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One subreddit that I've found myself enjoying reading threads on lately is HobbyDrama, wherein users write up detailed reports of drama going on in fandom spaces, whether it's the fandom for a movie, band, or actor, or more general subjects like crafting or playing sports. And the more I read, the more I want to write one... and I know exactly what it would be. The Fall of INXS. Specifically the hiring of their new singer through a competitive reality show, the abrupt dismissing of said singer, the subsequent releasing of their song "Tiny Summer" which not only sounded absolutely NOTHING like INXS, but also set the fandom on fire for a day or two as the identity of the new singer hadn't been revealed, and speculation was running rampant... which resulted in the U2 fandom getting roped into the situation with accusations that the new song was sung by Bono (despite sounding NOTHING like Bono). Like... man. I know the majority of my fellow Hutchies aren't on Tumblr anymore so I have no idea who to reach out to in order to fill in the gaps in my memory of how things went down, but that was such a briefly fascinating time, i retrospect.

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Hey, uh, facebook, instagram, etc...

You claim to 'require' the tagging of AI generated images.

Maybe I'm just being ridiculous, but surely that means that users should be able to report untagged AI images???

You know, so that you can enforce that policy of yours...?

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Fred Rogers Acceptance Speech - 1997

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Wunk is NOT trapped

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Every time Sean Astin makes a statement on whether or not Sam and Frodo were indeed gay for each other in lord of the rings he’s always like “well we have to acknowledge that attitudes around sexuality have changed dramatically over the past several decades and since authorial intent is only up to speculation, the story is open to multiple readings, some of which might have different significances for different groups of people also they kiss on the lips because I said so”

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Start reading Episode 1

Dialogue transcripts:

Panel 1 Jack:  If he rejoined society…did you let him go?

Panel 2 Nemo:  … Nemo:  We have frequently sighted a ship in the wake of the monster’s carnage—a vessel with the figurehead of a tiger—but I have always had to choose between pursuing the ship or the creature.

Panel 3 Nemo:  Moreover, the ship would need only to go to crowded waters or come to land, where my crew and I have sworn never to return, to escape my vigilance. Jonathan:  Perhaps we can help you, Captain.

Panel 4 Nemo:  Oh? Jonathan:  We can bring the hunt to land, where you won’t go. We are already working towards the same goal, and what you’ve shared is exactly the lead we needed.

Panel 5 Nemo:  And how should I know you won’t betray me as well?  What could you offer that would be worth the risk?

Panel 6 Godfrey:  This young man and his friends have tracked, fought, and defeated not one, but two monstrous creatures—one of which was stalking my wife. Jack:  And the first was a creature of pure evil, a bloodthirsty vampire!

Panel 7 Jonathan:  A-and if there’s anything we learned from our experience, it’s the importance of sharing our knowledge and trusting one another. You already told us what you’ve learned; now let us do our part.

Panel 8 Nemo:  How did you track a vampire?

Panel 9 Jonathan:  How else?  We followed the paper trail.

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Aaaaaaa, I got my CD signed by Jeevan (Rusty) and Lara (cover Greaseball)!!!!

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“I wonder who the Freight Gang was replaced by in the 2024 StEx revival”

The nefarious fuel trucks:

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can he sit on your dash for a minute?? he'll be very polite :]

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Actual things that happen in the 1897 Dracula novel, without context:

A character has ominous nightmares and attributes them to eating too much paprika

Dracula first appears wearing a fake beard

The person he was trying to fool with the fake beard immediately realizes Dracula and Beard Guy are the same man, due to both having really firm handshakes

We are told parrots are immortal unless fatally wounded

A Texan cowboy opens fire on a bat flitting around a window, and lodges a bullet in the wall of an occupied room

A woman is called a polyandrist for receiving blood transfusions from multiple men

An incorrectly addressed telegram leads to two deaths, multiple druggings, and several children being assaulted

Dracula, while trying to maintain a low profile, takes a lovely trip to the zoo and freaks out the animals so badly that he gets mentioned in a newspaper article

The one character who knows anything about vampires spends a good two-thirds of the book refusing to talk about vampires

Dracula went to Satan's Witchcraft Academy and somehow this is only brought up in two throwaway lines

A character gets stuck inside a circle of communion wafer crumbs

A major plot point of the book is Dracula (who was said to be a brilliant scholar and has the strength of twenty mortal men) realizing he can move boxes without human help

Someone is referred to as "manifestly a prig of the first water"

Two characters have a hobby of reading train schedules

A hospital lets a mental patient escape to see what will happen

A character starts vomiting up feathers from eating whole birds

A doctor refuses to give a medical diagnosis and instead makes a speech about growing corn

Dracula impersonates another character just by wearing the same clothes, despite being taller and visibly much older. This deception is successful.

A character "cleans" a room by eating all the insects in it

Suddenly: rats. Thousands of them.

The heroes progress in their efforts through "the wonderful power of money," i.e., bribery

Dracula has three other vampires in his castle. Their relation to him is never explained, nor are any of them named.

A character insists his salvation depends on having a pet cat

Dracula is thwarted by flowers on more than one occasion

A group of vampires stand in the hall outside a man's bedroom, talking loudly about their plans to eat him. When he comes to the door to confront them, they run away laughing

Dracula wears an unfashionable hat and gets roasted for it

A group of Romanians encounter a disheveled, shouting man and, "seeing from his violent demeanour that he was English, they [give] him a ticket for the furthest station on the way thither that the train reached."

A boat crashes due to Dracula having the munchies

A wolf is thrown through a window and immediately runs off, confused and covered in glass

Dracula makes a bed

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