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I have nothing to do today but smile

@wadebramwilson / wadebramwilson.tumblr.com

Hi, it's Bram. This is a multifandom, inclusive blog. I first appeared here in 2012 yikes. Fandoms you might see here include Inception, OFMD, Dragon Age, ATLA, Haikyu, Kazetsuyo, BNHA. I'm a useless writer but would really like to beta or soundboard for more fic, DM me! Ask if you'd like something tagged.
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orcboxer

Things that work in fiction but not real life

  • torture getting reliable information out of people
  • knocking someone out to harmlessly incapacitate them for like an hour
  • jumping into water from staggering heights and surviving the fall completely intact
  • calling the police to deescalate a situation
  • rafting your way off a desert island
  • correctly profiling total strangers based on vibes
  • effectively operating every computer by typing and nothing else
  • ripping an IV out of your arm without consequences
  • heterosexual cowboy
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izooks

If you don't understand the truth of Socialism, you must have failed your nineth grade social studies class. What does it mean to be social? Think about that. Now, what is social media; what makes it social? Think about that, too. Starting to get it? Being social has to do with people getting along with each other, communicating and working together toward common goals. Does that begin to clue you into what Socialism is all about? It's about getting together and doing things that make life better for all of us, not just a handful of power-hungry, rich bullies who would profit at our expense. Now, maybe you'll understand why they dress up Socialism as something bad. It costs them their profit, when they are so wealthy they don't need any more profit, especially at our expense.

Thank you for listening to my ted talk.

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scottguy

Good essay / rant! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

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anger management tip: dig a hole in the ground

if the manual labour and scent of freshly dug earth doesn't soothe your raging soul, then at least you've already taken care of making a grave

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Hey all, you know how internet searches suck now? When the results are awful, full-of-AI, death-of-the-internet levels of bad?

Start appending date constraints to your searches - "before:2023".

My results have gone from 90% AI bullshit to ~60% usable - which frankly at this point is a huge improvement.

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Need y’all to know that in the 1970’s a letter to the editor was published in Daily Telegraph where the author offhandedly used the phrase “Tolkien-like gloom” to describe an area with barren trees and JRRT himself wrote back an incensed rebuttal at the use of his name in a context that suggested anything negative about trees.

“I feel that it is unfair to use my name as an adjective qualifying ‘gloom’, especially in a context dealing with trees. In all my works I take the part of trees as against all their enemies”

He was like how dare you sir I am the biggest tree fan out there

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nerianasims

A tree tried to eat the hobbits. Tom Bombadil had to save them. There's Mirkwood, "The Forest of Great Fear." I'm on the side of the writer of the letter to the editor.

Because Tolkien is Tolkien, he actually directly defended the actions of all his forests and trees in this same letter I’m referencing

This is the best thing in the entire world. Here is a transcript:

Beautiful place because trees are loved From Prof. J.R.R. TOLKIEN SIR—with reference to your leader of June 29, I feel that it is unfair to use my name as an adjective qualifying gloom, especially in a context dealing with trees. In all my works I take the part of trees as against all their enemies. Lothlorien is beautiful because there the trees were loved; elsewhere forests are represented as awakening to consciousness of themselves. The Old Forest was hostile to two-legged creatures because of the memory of many injuries. Fangorn Forest was old and beautiful, but at the time of the story tense with hostility because it was threatened by a machine-loving enemy. Mirkwood had fallen under the domination of a Power that hated all living things, but it was restored to beauty and became Greenwood the Great before the end of the story. It would be unfair to compare the Forestry Commission with Sauron because, as you observe, it is capable of repentance; but nothing it has done that is stupid compares with the destruction, torture and murder of trees perpetrated by private individuals and minor official bodies. This savage sound of the electric saw is never silent wherever trees are still found growing. J.R.R. TOLKIEN Merton College, Oxford

"Old Man Willow did nothing wrong" is not the Tolkien take I expected today, but I'm here for it.

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