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tbh my favorite moment in cinderella's castle was "blowjob joke... <3 <3 <3 <3"

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Tadius killing the king is so funny to me. What was his thought process. Wow Woah the trolls trying to turns Bogs Hollow was super scary but Ella was so cool and saved all out lives. She should be Queen the old king SUCKS. The wedding technically counted and the Prince is gone sooo. How do I get the Prettiest Amazingiest Girl ever on the throne if the Old King's still alive. Hold on I have an idea! Regicide.

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Oh so when Ella Ashmore finds out her God(s) are false and gets power from a new more Eldrich one to defeat her enemies it's a good thing and she's seen as a hero. But when I, Grace Chasity-

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oh no i just realized i sound like the goddamn football coach

sooo i started watching glee and the main thing i have to say is, emma baby forget about that creep ass piece of shit spanish teacher i could treat you so right just give me a chance

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Obviously “America is Great Again” is a fantastic critique of capitalism and American propaganda, which would be enough to make it an incredible scene on its own. It’s a great song and a great demonstration of the show’s themes, and it’s really well done.

But there’s a tragic layer to that song that really elevates it for me, and that’s because it’s specifically MacNamara singing it.

MacNamara first is introduced to seem like a stereotypical patriotic army guy in the scene where he knocks Paul out. However, he then subverts that in the next scene where we learn his true morals, namely that he believes in love and humanity as his higher purpose and he will put that above the orders of his country if they conflict. He chooses to let Paul live because of that, and when Paul asks if he can save Emma, MacNamara gives him his gun and tells him to go. We learn, as does Paul, that despite his appearance and general vibes, he is a genuinely good person who wants to help and is willing to put his moral code above his patriotism.

But when he gets apotheosized, he becomes the complete opposite. Suddenly his loyalty is to his country only, and his own moral code is erased in service of that, which causes contradictions between the lyrics of AIGA and his thoughts in the scene with Paul. “You can’t run because our borders are closed” when he was helping Paul escape in a helicopter as a human; “Americans should fit a mold” when he didn’t at all fit the “douchey army patriot” mold he was presented with; “There’s only room for right and wrong” when he clearly is able to choose between his own morality and his orders, indicating a more complex outlook instead of a binary. He becomes the stereotype he was subverting, and in doing so he becomes someone that the real MacNamara would have hated. That’s the tragedy of that song, and of the whole show really, is that the people who become part of the hive mind lose their true selves and are only able to act in their stereotypical roles, even if that’s nothing like how they actually were as humans.

There’s also something to be said here about how the us war machine and capitalism corrupts people and makes them into something they would never have been otherwise through a forced loss of personhood but I can’t figure out how to phrase that so

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I can finally unveil this personal project! My comic version of chapter one of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, which I finally managed to get to shortly after SOTR came out. This was a unique project for me that I've been working on, on and off, for the past year or so. Lots and lots of fun, although I did mess up in some parts (typesetting :') ) and the limited color pallette was a unique challenge. Rest of the chapter under the cut! Hope you enjoy :)

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the ora ngutan ms k km smoking

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the thoughtful orangutan

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i have never met an unpsychotic person who knows what it actually means to “not encourage the delusion” …not a single one

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brutal murder. awesome

First thing you see after you zoom in is how you die

How you dying 👀

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I haven't seen it but I used to perform I speak 6 languages as a lip sync <3 the one line that still gets stuck in my head is (she's also a champion rugby player <3) to excel in athletics is not difficult if one has the temperament <3 apparently <3 <3 I have the temperament <3 <3 <3

JUST WATCHED THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE I LOVE IT SM

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i know it's a small fandom but you're telling me NO ONE on ao3 has EVER written ripred/ares. no one not even once. do i have to do EVERYTHING myself

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fuuuucckkkk id never thought about what if hazard wanted to go up to the overland and find his mother's family that's a good fucking idea

Ok I can't remember who asked me but I found this fic that they wanted me to look for like a year ago.

It's called Those left behind by ezilo on ao3.

Here's the link.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/43616694

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one part of gregor the overlander that always fucking makes me laugh is "my mom is never gonna let me leave the apartment again" "that is not what it says in the prophecy of bane :/ "

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i am the green stretch of ocean that

i cannot claw my way out of and

i am the heat that bears down on my

skin that can't sweat all the need out and

mine are the teeth that clamp down on my

neck as my blood beats to bursting and

i am not trapped inside my body

my body is trapped inside

me.