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I'm absolutely loving EVERYTHING about this show right now. Naturally I had to try my hand!

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MY EMOTIONS!!!! You guys.... this scene.. this fucking scene.

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Ame and her Foxxy familiar! We've all got those friends you just can't take your eyes off... Oh, they SEEM innocent enough, but somehow chaos just seems to find them! That's how I feel about Ame and Fox as played immaculately by Erika Ishii and Brennan Lee Mulligan respectively!

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Is he the strongest man in Silbry? Or something more? Here's Eursolon (Bear) he's hungry for honour... and maybe those little cucumber sandwiches. Played wonderfully by Lou Wilson!

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So I am just a LITTLE obsessed with "The Wizard, The Witch, and The Wild One"! Of course I had to put my own spin on these amazing characters!

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As a child I wanted to be Wesley Crusher. Now that I'm an adult I kinda want to be Wil Wheaton... weird.

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Don't lie... you love Data. I love Data. EVERYONE loves Data... well everyone but Lor I guess.

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Mabel Pines : What's the one thing I asked you not to do tonight?

Dipper Pines : Raise the dead.

Mabel Pines : And what did you do?

Dipper Pines : Raise the dead.

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It's a Rock Fact!

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Counselor Deanna Troi. Nothing like a ship's counselor who knows what you're feeling before you do!

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Who else but this man could keep the Enterprise running AAAAAND foster a love of reading in an entire generation!?

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Rounding off the "Bad Kids" crew with the ever striving Kristen Applebees!!!

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Not sure how well this episode has aged... but that delivery!

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"The best thing we can do with power is give it away" - On the leftist critique of superhero narratives as authoritarian power fantasies:

The ongoing "Jason Todd is a cop" debate has reminded me of a brilliant brief image essay by Joey deVilla. So here it is, images first and the full essay text below:

"A common leftist critique of superhero comics is that they are inherently anti-collectivist, being about small groups of individuals who hold all the power, and the wisdom to wield that power. I don’t disagree with this reading. I don’t think it’s inaccurate. Superheroes are their own ruling class, the concept of the übermensch writ large. But it’s a sterile reading. It examines superhero comics as a cold text, and ignores something that I believe in fundamental, especially to superhero storytelling: the way people engage with text. Not what it says, but how it is read. The average comic reader doesn’t fantasize about being a civilian in a world of superheroes, they fantasize about being a superhero. One could charitably chalk this up to a lust for power, except for one fact… The fantasy is almost always the act of helping people. Helping the vulnerable, with no reward promised in return. Being a century into the genre, we’ve seen countless subversions and deconstructions of the story. But at its core, the superhero myth is about using the gifts you’ve been given to enrich the people around you, never asking for payment, never advancing an ulterior motive. We should (and do) spend time nitpicking these fantasies, examining their unintended consequences, their hypocrisies. But it’s worth acknowledging that the most eduring childhood fantasy of the last hundred years hasn’t been to become rich. Superheroes come from every class (don’t let the MCU fool you). The most enduring fantasy is to become powerful enough to take the weak under your own wing. To give, without needing to take. So yes, the superhero myth, as a text, isn’t collectivist. But that’s not why we keep coming back to it. That’s not why children read it. We keep coming back to it to learn one simple lesson… The best thing we can do with power IS GIVE IT AWAY." - Joey deVilla, 2021 https://www.joeydevilla.com/2021/07/04/happy-independence-day-superhero-style/

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NUMBAH ONE! Commander William T Riker! No chair is safe!

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No Gorgug... I'm not your dad.

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