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voice of a woman who doesn't know she's being thrust into the narrative. incredible

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DOCTOR WHO The Robot Revolution

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I had a yearly sub to apple tv which I cancelled back in october which was supposed to expire mid january but it still works and I haven't been charged lmaoooo

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me: I love how mythic quest riffs on romantic tropes to satirise business relationships and convey the intensity of collaborative partnerships in creative fields without them actually being romantic it's so funny and clever

me when the satirical use of romantic tropes over 4 seasons of mythic quest is suddenly supposed to be read as actual romantic heteronormative slow-burn so apple tv can spend another half billion on severance and another season of ted lasso no one wants:

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the casting team sat down with charlie’s speaker box and said we want to make history… and that’s what this is

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Can't even boycott the last of us, can't even boycott captain america, SOME OF YOU CAN'T EVEN QUIT HARRY POTTER. And then you refuse to read some classic from a guy who's not even around to do any harm because "all the classics were written by white heterosexual men" WHICH IS NOT EVEN TRUE

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Les Cinq Diables (Léa Mysius, 2022)

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HACKS 2.05 / 4.02 Requested by anonymous

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here's a funny conversation topic i had a with a friend: if you're over the age of 25, when's the last time you really *ran* in a panic (like you were late, chasing after something, etc. things like a marathon don't count!) and what was it for?

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to be fully honest this new trend of remaking and sanitizing not only gothic fiction and its genres (hill house, dorian grey, turn of the screw) and horror movies more generally (carrie, the exorcist) point to much more serious cultural movement than the death of art or the death of horror as a genre in the mainstream. specifically it is gesturing to a sanitizing effect in which cultural authority has now deemed the subversive as worthy of living but only if it is a) commodified and b) divested of all its subversive elements. we can play-act at feminism, trans inclusion, and anti-racism as long as it serves a corporate interest and does not actually challenge cultural authorities. we can adopt its aesthetics as something to be sold without actually inhabiting it ideologically. it is the newest manifestation of cultural authorities anesthetizing effect on anything that threatens it and it is becoming more and more prevalent. anyway i want to beat mike flanagan with hammers

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how do i stop the influence of the evil crystal on the mistress

Why are you trying to ruin everything for her.

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the problem with addiction is not that it's pleasurable. it's not "having too much fun" disease. it's not even a requirement for addiction that you have fun at any point in the process at all and to be honest it is incredibly common that no pleasure is gained from substance use. imagining that addiction is about pleasure does two things: 1) demonises feeling good (there is nothing wrong with wanting to be happy/comfortable/etc), and 2) frames addicts as people who Like Having Fun Too Much. it's simply not useful to frame things this way as well as just fundamentally not being true

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the problem with watching buffy the vampire slayer for the first time when you're 13 is that it will fundamentally reshape your brain chemistry to the point where literally all fiction becomes buffy the vampire slayer in different fonts. "watch another show!" you might say, and believe me i have! i promise i've watched many other shows since i was 13. but the problem is that all those other shows as well as films, books, podcasts etc. are simply deviations of buffy the vampire slayer to me. it's the holy text, the primary source. everything else is just commentary.

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sorry this is really funny

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but what if they subject us to poppyian endgame bc that's the only material they have on hand....................