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"that doesn't sound sincere- it sounds rehearsed" is one of the most devastating and fucked-up statements you can make to anyone in the neurodivergent/ADHD/Autistic/Schizophrenic/Disordered Personality sphere. yeah bitch it's rehearsed. because i wanted to get it right when i said it

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Imagine the meme "get out of the tank" with Godzilla (the tank), Maddie, and Mark.

GOSH yes that's perfect XD the visual is so clear in my head, Godzilla's doing his rumbling chuckle thing, Mark is having to yell from the top of Castle Bravo, that's how i'm seeing it, Maddie sitting on G's head down in the water, and the rest of the base is trying not to break down in helpless laughter. someone (almost certainly Rick) gets pictures and it becomes an on-base meme for months

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What are your thoughts on Pablo suggesting Qimir might not be in the line of Banite Sith in the Acolyte Visual Guide. I believed he was the Apprentice of Plagueis as hinted by the writer of the show. If he wasn't Plagueis apprentice how could he be a Sith as who could have trained him? What is your take on Pablo's comments pls?

Well, Leslye Headland didn't just hint Plagueis is Qimir's master. She outright stated it.

“[We put the Darth Plagueis cameo in the series because] we wanted to show Qimir’s master.” - Leslye Headland, Entertainment Weekly, 2024

I think the direction they were taking Qimir in was one in which he either dies at Plagueis' hands, or breaks away from the Sith and forms the Knights of Ren.

For me, the key takeaway from Pablo Hidalgo's blurb in the Visual Guide is that - seeing as The Acolyte won't be brought back - that there is so many directions they can take these characters' stories.

Yes, the intended narrative is that Qimir is Plagueis' apprentice... but maybe down the line, another writer will come along and say that he wasn't, he was just a cosplayer. That's all that Pablo's line opens the door for, really.

Transmedia writing is one big improv show, nowadays. There's a lot of "yes and" rather than "nu-uh!" mainly because it's all made in good fun, and you don't wanna be the Karen (Traviss) who's going "nu-uh! I'm telling!"

Filoni's approach to this all is that these are all campfire stories, so inconsistencies aren't too much of an issue. Personally, I agree with this approach, to a degree...

Take the tonal whiplash, going from Kenobi which can at times feel cartoonish, not unlike how the Prequels did, and Andor which opens with the titular character shooting someone in the face.

It's a vast galaxy, and multiple genres merely reflect that more.

If the Kenobi team had written/directed the same story, we would've gotten that more cartoonish tone... that doesn't mean the in-universe events never happened, it just means the different creatives telling us how they happened do so differently.

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employing my scary wife to trace millennia of my blood ancestry while wearing identical scary nun outfits and steepling our hands evilly side by side in the street

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there's a jewish story about a rich man who goes to his rabbi to ask him about building an orphanage, and the rabbi is like "yeah duh go for it!!" and then later the rich guy comes back and is like "actually I've decided not to... I was just doing it for my own image and not coz I cared about orphans" and the rabbi was like "bitch the orphans don't care why you're building the orphanage!!!" and sometimes I wish I could say that to lefties who haven't unpacked their christian upbringing. sometimes motives don't matter!! who give a fuck why a politician wants to do a good thing? bitch the orphans don't!!

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Hey. Look at me. Please leave yourself a note somewhere you'll see it later that says "it is going to take years if not decades to get the United States government to the level of functionality it had in November of 2024." If we elect a democrat in 2028, we are not going to be up and running by 2032.

Please make sure you have a reminder in your phone reminding you to not look at 2028/32/36 Democratic candidates and say "why are they not promising/delivering Cool Shit?" because you are going to understand that to get Cool Shit we must have competent people running a decently funded government, and we are not going to have that.

We are not getting UBI. We are not getting single payer healthcare. We are not getting free college or free preschool. We are not redistributing wealth on a large scale. We are not getting free internet. We are not getting ranked choice voting.

If we are lucky, we are going to get an IRS that can collect taxes, qualified schoolteachers, research grants, Social Security, and a government that thinks maybe it should be a priority for people around the worlds to not have AIDS, malaria or TB.

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gotham is exactly the right amounts of wet and socioeconomically unstable to have spawned an INSANE grunge scene you just know their local shit is like the sonic equivalent of getting hit over the head with a car battery

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the entire month of august is like the sunday evening of the year where you think you have your shit together but at 11pm you realize theres school tomorrow & your shit is completely not together 

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Since it's mid-august it's time for a reminder for the DIY folks or those who like to cosplay

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BOB'S BURGERS ⇢ 15x13 | SNACKFACE

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Censorship by payment processors has possibly gotten worse if this is true. Given the crazy shit Mastercard & Visa has done I wont rule it out.

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Super important scale

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I really love when people make their clone ocs have actually pretty decent or cool names but then they give them silly goofy little backstories for how they got the names like "yeah that's Blade he got the name from the fact that when he first got off Kamino he stared at a blade of grass for twenty minutes" or "hey that's Apogee they got annoyed after not having a name for like a year and a half so they picked a random word from the dictionary" or "that's Reyna she stole that name from a natborn bc she thought it sounded pretty" or some other silly stuff like yeah when they have deep personal meanings its great but goofy or embarrassing origins are also good

yessss i love names being silly for clones.