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happy 118th anniversary to franz kafka’s diary entry noting the beginning of world war i

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oftentimes when you look back on media you enjoyed as a child it’s like hello why did they let a 14 year old fight a dragon? but star wars holds up. luke is 19. his reaction to losing his whole family is to say “alright, let’s do this. I’m gonna learn to meditate and hire a sexy drug dealer and his friend who’s a furry to be my uber across the galaxy so I can blow up a fascist government” that’s something only a 19 y/o would do

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people dont recognize tony hawk WITH the skateboard

it's easy to mock the concept of batman's secret identity and think it's ridiculous that nobody would realize that he's bruce wayne but if some lady suddenly showed up late at night dressed in full military grade kevlar and started fighting crime in los angeles i wouldn't look at that and think "ah it's kylie jenner"

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they really just liked to traumatize us with children’s cartoons in the 90s and early 00s huh

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my English prof teaching abt cover letters today and me trying not to bring up the luke skywalker cover letter post:

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boss dropped out of the zoom meeting cause his cat has learned how to unplug the desktop computer when he’s hungry

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This is who Thanos THOUGHT he was. She is the Original. This level of power, with no infinity gauntlet? Thanos could never.

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sometimes I tweet about the funny/cute/utterly bizarre shit my 3rd graders do and say

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I love how Derry Girls absolutely exemplifies that concept of "group only possess a single brain cell, shared between them all."

James and Clare have it most often, and Michelle and Erin have it the least. Orla has no need of it, as she sees with her third eye and is beyond us all.

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Doctor Who AU where the companions unionize and Donna and Martha start a YouTube channel

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i mean, there’s typecasting

and then there’s playing a version of cinderella’s stepsister four times

four

separate

productions

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oftentimes when you look back on media you enjoyed as a child it's like hello why did they let a 14 year old fight a dragon? but star wars holds up. luke is 19. his reaction to losing his whole family is to say "alright, let's do this. I'm gonna learn to meditate and hire a sexy drug dealer and his friend who's a furry to be my uber across the galaxy so I can blow up a fascist government" that's something only a 19 y/o would do

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I love Rose Tyler because every time she encountered a new alien life form or a fellow human that seemed to be mistreated in some way she went “HELLO DO THEY TREAT YOU WELL, HOW MUCH DO THEY PAY YOU, ARE YOUR BASIC RIGHTS BEING VIOLATED, DID YOU KNOW YOU ARE ENTITLED TO AN EIGHT HOUR SHIFT AND THREE WEEKS OF VACATION ALSO YOU COULD JOIN A UNION, MY NAME IS ROSE I’M HERE TO HELP” and that was just so rad of her

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orpheus this, eurydice that. what about ME

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remember when you weren’t aware of oppressive power structures and all u wanted was a lavalamp ??

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I don’t think a lot of people understand that no matter how progressive or well-read you are, there are always going to be moments in your life where somebody pushes back against something that’s so culturally ingrained you never even considered it before. And you’ll say “Huh, it never occurred to me to challenge this but you’re right,” and that doesn’t mean you were “morally toxic” before, it means you’re a non-omniscient human capable of growth.

Also, some preferred terms for things will change and evolve, and terms we prefer now might eventually be considered gauche or even offensive, and that doesn’t mean you were a bigot at the time for using them. It means we evolved as a society and chose new terminology to reflect that change.

Nobody is a fully formed realisation of progressivism that can predict all shifts and modes of thought. The world will always change, and hopefully you will, too