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yours truly has decided to watch black sails. frankly i was sold by the theme music, it's just too good! but by god all the men in this show are ugly. john silver in particular is one of the ugliest men my eyes have ever been cast upon. this is why watching this will be a torture

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it's only an AU if all the characters belong there, otherwise it's just sparkling isekai

[“Pachinko.” She slams a hand down on the counter. “You walk back in unannounced after all this time, and the best you can do is pachinko? Do you have ANY idea, Gintoki? How worried we all were? How scared?” “Um…” Is this part of the hallucination, he wonders, taking in the white-clenched knuckles, the deathly pallor of her face. The tremor of her hands as she reaches for a cigarette, a matchbook from the pot on the counter. Something strange coils in his gut; for the first time since waking in a pile of sodden bin bags, it occurs to Gintoki that something is very badly amiss.] following a comical pachinko-related mishap, Gintoki wakes up in an Edo he doesn't quite recognise.

Prologue & chapter 1 here

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The Holy Mountain (1973) | dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky

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the holy mountain (1973)

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The Holy Mountain (1973, Mexico) Dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky

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The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973)

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Sing a Song of Sex (1967) dir. Nagisa Oshima

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Nagisa Oshima

- Sing a Song of Sex

1967

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Nagisa Oshima

- Sing a Song of Sex

1967

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Some of you have never learned how to be healthy and separate historical figures from historical fiction characters based on historical figures and it shows

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sorry. what the fuck is this all supposed to mean

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ooookay so for some reason i feel up for it so i will indicate some minor irks about samurai champloo aside from no mugen and jin graphic say gex scene

1 - the tone differences between the funnier and more comical episodes are very clear and distinct. the shift from the 2 sara eps to the two fillers before the final mini-arc did not work for me because of this, since a tonal shift from a very serious episode to an attempt at comedy was too whiplashy and felt weird

2 - frankly uncompelling final antagonist, especially compared to sara, who we encountered basically right before. kariya felt mostly like a plot device and a flat representation of an Almighty Powerful Invincible Guy or something to me. it does not help that he is only introduced right at the final mini-arc, especially since there could have been a build-up considering he was a part of jin's past

3 - only one instance of jin crossdressing.

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Konstantin Andreevich Ukhtomsky, The Small Winter Garden in the Apartments of Alexandra Fyodorovna from Types of Rooms in the Winter Palace, c 1870s, watercolor.

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Sergiu Ciochina (Moldovan b.2001), Me, or the Moon Watching Me, 2024, Oil on board

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you should be addicted to shutting the fuck up

You wanna fuck me so bad it makes you look stupid

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i hope im not just a mutual to you but also a really annoying stranger who is somehow always going through something

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what fucking millennium is it