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endearing misanthrope and shameless liker of things. one of these days i'll make it big. 🇻🇳

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@jabontan
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@RUNYOMONEY back in my middle school, there was a kid whose bday is 9/11 and someone else really said "oh so two tragedies happened that day" 😭😭
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@LanternJS the way kojima loves movies and the way druckmann wishes he was making movies really is like flirting vs harassment respectively
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@Rayarts745 AI artists will never be real artists
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"america's benevolent rule is the best outcome for the world" america's benevolent rule:
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Because a world where China and Russia rule is a world that is far more brutal, poor, and unfree than a world that the United States leads, despite all of its flaws
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@HamavalThorfinn @GodzillaMendoza heartbreaking; the worst person you know just made a great point
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@RiotNun @funkypjz >confuses a simile for a metaphor
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@JasTheLass fucked up we're perpetually only one brave writer away from her being bruce's daughter in law if only they'd let nightwing marry her
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i haven't seen anyone post this yet
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What's a tweet that's so canonical in your mind you make shorthand reference to it, even if people might not know what you're talking about? (I sometimes just say "uh oh y'all it's gettin' kinda hazy" expecting people to get it)
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@parasytep8 @PoliticoTeacher @Chinchillazllla british people all know each other
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@Srirachachau it's been five years and i still haven't recovered from this one
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i always find it hilarious to imagine the actress's thoughts when first joining like "ah, yeah, so i'll be playing some sort of spy in this grounded vigilante drama" and then by the end of the show she's like
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@NebsGoodTakes
Neb | 🏳️‍🌈
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An adaptation of the comics character Lyla Michaels A.K.A. Harbinger was introduced in Arrow season 1, using Harbinger as her codename in A.R.G.U.S. This proves that the Arrowverse producers were genuinely planning on adapting Crisis on Infinite Earths since the very beginning
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@RogoSprout @GreatCheshire even then, that part was unironically thematically important cause it was the rich parents role-playing as poor people just to get their rocks off
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@BigStoicPotato @murderxbryan if japan "deserved" the nukes for nanking, then what does america deserve for the my lai massacre, the no gun ri massacre, the fallujah massacre, and countless more?
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@LanternJS loved the part where bruce's character arc culminated with him realizing clark's humanity and thus becoming morally and spiritually rejuvenated and then in the immediate next scene he's still murdering people, very "killing is bad" indeed
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@Many_Bees @firewalkwjaime this one is my favorite
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@riese_ripod aoko breast
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@meghaverma_art i'm honestly inclined to believe trad women talk like this precisely because they get off on -- even sarcastically -- being told to shut up and stay in the kitchen
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@AerithsSeat the mcu can still be salvaged if we get jack of hearts onto the big screen
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@Crosish @BigStoicPotato @murderxbryan this isn't aimed at you in particular, but there's something to be said about how liberals will acknowledge america's multiple war crimes and massacres, and then truly believe "we paid our dues for all of them with 9/11"
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"this generation is full of snowflakes" says veteran of the participation trophy war
@MailOnline
Daily Mail Online
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Arizona Military Museum CLOSES after Vietnam vet founder, 80, told tour: 'Eventually they will replace me with some gay, black, woman woke Jew' and claimed mannequin with hand on its hip represented gay soldiers
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@headfallsoff convinced that filmtwt doesn't even like avatar in of itself. they like it in reaction to the mcu's monopoly over the effects driven action movie landscape even though avatar's writing is just as impotent
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@EckhartsLadder probably a hot take, but i wouldn't even be half as annoyed all at the race swapping if they just kept wang miao intact. race swapping is ultimately inevitable but asians deserve to at least be able to be represented as protagonists in this side of the world too.
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@___APHR0DITE @PimpVirgin @sarahlugor something terrible happened here
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@SketchedBat and yet, he's always alone... emotionally. it's like poetry
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this is the perfect microcosm of what being asian is like, just being instantly infantilized when we step out of our model race image that other people have of us
@jinkei_bunny
神慶 JINKEI
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Why do I, as a Japanese person, enjoy creating Black characters? To put it simply, I started creating Black characters because a Black fan once said to me, 'Thank you for creating Black characters beautifully. It's a simple reason, but those words really made me happy. A…
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@NebsGoodTakes @KevinTalks12 write about dean cain fumbling the supergirl bag because he couldn't stop being racist on twitter
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@jayjjalen guy isn't trying very hard to do the right thing, it seems
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right-wing culture warriors when they realize they have to pretend to like fantastic beasts as part of the grift too
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the easy answer is live-action is viewed as the "highest" medium, but what's interesting is netflix has been doing this a lot lately, adapting older, beloved IPs they're on the hunt for another stranger things level success by adapting these proven, already pre-written series
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@michaelhitack @owen_symes @FischerKing64 He's a permanent resident of the United States. Pretty un-American of you to discriminate like that.
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the replies to this making me realize that sports fans are up there with music bros for most annoying group of people. both of them think they're the main characters of media culture and will go "WHAAT HOW DID YOU NOT KNOW" when they meet someone who doesn't share their interests
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i know it’s a meme but kevin garnett was so good in uncut gems it blew me away when i found out he’s a basketball player and not an actor
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@pepipop and 1984 isn't even that good either, it was just 300 pages of "wouldn't this be fucked up if it was real" but orwell forgot to write a plot to accompany it
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white film twitter is great because they'll personally blame you for the death of cinema because you didn't watch the mediocre nic cage comedy or some euro-centered period piece and then disappear when a movie with a bipoc lead or something comes out
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@SaintJorge2 @Ed_Thinks_A_Lot @Calebpower9 @BisexuaKangussy @jayjjalen i'd call you a pussy but it seems you're scared of those
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@thefucking_rat i can't explain it, but 2003's theme song is like if domestic abuse were a song. it kinda rules
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you can really tell scott pilgrim is a canadian series because there's a whole five asian characters who are named
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i literally used to be "sex scenes bad" until the handmaiden single handedly changed my mind
@vaIaena
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umm name one movie that absolutely needed a detailed graphic sex scene 💀
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@notgxku oh it's that person who went viral for saying "this disney movie is just way too scary and violent for me..."
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@RaceplayShawty bullet train fans get really hitler about it if you point out how all the characters are whitewashed from the book, no asian character in this asian book movie besides "butt of the joke" and "katana man," it's amazing
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love that it's always super obvious when someone is more scared of the "chinese" part than the "spying" part. why don't you save everyone's time and just start posting fu manchu iconography while you're at it.
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tiktok is literally a chinese spying app idk why you guys think it’s fine
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@LackingSaint winston wild for this one
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truthfully it is pretty astonishing that rwby got a full ten seasons, a number that like zero web shows ever get, and they still couldn't conclude their story in a timely manner because of the sheer ineptitude of the writing
@Variety
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Rooster Teeth Is Shutting Down After 21 Years
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hitler:
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@galofotias @spikemuthpiers whoever out here trying to compare galolio to sheith has some serious brain worms
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@AigisFricker my favorite part is how hagakure's kid is noticeably younger than the other kids, as if it took longer for aoi to let him smash
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i wrote this because i saw bullet train trending again and i like how whitewashing asian characters has become so common that it's not even an interesting talking point anymore, you just don't even think twice about it anymore
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@SwampTalking @burner398 @realHenryB why are snyder fans so convinced that his movies are high art, this is ridiculous
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@TheNopeGuy2 @melurmom why don't you go arm yourself with some bitches
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same energy
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@IDFSpokesperson
דובר צה״ל דניאל הגרי - Daniel Hagari
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Attached is a recording of a conversation between Hamas operatives regarding the Islamic Jihad failed rocket launch on the hospital on October 17, 2023:
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*white film twitter voice* "if you didn't watch violent night, then you have no right to complain about lack of originality in movies these days"
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i feel like there's an inordinate amount of media that i can instantly explain why i'm not into it by saying i'm asian "did you keep up with game of thrones?" no i'm asian "are you into warhammer?" no i'm asian "do you like fallout?" no i'm asian "lost in translation?" no i'm--
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@Koi_Boruto right-wing fate fans reading heaven's feel and looking at rl sexual harassment cases like "idk i think they're all lying about that"
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once again, cancel culture claims an innocent victim who did nothing wrong
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Boston mayor under fire for secret no whites Christmas party
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@KapCnucklz @DreamLeaf5 she got the tom cruise smile
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@atrupar
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my view on the Israel-Palestine conflict is that it’s been going on for more than a century & there are shades of gray on both sides. It’s is not a simple story of good vs evil. This may sound obvious but acknowledging complexity too often gets you tarred as a heinous person.
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@NebsGoodTakes me knowing who these guys are and knowing that they prefer avatar 2 over eeaao. genuinely embarrassing taste, i'm sorry
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THE HIDDEN REPLIES
@SixDaysGame
Six Days in Fallujah
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The wait is over! Experience modern war as it’s really fought. Today, the battle begins. #SixDaysLaunch
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@GIOGIOpart5wack @SeinfeldGaming @le_post_enjoyer there's a moment in i think new mutants where kitty gives a speech at a one-off character's funeral and she lists out a bunch of slurs as words meant to demonize others, and ends with "that's right, mutie is one such word too"
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mcu fans now think the guy who directed mission impossible 2 and face off is being too elitist filmbro
@ScarletJeffy
It’s Jeff!
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me when I only watch a 3 hour long black and white movie about how Isaac Newton took his first poop because I don’t think fun superhero movies are “real cinema”
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guy seeing andrew tate get arrested for human trafficking: "can't believe they would law-shame him like that"
@BadAstronomer
Phil (Newsletter link in bio) Plait
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Andrew Tate is clearly a dick. And I love what Greta Thunberg is doing for climate change activism. But her response to Tate was body shaming, plain and simple, and I won't applaud that. Quite the opposite.
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*erases the asian characters except the villain, replaces them with white dudes who didn't exist in the book, white characters who were in the books and had minor roles are promoted to main roles* "wow it's so diverse now!"
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i'm sure nolan will try his best to highlight what a monstrous creation the nuke was but i think inevitably most of the audience will, at best, be like "it was horrible, but necessary. and poor oppenheimer was the biggest victim of them all"
@LegoKingo
Lego “Shalashaska” Kingo
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Do people think that Oppenheimer is going to be pro nuke or something
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there's something to be said about how westerners believe asians see themselves as a collective and it's flavored with an underlying belief that they have no concept of individualism, when really it's more that asians are just more thoughtful of how they impact others day to day
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Koi ルナ🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸
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When the meaning of your life is found in hurting others then yes it is better unfulfilled
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things that the dc universe service couldn't get right: its subtitles
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@CharMayCry it unironically is, easily one of the most emotionally raw CBMs ever made
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@NobleQAli respect him for this but also lowkey funny to say after being in bullet train
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consider that netflix is in perpetual debt, esp as they lost some of their heaviest hitters like friends, the office, and daredevil, and stranger things is almost over. they turn to adapting old, pre-written IPs to save creative effort while hoping one of these will hit it big
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@halfeandhalfe @Java_jigga yeah i was just thinking, the order of the phoenix game probably had the same number of spells and that was like 16 years ago lmaooo
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reducing an adaptation of japan's war atrocities against china aside, you can tell this person is 12 years old because they conflate romance with superficial attraction
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reading romance ★☆☆☆☆ reading romance as a subplot in fantasy ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
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i'm not in the know of this sexism discourse but the notion of kariya sacrificing his body to save sakura, similar to shirou's body and mind eroding over the course of HF... something is cooking here
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Koi ルナ🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸
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Kariya is still a Matou. What I mean is, he had noble first intentions, laced with pride and selfish desire. He sacrificed his body to achieve his goals, as it eroded his humanity, and his arc ended in depravity because of it, essentially like Zouken.
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the world needs like four different east asian countries individually before it needs israel. uncomfortable for fartlow to admit perhaps
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Israel is strong. Israel doesn’t need the world. The world does, however, need Israel. Uncomfortable for you to admit perhaps.
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societally we took a step back when we stopped using nine inch nails for movie trailers in favor of random 80s songs
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while those shows are meant to be the softballs, they put their real hardball in one piece, considering its massive budget. not concluded, but there's plenty of material to adapt, and they say that's what they wanna carry on for like 10+ years, food for thought
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every time i see someone in the wild insist the last of us 2 had a good story
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friendly reminder that bullet train was based on an asian novel set in asia yet there were like no asian characters in the movie aside from the butt of the joke because leitch is a massive pussy
@DiscussingFilm
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Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt star in the first trailer for David Leitch’s ‘THE FALL GUY’. In theaters on March 1.
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@Lunwi88 people have come to think the minority allegory is overexaggerated but then you read claremont's run and it is literally true that every ten issues or so, someone says some variation of "oh you hate mutants? now replace them with black people. not so funny now, is it?"
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eeaao hate is racially motivated now, i've decided. some of you guys are way too mad about this
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@infinite_bagel I once saw an oldass man with white hair and everything roll up to the grocery store with a GATE t-shirt and I was just like, you know what, good for him.
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horseshoe theory is real in the sense of "person who doesn't see asians as people because they don't engage with asian art and culture" and "person who doesn't see asians as individuals with unique feelings because they've watched waaaaaay too much anime"
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@jamiwillyf @NicholasPascar5 Ladybug and Prince were Japanese. In the novel, their real names are Nanao and Satoshi Oji
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@feralsilver do you know about the time he posted a thirst trap on twitter and hideo kojima responded with a gif of solid snake getting electrocuted
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what rin and nezha had was not love, they just thought the other was hot and at most, falsely believed that they were the only ones who could understand each other
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it is not anyone's problem but your own if you are so embarrassed of liking genre media and need someone to say some variation of "well THAT just happened, i do MAGIC now" to enjoy something
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Square Enix fans be like, "Forspoken has the most CRINGE dialogue," and then talk about how great this game is.
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i am hulk 2003's strongest soldier a story about a trauma that robs you of your ability to comfortably express your emotions for fear that it'll hurt everyone around you. a fear of the monster in your blood, in your body and in the hateful father who breathed life into you
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y'all?? what is YOUR movie?? the one that was made specifically for you, like the directors and writers were thinking about you when they made it, no else gets it like you do...
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everything reminds me of her
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"The [ventilation] duct's too powerful it's sucking away the meat"
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could you imagine if twitter was a thing while the vietnam war was going on
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@JasTheLass i saw someone reason that it was a fitting/deliberately ironic end that this 4d chess mastermind type would be killed by a completely random and unpredictable act of violence, but the real reason is san fran is just like that
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@LanternJS alien 3 > aliens, i'm afraid
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my mom started watching netflix avatar because she saw aang is bald and was like "oh wow. buddhist representation"
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"I Want to Eat Your Pancreas" was pretty good, to say the least. One of my new favorite anime films, embodies some of the best traits of the medium and reminds me why I enjoy it as much as I do.
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