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Y'all ever open a book on a new subject, read a little bit, and have to put it back so you can process the way in which your mind was just expanded?

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SENSE8 1x08 - "We Will All Be Judged by the Courage of Our Hearts" (2015) Dir. Dan Glass

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I’ve had the most nonsense thought that I need to let out into the void . I’ve always been confused by the character Nomi in Sense8 as I had never heard that name before and didn’t really get why she chose that name.. I had the weirdest thought today that her name when you hear it outloud is actually “Know Me”. As in even her chosen name was asking others to recognize her real authentic self and to see her for who she is, which was the real Drive of her character’s storyline. that’s writing folks

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Endless list of favourite characters

Sometimes... you make a mistake. You've got two choices: you live with it, or you fix it.

Wolfgang Bogdanow (Sense8)

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Look. Look at me. Look me in the eye. Riley Gunnarsdottir is important because people love her. So many people love her so fucking much. Yes, she's in part a story about how grief fills you up and empties you out like breathing but Riley is about reaching out. She reaches and someone always takes her hand. Folks offer her places to stay, they host her shows, they bring her supplies, they give her a ride and keep her safe and save her friends. Someone loves Riley enough to visit graves for her. Someone loves Riley enough to plan escape routes for her. Someone loves Riley enough to bring her aboard and flee the country with no questions except is he alright? In a series with so many characters defined by their relationships to one or two people outside the cluster, Riley has so many people in so many places that you can't even picture it and yet. Riley ran and someone caught her, everywhere, over and over and over.

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The story lines at the beginning of Sense8 for each character are honestly insane…

Nomi - trapped in the hospital against her will with a potential brain condition and her transphobic family

Riley - witnessed a drug robbery and then watches people get shot as she’s being tortured by previously robbed drug dealer

Capheus - trying to fight the local mafia so that he can afford AIDS drugs for his mom

Sun - being forced by her family to take the fall for her brothers illegal actions and sent to prison

Lito - hiding his gayness from the public because if they found out he would lose everything in his life

Kala - culturally pushed into a relationship she does not want to be in with an in-law family that does not respect her or her religion

Wolfgang - fighting against the criminals he was raised with and trying to show them he is better than them and the father that beat him

Will - is a cop

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PLEASE take a few seconds to read this. I need to talk about it at least here, or I swear steam will start coming out of my ears.

For weeks now, Luca Marinelli has been surrounded, humiliated, and mocked by a large portion of Italians (spoiler: fascists, but without saying it) just because, in some interviews (interviews he HAD to do—it’s not like he volunteered—purely to promote his new high-profile project M, The Son of the Century on SKY TV), he stated that he is antifascist, that his grandmother and entire family were too, and that it was difficult for him to take on Mussolini’s appearance and portray him.

The series is outstanding, making it untouchable from a production standpoint (JOE WRIGHT is the director! The same director of Pride & Prejudice and Atonement with McAvoy).

So what did this disgusting Italian ignorance do? Of course, it could ONLY latch onto Marinelli’s words.

Words that should be completely normal in a democratic government, right? An Italian actor says it was challenging to portray a historical figure who was atrocious and horrible for Italian families themselves.

And yet… no. They attacked him, mocked him. From then until now (to the point that he was interviewed again, and he admitted that yes, of course, it hurt him because he was speaking genuinely about himself). And now that a second season is confirmed, they’re mocking him even more.

But what exactly are they saying? Well, the usual ignorance:

That he took the MONEY, so he should shut up. (He worked. Obviously, he got paid. He worked for a production team and even said he was thrilled to collaborate with them. But he still despises the historical figure he portrayed.)

That he's a nobody. (Sure, he’s not super famous outside of Italy. But in Italy, he’s REALLY well-known. He’s one of the few Italian actors who has worked with Charlize Theron, starred in an American series, won at the Venice Film Festival, worked with foreign directors, acted in LGBTQ+ projects, and performed in English, Italian, and German.)

That he should shut up (again) because other famous actors have played bad characters and stayed silent. (Completely false. Leonardo DiCaprio and even Evan Peters—who played Dahmer—have both said it wasn’t easy to portray a real-life serial killer. Plus, we’re talking about Marinelli, an Italian actor playing an Italian dictator from the 1900s, not Caesar. This is recent history, and it still carries deep wounds in our country. You can’t compare it to an "American actor" playing a fictional villain or even a real historical figure from another country—someone who didn’t harm their homeland or cause them personal pain or shame.)

That he only said it to get attention and his moment of fame. (FALSE. GUYS, GUYS, GUUUYS… we’re talking about Luca Marinelli, who DOESN’T have social media, whose private life is completely unknown, who is genuinely shy outside of acting, and who has never been involved in any gossip.)

All of this disgusts and saddens me… The only thing I’m "happy" about is that at least The Old Guard 2 is happening.

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hey ace

what did you make of that Outlander season finale twist?

Oh boy. Okay I've been sitting with this since it aired. I'm not a fan. It's so weird to me to just throw that out there. And it feels cruel to Claire and Jamie too. Hang on I'm gonna spoiler alert and readmore this for anyone who doesn't want to know.

SPOILERS BELOW

Okay here we go.

It feels cruel to introduce this plot of "Oh hey your daughter lived!" because she's still dead. It's not like Claire and Jamie can go and see her. She still died. But now it's worse because she lived a whole life and they missed out on it and they still will never get to know their daughter. It's awful. And now one of their grandchildren they never got to know either is also dead!? Horrible!!! I hate it!! And how many more children does Jamie have to have that he didn't get raise? Wasn't 2 enough? We gotta add a third? HATE IT!

I also hate that it means William was in love with/slept with his niece. Cause Faith is his half sister which means if Jane is Faith's daughter then that's his niece. What the fuck. I don't like that at all.

And what are they going to do with this in the final season? Is Master Raymond going to return? I have so many questions.

So yeah I'm not a big fan of this at all. It feels unnecessary.

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Start

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aaaand let's go!

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Enjoy your day..

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MUSIC VIDEOS THAT TURN 20 in 2025

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memes are fun and relatable and all that, but don't let them discourage you. all of that stuff that doesn't make it into the final product is part of how the final product gets made

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Little life advice:

Everyone who says not to set your stove clock or microwave clock because you won't use them and don't look at them anyway is lying.

Set them.

Because sometimes, you will come come from a week away when no one was in your home, and see the stove and microwave clocks blinking and go, "Oh shit, the power went out while I was gone, even though it's clearly back, which means every single thing in my fridge and freezer might have gotten room temperature and refrozen, and will give me food poisoning."

And it will be the only indication whatsoever not to eat it.

Anyway, just got back from the grocery store, but at least I don't have botulism.

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Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free