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the ending of tonight’s episode, for your um. enjoyment

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As a Kansan I have a Very Strong Random Opinion regarding Superman that probably no one cares about but buckle up cuz you're gonna get it anyway: The Kent farm should be depicted as growing WHEAT, NOT CORN. Sounds like a totally inconsequential detail, right? But hear me out – this is actually important imo for the sake of accuracy, aesthetics, and symbolism.

• It's the quintessential Kansas crop. That's why we're the "Wheat State" and the "Breadbasket of the World". Corn is grown here too, yes, but wheat is the #1 crop. As a Kansan, whenever I see corn on the Kent farm, I think "Uhh, they have us confused with Nebraska." 😒

• Wheat shines golden in the sun, which is just too fitting for a sun-god-esque character. It also makes peaceful, soothing waves in the wind (which isn't really important, it's just nice).

•Most importantly, wheat (like Clark, and *unlike* corn!) is not actually native to Kansas. It was brought here by Mennonite refugee/immigrants in the 1870s. Strict pacifists, they came here from Ukraine to avoid forced military service and to flee extreme (essentially genocidal) violence for their nonviolent beliefs. They were expert farmers who just wanted lead simple lifestyles & live in peace.

That simple, hard-working Kansas farmer life that Jonathan & Martha represent? That comes from Mennonites.

"To the peace loving Mennonites, the worst blow of all came in 1871 with the passage of a universal military service act. The bearded patriarchs of their churches sent a delegation of elders and prominent leaders to St. Petersburg to seek exemption. Some of the members of the commission that was drafting the new law had never heard of the doctrine of nonresistance, and expressed incredulity and skepticism that any group could be naive enough to believe and practice it.

One commissioner asked Elder Leonhard Suderman, “And what would you do if your enemy came to fight you?”

“I would approach him, extend my hand, and embrace him, but would not kill him,” replied Suderman. His answer greatly amused the cynical official."

Source

Doesn't that statement from Suderman (name spelling is a fun coincidence) sound like our boy Clark? And doesn't the official's cynicism sound like Lex, convinced that Superman’s claims of pure intentions must be virtue signaling to hide some nefarious plan for world domination?

I'm just saying, if Clark was a real person, there is zero doubt in my mind that he would know and be influenced by Mennonite neighbors & friends. At the very least, he would have learned about Mennonites in middle school, which is when our public schools teach Kansas history. [He also would have learned about John Brown then, and my personal headcanon is that he would have admired both and forged a middle path for himself, but I digress.]

One final thought: while the impact of wheat and Mennonites on Kansas history is important and absolutely deserving of a subtle nod of recognition in Superman stories, I also want to acknowledge that it's even more important to recognize the Jewish origins of Superman, his values, & history. That erasure is more upsetting, but I'm not Jewish myself and don't feel qualified to speak on that. I'm not Mennonite either, but grew up in a heavily Mennonite community and have definitely been impacted by that culture.

Anyway, thanks for reading my weird info dump about Supes, wheat, and Kansas history. If you have any idea how to help me get this in front of James Gunn , I'm all ears! ☺️

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In time travel movies, when the time traveler asks 'What year is this?!?' they're always treated like they're being weird for asking.

When in reality, if you go 'What year is this?!?' people will just say '2024. Crazy huh.' and you go 'Wtf where has my youth gone.'

And if you ask 'And what month??' people won't judge you, they'll just go like 'SEPTEMBER!!! Can you believe it?!?!' and you go 'WHAT?!? Last time I checked we were in May?!?'

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you can claim that pride & prejudice (2005) is overplayed and overdone. whatever. i’ll let you have your opinions. but every time i see a smash cut of clips from that movie where darcy is looking at elizabeth like she is a lake in a desert and he’s been forbidden to swim makes me want to scream. i’m genuinely afraid i will die without knowing what it feels like to have someone look at me like that. do you hear what i’m saying. i’m eating my drywall

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As a Jew and even more specifically as a Jewish woman: Tim Burton might call his story the Corpse Bride, but it is not.

He stole and ripped off from our folklore to make that thing and let me tell that is not Corpse Bride. She might be a corpse and she might be a bride, but she is not a Corpse Bride.

That is our story, our history, our pain, our trauma, and our way of dealing with lack of dignity given to our daughters and sisters in death, about the rape they didn't survive, and about the horrific and lonely murder done to them.

It how we cope with the loss of our family, our loves, our friends, our community members, and how we envision them returning home to us.

It is not some generic story about a dead woman or funny mistakes or wacky songs or worms in ears.

It is about tragedy. It about permanent loss. It is about the desperate hope to have your child's bones be returned. It is a warning for brides and it is reminder for brides of the strength inside of them.

It is a story that is found in every Jewish Diaspora community no matter the setting because it happened to every Jewish community in Diaspora.

Our daughters were taken before they could be married and as they were adorned in their bridal wear. And then they were raped, murdered, and left to rot in some unknown place. Never to be found. For not even in death could they return home.

So we made a story about our daughters coming home so that their bones could rest with family and community.

This is a Jewish story.

So this "corpse bride" from Tim Burton is no Corpse Bride. She is mockery of our pain and trauma. It is spits on our Corpse Brides.

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Dropout / Game Changers merch idea. color changing mug that slowly reveals Sam Reich's face saying "I've been here the whole time" once you add a hot beverage to it.

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I can’t remember I ever told y’all about the prank I pulled on my costar the last day of Faire last year, but I’m sad and miss my friends, so I’m gonna tell you again.

Okay so. It’s traditional that on the last day of Faire, the show goes a little off the rails due to the cast’s final-day pranks on each other. Faire management hates it, so we’re not technically supposed to do it, but, like…they never quite manage to stop us.

Anyway, last year, I was playing one of the lead villains. I was the second in command of the viking king, and it took approximately ten seconds for everyone to start shipping our characters. There’s at least one ship every year that gets popular, and that year, it was us. The vibe was 100% “Viking Mom and Viking Dad are getting a Viking Divorce and the berserkers are stuck in the middle of a custody battle.” Like, five minutes after opening gate one day, I had a patron strike up conversation with me about how I needed to get a better man, lmfao.

By the end of the show, my character betrayed the king and joined the Good Guys, and I got this epic showdown with him at the end where I kick his ass and get in a one-liner.

So for my last-day prank, I replaced my usual one-liner by just full-volume screaming, “And the divorce is FINAL!!!!”

The audience, and the rest of the cast, lost their absolute shit.

And @borinquenaqueer​ managed to take a picture of the exact moment of reaction, in which my costar later told me he actually broke character for a split second and didn’t know how to react because he was just caught so off-guard:

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Further, some authors may never even find out the lawsuit is happening. The court's suggested notification scheme "would require class claimants to themselves notify other potential rightsholders," groups said, overlooking the fact that it cost Google $34.5 million "to set up a 'Books Rights Registry' to identify owners for payouts under the proposed settlement" in one of the largest cases involving book authors prior to the AI avalanche of lawsuits.

If you're an author, please use this database to see if you could qualify for that sweet GenAI lawsuit money.

I have never ever ever in my life asked someone to blaze my posts.

But if you want to throw me some pennies blaze this. I want ALL OF THE AUTHORS to know that they have the opportunities to get some sweet sweet GenAI lawsuit money.

Like to charge. Reblog to cast that Anthropic will have to pay out the ass.

-fae

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And after endless engineering calculations the result is achieved.

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most recent windows 11 update is wiping SSDs

there's been multiple reports of people's computers not booting properly after the windows 11 24H2 KB5063878 update due to it essentially wiping the hard drives (specifically SSDs) on computers and laptops. users have reported their SSDs aren't able to be read/recognized and unable to be seen in bios settings either.

sources: - https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/08/20/microsoft-is-investigating-windows-11-kb5063878-ssd-data-corruption-failure-issue/ - https://www.nichepcgamer.com/archives/windows11-24h2-issue-with-writing-to-the-ssd-is-this-caused-by-kb5063878-kb5062660.html

it's safe to assume all SSDs can be potentially affected by this update, so if you haven't updated yet turn off autoupdates

the bug caused by this update is seemingly triggered by installing/moving/deleting large files (50+ gb), which as simmers is what a lot of us do very pften

if you're unsure what windows version you currently have:

go to settings > system > about (at they very bottom) > and scroll down to see the current OS version

if you do currently have windows 11 24H2:

in settings, click 'Windows update' > 'Update history' > and under 'Quality Updates' check to see if the KB5063878 update is in the list of recently installed updates

don't panic, you can uninstall this update!

while in 'Update History', scroll to the very bottom and click 'Uninstall updates', and click 'Uninstall' for 'Security Update for Microsoft Windows (KB5063878)'

from there, give it some time to remove the update and after pause updates for as long as possible (5 weeks is the longest i think), but it will force an update if there's a big/official update for the fix

if you've already been affected and your computer is not starting or giving errors regarding your hard drive, i recommend visiting small pc repair shops to try data recovery as some have reported placing their SSD in an enclosure seems to work to recover the data

hopefully this is helpful is any kind of way! friendly reminder to back up your data to an external drive routinely!

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That's a good merch. The Tazgw'agwa Pleasure Tentacle.

Dimension 20: Cloudward, Ho! Episode 13 "Eyeless Crisis at Katur"

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unironically peak romance to me

like i love to laugh at wei wuxian planning his retirement together with a guy before realizing his own feelings for him, but nothing makes my heart ache more than this

"in another life i would've really liked doing laundry and taxes with you" fr

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Emily saying "this is the first time we've had a dildo on the show" and Zac yelling "NO IT ISN'T" like the Gorgug just jumped out of him for a second

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i just wanna talk to the art department

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You can tell if someone's actually pro intersex liberation by seeing their reaction to the phrase "abolish the sex binary" Yes I said sex. Like biological sex. It's not binary.

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PSA

EVERYONE BE CAREFUL. ARCHIVE OF OUR OWN PHISHING SITE (first link)

(the link is purple bc i clicked on it to get the link w/o special characters to report to various phising page report places).

the page leads to what appears to be the normal archive page, w/ the popup about the privacy policy & everything, with the url https://xn--iao3-lw4b.ws/media DO NOT LOG IN. THEY ARE HERE TO STEAL YOUR LOGIN CREDENTIALS. LOOK AT URLS BEFORE ENTERING ANY PERSONAL INFO.

STAY SAFE ON THE INTERNET GUYS!!

please reblog to spread this warning!!

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people get so confused trying to figure out the Lois/Clark/Superman situation that somehow they come to the conclusion that Clark is cheating on Lois with Superman