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Also hilarious to me that the lingering shot on the decapitated SecUnit was NOT meant as a moment of reflection. I saw earnest analyses here on Tumblr that I fully agreed with. Yeah, PresAux is being super hypocritical about this dead SecUnit, cheering for its death while ostracizing Murderbot for killing Leebeebee. Surely the show will address this; look at this poignant shot of the dead SecUnit's head!

SIKE. It was a McGuffin with no symbolic meaning whatsoever!!!

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Murderbot show earns a hearty "fine" from me. It just doesn't reproduce the vibes of the book that I really like.

I think Mensah having her back to MB while its in critical condition, focused on Pin-Lee and Gurathin instead, and Gurathin being the one to notice SecUnit is in distress, and then it crashes thinking how much it values its humans (WHO ARE CURRENTLY IGNORING IT)........

....VS Mensah frantically screaming at Murderbot to shut up because they'll not let it die....

...neatly encapsulates why the show didn't do it for me much.

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For fifteen hundred years it was just her and me. THE OLD GUARD 2 (2025)

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You're so right and you should say it.

I’m still extremely skeptical about the movie adaptation of the Scholomance. Of course Hollywood would pick it to adapt; it is much more advertisible; but it is so much less adaptable. The books are just FUN EXPOSITION: THE TRILOGY, and rely entirely on El’s amazing narrator voice, and it’s gonna be a pain in the butt to translate to a visual medium.

Why not Spinning Silver!!! For fuck’s sake, it was RIGHT THERE!!!

The exposition in Spinning Silver is largely through dialogue; it has that awesome triple storyline structure that would work so well for interweaving plots in a movie; it is visually beautiful, with heavy CGI needed only for the Staryk Kingdom bits; and it has an extremely cinematic climax.

Watching Miryem flip an entire treasury from silver to gold, melting a fire demon to bits, would be so much easier to put on screen than having to explain the fifteen mental hoops El goes through before she can kill the fucking Library Mawmouth.

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The eye flap hanging over his eyes counts as a brim! As the purpose of it is to symbolically obscure their faces

Oh Jesus fuck

Also, I do wonder why the leader there doesn't have a brim while everyone is showing theirs. They don't have reasons to hide them here

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Inner peace 🕊️🐱😌

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a couple homoerotic trio poses from pinterest lol

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happy make a terrible comic day!!! i haven't stopped thinking about this post since i saw it. in 2018 a common merganser was spotted with 76 (SEVENTY SIX!!!) chicks!! that's SOOOO many baby. so much success.

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they are like beautiful tropical birds to me

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Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

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Death and Crows 💚🖤

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i was a kid asking questions like "when you say to rate my pain on a scale of 1 to 10 do you mean relative to what i have experienced before or what i could theoretically experience in the future because what if i say 8 and then later i get twenty billion papercuts and i realise relative to that this pain is a 1" and they would reply "just focus on what you know, you literally had your foot ran over by a ford focus" and id say "well exactly but it could have been both feet which i know would surely be worse" and it still took years to diagnose me as autistic

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how low can you bow - KPop Demon Hunters (2025)

+ bonus

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huntrix x saja photoshoot

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Demon Hunters through generations 🎶 K-Pop Demon Hunters (2025)

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KPOP DEMON HUNTERS (2025) dr. Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans

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"... You're what??"