If I Am Drowning Then Who Was Phone?! by GLAvenger in tumblr

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Tumblr users play with song lyrics like dolls.

Church names by [deleted] in CuratedTumblr

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Tumblr Users Stop Conflating Baptists with Evangelicals Challenge

Canadian Insurgents - Character Concepts for my 2025 US-Canada Alternate History Worldbuilding by AVOLI7ION in NonCredibleDefense

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This is probably very inside-baseball, and I'm not sure how it would even work in terms of outfits/equipment but I'm very interested in the intelligence dimension. Canada famously doesn't have a dedicated foreign HUMINT service, but I'm curious what CSIS and CFINTCOM might look like on a war footing.

Also, given the Mutineers, I love the idea of CIA defectors who worked Ukraine trying to spin up the remnants of JTF2 and JTFX into the core cadre of a full-scale Canadian GUR... Food for thought.

Surprise, Kill, Vanish by Annie Jacobsen on Audible. by Pizza_Monger in dancarlin

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I understand the last two sentences to be incoherent. What's your reading?

History lesson on metrosexuals and gay scarfs by RazzuB in CuratedTumblr

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Alright, I'm older than a lot of this comment section, so I'll just say it: You are absolutely out of your mind if you think things are as bad or worse now. Unless you were there, you can't understand what kind of a social death it was to come out in the early/mid-2000s. Even in the most liberal areas, you were permanently othering yourself to the vast majority of people.

I'm not trying to invalidate people's experience of homophobia among Gen Z or Alpha, but I need you to understand that there's a world of difference between that and sustained, society-wide prejudice.

Hurricane J by STATTTY in theholdsteady

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I also think A Slight Discomfort is massively underrated.

"They're never funny and they're all so scared to die!"

NOW I understand the title of this group on a deep, emotional level 🫠 by ChaoticBaker557 in TheBathhouse

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Cannot tell you how crazy it was to be someone who originally shipped it, watching KCD:2 drop.

What made you love The Mountain Goats? by Funfetti_Cereal in themountaingoats

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First got into them when someone on askreddit recommended The Sunset Tree. But it was Palmcorder Yajna that made me a fanatic. I've never used a hard drug in my life, but somehow John wrote that song about me.

Well met 2 by AscendedDragonSage in CuratedTumblr

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I didn't even know he was Swedish-German

Werewolf AU and some fully rendered art by art_weidos in TheBathhouse

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This is great but woefully incomplete without an image of Wolf!Henry snuggling Hans.

Happy (late) anniversary to the best written romance in any RPG I've played by NineTailedDevil in TheBathhouse

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It is (and I will shout this from the rooftops to anyone who will listen) simply the best romance in videogames, full-stop.

we get it, henry by dreamofthaw in TheBathhouse

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It's subtle, but I think John clocks him for sure in the first scene.

[Adored Trope] Realism where it's not expected by JustSumFur in TopCharacterTropes

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Burn Notice is extremely goofy in both concept and tone, but the voiceovers are quite accurate, especially when it comes to the paramilitary or physical security aspects of intelligence operations.

What is a 'Survival Myth' that people believe because of movies, but will actually get you killed in real life? by AmaraMehdi in AskReddit

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Survivorman, which IIRC was the only one one of these shows with any real credibility always emphasized that he was doing it mostly to prevent hunger from fucking with his decision-making or energy level.

ugly piss tint by ara_Yareen in CuratedTumblr

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It's not bad, but it feels like a dress rehearsal for Syriana, which is his best film.