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I’ve decided to stop making videos featuring characters worlds others created. Instead, I’m going to make videos about worlds and characters of my own creation as well as real creatures. I hope then I can feel free because I’m not stressing over making everything perfect anymore.

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So who are you guys, anyway?

ELEMENTARY 1.13 "The Red Team"

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ELEMENTARY | 2.19 The Many Mouths of Aaron Colville

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lezzing out is such a good phrase its legit so fun. do you lez out. have you lezzed out. will you lez out. when will you lez out.

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pov: babe heffron

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im in a unique position to daydream about snafu shelton in the ccc... throwing things of course because theres like no chance he was assigned anywhere near sledge (he was probably SCS-32 or something) but whatever!!! maybe dr sledge agreed to the camp doctor for some reason and dragged his poor sickly son along with him... eugene would bring his dog of course and then merriell would be a boy his age to play with and show off all the tricks deacon knows (you CANNOT shake my belief that deacon was very well-trained)

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Why do sidsledge fans only ever sell it as childhood friends forever? It's kind of boring, is there something else to the ship that I'm missing

i find their relationship extremely interesting and sickos, personally! and i think that 'childhood friends forever' is simplifying it a bit. yes, they were friends growing up and yes, they stayed friends until they died. but that ignores the massive, agonizing shift in their relationship caused by the war, which is the meat of why i love it!

i think the childhood friends plot is interesting bc 1) it's completely unique in the hbowar sphere. we don't really see any other pair have such a deep context before the war, which is cool! 2) they don't go to war together. if they were childhood friends who served together and came home together, i agree it would be pretty boring. there would be no change. but here they experience everything together up until that point, and then suddenly have to go through the hardest thing they've ever done without each other. and then when that's over, they realize that it's changed them both in ways that the other will NEVER understand, bc it's the only thing they haven't experienced together, which 3) makes that postwar disconnect hit wayyy harder for me. a lot of ships face the issue of 'how do we relate to each other after the thing that brought us together is over? how do we move forward?' (which i LOVE) but i think it's even more agonizing when they're trying to return to the same place/time, and serve as an unavoidable daily reminder to each other that they can't.

it's almost an inversion of the usual 'the only thing we have in common is the war' dynamic: 'the war is the only thing we don't share,' which i think is a really cool and unique thing to explore. childhood friends who remain close (or who want to remain close specifically the way they were before) but have lost ownership of parts of each other that they can never recover IS extremely sickos imo!

idk that we're "selling" that, though; it's just what it is. them being childhood friends is historical and show canon, and it informs every part of their dynamic/arc. regarding "something else:" i think there's a lot of interesting stuff there! the mary houston torture nexus, their differing views on how to cope with the war/the Right way to move on, etc. but all of those themes cannot be separated from the context of them as childhood friends. it's just a fact of their relationship, and pretty foundational!

if you're not into that, then you might just not be into sidsledge. and that's okay! but that is objectively the cornerstone of their relationship, and not something we're just exaggerating for fun.

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tiktok from rushadicus

gang what do we think, is this folkpunk?

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The saltwater crocodile has the strongest bite force ever recorded in a lab, thanks to their massive and extremely stiff jaw muscles. These muscles are specifically designed to clamp down, but they're not as well suited for opening the jaw. A saltie's mouth can be held shut with just a few layers of duct tape! ©NatGeo

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Ok what I think The Pacific excels at of HBOwar shows is expressing sheer brutality and is so effective at doing this in contrast with its theme of loosing and refinding humanity. Like god this show is extremely skilled at making you sick to your stomach. There’s so many moments where I’m just like god really how could anyone come back from this. And so many didn’t. That’s why the first and last episodes connecting the characters to home and family are so poignant, you need to see how much they stand to lose not only in terms of other people in their lives but how much they stand to lose of themselves too! This is why when I think about the build of brutality over the whole series ultimately to the Okinawa episode which is just punishing to end up in the Home episode and the reconnection with humanity and gentleness and peace. Coming from so much pain and ending with Eugene sitting quietly in the field with the birds.

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what the fuck was with that pizza thing in american school lunches btw? not the actual pizza but the awful rectangle that was like if someone was making gasoline focaccia but decided last minute to put on too much sauce AND an inch of cheese...

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Shocking and horrifying my French bestie by showing him pictures of the normal American Public School Lunch

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something i've noticed that has become really annoying in the past 10 years or so is this fad of what i've been calling, for lack of a better word, "structural whataboutism." it's that thing where, when faced with a concrete, resolvable problem in your community, your answer is to blame it on a vast, unsolvable issue of structural inequality and then throw up your hands. "there's trash all over the ground in this corner of the park" becomes "well, that's where MEN OF COLOR congregate after their 12-HOUR GRAVEYARD SHIFTS and i'm not going to support a CARCERAL SOLUTION to a CAPITALISTIC PROBLEM. WE NEED TO ELIMINATE POVERTY AND THE SUBJUGATION OF THE WORKING CLASS" and it's like okay but sis. someone still has to go pick up the trash. we don't need a carceral solution, we need more trash cans. you're not going to eliminate poverty and the subjugation of the working class and even if ya did, there would still be trash on the ground. how any of this passes for radicalism within their peer groups i simply don't understand. it's radical laziness more than anything else

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Stephen Vollo (American) - Strainer, Paintings: Oil on Canvas on Panel