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“If there is light behind her eyes, it’s out now.”

Worlds Beyond Number always makes me want to draw. This time I pushed myself to not leave it unfinished.

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"this movie doesn't hold up bcos of dated special effects :(" to you, maybe. i would clap at a bat on a string

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actualiser, somewhere between the ectic research station and oda

transcript under the cut

[panel 1]

Olethra: uh

Marya: can't sleep?

Olethra: I⸺ ah - I wanna check on your, um.

[panel 2]

Olethra: …   yeah. - I can't⸺

Olethra: I can't either.

[panel 3]

Olethra: I do⸺ wanna check on the, um.

Marya: It's fine.

Olethra: does it hurt…?

Marya: nothing more than I can take. - Van cleaned it well.

Marya: Just mad I stabbed through another silk shirt.

[panel 4]

Marya: But that's - typical, I guess.

Olethra: mmhm.

Marya: of her.

Olethra: yeah… 

Marya: She just has that much power over me. - and my shirts.

[panel 5]

Olethra: yeah, I⸺ - I wouldn't say I'm a woman thanks to her, - but⸺ like,

[panel 6]

Olethra: to my parents I'm their child no matter what, right? - I think grandma Comfrey has always seen everyone as what they⸺ /can/ be.

Olethra: I think she saw me as, like, - a little pool of pure potentials.

[panel 7]

Olethra (off screen): So I started seeing myself like that too.

Olethra (off screen): I'm what I can make of myself.

[panel 8]

Olethra (off screen): when I wanted to be a girl, - I just… became a girl. - She was really happy about that… 

Olethra (off screen): I just thought she liked how I was turning out to be an actualiser too.

[panel 9]

Marya:   - she probably did. - If you ask me, she's always been sincere.

[panel 10]

Marya: that's why - it hurts so much when turns out /she/ ruined my fucking life.

Marya: love is not a thing of clockwork, Olethra. - it's just metal.

[panel 11]

Marya: don't throw the metal away.

Marya: you know what came of it.

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there you are you sack of shit. eat fuckin lead you bastard. if i drown i die. but if i die im dead. nat 20.

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Loved the reveal and the absolute terror of that unexpected fight

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Still watching the newest Cloudward Ho episode but I wanted to congratulate Olethra Macleod for her childhood crush being confirmed as WLW

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Emily saying "this is the first time we've had a dildo on the show" and Zac yelling "NO IT ISN'T" like the Gorgug just jumped out of him for a second

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i just wanna talk to the art department

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"australian wildlife is so scary!"

Say fucking sorry to him right now or I'll fucking lose it

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spreading this early :)

someone respond to this so i know to look at it again 👍👍

I've been real busy lately because it's December and I work at the post office, so of course I am

But that doesn't mean I can't show up with an unprompted PSA

Hey! Have you ever mailed a letter to Santa Claus? Have you ever wondered what exactly happened to that letter? Well wonder no longer! If it had a stamp and a return address, then odds are that it ended up on the USPS's Operation Santa page!

Every year, the USPS collects letters to Santa Claus, and processes them to black out any identifying information. Last names, addresses, things like that. Then, the letters are posted on the Operation Santa webpage and people can adopt the letters.

Once you adopt a letter, you can buy gifts for them, wrap them up, and package them. Then you get a barcode from the website, and bring them to a post office. The clerk there will scan the barcode, which prints out a label with the address on it, and sends out the gift.

It's anonymous on both ends, and is generally just. A really nice thing to do.

I highly recommend it if you have some money to spare this year and want to give a kid a moment of magic this year

It's one of those things that the post office just happened to be positioned to do, and ended up knocking it out of the park. Unfortunately, I don't think they advertise this nearly well enough, and most letters end up going unanswered

Hopefully, a few more will be answered this year

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TEAM SKELETON PLS

oh shit wait brainblast incoming

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Also very frustrating as a show producer in certain cultural arts when you are trying to advertise tge show and people feel like they're not allowed to come because theyre not from the culture.

Please come to the drag show even if youre cishet.

Please come to the bellydance showcase even if youre not Middle Eastern.

Please come to the Asian Festival if youre not Asian.

Please dance at the drum circle if youre not African.

If the event is being publicly advertised, you're invited. We want you to come if you intend to come respectfully. If you are asking 'am I allowed,' youre probably bot gonna be disrespectful. Please fill the seats. Cultural events have trouble with attendance sometimes because people who would be curious to go get shy about it. Please go to things that are curious to you. Your presence is not a burden.

I have yet to be kicked out of anything (unless you count the bathroom at a gas station that one time.)

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Average 2020s movie being "too political": girl power! quick background kiss between two gay extras! one single black guy!

Average "non-political" 70s movie: the government is hiding a global conspiracy that is warming the planet and will kill us all and also the cops are evil

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so obvious

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I have some head canon ideas regarding Suzy, as a kid I thought she was funny but now I find her character very annoying

Honestly she would probably still be annoying in this rewrite but at least it would be very wholesome lmao

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It recently came up in conversation with my toddler that some birds can talk, and this has caused her great concern.

See, we were talking about how movies are pretend and how in real life, animals don’t talk. I mentioned that there are some birds who talk a little bit, but not like the animals in movies, and she just looked at me like “???”

So I informed her that some kinds of parrots can copy sounds that people make, and can learn how to say words. I thought this would give her a giggle, as fun new facts often do, but she was just deeply perplexed and a little worried about this.

“Birds can talk?” “Do they ask questions?” “What do they say?” Why do they talk?” “Do chickens talk?” “What about Blue Jays?” “Why do some birds talk?” “How do they talk?” “Birds TALK???”

We showed her a video of a parrot doing the “Hello, pretty bird, give a kiss” thing, and she was dead silent the whole time, hugging her comfort pillow with her knees to her chest. We asked if she wanted us to turn it off, and she shook her head. But we also asked if she wanted to see another one, and she shook her head even harder.

I don’t know why it has distressed her so greatly to learn that some birds can mimic human speech; but then again, I don’t know why it doesn’t distress the rest of us more to know that some birds can mimic human speech.

I keep thinking about that post that’s like “The first person to hear a parrot talk was probably Not Okay.” Because that’s exactly what happened. She had never been introduced to the concept, and her entire worldview got SHOOK.