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nevermind i couldnt help myself orz

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Hoenn starters I drew a while ago i was like oouughh!! fun project idea!! lets draw all the pokemon starters in my style!!! and then i Did Not Do That

Also meganium. did the other two but they're ugly so nuh uh

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bro thay put transgender in me

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pretty much the only good thing about the paper of record anymore, the crossword

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I know Anakin is associated with either a dragon and a dog (I do that too!) but there's another animal I associate with him because i swear the imagery would be crazy-

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any computer people wanna explain how the hell this works

it wont let me do shit bc i apparently have 81 gigs of apps clogging my c drive, but my largest app is 0.4gb?????? its not system applications either because system is its own segment of storage. wadda hell are you talking about

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bbunnyuy boy

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i love truck stops in winter bc i love a little good old fashioned reconnaissance. i’m at a wyoming truck stop eating taco bell with a bunch of random truckers discussing road conditions like we’re in a high fantasy tavern & inn and we’re warning each other about monsters and highway men. everyone talking about where we’re coming from and going to and how bad it’ll be getting there.

THE tallest man i’ve ever seen in real life just stopped me in the hallway by the coin operated laundry apropos of nothing and asked “which direction are you going?” i said east and he said “good” and walked away.

i caught up with him and asked why and he said “west’s no good right now. i just came from there.”

apparently a truck jackknifed and has traffic backed up ten miles but he sounded for all the world like he just found his village raised to the ground by an evil mage’s army

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Something I do really love in sci fi stories is a hard sci fi group running headlong into a soft sci fi scenario and being totally out of their depth. Let me explain.

The UEG in Halo is a hard (ish) sci fi setting. Short of slip-space tech and the propulsion systems of their starships, pretty much everything they have is theoretically creatable given our current understanding of the world. This is in line with a lot of older "hard sci fi" where it's realistic apart from one or two things that enable the story to actually... ya know... happen?

Anyway, the UEG/UNSC is hard sci fi, and are doing pretty well for themselves up until the battle of Harvest, where they sprint headlong into fighting The Covenant. The Covenant, with their homing plasma weaponry, energy shields, and hovertanks. The Covenant are soft sci fi, not obeying the laws of reality and not caring. The UNSC is outclassed, and I love it. The UNSC's best weapon against The Covenant, Spartans, have armor partially made from reverse engineered Covenant tech. They can win ground battles, but space battles are another story, they need 3-1 odds and even then typically take heavy losses. That's how out of their depth the UNSC/UEG is. I love it. But lemme continue.

In The Expanse, the various human governments and groups, are a hard sci fi civilization. They don't have FTL, but they do have hyper efficient fusion drives (a quick salute to Solomon Epstein). Everything else they have is hard sci fi. But when [spoiler] gets discovered, it's really neat to watch them try to make sense of it. Because it doesn't make sense, that shit is sci fi fantasy.

I think similar stuff happens in Stargate, but I don't know enough about that to comment on it.

I haven't read The High Crusade but it seems to be this trope stretched to the extreme and I love that.

Yeah that's what it is, isn't it. It's a trope. Well fuck it, I love this trope.

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wizard college is going to kill me I swear to god. I just saw someone without a component satchel reach into their pocket and pull out a handful of LOOSE tapioca to use as a substitute for blood in their fell ritual. and it worked. I've never been so fucking mad.

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Aerial dogfighting is back, babey!!!

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(WIP) Forbidden kiss

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Damn. This gave me literal chills. The amount of seriousness. Like-

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Odysseus:

Penelope:

Odysseus:

Penelope:

Odysseus: Pe-

Penelope: yes I would still love you if you were a worm

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I went to Big Dick Lake and they told me to go about a half-mile west.

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Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz from Phineas and Ferb could kill Macbeth!

This is due to the fact that, canonically, neither of his parents "bothered to show up" to his birth, putting him under the Unconventional Birth category.