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My fav cook Gloria 😌

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dont you look cute

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so glad midnight burger doesn't have a much bigger fandom honestly can you imagine what a big fandom would've done to ava by now

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you think leif ever lies awake at night, looking up at the stars as the diner moves, woken from another dream because he swears he can hear the voice of the people from his past sometimes. lafftrax, bertbert, minsky, verge; he looks at the stars above him, and all he can see is them. The whispers of the void are whispers from them, and he doesn't know how to feel. maybe he tries to find comfort in it. maybe he tries to ignore it. maybe he talks to himself. maybe he mutters vapus vella to a person who he'll never see again and tries to roll over and go back to sleep.

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Clementine Midnight Burger inspires complex feelings in me which I cannot exactly put a name to so I had to make fanart about it.

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midnight burger said "lesbian moms as more or less a throw away joke but we will make them more well rounded fleshed out characters than 90% of queer main/side characters in other media" and I love that

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look i’ve said this before but how! is! midnight burger! so! fucking! good!

i used to live in space! now i live in pasadena!

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midnight burger is really the Most Show Ever because you get quotes like "self-completion is a constantly moving target" in the same episode as "smart hulk would have stomped the fuck out of john wilkes boothe!!" "this is going nowhere, just drink your orange julius"

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burger mugshot

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Terric and clementine because i am nothing if not a sucker for romance

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the gang

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Every time you meet a short tempered service worker, remember that they might be Caspar "Scott" Midnightburger, and they just haven't done the necessary time- and space travelling to grow yet. You don't know where people are in their story and if their flaws will be fixed by fighting an intergalactic empire.

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✨Casper emotions✨

Top left: *about to be right and knows it*

Top right: Teds

Bottom left: Did someone called David stop by?

Bottom right: What the fuck is that?!

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sad space man

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i do, i do, i do / trace me back to you

hi. normal about bertleif. here’s a bertleif timeline (at least, until the events of episode 20.)

\/ here’s a version where it’s all stacked up in one image!

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I will say, one thing I absolutely love about Midnight Burger is that the science fiction makes sense.

Yes, there's things that are left unexplained for wacky reasons, and yes, it's science fiction for a reason. But there's usually an explanation for whatever weird thing that Midnight Burger comes into contact with or creates, and they tend to actually make logical sense. Ava's almost always got a cool obscure physics theory to apply to the situation, Leif's almost always got an encyclopedic knowledge of advanced tech and the spacing life, and between the two of them, they provide so much worldbuilding and immersion through infodumps that feel natural. Because, well, they're smart people who ramble about the things they're smart about! They know exactly how to look at something insane and ground it in reality!

And usually, any sci-fi that has all this detailed explanation for how things work is one of those gritty, hard sci-fi stories that are devoid of the whimsy that this genre should have, but that's not the case with Midnight Burger! It's fun! It's colorful! It's retro! It's madcap! It's got crazy situations and vibrant locations and dynamic characters who bounce off of each other perfectly!

Science fiction can be rooted in real science and still be fun! And this podcast perfectly encapsulates that!