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never thought I'd watch any Marvel series

but here we are

the imagery in this part of the ep was actually insane like this is genuinely beautiful

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so soft it hurts

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truly some people have no genre savviness whatsoever. A girl came back from the dead the other day and fresh out of the grave she laughed and laughed and lay down on the grass nearby to watch the sky, dirt still under her nails. I asked her if she’s sad about anything and she asked me why she should be. I asked her if she’s perhaps worried she’s a shadow of who she used to be and she said that if she is a shadow she is a joyous one, and anyway whoever she was she is her, now, and that’s enough. I inquired about revenge, about unfinished business, about what had filled her with the incessant need to claw her way out from beneath but she just said she’s here to live. I told her about ghosts, about zombies, tried to explain to her how her options lie between horror and tragedy but she just said if those are the stories meant for her then she’ll make another one. I said “isn’t it terribly lonely how in your triumph over death nobody was here to greet you?” and she just looked at me funny and said “what do you mean? The whole world was here, waiting”. Some people, I tell you.

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hey boy don't kill yourself. green's dictionary of slang is available online and allows you to explore 500 years of english vulgarity. you can search by part of speech, source, time period, etymology, and usage. there's a whole category for gay slang. they even have specific citations listed so you can see the exact context for yourself. boy did you know that in 1927 "to kneel at the altar" was slang for "to sodomize"

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The interesting thing about Glados/HAL 9000 parallels is that

Hal was conceived at a time when artificial intelligence was more of a fictional construct than a practical possibility. Hal is introduced as humanlike because the audience is familiar with and comfortable with humans, but they aren’t familiar with or comfortable with living computers. It’s when he starts acting robotic and calculated that the audience realizes “oh no, he’s a computer” and he becomes threatening.

By the time Glados was conceived, we had become used to computer automated systems. Synthetic voices offering us information is something we encounter in daily life. Glados is introduced as a computerized preprogrammed voice because that’s what the audience is familiar and comfortable with. It’s when she starts acting human and emotional that the audience realizes “oh no, she’s alive” and she becomes threatening.

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Fabric study :)🤍

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you won't even know that you're dying

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Warriors promotional images.

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IM GONNA LOAD ALL OVER THE PLACE

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[OLD ART] videogame merchants

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𝚁𝚎𝚞𝚎

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𝚁𝚎𝚞𝚎

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Sabine Wren is the character ever. She's a Mandalorian, she's an artist, she's a weapon expert, she's a hacker. She designed the symbol of the Rebel Alliance. She developed a superweapon that killed millions while she was still a teenager. She's Mandalorian nobility. She has wielded the Darksaber. She is force sensitive. She's a thirty year old Padawan. She is depressed and unemployed and her best friend is her cat.

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Me, before the Ahsoka premiere: "Ugh, they're making Sabine Force-sensitive after pretty much no indication in Rebels that she had any ability or aptitude that? That's kinda dumb."

Me, after watching the first two episodes: "Listen, give me mediocre at being a Jedi but still a Jedi Sabine Wren. She is Force-sensitive, she's just the worst at it you've ever seen. She can barely lift a pebble using the Force but, it's okay, she's got WESTAR-35s. We've had enough Jedi prodigies and geniuses, they can't all be talented. Give us mandalorianboss but jedifail Sabine, I crave it with my entire being. I've only had two episodes of not-very-Force-sensitive Sabine but if anything happens to her I will kill everyone in this galaxy and then myself."

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“Old Muhsroom” by V. Protopopov, cover art by Ivan Galin (1926)

Шлюпик—shlyupik—is an old word for a boletus, brown cap mushroom grown in the swamps, saggy and sad. I didn’t know that word, had to google it.

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