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hi i’m on episode 20 it’s really good

(rainless version under the cut!)

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look. jon is perhaps the unluckiest man in the world. he has a haters club dedicated to him and he's also a member. he died twice. he's been stabbed 2-4 times depending on how you define stabbing. I love jon for his pathetic wet cat energy, so know that I am by no means maligning him when I say that david ward is even worse. jon is at least still capable of having conversations with human people that aren't 100% certain to end in terrible grisly death, but david is not. every time david makes a friend they either get pulled apart or replaced with a shell. david has been given several visions of having fake children just so he could feel grief for them at their inevitable deaths. david has not experienced a single molecule of dopamine in decades. david is so thoroughly damp and drenched with despair that this is hardly even a question to me. hashtag vote david ward for most pathetic wet cat podcast man 2k23.

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David Ward would kill it at the Magnus Institute but Jonathan Sims wouldn't last two days in Eskew.

What I'm saying is that David would realize he was working at a voyeuristic fear factory and be like "yeah okay, I guess this is my 9-5 now." And then just keep doing his job.

And Jon would show up in this sentient nightmare city crafted perfectly to appeal to his deepest desires and get him to give into it, go "I need to understand what this means, what it wants from me." And within two days be completely consumed by a museum or a bookstore or something.

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hi i’m on episode 20 it’s really good

(rainless version under the cut!)

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stop drawing old dad and his crazy daughter and get to work.

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My salmon bag I finished last night, wanted to make something for myself for once. This is what I came up with.

Enjoy!

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one of my favorite things about FMA's worldbuilding is that you get to gradually realize how edward elric is the only person who dresses like that

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doodling some kim bases bc i wanted to dress them up like a little doll (and for also for a different fightful art reason wink wonk) and well

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as a librarian, i can't encourage you enough to check out stuff you don't think you'll get around to reading

like other institutions, at the end of the day we have to use numbers to justify our existence and inform our financial decisions

check out that novel by that author you like even if you know there's no time to finish it. check out a movie you like even if you can't watch it. check out a sewing machine even if you don't have time for a project. we don't check if you finish anything, and it all adds up

support your local library by checking out things you don't need

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Oh man living in a beautiful house with a beautiful wife and owning a large automobile fucking slaps

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overstimulated and anxious at the zoo until I looked up and saw an angel dancing in a beam of light

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im noticing that for a lot of americans “free palestine” has been an ideological motto and symbol rather than them actually believing in their heart that freedom is attainable and necessary

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he is so obsessed with this cat. second only to me ofc

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hermits in some traditional viet clothing! (^_^)

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OP: "The flickering lights are the call of the other world." (cr: Avid)

Chinese netizen:

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Not to be a teacher on main but a lot of people in the "video essay" community need a reminder on what an essay is. an ESSAY is NOT an explainer, an account of an investigation, or a summary of information. It certainly can involve those things. However, an essay is an argument for a particular idea backed up with analysis and evidence that supports that point of view. "the themes of Barbie, explained" is not really an essay. "how the themes of Barbie reinforce gender essentialism" is an essay. "the story behind this cooky subculture" is not essay. "how capitalism co-opted this subculture" is an essay. "all the ways Oppenheimer isn't historically accurate" isn't an essay. "here's why I think Oppenheimer is about the cult of individualism" is an essay. "I spoke to all these people about this topic and here's what they all said" isn't an essay. "I investigated this topic, spoke to these people, and here's how what they said supports my thesis" is an essay. At its most basic level, an essay answers the question of "why the fuck should you care?" at every point. It doesn't get bogged down in context or summarisation. A lot of "video essays" are not really essays they're just people saying, "I found this thing and I wanna show you the thing" and there's nothing wrong with that. It's just not an essay. Just because a video goes for longer than 5 minutes, doesn't mean it's an essay!!! I'm kinda annoyed at how the essay as a form is getting lost. A lot of people calling themselves video essayists are not actually making essays and as an essay enjoyer I am annoyed by this and think people need to call a long form video a long form video rather than calling all of them essays!!

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I feel like there's two levels of chronically online. There's like, the variety where you recognize obscure memes and stupid drama and post constantly but have some sort of tether to reality and have friends in the real world and read the news from time to time, and then there's the kind where you genuinely don't realize that your political position or feelings about popular media are not just non-mainstream but actively fringe and that it's not emotional labor to pick people up from the airport.