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Sylvaine's Glen

@sylvaineglen

Various fandom things, writing adjacent things, history and mythology, assorted other nonsense.

2026

DO THE ABSOLUTE MINIMUM AT WORK. MAKE ART THAT HURTS. ABANDON ALL GUILT AND SHAME. DONT LET THEM KILL YOUR SOUL. BECOME YOUR OWN PERSONAL GOD. GROW SPIKES. DONT LET THEM KILL YOUR SOUL

“Creative people have trouble recognising their skills as skills, because eventually they feel like second nature. This stuff really is valuable, if it wasn’t, people wouldn’t be stealing it. Creativity doesn’t feel special or unique until you realise people have to plagiarise it.”

— Hbomberguy on plagiarism.

The first thing Western liberals and self-proclaimed progressives do when people rise up in Iran to protest isn’t to ask what they want. It is to ask who’s “behind” them. Before the names of the dead are even known, before the detained have been counted, the conspiracy theories begin: “Zionist-backed.” “US-backed.” “A CIA operation.”
It is the easiest way to delegitimise a movement before anyone has even listened to it.
I am tired of it – the kind of tiredness that comes from watching people in the region fight for their own dignity, only to have that struggle confiscated by Western progressives who treat our lives like footnotes to their ideological scripts

Ahh Jaysus lads here we go again. No Irish need apply to the Ivies or something.

God forbid a Slav do anything near a land-grant school.

Also this is going to be used in antisemitic ways because of course it is.

A lot of people who thought their whiteness was objective reality are about to learn it’s conditional huh

Thinking about that post from earlier and how some people are actually afraid of enjoying silly crack/crossover ships without a thick layer of irony attached. Couldn't be me, I'm still stuck in the mindset that Hexxus from FernGully and Thrax from Osmosis Jones would make each other worse in the best way possible.

Too much movement makes your joints hurt and too little movement also makes your joints hurt. This would imply that there's an optimal amount of movement that allows your joints to not hurt. This is a lie.

Anyway, daily reminder from a culturally isolated Romani person.

Gypsy does not mean wanderer.

It literally means ‘people from egypt’ or similar, as europeans believed Romani people were from Egypt. It has become known similar to nomad due to how our ancestors have been forced to be nomadic due to racism and ostracization, but it is a SLUR.

Romani people are STILL being forcibly sterilized.

Romani people are STILL being forced into ghettos.

Romani people are still facing violence and danger in countless European countries- and recently, I’ve seen the beginnings of the extremes in the United States.

Have a little fucking respect and DON’T USE A SLUR THAT’S BEEN USED FOR CENTURIES AGAINST US.

And for the love of whatever’s up there, ESPECIALLY do not use it to describe your witchcraft. It is playing on the ‘magic gypsy’ trope, and is EXTREMELY insulting.

non romani people, please reblog this.

The same people attacking Jasmine Crockett for this had zero issue with Ro Khanna being hand-picked by Peter Thiel.

Leftists burning all their political capital to defend a man with a Nazi tattoo up in winnable Maine who said certain women deserved to be raped meanwhile attacking one of the most talented Democrats in Texas over a Senate race that was a pipe dream in the first place.

Frodo and Sam’s journey if it took place in the United States

Source: reddit.com

Average trip to Florida

we must take the ring to jacksonville

Beware of Florida Man.

One does not simply cross the Mason-Dixon line.

They are taking the hobbits to Tallahassee!

(text from The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien)

i think it's important to acknowledge that the reason why mastercard/visa has such a stranglehold on american society is because cash is not the main form of payment in the usa. the predominance of card has effectively privatized currency

in japan, one of the reasons why dlsite and other similar websites are able to just remove visa as a payment option instead of changing any of their merchandise (aside from the fact that visa doesn't have a monopoly here) is because cash payments for online transactions remain an option. even if you don't have a jcb credit card or paypay or whatever, you can still pay for your online purchases using cash by taking your barcode to a convenience store, and you can do this for essentially every online vendor, meaning credit card companies can't just impose their moral judgments on your purchases with much repercussion

How does that barcode system work? I've never heard of something like that.

1. you add whatever porn games or movies or books you want to your cart and go to checkout

2. you select cash payment at conbini as your payment method

3. youre emailed a barcode that you take to the conbini

4. you show it to the cashier, they scan it, and you pay what you owe. note that the cashier does not see what youre buying

and the transaction is complete

from the notes im learning that brazil also something similar. based tbh

Mexico too, there are multiple convenience stores you can pay at, sometimes you can also pay directly at the bank if it is offered even if you’re not a client of said bank.

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