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How dare Korea gatekeep their derpy tigers and their magpie cohorts?!

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I need someone to write a fic about Mon Mothma finally reaching the Rebellion and meeting Rex. Why do I need this? Because Rex was basically Anakin and Padme's personal clone. He was essentially their property.

You know there were times where Mon and Padme would be working together or meeting together and Anakin would be in the room, offering his bitch opinion and talking over Padme, and Rex would be standing off to attention to the side.

Rex is this lovely reminder that the Republic was rotten for years before the Empire, Mon just didn't quite see it.

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Why is no one talking about Sinners using an Irish vampires and Bram Stroker being Irish? Yes, there were plenty of vampires myths before Dracula, but Stroker popularized the myth for modern audiences.

It also ties into the film's message about cultural appropriation and assimilation, especially since Stroker has been accused of stealing his ideas from not just the Eastern European myths, but also from John William Polidori's The Vampyre and Carmilla.

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They put an Umbaran and a close trooper on the same team! The fanfics practically write themselves lol

Get to it, clone fangirls. You know the assignment!

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Sinners was a transcendent, near religious experience. Just plan to see if this weekend. Yes, it's a horror movie, but it is so beautiful and loving. I really don't know how to describe it.

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You can't tell me that Sabrina Carpenter's Please Please Please isn't the perfect song for Galadriel and Sauron. I still cannot believe that this is an actual ship and that I'm having so much fun with it!

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I'm just happy a show was brave enough to point out how ridiculously dangerous a sharp, pointy crown would be.

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Because! That's why!

Why is the shark battery-powered?

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Project 2025 is scary for so many, many reasons, but you want to know the weirdest one? Due to the vague wording surrounding its position on corn-but-with-a-p, you or I or anyone else who writes fanfiction could be labeled a child predator and either put on a list or, if you happen to be in a state like Florida, just straight up executed.

Over fanfiction. Because under the laws proposed by Project 2025, fanfiction might broadly be considered corn-but-with-a-p. And such things are harmful to children. I just have no words. We could all be involved in a political witchhunt over fanfiction. I could have to flee the country over fanfiction.

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I didn't think this news would hurt this much. And I feel so bad for Toriyama's actual friends and family who have to stumble through such grief and pain from losing someone so suddenly.

Dragon Ball Z got me through some really tough times. It was one of the things that saved me and I'm forever grateful for that.

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Prepare for pain! Other fandoms think they know pain, but to be a fan of Star Wars cartoons is to have been raised in the pain, taught the pain, and fed the pain! Let it wash over you and revel in it!

The pain!

(Seriously, though, I love how depressing this franchise gets!)

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i will never get over this

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You know what I realized about sinners going to Heaven? How long until people in Heaven realize that not only can their loved ones in Hell be redeemed, but that their loved ones were being hunted and murdered by angels?

Like, can you imagine being in Heaven and coming to terms with the idea that you're just never going to see someone again, only to realize that, hey, maybe you could? Or maybe you find out that there was this chance and now it's gone again forever because of the very angels you thought were so great?

How many people in Heaven would demand to at least be able to call their loved ones in Hell? Send them care packages and supplies? Just know they were OK?

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This part right here?

Will never not be the funniest thing ever.

Lucifer and Alastor are going toe-to-toe about who's the best help/dad to Charlie, and Lucifer whips out this bad boy.

And it is fucking perfect because it is literally "I bet a fiddle of gold against your soul, cause I think I'm better than you". 😂

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I have seen a lot of people think "Altruist" is Alastor's last name. It isn't, an altruist is just a very helpful person. He's saying that had he died, he would just be remembered as an altruist who tried to help his friends.

It's not a word we use very often so I totally get where the confusion is coming from.

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‘ nature abhors a power vacuum, that leaves room for you and me! ‘

HELLO VOXVAL NATION IM FEEDING YOU ALL TONIGHT . gosh they are so…. toxic. it’s great . the new episodes were crazy and LITERALLY NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THE FACT THAT VOX AND VAL WERE LITERALLY EATING EACH OTHERS’S FACES AT THE END. it was kinda unexpected but also expected- what did yall think?

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Fall of the House of Guilt

There's something to me about Fall of the House of Usher where, when I started watching it, my first impression was "This is taking a lot from Poe aesthetics but not really Poe themes." So much of Poe is about guilt when you get down to it--the guilt of the partygoers in Masque, the killers in Black Cat and Telltale Heart, even the guilt of the crime in Rue Morgue. All those stories are basically about how guilt fundamentally alters your psyche and makes the world an unfathomable and unlivable place, because the only way to live with your own brutalized mind is to separate from it. And Fall of the House of Usher is sort of about people (Roderick and Madeline mainly) who are fundamentally incapable of real guilt, or the empathy that would produce guilt, due to their eagerness for power, their trauma, and their sense of entitlement.

How do you make a billionaire feel guilty? How can you, in any way, communicate the human cost of their actions, the impact on the environment, the far-reaching ripples of their greed and translate that into real human empathy necessary for guilt?

But then I thought... Oh, that's the point.

Usher is a reverse Christmas Carol. No matter how much Verna talks, kills, shows the bodies, it will never be enough to penetrate through the narcissism and power and trauma of cruelty and wealth to revive the long-dead hearts beneath. No matter how far she goes, how many children she kills, at the end, it's still all about living forever, legacy, for these people.

It didn't have to be this way.

I sort of like this as a sideways-swing at Poe. The horror isn't the guilt. The horror is the utter lack of it.