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Full shade it's actually bananas that Rick told Carol he didn't trust Judith to be safe with her living at the prison with them.

Actual bullshit tbh. Where the fuck were you when carol was carrying your baby around the prison all day long, making her a cot out of a cardboard box, and making sure she was fed? How about when she agonised over Lori's upcoming labour and used walkers to practise doing c sections so that she'd be able to ensure Judith was delivered safe into this world? Idk but you WEREN'T WITH JUDITH (or lori).

Literally Karen and David WHO? She did that shit to protect the people she loved and that included Judith.

You literally left HER child alone and she died. Everything carol does after that is because of that. Her literal whole entire survival hinged on keeping the people that she loved alive. She wasn't gonna do shit to hurt Judith. There are 4839397 other people she'd have sacrificed to keep Judith alive. Two of them were karen and david.

Absolutely insane behaviour to accuse her of being dangerous to his children. The actual fuck?

In retrospect, he owed her a bigger apology.

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Carol x Daryl: The look of love ♡

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"Women are the most important part of horror because, by and large, women are the ones the horror happens to. 

Women have to endure it, fight it, survive it—in the movies and in real life.

They are at risk of attack from real-life monsters.

In America, a woman is assaulted every nine seconds.

Horror films [and horror TV] help explore these fears and imagine what it would be like to conquer them.

Women need to see themselves fighting monsters.  That’s part of how we figure out our stories.

But we also need to see ourselves behind-the-scenes, creating and writing and directing.

We need to tell our stories, too."

Mallory O'Meara - The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick.

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Regardless of how I'm feeling about the show, one thing is abundantly clear. Melissa McBride makes it worth fighting for.

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@that-left-turn 🤣 "The League of Ordinary Middlemen"

Great discussion! The characters, especially Carol, Genet, and Isabel, deserved much better. Thanks for teaching me about media management structures; it puts lots of the past creative decisions in context.

Norman wanted to change the showrunner and writers in the spinoff so that they weren't previously writing for twd? Do you think that's still the way to go?

These new writers don't seem to know the characters and I preferred the stories and scripts in the flagship to whatever they are in the spinoff. But I've seen you say before that changes need to be people who haven't been involved before. What do you think?

It is the way to go as long as Norman, Gimple, and Greg Nicotero aren’t the ones hiring the new showrunner. On the contrary, the show needs someone they can’t push around, who has watched the flagship show, can write an exciting external plot, understands Daryl’s and Carol’s shared and individual arcs, values Melissa’s input, and respects the fans. And yes, this person exists.

The problem with the writers who currently work for TWDU is that they’re either Gimple’s cronies who will just do whatever he says or they’re Zabel’s writers who have no familiarity with the flagship whatsoever.

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Rick "oops I made my wife angry" Grimes

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I do have to giggle a little at people being genuinely mad at rick and/or michonne right now. like I do get it. do not get me wrong I get it. but also. RECALL how just a few weeks ago we were screaming about danai saying she sent her co-creators scenes of angsty arguments from Bridgerton to explain how every single story beat of the ones who live has to inform how much these two people are in love with each other. the angst richonne are experiencing right now is literally (rick) I love you more than anything so I can't let you stay vs (michonne) I love you more than anything so I'm not leaving here without you. I know it's painful to watch but personally I'm giggling clapping and kicking my feet because they're playing the "no, I love YOU more" game except this version is for insane people in impossible circumstances. best show on tv

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sinstigator

procrastinator

waffling persistence terminator

where's my trophy

I'm so lonely

participation mandatory

pussy eater tweet deleter got peanut butter in my iphone speaker lost my wallet forgotten prophet gonna go stick a fork in a socket

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the way people on here talk about the porn ban makes me completely fucking insane honestly.

yes I would love a return to the old ways.

no that isn't something staff have control over, it's a systemic issue with puritanical groups intentionally strangling online infrastructure to make adult content impossible to platform.

no that doesn't mean the ban was value neutral and I will fucking kill you with my mind if you start going on about how 'it just meant all the annoying people left'

sex workers left, and so did the high spending customers who made tumblr a viable platform for a lot of other small creators

a lot of sex educators and queer outreach groups also left, and nobody seems to remember that they were a huge part of the landscape here

you have to take the eradication of sexual content from online spaces seriously as an issue that affects more than whether you personally can post catgirl balls on one specific platform

there is no 'good social media' in 2023 that will ever be equipped to solve this problem until the financial/cultural issue is addressed. decentralisation is your best bet. sorry.

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King Vizzy Ts face when his brother goes hard for his daughter *at her wedding feast* gives me life

the way I gasped

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Totally my headcannon

a shame we’re not getting as much dad Daemon content as originally planned, but I know for a fact it was him that taught those girls how to throw punches and jump a motherfucker

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I bet he's spoken this way about Rhae to Alicent in the years his heir was on Dragonstone. Bet that really chaps her

Will never shut up about this, Team black till the very end

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The Very Basics of Not Killing Your Computer

AVOID HEAT STRESS

If you have a laptop DO NOT use it on a soft surface like a pillow or on a blanket, it’ll block the vents on your computer and make it get really fucking hot inside.

If you have a desktop you gotta open it up and blow out the dust sometimes.

If you are moving your laptop in a bag turn the laptop off. Don’t put it to sleep, don’t just shut the screen, turn it off, because otherwise it’s in the bag generating heat and there’s nowhere for the heat to go in the bag. OFF. Not sleep. OFF.

DO NOT DROP

Okay I know that should be obvious but drop damage to your hard drive is bad bad news. Be as careful as you can to set your computer gently on flat surfaces; don’t leave it hanging out on a bed where it can get knocked off, don’t set it on the roof of your car. And yes, just dropping it a couple inches can kill your hard drive or totally shatter your screen.

DON’T PUT SHIT ON YOUR KEYBOARD

Look I’ve seen four people ruin their laptops because they had a pen on the keyboard and closed the laptop and it fucked up the screen and the keyboard and it sucks so much and you feel awful after it happens because it’s so avoidable just don’t put things on your keyboard and always check that your laptop is clear before you close it.

PROTECT YOUR PORTS ON YOUR LAPTOP

You’ve only got one power jack and a limited number of other inputs on your computer and if they detach from the motherboard you’re fucked. USB ports get damaged because people use them a lot and eventually it weakens the connection and then they just stop working and it sucks. You can get around this with USB ports by using a USB hub to connect things like your keyboard and mouse.

For your power plug you just gotta be careful. Avoid tripping over the cord at all costs, don’t yank the plug out of the computer. It will SUCK VERY MUCH A LOT if you have to buy a new computer because the power port lost contact with the motherboard.

Don’t move your computer with things plugged into it. Take the power cord off before you put your laptop in the bag, take out the USB mouse dongle, do not travel with little nubby bits sticking out of your computer that can easily get caught or get tweaked or snap off inside of the thing.

(I really can’t emphasize enough that most of the “it will cost more than it’s worth to fix this” laptops I see are because of USB ports and power jacks. People don’t seem to know that this isn’t something that can be fixed easily; a broken power jack is a “remove the motherboard and resoldier components” job, not a “plug a new one in in fifteen minutes” job and most computer repair shops aren’t going to solder things for you and if they DO it’s going to be very expensive)

RESTART YOUR SHIT AT LEAST ONCE A MONTH AND JUST LET THE FUCKING UPDATES RUN

You should probably restart more than once a month but whatever. This is actually something that I consider part of reducing heat stress because when your processor is straining to keep up with all the background bullshit that’s running from a program you opened three weeks ago it’s going to use up resources and get hot and look just restart it once in a while.

Also the updates are almost always okay and safe and generally running updates is a good and secure thing to do (though maybe follow a blog dedicated to the OS you run because if there IS a problem with the updates that blog will probably talk about it before the update gets forced on your computer)

ANTIVIRUS BULLSHIT

Yes you should probably be running an antivirus.

Sophos is free and it’s fine. But don’t pay for it - if you’re using Sophos use the free version.

If you’re looking for something paid and a little more comprehensive I recommend ESET - get the cheap version, renewals cost less than the initial purchase, and feel free to get a multi-year version, the credentials follow your email not the computer so if your computer dies before your license expires you can install the license on a new computer.

DO NOT INSTALL NORTON OR MCAFEE THEY ARE EXPENSIVE BULLSHIT. Kaspersky is whatever. It’s less bullshit than Norton or McAfee but not as good as ESET for about the same cost.

If you think you’ve got a virus run the free version of Malwarebytes and get your shit cleaned.

KEEP LIQUIDS THE FUCK AWAY FROM YOUR COMPUTER

Again this should be obvious and yet. But seriously, just make a rule for yourself that drinks aren’t allowed on the same table as your computer and you’ll save yourself a lot of headaches.

PLUG YOUR COMPUTER INTO A UPS

Okay I fucking hate amazon but here’s a thing you should be using, just search the rest of the internet for “surge protector/UPS” and you’ll find something that isn’t from amazon - APC is a solid brand for this.

Basically you want a fat surge protector that has a little bit of a battery backup and you want to plug your computer (desktop OR laptop) into that instead of into the wall. The benefit of this is twofold:

1) if there’s a power surge the UPS will prevent your computer’s power supply from getting fried and possibly frying parts of your motherboard

2) if there’s a power outage and you’re *at* your computer you’ll have enough time to save what you’re working on before your computer loses power (like, you’ll maybe only have a minute or two on a small UPS but that’s still time to hit CTRL+S and keep from losing work)

At a bare, bare minimum your computer should be plugged into a surge protector but NOT directly into the wall.

BACK YOUR SHIT UP

[we interrupt this yelling for me to tell you that Western Digital has apparently released their new My Passport line and I’m obligated to inform you that you can get a 2.5″ USB 3.0 backup drive with FIVE FUCKING TERABYTES OF STORAGE for $130. Or you can get 4TB for $93. Or you can get 1TB for $53. basically what I’m saying is that it is not only cheap computer season it is also cheap hard drive season.]

[also if you’re getting a backup drive get western digital not seagate seagate fucking sucks and has a much higher failure rate]

Uh, okay, anyway - Do an image backup of your computer every once in a while so that if you get infected or your hard drive dies or whatever you can just restore from backup and move on like nothing happened.

HERE’S HOW TO DO AN IMAGE BACKUP.

SAVE YOURSELF THE WEAR AND TEAR

You know what is cheap? USB Keyboards and USB mice. You know what is not cheap? Fixing the touchpad on a laptop or replacing a laptop keyboard.

Get yourself a USB hub, a USB Keyboard and a USB Mouse (wired or wireless, doesn’t matter) and if you’re using your laptop at home plug *that* into your computer.

Also if your keyboard on your laptop breaks it’s fine just to use a USB keyboard instead I promise; if the screen breaks it’s also usually cheaper and easier to get a used or inexpensive monitor than it is to replace the screen. Your laptop is basically just a very small version of whatever bullshit is going on inside a desktop, if the peripherals break but the core components are fine you can just use it like a desktop.

Unless it’s a piece of shit that doesn’t have any USB ports or video out in which case you got ripped off, friend, demand functionality in your devices I’m sorry.

/rant

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