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that was too far. this is such sickening propaganda. not watching a second next year.

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not to be a number nerd on main but 2025 (45^2) will be the only square year most of us ever experience. the last one was 1936 and the next one will be 2116

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IRELAND GIVING ISRAEL POINTS WHAT THE HELL?!!!?

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Proud of my country for stepping up for justice, no matter Israel's threats. They showed the message below before the show started, after the Spanish TV was threatened by a fine from Israel after a message from the commentators in the semifinal.

We are one of the big fives dudes, we hold more ground in this show than you ever will. 🇵🇸

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Dandelion Wish-smiths - my page art for the @butchfairyzine !

It was fun to brainstorm what sort of process these fairies would use to shape the raw stuff of wishes into a material to make wings. I ended up having them forge the wish like a metal and then assemble the wings like stained glass.

Please please take a look at the other artists and writers who contributed to this zine because they are all brilliant! What an amazing project to be a part of!

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@academia-lucifer

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bitch this is all you’re gonna get. this life, this face, this body. you better not ‘maybe in another universe’ your way out of everything. sit your ass down and face this. go make tea and have a picnic and read a goddamn book. kiss your loved ones, send that damn text, and hug your siblings. this is all you’re gonna get.

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hey when you make posts, i just want you to know, thou/thee/thy/thine/ye are like he/you(object)/your/yours/you(subject) okay? "thou art wearing shoes," "i will wear shoes for thee," okay?

you say thine if the next word starts with a vowel and thy if the next word starts with a consonant and they both mean "your" so "thine own shoes," "thy shoes," okay?

and ye means you and refers to the subject of a sentence, "ye members of the brotherhood of shoes," okay? you need this information to create better knight yaoi. i'm personally more interested in nun yuri but we are a community

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no sentence fills me with utter loathing so much as "i asked chatgpt"

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it really is crazy how quickly people were willing to just let chatgpt do everything for them. i have never even tried it. brother i don't even know if it's just a website you go to or what. i do not know where chatgpt actually lives, because i can decide my own grocery list.

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I just learned about the "Mufasa" movie and uhmm?!? whoever and why thought this might somehow be a good idea?

they literally took Kovu and Kiara's meeting but like... for "brothers"?! also for brothers who specifically hate each other later? I mean.

why.

what the hell.

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I remember thinking, when I first saw the trailer for this season, that they're overdoing it and packing too much into so little time; boy was I right

the whole Mel/Black Rose/Ambessa plot felt so annoyingly disconnected from the rest of the story? rushed, not fully explained or explored, just there as a plot device

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Ambessa this season was ruined so much?

I feel like they weren't sure what to do with her - didn't have the guts to make her a truly compelling villain, but the attenuating circumstances/half assed suggestion at redemption was, well, half assed. and her motives just fell flat in the end.

so we're kinda sorry for her, kind of mad, not really sure what the reasoning was behind her actions, and eventually supposed to grieve the mother Mel lost and like? none of it hit

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Yeah bet you feel stupid don't you, trencher? You didn't want to be touched by a member of the oppressive brigade whose job is to enforce a boot on your neck, and whose colleagues have abused, beaten, and killed your people for decades. But what your silly goose self didn't know, is that this nice lady helps grandmas sometimes. Doesn't this make you want to put your life on the line to help your oppressor now?

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Is it just me or did the Arcane finale completely forget about the dynamic of oppression between Piltover and Zaun? Why are the Piltover police suddenly being depicted as a relatively heroic force that will open the city gates to Zaunites after after two seasons worth of them being depicted as cruel and apathetic people of immense privilege who spare no mercy towards the Undercity? Is it just me or is the final season of Arcane totally contradicting its progressive messaging?

All I can think about is when the tides of war finally roll out of the shores of Piltover and Zaun, what will happen to Zaun?

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Arcane repeats Star Wars' mistakes. Instead of telling a story of rebellion against oppression, it tells a story about invasion and how Imperialism is good actually because external forces are dangerous and imperialist structures work if everyone works together. (minus points for making the aggressor a Black woman with relatively vague motivations)

In fact, there are only like seven people in the world whose choices and actions define the fate of everyone else.

The dialogues are full of shallow platitudes - wow...

Fuck the West's obsession with individualism, fr.

(Don't get me wrong, I was thoroughly and genuinely entertained, mesmerized even. The finale was visually stunning, and if Arcane had started as a typical Hero's Journey kind of narration, I'd be impressed because for psychological storytelling, it got as good as it gets, but the story feels a little disconnected and cliché, abandoning a lot of its greatest strengths from S1. I was looking forward to a story of collective action against systems of oppression and exploitation, and I got another epic tale of individual heroism.)