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What if we just decided that the Wednesday of Pesach was Frog Day

Because of the frog plague + It's Wednesday My Dudes memes

ETA: i wanna see a meme with a bunch of frogs rushing at Pharaoh shouting it's Wednesday

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I appreciate how later on in The Murderbot Diaries the groupchat is popping off, like. ALL the time. constantly. Foot-in-mouth on a video call? Groupchat’s sending STOP and yikes emojis. NPC shows increasingly bright red flags? Just made a new chat without her. Making a heroic sacrifice? Everyone has an opinion

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i’m so appreciative to suzanne for reframing the rebellion from the original trilogy as a “they saw their moment and took it” type situation and showing us that they’ve been trying, over and over, with so many failed attempts, to break the arena and incite a rebellion for decades. in this current political climate never giving up hope is so essential. haymitch wasn’t the first nor the last, and they kept going even when it seemed completely futile, and that’s what counts, and what ultimately saves them all.

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reread reared reread 🫶

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Our local newspaper ran a story about the legendary graffiti artist who recently passed away and. Literally everything about it is fucking insane. I'm insane about it.

So this guy has been extremely active for around fifteen years, during which he spread these beautiful, high quality pieces all over the country, way over a thousand of his standard signature, and probably thousands more. He did completely batshit stuff like literally spray painting an entire train from top to bottom or leaving his signature at the top of a 600ft tall overpass and this whole time, only five people from his crew know who he really is. To everyone else it's a complete mystery.

And then he dies at the age of 35. A few weeks after his death, his crew shows up at his completely unassuming parents' doorstep, reveals who they are and asks if they can host a memorial exhibition of his art.

Turns out, this dude has been leading an insane double life. In the daytime he was a meek little office worker with a partially paralyzed arm and no social life to speak of. In the nighttime he was a fucking legend. Not only did he climb that fucking 600ft overpass, he did it WITH A PHYSICAL DISABILITY. THE MADLAD. And throughout the entire time, fifteen years, he got caught once. ONCE. HE DID ALL THAT UNNOTICED. THAT'S INSANE.

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He's just sleeping he's just sleeping he's just sleeping he's jus

Ko-Fi

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I keep trying to make a post about the parallel between Murderbot in Network Effect convincing ART to help it make a Murderbot copy so they can kill it (and how MB is confused that the idea upsets everyone) and Murderbot in System Collapse treating the copy ART makes of itself with as much care and respect as it does ART Prime (and not being suprised when ART's crew do the same because of coarse they would, its still ART)...but I'm not articulate enough.

Something something Network Effect and System Collapse are Murderbot having to reckon with it's poor self worth and self-destructive tendencies and how that affects everyone around it.

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Why become a serial killer when you can watch movies instead?

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Weighing in a bit on the Murderbot casting discourse. From a Doylist perspective, one thing I haven't seen considered much is the fact that Alexander Skarsgard is one of the producers for the show-he is helping create it financially.

There's a lot to talk about, obviously, but it shouldn't be discarded! He is helping create this story, he wants to be a part of this story, and as a part of that support, he gets to be the lead role. I don't mind it at all from that perspective, personally. Would I like someone else better? Maybe. But Skarsgard *wants* to be there, and is helping but his money where his mouth is, and that's a positive to me. There might not have *been* a show without him!

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Poor old grizzly bear not a fan of a fan of thunder and lightning.

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Crystal doesn't get it at first. She thinks it's funny and sentimental, because they call themselves the Dead Boy Detectives but she really forgets that their hearts stopped beating decades before she was born.

When Charles says it's their anniversary she rolls her eyes and laughs with him. Asks if it's their Silver or Pearl anniversary and tells them that they're 'never beating the old married couple allegations'. Edwin doesn't understand the joke. Charles does, and laughs for both of them. She notices that Edwin's eyes are a little heavy on Charles, and will kick herself later for not realising why.

She should have realised. Charles laughs hardest when he wants to cry.

She's half asleep when she jolts up in vicious realisation and almost slams her head.

Charles met Edwin as he was dying from a hate crime.

Their anniversary is the day her best friend died.

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murderbot, for three and a half books: I miss my friend ART. my bestie ART. I wish my buddy ART were here. if something happened to my best friend ART I would kill everyone on this ship and then myself.

murderbot, when asked if ART is its friend: ugh no?? obviously not?? you silly humans and your relationships. I'm going to go sulk in the corner now.

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sometimes when I'm bored, I go through the list of recent bad faith Wikipedia edits that have since been reverted. a lot of them are politically contentious/offensive topics that attract crazies and trolls in general, but sometimes there are completely innocent inoffensive articles that people attack for no reason. some guy yesterday vandalized the article on the chemical element francium

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The Outbursts of Everett True was a comic strip that ran in papers from 1905 to 1927, wherein the aforementioned Everett True regularly beat the everliving shit out of rude people as a warning to anyone else who might consider being rude. Men have not only been taking up too much room on public transport for about as long as public transport has existed, but the people around them have been irritated about it for at least a hundred years. The next time someone tries to claim that manspreading is a false phenomenon, please direct them to this strip so that Everett True can correct their misconceptions with an umbrella upside the head.