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So uh… I’m not the best at video editing but I put effort into this as The Old Guard deserves many many edits! I hope you enjoy it and if so, please consider liking it on YouTube

The Old Guard edit - Like A Prayer (choir version)

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Eeeeeeeeeee!

New photo of the squad added to the Netflix page!

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Kiki Layne on Instagram: "The first Old Guard film came out during the pandemic, so I didn’t get to enjoy special moments like this. Feeling incredibly grateful and so excited for this movie to FINALLY come out!!!!!"

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im working on a silly thought right now but: it deeply sucks that advertising is annoying, irresistible, and omnipresent, and we all just have to cope with that constant ongoing sandpaper irritation. meanwhile there's less and less grace for humans that are annoying, which is something that every human is at some point, and some of us are really annoying for most of our lives.

like. everyone has to be beautiful and graceful. everyone has to be sensitive and kind. or else they have to be apologetically disabled: autistic, bipolar, deaf. they have to be so so sorry for inconveniencing you, cutting you off, weirding you out, holding you up, annoying you. they have to take responsibility, they have to listen and learn, they have to make it up to you.

i don't think i want to live in a world where advertisers get to crawl into my eyeballs and earholes as often as they possibly can, but if im abrasive and clueless to someone i better be a card carrying member of the Broken Brain Club or prepared to grovel.

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If only this happened closer to me 😭 (like, in my country at least…)

THE OLD GUARD 2 red carpet premiere: Los Angeles, June 25th

if you live in the area, you can request tickets HERE

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Happy Pride Month I wish all my trans friends "You are so powerful and cool I hope this makes you feel very powerful and cool"

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having ocs is so fucked .... i miss them so bad but im the guy who has to create new content. but im sleepy

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My awesome friend released a song! and my other friend did the artwork!

To find it…

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/5KgTZKUXnxKKqLXaPplkVp?si=MmAjvcFMQCWqRjooo3ji_A

Apple: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/gemini/1821313510?i=1821313511

Amazon: https://music.amazon.co.uk/artists/B0FDH751NH?ref=dm_sh_bTOQgx8sRp2LWTJAQbSDlplWc

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Signs of a heart attack are different for each gender yet we only really teach the male warning signs. Make sure you’re aware of both and spread it to as many other women as possible!

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No transphobes allowed, only transborbs.

Check out my stuff!

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I couldn't resist

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thinkin about the chosen one story told from the pov of the person standing next to them again. thinkin about the one who has to stand by and watch the chosen one become a weapon, a sacrifice, an offering to the machinations of plot and can do nothing but make sure they’re fed and rested and soothe them when they wake up screaming from nightmares. thinkin about the fierce devotion that has to exist to follow someone to the end of the world just so they don’t have to die alone. thinkin about the terror they’d feel every step of the journey knowing it’s not their place to change how the story plays out. thinkin thinkin thinkin.

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Hey, let's talk about anons like this, because I know some people haven't been in a position to see the patterns these play out in on broader scale and may indeed not spot the trap.

And it is a trap.

An ask like this has several purposes.

First, it uses social justice language in passive aggressive and manipulative ways to try to coerce a behavior. In this case, the desired behavior is usually for the recipent to participate in community shunning and/or harrassment. The language above is intended to put the recipient on the defensive where, in the haste to disassociate themself from the Bad Thing, they quickly disassociate themself from the bad person, often with no particular fact checking or evidence.

The message is also intended to create a sense of being surveilled and judged by an unknown amount of people with unknown amount of social power and an unknown amount of relevance to your life.

Notice that these asks are usually framed as if they are coming from a follower or potential follower, someone who is addressing you personally and who cares about your opinion and who your blog has an effect on. However this is usually.... very much not the case. If you've ever had the misfortune to watch a gossip campaign from like this from the outside, you will very quickly notice that messages like this get sent in mass batches to dozens and dozens of strangers. (You can often turn these up with a tumblr search, if you look.)

The sender does not know you and probably does not follow you. They have a person they don't like (possibly for their stated reason and possibly not), and they are going through the reblogs of a post from that blog and mass messaging *everyone* with a form letter. They will not see your response and they will probably never even see your blog again.

Which brings us to the second goal of whisper campaigns like this:

Notice that I blacked out the names above? That's because when the recipient answers anonymous asks like this, they provide a platform for the opinion on their blog. An anonymous message like this that gets posted doesn't just spread gossip and apply pressure to the recipient, it is spread to the recipient's entire community.

The *goal* is to get access to your community. The *goal* is to use you as a soapbox.

Is the information accurate? Did anyone check? Does the anon have an ulterior social motive? BIG SHRUG

If you go into the comments on one of these whisper campaigns you will see that *most people never bother to check.*

They assume good faith from a follower, they're off balance defending themselves, and they jump straight to conciliation.

It's a really, really effective form of social manipulation, and really really commonly misused.

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new Andromaquynh divorce proceedings just dropped

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Some personalized sweaters for the boy