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no actually i don't think antivaxxers' kids should die from a disease. i don't think gun advocates' kids should die in school shooting. children dying is bad actually, even if they're children of people you don't like.

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I think the world is very lucky that Sam Reich uses his powers for good instead of evil. Sam Reich if he wanted to, could be such a good villain. He’s charismatic, charming, and can manipulate people. Yet, he chooses to use those abilities to have fun with his friends on a nonsense game show and have them do funny gags on the internet and makes them feel good about themselves when they’re feeling down. Sometimes he can use it for “evil” like on Brennan centric episodes, but I am convinced that those types of episodes are like enrichment for Brennan. The “meat filled pumpkin he rolls around in his enclosure” kind of enrichment. But other times, he rigs a game show in someone’s favor to give them a shit ton of money. And I think that’s amazing.

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Me when I catch myself thinking "I wonder what it's like to be chosen by somebody" but then I remember my best friend chooses to be my best friend and my mutuals choose to follow me and the minimum wage employee chooses to give me sincere kindness that I remember years later because I was going through a hard time and it meant a lot

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“bi women bringing their cis-” bi women can do whatever they want shut up

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Source

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male gaze is not 'when person look sexy' or 'when misogynist make film'

death of the author is not 'miku wrote this'

I don't think you have to read either essay to grasp the basic concepts

death of the author means that once a work is complete, what the author believes it to mean is irrelevant to critical analysis of what's in the text. it means when analysing the meaning of a text you prioritise reader interpretation above author intention, and that an interpretation can hold valid meaning even if it's utterly unintentional on the part of the person who created the thing. it doesn't mean 'i can ignore that the person who made this is a bigot' - it may in fact often mean 'this piece of art holds a lot of bigoted meanings that the author probably wasn't intentionally trying to convey but did anyway, and it's worth addressing that on its own terms regardless of whether the author recognises it's there.' it's important to understand because most artists are not consciously and vocally aware of all the possible meanings of their art, and because art is communal and interpretive. and because what somebody thinks they mean, what you think somebody means, and what a text is saying to you are three entirely different things and it's important to be able to tell the difference.

male gaze is a cinematographic theory on how films construct subjectivity (ie who you identify with and who you look at). it argues that film language assumes that the watcher is a (cis straight white hegemonically normative) man, and treats men as relatable subjects and women as unknowable objects - men as people with interior lives and women as things to be looked at or interacted with but not related to. this includes sexual objectification and voyeurism, but it doesn't mean 'finding a lady sexy' or 'looking with a sexual lens', it means the ways in which visual languages strip women of interiority and encourage us to understand only men as relatable people. it's important to understand this because not all related gaze theories are sexual in nature and if you can't get a grip on male gaze beyond 'sexual imagery', you're really going to struggle with concepts of white or abled or cis subjectivities.

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NOT to be romantic but yeah my friends are the treasure i found along the way. fuck it, sure, friendship is magic; i've sat down at a table and felt at home and i don't even know what a "home" is. half of them are necromancers anyway. they found me half-dead and they put their hands to my inert body and moved my limbs and said it's okay. it sucks. but we'll both get up again.

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"i asked chat gpt-"

well I asked the Glow Cloud (all hail) and it emitted a low whistleing and dropped a lizard on my head.

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foreshadowing

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Who else finished GameChanger and instantly started arguing about what constitutes a hot dog for competitive counting purposes?

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In the newest episode of Game Changer, Jacob Wysocki says "Everyone's doubting me at home" and I just wanted it on the record that I have never doubted him for a moment and I hope he wins this whole competition

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Who Wants to Be..? feels like a spiritual successor to Don't Cry from season 4 and I love it. It's a perfect blend of unhinged humor and sincerity, just like Jacob Wysocki.

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I love that Jess and Jacob’s dedicated episode was all about people who love and appreciate them, giving that love and appreciation back.

Meanwhile Grant got a date and publicly shamed.

Rehka got Truman Showed.

And Brennan got psychologically tortured.

Get you a friend like Sam Reich.

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Game Changer Season 7 Episode 9 “Who Wants to Be…?” without context

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"this is just like a renaissance painting" - my girlfriend, as I paused on this frame to discuss hotdog validity