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When Mr Peanutbutter said at HSASWDTKDTKTLFO: "My producers asked me to forgive Bojack on live television 😡 And so I decided to forgive Bojack on live television 🥰" – how many viewers in-universe do you think believed him? Without knowing real Mr PB it's very reasonable to believe that his denial sunshine stupid golden lab personality is just a TV persona. Nobody in the audience would think that phrase is honest. The second screen app probably exploded with "omg Holywoo is so fake", "they really made him do that??", "oooooh, dra-maa, he'll never forgive Bojack, and good for him".

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as a moderator of this subreddit i should get rid of this troll answer but it’s too good

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So many modern detectives have tried to emulate Sherlock Holmes, and none of them have even come CLOSE to touching Benoit Blanc. That man is Holmes' true spiritual successor. He's a silly little guy. He's gay. He's a drama queen. He has impeccable fashion sense. He loves music. He works with the cops but refuses to work for them. His voice is both goofy and incredibly fun to listen to. He sucks at playing Clue and Among Us. He mopes in the bathtub for weeks when he doesn't have a case. He loves hanging out with The Girls but gets incredibly uncomfortable when women flirt with him. The only reason he can afford his gorgeous downtown apartment is because his husband works a real job.* The only thing he hates more than Rich Assholes are Stupid Rich Assholes. He solved a double (attempted triple) homicide and the thing that made him most upset was plagiarism. He supports women's rights and women's wrongs. He refuses to break the law himself but actively encourages his client to commit arson.

And, most importantly, he and Holmes would fucking love each other. If most of the modern day detectives inspired by Holmes ever met him, he would probably want to kill them with hammers, but he and Blanc would probably end up being penpals and sending each other newspaper clippings about crime or some shit. And I can absolutely envision a teenage Blanc reading the Holmes stories and being like, "Wait, being a silly little gay private detective is a viable career option? Well, I guess I've finally found my calling in life."

Anyway I love the Benoit Blanc movies and I hope they make a million of them

*confirmed by Rian Johnson

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Eight huge buff dudes who just pick one specific pub to be their regular and go there every friday, beating their fists against the table for rhythm while loudly singing sea shanties, drowning out whatever the bar was playing as background music before. Eventually the bartenders just learn to turn off the music when they show up, it's shanty time whether anyone else wants it or not. You can't throw them all out because there's fucking eight of them and no place is willing to hire 16 bouncers just to make it stop. Eventually people just accept that this is the shanty bar. The other patrons are free to request their own favourites in exchange for a beer. Not a round for all of them, just one beer with eight straws that they all drink from. Having swiftly inhaled the one single beer, they pick up the song.

Anybody can sing along if they please, but nobody can make them stop.

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Air.

Just had to do a little fanart of my favorite Dimension 20 episode yet. The absolute thrill of that perfect 6 being immediately followed by the characters—and the audience— slowly and horrifically realizing that they are now stranded on the side of the Los Angeles highway? A triumph of storytelling.

I’m sad Brennan is leaving, but I truly can’t wait to see what Dragon Master Katie Marovitch does with the genre. This is going to be a spectacular campaign, I can feel it.

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An early 20th century postcard against the coercion of motherhood and promoting the usage of contraception.

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Betrayed and backstabbed by your scheming evil advisor? Psch. Skill issue. Absolute amateur problem. Just hire two of them and reward them for snitching on each other. Just make sure that neither of them is gay or they'll just end up hate-fucking each other and fucking you over all the same.

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Abolish the comic book industrial complex 🙂

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astronomy club sent up a weather balloon w a gopro in it last friday. put in three packs of fruit snacks so they could have a giggle over eating fruit snacks that had been to space.

balloon went up into inner space, about 90,000 feet. came down right near the dinosaur park. a few physics teachers drive out to get it, crack it open on the way home to start watching the footage.

fruit snacks are missing.

multiple sources confirm that fruit snacks were put in balloon and sealed in with duct tape. physics teachers check entire balloon. no fruit snacks.

physics teachers watch footage. all 7 hours of it. right in the middle of footage, there are about 8 minutes of visual and audio static when balloon is in orbit. no other interference with balloon recorded.

conclusions: ???????

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THE HOT MEDIEVAL & FANTASY MEN MELEE

FOURTH ROUND: 5th Tilt

Gawain, The Green Knight (2021) VS. Sir Gwaine, BBC’s Merlin (2008-2012)

Propaganda

Gawain, The Green Knight (2021) Portrayed by: Dev Patel Defeated Opponents: - Sir Elyan [Adetomiwa Edun], Merlin (2008-2012) - Matrim “Mat” Cauthon [Donal Finn], The Wheel of Time (2021-) - Prince John [Oscar Isaac], Robin Hood (2010) - Prince Jingim [Remy Hii], Marco Polo (2014)

“So, first off the movie is based on the anonymous poem from the 14th century so not only is the setting medieval, so is the story. The Green Knight is a vivid dreamscape of a film with all sorts of delightful weirdness to stretch 101 stanzas into a modern movie. And Dev Patel looks incredible whether he's flopping about the forest floor like a dying fish or enthroned in all the finery of the sun itself.”

Sir Gwaine, BBC’s Merlin (2008-2012) Portrayed by: Eoin Macken Defeated Opponents: - al’Lan Mandragoran [Daniel Henney], The Wheel of Time (2021-) - Wen Kexing [Gong Jun], Word of Honor (2021) - Meriadoc “Merry” Brandybuck [Dominic Monaghan], The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003) - Arthur Pendragon [Bradley James], BBC’s Merlin (2008-2012)

“THEEE flirt of the five kingdoms!! He's so hot and annoying and charming and loyal and stupid,,, and he hates the rich! He has weird sexual tension with an alien despite it being a medieval setting.... he has big brown puppy dog eyes.... most ideal man in Camelot fr”

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Additional Propaganda

For Gawain:

“You look at Dev Patel's big, beautiful, brown eyes and tell me he's not perfect. To quote the director "He's incredibly appealing in every sense of the word and yes, he's incredibly sexy. I see no shame in wanting to capture that. I was like, 'I want to see Dev looking as beautiful as he is onscreen and I don't want to shy away from that.' He has such a nobility to him that hasn't been utilized in films because he's such an affable actor who's so quick to break into this boyish smile. It's what made everyone fall in love with him, but in addition to that, there's severity to him that's really captivating." A movie made to say this man is sexy and they did it.”

For Sir Gwaine:

“He brings a certain Irish charm to this role and every single character in this show fancied him. Every single person watching this show fancied him. I fancy him a bit and I'm a lesbian.”

“I'm someone who rarely crushes, but I was OBSESSED with him. The hair, the attitude, the loyalty. Plus he's just hot.”

“Just look at him”

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If i may ask, why has your kid had a lawyer since birth?

Honestly, because I had unprotected sex with one

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If someone actually writes paul refereeno x evil jeremy smut know it has to be *with* all the rules in place place

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If you haven't done it yet Sam in the "tell me why" lineup from brooklyn nine-nine

The Sam standee is in the "I Want it That Way" lineup from Brooklyn Nine-Nine!

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do you guys actually take cold showers??

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most of all i'm tired to see a group of people who talk big game about ableism and how much it affects them then immediately turn around and base a solid 75 to 80% of their arguments against a new technology (that to some is genuinely an assistive technology! like it or not!) on the idea of the Natural Brain And Natural Body that is Pure and Good, and how their brains and souls are perfect and unrotten bc they're not idiot stupid r*tard brain-damaged baby losers who need help for BASIC tasks such as

applying for a job

communicating in a more efficient/socially acceptable/gramatically correct manner

summarizing texts or ideas in easy and simple to understand language

breaking down basic tasks to easier and more manageable ones

tasks that are soooo easy any baby could do it, and anyone who can't on their own is just a stupid stupid brain-rotten baby /s

idk maybe it's because i actually spend time with people with cognitive/intellectual disabilities or learning disabilities, as well as refugees and second language speakers who are incredibly disadvantaged in their interactions in the west, that i can't take this rhetoric anymore; especially from people who talk a big game about how the barriers they face because of their autism/adhd/anxiety and chronic illness, but then turn around and point and laugh and talk nastily about folks who for some reason or another struggle with communication, executive function, understanding/comprehension (whether in reading or writing or simple cognition of the thing at hand) and more.

you don't have to use genAI, sure. genAI like all current technologies can also be incredibly harmful to disabled people and mirrors the same systemic ableism and racism that exist. that's without going into data/privacy and how chatgpt and LLMs use them! but that's not the conversation from Principled Anti AI Posters. no, the conversation is that a disabled person who used midjourney or even a self-written genAI art program is a lazy bastard who's probably fat and languishing in a basement somewhere, and anyone who's used it to write an email or translate something is some disgusting baby loser with a rotten brain. and shockingly none of this rhetoric has translated into actionable actions against the tech industry or a better understanding of capitalism, nvm compassion for disabled people who aren't aspie supremacist adjacent losers--instead it's just resulted in harassment campaigns and 20 something year olds sobbing because they believe their future and art as a whole is destroyed forever and doomed. so really, how effective is your anti "brain rotting" genAI posting, or is it just cope because you refuse to acknowledge the grim reality and what could--should be done?

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You know that vacuum cleaner pitch grunkle Stan was working with?

"Stan vac. It sucks more than anything".

It's supposed to be this ridiculous selling tactic... But you know what? I recently cleaned my vaccuum, and it started actually sucking after months of weak-ass sucking. And I was so happy, I went to my fiance and said excitedly: "Hey, the vacuum sucks so well now!!"

So yeah. I would buy a vacuum that sucks more than anything!

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Are you excited for July?