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Baru would not pull the lever, not because she thinks it's better to let five die by inaction than one by action, but because she has convinced herself that she needs to prove she can tolerate mass death in order to be given enough power to end all trolleys. It's a necessary sacrifice.

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CITATION STYLES THUNDERDOME

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“Employees LOVE working with Shovel!!!” executive manager of the Dig Your Own Grave Division at Big Company reports. “Shovel is such a huge productivity booster.”

In unrelated news, Big Company laid off 9,000 employees today. “It’s an important strategic market shift,” that same executive says. “We just have to, now that we have all these freshly dug graves we can put them in.”

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i don’t notice it that often but a little thing i loooooove is when the Highs And Lows of the narrative are illustrated w literal ascents and descents / particularly falls. thinking about the king must die and how the high of theseus ascending from the labyrinth etc turns into a low of despair exactly as aegeus throws himself off the acropolis. like ok katabasis narratives do this a lot but they can and frequently do also do it weirdly. like often successfully Getting to the underworld is a narrative high point despite being directionally Low or e.g. hadestown where the ascent from the underworld ends up being the lowest point for the characters. but anyway. i love it when characters fall off things and die

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we have always lived in the castle illustrated by thomas ehretsmann for centipede press

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mary oliver already said everything

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"Four social media influencers live stream their trip to Devil's Manor, former home to a satanic cult."

Welcome to Shudder Buddies, the show where horror enthusiasts Cyrus and Katie watch and review every single movie on Shudder*! In our opening episode, we review #ChadGetsTheAxe (2022), a found footage-style horror comedy. We also introduce our dear listeners to the BASH scale, the plan for the future, and how much we hate YouTube prank bros.

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when you want to play your video games but dont have the energy for it its like who wants to be my proxy that does the gameplay while i watch and make every decision in the game from the comfort of my bed

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Tills Books, Edinburgh

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'I Can't Believe It's Not Butter' rebrands to 'They Don't Want You to Know it's Not Butter', to better reflect the 21st-century consumer mindset.

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can I be so real with you. can I be honest. totally aside from the moral panic about women on booktok being """porn addicts""" because they're reading erotica, I think it's so fucking goofy when people act as if there needs to be some kind of societal reckoning with how tiktok books "aren't very good." like, okay? they're commercial products mass produced for entertainment. tiktok didn't invent that; you're going to have to take it up with pulp magazines and dime novels and comic books. you guys would throw up if you found out about Fanny Hill.

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the look on the face of the former weird bug in charge of the night time is probably a visage of anguish right about now

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the voice in Ten Sleep is soooo yeehaw, it rules

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Wait, so you’re telling me today’s the 4th? What’s next, the 5th? The minor fall? The major lift?

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Anti-Stratfordian who thinks Shakespeare did write his plays but he was from somewhere else

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The conversation at the beginning of Season Two between Cassian and Niya, the TIE fighter technician we never see again, is one of the strongest moments in the whole series. There's an incredible emotional intimacy between these two people who are not friends, not lovers, have never had and probably never will have a full conversation, but they are risking their lives together in that moment. And the things Cassian says are amazing because of course he's manipulative, of course he's saying whatever will make Niya stay calm and not mess up the mission, but he also means every word of it, and he known that he owes her that, owes her those true words.

And then when the theft of the TIE fighter goes wrong, and the stakes are suddenly very high: we're not worried about whether Cassian survives, we're worried about whether Niya's sacrifice, Niya's potential death was worth it, or if it was for nothing. If Cassian fails, he breaks the promise that he had given Niya, and probably dozens of others like her, little quiet admins and technicians and comms operators and janitors who put it all on the line for a rebellion.