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I personally hate any kind morality thought policing. I'm not Catholic or religious and I do not feel guilty over my thoughts. You are not an inherently evil person because you saw two athletes in an interview and went "Hmmm...... what if...." The Feds are not going to come banging down your door because you wrote about one band member dicking down the other and sent it to your friend.

Wondering about other people's lives is very human. Being nosy about their personal lives is very normal. People have been writing fiction about other people's lives since the dawn of time. Some people even manage to write New York Times Bestselling Books that are "historical fiction" or "alternate reality." It does not make you inherently bad to be curious about the details of someone's personal life. That's being human. Being nosy is kind of fun.

The problem, however, comes with the ways in which people engage with it, and involve the real people in this. Harassing an musician's real girlfriend because it doesn't fit into the RPF ship. Showing up at real sporting events holding signs about how certain teammates should kiss. Trying to get actors to sign art of them fucking their coworker. Flooding social media with comments using the celebrity's full name and speculation. There's a line, there's a fourth wall, and there's fandom etiquette.

I hate the question of "Is RPF ethical" because it feels like morality thought policing. Post your fics on locked accounts, censor someone's name when you tweet about it, blow up your groupchat with hundreds of "DID YOU SEE THE WAY THEY LOOKED AT EACH OTHER??" texts. It's not inherently evil to wonder what other people are doing when they're out of the spotlight. Kill the cop in your mind.

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Living in Australia, I'm kinda always at the mercy of my posts lining up with crappy timezones, so when I came back to Tumblr and realised there was a fully in-built post scheduling system, I was very excited...only to happily realise that even with that in mind, Tumblr has a much more 'time-blind' and relaxing approach to posts. It lifts my spirits whenever I see that somebody's gone through my catalogue or liked a post that had been put out days or even weeks ago, and it appears that that's a far more prevalent phenomenon on this site compared to anywhere else. A guy could get used to this more easygoing posting experience, although of course that's all thanks to folks like you! Thank you all. BONUS:

【Star Animal 】 Appears when it gets cold and likes grains and nuts. This year, peanuts and chestnuts were abundant, so they’ve been eating a lot. Favorite food: cashews.

We need to talk about how the Donald Duck universe sometimes works like looking at history through a window. Cos like, at first you got the old weekley comics. They were published in the 1940’s and meant to show daily life. By now, some of them have become far less relatable, because times change.

Although you don’t really think about it when reading it, todays world is much different. Most normal men don’t walk around in suits everyday and I bet if you’re a girl (like me) reading this, you’ve never went into a fancy hat shop if they even still exist at all.

Moving on to the characters themselves. None of the characters have changed either, physically. I mean look at Gladstone in his first comic debut in 1948 and what he normally looks like in the Topolino comics now. The suit? Ancient! The hairstyle? Even more ancient!

(I’d say he’s somewhere on this spectrum? Goofy ahh hairstyle ngl)

This man’s tophat? Ancient! Old! I haven’t seen someone wear a tophat in my life ever, if it wasn’t for my 7th grade Christmas carol musical. And since we’re talking about Scrooge. If you think about it, his goldrush era 1896-1897 was like how for us the seventies (1970) are now. Think about that. Here is the math if u didn’t get it:

1947 (Scrooge is created by Barks and people read about him for the first time) - 1897 (goldrush) = 50 years

2023 (present) - 1970 = 53

He would’ve made his fortune by digging gold while listening to David Bowie or The Cure.

And last but not least, the Duckatti. If you’re not familiar with this phenomenon, cause you only watch Ducktales; Donald has been driving the same goofy car since the 40’s (or even 30’s if i’m wrong).

It was based on that car on the left, forgot the name. The fact that he still (somewhat) drives a car from the 30’s must mean that thing is a fortune worth by now. Maybe 90 years ago there was was some inside joke and the Bantam was like the Fiat Panda of the 30’s. Either way as the decades pass, it gets only funnier he’s still driving around in a can on wheels.