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Of the 19 hijackers who carried out the Sept 11 attacks:
15 were from Saudi Arabia (a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)
2 were from the United Arab Emirates (also a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)
1 was from Egypt, 1 from Lebanon.
None of the hijackers were from Iraq.
None of the Sept 11 hijackers were Iraqi.
None of the 9/11 hijackers were from Iraq.
#9/11#serious post#not a shitpost#this should be one of the first things kids learn when they learn about the 9/11 attacks#politics#this is just...it's such an essential and brazen fact and i rarely see basic outrage over it#i want outrage. i want fury. i want disgust over the way fundamental facts are disguised and discarded and downplayed#because there are things we should KNOW. basic fact we should ALL KNOW. and they are tucked away in the footnotes.#and no this is NOT to put the blame on other middle eastern countries#we know this was carried out by a specific terrorist organization not a national government#but King George the Second decided (and was encouraged by his cabinet!) to invade a nation!#a nation that was not at all related or responsible!!!#a dictatorship to be sure--but a dictatorship that King George the First had been happy to support#so what changed? why did we go in guns blazing to DEMOLISH a country *we had NO PLANS OF REPAIRING*???#well. because they wanted a villain didn't they. a nice clean war. clarity of purpose. us the heroes against them the villains#and when you're in that mindframe--truth is irrelevant. you can pick your villain (your victim) by rolling a roulette wheel#truth is irrelevant#worse: to the people in charge#truth is a HINDRANCE#'Alternative facts' existed long before it became a catchphrase#facts don't matter. truth doesn't matter. the impulses of a handful of volatile & rich & power-high people--that's History. congratulations
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So I'm well aware this is probably a case of "it isn't that deep" but I love looking at all the fiddly little accessories and bits and bobs of Hoyo designs and trying to justify them. Sampo's is particularly funny, because. What even is all that dkkxjdkd
His outfit has so many straps wrapped around him, like they're restraining or holding something in to keep it from bursting at the seams, and not all of them look like they're even connected to anything! But I'd like to think they are useful in certain situations, like if Sampo takes a hit out in the Fragmentum from one of the monsters.
He's hurt, his arm is bleeding, but he is ALMOST done, he just needs a couple more things to fulfill his quota to Natasha and he doesn't want to turn around and go back now. So Sampo frees a strap from his shirt, winds it around his arm above the cut, pulls it tight with his free hand and his teeth. He'll treat it properly in a minute, once he's done scavenging.
There's also the strange chains that resemble snake spines. Given how they're way longer in his splash art and the way they wind around-
I'd like to think they can extend somehow, and Sampo can use them to scale heights. Firefly clocks him as a covert fighter without even being within 20 feet of him, so it would make sense for Sampo to have ways to get around that don't involve usual/obvious methods, like stairs. Think assassin skill sets.
He's also the only one known to be able to get between the Underground and the overworld, and while he's pretty tight-lipped about his method, having some sort of device to help traverse vertical heights is probably insanely helpful there.
And the little metal ornaments across the backs of his wrists! You can see it a bit better in his reference sheet (everyone say thanks @/dragaliareferencearchive!) as opposed to his splash art-
they aren't flat, they stick up a bit off his arms. And so I wonder if Gepard has ever gone to arrest Sampo, and found that they interfere with his handcuffs haha
The ornaments don't match, the one on his right wrist is actually shorter and doesn't extend down to the back of his hand. Which probably doesn't make it nearly as annoying for handcuffs as the left one, but it would make sense for Sampo to have them like that, since he seems to be right-handed! I think a certain proficiency in being ambidextrous is necessary to dual wield daggers like he does, but. Sampo uses his right hand to
hold his blade in his splash art
throw his blade in his skill
play/show off with his dagger in his idle
lob smoke bombs in his technique
cross over his heart when he bows
and to flip his bangs during the cutscene where he saves the trailblazers from Bronya
So a shorter guard on his right hand would help him keep his wrist's flexibility to be able to do all that unimpeded (loving the thought now that Sampo is naturally right-handed and still better with it, but he practiced constantly with his left until he could do things passably ambidextrous).
I also love them because I wonder if they're in the perfect place to help block a hit, along with the chain wrapped around his left forearm.
Like I love the image of a hired killer soundlessly sneaking up behind Sampo in some shady dark alley, knife sloooooowly raising, and then all at once, they strike!
And instead of feeling the blade sink into his back, they get the unpleasant resonating of metal-on-metal shivering up their arm and rattling their bones, because Sampo has turned around at the last second and raised his crossed his arms to let the knife glance off the guards on his wrists.
And the mercenary is left to realize that oh, they are fucked.
#sampo koski#hsr sampo#hsr sampo koski#hsr#honkai star rail#now that I think about it is there literally ANYTHING in canon that says Gepard carries handcuffs or do we all just need to be bonked skzjm#things I lay awake thinking about at 3 AM ☆#I would actually love to see Sampo use those guards to block a blow from Gepard because hhhhhh#gepo fight scene! gepo fight scene!#Gepard trying to bring Sampo down only to get held off at the last second#adrenaline pumping breath quick faces close together eyes wild and bright breathing right in each other's space#ahem#anyway#but I can't see them like REALLY fighting because Sampo mostly just commits fraud and theft and I don't think Gepard would resort to-#-violence over that. Geppie is a good boy he probably wouldn't get violent with Sampo unless Sampo was putting other people in danger.#looking at his splash art this closely also gave me a really funny revelation which I'll maybe post tomorrow#Sampo is such a little shit I love him NSMKDNDMD
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it probably wasn't the smartest decision to start an ongoing 1000+ chapter webnovel when i know it'll consume my every waking thought but here we are
open for better quality | no reposts
#turning novel#터닝#kishiar la orr#yuder aile#when i tell you i read the manhwa in one go last night and then started reading the novel today bc commenters said it was good#and my god were they right#i'm 40+ chapters in so i've just passed where the manhwa is at rn and wow#first of all thank god there are high quality and easily accessible translations#second of all kuyu-nim has a way of making all the lines carry weight. the dialogue and body language cues especially#like i'm definitely not that far in but there are already a few lines i can point out that made my heart clench#and the tension between the two leads is so so palpable#kishiar is very enigmatic i'm very interested in finding out what he's really thinking and what his abilities are#and i really appreciate the way yuder's development is focused on him caring about others and relying on them#ok and third the fact that it's a slow burn romance but focuses heavily on the plot and politics and relationships is so good#based on the tags this could have been very tropey but they didn't go that route and i'm glad for it#in other news i'm upset about how yuder came out but i have to post him bc i will not separate them ;;;#thought kishiar would be harder to draw bc he's pretty:tm: and i struggle drawing pretty boys but yuder put me through the wringer fr#anyway!! i love them very much!! going a little insane over them as you can see!!
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Look all I'm saying is if that a shadow game can work THAT well and be so well designed story wise and gameplay wise
HE can work
#sonic#silver the hedgehog#sonic the hedgehog#silver right now is such a open canvas of a character#story wise and gameplay wise#he's been a side character for so long and in the one time he was a main character his whole story was basically axed from canon#he's definitely been explored since then but not to extent we've probably wanted with this character-#and I'm talking mostly game silver cause obviously in IDW and archie he got some LOVE there#even if we never saw idw silver actually explore his good future#which i still think is a shame but also apparently if sega doesn't want that to be explored in a comic and saved for the games then#THEY BETTER EXPLORE IT SOON#and honestly gameplay wise he needs another shot as well#like C'MON his psychic's just needed better...well...PSYCHIC'S TO WORK#can you imagine what cool and fun movement he'd have now that sega is now slowy understanding what kinda stuff they wanna do with#the sonic franchise again and how it should play#i don't know if i should fully expect a silver game at any point#but he should ATLEAST be a second main character in a new game so people can be reintroduced to him and they can cook with him#IM TIRED OF SEEING MY SON GETTING HATED ON OR CALLED LAME#I WANT PEOPLE TO BE REMINDED OR SHOWN HOW COOL AND FUN HE CAN BE WHEN GIVEN THE SPOTLIGHT#archie and idw are the best examples of him as a character#he is a lovable friend and ally#but serious when he can be character#and his powers are literally so COOL AND INHERENTLY UNIQUE AND POWERFUL COMPARED TO OTHER'S IN THE CAST#like when surge saw silver come in casually carrying a large object and she got nervous THAT'S WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT#THIS MAN CAN BE A THREAT.#okay rant over DHDNDNDB
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When Steph and Cass get married they don’t take the last name Brown (Daddy Issues™️) or Cain (Daddy Issues Prime™️) or even Wayne (Steph absolutely REFUSES to become a Wayne nosirree), but a secret fourth thing (Gordan).
#BARBRA GORDON IS CASS’ MAMA AND TO AN EXTEND STEPH’S TOO OKAY#yes Steph still has Crystal but yall can NOT tell me she didnt lowkey look up to Babs as a secondary mom figure#the only one who is in on the jig is Kate bc shes officating the whole thing bc DUH and the way she fucken WHEEZZEEDDD when Steph explained#the way Kate would stand at the podium and anounce with such a smug grin#looking DIRECTLY at Bruce#‘I pronounce you…. MRS STEPHANIE AND MRS CASSANDRA GORDAN!’#the sheer fucken UPROARRRR#Steph LAUNCHES herself into Cass’ arms and kisses her senselessly as her now wife effortlessly carries her in a bridal carry#babs takes a second to process before instantly losing her NIND bc oh these crazy kids did NOT no no shes not crying#(she is. she so is. her date Dinah is handing her a hankerchief)#the batbros minus dami are hollering and cheering bc YEAHHHH STICK TO THE MANNNN#dami himself is dismissive and muttering about how could anyone throw away the wayne name like this#(on the inside he actually thinks this is pretty funny and must admit Barbra’s last name is a worthy rival to the Wayne name)#Bruce. Bruce is stunned. shell shocked. this girldad just lost his fav kid his princess#Jim is just having a damn good time bro is clapping Bruce on the back and having a good laugh over it all#also does this mean he has two honorary grandkids? no? well suck it bruce theyre my grandkids now#the other gothmanites who were invited like the birds of pret or the gotham city sirens are also all clowning on Brucie Boy#dc#stephcass#cassandra cain#stephanie brown#batfam
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birthday weekend!
#sonic the hedgehog#shadow the hedgehog#classic sonic#sonic generations#sonic x shadow generations#fearless year of shadow#fanart#digital#modern sonic here is originally a warmup i got carried away with. id drawn his head and then looked over at my laptop monitor where i had#a song from the gens ost playing on youtube and thought to myself 'yeah i'll redraw that render'#ORIGINALLY i drew this b4 summer game fest and was gonna post it in celebration of the second shadow gens trailer#but we all know how that went LMAO#deidrawing
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#i know hes buff n all but i think its quite funny seeing peepers carry someone quadrice his size#wjy is he holding hater bridal style in the second photo though ..#wander over yonder#woy#lord hater#commander peepers#the greater hater#the showstopper
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I had a dream where everyone's nails began mysteriously disappearing, and Ghost was especially upset about this and enlisted Hornet and Quirrel and Hollow to help search for everyone's missing weapons and eventually Hollow was the only one who's nail wasn't taken (because of Hollow's extreme paranoia about losing it and never letting it go.)
They ended up finding out what happened because a strange little bug attempted and failed to steal Hollow's nail and they forced him to explain and he takes them to this secret place where a giant bug, like an actual giant (like the temple sized bug) lives and is building a home for itself and it's little friend has been bringing it nails that it's been using to build it's home. You know like actual nails, with a hammer.
I woke up before they confronted the giant unfortunately
But it was funny.
#I kinda wanted to draw a little comic about this but I'm too lazy#If anyone else out there wants to feel free#It's a cute idea#This is like the second hollow knight dream I've had.#I once had a dream where I was playing hollow knight and I was in Queens garden but it was much darker and filled with red roses. And Tiso#This is after he went to the colluseum. In this dream he hadn't died.#But both of his legs were broken and he was being carried around by another bug.#It was strange.#I was just happy to see him alive.#hollow knight#hk ghost#hk the knight#hk little ghost#hk quirrel#hk thk#hk hornet#Oh wait I had one other dream recently!#It was about Hornet discovering a secret group of white snails who were plotting to take over the recovering Hallownest for the white lady#Who they worshipped I guess.#I think they also used root/plant magic the way the shamans in the actual game use void magic.#I was really sad when I woke up during that dream cause I genuinely wanted to know where that was going XD
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congratulations to Mme. Pascale Leclerc, who has surely just experienced both the funniest and most unhinged weekend a mother could ever have. Dear fucking christ, I hope your middlest son brought you a bottle of champagne for yourself, ma'am.
#kazoo noises#charles leclerc#cl16#monaco gp 2024#zoomies posting#sports posting#like man. where to begin. one of your racecar children is back in town for the weekend. he has yet to have a truly good work#weekend it seems in town. now this year. we're feeling ourselves a bit. we're feeling optimistic even. and then ur son becomes talk of town#because he keeps doing fucking bits on twitter about adopting his coworker who is friends with your youngest son. this goes on long enough#for actual reporters to comment on it. no one is willing to blink first so by friday night we've yes-anded ourselves to a grandson#(congratulations mme leclerc)#things go well. and then at qualifying they go DAMN WELL#BETTER THAN EVER REALLY! but man. im superstitious. i dont trust shit until its over and the dust has cleared#(the adoption jokes have continued by the way) and MEANWHILE everyone is eyeing that starting grid. were humming. we're making vague hand#gestures when commenting. we're all thinking. Maybe? (the streets can hear u tho. keep it down)#race starts. lap one CHAOS. so many fucking crashes. i'd faint if i had a child even in karting honestly.#(every parent in this sport deserves a prescription for laudanum)#but he's not in it. hes at the front. and he. well. he just Stays There. Through It All. and the laps tick down. until the race is run. and#there he is. your middlest son. cross the line and into the books. first place. home town. what curse indeed. thats your boy!!!!!!!! THERE!#they play the radio of him winning and the audio is peaked because he screams out so loudly. you can hear the water in the laughter.#later theres gonna be videos and photos taken of him pushing his boss into the harbor and diving right in after the man. those photos are#gonna be fucking studied in photography classes one day. and STILL! everyone involved with that goofy joke about him adopting his coworker#(who. despite all the silliness of the race stayed second place and got a podium) is still carrying the bit like a baton relay. Do you have#him over for family dinner? might as well add a plate i guess! people are joking about your youngest son having two nephews? a dog born#maybe a month ago and a man born about... what twenty three years and about a month ago? fuck it! family dinner#sorry this bit got away from me but as someone who loves my homecity and my mom so much it might actually be like.#a visible growth inside my body if they do an autopsy on me at time of death or like. my love will eat me alive. sometimes the charratives#gets to me#anyway cheers mme leclerc i hope you party so fucking hard this week
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I started Interview with the Vampire
#iwtv#interview with the vampire#ok number ONE he should not be wearing those gloves just wash and dry your hands well and no lotion etc#SECOND if for some reason he must wear gloves like an unusual material or some danger to him#they should NOT be fabric gloves those can abrade the materials and leave behind microfibers#but ideally no gloves at all#SECOND the way he handles those books oh my god#be CAREFUL spines are fragile old paper is fragile do you even know if the covers are still properly attached???#hold them with both hands put them in a cradle or on the table as you read don’t flip through the pages like that old paper is brittle#and then he CARRIES THE DIARY INTO THE SUNLIGHT TO READ IT BETTEE#BETTER#THERES A REASON WHY WE KEEP THAT SHIT IN WINDOWLESS VAULTS#WELL A FEW REASONS BUT ONE IS THAT MUCH LIKE VAMPIRES BASICALLY ALL ARCHIVAL MATERIALS WILL BEGIN TO DETERIORATE IN SOME WAY WHEN#KEPT IN THE SUN#GET A LAMP#and LASTLY LASTLY LASTLY#the BIGGEST THING#HE’S EATING#HE’S EATING OVER THE MATERIALS HE’S GOT HIS FOOD NEXT TO THEM ON THE TABLE#WHY DON’T YOU JUST GO FETCH THE MOLD AND THE BUGS AND TJE#MICE YOURSELF DANIEL#SAVE SOME TIME JUST LET IT ALL LOOSE IN THERE#anyway I really love the rest of the show
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@camsthisky Please enjoy this scene of Leo hugging an upset Mikey while they're in the middle of making sandwiches for everyone.
TMNT #124
And then please enjoy it even more when I compare it to this other scene of Leo hugging an upset Mikey.
TMNT #103
#that's his baby 😭#no but let me be insane for a second and mention that when they were humans in feudal japan (before they reincarnated into turtles)#mikey used to sleep next to leo--and leo was the one who carried baby mikey around after their mom was murdered#and then when leo raph donnie and mikey were being executed by the foot clan--mikey was next to leo 😭😭😭#and in that first hugging issue ^ the turtles look at a family scrapbook together--and mikey and leo sit next to each other#and then continue to sit next to each other while eating pizza with everyone else#and idk man idk it's the little things y'know#i just feel like they're both hurting over the loss of 3 of their adopted kids and so they sit next to each other#taking comfort in each other#IDW TMNT#tmnt leo#tmnt mikey
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Double feature (Patreon)
#Doodles#The Stanley Parable#TSP#Stanley#The Narrator#Portal#GLaDOS#Chell#Mostly leftover doodles from Requestober ideas lol#I could've put them in with the rest of the roundup but I wanted them to stand on their own! I like them!#And besides they're only tangentially related - inspired by!#Starting with a continuation of the clothing swap lol - I think if given enough time Narra would absolutely layer Stanley's outfit#He feels naked without a shirt over his shirt! Or in this case a smart vest :)#Look he's even keeping the one breast pocket design carried into the vest ♪ Cute <3#Stanley thinks he looks like a dork - which he does to be fair lol - Stanley knows that outfit very well! Adding to it makes you a nerd! Lol#Maybe he's just sad it no longer counts as a proper outfit swap lol - something something boyfriend wearing your clothes something#Second doodle was if the Narrator was successful in pulling the sleeve down - you know that hurts! Why are you mean!#Still get a kick of how much taller Stanley is haha#And the last of the outfit swap - Stanley is bereft without buttons!#Do you think shirt buttons have the same kick as clicky keyboard buttons? Probably not but I wouldn't be surprised if he stimmed with them#Fiddling with his front button-down buttons and the button on his breast pocket and the collar buttons ♪ Click click click#The bridge! The two protagonists relating to each other#They even both have the arm thing going on - sure Sinister's my design but they both do!#Both tormented by their respective gay-and-obsessed-with-them narrator lol#It'd be so nice if they could relax for a bit ♪ Chell is implied to be something of a technological prodigy I wonder if she could help him#Snip the wires or something ♪ At least until the next reset!#They're both tricksters as well I'm sure he could sneak her around somewhere - he's something of an escape artist too!#And finally a silly mini of some GLaDOS insults <3 Just referring to Chell in as many diminutive terms as she can think of lol#But wait that's not right! Chell is a loner as well! She needs a much more fair comparison lol#Tardigrades are even smaller tho! But they're all roundy and squishy hehe ♪
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overthinking it
#esp bc of the contrast with 10s face#who was so loud abt it#i think 12 had things most like balanced. was somewhat at peace with the cognitive dissonance of how he carried out his values#and also found maybe the best way to carry them out#13 deals with the cognitive dissonance by just i think compartmentalising like crazy?#like hard split between the doctor thats Nice and Fun and the doctor that kills#we see her try to manage the dissonance as loudly as 10 does when she Cant separate them so much#'you saw right? i gave it a chance'#10 doesnt try to separate as much i think#but then once 13 is forced to be the doctor that kills by necessity in villa diodati#after that i think she just stays on that side#she just accepts being the doctor that kills. she commands the fam like theyre soldiers. yaz like a second in command#she directs actual unit soldiers without any resistance whatsoever#like theres a kind of acceptance to it that i think shows here between them#no im wrong abt 12. there was a resignation there but no peace with it. hes a doctor of war but that doesnt mean he wants to be#he wouldve killed himself over it#so 13 KNOWS she is a doctor of war#and when people in s11 are like 'youre great i wanna be just like you' she looks ashamed bc she knows they shouldnt be#because SHE shouldnt be. but she is. and i think she just kinda gives in in the second half. stops pretending shes not#so these two also know#'name: the doctor. occupation: not a doctor'#its interesting tho bc the war doctor was like. the disowned one. the one removed from the personal history from memory#exactly like all those in the fobwatch#i think she assumes theres probably a lot of doctors in there like the war doctor#who did things that would undoctor them#occupation: not a doctor
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They have taken over my mind like an infectious disease.
#bg3#bg3 tav#cenburn wildwalker#bg3 wyll#wyll ravengard#blade of frontiers#wyll x tav#shes not really a tav in my head but thats how it works here#otp: hold still while i tackle hug you#thats their ship name btw. because cenburn loves in the most cuteness-agression way possible#not pictured: the second after that middle image wyll falling backwards and they both are collapsed on the ground giggling#wylls life is a constant 'girlfriend jumpscare' compilation and shes obsessed with his reactions#'wyll has 8 str how is he carrying her?' she is 4'11“ and malnourished. scratch weighs more than he#(she gains more weight after the tadpole nonsense is over)
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sorry mild hater moment incoming but . idk what it is with s/onadow fans (not all of them. just a very loud subsection) specifically and making every little thing shadow does about s/onadow even if its the biggest reach imaginable and immediately going "omg s/onadow" every time hes confirmed to be in some upcoming thing . or being so obsessed with the ship and letting it warp their perceptions of things so much to the point where they act like every little thing is a hint from sega that theyre in love for real. and they cant admit that its not canon or that just because they choose to interpret certain things romantically doesnt mean that thats actually what sega/the writers intended even if theres an obvious non so/nadow explanation for it
before people take this the wrong way i dont hate the ship i dont think that its completely baseless or that everyone who likes it is wrong and annoying or anything . but some of you look like this if im being honest
#and this isnt all s/onadow exclusive problems for example amy cant be in anything without people making it about so/namy#which is just as annoying. but on tumblr i see the most of this sort of thing from so/nadow fans#and when it comes to gay pairings specifically its ONLY so/nadow i see people act this way over#for example. and im NOT trying to argue over which pairing is better this is just an example.#son/knux is probably the second most popular gay ship involving sonic#and if we're talking the franchise as a whole not just sonic prime. sonic and knuckles interact more than sonic and shadow#and they also have a lot of moments like knuckles blushing over sonic touching his shoulder or sonic bridal carrying him or whatever#but i dont see people try to argue that theyre canon because of any of those moments.#or try to make everything knuckles does about so/nknux even if its a massive reach#(AGAIN im not trying to argue over which is better i was just giving an example. before people misinterpret that)#so what is it about sonic and shadow that makes people do this . do they just not care about sonic and/or shadow outside of the ship ?#are they only into sonic for so/nadow and nothing else ?? hello what is going On here#people will be like ''so/nadow fans are being fed so good'' and theres a 60 percent chance the food is just them standing near eachother#like ive literally seen people take certain sonic moments or shadow art or whatever that have Nothing to do with the other character#and couldnt reasonably be made about them . but still somehow find a way to make it about that anyway#and then go on to unironically use the stuff that they literally made up as proof that its canon#ive also seen people just spread blatantly false information as evidence the ship is canon#like hello. what are we doing#whatever happened to just liking a non canon ship and being able to admit that its not canon but still have fun with it anyway#this wasnt prompted by any one specific person/post btw just a pattern of behavior ive noticed
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i (platonically) love that stupid doll so much i need to grab him by his legs and swing him around violently
#my best friend...........#i rewatched the second movie today and its always so funny to me how everyone manhandles him all the time#like thruout the franchise ppl r constantly carrying him around by his arm and throwing him all over the place 😭 put that grown man down!!!#kietext#gushing#p: not-so good guy
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