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Cross town rivals

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i feel strongly about this

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what super expensive indulgence would u get for urself if u suddenly came into a bunch of money?? assume all bills/mortgages paid, all friends helped: what treat are u buying just for u?? for me it would be a quilted lambskin chanel bag in iridescent pink

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Sankayou flower (mountain lotus or skeleton flower) becomes transparent when it gets wet with rain or morning dew . Tsugaike Nature Park

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Spin this wheel first and then this wheel second to generate the title of a YA fantasy novel!

(If the second wheel lands on an option ending with a plus sign, spin it again)

Share what you got!

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Double Income No Kids used to be seen as a kind of lavish lifestyle, now it’s like…a requirement to have any remote chance at financial stability

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Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones JESSICA JONES SEASON 1 (2015), created by Melissa Rosenberg

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So Voyager found out there is this bubble surrounding our solar system made up of solar material blown outwards by solar wind and acts as a border between the solar system and the rest of space has a temperature of 30,000-50,000 Kelvin.

For reference the surface of the sun has a temperature of roughly 5770 kelvin

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Just watched four very different movies recently. (I will be spoiling as little as possible.)

Arrival. The aliens are scary, vast, and unknowable (friendly?).

Annihilation. The aliens are scary, vast, and unknowable (Lovecraftian).

Terminator: Genisys. It’s a fun action movie if you don’t think too hard.

Terminator: Dark Fate. A worthy sequel to T2.

Arrival:

I went into Arrival with high expectations and wasn’t disappointed.

The plot hinges on something I know to be “junk science,” but if you accept it as part of the fiction it’s very well written.

The aliens are very weird and you can definitely believe that nothing on earth would have evolved like they did.

It was a beautiful ending as well. I appreciate the reasons why the hero makes the choice she did. The ending is also a kind of hopeful we need in the world right now, and I don’t think anyone would have written it today.

Annihilation:

I knew going in that this would be a horror movie. But it was thankfully light on the jump scares. (I think “Alien” would be a match for this movie on the spook-O-meter. Both in content and tone.)

This movie uses its runtime efficiently. By the end I walked away feeling like only the important scenes were left in, nothing felt like filler.

The lighting is beautiful inside “the shimmer.” I’m very interested to see a behind the scenes for how they achieved the look of that area.

And when I say the “””Aliens””” in this movie are a Lovecraftian kind of unknowable, that’s literally the point in this movie. We don’t even know if it knows what a thought is.

Very interesting movie. Will be thinking about it for a long time.

Terminator: Genisys

This feels like fan fiction (in the best possible way). Literally jumping into act one with loosey-goosey time travel AND alternate timelines. You’re along for the ride or you’re not. This movie isn’t gonna slow down and let you think about how nothing here makes sense.

Emilia Clarke is great in this movie. It feels like everyone was on the same page about how goofy this was going to be and just went for it. And no one is really overdoing it and chewing on the scenery. All of the performances are (in my opinion) finely calibrated for a target tone. Emilia’s performance is the glue that holds the movie together. I can think of so many other actors who would have fumbled this hard. Props.

Terminator: Dark Fate

A massive contrast to Genisys. Takes place in a totally different timeline where that movie doesn’t exist.

I found it fun and interesting to see a world in which Sarah Connor isn’t the “mother of the chosen one.” Now she’s “a bitter old woman that kills robots because it’s better than alcoholism.”

The new Terminator and the hero from the future “Grace” have no idea who this crazy old lady is or why she’s so good at hunting robots.

Grace is an interesting twist on the “guardian from the future” that’s become a staple of the franchise. The fact that she’s an augmented human that is technically more powerful than a Terminator but only for a few minutes at a time. It makes for interesting plot beats as they try to work around this limitation throughout the film.

Genisys is PG-13 and Dark Fate is R. And it shows in the tone. Dark Fate has genuine moments of humor and levity. But it’s contrasted with the horrors of being hunted by an unstoppable killing machine.

I don’t have some big conclusion to make here. Just wanted to share my thoughts while they were still relatively fresh.

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See also, "We're in a drought; conserve water!" Meanwhile, bottled water companies and golf courses for rich folk empty the aquifers.

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"May I have your name?" the faerie said.

"William," she said with a smile.

"Ah ah!" The faerie gave a wicked laugh. "I have your name! Now no-one will call you by it!"

"Thank you," she said.

"To win it back, you must- what?"

"I will find me a new one," she said, "one that suits me better."

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Lol. Lmao.

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the color signatures of various elements when ignited

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