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Ducky 🐥💘

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CAN YOU HEAR ME SCREAMING?!?!?

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the GalaxyCon New Orleans panel which premiered on the 20th featured Leslie Kritzer, Lilli Cooper, and Christian Borle, and so you KNOW my ass was looking out for staticrose crumbs for you; unfortunately the panel lands squarely in the genre of “the Broadway actors talk about Broadway”, which (even as someone who gives a shit about theatre) is the least interesting kind of panel or interview; BUT. BUT I WILL SAY.

Christian keeps breaking out into song and Leslie keeps either encouraging him (“Can you give us a little sample?”) or singing along. Thus: imagine every time Vox and Rosie are in the same room it takes physical effort to get them to not immediately start a duet and/or insist on finishing the entire song together before they can continue the conversation.

charmed delighted and overjoyed. there's not even the usual magical hell compulsion to sing they're just Like That and no one can make them stop. the real reason vox doesn't go to overlord meetings is because carmilla threatened them both with fates worse than death if they reprise another duet in front of her

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Alastor doodles

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Cute aggression intensifies

Poor chimney swift was caught in the chimney and couldn't get out

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I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again but it is absolutely an example of civilizational inadequacy that only deaf people know ASL

“oh we shouldn’t teach children this language, it will only come in handy if they [checks notes] ever have to talk in a situation where it’s noisy or they need to be quiet”

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My question is, what do the weird anti-kink people do when they discover they have a kink

do they just like

pretend everyone else likes feet or hair or McDonald’s playplace mascot statues or whatever exactly as much as they do

Or is it more of a Catholic denial-of-the-self sort of thing

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Zoey has a normal relationship with praise.

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did u guys hear abt that intern fired from that law firm bc she bit like 10 people. im kinda obsessed with her god i wish there was footage

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Tired from practice 🫣

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every now and then I am reminded to my great chagrin that my mother is funnier than I am

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superhero who used to work shitty customer service jobs and it shows, specifically in their interactions with The Public

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People who insist tumblr must be 90% LGBT because their self-curated dash is have never gotten a weird comment on a post and went to check the person's blog and discovered an entire deep subculture of christian and tradwife users reblogging anti-abortion quotes and transphobia between each other. I promise you they're on here.

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I remember meeting a guy at a bar a year or so ago who told me he worked at the international consortium that does the porn parodies of all the top-grossing film releases. He said that the whole Barbenheimer situation presented his combine with some spectacular highs and lows. Because he said that with Barbie, right, the thing about Barbie is that there's already kind of a three-way ideatic, structural parallel between the curated artificiality of Barbie as a children's toy, the curated artificiality of Barbie as a mass market film, and the curated artificiality of pornography as a genre. Add on top of that that Barbie as a film is already feeling this tension, right where it's trying to be about a character graduating from the platonic sexlessness of a children's franchise to the functional-and-frank sexuality of being a living human woman, but it's also being bogged down in the "Everyone-is-beautiful-no-one-is-horny" aesthetic restrictions of any contemporary big-budget mass-market film so the two states end up looking pretty similar, he said. I mean the film itself is very aware of that tension, right, with that joke about how "casting Margot Robbie is the wrong move if you want to make that point," all that jazz. So, all that in mind, Barbie-themed pornography, he said, is in a weird way actually kind of complementary to the extant project, gesturing at unaddressed tensions and ideas, a dark mirror, the shadow self it wants to deny but can't, there's a lot of room to play in the space. He used the adjective "Lynchian" a couple of times, he seemed super stoked, he was talking with his hands. Oppenheimer, on the other hand. Oppenheimer he said presented a problem. Because obviously you can eroticize the detonation of an atomic bomb, we're all probably three mutuals removed from someone on this site who does exactly that, but obviously that's a niche market, and moreover it's a market that has a ton of overlap with high-minded thinkers who treat the historical use of atomic weapons against Japan with the level of gravity that atrocity demands. So they were stuck. They were really stuck. He told me that they'd been pulling their hair out for months trying to square the circle and all they had to show for it was a big whiteboard with the phrase "Grope-nheimer" written on it