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You can easily google this, but Wikipedia link here. Please, please, please, everyone in the US, vote. The insurrection attempt years ago proves this is already in progress, alongside stuffing SCOTUS, and multiple militia groups plan to back this up.

Scary Project 2025 and its authoritarian backers have marching orders ready for the next conservative President that gets elected (while probably losing the popular vote again as usual).

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inspired by @kricepudding 's nb kairi hope, doodled up a kh4-ish kairi concept based on the nb flag (and utada's current hairstyle since that's been the pattern for her)

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I HAD to draw this scene

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quick painting from the other day

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･*✧.˚⁺‧͙"...light!"₊˚✧ ﾟ.

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♦️.

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a pretty flower for a pretty girl~🌸

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Thinking about how 'crystal stasis dreams' had been a fairly common fanfic trope back in the day. I remember reading a plethora of fics that explored the idea that Fang and Vanille could transcend crystal stasis and reach out to their loved ones, sometimes even vice versa.

And then a year later XIII-2 straight-up canonized that idea, validating an untold number of fanfics. Funny how everyone wanted that to be real.

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UMK 2024 Song Review - Sara Siipola

The hype is very real around Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu (UMK), the Finnish national selection for Eurovision and the race to Malmö continues with a ballad this time!

Sara Siippola - Paskana

Sara Siipola is fairly a new name in the sky of Finnish female artists. She kind of popped out of nowhere making a record deal with Sony Music in 2019 and releasing her first singles which were fairly successful. She also released her debut album "Kaunis Kun Itken" two years later and last year she was seen in popular music tv-show "Tähdet, Tähdet".

Still never heard of of her before and the artist announcement did nothing to me.

Paskana is power song that gives no hope. It's very raw lyrically and vocally.

It's a modern ballad with immediate hook. The song itself is not a traditional power ballad but does instrumentally push its boundaries. The electronic beat has 80's sound which also reminds many of the Russian girl duo t.A.T.u's sound. R'n'b beat separates it from an average ESC ballad and makes this super easy to listen.

Sara's voice can be compared to Amy Winehouse's being capable of interpreting the painful text brilliantly. The topic of being "paskana" which is translated as fucking wreck, is easily relatable. Social media quickly filled on Monday night with heartfelt comments from people around the world crying and feeling this song.

This is simply captivating - you can't pass this without stopping to listen to this and feeling what she sings. This will translate across language barriers.

ESC doesn't allow swearing so in case of winning UMK Sara would have to find another title for her song which might be a difficult task. There have been hopes of her translating this into English or pieces of it but I do hope this masterpiece remained in Finnish. Also this would differ quite a lot from our previous ESC entries. The last time we heard a female ballad from Finland was in 2017 with NormaJohn.

In a scenario where she didn't win UMK she might be the next Bess (Ram pam pam, 2022) or Kuumaa (Ylivoimainen, 2023) which either were the winning acts but made the biggest hits of their careers with the help of UMK. Reactions have been positive everywhere you go and her UMK videoclip has already been viewed over 240 000 (more than Sexmane) times. She's on her way to stardom!

What do you think of the third UMK24 track and would you vote for Sara Siipola to go all the way to Malmö? UMK final takes place on February 10th!

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Tein meemin

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IT FUCKING SLAPS, IT'S LIKE A MIX OF GUNTHER AND MODERN TALKING

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Welcome to UMK 2024

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every single time

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thinking about that scene in ffxiii when lightning gives snow her blessing to marry serah.... and how she has her hand on his back so he won't turn around and see her cry.... and he respects that and lets her lean on his back.... bc he knows she doesn't like to be vulnerable in front of people....

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It’s missing ffxiii hours :((

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favorite character from any media BUT it has to be a woman. in the tags now go (pls talk to me about your favorite fictional women pls pls pls pls)

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what’s friendship for if not to have people to share oranges with? 🍊