I can’t believe “fake gamer girl” was an actual concept guys thought existed literally the most unfuckable guys who have ever lived were convinced girls were faking being interested in loser nerd hobbies to impress them

Another one picked out by the Patreon

Whoever invented "open in app" links that redirect you to the app store instead of actually opening the app even when you already have the app installed on your phone should be involuntarily turned into a beanbag chair

stop naming your pets after anime characters i just had to ask this person "are killua's testicles enlarged?"

Kanaya Sollux and Aradia

i hope you might be the right person to ask but if not just ignore this lmao but as someone with little camping experience and even less finacial stability do you have any tips for starting camping? i'm going into biology and want to be able to camp more but i cannot afford much expensive equipment, and i dont know like, what i actually NEED, nor how to start getting out and camping in a safe and fun way. do you have any tips?

Are you in the U.S.? Drive-up spots at campgrounds! State parks, national forests, and similar spots often have established campgrounds with bathrooms & showers & even an outlet at each campsite. You just drive your car right up to the spot and camp there, so you can keep everything in your car without worrying about packing+carrying everything in. Find them on the ReserveAmerica website

In the summer, a lot of these campgrounds have camp hosts whose job is to live at the campground and answer questions. There are also often rangers on duty to cruise through. Point is, if you need help, it won't be long away.

Really all you need a tent, a tarp (goes under the tent), a cooler, basic first aid, hiking boots, a sleeping pad, and a sleeping bag. For the tent, get a cheap Ozark-brand tent at Walmart or online. I'm talking under $40. The sleeping bag, pad, and cooler you can find at the same place, thrifting, ebay, or army surplus stores.

If you can't swing a tent, do you have a car comfortable to sleep in? I do that a lot.

Learn how to build a fire (youtube, if you don't know anyone who can teach you). Keep your meals simple for now. Honestly, I could cook a four-course meal over a campfire, but on my last trip, my friend and I packed cheese, sandwich meat, and bread for our lunches. If you want to try your hand at camp cooking, just make sure you have something easy like that to eat in case it doesn't work out.

If you can't find/afford good hiking boots, honest to god just camp in a pair of sneakers you don't mind getting dirty.

There is a HUGE influencing community for outdoor recreation. They tell you to get the best boots, the best tent, the best sleeping pad, the best the best the best.

It's unrealistic for most people. I only own 90% of my high-end equipment because I need it for work. When I camp with my friends, we do drive-up spots with whatever we have. I still occasionally use a 5-person tent my mom bought in 2007, with a tarp as a rainfly lmaoooo.

I recommend summer camping with this equipment, because none of it will keep you very warm in cold weather, and cold weather camping is a skill you will learn later. If you live somewhere that gets extremely hot in the summer, I recommend camping in the shoulder season, March-April and September-October. When you won't boil during the day but it's still warm at night. Sites are usually cheaper during the shoulder season too! Bear in mind depending on the popularity of the park, sites could be anywhere from $20 a night to $80. My local state park is $12 in the shoulder season!

Above all, don't be afraid to bail, and definitely don't be afraid to try again. Shit happens. Maybe you put your tent's rainfly on and wake up getting rained on. Maybe it's 2 AM and you heard a weird noise and realize you're freaked out and can't make it all night alone. Maybe you didn't plan meals well and you're hungry. Maybe you're too cold.

So? Your car's right there. Pack up, and head home. There is NO reason to stick it out if you're going to be miserable the whole time. All that does it create a negative camping experience. If you want to go home, go home. Think about how you can fix whatever went wrong, and try again! There is no shame in saying, "this sucks. we'll try again next month."

As someone who's done search & rescue, my one wish is that people would admit defeat and learn when to say when. We'd be out on a lot less rescue calls!

The rest, you'll learn as you go. People generally only forget things like bugspray once and learn their lesson hahaha. You'll do fine!

i saw someone on reddit mention this and wanted to see it for myself, so here it is. if you initiate a romance with astarion, but then later pursue someone else, he’ll almost always be catty about it, imply that you have poor taste for choosing someone else over him, and will reject any offer of polyamory on the grounds of either personal standards (ew, you want him to be in a love triangle with who?) or self-preservation (he ain’t fighting lae'zel for your ass lmao).

but if his rival-in-question is karlach…

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he tells you that he hopes you’ll be a comfort to her and turns down your offer of seeing him on the side because he doesn’t want her to get hurt :`)

meanwhile, if you put karlach in the same situation (start out romancing her, then pursue astarion), she’ll also start out quite sweet…

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and then quickly devolve into (affectionately) taking the piss out of astarion for stealing her partner 😁

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“She likes Astarion but threatening to kill him for stealing her bf/gf is also funny to her.” 😂

in sum: they’re frands, your honor

really really old coloring of an even older sketch ive posted here before ヽ(´ー`)ﾉ 

Bit telling that for years and years evangelical religious extremists have been allowed on university campuses with their bullhorns and horrific imagery where they harass students into physical altercations and when students complain to the university’s administration they just shrug their shoulders citing freedom of speech but when those same tuition-paying students start protesting against war and genocide they call SWAT

I didn’t miss that social cue I just thought it was stupid 

they would NOT fucking have communication skills that good

hhhhhhhh Spent too long on this my bakc hurts

girlhood is touching your necklace whenever you feel nervous

GG: i cant wait to fly around the moon with you and show you all my favorite places. itll be so much fun!!!!!!!!! :D

“If a society puts half its children into short skirts and warns them not to move in ways that reveal their panties, while putting the other half into jeans and overalls and encouraging them to climb trees, play ball, and participate in other vigorous outdoor games; if later, during adolescence, the children who have been wearing trousers are urged to “eat like growing boys,” while the children in skirts are warned to watch their weight and not get fat; if the half in jeans runs around in sneakers or boots, while the half in skirts totters about on spike heels, then these two groups of people will be biologically as well as socially different. Their muscles will be different, as will their reflexes, posture, arms, legs and feet, hand-eye coordination, and so on. Similarly, people who spend eight hours a day in an office working at a typewriter or a visual display terminal will be biologically different from those who work on construction jobs. There is no way to sort the biological and social components that produce these differences. We cannot sort nature from nurture when we confront group differences in societies in which people from different races, classes, and sexes do not have equal access to resources and power, and therefore live in different environments. Sex-typed generalizations, such as that men are heavier, taller, or stronger than women, obscure the diversity among women and among men and the extensive overlaps between them… Most women and men fall within the same range of heights, weights, and strengths, three variables that depend a great deal on how we have grown up and live. We all know that first-generation Americans, on average, are taller than their immigrant parents and that men who do physical labor, on average, are stronger than male college professors. But we forget to look for the obvious reasons for differences when confronted with assertions like ‘Men are stronger than women.’ We should be asking: ‘Which men?’ and ‘What do they do?’ There may be biologically based average differences between women and men, but these are interwoven with a host of social differences from which we cannot disentangle them.”

— Ruth Hubbard, “The Political Nature of ‘Human Nature’“ (via gothhabiba)

Yes.