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got heels on and still short asf LMFAOO he's so cutesy and petite

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Some of my favorite fill-in-the-blanks headcanons that I've seen in several fics:

Benji didn't know how close the timer had gotten to 0 at the end of Rogue Nation

Hunley has a major crush on Ethan

Ethan had a thing with either Jack Harmon or BOTH Claire and Jim Phelps

Luther and Benji game together sometimes

Benji hid the bruises on his neck from Ethan after Fallout

Ethan has no concept of any pop culture events after the early-to-mid-90's

Lane is obsessed with Benji for some reason

Benji was an addict of some kind before the IMF

The team knows ASL (or at least pidgin ASL) so they can communicate nonverbally

Benji joined the field because of Ethan

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i really need everyone to see this video of stephanie j block and gavin creel breaking for a second during their performance in into the woods it is deeply deeply important to me :’)

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I vote we redo every movie musical that James Corden was in but cast Bowen Yang in the parts he played instead

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Merry Christmas Elwesblr ⋆꙳•❅🎄❆•꙳⋆

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Recently watched Heretic with @monstrousgourmandizingcats and @canastigone and while I was fully expecting Mr. Reed to come off like a preening self-righteous New Atheist type (and he is that, though if anything he's more superficially charming than most of those types), I was Not Ready for how much of a pseudointellectual buffoon he turned out to be. Aside from straight up making shit up about Horus being crucified and whatnot (crucifixion was a highly specific execution method that only a few civilizations at a given time ever practiced) and grossly misusing words like "liturgical" and "transcendental", the funniest thing to me is how his whole little routine completely fails to make the argument he's trying to make. First of all, yeah, religion is a system of control. No shit. This is not an original take and it's one that most religious people have encountered at some point (and that quite a few might even agree with!). You're really not bringing a new insight to the table here buddy.

But what really gets me is that his whole setup consistently fails at replicating the process by which religious institutions condition their followers' behaviors. Aside from the basic conceit of getting Barnes and Paxton into his house, which is just based on a few lies and omissions, everything else he gets them to do is purely based on the threat of coercion. The girls almost immediately realize something is off with this guy and make every effort to leave, and to the extent they comply with the thing Reed tells them to do, it's obviously because there's this creepy adult man who could probably seriously harm us if we don't go along with what he says. In other words, at basically no point after the blueberry candle reveal are they doing what he's made them think they want - they're just doing what they think he wants because they (correctly) assume he'd hurt them if they didn't. His system of control has nothing to do with specific methods of religious indoctrination, it's just the threat of violence. The oldest trick in the book. Every time he actually tries to psychologically manipulate Barnes and Paxton, like with the resurrection trick, it fails miserably, and he's immediately forced to murder Barnes to try to keep up the façade.

And then there's the fact that all the captives he previously "tricked" in this same way are women. It's pretty telling both in the sense that he probably picks on victims who are physically weaker than him to begin with, but also that this probably means the critique of religion is just window-dressing for whatever gross psychosexual complex he's working out with this.

This man is a thoroughly pathetic creep and it's honestly just as funny as it is horrifying.

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Popelka's iconic hunter outfit in TŘI OŘÍŠKY PRO POPELKU (1973) costume design by Theodor Pištěk & Günter Schmidt

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I will honor Christmas, and try to keep it all the year! I will live my life in the past, the present, and the future. I will not shut out the lessons the spirits have taught me! Tell me that I may sponge out the writing on this stone!

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WIBTA for taking advantage of my boss’ possible manic episode?

I know this already sounds bad but hear me out.

So I (30M) am the sole employee of this guy (62M) who’s honestly just a miserable boss and an even more miserable person. It sucks so bad working for him—the pay is horrendous, he’s verbally abusive, and the working conditions are awful (in the winter I literally have to stay bundled up the whole work day because he refuses to put the heat on in the office). He wouldn’t even give me holidays off if it wasn’t for the fact that there’s basically nothing to do those days because everywhere else is closed. I’m almost positive he unironically thinks poor people should die if they can’t work. His nephew (aka his only living relative and just the nicest guy) came by yesterday to invite him to Christmas dinner and he told him he’d see him in hell.

I cannot stress this enough—it’s BAD. I’d quit, but it’s been hard finding a better job and I’ve got four kids at home, including one with special needs.

Anyway, so here’s where I’m wondering if I’d be the asshole. Today was Christmas Day and he showed up at my house out of nowhere (huge red flag, I know). At first I thought he’d forgotten I had the day off and he was here to chew me out, which was worrying enough, but then his whole demeanor changed and he was super happy and excited and talking about how he was going to raise my salary. He even mentioned possibly making me a partner in the firm.

Now if that was it, I’d feel a little weird about the suddenness of it but it’d be fine. I’m not going to complain about having more money to feed my family. But then he started talking about how he wanted to pay our mortgage off. He talked about wanting to pay for our son to get the very expensive medical care that’s probably going to save his life. He mentioned at one point that he was going to be donating a huge amount of money to charity too—I knew he was rich but it staggered me. All this from a guy who doesn’t (didn’t?) even want to turn on the heat or the lights because it costs too much money.

It was such a sudden and drastic change that happened very literally overnight and now I’m kind of concerned he’s having a manic episode or something. I really, really want to accept his sudden generosity (I probably will; my wife is all for it and thinks he owes it to us), and I would love to believe that he’s truly had a sudden change of heart (an actual Christmas miracle lol) but I’m just worried about the possible consequences of accepting huge financial gifts like this from someone who I believe might be experiencing some kind of break from reality. Even if there’s nothing legally wrong with it, I’m worried about the ethics of it.

TLDR, my asshole boss might be in the middle of a mental breakdown. WIBTA if I accepted his offer to pay off my mortgage and my son’s medical expenses?

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Merry Christmas!

Welcome Christmas, bring your cheer! Cheer to all whos far and near. Christmas Day is in our grasp. So long as we have hands to clasp. Christmas Day will always be Just as long as we have we. Welcome Christmas while we stand, Heart to heart, and hand in hand

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Dee cunting it up in blue + pink 🎀🦋

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The Gang (20 cm x 20 cm, oil on paper) a series of small paintings I made of the backs of the gang.

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Christmas Chainshipping 🦌🛷 ⊹˚꙳⁺⋆₊･*❅

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pngs for your soft rococo princess OC? with white sparkly objects if possible? tysm

Pngs for your rococo princess OC's!

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