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hi the use of the song "black flies" in the "farewell" bonus episode of life is strange has been doing me reoccurring psychic damage for two years now and i don't appreciate it even a little bit but BOY does it work

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I abandon here the will to continue working on this piece

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carmy’s monologue from season one of the bear

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— Hidetaka Miyazaki

creative director and president of FromSoftware

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Life is Strange: Forget-Me-Not alternative cover and synopsis

Alex Chen returns in this graphic novel sequel to the award-winning videogame Life is Strange: True Colors, written by rising star Zoe Thorogood. It’s been a year since Alex and Steph Gingrich left Haven Springs, Colorado, at the end of Life is Strange: True Colors. Though Alex might have found control over her psychic powers, she struggles with knowing when to use her powers and when to let those around her battle their own demons, if they’ll be strong enough to do so. Touring across the states in their band Manic Pixie Nightmare Girls, and preparing to meet with an interested record label, Alex and Steph find another lost soul on the side of the road – Lily. A mysterious girl in the middle of nowhere, Alex and Steph take the teenager under their wing to uncover the truth of what she’s running from. But there’s more to Lily than meets the eye – who silently struggles under the weight of heartache and memories from lives she hasn’t lived, to protect those around her from the truth of pain. An all too familiar story to Alex, but is there time to save the Lily from a similar, lonely, fate? A graphic novel about found family, confronting demons, generational trauma, and living, loving, & losing the best you can. Life is Strange: Forget-Me-Not collects issues 1-4 of the comic series of the same name, written by Zoe Thorogood (It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth, The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott) and drawn by fan-favorite Life is Strange artists, Claudia Leonardi and Andrea Izzo. Featuring bonus behind-the-scenes content about the development of the series.

Link to pre-order on Amazon

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Hey. It's okay if Chloe is dead in the next game. As long as she's still everywhere. As long as she's haunting the fuck out of the narrative. To the point when it makes even us, players, uncomfortable. The same way Rachel was haunting LiS 1's narrative. The same way Max was 'haunting' BtS's. Let Max think about Chloe all the goddamn time. Let Max awkwardly overuse the word 'hella', let Max make Chloe's references whenever she looks at an item, let Max write in her diary still, except she writes for a Chloe who's no longer there. And if Max starts travelling through the multiverse to save someone who's already dead again, let her have hope. Even if we don't get to chose, or there's simply no way to save Chloe, let Max hope for it, and let us hope for it at the same time. Maybe build up the hope as the game goes on, and then completely crush it by the end, so we all end up sobbing over these damn games again. But please please please, do NOT erase Chloe's character. Do not act like she doesn't heavily influence Max's character, in every possible way, dead or alive.

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A man has to be what he is, Joey. Can’t break the mold. There’s no living with the killing. There’s no going back. Right or wrong, it’s a brand. A brand that sticks. Now you run on home to your mother… you tell her everything’s alright. There are no more guns in the valley. 

logan (2016) dir. james mangold

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THE RIVER BENEATH/BEYOND/WITHIN THE RIVER. Ben Caplan/Tamsyn Muir/Clarissa Pinkola Estés/Maggie Stiefvater/Leon Bridges/Tamsyn Muir/Ben Caplan/Maggie Stiefvater/Clarissa Pinkola Estés/Maggie Stievater. Text reproduced in alt text.

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Need the kind of relief & comfort that people talk about in songs about rivers

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my first post here:O i have absolutely no idea what i’m doing but🕺my season 2 pedro seems like a good introduction

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I completely agree with this thread.

Also I saw pushback to this post below claiming that there's no difference between the Targaryens and other Westerosi families but I disagree. The Targs have living nuclear weapons that made them think they're Gods, but they're not and ultimately, they lose to their own kind.

Ultimately, that's what's so poignant about the downfall of House Targaryen, there is no way to supersede humanity no matter how much they try to do so. At the end of the day, their fire-breathing weapons of mass destruction can't protect them from themselves.

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metamorphoses, ovid

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After reading a bunch of people’s individual reactions to the Sherlock finale, I think I finally understand why Moftiss referred to this as “insane wish fulfillment.” Without sharing my feelings on the matter, this is how I think “The Final Problem” was, in a way, exactly what they promised it would be:

Every big ship had a moment(s) that - if you had the right goggles on - could have made it canon.

Sherlolly- Everyone knows Molly is in love with Sherlock. But the second time he says “I love you” to Molly during that harrowing phone call, has been perceived as a real confession by those who thought his tone was sincere. They believe Sherlock really meant he was in love with Molly when he said that phrase. And there were also potential hints of a pregnant Molly - so couple that with Eurus’ question about sex, and Molly could even be pregnant with Sherlock’s child.

Adlock- Some have said Sherlock was playing Irene’s theme on the violin when Eurus asked him if he had sex recently. It could also be inferred that it is Irene he is texting at the end (since texting has been their ‘thing’ throughout the show), saying “you know where to find me” and therefore hinting at a possible future reunion.

Mystrade- Sherlock asks Greg to take care of Mycroft after their difficult ordeal and Greg obliges. This could hint at a potential relationship in the future if Mycroft seeks comfort in Greg during a tough time.

John x Mary - The show continued to discuss their marriage (by having the Governor draw parallels between John’s marriage and the Governor’s obvious love for his wife). And Mary appeared yet again by DVD to comfort John after her death.

Sheriarty - We were shown yet again Moriarty’s obsession with Sherlock. He was willing to chat with a psychopath in an island prison in order to learn more about the man he was so enthralled by. Some might interpret this as romantic.

Johnlock - Sherlock implies that John is family when Mycroft tries to kick him out of the room during their discussion of Eurus. Sherlock chooses to focus on saving John’s life rather than a (fake) girl whose death (along with countless others’) is imminent. He only really contemplated Mycroft’s death rather than John’s (although he ultimately decided to kill neither of them). He and John are shown living together and raising a child together at the end. Even Mary’s DVD seems to hint at their budding relationship by saying she knows what they can be once she is gone.

Not to mention, a lot of us believed/hoped that Sherlock had a much deeper, emotional side than he often let on. This episode explicitly showed us his heart and explained why he hid it for so long while simultaneously freeing him from that reasoning, so he no longer has to pretend to be a heartless man. The cold, calculating Sherlock of canon past is no longer, and the loving, caring Sherlock we all believed in is now a definitive reality. (And mainly John, but also his other friends and family, helped bring that side of him out).

Plus, many different theories were proved right, including that Mycroft hesitantly colluded with Moriarty in some way (which later caused issues for Sherlock) and that Redbeard was a reference to trauma Sherlock faced in his childhood.

A lot of people, including myself, at least somewhat expected a more blatant/outright form of wish fulfillment in whatever way we hoped it would manifest. In some ways we received it and in many other ways we were let down. It reminds me of Mofftiss’ approach to Sherlock’s suicide, where they provided numerous different theories to explain how he faked it, but never really confirmed what the true method was. That way, no one was proved wrong… but no one was really proved right either.

Perhaps it was easier for them to give us all a little bit of what we wanted rather than give a specific group exactly what they wanted. Perhaps that’s why so many people saw parallels to the movie “Clue” - because depending on how you analyze the subtext/read between the lines, there are many possible interpretations to the ending rather than one simple and definitive conclusion. Perhaps they wanted all fans to have their wishes fulfilled…

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Sherlock Parallels [5/?]

Eurus did to Sherlock what Sherlock did to Irene. The final purpose was to find the  s e n t i m e n t  behind the “game”…

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Parallels - [Bomb hostages]

“Emotional context. It destroys you every time.”