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(Beaten down, nearly without hope) maybe Travis kelce will transition

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i feel like i dont mention this enough but kreia and my exile are really Gay

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“Perhaps you were expecting some surprise, for me to reveal a secret that had eluded you, something that would change your perspective of events, shatter you to your core. There is no great revelation, no great secret. There is only you.”

KOTOR II companions 12/12 - Kreia

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“So you will do nothing? Apathy is death. Worse than death, because at least a rotting corpse feeds the beasts and insects.”

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Kreia/Darth Traya (KOTOR2)

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sentences I hear at work #58: “your dog’s got big tits”

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Here’s something else I’ve been curious about.

This quiz is about novels only. Or, if you will, works of fiction that tell a story and that you are typically expected to start, read till you reach the end, and then finish once you do so.

Reference books (e.g.) are not typically meant to be read cover to cover. This poll is not about them.

By “read” I mean “reading from cover to cover like it was your first time reading it”. Flipping through a book you like is Good and Cool but not within the scope of this poll.

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it's amazing how when i'm an active agent in my life good things happen and i feel capable and confident in myself and when i just passively let life happen to me terrible things happen and i am miserable. surely no one else has ever noticed this tendency

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I do enjoy that you can turn kotor 2 into a turn based game. love auto-pause

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I didn’t have the opportunity to use 8tracks in the height of its popularity much due to severe controls on what I could look at online until I was 18 but I do miss having a unified place where fanmixes/playlist-building could exist.

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finding myself missing Spotify (bleh) for the reason that finding fanmixes was a lot easier. tidal is more cultured I suppose

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“To me, the core of that attraction is that she is a better reporter than he is. Think about being Superman for a second. The Olympic record for weightlifting is 1,038 lbs., but you could lift more than that as a child. The record for the 100 meter dash is 9.58 seconds, but you can travel over 51 miles in that time. Going to Vegas? You don’t need your X-Ray vision to win at Blackjack, because you can just count the cards while holding down a conversation about nuclear physics. Without really trying, you are better at just about everything than anyone else in the world. However, (as Mark Waid once pointed out in a podcast with Marv Wolfman) none of that really translates to your chosen profession. Typing really fast does not help your prose. Being able to lift a tank does not help you convince a source to go on record. It is as near to competing straight up with normal people as Superman would ever be capable of. Even then, it comes easily enough to him that you get a pretty lofty perch at a great paper very early in your career. It is just in this one context, there is someone better than you are: Lois Lane. As mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent, you reach up for the first time in your life and she rejects you. To me, it is an inversion of the Luthor story. Luthor sees someone above him and feels hate. Superman sees someone above him and feels love.”

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Dean Hacker, comment on “Giving Lois Lane A Second Look, For The First Time” by Kelly Thompson (CBR: She Has No Head!)

#GoLois

(via wickedjunkie)

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looking for flats is a joke what the hell am I doing

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aw I missed the late summer early autumn clear skies at night

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embarrassing that kotor is what is revving up the writing ideas engine. of all fucking things.

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Art by Ralph McQuarrie for (what became) Coruscant.

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"What's in a name?": Samira Mohan edition. A compilation of every mention of the character by name in season one. A comparison of how Samira pronounces her last name compared to other characters, plus how she refers to herself versus how other characters refer to her.

The clips are organized in four sections: 1) all instances of Samira saying her own name, 2) all other characters' mentions of "Mohan" (usually "Dr. Mohan"), 3) "Samira," and 4) "Slo-Mo." Clips in each section are shown in order of appearance.

"Mohan" pronunciation

Here, I use general American English as the guide for comparing the pronunciation of the name Mohan. The surname is not English in origin, but I use it based on the show setting and character backgrounds. I am not by any means an expert in linguistics or phonetics, and all of this information I compiled from phonetic and IPA guides online. Please correct any mistakes!

Samira pronounces her last name like mo-huhn (which sounds to me like /ˈmoʊhʌn/ or /ˈmoʊhən/, but I can't tell if there is stress on the uh sound). Most characters pronounce Mohan like mo-han (/ˈmoʊhæn/) with the "a" sound like the one in the words "cat" or "hand." Donahue is the only character who pronounces Mohan like mo-hahn (/ˈmoʊhɑn/) with the "a" sound like the one in the word "father." Of the characters who say Samira's last name, it sounds like Santos is the only character who pronounces Mohan similarly to Samira.

Mentions of Samira's name

"Mohan" is said 36 times in season 1. Of those 36 times, there are only two instances in which a character drops the "Doctor" title from her surname, and both times it is Robby who does it. The counts of how many times each character refers to Samira as Dr. Mohan (and simply Mohan in Robby's case) in season 1:

17: Michael "Robby" Robinavitch

4: Heather Collins, Jack Abbot

3: self

2: Frank Langdon, Dennis Whitaker

1: Melissa "Mel" King, Trinity Santos, Donnie Donahue, Joyce St. Claire (patient)

"Samira" is said 13 times in season 1. Samira says her own name three of those times. The first time, she invites Whitaker, a new colleague, to use her first name instead of "Dr. Mohan," indicating a preference to dropping formalities when colleagues speak to her. The second time, she introduces herself by her full name to a patient's spouse. The third time, she says her name when speaking to Robby on the phone. The counts of how many times each character refers to Samira by her first name in season 1:

4: Robby

3: self

2: Collins

1: Dana Evans, Cassie McKay, Trinity Santos, Parker Ellis

"Slo-Mo", a nickname colleagues use to mock the pace Samira works at, is mentioned four times in season 1. Samira brings it up first to Robby and then Whitaker separately. Collins mentions it when she tells Samira she deserves better. Robby jokes about the nickname to compliment Samira for working at a more efficient pace.

2: self

1: Robby, Collins