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would you still love me if i was a cautionary tale

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Everyone shut up! It’s the ten year anniversary

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THE SECRET GARDEN + flowers 🌺 dir. Agnieszka Holland

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oh my favorite trope? two people who go through something so unique and agonizing and entirely beyond words that they have no choice but to create a bond that transcends all other types of love, thus acting as the sole point of understanding for the other person in a world that cannot fathom what they’ve been through

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Adams, but he looks different everytime because I’m inconsistent

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Taz is such a fun show because how do I explain to people the amount of love in the phrase "starting salary is non-negotiable", or the joy in their voice when they say "your cat's fucking dead", or how one of the most serious and heartbreaking scenes in the series is initiated by a silly wizard lipsyncing to the Thong Song, or the fact that Death Itself having a Tentacle Hentai Fetish ends up changing the entire story because he falls in love with the guy who made him realize he was into Tentacle Hentai and their relationship helped save all worlds everywhere in every timeline ever, or how the DM crafted an entire intricate lore about the multiverse and how it works and what connects the different realities just so people could stop bitching at him for putting elevators in his medieval fantasy world

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Drew Barrymore at the Ever After premiere 1998

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I love all books but sometimes you read a book and you’re like so were all 21 thousand of you blindfolded and at gun point when you rated it 5 stars

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What's wrong with the name Fairy? When she was younger, I called her Little Fairy, but I can't call her like that when she's grown, can I?

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eleanor shellstrop one of the protagonists of all time honestly. woman who sucks so much who gets put in a situation specifically made to make her worse and instead she gets better. filled with love for other people but replaced it with malice for as long as she could because love got her nothing. went from being selfish for survival to selfless for survival and in the end she lands on being selfless for selflessness's sake. she even has mommy issues. she's even bisexual.

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Okay one thing I really love about the first episode of Taz Royale is how beautifully the introduction plays to the players’ strengths. Like Travis LOVES a backstory, always has, and so giving him the Past vision gave him the chance to flesh that out for us. Like, Magnus’ pages of backstory when they thought TAZ Balance was going to be a one shot (LMAO) or Devo Mutt Beef still having fairly solid origins even in the ‘guys we’re not doing backstories’ campaigns. And of course Travis pops off with a giant cast of backstory characters to work with, trauma to pull from, and giant character motivation that’s simultaneously tragic and hilarious!

Versus Justin being in the Present. I’m fairly certain in a ttazz for Ethersea he had this discussion about wanting Amber to be a very present character, and preferring the now adventure to a backstory the audience can’t fully engage with. And I think his philosophy on that very much bled through Steeplechase, Justin leans into the improv and building things on the fly. Like the entire Nanofather! So giving him a near immediate present to jump off and immediately launch into establishing personality and a rivalry dynamic that’s immediately relevant and ready to unfold is right up Justin’s alley.

And with Clint, Future space janitor just works really well cause I think Clint usually takes a little time to get a solid grasp of his characters. Frequently he’ll drop a little comment or a scene near the end of the campaign that just utterly reframes my understanding of the character. Like, all of Merle and John but also like the fact he has kids, or Zoox becoming the Mind Melder guy tm. I almost always appreciate his characters more on a relisten. So, having his character start with a vision of a future to build towards (and an INSANELY compelling one at that) is just perfect.

Like, obviously the season just started, but I can just feel Griffin’s years of DMing this specific group and it’s really cool to see.

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all-timer daniel molloy questions:

1. did you eat the baby?

2. are you schizophrenic, louis?

3. and then what?

4. fuck, man, are you the zodiac killer?

5. YOU BOTH FUCKED LESTAT?

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Interview with the vampire 1.02

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Whenever I think about students using AI, I think about an essay I did in high school. Now see, we were reading The Grapes of Wrath, and I just couldn't do it. I got 25 pages in and my brain refused to read any more. I hated it. And its not like I hate the classics, I loved English class and I loved reading. I had even enjoyed Of Mice and Men, which I had read for fun. For some reason though, I absolutely could NOT read The Grapes of Wrath.

And it turned out I also couldn't watch the movie. I fell asleep in class both days we were watching it.

This, of course, meant I had to cheat on my essay.

And I got an A.

The essay was to compare the book and the movie and discuss the changes and how that affected the story.

Well it turned out Sparknotes had an entire section devoted to comparing and contrasting the book and the movie. Using that, and flipping to pages mentioned in Sparknotes to read sections of the book, I was able to bullshit an A paper.

But see the thing is, that this kind of 'cheating' still takes skills, you still learn things.

I had to know how to find the information I needed, I needed to be able to comprehend what sparknotes was saying and the analysis they did, I needed to know how to USE the information I read there to write an essay, I needed to know how to make sure none of it was marked as plagerized. I had to form an opinion on the sparknotes analysis so I could express my own opinions in the essay.

Was it cheating? Yeah, I didn't read the book or watch the movie. I used Sparknotes. It was a lot less work than if I had read the book and watched the movie and done it all myself.

The thing is though, I still had to use my fucking brain. Being able to bullshit an essay like that is a skill in and of itself that is useful. I exercised important skills, and even if it wasnt the intended way I still learned.

ChatGTP and other AI do not give that experience to people, people have to do nothing and gain nothing from it.

Using AI is absolutely different from other ways students have cheated in the past, and I stand by my opinion that its making students dumber, more helpless, and less capable.

However you feel about higher education, I think its undeniable that students using chatgtp is to their detriment. And by extension a detriment to anyone they work with or anyone who has to rely on them for something.

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TWIN PEAKS | 2.11

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"What do you want from a remake" I DON'T WANT THEM. I DON'T WANT ANOTHER SOULLESS NOSTALGIA-FILLED CASH-GRAB. I DON'T WANT ANY OF THEM. I DON'T WANT ADAPTATIONS THAT KILL THE ORIGINAL MESSAGE OF THE THING THEY WERE BASED UPON NEITHER THE SHOT-BY-SHOT DESATURATED RECREATIONS. I WANT ORIGINAL STORIES!!! NOT REMAKES OF MOVIES THAT AIN'T EVEN 30 YEARS OLD!!!​AAGGGGGHHH

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Play It By Ear (2022-) 2.10 | Heebie Jeebies