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Fervid as a flame Does it have a name? Yes Loathing Unadulterated loathing

WICKED (2024)

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you know how some people sleep with guns or knives under their pillows for protection? KEEP YOUR KNIGHT IN YOUR BED INSTEAD!! FOR SAFETY REASONS!! THAT'S YOUR LIVING WEAPON!!!! #mylivingweapon

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i think butter is a better bagel topping than cream cheese. there. i said it.

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we need to invent a way to explain how deep running and pervasive and subliminal racism and antiblackness is without immediately sounding like an insane conspiracy theorist

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People think that indigenous knowledge is from some magical and pure connection to the land when it's really just. Knowledge passed down through generations detailing thousands of years of mistakes and observation and experimentation. It's not some inherent part of being indigenous, it's just that indigenous people are often the ones maintaining those lines of tradition.

And a lot of that knowledge has been lost! And a lot of it was lost and then rediscovered through mistakes and observation and experimentation! And a lot of that knowledge has since been learned to be wrong or dangerous and has been discarded by the communities who followed it!

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ur gonna be popular

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Deradicalization isn't just for people who got into MAGA BS.

It's for your leftist buddy who got in with a leftist group that promotes eugenics.

It's for your feminist friend who was lured into radical feminism with "divine feminine" rhetoric.

It's for you when you fall into something that you thought you were too smart for, because it never crossed your mind that fascism could be repackaged in a way that would appeal to you.

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he died with his honor

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has anyone noticed recently that it's expensive

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once again i am so in love with the way that leverage treats parker. because oh boy, the grave danger job. hardison is buried alive, he's freaking out on the phone, and parker feels like she can't help him, she's not good with emotions in this way, not like sophie, so she says that hardison needs sophie. but sophie knows that what hardison needs is to hear parker's voice, that whatever is going on with those two, parker is the person who will be most reassuring for hardison right now, but she also knows parker won't be convinced by that, and she needs parker to feel confident. so she speaks parker's language. she gives parker a reason for why parker is the best person for this job - not he loves you, not you love him, not even he just needs to hear your voice it doesn't matter what you say, none of that will land with her. sophie says, parker, you've spent more time in air ducts than anyone. if anyone knows how to hold their breath it's you. that's what hardison needs right now. she gives parker a job: help hardison breathe. she doesn't try to push parker, she doesn't make it into some more profound thing that parker might not be ready to hear or able to understand at that moment; she takes stock of the situation and knows (1) hardison needs to hear parker's voice right now and (2) parker needs to feel confident and useful right now and she feeds them the answer, because she loves them exactly how they are. i can't put it into words any better than this but i just love that over and over leverage says "you can be loved and love in return without trying to be different than you are" and never more than with parker.

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pov: that one mutual woke up

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its crazy that a lot of what we call 'video essays' these days are basically low budget documentaries on increasingly weird and niche topics. no network approval no tv budget just one guy with maybe a hired editor/writer and a couple of friends willing to read voice lines. and then they put it on youtube like its no big deal. insane.

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Thought you yall should see this

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Typical heist movie where the heist crew is nearly to their heist target when the museum security system goes wild. The Brainiac Hacker pulls out their laptop going, "Oh no, they've bypassed my frequency jammer and now they're overriding my security system control by reimaging it with a backup from the servers! Security reboot imminent!!" to which the Comedic-Relief Bruiser goes, "Um, in English, please? 🤣"

Hacker explains it again in simpler terms and the Bruiser stares through the whole thing like 😐. Hacker tries for a third even simpler explanation and the Bruiser nods but not with any real understanding. "You're nodding but you're not understanding." "No I understand." "Then explain it back to me." "..."

Hacker takes out a whiteboard and starts drawing a few diagrams and shapes. Bruiser is staring at the board but with kind of a prey animal look in their eyes. Hacker tries a fifth explanation even simpler than the last and Bruiser starts crying from the stress.

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I know that some British people take umbridge at Americans calling the Great British Bake Off relaxing, but it's just because GBBO is such a different kind of stressful from American baking shows.

American baking shows will be called something like "Cupcake Knife Fight", there's horror movie lighting everywhere and dramatic stings every 5 seconds. All of the contestants are shit talking each other and fist fighting over the one single deep fryer provided by production. It will show the judges all whispering to each other at their super villain table overlooking the whole kitchen, and one will be like, "Oh my god. Everyone look at Brenda right now. She's straight tanking it." And it will cut to Brenda, who is running around covered in flour and crying and also bleeding for some reason. Then you get a clip from an interview with one of the contestants, and they're like, "I really need to win this. Without this award money, I'm gonna need to close my restaurant, sell my dad, and live out of my car. AGAIN." Then the giant digital doomsday clock overhead lets out a horrid klaxon, the judges tell half of them that their cupcakes taste disgusting, and one of them gets eliminated and sent to walk down the dramatically-lit shame hallway never to be seen again.

Meanwhile GBBO is in a lovely, brightly colored tent, there are delightful and friendly hosts/jesters there to keep everyone entertained, and all of the B Roll is of like... a bumblebee going into a flower, or a lamb running in a field. And yes, there will be moments where someone will mess up their timing or something, and they'll be looking at their bake through the oven door like, "oh gosh I don't think this will rise in time!" Then they stand up to find Paul Hollywood directly behind them ominously. His creepy whitewalker eyes will glow white, and he'll say something like "the 12th of June. 2035. Drowning." And his eyes will go back to normal and he'll walk away. Then the baker gives a playful grimace to the camera and says "that didnt sound great, did it?". Cut to a sweet looking older woman sipping tea on a stool and she says "oo I do hope that Prue enjoys the taste of my sugary, sticky baps!". Then, at the end, someone gets a gold star for doing good, and the loser of the episode gets in the middle of a giant group hug. You see all of them at the end of the series at a giant carnival with their families and the post credits informs you that all of the contestants have become a Partridge Family-style traveling band and stayed friends forever.

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The cross stitched Link to the Past light world map is complete!!

End of August 2023 to middle of July 2025, nearly two full years worth of work. This has been on my cross stitch bucket list since I first encountered this pattern as a teenager. It was loads of fun and I enjoyed almost every stitch (the bastards know who they are…)!

Now just how long do I wait before I start the dark world map…