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Okay, so apparently while my previous post looks fine on the dash, if you look at my blog my use of a blockquote fucks up the order of the thread (the answer to the original ask doesn’t appear until just before my blockquote). I’ll try editing it to italics.

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#oh look an original post #oh look an update #Tumblr: a User’s Guide #sexuality and lack thereof #(I didn’t originally tag it that) #(but I want anyone looking through that tag to see these two posts before the messed-up one) #(so they know what to expect)

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TIL that the LibreOffice Canadian English dictionary doesn’t include “poutine”

how is this even a Canadian dictionary

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#my spellcheck has been broken for over a year #finally got around to figuring out how to fix it today #(turns out it actually wasn’t that difficult) #so now I’m going through my text documents and teaching the custom dictionary my idiosyncrasies #didn’t think I’d have to teach it ”poutine” #(the Firefox dictionary also doesn’t include ”poutine”) #(but that’s less surprising) #language #oh look an original post #our home and cherished land

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Wait, so let me get this straight.

Consenting in advance to someone having sex with you while you’re unconscious is invalid, because it’s not truly consent if you’re not able to revoke it and back out partway through.

Consenting in advance to someone performing surgery on you while you’re unconscious and can’t back out, on the other hand, is totally fine.

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#today in internally inconsistent anti-kink arguments #(well not technically today) #(I don’t actually have a specific example in mind here) #(just the general type) #(every so often I poke around somnophilia communities) #(in hopes of coming across a kindred spirit who fell in with a different crowd) #(haven’t found any yet but I have found an awful lot of arguments about whether consensual intercourse with sleeping people is possible) #nsfw? #sexuality and lack thereof #vagueblogging #(maybe) #oh look an original post #I feel like this probably deserves some additional warning tag but I’m not sure what

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So, you know how the email notification when you get a new follower has some random congratulatory message, “Yay!” or “Woohoo!” or, weirdly, “Whatever!”?

A blog with a Russian-y username just followed me, and the notifying email’s congratulation was “Классно!”.

I thought it was a neat trick. I wonder what exactly it was about that blog that triggered that response.

(It was just the congratulation that was in Russian; the “is now following you” bit was still English.)

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#oh look an original post #Tumblr: a User’s Guide

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So, um, I…I…

(oh god, how do I even word this, it is too exciting for words)

Let’s go with this:

I am now the proud owner of the second-rarest familiar in the game.

(I am no longer the owner of a Red-Footed Akirbeak, Earth Sprite, Plague Sprite, Arcane Sprite, Ice Sprite, or Golden Bantam Fangar, but those are all easy to replace in comparison.)

(I also no longer own a Boneyard Tatters, Archivists Spellscroll, Sunguard Chest, four Frigid Sashes, or a pile of 110k gems, but owning those was always instrumental, a path toward the goal of this.)

(oh my god, it’s finally here, it’s mine, today’s the day)

(eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee)

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#JT might be my only follower who speaks Flight Rising jargon well enough to understand what’s going on here #the rest of you will have to take my word for it that this is a very big deal #also I left the currency part of the page intact so you can see how much I have left afterward #the only reason I have that many gems is because two unhatched eggs sold right after I bought the Cog Frog #so I guess I’ve already taken the first step towards getting those other familiars back #(completely worth it) #Flight Rising #oh look an original post

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Thiiiin Miiiiintssss

(at last, you are mine again)

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#IIRC I haven’t been in America during Girl Scout cookie season since 2007 #(Girl Guides have mint cookies but they’re just not the same) #we carefully arranged our latest NY grocery trip to fall on a day with a booth sale in the right location #possibly we should have bought more than five boxes of Thin Mints #the first one is nearly gone #but we did buy a further five boxes of assorted other types of cookie so there’s that #(we exploited NY’s lower cost of living to the tune of probably a good $200) #(and we did not spend *all* of it on egg challah and Girl Scout cookies and Cheez-Its and miracle chicken fingers) #((the chicken fingers were from a brand I thought went out of business a dozen years ago)) #((turns out my tastes are no longer compatible but I’m glad to have had a chance to find out)) #(and anyway if we weren’t eating American delicacies we’d be eating Canadian food instead and paying for that) #(so it’s not like the Cheez-Its and whatnot are a total loss) #home of the brave #food #tag rambles #(P.S. they didn’t have Thin Mint ice cream) #(which was disappointing but we might end up just crumbling some Thin Mints into chocolate ice cream ourselves) #oh look an original post

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@justice-turtle

Although, thinking about the timing of that 60kg period for Light Sprites, I suppose it’s possible it was because of Brightshine? I wouldn’t want to bet on it, but I can’t rule it out.

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#oh look an update #oh look an original post #Flight Rising #not adding it as a postscript on the previous post because JT already read it

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I’ve been thinking about awe lately. I’m wondering if maybe it’s not that I can’t feel it, but that I don’t feel it in response to the standard stars and sunsets and religious rituals.

(Probably the thing that got me thinking this was telling @justice-turtle​ about how I can’t feel emotions that I’m under too much pressure to feel. Rituals and sunsets and fucking stars have so much baggage regarding how one ought to feel about them.)

Maybe awe is the feeling I get sometimes reading about mental experiences that are foreign to me, neither good nor bad but different. Maybe awe is in headspaces and phantom wings, the feeling like seeing the multiverse spread out before you and you’ll never leave your own little patch of it but it’s enough, it’s enough to see it and to know that there are people walking the paths you’ll never take.

Maybe awe is the feeling of reading really well-done porn for a kink that you’re completely not into. The words are filled with some foreign kind of power, power you can’t quite directly perceive but you can hear the whoosh as it flies over your head. You’ll never feel it yourself but it’s enough to know it’s there and to know that there are people who can, who can feel the power in those words and take it into themselves until their bones hum with it and their nervous system sparks.

Sometimes it’s enough, and maybe that’s what it means.

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#is the blue I see the same as the blue you see #the wondrous variety of sapient life #which may have been a literal tag all along #oh look an original post

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