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my mom took this nearly 10 years ago. she was outside and just happened to have her camera when some newlyweds went by on a bicycle for two

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When my brothers were younger I wanted to teach about misogynistic tropes in media without scaring them off by presenting the topic right out the gate as serious and aggressive and intimidating so I pointed out one day that movie dudes usually only ever have three motives- 1. Wife, 2. Daughter, 3. Dog.

And now whenever we watch a movie together and a dude character is about to reveal their angst backstory we take guesses if it’s gonna be 1, 2, or 3.

Which is specifically the most fun to do in bad B-list action movies because you can say “It’s a 1” as it starts and then ten minutes later the ham-fisted Macho Man Tough Guy quietly mentions being married once and you can put your hands in the air and go “AYYY IT WAS 1” like your team just scored a sportsball goal

Truthfully though I think we need more 3’s

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you call this place "wall greens" yet its walls... are not green? how very pecuilar...

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"If tampons should be free, then so should my diabetes meds."

Yes? Yes they should be? Your life-saving medication that you need in order to live for a condition you were born with should be given to you at no cost?

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i need you guys to look at this fuckign post

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generative AI literally makes me feel like a boomer. people start talking about how it can be good to help you brainstorm ideas and i��m like oh you’re letting a computer do the hard work and thinking for you???

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All you need in life is a color picker willing to expose you to the unbounded madness we call color vision.

me, absolutely clueless: "I want a color just like this one, but in red" color picker: Fuck you think you are, a Mantis Shrimp? Don't talk to me again until you can afford a wide gamut monitor.

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On the Pont De L’Europe (1877) by Gustave Caillebotte

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still one the funniest shots in star wars in recent memory

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Animorphs #8: The Alien thoughts (pt. 3):

Eva [literally fighting for her life to say these words]: Peter... don't join the military... and you won't attract yeerk attention. Peter: Eva's dead, Imma join the military. Peter [10 minutes later]: So I just accidentally did Nobel Prize worthy science by collaborating with my kid's weird friend. Peter: I foresee no negative consequences to this whatsoever.

I really like how comparatively quiet and domestic this book is. Technically there's kind of a battle at the end, but 90% of it is Ax getting to know his fellow Animorphs, coming to grapple with some hard truths about andalites, and learning more than he wants to about yeerks and their hosts. It feels like a nice pause between the brutal pitched battles of #7-MM1 and #10-#13.

Tobias being snippy the entire time he helps Ax get to the radio telescope, and Ax being super literal to dodge his questions («I don't suppose you want to tell me what we're doing, huh?» «Doing? We're flying?») is peak them. Plus, Tobias dropping his annoyance the moment Ax starts to go on alone to say "Good luck" and "be careful" is adorable (p. 102).

The scene where Ax phones home is another one I've always loved. He almost immediately gets put in the position of defending the humans as "our allies, not our enemies," he's accused of destroying Elfangor's legacy by telling the truth, he gets pressured into a cover-up that would claim he let the humans morph, and then his dad sadly reminds him that he's supposed to die trying to kill Visser Three (p. 110). Ax called in the hope of an adult to "tell me what to do... give me instructions" (p. 89) and he gets instructions all right. None of them useful.

Animorphs books can be read here | Book Club schedule is here

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Oh yeah there's a part 2 of the horse desensitizing that I love.

🐎: Hey what's with that tiny predator, the one you're hold- WOAH WHAT THE FUCK WHY IS IT UP SO HIGH

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That's You by ungfio

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Black panther poster. Just as relevant today