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i think one of these days mr beast is going to snap and go missing for a year. and they’re going to find him butt ass naked on the highway at 3:56 pm reciting video scripts to himself and then never be seen again and people will debate if it was real or not for decades

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this 'being really tired after work' thing is really getting in the way of this 'pursuing my artistic hopes and dreams' thing has anyone else noticed this

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everyone's all about queer subtext until it's aromantic or asexual

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been thinking about getting into recreational rocking back and forth

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everything about camilla and palamedes makes me want to throw up and cry and tear out my hair and and and

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Gordon Ramsay on the mithraeum: Fucking finally. I waited for this soup all day, it better be fucking good.

[several skeletal hands explode from Ortus' stomach]

Gordon Ramsay: Oh fuck me. She used her own bloody bone marrow. Now his insides are all over the fucking table- who's gonna clean that up? Fuck me. This place is going to the dogs.

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I keep thinking about the Murderbot finale, reading everyone else's thoughts and I keep marvelling about the tonal change that they managed to pull off.

The nine episodes were like watching your friend dissociating and deflecting your care and concern with cynicism and slapstick comedy and dark humour.

The finale was watching your friend suffer a breakdown and you were suddenly looking at the unfiltered version of the events and seeing all the cruelty and helplessness and the horrors in all their twisted ugliness.

I can't think of another show that pulled the 'unreliable narrator' off in such a palpable way. A really interesting review called it a protective skin of sarcasm and goofiness. I may be giving the writers too much benefit of a doubt here, but I can't help feeling it was a deliberate choice, and not just an accidental by-product that we're over-analysing now. The protective skin was the MB's narration. With it gone, the reality of its circumstances hit even harder.

I may be far too forgiving here, but for all the unevenness of the show, the finale floored me so I'm biased now.

Babygirl (gender neutral) is off to check the perimeter. 😭

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What's up fellow Murderbot fans

You can get this new Martha Wells short story about Perihelion on Kobo today for just $1.99! It's about 30 pages long and comes DRM free.

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Teeth of the Valley

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having a friend crush is so god damn embarrassing like yeah.... i like how you play toys and i think youre really cool..... and im scared to talk to you........do you wanna..... play toys with me too...... or something...... its whatever if not..... kicks a rock. Fuck my life dude

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the most tortured man alive wants to know if you want to go get a 7$ boba tea

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All that is gold does not glitter,

Not all those who wander are lost;

The old that is strong does not wither,

Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,

A light from the shadows shall spring;

Renewed shall be blade that was broken,

The crownless again shall be king.”

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Pippin-centric doodles from Book 2 of Fellowship during my recent reread

(comms open!)