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“Every time I show the film – whether it’s to film students at USC or UCLA or I’m going to a festival – that’s always the first question: How did Kermit ride the bicycle? And my stock answer is: I put him on a three-wheeler until he got his balance, and then I put him on the two-wheeler.” 

— James Frawley, director of The Muppet Movie

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unhinged West Wing + text posts (pt 10/?)

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it's really embarrassing how much self control i have to exert when you put me in front of a tray of convenient and tender meat like if you put meatballs in front if me the fuckers are gone in milliseconds. same true of roadted brussels sprouts or basically anything that's a nice little dense and textured morsel. i am the hors that d'ouvres

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shoutout to everyone dealing with. thhe fucking difficulty

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lets have a moment of appreciation for non-fandom independent wikis

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Starting a new sports team called the Tampa Bay Trespassers and they play any sport that they can break onto the field of

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In case you're wondering what raising a kid in a polyamorous family looks like, our kid just has. Zero concept of monogamy. Like we've explained it to her many times but she just like. Forgets it's a thing and the assumed cultural norm. We're showing her Lord of the a Rings and she was very confused when Aragon rejected Eowyn.

"Wait, I thought they liked each other??"

"She likes him but he's already with Arwen."

"So?? He could just be with both??"

Anyway enjoy this meme I found about it

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Han dynasty scholar Wang Chong gives an argument against the existence of ghosts

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every major structural social problem right now is basically "we don't have enough skilled workers on the ground" and the reason is always "well we've been intentionally underpaying and understaffng them for decades to increase corporate profits" and somehow the news always just mentions the "shortage" without digging into the cause

air travel is a mess? shortage of air traffic controllers - for some mysterious reason

logistics a mess? shortage of truck drivers - for some mysterious reason

public transit can't meet demand? shortage of bus drivers - for some mysterious reason

We even mysteriously have shortages of doctors, nurses, teachers... FOR SOME MYSTERIOUS REASON

FUCKING PAY PEOPLE AND HIRE ENOUGH STAFF

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I realised I would be remiss if I did not share, so, fuck it.

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Who's your favorite sexy Dropout car wash team?

❤️ 'Like' if Team 1 is your favorite

💬 'Comment' if Team 2 is your favorite!

Don't forget to watch the full episode on Dropout

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it is honestly amazing how much of writing and editing is just. logistics. like... do i use a name here or a pronoun? if i move this dialogue tag to the middle of this line and break it in half, does the end of the line hit harder that way? what if i move the tag to the front? what if i remove it entirely? ...wait, whose point of view am i in; can i reasonably say this character is appalled, or must i say they look or seem or sound appalled? is this a deliberate action or a step-removed one; is her hand closing on his shoulder, or is she closing her hand on his shoulder? environment environment environment, we need to break all this dialogue up with some narration, the scene is coming untethered. what! are! they doing! with! the rest of their bodies that are not hands! fuck fuck fuck FUCK i forgot we covered this two chapters ago and now i either need to cut this whole chunk or find a reason to reprise the conversation from earlier. name or pronoun? name or pronoun? name or pronoun? move this clause around in this sentence? oh i'll add this phrase-- nope, never mind, past!me added the same phrase two lines down. okay, if i add too much environmental narration it's going to take away from this bit, but not enough and it won't feel grounded. what if i move this to its own line? where the FUCK are their hands?

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(Game Changer Spoilers)

This week’s Game Changer is fascinating because the people who make a big difference in the scoring are going to be the people who AREN’T Dropout subscribers who have seen the episode and all the clips already. The real test is which ones can break containment. Which ones will I keep seeing over the course of the month?

Involving Brennan is such a good call but I personally don’t need to watch the resignation video again out of context. I will probably only see On A Bus once or twice more, if it passes my dash, whereas… hear me out… the thirst trap car wash has a definite inherent rewatchability factor.

I reckon On A Bus will probably win it anyway, but the car wash could be, if you’ll pardon the expression, a grower.

(I’m also secretly rooting for the breast milk because what a delightfully unhinged and weirdly feminist choice that is.)

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......suddenly struck by the idea for a piece of worldbuilding of "fae don't like iron bc it is the most stable element*"

*as in elements higher you can extract energy via fission and lower you can extract energy via fusion but iron itself there is no excess binding energy to extract at all