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Favourite TV shows, day 115 of ?

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Galactic Gazetteer: Xanvia and Xoxxa

Class: M

Quadrant: Alpha or Beta

Location: in neighbouring star systems, two days' travel apart.

Inhabitants: Xanvians and Xoxxans

Appearance: Star Trek: The Manga - Shinsei Shinsei (2006)

Fun fact: Kirk and the Enterprise brokered peace between the warring planets after centuries of conflict, ferrying a special animal called an oban from Xanvia to Xoxxa as a peace offering.

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Same in the UK. Looney Tunes and Tom & Jerry just a constant presence.

The most truly insurmountable generational culture difference:

Looney Tunes and similar were still being played almost daily, at least in the USA, for around 40 years straight since the very advent of television, making it almost impossible not to have seen plenty of them if you were a kid and had a tv.

Then at some point in the 2000s, they abruptly dropped from all remaining channels for an entire decade, enough time that there must be an entire generation that wasn't just automatically exposed to bugs bunny and road runner routines.

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oddly enough grief does not decrease at all over time. there’s just more life and everything grows around sadness like a forest around one dead tree

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If you read an English language book pre-1960s, there's a good chance you'll see "to-morrow," a formation you'd simply never use anymore.

one thing i hate about english is your open compound words. what do you mean it's a light switch and not a lightswitch or a water bottle instead of a waterbottle. get real

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triops are one of my all-time fave little guys

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it isn’t your ordinary manifest destiny speak, although, of course, it’s partly that too.

the river leads down to the sea. the finetimers are planning to colonise, “fight, tame and own” a land between the river and the sea.

a whites-only, segregated, isolated society —apartheid — living on stolen land, blinded to the atrocities happening around them by social media frivolities. convinced that it’s their God-given right to own the land, without question. remind you of anything?

this was not an accident. no line in a script is.

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i will literally defend ezri dax until the day i die i will go in to bat for her forever idc. i love her so so much. i think she's so underappreciated bc ppl let the circumstances of her appearance in the show cloud their judgement but she genuinely is such a relatable and lovely character and i care about her a lot. seeing her grow in confidence and self belief made me happy and i fucking wish they had dedicated more screentime to showing that growth in character instead of using it for pointless jezri makeout scenes

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I laughed so fucking hard at this

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Knowing that trans women of color started the movement in the united states and were literally immediately erased and excluded from what they started is the most deeply jading knowledge.

It is the original sin of the so-called queer community and it damns it from the cradle.

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the ending of that doctor who episode was so good, acting wise

ncuti going from desperation trying to save people who dont want to be saved by him, to laughing in disbelief, to screaming in rage, to just standing there watching with tears running down his face

and then millie as ruby just standing off to side quietly sobbing through all of it, trying to comfort him but not knowing how to and just leaving him to process how he needs to

ncuti gatwa was born to play the doctor and im so happy that he actually gets to

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Sorry I doubted you, slugs