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So, I'm on bluesky now as well. mockwooloo.bsky.social if you're there too already.

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Real talk why does social interaction feel like you’re trying to get a good grade in being a person

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women with horns

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terfs be like i’m joining the fight against restrictive gender roles on the side of the restrictive gender roles

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Magia

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i think it’s p awesome that the first compasses invented in china were not magnetic, but in fact mechanical - the cart with the little wooden man pointing south was built in a way that no matter which way the cart turned, the little man would always point south

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i think we need more trans people in fashion because y'all dress like jrpg characters sometimes and i envy that so much. i wish i could pull off a vest and a crop top with a skirt and knee-high boots. its pioneering fashion

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Yep. The original flash version was their first game, this one is slightly tweaked to tie it in more to the wider Rusty Lake mythos, but it's pretty much the same.

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Actually it is a room escape. I've seen it.

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s/o to this skeleton babe from 1936

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Midnight Pals: The Bear

Caitlin Marceau: so that's where we talk things out, eh? Marceau: oh sorry i meant to say Marceau: this is where we talk things oot, eh? King: wow caitlin that sure is Canadian! King: this might be the most canadian thing i've ever heard Marian Engel: not so fast!

Marian Engel: did i hear someone say that's the most canadian thing they'd ever heard King: yeah i Engel: maybe you don't know Engel: about my bear fucking story King: King: uh

Engel: i have a story about a woman fucking a bear King: Poe: Barker: Lovecraft: Koontz: Engel: CBC radio called it the most quintessential canadian story

King: is King: is bear fucking a quintessential canadian thing? Engel: oh yeah absolutely Engel: would CBC lie? King:   Engel: would the 1976 Governor General's Literary Award be wrong?

King: no it's just King: that is not a stereotype i had heard before Engel: oh i see Engel: you're one of those americans who thinks we all just fuck moose King: no i Engel: for your information we have more than just moose King: Engel: there's a wide variety of sexy wildlife

Engel: there's bears, wolverines King: you really don't need to list them Engel: beavers Edward Lee: haha beavers yeah boi Engel: no not like that gross Engel: i'm talking about fucking giant aquatic rodents like a normal person

Engel: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the sexy bear Poe: is this really appropriate? Barker: shut up edgar Barker: let the woman talk Barker: i think we all want to hear this

Poe: i mean, is this story scary? this seems like more of a taboo romance Sarban: yeah edgar SHUT UP Sarban: this is the good shit

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Probably worth noting that (IMO) there are effectively two kinds of True Crime, which have rather different motivations and fanbases. There's the contemporary kind, which more or less starts with 1960s serial killers and leads to the current glut of Murder Podcasts, and the historical kind, which generally covers things from before that era and is more just a subset of broader history non-fiction.

There's some overlap, but I don't think they end up really being the same thing in practice.

as a whodunit/detective fiction lover i just dont get true crime fans. moral issues and harm to the victims aside, murder is not nearly as interesting in real life as it is on tv. like on tv u get this guy whose involved w this crime syndicate funded by the government that got poisoned by a plant that was previously unknown to man. but irl 99.9999% of the time the answer is misogyny, racism, or organized crime. wheres the thrill.

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You all know George Romero literally made a film about this right?

It's called Knightriders and it's awesome.

i love that motorcycles exist. like i'm genuinely so glad that someone was like "what if bikes were as fast as cars and could turn you into roadkill if you hit a pothole"

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I'm still bloody livid about Deadpool 2 - a film that gleefully and delightfully mocks, subverts and undermines every single superhero trope in the book.

EXCEPT ONE.

Because of course it plays fridging Vanessa completely straight so Wade can have a sad.

every cishet movie is like. this mid man is married to / dating the most beautiful woman ever and she is so perfect for him and he for her (because they are a man and a woman) and look at them kiss and date and love each together. anyway, time for her to die brutally on screen

like. i find a lot of action movies boring because i'm just disinterested in most action and killing sequences, i just find them dull and they always go on too long

but the worst part about actions n thrillers is how every cishet dude's girlfriend dies for being a woman

oh my god isnt it such a big tragedy... HE has LOST his WIFE/GIRLFRIEND... she was EVERYTHING to him... isnt it so SAD that hes LOST her. he will be lonely now. he has lost his dearest possession. we the movie will show her having sex then dying then show how HIS loss of her

killing off someones partner just for plot without letting them be a character themselves often bothers me because it just strikes me as cheap but like

the reason it hits so much worse for cishet couples rather than queer ones is bc the woman acts as an extension of the man

like. you might not even find out what her job was. what she did in life other than spend time with him. if her parents or any other family are affected by her death.

ALL that matters is tha the loss of her impacts him - we MIGHT learn a few details about her life w him

but it will be like. her perfume that he always loved. the dresses he liked her to wear. the café they went to together

nothing about HER. nothing about HER life and HER impact on others. shes wholly sublimated into his personality, exists as a prompt only for his emotion

and its just that thing of like. women in film only acting as extensions of male characters, or only being the like. completing piece of a man, not her own complex character. its just so frustrating

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Yay, depression and loneliness kicking my behind again. I was meant to be getting married in two weeks time :(

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