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no way i just saw people in tiktok comments crying screaming throwing up at the idea of aslan being a jesus figure. worsties the lion literally dies to save edmund (the sinner) and then rises from the dead. he tells the pevensies he can be found under a different name in our world. what else could this have meant

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The Enterprise having a giant inflatable decoy is something the fandom really doesn’t give enough attention to. (TAS: “The Practical Joker”)

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What's this Art Deco Barad-dûr ass smoking wizard tower on the Mississippi River?

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"New Salem: Home of the 1998 Wiccan Trials"

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Direct action against Pokémon GO

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You know, there are so many American states named after indigenous peoples and geographical terms that "Indiana" really comes across as some asshole surveyor doing a cartegraphical "yada yada"

And then Indianapolis is just that bland Latin term with a Greek suffix slammed onto it. Just "done, let's move on to naming shit in Illinois."

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Unfortunately, I couldn't act fast enough to catch the entirety of the dinosaur model behind the cross, but this was insane to see after the Pennsylvania-Onio-West Virginia-nothingathon

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im on a quest to find a science fiction book i saw years ago. on the cover was a green centaur man & he had tiny green centaur men instead of hands. it was painted in that classic 60s psychedelic sci-fi book cover style that may or may not have had anything to do with the actual contents of the book

this is all the information i have & im not 100% sure it wasnt a dream. who is brave enough to help me find this book

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This is potentially an inflammatory question, so no obligation to answer this, but just how full of racists and nazis are Warhammer and Trench Crusade, really? Like, much more than any other fandom? Because when tumblr says something is fascist or whatever, I take that accusation with a grain of salt.

So I'm just talking from experience in the Warhammer 40,000 community in NYC and NJ, I've never been a frequent player or tournament traveller, never touched TC, and everyone is working on anecdotal data.

But I don't think it's a grossly disproportionate issue in wargaming compared to any other male-dominated hobby, more so than when someone leans that way, they have more ways to express their ideology's iconography. Like, someone who's far right and really into Catan isn't really going to display that until they open their mouth, and it's hard to customize your Magic deck to be Nazi-adjacent (Harold McNeill tribal?), but many wargames dabble in the imagery of early 20th century European militaries, Crusader Christianity, and Rome, or feature the actual Axis powers in their scenarios. One off the big draws of high-complexity gaming is self-expression, and wargames give such personalities the tools.

But as I've said before, I think a lot of the "fascism" is an unintended effect of creating a setting in which any faction must be justified in fighting any other in the setting. You need your characters to be basically insane, fanatical warmongers, desperate folks with a perpetual seige mentality, or rampaging hordes of inhuman monsters to make it work. The problem is that sometimes later writers can get too high on their own supply and try to justify or glorify their pet factions too much, and you edge dangerously close. It's best to keep some ironically or "historical" distance, which most of the players do.

Also, the real danger is Malifaux players, who are all heavily-armes Galleanists

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The Ones Who Walk Into Omelas With Kevlar Vests And Samurai Swords And Desert Eagles And Stare Down All Those Wicked Unrighteous Sinners In Their Droves And Proceed To Totally Fucking Waste Them All In A High Octane Action Sequence That Kicks Insane Amounts Of Ass Think The Raid If It Was Directed By John Woo But When They Finally Get To The Door Of The Basement Where They Keep The Kid Oh Shit It's The Fucking King Of Omelas And He's Wielding The Cursed Obsidian Blade Of The Underworld And They Gotta Waste Him Too But He's Incredibly Fast And Strong Thanks To All The Power He's Getting From The Kid And He Kills Almost All Of Them Until The Leader Draws Him Out With A Double Feint That Leaves Him Wide Open And Cuts His Fucking Head Clean Off With A Single Perfect Stroke And Then They Finally Open The Door To The Basement And Free The Kid

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Activate your abilities

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theres bikes around the city you can rent but you have to use an app that needs your drivers license. theres buses that drive right to your destination, but if you dont have change you need the app. you can wash your car here if you sign into the app. you can go to the bathroom here you just have to unlock it with the app that needs your location on. you can order at this restaurant if you scan the code and download the app. im losing my freaking mind

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Red Priestess of the Cult of the Blood God but she's, like, a thaumaturgical phlebotomist

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So with the looming gutting of the CDC under RFK Jr. and the general institutional rot... I'm not saying it's going to happen, but if a force wanted to do serious damage to the US, they have clear means, publically-anounced opportunity, and very recent historical model with largely the same actors. Particularly if that entity were to have looked into said model and learned from the best measures to reduce damage to their own side.

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This is so fucking funny

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The hero once billed as "The Fastest Thing Alive" now bears the desperately narrow superlative "The World's Fastest Blue Hedgehog." Sega won't even rule out the possibility of an orange hedgehog who could smoke his ass, or perhaps a ferret. Get your shit together, Sonic