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lowkey irredeemable

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credit: sweatermuppet

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sophie thatcher photographed by jason renaud

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the shauna vs mari fight in "it girl" presents an interesting parallel to the shauna vs jackie fight in "sic transit gloria mundi." in both cases you have one girl (jackie/mari) who is speaking up against something that is wrong (doomcoming/shauna's treatment of mari) which devolves into a fight with shauna, who is unable/unwilling to admit to participating in this wrong. and in both cases the group punishes the girl who speaks up because she is disrupting group cohesion. there are differences -- mari's punishment is much more formal than jackie's, which is more of an unspoken agreement that jackie could push back against if she actually wanted to, and natalie does punish shauna as well for her fight with mari, whereas the group imposes no consequences on themselves for their actions during doomcoming. but in both cases, the implication is made clear that speaking out against injustice is just as bad or worse than committing injustice, because speaking out against it harms the group's self-image. and in both cases, the girl who speaks up basically says "fuck you" to the group and self-isolates and ends up drinking the hot chocolate of doom and is led down a path that either very shortly (jackie) or eventually (mari) leads to her demise.

it's interesting then to note that mari in a sense acts as the voice of the group in "sic transit gloria mundi," telling jackie that maybe she should sleep outside if she has such a problem with what they did to her and travis. when you're in the in-group, it's so very easy to pin your problems on the person "making a scene" instead of self-reflecting. but as "it girl" shows, the wheel will always turn. you can think you're protected by being in the in-group, but if someone more powerful than you decides they don't like you and treats you badly, speaking up will get you cast out for "making a scene" just as easily as you once did it to others. this is why it's important that mari refuses to fold throughout s3, that she does not vote to convict coach ben, that she dies cursing shauna and lottie's names: because she has realized that going along with the group provides merely the illusion of safety, and that it is more important to stand up for what is right, to make a scene, to pick a fight, even if it leads to her death.

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Searching for Refuge Beneath a Watchful Sun

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i do think it's really funny that every single dc comic i picked up this week was like 'batman #161! part of hush 2! it's gonna be out in june look for it in stores!!' and actually. it's not. it's gonna be late. all those ads were lying to you

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Once Optics is older, and has a better handle on how to balance work and life, they can start tracking and ambushing them properly, but until then…

Lol. Lmao, even.

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New friend acquired

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The Plantagenets lasted 331, though that's counting both the Yorks and Lancasters. If we only count the main line, then it's 245. In general, though, a rule of thumb that've developed is that that any time Martin says a number, divide it by ten.

The thing with the ASOIAF timeline is you have all these histories for The Night's Watch and the Starks and the other great houses going back thousands of years but then the Targaryens ruling the seven kingdoms only lasted 280ish years which is long but actually reasonable compared to everything else

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See the thing is that if I described the protagonist of Worm as "What if Rorschach was a Utilitarian instead of an Objectivist and also a teenaged girl," basically no part of that would be strictly accurate except for the teenaged girl part. But it would on some other level be incredibly accurate, and a funny way to trick Watchmen fans into reading Worm

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Getting Over It With Bennet Foddy

The key to understanding all of the video game concepts I post on this blog – the unifying thesis, if you will – is that I think haterism is an underexplored dimension of video game design. Most devs think making a game that hates its player and wants to inflict pain on them simply means making a game that's tedious and unpleasant to play. I think we can do better.

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But Taylor, you’re going to die doing this!

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Finally got around to watching Madoka magica and holy shit I love that Homura doesn’t have a magic weapon she’s just using normal guns and bombs.

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⋆⭒˚.⋆ nyanya x madoka magica collaboration ⋆⭒˚.⋆

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Gold morning

Version 2

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Tara was just asking Rusty and Malcom an innocent question