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i had a fever dream about hrt gummies

[tip me im broke lol]

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cracking myself up thinking about the movement towards simplified forms in cave paintings

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That C.S. Lewis quote says friendship is about meeting someone and going, "You, too? I thought I was the only one," but I think Tolkien's portrayal of Legolas and Gimli provides an important corollary, where friendship can be about, "You like that?"

Lewis tends to portray friendship as two people bonding in a shared interest over something, and only then getting to know each other as people. His descriptions of friendship in The Four Loves (at least in his lecture version that I listened to) sound a lot like fandom friendships. But they're not the only kind of friendships, and I like that Tolkien shows us that the reverse can also happen.

Legolas and Gimli have very different interests. They're from totally different cultures that don't much like each other. Each one loves environments that the other one finds creepy and terrifying. Before Helm's Deep, Legolas talks about how much he hates being surrounded by stone, while Gimli loves it. But after they bond at Helm's Deep, Legolas finds himself interested when Gimli waxes poetic about the beauty of the caves beneath it. He's like, "I don't get why you like that, but you make it sound awesome, so I'll try it." His respect for Gimli as a person made him willing to expand his horizons to share his interests. Friends can find connection, not just because of their similarities, but because of their differences. And I think it's really cool that Tolkien portrayed that.

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What continues to anger me about Otoy's methods, regardless of if they use computer generated imagery, AI, physical prosthetics, or a combination is that it makes a morbid mockery of Leonard Nimoy's physical appearance.

Above: L Nimoy (1979) in Star Trek: TMP (left), early Lawrence Selleck (2022) screen test (right)

The performers wore meticulously recreated costumes, makeup and prosthetics, to reflect their character’s evolution through key “in-universe” periods of Star Trek history as it was fleshed out by Roddenberry during the 60’s and 70’s: the Cage (1964), Where no Man has Gone Before (1965), The Man Trap (1966), The Menagerie (1967), The Animated Series (1972) and finally the Motion Picture (1979). (source)

This is all from Otoy's 2022 production 765874 Memory Wall. From my understanding, they used both these physical prosthetics and digital imagery for 765874 Unification.

Pardon my use of alliteration for effect, but I don't mean that these are distasteful depictions of him as a person and his depiction of the character of Spock, but that they have made his natural, physical appearance into a costume piece that someone can put on and take off as needed. And Otoy has done so to other actors who have long since passed, simply because people with money and the people who control the actors' estates/legacy/image sign-off on these projects. The actors themselves, whose likeness will continue to be circulated in new media long after their death, have no actual say in this, but! Their heirs are okay with it, so it must be okay, right? Right?

What Otoy and similar projects do is completely different than the old practice of reruns of an actor's shows, re-releases of their films, reprints of photographs of them, etc. This type of thing already has a long-established practice for generating residuals for the estate. But Otoy and other productions like it is new territory, and it is sickening that the families of these celebrities agree to it because this goes further than Nimoy and Otoy. There's the CGI Audrey Hepburn chocolate commercial. There's the Gap commercial that used footage of her from Funny Face. Marilyn Monroe has been used in commercials long past her death as well. The list sadly goes on.

At what point is a celebrity allowed to be dead? At what point can we allow them to rest, without clamoring for more content and trotting out a shell of their image for it? If a celebrity's image, likeness, and voice can be used long after their death, do they still own the rights to their own body, their own voice? If we are fine with this for celebrities, what comes next for the rest of us?

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ATTACKED?

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"Ok, ma'am that'll be $226.03."

I take my wallet out of my pocket and unfold it. It is empty other than a single moth that lazily flies out. The moth lands on the tap point of the card reader. There's a beat, and my payment is processed. The moth flies back into my wallet and I put it back in my pocket.

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✨ MXTX’s boys Polaroids ✨

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TGCF boys

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𓆝 𓆟 𓆞

ik the reflection makes no sense but i wanted to add it (like it should be the other side of the face but yeahhh lol)

ref: https://pinterest.de/pin/78250112273237164/…

god i love these type of pics sm

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Wait is disease a hexie song

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accidentally fumbled "whodda thunk" and "who'd've guessed" together into the beautiful new "whodda gunk"