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have you ever been listening to a song you’ve heard a zillion times and all of a sudden you go “…wait a minute

wait hang on oh my god this song is about [x]”

And nothing is ever quite the same again.

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#I first heard Stevie Nicks’s ‘Think About It’ maybe eight years ago #have heard it a fair few times since then #I was listening to it this evening #and during the *second* repetition of the chorus #(‘well I know you’d like to come away/but baby you can’t come…’) #all of a sudden my brain pointed out to me that in ‘Edge of Seventeen’ #’come away’ refers to dying #which would mean this song is about suicide #specifically about trying to talk somebody out of suicide #it makes so much sense now #(her song ‘Docklands’ also suddenly started making sense a few months ago) #(it was weird) #music #oh look an original post

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God, I miss Ace Fet.

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#Ace Fet #the one place where I felt #if not *normal* sexuality-wise #at least not any weirder than anyone else #but that was somewhere around a year ago #and ever since it’s been gone #without even an archive to remember it by #I’ve tried lurking in hypnofetish circles #they’re way better than nothing but they don’t *really* *get* it #or rather they get something *different* #people who can distinguish between their drive for sleep and drive for sex fascinate me #but they’re the only people I’ve ever met and I’m *lonely* #there’s no way I’m the only one #seven thousand million human brains out there #(at least a few hundred million of which hang out in English-language Internet communities) #no way am I the only one to have ended up with this particular quirk of brain development #somewhere out there are people who understand #I just don’t know how to find them #sexuality and lack thereof #tag rambles #oh look an original post

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liiiiight spriiiiite

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#Flight Rising #at least I know *one* of my readers #(not counting people reading the FR tag) #will understand this #for the rest of you: I have been saving up for this thing for a couple of months #and now I have finally managed to obtain one for my collection #now I just have to re-buy the parts of my collection I sold in order to raise money for the thing before its price shot up #and then decide what I’m going to save up for *next* #(lair expansions) #(the answer is lair expansions) #oh look an original post

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Anonymous asked: Should only people with children be allowed to vote, since they are the only ones with a stake in the future?

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ilzolende:

ozymandias271:

only people with children have a stake in the future

no one without children has younger friends, a desire for their works to be remembered in the future, or empathy for future humans

this seems very plausible

I am a child and I have a major stake in the future, and when I am 18 I will also expect to be personally affected by the state of my country 60 years from now.

Ban all elderly (65+?) people from voting, as they won’t be around to face the long-term consequences of their decisions? This is equally (read: not very) reasonable. People have actually proposed doing stuff like “make smoking illegal for all people born in [current year] – 17 or later” or “let adults vote on whether all people graduating high school should be ‘drafted’ to do menial tasks like elder care and washing military laundry and whatnot for low pay”, because they would never be negatively impacted by those proposals.

People with children, when voting on policy that only affects young people, can be incredibly patronizing and self-interested. (“I want the government to spy on my kids for me!” “I want my kids to go to jail if they ditch class too much!” “I don’t want my kids to ever be allowed to do things I disapprove of, even when they’re adults!”)

I don’t want to live in the future people approve of for their children to live in, I want to live in the future that its residents want. Read proposals for utopias and you’ll soon see that approval uncoupled from actual desires leads to a society you wouldn’t want to live in.

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#yes this #I mostly see this with global warming #’we must Do Something to make 2050 a good place for our children to live!’ #dude I don’t give a fuck about my nonexistent children #I want to make 2050 a good place for my *future selves* to live #you don’t *need* and in fact shouldn’t *try* to rely on selflessness to get me to care about the future #self-interest will get the job done nicely #I’m going to tag this #death tw #under my policy of ‘tag death warnings on things that would have triggered my seven-year-old self’

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*watches person I blocked for kink-shaming make small talk with kink blogger*

…????

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#for a moment I thought it might be because of the person’s ‘moderate’ stance on kinks #except said stance is that it’s okay to *have* kinks as long as you never talk about them or consider them important to who you are #which rather seems to preclude kink bloggers #(*and* last night I ventured into the person’s blog archives looking for a poem about gender I saw a while back) #(the one written by a medieval Jew who would probably have considered themself a trans woman if their culture had had the concept) #(I promised my mother I would look for it) #(and of the blogs I was following at the time that were most likely to have reblogged it) #(one of them was them) #(I didn’t even *find* the damned thing) #(point being I have had too many reminders that this person exists for one day) #((also if you’ve read this far and know where to find that poem let me know)) #tag rambles #oh look an original post #vagueblogging #this post has been delayed by an unspecified amount of time for enhanced vagueness

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asgardreid:

emo-officielle:

stayuglystayangry:

Tfw you know there is a new meme because you keep seeing the fallout from it, like references to it, people being annoyed by it’s popularity, even the inevitable “this meme is problematic” posts, but you haven’t seem the thing itself yet, leaving you in this tumultuous purgatory of not caring at all and feeling this unexplainable hollowness of “not knowing”

can we ever truly see “the thing itself”

Shadows on the wall of the Meme Cave.

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#yes #like the dress #and Uptown Funk #(I eventually sought out both of those so I could find out what the fuck was going on) #(Uptown Funk was…okay I guess?) #(I don’t get what all the fuss was about) #(I didn’t *dis*like it but I don’t think I’ll bother listening to it again) #((when you recently read a short story)) #((in which a piece of media becomes a worldwide phenomenon by brainwashing its consumers into loving it)) #((and you are listening to the music video of Uptown Funk in another window without actually looking at it)) #((‘[if you] don’t believe me just watch’ starts to take on a rather ominous tone)) #((I did not watch)) #((I did not dare)) #tag rambles

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“There’s more to life than just what science covers, you know! Like this emotion you don’t experience! Or this other emotion you don’t experience!”

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#oh look an original post #based on a conversation I had this afternoon #though that particular instance didn’t mention romance #he just said stuff that was obviously dancing around ‘religion’ while maintaining plausible deniability #(he’s Catholic and he thinks I’m Jewish) #((*don’t* start in on not having to be capable of awe to be Jewish)) #((you don’t get to decide that Judaism should be important to me)) #(anyway that’s probably why he thought he ought to be super vague about it) #(because Christian normativity and/or supremacy is insulting) #(and implying that the best parts of life are things I’m not capable of is…not? somehow?)

Reblog if u spending New Year’s Eve sittin at home

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{{OP by soul-dwellings}}

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#New Years #yeah but my family’s pretty decent #not exactly a hardship spending it with them #(which reminds me it’s dessert time in ten minutes) #(we don’t normally eat dessert as a family but we have special New Year’s treats) #(there were Boxing Day sales on mint truffles and chocolate oranges) #(so they were actually reasonably priced for once) #(ought to be good)

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crutchiee:

sirlightbulb:

finding out the heights of your internet friends is always the weirdest thing

reblog this with your height in the tags then we’ll all know

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#5’3” #if you think that sounds a little too tall #so do I #my brain’s body map never updated itself for my final early-teens growth spurt #and remains stuck somewhere around 5’0” – 5’1” #at least two or three times a month I am disoriented by how short my refrigerator is #(I mean it *is* taller than me) #(but it feels like it ought to be *more* taller than me)

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euclase2:

Eat your vegetables, drink lots of water, be kind to your neighbors, and keep an eye on your nearest volcano and know what to do when it erupts.

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#PSA #though my home is actually very low on the disaster-risk scale #(a scale that is probably measured in deci-Californias) #we don’t have any nearby volcanoes #(we’re even outside the death zone of Yellowstone) #(though I think we are slated to get a noticeable quantity of ash rain) #we’re not prone to floods #we’re not prone to wildfires #all of our earthquakes are of the ‘easily mistaken for a passing train’ variety #we almost never get tornadoes #we only get hurricanes when they’re literally a thousand miles across and strengthened by climate-change-warmed waters #(and even then the power was only out for seventy minutes and as far as I know nobody around here died) #so around here it’s more ‘know what to do when a Buffalo-style massive blizzard hits’ #(we didn’t get hit with the Buffalo blizzard) #(but it’s the sort of thing that could happen) #tag rambles