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Neon Triangle, Shibuya 渋谷

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Mobile Suit Gundam RX-78-2 illustration by manga artist and mecha designer Kazuhisa Kondo

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This is how I met him.

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Book Fore Edge Paintings // Maisie Matilda

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Katara 🌊🩵

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Tarzan (1999) + Soundtrack

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End times

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i just found 12 bricks

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Good morning! ☀️

"No! Scoob! Get back here!"

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Saw a post about Alex being fridged and I think so often about how she was narratively Kyle's uncle ben figure but she got turned into a gwen stacy figure because people figured a woman couldn't be a moral figure for a man. sorry for the spider-man analogy but the writers of that comic made it themselves.

Alex's death has haunted Kyle's narrative for literally thirty years. Because he still loves the fuck out of her and misses her every day. Kyle didn't need motivation to be a superhero. He simply got strength from knowing Alex and her death didn't change that. Her memory and who she was carries him forward still.

Alex was the one in comparison who traditionally would have been a green lantern. Strong willed, focused, not driven by heart the same way Kyle is but Kyle is a new type of Lantern one who introduces emotion into the Lantern Universe in a new way. The Oblivion storyline showed us Kyle thought the same that in a universe where Alex got the ring he got shoved into a fridge. Because the tragedy isn't random. The Green Lanterns were dead caput but suddenly there's one left? Of course people were gunning for Alex.

I also think anytime someone mentions the fridge they have to include that Alex died with a knife in her hand trying to cut Major Force refusing to give him anything on Kyle because she thought he was worth dying for.

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Animation art from Studio Ghibli’s CASTLE IN THE SKY (1986).

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Mark Twain Riverboat lithograph by Nina Rae Vaughn, 1992

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[Halo 3] #29 Sierra 117 (21)

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I don't know I'm not done talking about it. It's insane that I can't just uninstall Edge or Copilot. That websites require my phone number to sign up. That people share their contacts to find their friends on social media.

I wouldn't use an adblocker if ads were just banners on the side funding a website I enjoy using and want to support. Ads pop up invasively and fill my whole screen, I misclick and get warped away to another page just for trying to read an article or get a recipe.

Every app shouldn't be like every other app. Instagram didn't need reels and a shop. TikTok doesn't need a store. Instagram doesn't need to be connected to Facebook. I don't want my apps to do everything, I want a hub for a specific thing, and I'll go to that place accordingly.

I love discord, but so much information gets lost to it. I don't want to join to view things. I want to lurk on forums. I want to be a user who can log in and join a conversation by replying to a thread, even if that conversation was two days ago. I know discord has threads, it's not the same. I don't want to have to verify my account with a phone number. I understand safety and digital concerns, but I'm concerned about information like that with leaks everywhere, even with password managers.

I shouldn't have to pay subscriptions to use services and get locked out of old versions. My old disk copy of photoshop should work. I should want to upgrade eventually because I like photoshop and supporting the business. Adobe is a whole other can of worms here.

Streaming is so splintered across everything. Shows release so fast. Things don't get physical releases. I can't stream a movie I own digitally to friends because the share-screen blocks it, even though I own two digital copies, even though I own a physical copy.

I have an iPod, and I had to install a third party OS to easily put my music on it without having to tangle with iTunes. Spotify bricked hardware I purchased because they were unwillingly to upkeep it. They don't pay their artists. iTunes isn't even iTunes anymore and Apple struggles to upkeep it.

My TV shows me ads on the home screen. My dad lost access to eBook he purchased because they were digital and got revoked by the company distributing them. Hitman 1-3 only runs online most of the time. Flash died and is staying alive because people love it and made efforts to keep it up.

I have to click "not now" and can't click "no". I don't just get emails, they want to text me to purchase things online too. My windows start search bar searches online, not just my computer. Everything is blindly called an app now. Everything wants me to upload to the cloud. These are good tools! But why am I forced to use them! Why am I not allowed to own or control them?

No more!!!!! I love my iPod with so much storage and FLAC files. I love having all my fics on my harddrive. I love having USBs and backups. I love running scripts to gut suck stuff out of my Windows computer I don't want that spies on me. I love having forums. I love sending letters. I love neocities and webpages and webrings. I will not be scanning QR codes. Please hand me a physical menu. If I didn't need a smartphone for work I'd get a "dumb" phone so fast. I want things to have buttons. I want to use a mouse. I want replaceable batteries. I want the right to repair. I grew up online and I won't forget how it was!