamites were very good at minding their business.
So this guy must be from out of town. He was a maybe-20 year old white guy with black hair and blue eyes (which was so common in Gotham Duke felt like studies should be done on the genetic traits) but he also had clean shoes and wasn’t wearing a rain jacket for the eventual evening drizzle. Gotham streets were too dirty to keep your shoes clean for more than a week, and these shoes did not look brand new either.
But just because he looked like an average tourist didn’t mean this wasn’t a trap.
Duke took a slow breath and then used his Ghost Sight to check the recent past and see if he’d been threatened or paid off to distract Signal for any reason.
“OW! FUCK!!” Duke quit looking. It’s not like he was even hurt by what he saw, so much as surprised and overwhelmed.
He’d seen other dimensions before. He’d seen a lot of strange and indescribable things with his powers. This guy existed in two dimensions simultaneously and somehow it wasn’t ripping reality apart. He’d walked out of a green portal into Gotham like it was an elevator door, except the portal connected to a place of green skies and purple floating islands and death and strange power in the air. The overlaying images and light paths were too much.
“I didn’t even hit’cha,” the maybe-not-a-guy said indignantly on the street below. “I’m not even planning to hit’cha. Seriously I just got some questions.”
“What are you?” Duke asked as he used a grapple to repel down the side of the building, landing just inside the mouth of an alley. “And why was everything green?”
“One, asking what someone is is rude. Two,” he just shrugged and made an I dunno sound. “And three, I’ve got a list of questions for you since local gossip says you’re the only hero in town with powers.”
“Umm. Okay? Can I get your name first at least?”
“Oh right. I’m Danny Fenton and I’m looking for a new place to live. Gotham is high on the list but I’m not trying to get kicked out soon as I settle in, which leads me to my first question,” Danny pulled a tiny notebook from his jeans pocket and flipped it open, “Is Batman prejudiced against powered people?”
“What?! No! He works with me and the entire Justice League.”
“See, you say that, but lots of people can work for a progressive business and still be prejudiced as individuals. There’s lots of chatter online and in the news about Batman hating metas and refusing other heroes into Gotham. Of course, I’ve also had personal experience with how much gossip and media can lie and skew facts which is why I’m asking you. You’ve got powers and work with the Bats and you’re dark skinned so I figure you’d have lots of practice at noticing the real difference between hatred and unintended microagressions.”
Duke didn’t even know what to say to that. How did his day turn into this?
“Um. Batman doesn’t hate powered people,” he decided on just answering the direct question instead of getting into all that. “He actually has a great deal of respect for them but doesn’t like outside heroes coming into town because they aren’t familiar with the territory and rogues which makes it more dangerous for them.”
Danny Fenton nodded along and jotted down a little note.
“Cool cool. Next: I’ve read up on what legal protections Gotham’s local government has for powered people, but how effective are those laws in action?”
“The metahuman laws are-”
“I’m not a meta,” Danny interrupted. “Don’t have the gene so those laws don’t apply to me. But Gotham has added language into its laws about powered people which is why it’s on my list of places to live. But if those laws don’t hold any weight I’ll move on to the next city.”
Well at least that was another piece of the puzzle. Maybe this guy was part human part something else, like Duke, or maybe he had a lab accident like The Flash.
“You seem to know there’s bigots everywhere, but long as the lawyer you pick isn’t one of ‘em you’ll be fine.”
“Nice. Okay next,”
“How many questions you got?”
“Figured I’d start with 20, if you were down to play.”
“Are they all along these lines?”
Danny flipped through a couple pages of his notebook, muttering as he went, “Let’s see… which businesses are queer friendly? Can I fly at night for stress relief if I’m invisible? Where can I get the best food for under five bucks?”
“Oh definitely Julio’s Tacos.”
Blue eyes looked up from the list.
“It’s just four blocks away. How’s your spice tolerance?”
“6 out of 10 on a Mexican scale, 3 out of 10 on a Thai scale.”
“You’ll be fine then. Street tacos are 3 for $5. Come on, I’ll buy this time. I want some horchata so my mouth doesn’t dry up answering all your questions.”
“Thanks,” Danny blinked in surprise.
“No prob,” Duke tapped a button in the side of his helmet, “Hey Oracle, can you lemme know if something comes up I need to pay attention to? I’m gonna talk to a civilian for a bit.”
“Sure thing,” her voice buzzed in his ear before clicking off.
“Okay Danny let’s go get some food.”
(What other questions are on Danny’s list? Most serious, some silly? What kind of clues will Duke figure out along the way? Is Danny running from something or just looking for a change? Is he willing to use his powers again to see more about this guy?) lol I just liked the idea of Danny asking Duke questions like it’s a job interview but for living in Gotham. He would wanna be super careful about making sure he’s safe somewhere and I’m sure Tucker and Sam helped with making the list.
Oh this is LOVELY!
Danny just wants to live in a place where he doesn’t have to deal with too crazy discrimination and to just be left alone. Questions about average rent cost and the consistent rogue destruction/cheap rent correlation, what are the worth months of villain activity and if they actively try to find and use powered beings to do their schemes, if the henchmen have a union, etc.
If this requires being audited back by the Bats? He’s totally ok with that, better they’re both on the same profile and communicating, Gotham being his permanent residence choice is slowly becoming more and more favorable.
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The lyrics "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know" hit differently in the age of climate change
Sometimes I think about those old photographs from the late 1800s of snow drifts taller than a person, right in the heart of major cities, and then I think about how for the last 3 years we haven't had enough snow here to cover the grass.
Bing Crosby’s recording of White Christmas from 1942 is I believe, the best selling physical single with over 50 million purchases (according to Wikipedia) obviously this song resonates with people.
Bing Crosby was 7 years old when he moved from Tacoma (Western Washington) to Spokane (Eastern Washington). I lived in Spokane for most of my childhood as well, and the city took a lot of pride in Bing Crosby. I remember one year our teacher showed us an interview where he said that while recording White Christmas for the movie Holiday Inn, he was inspired by his memories at home in Spokane.
Growing up, Spokane was a beautiful place for winter. My first year there we were snowed into our home, there was over 4.5 feet of snow in like 2 days! It was actually the record for snowfall in Spokane the year I moved there. It was like that for years though. Excellent for sledding, and building snowman and making snow forts.
When I last visited my mother for winter holidays, there was maybe 6 inches of snow. I had remembered being told in school that every few years we got significantly less snow because of some weather phenomena that I couldn’t be bothered to remember (El Niño and La Niña?). So I asked my mother how the snow was that last year and she said it was about the same.
What had once inspired a musician to sing about a Christmas he remembered when he was young hardly has the same impact of snow that it once did. Sure, you’re still likely to have a white Christmas in Spokane, but it’s hardly like the one’s I used to know.
update on this: it didn’t snow for Christmas in Spokane this year
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My challenge for game developers in 2026: no fantasy games set in fantasy Europe or fantasy East Asia. In addition, you may have a desert location, but you are not allowed to treat the brown people living there like they are exotic or mysterious, nor can you give them a Strange Religion. You have 365 days. Go.