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(“sailor song” by gigi perez starts playing)

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It's all just masks

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September 30th, 1998. It’s a day I’ll never forget.

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i really hate when people dismiss the ending of his dark materials because it leans into the trope "love saves the world". truly, that is what the story is about, but reducing it to a cliché is doing a disservice to the point the story is making. when it says that love says the world, it's rewriting the meaning of sin by saying that giving into desire is not shameful. it's telling us to be brave enough to experience. it's saying that dying for love can have powerful impact, but living for it is much more romantic. it's saying that storytelling saves the world, because telling stories is a language of love. it's saying that the bonds we create with other people will outlast death as long as we share our memories. it's showing how a simple childhood friendship is extraordinary enough to change the course of a war between heaven and earth. is there a better way to end a trilogy that intertwines so many paths of love than with a kiss that shifts the fabric of multiple universes?

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I had a vision

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Dame Maggie Smith

1934-2024

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Some cherik fan art for the masses

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Cherik editors/general fans I know you get song recs all the time but like. Love Like Ghosts by Lord Huron.

For those who don’t use Spotify:

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these old photos got me sobbing man they were so little im crying why do good things come to an end🥺🥺🥺

cue forever young

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Different fictional detectives response to the ‘scratched iPhone equals alcoholic’ bit

Holmes (Elementary): after a long diatribe about not outing alcoholics/addicts and a weird aside about winding old watches, he explains that his tortoise Clyde gets at it sometimes.

Shawn Spencer (Psych): Shawn has never put his phone on a charger at more than 10% battery. More often, he is ‘borrowing’ others chargers and struggling to put the plug in as he is in the midst of watching a random video and the phone is actively dying.

Columbo: “well you see, I work late a lot, you know, justice never sleeps. But you know who does? My wife. She needs her beauty sleep, so I try not to wake her when I come in after she’s gone to bed. Luckily, my wife can sleep through pretty much any noise, so that’s not an issue. But she can’t abide by light, so I’ve gotta plug in my phone with the lights off! That’ll scratch it right up, let me tell you. Anyway, I just have one more question…”

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What if when Ao3 is down, it was a horror film type of thing where the last fic you read/the current fic you're reading came to life and you had to fight it off/hide from it until Ao3 was back up and running?

Tag yourself for how screwed you are.

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A couple of our servers have gotten a bit overwhelmed, so we're taking some down time to give them a chance to catch up. We'll be back as soon as possible!

2024-09-02 11:30 UTC

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the only way to escape batman is to confuse the hell out of him

(i couldn't stop thinking about this bit from psych - under the cut!)

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This was the last episode of the first season of The Twilight Zone and they never dared to do anything as fucking funny as this again.

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“Imagine if you will: a website come to life. You’ve just arrived at Dashcon, the Tumblr convention, and tonight you’ll be getting an extra hour of the ball pit as you tumble further and further… into The Twilight Zone.”

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