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I like to keep an eye out for bumper stickers whenever I'm on a walk. Here are a few of my favorites

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Great news, everyone

Hulk hogan is dead

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Anniversary of APOLLO 11 MOON LANDING

On July 20, 1969, 109 hours and 42 minutes after launch, Neil Armstrong and Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin entered the lunar lander ‘Eagle’, made a final check, and the Eagle undocked from the lunar orbiter ‘Columbia’, where the third member of the crew Michael Collins, stayed in orbit around the moon. Partially manually piloted by Armstrong, the Eagle landed 0 degrees, 41 minutes, 15 seconds north moon latitude and 23 degrees, 26 minutes east moon longitude. Armstrong stepped out, and Aldrin followed 20 minutes later: human beings stepped on the moon for the first time. The two men spent 21 hours and 26 minutes on its surface. One of the astounding aspects of the mission was the seeming simplicity of the technology used to get man to the moon. According to Oliver Gassmann, professor of Technology Management, the mobile phone in your pocket has one million times more memory than the Apollo 11’s computer. Same about the procesor: the latest phones typically have more than 100,000 times the processing power of the computer that landed man on the moon 50 years ago.

“It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.” –Neil Armstrong

(gifs from the documentary Chasing The Moon, 2019)

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The inherent homoeroticism of killing your enemy and immediately regretting it

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Original

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been thinking about fantasy/scifi rule systems and free will

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Supernatural is very quotable, but unfortunately the best lines are “you gotta go be gay for that poor dead intern” and “freedom is a length of rope. God wants you to hang yourself with it.”

They encompass the full spectrum of the show from a complex interrogation of religion and free will to satirical borderline homophobic comedy.

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tiktoks with vine energy

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i love you mirror versions i love you possession i love you cloning i love you simulacrums i love you shadow selves i love you digital copies of a mind i love you alternate timeline versions i love you tropes that play with identity and what it means to be a certain person

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i understand you guys now. like i get it

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s/o to this skeleton babe from 1936

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internet friends are kinda like illegally downloaded friends. you don’t get the physical copy but you still get all the great content

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the best character development in the show

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That's how the episode went right?

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All the drawing ideas in my head right now are nonsense so here's a Spiderverse/Rebels crossover

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I feel like we don't talk enough about how Spike didn't kill Cecily. Think about it. She, very harshly, rejected and insulted him. Then he became a vampire. A vampire so vicious that he became famous. And yet his first move wasn't to murder the woman who dismissed him like his existence was meaningless. It was to go turn his sick mother into a vampire so she could live forever with him. He loved his mother so deeply that it lingered even after he lost his human soul. I believe the same can be said of his feelings for Cecily, despite her rejection. I mean, he wrote poetry for her. That requires some pretty intense emotions. He could've gone and gotten revenge with his hot new girlfriend, who I am certain would have relished watching him violently kill the woman who caused the tears he was shedding when she met him. You could argue that it was because he fell in love with Drusilla and no longer cared about Cecily. And, if that's the case, it means that he loved her so powerfully that it completely erased his emotions about Cecily, even the negative ones. But I don't think that's it. I think the love he had for Cecily was so powerful that, despite her rejection, and like with his mother, it lingered even when he became a vampire.

This is, I believe, another example of Spike's unique ability to love as a soulless vampire. Angelus murdered his entire family, including his entirely innocent little sister whom he loved, because his father had been a dick to him. Hell, he murdered the entire village. Everyone he'd ever met. Absolutely no part of him had any love remaining.

Whereas Spike was capable of loving so deeply that even after Buffy died, he protected her little sister because he'd promised Buffy he'd protect her "til the end of the world". He thought he would never see Buffy again, so it wasn't like he was trying to get her to fall for him. He did it because he knew she would have wanted it. It didn't matter that he would get exactly nothing out of it. Can you imagine any other vampire in the Buffyverse doing that?

So yeah, Spike didn't kill Cecily and we should talk about that more.