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The Jojamart Junimo

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I’m proud to identify as morosexual. I’m attracted to dumbasses and dumbasses exclusively. A guy asked me what the Spanish word for tortilla was once and now I dream of kissing him under the moonlight

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Reblog daily for health and prosperity

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milk-thistle is an example of a word where the tongue barely moves… basilica is an example of a word where the movement involved is like a seesaw. opium as a word is circular to say. to say a word like violence involves a bit of a forced pause in the mouth where the o connecting the syllables is. etymologists trace the word’s history, poets feel the word’s impact, singers listen to the word’s musicality, linguists tell the word to go this way and that way, and the word is gracious to all in return

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what is the child annihilating zipline

in 2010, a camp counselor goon logged on to the somethingawful forums asking for help with the zipline he build from scratch, and with no engineering knowledge, that didn’t seem to be working right. when he tested it with a sandbag, it continued to gather speed during the entirety of the 143 foot drop (19 degree slope) until it slammed into the wooden platform at the bottom at a speed of 65mph, presumably creating a child paste that would have to be scraped off to be sent home. there were pictures.

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No way out

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heyy u mentioned in a recent rb that rtd was only "writing for ppl on tiktok" could u elaborate maybe? idk what that means nd i dont read a lot of interviews esp with That Man

It's symptomatic of a wider problem in TV/film these days. It's the norm of TV nowadays to deliberately be written for people who are only half paying attention because they're on their phones:

Lila Byock, who has written for the HBO series “The Leftovers” and “Watchmen” (and had previously been a New Yorker fact checker), lamented, “What the streamers want most right now is ‘second-screen content,’ where you can be on your phone while it’s on.

Bateman said, "I’ve heard from showrunners who are given notes from the streamers that 'This isn’t second screen enough.' Meaning, the viewer’s primary screen is their phone and the laptop and they don’t want anything on your show to distract them from their primary screen because if they get distracted, they might look up, be confused, and go turn it off. I heard somebody use this term before: they want a 'visual muzak.' When showrunners are getting notes like that, are they able to do their best work? No."

Content slop and how the industry has stagnated with absolutely nothing new, with old franchises/villains etc being rehashed over and over, the Disney/Marvelification of it all - which RTD has said he wants

I can just feel all of this while watching RTD2. the costume change scenes being the exact same shot, perfect for making shorts each ep, Omega, Sutehk, the Rani all being defeated in one short #badass moment that can be put nicely in a tweet/tiktok etc, the ragebait of bringing back Tennant, now Piper, the absolute lack of care towards the story, character consistency (Juno Dawson: "I didn't know who would be playing Belinda at the time of writing the script. I knew she was a nurse in her thirties, but that was it, that's all I had to go on. But the good news is, with any companion, he or she is always you. They are the audience. They are the person being swept along into an extraordinary adventure."), dealing with legacy characters well, dealing with the NEW characters well, the over expositing to make sure the people who are on the "primary screen" don't get confused about what's going on.

Susan Twist, Mrs Flood, the Snow around Ruby, the 4th wall breaks, Susan, Rogue, oh look Billie Piper is back as the Doctor, no she's not... is she? all these mysteries that they tease and tease and tease and it's just key jangling to get us to be oooh... whats going to happen next ? but it doesn't matter because RTD doesn't care, he's not doing it all for a good story he's doing it to keep people clicking next episode.

[ID screenshots taken from Doctor Who Unleashed episode 7.

RTD: it’s very much kind of internet-age storytelling where…

Stefan Powell: was that deliberate?

RTD: yes. You just hope it will generate content.

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Episode one Belinda: breaks up with her boyfriend because he’s a controlling misogynistic prick who wants her to conform to the role of wife and mother, when he later kidnaps her to force her to marry him she calls him an incel and explodes him

Episode eight Belinda: I can’t help you with the battle I’m no use at saving the world, the best thing I can do is stand in this box with my daughter and be a mother, I love being a mother, please rewrite my entire timeline so that I have a daughter, I’m so glad this right wing incel fascist rewrote reality so that women are wives and mothers because that means I am a mother to my daughter

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nasty faggotses........

WHYY IS HOMOPHOBIC SMEAGOL IN MY INBOX

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i like working at plant store. sometimes you ring up someone and there's a slug on their plant and so you're like "Oh haha you've got a friend there let me get that for you" and you put the slug on your hand for safekeeping but then its really busy and you dont have time to take the slug outside before the next customer in line so you just have a slug chilling on your hand for 15 minutes. really makes you feel at peace with nature. also it means sometimes i get to say my favorite line which is "would you like this free slug with your purchase"

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god i never told you guys but a couple weeks ago at work i heard a guy say, and i closely paraphrase, "So I was out with my partner--republicans hate it when i say that. My heterosexual partner Jessica--" and i was straight up crying before he finished his sentence. fully diegetic convergent linguistic evolution live in the workplace