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me and the homies if we were bisexual and dead

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at a conference I attended recently, a researcher pointed to the difficulty of finding material in archives because so much depends on the metadata and the terminology used to describe things changes over time. "it would be so helpful," the researcher said, "if I typed 'lesbian' into the library of congress database, it would also show me results that were categorised in the 50s, when the materials were interpreted as 'intimate female friendships'"

which is what tag wrangles at Archive Of Our Own do incredibly effectively: searching for "omegaverse" also leads to "alpha/beta/omega dynamics" and "alternate universe: a/b/o" and so on. but ao3 achieves this frankly incredible categorisation and indexing system by the power of countless volunteers putting in hours and hours of unpaid and unthanked free time, and it's completely understandable that most archives do not have that kind of infrastructure, but also how incredible that a fan-run website has better searchability, classification, and accessibility than the library of congress

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I know that some British people take umbrage at Americans calling the Great British Bake Off relaxing, but it's just because GBBO is such a different kind of stressful from American baking shows.

American baking shows will be called something like "Cupcake Knife Fight", there's horror movie lighting everywhere and dramatic stings every 5 seconds. All of the contestants are shit talking each other and fist fighting over the one single deep fryer provided by production. It will show the judges all whispering to each other at their super villain table overlooking the whole kitchen, and one will be like, "Oh my god. Everyone look at Brenda right now. She's straight tanking it." And it will cut to Brenda, who is running around covered in flour and crying and also bleeding for some reason. Then you get a clip from an interview with one of the contestants, and they're like, "I really need to win this. Without this award money, I'm gonna need to close my restaurant, sell my dad, and live out of my car. AGAIN." Then the giant digital doomsday clock overhead lets out a horrid klaxon, the judges tell half of them that their cupcakes taste disgusting, and one of them gets eliminated and sent to walk down the dramatically-lit shame hallway never to be seen again.

Meanwhile GBBO is in a lovely, brightly colored tent, there are delightful and friendly hosts/jesters there to keep everyone entertained, and all of the B Roll is of like... a bumblebee going into a flower, or a lamb running in a field. And yes, there will be moments where someone will mess up their timing or something, and they'll be looking at their bake through the oven door like, "oh gosh I don't think this will rise in time!" Then they stand up to find Paul Hollywood directly behind them ominously. His creepy whitewalker eyes will glow white, and he'll say something like "the 12th of June. 2035. Drowning." And his eyes will go back to normal and he'll walk away. Then the baker gives a playful grimace to the camera and says "that didnt sound great, did it?". Cut to a sweet looking older woman sipping tea on a stool and she says "oo I do hope that Prue enjoys the taste of my sugary, sticky baps!". Then, at the end, someone gets a gold star for doing good, and the loser of the episode gets in the middle of a giant group hug. You see all of them at the end of the series at a giant carnival with their families and the post credits informs you that all of the contestants have become a Partridge Family-style traveling band and stayed friends forever.

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has anyone made this yet

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do you ship it?

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environmental storytelling

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Obsessed with how in both AJ's and Lukes discord qna videos, Sam is not involved to begin with, when suddenly he is summoned from the aether realm and just fucking materializes in front of the camera

Luke's QnA

Luke: AJ's easily confused, Sam's full of shit, and Tom gets overly anxious

Sam: What??? I'm full of shit??

AJ's QnA

Jay: You all have your signature clothes, like Sam with his plaid shirt, but if you had to swap with one of the others-

Sam: HAHAHAHA-

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the way John McNamara says "I can show you the path but only you can walk it" scratches my brain in a way I cannot explain

I love Jeff's voice so much. I'm constantly impressed by his falsetto and how smoothly he slips between chest and head voice

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TGWDLM must be my favorite musical thats ever been created because i love every single version of it from all the different casts ive found on youtube. I love elder lesbian hidgens, latino bill, i love high school and college versions alike, i love the $5 and a dream budgets and the we had some props from last years musical budget, i love how every single person who plays as Jeffs characters possess his manic cat energy, I love all their added original jokes, i love how they’ll say a line differently and make me rethink characters.

i am constantly jealous when someone mentions they get to see a local production of it. TGWDLM is magic and it’s spreading!

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little mac doodle because i imagined his early days and began to sob so

may or may not make something else with this

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big fan of when people write AJ quotes in cursive 😌

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Ah, a classic.

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Saw this and thought of them

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I like Nightmare Time because it really shifts how you think of these characters' morality. The show's like, yeah Ted sucks but he's also a deeply sad, wounded person who's doomed to a horrible fate. Frank's a bad boss but he's also a lonely man with a tragic dream that can't really exist in the modern world. Linda's an entitled bastard but her dad is even worse and treats her horribly.

And Zoey... er, Zoey being assimilated into Pokotho's hive mind wasn't so much corruption as a lateral move, morally speaking.

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This is so dumb

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Hatchetfield + Onion Headlines, part 4 of ??

feat nightmare time