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When people get a little too gung-ho about-

wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?

ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.

That’s…wild. What was I talking about?

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Just checking.... We all pronounce Miette like My-TAY in our heads, right?

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[arcelian]

On a dark desert highway

Cool wind in my hair

Warm smell of colitas

Rising up in the air

Up ahead in the distance

I saw a shimmering light

My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim

I had to stop for the night

There she stood in the doorway

I heard the mission bell

And I was thinking to myself, "this could be heaven or it could be hell"

Then she lit up a candle

And she showed me the way

There were voices down the corridor, I thought I heard them say

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PLEASE HOLD PLEASE HOLD PLEASE HOLD PLEASE HOLD

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The Beast that Bothers

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oh shit, it's 3/21/23, 32123, palindrome day

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there is, in fact, a "platonic explanation for this" if you're not a coward

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POPEYE?!?!??

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this has been discussed before but reducing female characters to the girlboss braincell holder in the name of combating misogyny in fandom is ironically also a form of misogyny

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downside: going to have to include a picture of the Giza pyramids in the slides for the lecture upside: i get to give people a crash course in why perspective matters in two frames, because

followed by

is such a funny sequence

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ITS APRIL 13 YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

FETCH ME NEIL