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Didn't realize when I posted this, but it's their 40th!

Happy 618!

Happy birthday Alex and Ariel Hirsch!

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Happy 618!

Happy birthday Alex and Ariel Hirsch!

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Happy birthday to Gravity Falls, Stan and Ford Pines, Welcome to Night Vale, and Vanessa Doofenshmirtz! And happy anniversary to Linda Flynn and Lawrence Fletcher! 🎂🎂🎂🎂

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Just a friendly reminder that the rainbow is a reminder of what God did to the proud and the sexual degenerates, not a symbol for them to use.

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100 is something I think you may have heard of...

Guess That Rec Season 2: Round 1, Poll 18

Rec #99

Looking for a show that has a mix of action, adventure, and emotional scenes? Looking to laugh, cry, and grow with the characters? Look no further! This show has it all- disabled characters, characters of color, kick ass females characters, even some that are queer-coded! It has an intricate plot and a lot of characters, but is still easy enough to follow along with. This show also has touches of religion and philosophy to make it more than just "a guy has to do some stuff."

Rec #100

Do you like dozens of quirky side characters who think their lives are normal? Dead-but-not-dead antagonists who probably wish they were dead? Parallel plot lines with a few things removed? Remembering everything but also wishing you could forget so you could learn it all over again? Then you'll love this!

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No! It can't be!

If you recognize the movies hiding behind the decoy titles, please do not give identifying details about them in the notes.

Movie n°1: Banana-Based-Breakfast

A motherless princess is forced to watch her kingdom suffer for ages. She finally see an opportunity to do something about it but things start going wrong. 1) she has the same condition that took her mother. 2) her father dies. 3) she is kidnapped by a foreign soldier for power. But everything turns out well due to the wonders of reading! (#stay in school kids)

Movie n°2: Locked Hangar

A down on their luck orphan reluctantly allows their body to become possessed by a nonhuman entity. Their newfound abilities while under this control allows them to work their way up the ranks and gain the respect of their peers. However, their arrogance soon gets the better of them, upsetting the creature they made their pact with, resulting in their newly found empire to come crumbling down, all the while surprising new developments about the nature of their lineage come to light.

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What the heck? I can't edit, reblog, or like my own posts anymore? Check your blog to see if this also happened to you. And if you haven't downloaded the new update yet, DON'T DO IT!

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May the 4th be with you!

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Hopefully now you've learned?

Guess not...

I should've known.

It's the end of the NFL regular season, so this is the perfect time to check in on them:

Hey NFL! What do you want?

And how do you plan on achieving that?

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Gravity Falls mirrors Amphibia's triangle

Founder and Duly Appointed High Exalted Big Fish of the Royal Order of the Holy Mackerel Douglas MacKrell liked to say that much of Gravity Falls is a mirror.

He meant that, in the show, many scenes and events mirror each other -- they are different possible outcomes from a similar situation or different possible ways to achieve a similar outcome.

For the former, I would point to all the parallels between Stan and Ford, and Dipper and Mabel. One twin is the smart one, the other is the people person. The smart one is offered the chance of a lifetime, but it would mean leaving their twin behind. The other one -- to put it mildly -- doesn't take this news well, and makes one big mistake that separates the two. And I could go on, but you can draw your own parallels there.

For an example of the latter, I would point to Dipper and Mabel's relationships with their respective summer rivals.

Both met their rivals in similar circumstances: Dipper met Robbie one night at a haunted convenience store, where he made friends with all the other attendees.

Two episodes later, Mabel met Pacifica one night at a Mystery Shack party, where all the other attendees save for Pacifica's gang wanted to cheer for her.

But both made up with the other's rival under opposite circumstances: Mabel made up with Robbie thanks to a love potion from a cherub who wanted nothing more than to make people fall in love and to play his music at a daytime hippie festival, where the rest of the friend group all came back together at the end thanks to Thompson. Mabel appealed to Robbie's inability to make up for his mistakes by literally zipping his broken heart back together and redirecting him. And she refused to reverse what she had done after seeing the consequences.

In the next episode, Dipper made up with Pacifica at a nighttime party thanks to a vengeful lumberjack who had been wronged by her ancestors and wanted nothing more than to be let into the party or to destroy the mansion and kill its residents, where the high society party itself was ruined even though the townspeople were eventually let in. Dipper appealed to Pacifica's inability to make up for her mistakes by helping her face them head on. And what he had done was reversed after he saw the consequences.

This is a major theory on its own, but I'd like to talk about how much of Amphibia is a triangle -- in that, three things sort of mirror each other in the same way as described above.

For example:

The season structures:

Season 1 starts with Anne getting stranded in Amphibia and meeting Sprig. They then become fast friends and get into all kinds of mischief together. The first half of the season focuses on Anne forming bonds with each of the Plantars and the family adjusting to her being around, while the second half focuses on her using her heart calamity power to connect with the townsfolk of Wartwood. Then it ends with the family leaving Wartwood.

Season 2 starts with Anne and the Plantars adjusting to life on the road. The first half focuses on how they get along as they travel and some of the towns they find. Then in the second half, Marcy uses her brain calamity power to lead the gang on an epic quest to the three temples across Amphibia. Then the season ends with Anne and the Plantars leaving Amphibia.

Season 3 starts with Anne and the Plantars adjusting to life on earth. The first half focuses on how they live their lives there, and how they interact with Mr. and Mrs. Boonchuy and the other humans. The second half focuses on Sasha using her strength calamity power to fight a war against Andrias and his forces. And the season ends with Anne, Sasha and Marcy leaving Amphibia.

In each finale, a Plantar (Hop Pop, Sprig, Anne) nearly dies when the final antagonist (Grime, Andrias, The Core) proves to be a sore loser and goes for broke after losing the battle, but is saved unexpectedly by an outside force (Wally and his boom shrooms, Marcy, The Guardian). Anne loses a friend (Sasha, Marcy, all of her amphibian friends) in the process.

Each season, the stakes are set progressively higher as we explore more: Wartwood is at stake in season 1 after we explored Frog Valley, all of Amphibia in season 2 after we went across the whole land, and Amphibia and Earth are at stake in season 3 after we explored both worlds that season.

I also found it interesting that the main antagonist of Gravity Falls is a triangle, while a major message of Amphibia has to do with liking who you see in the mirror -- being "the best version of yourself."

If you have any other examples, for either show, feel free to reblog or comment!

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So I just finished Win Or Lose. I had a few immediate thoughts.

Here is the spoiler-free thought:

If you haven't watched it yet, do yourself a favor. Watch it. And, as you watch, make sure to rewatch every episode so far BEFORE you get to the next one, every time.

Now for the spoilery portion. DO NOT click unless you have already watched the whole series.

Seriously, you've been warned.

If you haven't watched EVERY episode of Win Or Lose, click off NOW.

This section is for people who have finished the entire series ONLY.

All good?

Ok, here we go:

Laurie made a good choice to quit softball. She realized that scoring the tying run in the state championship game was her magnum opus, her crowning achievement, even if she had to take one for the team to do it. She decided to go out on top.

If Laurie is quitting softball, then I can't imagine her and Coach Dan NOT giving up at least part of her deposit for the next season (remember, all the players needed to have it by the championship game), and giving it to Rochelle.

Is it possible that the lady Frank was texting all week was, in fact, Vanessa? Otherwise she's going to be seriously bummed about missing out on the guy of her dreams.

Just a minor detail, but I loved how Laurie was doing the Catholic "sign of the cross" before she went to rescue her dad.

Speaking of Laurie's faith, here's my initial comment after watching the first episode:

This is a MASTERPIECE. Faith in the Father really IS the answer to silencing your doubts, because He is the one who can give you strength. Plus, if you read the end of the book, you find that He wins the only championship that matters. So if you're on His side, even if you lose, you win. In fact it's the biggest losers in this life that need the Father the most because they are the ones who are the most elevated by Him.

6. If the temperature during the playoff game was 96°, why was Ira wearing a winter hat and coat?

7. Who's the real MVP?

With sage advice such as:

Everyone's chasing the feeling of a win. But if someone wins, somebody has to lose. Or maybe, winning is just a matter of how you look at it.

Hit or be hit, your fate is in your hands (Laurie chose the latter)

Beware the chicken

(Silently) Use the 50 cents you saved me last week to pay for this phone call

Answer the call of the unknown (Right before Vanessa received a call from Unknown)

There are many [Swedish] fish in the sea. Choose wisely.

Better not blow it

And the superhuman speed necessary to travel from the high school party (how did he even get in there?), to the phone booth (how did he know where Rochelle was?), to the team bench at the softball game (again, how did he even get in there under Frank's watchful eye?) faster than Rochelle and her family in a car, to the empty bleachers, to the pizza parlor, this man is the hero we never knew we needed.

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So I just finished Win Or Lose. I had a few immediate thoughts.

Here is the spoiler-free thought:

If you haven't watched it yet, do yourself a favor. Watch it. And, as you watch, make sure to rewatch every episode so far BEFORE you get to the next one, every time.

Now for the spoilery portion. DO NOT click unless you have already watched the whole series.

Seriously, you've been warned.

If you haven't watched EVERY episode of Win Or Lose, click off NOW.

This section is for people who have finished the entire series ONLY.

All good?

Ok, here we go:

Laurie made a good choice to quit softball. She realized that scoring the tying run in the state championship game was her magnum opus, her crowning achievement, even if she had to take one for the team to do it. She decided to go out on top.

If Laurie is quitting softball, then I can't imagine her and Coach Dan NOT giving up at least part of her deposit for the next season (remember, all the players needed to have it by the championship game), and giving it to Rochelle.

Is it possible that the lady Frank was texting all week was, in fact, Vanessa? Otherwise she's going to be seriously bummed about missing out on the guy of her dreams.

Just a minor detail, but I loved how Laurie was doing the Catholic "sign of the cross" before she went to rescue her dad.

Speaking of Laurie's faith, here's my initial comment after watching the first episode:

This is a MASTERPIECE. Faith in the Father really IS the answer to silencing your doubts, because He is the one who can give you strength. Plus, if you read the end of the book, you find that He wins the only championship that matters. So if you're on His side, even if you lose, you win. In fact it's the biggest losers in this life that need the Father the most because they are the ones who are the most elevated by Him.

6. If the temperature during the playoff game was 96°, why was Ira wearing a winter hat and coat?

7. Who's the real MVP?

With sage advice such as:

Everyone's chasing the feeling of a win. But if someone wins, somebody has to lose. Or maybe, winning is just a matter of how you look at it.

Hit or be hit, your fate is in your hands (Laurie chose the latter)

Beware the chicken

(Silently) Use the 50 cents you saved me last week to pay for this phone call

Answer the call of the unknown (Right before Vanessa received a call from Unknown)

There are many [Swedish] fish in the sea. Choose wisely.

Better not blow it

And the superhuman speed necessary to travel from the high school party (how did he even get in there?), to the phone booth (how did he know where Rochelle was?), to the team bench at the softball game (again, how did he even get in there under Frank's watchful eye?) faster than Rochelle and her family in a car, to the empty bleachers, to the pizza parlor, this man is the hero we never knew we needed.

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Grunkle Stan:

Kid, will ya knock that off?

I'm tryin' to tell my life story here.

Also Grunkle Stan:

Quit it Waddles, I'm tryin' to remember my life story!