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Don’t wanna argue, I don’t wanna debate— Don’t wanna hear about what kind of food you hate…

Dungeon Meshi (Delicious in Dungeon) AMV set to “Eat It” by Weird Al Yankovic

Edited by AllegoriestAMVs ✨

Spoilers up to the end of Season 1.

(Long time no see, everybody! Please enjoy a humble offering from a series I’ve been really enjoying 💕)

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Devils Horns sunrise during a partial eclipse (2019) located: Al Wakrah, Qatar

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“Lolita isn’t a perverse young girl. She’s a poor child who has been debauched and whose senses never stir under the caresses of the foul Humbert Humbert, whom she asks once, ‘how long did [he] think we were going to live in stuffy cabins, doing filthy things together…?’ But to reply to your question: no, its success doesn’t annoy me, I am not like Conan Doyle, who out of snobbery or simple stupidity preferred to be known as the author of “The Great Boer War,” which he thought superior to his Sherlock Holmes. It is equally interesting to dwell, as journalists say, on the problem of the inept degradation that the character of the nymphet Lolita, whom I invented in 1955, has undergone in the mind of the broad public. Not only has the perversity of this poor child been grotesquely exaggerated, but her physical appearance, her age, everything has been transformed by the illustrations in foreign publications. Girls of eighteen or more, sidewalk kittens, cheap models, or simple long-legged criminals, are baptized “nymphets” or “Lolitas” in news stories in magazines in Italy, France, Germany, etc; and the covers of translations, Turkish or Arab, reach the height of ineptitude when they feature a young woman with opulent contours and a blonde mane imagined by boobies who have never read my book. In reality Lolita is a little girl of twelve, whereas Humbert Humbert is a mature man, and it’s the abyss between his age and that of the little girl that produces the vacuum, the vertigo, the seduction of mortal danger. Secondly, it’s the imagination of the sad satyr that makes a magic creature of this little American schoolgirl, as banal and normal in her way as the poet manqué Humbert is in his. Outside the maniacal gaze of Humbert there is no nymphet. Lolita the nymphet exists only through the obsession that destroys Humbert. Herein an essential aspect of a unique book that has been betrayed by a factitious popularity.”

— Vladimir Nabokov (tr. Brian Boyd), Apostrophes (1975)

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Undersea cable cross-sections h/t Fipi Lele

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My Little Pony but in real life.

Dungarvan Flirtini - Irish Cob Mare

Photography by Samantha Dawn

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#willow #archer #huntress #sculpture

A huntress sculpture in the forest woven from willow branches

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Star Trek franchise wins the Peabody Institutional Award → June 9 2024

At the 84th Annual Peabody Awards, the Star Trek franchise received the Peabody Institutional Award which is given annually to recognize an organization or long-running television program that has made an indelible mark on the American broadcasting landscape.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds cast members Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn and Ethan Peck joined fellow Star Trek franchise actors and creatives on stage as executive producer Alex Kurtzman accepted the award.

Kurtzman spoke about the almost 60 year legacy of the franchise that has given hope to us all and that no matter who you are there is a place for you in the Star Trek family. He also recognized Bjo Trimble, who was in attendance, and was part of a successful "Save Star Trek" campaign in 1968, generally credited with allowing the series to run for a third season rather than being cancelled after two.

Also in attendance were Patrick Stewart, LeVar Burton, Scott Bakula, Jeri Ryan, Wilson Cruz, Doug Jones, Tawny Newsome, Sam Richardson, Akiva Goldsman, Henry Alonso Myers, Michelle Paradise, Olatunde Osunsanmi, Noga Landau, Jenny Lumet, Trevor Roth and J.J. Abrams.

Credit: StarTrek.com, speech clip

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Faced with this prompt my first response would have been to try and decode it, which I'm pretty sure fails the "write a story idea" part of the test 😂

The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests 15yos in multiple countries for reasoning and problem-solving skills, and apparently also creative thinking skills.

In this example, story ideas set in the year 2983 would be considered more conventional and therefore rate lower for creativity.

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Skyview Home Rentals

Apparently this ad we once did for a SecondLife virtual estate developer is 15 years old today. Going to be over in a corner cringe-laugh-dying 🤣

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Ultramarine smells like sulphur

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Perfection

perfect normal nuclear family

update: this is on INPRNT now. you could have this beautiful family in your house

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Ink Artwork by Endre Penovác

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Beautifully crafted flexible rapier concealed as a snake ring. Wish there was something else shown for scale as well because the numbers say it's much bigger than you'd think but a visual cue would work so much better.

A flexible rapier made during the 19th century in Toledo, Spain.

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Warner Brothers Entertainment just dropped a teaser for their animated Watchman and it's basically the graphic novel but animated.

I love Alan Moore's opus but I also suspect a new generation of Rorschach wannabes are about to be hatched and ugh.

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A Father-Daughter Swearing Lesson | “The F-Word” | The New Yorker

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Vale #BillAnders :(

He died when the aircraft he was piloting crashed.

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I cannot stand the parodies of modern major general, they're overdone and simply not as good as the original. They've done them about everything, whatever topic, big or small.

And when i notice one of them my eyes will always start to roll.

The diction's always slurry when they rush the complicated words, and adding many fricatives will turn it so cacophonous. The slanted rhymes are silly and they keep just making more and more, please someone stop the parodies of modern major general.

The scanning of the lyrics in the meter is unbearable, they emphazise the syllables in ways that are untenable, in short in matters musical, prosodic and ephemeral, i cannot stand the parodies of modern major general!