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KIKI LAYNE @ Los Angeles premiere of The Old Guard 2, Netflix Tudum Theatre (25 June 2025) 2/?

Source: Getty Images (Maya Dehlin Spach), 25th June 2025

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I've caught the Murderbot bug! It's my new hyperfixation and I'm angry because there isn't a huge community (that I'm aware of) yet. I hope the show brings more people in!

I love the show, and it got me into the books and I've eaten 6 of them in short succession.

I think my favourite is Exit Strategy, but Network Effect is excellent, too. Gotta love Art and SecUnit!

I'm not ready to start and finish System Collapse and then how will I hang out with SecUnit??

I hope to draw it a lot. Please encourage me so I draw a lot hahah

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Yup Murderbot bullshit coming your way. It's still evolving as I'm drawing it.

Pre-PreservationAux SecUnit. I don't know if I like the augments on the ears? I'm still working on it. I'm not sold on the colours, either. Just having fun

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Rough pencils of some Murderbot SecUnit. In my headcanon SecUnit pretty much never smiles. The bottom would be an example of "happy" murderbot. I imagine for it, being peacefully itself and not having to worry about its expressions is happiness. Existing, vibing, and watching media.

I know that the show is really downplaying its obvious augments (budget!) and I'm curious how they handle this in future seasons/book adaptations, if we're lucky enough to get them.

Speaking of augments, it is directly mentioned that SecUnit's feet are not organic, and don't look like an injured-person's repairs. I wonder how they look? SecUnit can wear human boots, so I'm curious what was in the author's mind

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Today's Seal Is: Making Contact With An Unknown Beast

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why for the rogue trader tattoo options, is the aquila not available as a trampstamp i would LIKE TO HAVE A WORD

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me, a normal person: I'm going to make a design based on my cat

Her name is Girlfriend <3 <3 <3

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Ralph McQuarrie concept art for Battlestar Galactica (1978)

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This is who is leading the NYC mayoral democratic primary rn

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So funny that Emmrich, Emmrich of all people, got scammed while buying magic items in Minrathous, so he decides to take the law into his own hands, and...

... he proceeds to haunt the shit out of the scammer while pretending to know nothing about it.

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hold him gentle like hamburger.

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Hurry the dawn, Filippo Giani

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Who knows how much longer I'll lay on the floor

Touch me till I vomit

I'm not scared of god, I'm scared he was gone all along

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Absolutely wild to me how sometimes you don't even realize the way you'd been taught to perceive things as a kid was kinda fucked up, actually, until decades later.

Example:

As a kid, I constantly lived in fear of damaging shit in my parent's house. The walls. The floors (especially the floors. The wood was beautiful. Shiny. But so easy to scratch). The cabinets.

As a sixteen-year-old, I once took my car to the dealership after work and paid a very dear sum of $250 ($10/hr cashier salary) to fix a slight scratch in the paint because I knew if my father saw it there would be hell to pay. It didn't matter that I parked far out, like I'd been taught, and someone scratched it anyway. It was my fault. I failed in my duties as a steward of my vehicle.

Every time I scratched a rim on a curb while parallel parking or got a door ding or, god forbid, didn't wash and vacuum that car every weekend, it was treated like some sort of moral failing.

Last year, when my husband and I first moved into our house, he scraped the side of our car when parking in our (Very Narrow) garage. When he told me, my first instinct was to be afraid for him. Like something terrible was going to happen to him because of this mistake. I urgently reassured him that it was okay, it was an accident, I wasn't mad. Baffled, he was like, "Yeah? I know? Like, thank you for the reassurance, but I'm only a little annoyed, I'm not upset. It's just a car." And I had to take several minutes to process that. It's...just a car.

We keep the car tidy. We maintain it. But we wash it maybe 4x a year. We only vacuum it after dirty road trips or when the dog hair starts to get annoying. It has scrapes and dings and the leather seats have stains. But that's ok. Because it's just a car.

This morning, I realized that a small rock had gotten embedded in the felt foot on one of our bar stools. Neither of us had noticed. There are now scratches on our beautiful hardwood floor. My immediate response was fear accompanied by a heavy measure of paralyzing guilt. "I'm so sorry," I told my husband, "I should have noticed. I'll figure out how to fix it, I swear. I can probably sand down that section and match the stain and--"

"Whoa, hey," he said. "It was an accident. And it's fine. Floors are going to get damaged. They're floors. We live here. There was damage in places before we even bought the house, remember? It's not a big deal. It's just a floor." Right. It's just a floor. Right.

My husband's mom is visiting and this afternoon, as I was sitting in the kitchen looking at the scratches on the floor, I offhandedly asked her if my husband had ever broken or damaged anything as a kid. "Of course," she said. Household items. A TV. A wrecked car during his teen years. I asked how she punished him.

"Why would I punish him for things like that?" she said. "They were all accidents."

Right. Of course. Right.

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I have made a pay-what-you-want zine about... How To Make Zines!

I go over my entire process, so you too can learn how to supplement your income with zines. Please give it a look, and share if you find it helpful!

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what does the revolution must not be televised mean?

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to be seen without performing. to be heard without screaming. to be missed without disappearing. to be enough without proving it. to be held without falling apart. to be understood without explaining. to be wanted without conditions. to be. to be.