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scientists in the 1990s, putting a Get More Purple gene attached to a harmless plant virus into an already purple petunia: please get more purple

the petunia, sensing an apparent honest to god Get More Purple Disease, using the previously undiscovered RNAi antiviral ability to shut down all other purple genes along with it just in case: you put VIRUS in petunia? you infect her with the More Purple?? oh! oh! her children shall bloom white! jail for mother, jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!

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thinking about this again

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thinking so much about the rising voices tribeca short films rn

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Art by Rea Kolarova

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I ever tell you guys about my ethically dubious radio show back in college? The Mad Dad Hour?

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“what the hell is going on in riverdale lol” you don’t get to know. either you accept archie into your heart and watch the whole thing or you don’t get to reap the benefits of the insane shit cheryl is pulling every week. “but what about the epic high and lows of high school football” not even in the top 20 most insane things that have happened on that show. you know nothing

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Didn’t anticipate one of the bonuses of going to a drag show in a smaller more conservative town would be getting to see a bro who clearly wandered into the wrong part of the bar by mistake experience what looked to be a transcendent awakening upon seeing his first drag show.

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leonard cohen was right. it really does go like this, the fourth, the fifth

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obsessed with the idea of falling from grace in the pursuit of love. the transformative love of the monstrous. the discovery of love in vengeance. the horror that love can be when it means becoming someone else or someone you always were, how it can be a blessing but more likely a curse. the kind of love that walks the line between sacrilege and sanctification..

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oh my god oh my godddddd

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ketch evil twin plotline is the funniest because dean refuses to believe it like. dean is a man who was once dead and is now alive and is boy best friends with an angel who was also dead and is now alive and also their son is a toddler who looks twenty. And dean is like well i draw the line at believing a person could have a twin. and he’s RIGHT.

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Having the most fun imagining the two wolves of late-thirties Kaz Brekker when his kids were old enough to start training for the high wire bc on one hand. Yes. He absolutely wants his children to grow up into aerodynamic badasses like their mom and he definitely wants to be a supportive dad but I imagine he also would get so anxious. Like:

Inej: our kids don't want a net and they don't need a net they're only training 10ft off the ground if they fall they'll roll. Maybe break a rib. That's how they learn.

Kaz: W h y do they need to break anything to learn?????

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Kaz *talking to his kids*: and you know I was a great acrobat until I refused to work with a net when I was 14 and I broke leg and it never recovered.

Inej *from the background*: he broke it robbing a bank don't listen to him!

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*Inej and her kids heading to practice to see a net strung up under the wire*

Kaz: ah I see a net has been strung up by an individual who must love his family very much. Seems like it would be a real waste of time to take the net down. I guess you'll just have to... Practice with the net...

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His 5 year old walking the wire: Look at me, look at me I'm doing it!

Inej: you're doing great! Focus on feeling your center!

Kaz *literally covering his eyes because he can't look*: great job honey!

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Babygirl I know fandom history that you wouldn’t even care about

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the actual reason I consume mediocre media is because I have bad taste. the deeper secret pretentious reason is because I think there’s something very revealing about bad media that you don’t get with good media. when you watch a poorly executed plot point unfold, you see the machinery behind it. you see the gap between what’s actually on screen and the true goal the author is striving for. if it’s particularly awful, you can even measure just how poorly mismatched the author’s skills are with the story they’re trying to tell you. watching a poorly executed narrative play out feels like you’re discovering something, because you see all the wiring and guts underneath that better authors hide from you, in the same way that movies hide boom mics and books make you forget you’re turning the pages. if a story is good and executed well you just see the story. but I want to see the guts and wires!

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Reblog if you have read fic that’s better than canon

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concept: angels but they look like stingray skeletons