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The Running Man is one of the rare sensible remakes bc the movie, while good, ditched most of the book's plot: the protagonist being a normal poor guy who signs up, the game being a cross country chase, the hero defeating the villain by doing 9/11...

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thinking about how the act of bringing someone back from the dead comes from a desire not just to bring back the dead person but to have things return to the way they were before they died. which is, of course, impossible. if a haunting is an open wound, then resurrection is a knife widening the cut.

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Feast day of st Peter AND st Paul is honestly insane. Imagine you hate your coworker and he writes shit against you and you’re both trying to steer your company in completely different directions. And then in the future your company decides to celebrate both of your efforts in the exact same day when every other employee got a day to themselves. Funniest fucking outcome, the Church went off with that one I’m afraid

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just found out in medieval france, having a lion on your coat of arms was so prevalent that there was literally a colloquial proverb to clown on knights for being basic and not having a real coat of arms. the hate game was so strong back then. imagine medieval hate anons

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re: liveblogging, do you see CoS as an essential part of the 03 series run, or just an optional extension to the ending?

Personally I don’t think it’s essential at all, I thought the shows ending was fine, outside of chickening out on letting Roy die (which I may have gotten over a little if CoS had given him an actual arc of dealing with his miraculous survival of a suicide attack but alas). On the other hand CoS has enough good (and a couple GREAT) scenes along with the rushed, boring, or weird parts that I don’t want to utterly dismiss it. I go back and forth, may depend on what she thinks of the show by the end.

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sorry, i thought we all liked that fictional woman because she sucks

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no matter how little you think you know about history you shouldn’t beat yourself up over it because there is always someone who knows less than you and is more confident about it. someone once said that bridgerton was medieval to me

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Discord lurker, too nervous to join in. I hope this is okay.: The conversation about Roy's abs (lol) in the discord as well as today's liveblog, have me thinking about Broho. I've scrolled through a few of DH's other liveblogs. I doubt she'll like it better, if I have a correct read of her. Broho is excellent, but Roy functions as almost a shounen style second protagonist. He is also very exceptional. Having watched many shounen anime, it doesn't bother me the way it seems to bother DH, but I think things like Roy cauterizing his own wound may read poorly to her. It also is the Royai bible and will be harder for her to avoid. I love both stories, but 2003 is a smaller and more human story to me. I don't know DH well but I worry she will be set up for disappointment with broho. (Though it seems this is a far future concern) Thank you for letting me say this here.

Totally fine to ask here and I couldn’t agree more with your opinion! If she ever experiences Broho it won’t be through my efforts, I find it the much duller story. If someone else convinces her we’ll see what happens, but as you said a far off issue.

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"We'll wait while dinner gets cold as a symbol of how our time and happiness are bought cheaply and wasted easily."

PLEASE DO NOT COMMENT ANYTHING THAT COULD EVEN REMOTELY LEAD TO ME REALIZING SOMETHING OR KNOWING SOMETHING NEW. Do not confirm, deny, draw attention to something I missed EVEN IF I SHOULD HAVE SEEN IT, contextualize in a cultural or historical way, anything. I hate that I have to be so specific but I am trying to experience this show totally clean. IF YOU SPOIL ME I WILL BLOCK YOU.

QUICK LINK TO THE SPOILER-FILLED FUNTIMES DISCORD HERE. THEY WOULD LOVE TO HEAR THE THINGS YOU KNOW AND YELL ABOUT ME

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they need to invent the opposite of an nda called an fda where u have to tell everyone everything

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”What was the ruin of Sparta and Athens, but this, that mighty as they were in war, they spurned from them as aliens those whom they had conquered? Our founder Romulus, on the other hand, was so wise that he fought as enemies and then hailed as fellow-citizens several nations on the very same day….Everything, Senators, which we now hold to be of the highest antiquity, was once new….This practice too will establish itself, and what we are this day justifying by precedents, will be itself a precedent.”

-Emperor Claudius arguing to allow the citizens of Further Gaul to join the senatorial class

Tacitus, Annals

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sorry guys. have to reconstruct my personality around The Character. hope you understand. *my bones crack and twist in unnatural ways and my rips splay open like the hood of a cobra while my whole body makes odd squelching sounds*

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For you: how do you think holligay will react to Hughes death?

For her *but rephrase it to make it not sort of a spoiler *: how do you think Maes could die

Not surprised, I mean the cold opening highlighting his friendship with Roy, then showing him digging into a government conspiracy, then the title is WORDS OF FAREWELL?! There are just a couple red flags. But I think she’ll find it effective it’s just a really well paced sequence (always love it cutting to Roy on the train after the last flashback to show they’re both remembering that moment) and I’m almost certain she’ll love “It’s going to rain today”

Also side note it is so, so much better in 03 that Hawkeye responds to that comment with just a quiet, understanding “yes” than the “what do you mean it’s not raining?” in Brotherhood. That pointless line is insulting to the audience AND Hawkeye.

Yeah will definitely need to rephrase your other question before sending, I’ll think on it.

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