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Join da official Matrix space!!! :3 https://matrix.to/#/#196-blahaj:catgirl.cloud
A few of u might maybe kinda probablynot remember the unofficial c/196 space started by me and euphoric.kat(who isnt in the community anymore but shes fine if anyone was wondering :3), but its pretty dead now and we havent bothered reviving it until now >v< but now that Im mod here and after someone suggested we could have a matrix space I figured it made more sense for it to be the space for this community now! :3
There r 9 rooms (General, Introductions, Shitpost, Tech, Queer Chat, Horny, Media, Pets, and Roleplay) and theres already some people since this is actually months old X3 there r 180 participants but very few r still around XP So we need YOU to uhhhh be gay and cute or something :3
Btw I was going to use that image for the original post on c/196 but didnt so I just edited it further for this post as u can see X3 idk the original artist but I got it from KYM https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2340512-spronkus-kronkus
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First panel An arcade game labeled: discourage donkey Kong from pursuing a literary career.
Second panel: donkey Kong saying “rargh! I’m writing a magical realist novel about a candlemaker who befriends a haunted mandolin”
Third panel: a large button labeled “criticize the ape’s turgid prose” being pushed
Fourth panel donkey Kong standing on the end game screen ”your words cut deep. Donkey has dropped out of his MFA program.”
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transcription: catgirl whips this out a leaves a pawprint shaped hole in your wall
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a scan of an old magazine shared by user @[email protected]
text:
at first it doesn't seem that texas and video games would mix. texans are big strong men who ride horses and never cry. video games are kid stuff. but when you think about it, video games are blasting aliens out of the sky and defending civilization from evil forces. video gamers don't cry. when you die in a video game, you shrug it off with a shake of the reset button. video games and texas go together like meat and potatoes. in the 1980s, instead of roping cattle and having gunfights, texans are gunning down cybertronic-actuated quasi- spheroids.
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Yes there is the big watermark of someone else. Go support them I guess?
Description: Me, after waking up (I didn't magically turned into a girl again). Picture of a sad cartoon girl.
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