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I love, love, LOVE it when I can tell a fic author has integrated their specialized knowledge in a fic. I was reading a fic that at some point included the character going to visit an art therapist, and it's so clear that the author is an art therapist themself, and the details included are just immaculate and I love it. I've previously read about a character doing fencing for no other reason than the author clearly wanting to write a sport they understood. A character being given a hyperfixation on bugs just so the author can infodump themselves.

I eat it up every time, it brings such a smile to my face

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Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th

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gotham was literally the worst show ever made i miss it

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I think my life would be a lot more enjoyable if I could experience the need to shower as a physical urge like being hungry or needing to pee. So instead of sitting here like "eugh I know that I probably should, but I don't want to get up, uuuuuugh", I could just get pressured by a compelling need to go in the shower that I can't ignore, and can't focus on anything until I've finally given in and taken the damn shower.

And just stepping in and turning the water on would be a blissful instant relief like ohh fuck yeah that's good, this is precisely what I needed.

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My thoughts on the newest South Park episode

(Warning: Spoilers ahead!)

-For starters, I LOVED the commentary. Genuinely the most balls I’ve seen from this show in a LONG ass time. The digs at both Trump and Paramount were absolutely hilarious, like DAMN they did not come to play nice at ALL

-I couldn’t stop laughing at the Trump parody, it was so silly and ridiculous oh my god, 10/10 accurate depiction. Also Saddam apparently being Trump? Absolute gold 👌

-SATAN IS BACK!!!! THE GOAT!!!! 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

-Randy using/complimenting chat gpt while Sharon sits right next to him was a great dig on people who rely too heavily on that kind of stuff instead of the actual people in their lives

-Damn it Stan, let Jesus sit at your lunch table (shit had me cackling)

-The reporter straight up calling Stan the f word had me in shambles

His face is so funny, he looks so offended

- Cartman deciding that not only was he going to take himself out, but Butters as well was too good (poor Butters can’t catch a break, can he?)

This whole sequence took me outttt

Just the “us stotches are proud to own an electric car!” and the immediate cut to them

-Of course Cartman would be upset about woke being dead because he can’t make fun of them anymore, I didn’t expect anything less from him

-Kyle not having any lines and his main role in the episode being looking absolutely done with Cartman’s bullshit was very interesting to me. Like what, no gay speech? 🤔 who the hell are you and what have you done with Kyle?

This makes me wonder if that’s going to come up later on, or if it was just a one episode only thing to give focus on other characters

-“Power Christian principal” had me cackling

-The “pro” Trump message took me OUT, what the hell was THAT oh my god 😭😭

I’m wondering if this is gonna be a running gag now, if so I’d love to see what else they come up with

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CREEK CRUMBS 🗣️🗣️🗣️

Overall opinions:

As previously mentioned, this is genuinely the most ballsy/“South Park” that this show has felt in a LONG time, and I enjoyed every bit of it. They made their point very clear and went into it HARD, and I loved it. It’s nice to see that this show is still able to do that.

Great way to start the season and I am definitely looking forward to seeing the other episodes!

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Sad state of affairs when Kenny talks more than Kyle in a South Park episode

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i think that's the first time cartman has ever said he loves butters

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Season 27 Opener

Going into this episode, I was really hoping Paramount would be dragged for sucking up to trump, and I wasn’t disappointed by any means. Say what you will about Matt and Trey, but those guys will always stick up for free speech, and in a time that feels so fucking tense like we’re losing the meaning of that, they pulled absolutely no punches. It felt so validating to me and for so many others that feel like we’re losing our goddamn minds in all this nonsense. 

This puts Paramount in an impossible position, and it’s amazing to see. They just signed a MASSIVE deal with M&T, and are already facing a lot of backlash after both settling that lawsuit as well as firing Colbert. They were in the middle of just about literally sucking up to Trump so he’ll approve that stupid merger, but Trump obviously isn’t going to be pleased with this episode lmao. Love the shitty position this places Paramount in so much, because obviously, Paramount can’t cancel South Park.  They had to of expected something like this, but it's still nice to see regardless.

I was wary of them using trump only because the Garrison arc was so exhausting, but not only did they bring back trump, they did it in probably the most fucking hilarious way. Reincarnating Suddam but basically as trump was such a great callback to the earlier show and brought back earlier vibes of the show, but it was just great in general. I wasn’t sure I wanted them to get too political, but this was just fantastic. 

I watched this live with a big group of family and friends, and I don’t think I’ve ever watched one live (the other crazy historical SP episodes I didn’t get to watch live like this) that to this extent had so many folks simultaneously laughing with their jaws dropped as well as making sounds of delighted horror lol. 

Some other random observations:

A lot can be said about PC Principal, and it seems like they’re setting things up for him to play this role of the man who all of a sudden takes a sudden turn into right wing Christianity as soon as they feel their masculinity is challenged like we’re seeing so much of in the US right now. Could be interesting if they keep playing to it (seems like they might?). His office was wild. I wonder if Strong Woman broke up with him?

Also thought it was funny how stan just threw craig under the bus in the principal’s office, and funny how craig was the one of the group who’d told Jesus the table was full and that they couldn’t sit with them, idk why (just imagining him saying that in his monotone voice lmao)

A bus stop scene! Loved that, though will still always say that SP is lacking part of its original charm without all main four boys at the bus stop and those more frequent scenes. 

Butters is so ride or die (literally) for cartman. There was something disturbingly cute about them sitting together in the car for who knows how many hours lmao. Love it when the kids are stupid, and Butters and Cartman’s dynamic makes for some of the funnier stupid shit the kids do

Randy using ChatGPT as basically his wife was on brand. Sharon’s face in that scene 😭 Randy absolutely has an AI girlfriend 

Garrison’s dog?? Omgg 

I wish Kyle talked more (or like… at all), but his expression still said a lot. Poor dude looks exasperated

Kenny’s line was perfect. Hilarious. 10/10 kenny line

Stan’s little fist in the air while in the background on the news? Pls, that was so cute 

So glad Satan is back… but at what cost to him?

Jesus talking just sounded like Matt completely breaking the fourth wall. It was hilarious and disturbing at the same time

The SP reddit has had a very strict ‘no politics’ rule and has changed a lot overnight lol. Still can’t explicitly mention some things, but it very much seems the most political (and generally aligned) than I’m not sure I’ve seen in a while

All the trump paintings were hilarious and definitely stem from that one Colorado artist’s painting that trump didn’t like lmao

Whatever the rest of the season is, I hope we get this same level of fire from Matt and Trey. I think we’ll be more than okay if we do. Season 20 had nowhere near this level of sheer shots fired and pulling no punches. I also hope that if there is serialization, that it’s a bit more dynamic than Season 20 (interspersed with individual storylines, something they have been doing since S20 and had done before which I personally prefer), and above all, that they utilize the kids more for the stories than the adults. 

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kenny fans rejoice the son talked twice

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its been a minute since i drew anything, have some more sappy sastiel : )

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Only one person died. Only one singular person. In a superhero movie! The type that love to throw around casualty counts like it’s all a big game, waving off 70 people being killed in a handful of days like it’s no big deal, yet only ONE PERSON died.

And he was mourned. Superman cried for him—this stranger who gave him free falafel and, while facing death, told him that he still believed in him. Metamorpho, this cold-seeming man who is being actively blackmailed to do this, breaking down and taking the risk to believe in Superman, too, because seeing someone murdered right in front of him is devastating enough to take the risk. The newspapers run a front page article talking about how they’re going to memorialize him.

The stakes didn’t have to involve real actual loss of life. The threat of it was enough to convey the severity of the situation. Because human life is that important. All life is that important, at least to Superman who goes out of his way to save dogs and squirrels.

(Hawkgirl does kill SHEIN Netanyahu but genocidal dictators don’t count as human beings lol.)

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I know I couldn't handle having kids but if I was left in charge of some, I'd take them to the park to feed ducks. Not bread though, you shouldn't feed that to ducks. We're feeding them lettuce. Let the ducks going apeshit over lettuce show the kids that lettuce is actually awesome. When they go home, their parents are baffled by the fact that the kids are now willingly eating salad. In the most horribly animalistic fucked up way possible.

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when i first heard about the male loneliness epidemic i was like oh yeah close camaraderie and bonding between men is often discouraged in favor of competition or, if not discouraged, at least filtered through a lens of individualism that precludes deep connections. and then i learned what people meant by it (men arent getting laid) to which i say skill issue

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op turned reblogs off but i need this one so bad

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superman, an undocumented immigrant being accused of representing some greater political agenda, made a political target after opposing an illegal occupation of an entire country, gets thrown into a secret and unlawful prison by a billionaire and tortured while the people in his life are put at risk. james gunn i knew you had the sauce but this. next fucking level. i love superman (2025)

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Superman losing his composure only when people shrug off the lives of others. Doesn’t matter how well he knows them. Doesn’t matter if they’re even human.

He gets upset at the Justice Gang for brutally killing a rampaging Kaiju and not even attempting to find a way to move it or at least euthanize it more humanely.

The only time he raises his voice during Lois’ interview is when she digs into his interference in geopolitics, because people would have died if he hadn’t acted. The only time he yells at Luthor is when Luthor abducts Krypto. The only time he cries is when Luthor murders someone he barely even knew.

He saves a fucking squirrel for god’s sake. We’re so back.

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"Maybe I'll kill that reporter who does all your interviews. Maybe I'll kill Clark Kent."

This is the most important line in the movie. I'm 100% serious. It tells you everything you need to know about Lex Luthor's character. It shows the audience that, despite being almost omnicognizant from the get-go, Luthor clearly has no fucking idea who Superman is, only what he does.

I've never seen anyone go from All-Knowing Evil to Absolute Fucking Loser so fast. In fifteen words he went from unstoppable criminal powerhouse to flailing manchild moron. He gave his Evil Dictator demonstration and then turned around, dropped his pants and showed his entire ass. He proclaimed his manifesto of unrelenting ego, turned around, slipped on a banana peel and landed on a whoopie cushion.

And he was so mired in his own sense of superiority that he never even knew it.

Lex Luthor, folks. Ten out of ten, no notes.