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This journal article made me keep picking at why readers are resistant to calling MB an “it” in their reviews and after eating some thought spaghetti I arrived at

Reader use of non-it/its pronouns and assignation of gender to MB is a consequence of:

1) The use of it/its in the text to primarily signify non-humanness, rather than non-genderedness

2) Lack of explicit statement of preferred pronouns in the text

3) Mixed gender signaling in the characterization

4) Conflict with real-life linguistic convention and etiquette

ran of patience for in-text citations so for further reading, see: Swyers, H., and Thomas, E. (2018). “Murderbot pronouns: A snapshot of changing gender conventions in the United States.” Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture, 3(3), 271–298.

See also the following twitter survey which obtained more than 400 responses: https://twitter.com/MurderBotBot/status/1441745306912055314

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Lost hiker on Mount Elbert ignored rescuers' calls, thinking they were spam : NPR

A lost hiker ignored rescuers' phone calls, thinking they were spam

A search and rescue unit in Colorado says a hiker spent the night in the forest after they "ignored repeated phone calls from us because the

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Look.

I would absolutely rather be lost in the woods than talk on the phone.

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raidcore

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Once on IMDB I saw a “goof” which was that during a scene set in India(?), the light flicker was at the wrong frequency (in hertz). I wish I knew what movie it was to show you guys, I want to say it was some Marvel shit.

I always wondered how this person knew that. Was there an amazing Indian electrician who just instinctively felt the flicker rate was off? Did they go frame by frame and count the flickers per second?

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I wanna say that was Tenet?

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It was The Bourne Supremacy @garbage-empress​

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holy fuck

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[mountains-boy]

*punching propane tank in a video game*

“no way! I fill these for a living.”

[greatermaguro]

Wait until you nerds discover the emergency siren fan community

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Hi

[chaotic-archaeologist]

This is kinda what it feels like to be an archaeologist trying to identify an artifact. And you bet your ass we’re incredibly grateful for each and every person who makes ridiculously specific websites like this.

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[3756c]

commission　　https://skeb.jp/@3756c

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[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

It’s so difficult to get someone else to believe in your ability to fly.

[artificial-father]

~ My mom, at age 8 jumping off her bathroom counter.

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“~ My mom, at age 8 jumping off her bathroom counter ~”

Is this …

Is this you?

It can’t be, can it? I thought my dream was me talking to myself

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moths-in-the-window asked:

Tell me about some cool gubbins you’ve salvaged or invented.

Lots of stuff, but it’s hard to do it without getting super-rampant with specific examples. (Like, I’m really bad about remembering the specific time I think something happened, let alone that same moment in time + 1 second, let alone 2 hours ago).

But, here’s something that’s sort of in the same ballpark:

(PDF link)

(This was Peter Cunningham’s old office. He used to sell stuff for the British government, and one of the things he did was give scientists and mathematicians and engineers little books like this to keep. One he made was for an engineer named John Wilkins, who I remember thinking was pretty cool.)

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my friends and i are brand new to D&D, and we haven’t started our game yet, but we’ve already got quite a lot of running jokes so far and i’d love to share this one.

One of two bards in our party is a folkhero runt Kobold, as a runt they are abnormally small and it’s brought about some funky pre-campaign shenanegans:

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Rouge: “holyshit they’re so tiny! i could throw them!”

Bard-bold: “no-”

DM: “it’s actually possible to throw your party members”

Bard-bold: “no!”

Rouge: “PROJECTILE!!”

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Bard-bold: “okay so turns out my character can drive-”

Barbarian: “drive?????”

Rouge: “bro he rides in one of those toddler cars they move with their feet like a flintstones car”

Bard-bold: “p l e a s e”

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Paladan: “you shall travel in my scarf”

Bard-bold: “fuck yeah!”

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Rouge: “honestly the only reason [rouge pc name] bullies [bard-bold pc name] is cause they’re the only party member shorter than him”

DM: “isn’t the third shortest like- almost 6ft tall??”

Barbarian: “yeah! [other bard pc name] is 6ft even”

Bard-bold: “jesus i’m tiny”

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Bard-bold: “I WANT A HUMAN SIZED LONG SWORD!”

DM: “ITS THREE TIMES YOUR CHARACTER’S HEIGHT!!”

Bard-bold: “YOUR POINT??”

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carrionbeast asked:

Hey there, uhh this may be a strange kind of question but I'm a big fan of one of your old Daredevil fics, Worth the Wait. I'm a comic artist and sometimes I adapt fanfics to make into comics. Do you think you'd be comfortable with me adapting Worth the Wait into a comic? I'd need to do a few small changes to exposition just for ease of visual storytelling and if/when it's finished, you'd get all of the credit for the writing and all. So please let me know if that's something you're okay with!

Hi there, thank you so much for asking, you’re most welcome to adapt the work! I’m so glad you enjoyed it, it’s one of my favourites.