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Ugh, niacin flush is fucking awful. I rate it somewhere between blistering sunburn and shingles.

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It's that time again

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Just another day in customer service

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Kawase Hasui, 1932

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Tell me I can’t possibly be the first person to think of this

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one of the best gags in leverage is when the crew starts naming random cons, even better when they disagree and give us just enough information to be more confused - "it's like the cherry pie, but with lifeguards" or "the roper has a glass eye. No! It's a cue ball." bafflingly perfect, 10/10.

But a close second is when they just reference a con they did, without giving us any useful information. Now we see physical bits during like the broken wing job which is great. Or the night out jobs where they show the chaos of both nights in pieces from the other side. But I had forgotten in the 'cross my heart job' they were doing crazy crazy things. They were on the emerald isle, Sophie was pretending to be french on a topless beach, Eliot was in a shipwreck fighting three ex-brazilian combat divers with harpoons underwater, and hardison apparently faked a volcano eruption??

no notes. a perfect show truly

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https://archive.org/details/vhsinstructionals

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no, but the soft way Mensah looks at Murderbot when she realizes what the show means to it is so important to me

it's such a great moment of acceptance and understanding that it makes my heart ache. she could have dismissed it as stupid or even selfish but then she actually looks at what is happening and because she's such an empathetic person she understands. she understands that Murderbot is trying its best to help in the only way it knows how and in doing so, it's letting itself be vulnerable without even realizing it

like here is this person who's struggling with personhood and all its complexities and pitfalls, who's found profound comfort in something so seemingly trivial. Murderbot is just as stressed as Mensah is and it ends up being more comforted by the show but how fucking cute is it that Mensah finds her own comfort in her fondness for it in that moment

and of course it's refreshing to see a character's special interests or hyperfixations or whatever you want to call them not be looked down upon for once. yes, Mensah was angry at it at first but that's before she realized the full scope of what this means to Murderbot. and the whole sentiment of 'it doesn't matter what I think of it, it matters what it means to you' is on point

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Apple TV Murderbot + Text posts

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Honestly the Murderbot show is doing a great job showing the difference its helmet makes. At first I thought they’d want it down most of the show so we could see Alexander’s face (ya know, because they hired an actor and not a stunt double), but it’s really becoming clear that the helmet being on or off is part of the story. And honestly helmet!Murderbot IS significantly scarier.

Murderbot with its helmet on (especially with the robotic voice treatment) is a (literally) faceless killing machine, and no one knows what it’s going to do next. Murderbot with its helmet off is a perpetually confused, anxious, and stressed person who wants to get this over with so it can go back to its shows and be left alone.

This adds a lot of nuance to whenever the PresAux team asks/begs it to take its helmet off. The team desperately needs to gauge its “human” facial expressions in order to feel safe vs. please god let me stay in my helmet if they see all my involuntary facial reactions they’re going to Ask About My Feelings again.

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Why do all the beautiful, colorful vintage bathrooms end up in the wrong hands. Come here. I would treasure you

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The opposite of “manic pixie dream girl” is “depressed goblin nightmare man,” and, judging by this site, it’s just as attractive to some.

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[murderbot voice] that was private

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While making dinner tonight, I very very fleetingly, but very seriously and legitimately thought “I should watch Goncharov tonight”

And then I Remembered.

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unpopular opinion but i think a ship that's not canon but both halves are canonically insane about each other is infinitely better than a ship that's canon and boring

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couldn’t stop thinking about this post