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The Mario Party 2 Western Land image with Mia Mulder photoshopped into the image behind Peach and Mario.

October 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM

So Okay Here's the SPOOKY Thing

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strange-looking white man wearing a shirt saying CONTEXT SHIRT and a hat reading CONTEXT HAT, pointing to a sign that is, itself, pointing back to him; the sign reads I REQUIRE CONTEXT

October 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM

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wh. what the fuck. I was expecting to be either relieved or angry but now I'm just. extremely baffled. like what

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September 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM

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the dark side?? the DARK SIDE?? look at THIS MAN and tell me that saving his home is the "dark side" just because there's a bikini involved. granted he won't understand you because anteaters don't speak english but you get the point

A picture of a silky anteater (a very small, extremely cute animal native to the rainforests of Central and South America) climbing onto someone's arm. It's about as big as the person's hand, with big, dark eyes, little claws for climbing, a blunted downward-drooping snout, and fuzzy golden fur. It's the cutest goddamn animal you have ever seen.

September 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM

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Hell yeah trans people! We love trans people!

The transgender pride flag. Five stripes, top to bottom: light blue, pink, white, pink, light blue

September 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM

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August + September wallpapers are now available for cubs and higher on Patreon! Do you like Dakota, lesbianism, Slay the Princess, volleyball, and/or towers? Well, today's a great day for you!

Sign up as a cub to get them and all previous Patreon wallpapers HERE: www.patreon.com/posts/138700...

Preview image of a wallpaper. Scene depicts a beach, with MMS and Trish standing in swimwear and talking to each other. MMS looks concerned and Trish looks smug.

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New Patreon-exclusive wallpaper!
FEATURING:
- Dakota getting way too into beach volleyball
- June doing heart eyes
- Tony being maybe dead?
Available now for Cubs and higher at:
patreon.com/SoOkayHeresTheThing

Preview image of a wallpaper. Scene depicts a blonde person standing in some kind of grey brick room. Dimly to one side can be seen a giant figure next to them, a chain in the background, and a ripped-sleeves t-shirt with the phrase "World's #1 Tower Fan" written on it. The person is also holding a heart-shaped chocolates box.

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New Patreon-exclusive wallpaper!
FEATURING:
- a very very tall princess telling someone that they're cute
- ...do you actually need any other information.
Available now for Cubs and higher at:
patreon.com/SoOkayHeresTheThing

September 12, 2025 at 12:10 AM

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dammit you gave me such hope for a second

Text from a Google search result. Text reads:

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September 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM

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those transphobic arguments are always very much this Onion headline

Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming

August 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM

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Four images of a 3D model of a bust sculpture, each with a different polygon count. The one with 60 triangles looks wildly different from the one with 600 triangles. The one with 6000 triangles and the one with 60000 triangles look almost identical.

Text: Diminishing returns - 15 years ago even doubling the amount of triangles resulted in a much better mesh. Now, multiplying the amount by 10 hardly does.

August 22, 2025 at 8:05 PM

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I'm losing my MIND. why can't tiktok just DISPLAY PHOTOS.

A series of comments, screenshotted from TikTok's desktop website. Usernames have been censored.

First user: "The silence is lowkey funny. [photo]"
Second user: "The joke is perfect."
Third user: "Perfect? [photo]"
Fourth user: "[photo]"

No actual images are displayed in the comments. All of the places where images would normally be displayed instead just show the text "photo" in square brackets.

August 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM

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thanks Patreon I definitely want to promote my page by sharing [checks notes] a quick "sorry for the delay" update post, good call

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August 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM

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shoutout to this specific XKCD comic I remember whenever I think about this. last panel is a beautifully-blended hybrid of my two above-described types of analysis parody

STEM people will write "literary deconstruction tends to reflect on the analyst's worldview" and think it's a revolutionary take

XKCD comic. Transcript from explainxkcd.com:

[Caption above the panels:]

My Hobby:

Sitting down with grad students and timing how long it takes them to figure out that I'm not actually an expert in their field.

[For all four panels below, there are two frames crossing the border of each panel. The ones at the top left have a caption, and the one below right has the result of the timing.]

[Ponytail and Cueball are sitting across from each other in office chairs.]
Engineering:
Ponytail: Our big problem is heat dissipation
Cueball: Have you tried logarithms?
48 seconds

[Cueball is sitting in a chair at the center of a table looking left at another Cueball-like guy. To the right is a long black-haired girl.]
Linguistics:
Cueball: Ah, so does this Finno-Ugric family include, say, Klingon?
63 seconds

[Cueball is standing with his hands up talking to another Cueball-like guy and Megan who has lifted her arm to palm her face.]
Sociology:
Cueball: Yeah, my latest work is on ranking people from best to worst.
4 minutes

[Cueball is sitting in an armchair with another Cueball-like guy sitting attentively in front of him on the floor.]
Literary Criticism:
Cueball: You see, the deconstruction is inextricable from not only the text, but also the self.
Eight papers and two books and they haven't caught on.

August 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM

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anyway respect trans people or you get the Li'l Tony Special

Tony, a man wearing a bisexuality pride shirt, is pointing a gun at the camera. Tony is cartoony and out of focus, while the hand and gun are photorealistic and in sharp focus. Watemark at the bottom: youtube.com/SoOkayHeresTheThing

July 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM

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I love freesound.org. like, I have no idea why I would ever need this sound effect, but by god I'm saving it, because what if I need necktie sounds at some point

Freesound.org sound file titled "various necktie sfx", with the description "various different sounds of a necktie, being removed, pulled and tied back up". posted by shutuplaika

July 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM

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THREE new wallpapers available for cubs and higher on Patreon! We've fixed the blockage in the wallpaper pipes, so we got the April and May wallpapers along with the July one!

Sign up as a cub now to get them, along with ALL PREVIOUS PATREON WALLPAPERS: www.patreon.com/posts/133931...

Image showing June as a Fallout raider, and MMS as a Fallout Vault Dweller in a cage.

Text:
New Patreon-Exclusive Wallpaper! Available now at patreon.com/SoOkayHeresTheThing

Image showing June in a classic goth outfit and Dakota wearing a tunic and cloak along with armour featuring some kind of winged helmet.

Text:
New Patreon-Exclusive Wallpaper!
Featuring:
- a really stupid pun
- a fantastic, genius pun
- exactly one of the above two options
Available now at patreon.com/SoOkayHeresTheThing

An image showing various So Okay Here's the Thing characters wearing outfits normall worn by other So Okay Here's the Thing characters, including Dakota wearing June's clothes, Austen wearing Dakota's, June wearing MMS's, and Trish wearing Austen's.

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New Wallpaper Available! Available now at patreon.com/SoOkayHeresTheThing

July 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM

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@sookayheresthe.bsky.social

if you ever find yourself falling into the classic queer trap of "I gotta make myself more presentable so I don't look bad to the 'phobes", remember that THIS, to a bigot, is cartoonishly disgusting.

this guy.

he represents the end of days, apparently.

Picture of Tony from my channel: a short, bald, Korean-American man, wearing a black shirt with a bisexuality pride flag on it, a vest, and a newsboy cap.

He has a silly, cute, cartoony face, with a big cheerful smile on it; he looks very silly and completely harmless.

He's holding a mug that says "World's Ninth Best Guy".

July 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM

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"ooh lookit me I'm a tiktok content thief, stealing content and adding gameplay footage to the side to get away with it, lemme try doing that on YouTube, a site famous for being lenient on copyright infringement"

A table in YouTube Studio showing copyright strikes I have made against a content thief. There are ten videos, and each one is listed as "Resolved - Video Removed".

July 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM

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A simple how-to guide for drawing braids, starting with a basic zigzag pattern.

July 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM

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Google search for "woodworking novel". First result is Goodreads and is cut off, but the words "Woodworking is a story about trans women..." can be clearly seen

July 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM

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(for reference: a screenshot from the second shot of my first ever D&D short)

Tony. He's a bald Korean-American man in the process of rolling a 20-sided die. His shirt is the most brightly-coloured part of his design, drawing the eye immediately, and shows a big bisexuality pride flag.

July 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM

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A variant of the "This is bait" meme. The hook has been replaced by a desperately and pathetically grasping hand. The text reads "It's not even bait at this point."

June 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM

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@sookayheresthe.bsky.social

okay, so I know these are all bandaid solutions for systemic problems, but for these specific issues, here's ways to get around the first three

1. Paint XP archive.org/details/MSPa... or PhotoFiltre www.photofiltre-studio.com/pf7-en.htm
2. old Notepad (instructions in image)
3. www.classicshell.net

$This is tested and working, no uninstallation necessary. Open Settings > Apps In the center pane select Advanced app settings > App execution aliases Toggle off Notepad Then go to the old Notepad at C:\Windows\Notepad.exe and right click > Pin to the taskbar/Pin to start/Send to Desktop Launch the old Notepad from the shortcut you just created$

June 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM