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Antheas hair isnt literally purple its brown-black (her eyes arent literally scarlet red either theyre more of a red brown. like the color of dried blood.) nor is jiros streak literally orange. but opals hair IS literally holographic foil dipshit colored.

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women should lift weights because it prevents osteoporosis in old age and makes you a more capable person in everyday life please shut up about butts and waists and hourglasses i'm going to fucking kill

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ISSUE 991: borennui

28 april 2024

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its genuinely so fucked up that i have not been touched except twice, briefly, in an entire month. unrelated but theres some kind of toxic poison worm eating my bone marrow and cerebrospinal fluid.

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lrb we need to remind audiences that this is the case too and not every song is autobiographical. i do not think that john darnielle has ever been a professional wrestler that got turned into a werewolf, or a cultist trying to bring about a sea serpent, or a lesbian who murders her landlord to protect her safe home for addicts

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i think we should remind musicians they can absolutely make up little stories for their songs btw. it doesn’t have to be about them at all. you can invent a guy and put him in situations to music. time honoured tradition in fact.

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this may not be terribly coherent but It is the most batshit thing and yet i see it all the time in fandom , the idea that a villain is delirious with grief and that grief means they were secretly truly good all along and were they not grieving (ie if smth had not been taken from them, if they were given what they quote-unquote deserved) they would not have bothered to be evil. That evil is forced upon them as a way to act in the vaccuum that grief causes and temporarily overwrites their goodness and that evil is not something they like, chose of their own volition (though a villain diagetically may argue that their hand was forced). grief does in fact drive you insane in ways that so fucking much media fails to even BEGIN to express. I am literally currently grieving and i would do some dark shit just to see my loved one again. but I'm not gonna pretend that any of these feelings are like, noble or evidence of some "true goodness" on my part

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My one friend group can't stop saying, "See you in hell!" in a cheerful voice instead of, "Talk to you later!" and my other friend group can't stop calling things "penis" instead of "cool" or "good", so I just unironically uttered the phrase, "Sounds penis, see you in hell," as I got off the phone.

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I had a very interesting discussion about theater and film the other day. My parents and I were talking about Little Shop of Horrors and, specifically, about the ending of the musical versus the ending of the (1986) movie. In the musical, the story ends with the main characters getting eaten by the plant and everybody dying. The movie was originally going to end the same way, but audience reactions were so negative that they were forced to shoot a happy ending where the plant is destroyed and the main characters survive. Frank Oz, who directed the movie, later said something I think is very interesting:

I learned a lesson: in a stage play, you kill the leads and they come out for a bow — in a movie, they don’t come out for a bow, they’re dead. They’re gone and so the audience lost the people they loved, as opposed to the theater audience where they knew the two people who played Audrey and Seymour were still alive. They loved those people, and they hated us for it.

That’s a real gem of a thought in and of itself, a really interesting consequence of the fact that theater is alive in a way that film isn’t. A stage play always ends with a tangible reminder that it’s all just fiction, just a performance, and this serves to gently return the audience to the real world. Movies don’t have that, which really changes the way you’re affected by the story’s conclusion. Neat!

But here’s what’s really cool: I asked my dad (who is a dramaturge) what he had to say about it, and he pointed out that there is actually an equivalent technique in film: the blooper reel. When a movie plays bloopers while the credits are rolling, it’s accomplishing the exact same thing: it reminds you that the characters are actually just played by actors, who are alive and well and probably having a lot of fun, even if the fictional characters suffered. How cool is that!?

Now I’m really fascinated by the possibility of using bloopers to lessen the impact of a tragic ending in a tragicomedy…

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i think everyone leaving "reblog dont (just) like" notices on their art needs to think about youtubers and their calls to action and how often it actually works, how often it only serves to irritate, and when exactly does it work and why that might be and what makes those calls different to all the other ones that just get ignored or frustrate people. because you are doing that, and you're doing it badly, and youre losing subscriber

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Having to listen to Lana Del Rey in your gay friends’ cars and pretend it doesn’t sound like an old man trying to read a poem on his deathbed

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you know disabled rights include the rights of disabled people to have children. regardless if those children are also disabled. any mesure to restrict disabled people from having children is simple eugenics

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Commisssion for @ogrespi of Francois, Poppy, and Number Six for a family portrait!

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wawoo

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Per Aspera Ad Astra Update!