Clone rights!

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An element of the Black Rose arc has been 'side character strike back!' but the Wakaba one hurts.

(Side note: If the Black Rose duelists are grasping for plot relevance they don't actually have, it suggests the masterminds behind the order are similarly insignificant. Perhaps why their leader has a washed out version of Utena's pink hair.)

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Wakaba babe get that man the fuck out of your house

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Given the environment he exists in I suppose it is unsurprising that Tsuwabuki decides the best way to become an adult man is to assault women.

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archive.org crashing all the time as I try to play these videos adds an extra level of surreality to the experience

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"I don't know how he does it. I wouldn't last three days being bossed around like that," Utena says, in the presence of the Rose Bride

[toad-soup]

“Haunting the narrative” but it’s the procedures at your job the person before you put in place

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tagged by @booksandchainmail to post the next nine books I'm planning to read! These are mostly current checkouts or pending holds

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I've read about this before but I don't think I've ever added it to the #terrible space facts tag:

Enos was another of the chimpanzees NASA launched into space. He was extensively trained to perform tasks and operate switches during his flight. If he performed tasks correctly, he got a treat. If he didn't, he got a shock. Unfortunately there was a technical malfunction leading him to be shocked no matter what he did. At final count he was shocked 76 times. To NASA's surprise he persisted in carrying out his tasks, but he eventually ripped out his sensors and catheter. Not NASA's finest moment when it comes to animal cruelty. The Internet may have embraced Laika as patron saint of one way trips; perhaps we should embrace Enos as patron saint of getting unnecessarily tortured at your job.

[specialagentartemis]

Oops! All filk! Wolf 359 fanmixes

“Oops! all filk!” playlists for the main characters of Wolf 359, because I've spent SO long thinking about this and was delighted to learn that as of 2023 all of them DO have recorded versions on the internet! "Swamp Gas" had been the last one I was missing haha.

Minkowski: If You Dare To Take The Journey, And You Give The Wolf His Due

Anna - Vixy & Tony

Good Ship Manatee - Leslie Fish et al.

Do Lemons Grow In Space - Paul MacDonald

Skybound - Anne Prather (as Aislinn)

The Price of Command - Mercedes Lackey, Leslie Fish, and Larry Warner

Hymn to Breaking Strain - Julia Ecklar and Leslie Fish (and Rudyard Kipling)

Burn It Down - Vixy & Tony

Chances & Choices & Fortunes & Fates - Astrisoni

I don't love "Skybound" for Minkowski, and I'm still looking for the perfect song to encapsulate early-show Minkowski who desperately wants to be an astronaut and is desperately afraid of failing and proving everyone right about her. However "Burn It Down" is the most Minkowski song ever so it evens out.

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Eiffel: Swamp Gas

Bitch Song - Leslie Fish

Rocket Rider’s Prayer - Steve Savitzky, Cecilia Eng, Ernie Mansfield, and Kristoph Klover

Just an Old SF Movie - LA Filkharmonics

Don't Push That Button - Duane Elms and Larry Warner

Swamp Gas - Leslie Fish

Long Distance Transmission - Love Patrol Beta

Guardians - Leslie Fish

The Thousandth Man - Leslie Fish (and Rudyard Kipling)

Chances & Choices & Fortunes & Fates - Astrisoni

The first couple are about Vibes(TM), but "The Thousandth Man" is intensely right for who Eiffel becomes.

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Lovelace: Thoughts of a Homeless Alien

Signy Mallory - Leslie Fish

Sam Jones - C. J. Cherryh and Leslie Fish

The Price of Command - Mercedes Lackey, Leslie Fish, and Larry Warner

Thoughts of a Homeless Alien - Julia Ecklar

Save You - PhemieC

Dr. Von Braun - Kathy Mar

Still Alive - Leslie Fish

Chances & Choices & Fortunes & Fates - Astrisoni

Some slightly weird pulls here but Lovelace is such a specific character. I'm still not completely satisfied, but it's a solid core. Yes that's a Homesuck filk, fight me. I also considered putting a Destiel filk on here and I haven't fully decided not to in the final versions when I make nice folders of MP3s and covers and liner notes haha. The only reason "Odysseus" by Annie Moriondo isn't on here is that it's a biiiit of a stretch to call that filk even though it has very filk-y vibes and the songwriter wrote it for a sci fi audio drama. Haven't fully decided against that either. Anyway Isabel Lovelace the woman that you are.

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Hera: Can Anybody Hear?

The Phoenix - Julia Ecklar

The Collars - Escape Key

The World Inside the Crystal - Steve Savitzky (or possibly the Kathy Mar version)

Pioneer's Song - Julia Ecklar and Leslie Fish

Elizabeth's Song - Technical Difficulties

Bugs - Steve Savitzky

One Final Lesson - Technical Difficulties

Let the Path Grow Over - John Callaghan

Chances & Choices & Fortunes & Fates - Astrisoni

This one was a struggle, and I'm still not sure if "Pioneer's Song" has the right vibes, and keeping the Steve Savitzky songs to a minimum was tough because he wrote 90% of the filk songs about computers and coding by volume. Choosing ones about Hera rather than just about computers was also a challenge. John Callaghan is also not actually a filker per se but he does weird sci fi and Doctor Who inspired stuff sometimes so it BASICALLY counts and it's SO post-Memoria Hera.

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Hilbert: Or Who Is Heaven For?

Likho's Lullaby - Vixy & Tony

Surprise! - Leslie Fish

Wernher von Braun - Tom Lehrer

Eight Legged Blues - Vixy & Tony

Blue Bread Mold - Leslie Fish

Lucifer - Don Simpson and Leslie Fish

Tom Lehrer is also not strictly a filker but his songs are staples of filk circles so he counts. Also Hilbert you don't get the Found Family song.

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Feels like a bad idea maybe

[skyberia]

pov your friend just got ritual sacrificed and you're trying to have a moment but your inner monologue gets interrutped by an unhinged twink trying to add grand theft auto to his list of crimes

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There's a post on KC reddit asking if anyone knows people who were at the Hyatt disaster and man are there some grisly stories in there.

[vryfmi]

post so bad tumblr offers 5 delete buttons and no post button

[id: screenshot of broken tumblr queue footer ui with one reorder button, 5 delete buttons, one edit, and one unreadable button where post button should be./end id]

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I thought your tag said "watching gru" and I thought "Damn, I NEED to see that new Minions movie"

Minions serve whoever the biggest villain is, right? While I imagine there are bigger problems in the real world than Akio, presumably within the self-contained world of Ohtori Academy they would flock to him. I'm not sure how he'd feel about them from an aesthetic perspective though

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Bizarre space fact: While the Gemini missions were named after the astrological sign (as indicated by their logo), staff and astronauts pronounced it Gemi-KNEE so much that NASA released a statement making that the official way to say the project's name.

[coraniaid]

In Season 1 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer the Big Bad is defeated because Xander insists on following Buffy when she goes to fight the Master. He is thus able to resuscitate her after she drowns, which Angel (representing Buffy’s emotional link to the supernatural world) explicitly could not have done.  This illustrates one of the big themes of this season: the idea that Buffy’s connections to the ordinary world and to the people in it who love her are not a weakness but in fact a source of great strength.  Contrary to her mentor’s insistence earlier in the season that she should focus on Slaying above any and all other interests, she is ultimately able to save the world precisely because she is still a part of it.

In Season 2 the Big Bad is defeated because, on the one hand, Spike does think his love for Drusilla is more important than the fate of the world (and so he is willing to betray her and work against her plans because of his own feelings of jealousy) and, on the other hand, Buffy does not think her love for Angel is more important than the fate of the world (and so she is able to send Angel to hell even after his soul is restored).  This illustrates one of the key themes of the second season: the idea that romantic love should not be something that you allow to control you, however tempting that might be and however much it might hurt not to.  While Angelus and the Judge both argue that ‘passion’ is what makes us who we are, the show itself suggests that to allow yourself to be ruled by passion is to become something not quite fully human.

In Season 3 the Big Bad is defeated because, a few episodes before the finale and against all reasonable odds,  the Mayor just so happens to contact an old  acquaintance of Giles when looking for help in getting Angel’s soul removed, and this acquaintance passes the information on to Giles.  This entirely unexpected coincidence, this stroke of astronomical bad luck for the Mayor, directly leads to both the failure of his current plan and to Faith unwittingly letting slip crucial details of the Ascension to Buffy ahead of Graduation Day, a mistake which ultimately allows Buffy and her friends to research, prepare for and prevent it.  And this in turn illustrates what I can only assume is intended to be the central theme of the third season: which is that proper vetting and background checks are of vital importance when recruiting private contractors to work for local government.

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The victims getting swords pulled out of their chest seem to be in pain (is it different for the Rose Bride? or has Anthy just gone through it so many times she doesn't scream anymore?) but Miki blushes when Nanami asks him how it felt. Is it too much of a reach to liken this to sexual assault and how sometimes people's bodies can still respond even if they're not consenting to or enjoying the experience?

Unrelated note: Utena must be getting killer leg muscles from all these stairs. No wonder she can do backflips