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25/Gender Fluid/Any pronoun. I'm just a simple shitposter, making my way through Tumblr.

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Would asking for the Communist manifesto on my company's secret Santa put me in some sort of trouble, asking for a friend

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Unfortunately a reality. I will be sure to inform my friend.

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Jokes aside, this is exactly why I reinforce for younger people the need to keep your online life as free as possible from personal info that can be used to identify you. Not just things that can be considered subversive for fascist government; Names, pictures, address, those sort of thing can be used by badly intentioned people besides the government.

Remember the rules of the Old internet: you don't know personal details about me, I don't know personal details about you, and we continue to be the best of friends regardless. Hell don't even use your main email account for everything, always keep a side one that is attached solely to stuff you maintain outside your public life and work.

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Cybersecurity concerns aside, one thing I recommend is writing down in note book the email addresses so you don't forget them. Don't write addresses or passwords in digital media, those are unsafe.

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Small detail but i like that Manousos tried to write Carol's last name, but because of how Sturka sounds phonetically for a spanish speaker, he wrote Sturka starting with an E.

Also wrote Sturka with a C, instead of a K, because C and K sound similar in spanish and C is used more constantly while K is not used often.

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Small thing, but in a rewatch, i've notice how the gun that Ragatha picks up, when chased by Jax, doesn't have a blue circle light around it.

Unlike other guns.

Neat detail to show that was a dud. Poor Ragatha.

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I find interesting this separation on background color.

And maybe i'm reaching, Zooble and Gangle had light blue as background and both get the closer to one another. Also Kinger and Ragatha get closer in the dark of the Loser Corner.

(also how Pomni and Jax were sharing the same background color at the beginning of the episode)

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One detail i like: when Jax gets real with Pomni, he starts with:

Look, i know what it's like. One day, you're somebody in the real world doing important things.

Continues with this:

But he quickly pauses.

He realize he's opening up about his experience of first coming into the circus

Looks at Pomni

And finish with "Jester", to deflect talking about himself. My guess is, he was feeling comfortable enough that his "archetype" slip for a second.

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"It was the last time I saw my brother... The last time I saw the Sun"

This line from Stack, at the end of Sinners, made me thing about the possibility that Stack cannot see himself in the mirror because he's vampire.

It must hurt to know that him cannot even see Smoke in a reflection.

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Black Mirror 7x03 Hotel Reverie

After Common People and Bete Noire, i had to take a break, forgot how emotionally tolling Black MIrror can be, so i had to watch Brooklyn 99 to get my spirit up...to then watch the rest of season 7.

Fortunately for me, this episode hit the right notes of comedy and tragedy. Not as bleak or anxitety inducing as the two episodes before. A nice change in pace, although i don't think some people will be fond on this, because i did had some issues with the episode.

But for starters, love how the begining prepare us for what we were about to watch, from the old countdown and using the old movie format.

The line: "Please, don't call it content, Makes me heave" What a fucking mood. Also relevant now with how art, being drawings, photos, videos, movies are treated.

And also: "You're gonna use one of those AI paint boxes and deepfake Ryan over Ralph....". The sad thing is that i can totally see some executive foaming his mouth about this idea.

Interesting to see this episode touch the topic of certain roles given in movies to black women. And when Brandy gets interested in playing the lead of Hotel Reverie, the choice is questioned by the owner of Keyworth Pictures, but awkwafina's character, Kimmy, was interested. Even when the filming started, the owner quickly realize that Brandy was very different from the OG actor, which also bring a new side of Clara's character. I can see some people and mention remakes with character of different gender or race and others don't liking it for that reason, but i think is that this episode is trying to say is: Allow actors to play outside of the "designated" roles and you might get something unexpected and something you might enjoy.

And when the simulation starts, i quickly notice a lot more humor, from Brandy having to adapt to the new enviroment and the outside crew. I quite like it and i got many chuckles out of Kimmy and the Owner. Specially the Owner. She got some killer lines.

Now, Clara/Dorothy is an interesting character, in the fact that what we see of her, during the recording of the new version and what we later get to learn about her, outside of the movies, paints a picture of isolation and how an heteronormative space can affect queer people.

I was specially astounded with the scenes of black and white, the scenes that were replicating the old 40s movies look. I ended up wanting to watch the original Hotel Reverie.

When the movie starts to derail and then Brandy hears Kimmy say: "We're experiencing a slight technical difficulty", being the one thing you don't want to hear when your consciousness is plug in, i was already hooked. At that point i had two predictions: Brandy won't want to get out and won't say the final line. Because she will fall for Clara Or Clara dies and Brandy won't have anyone to say the line to.

I said out loud: FUCKKKKKKK....HOLY FUCK....THE DAMN COFFEE.

And honestly? I feel like that part halted the plot of Brandy being in danger of dying, but i love is that progress the relationship between Clara and Brandy. So, instead of just Brandy trying to avoid her death and solving the pot hole, Brandy and Clara get their time to be alone and together, not tied by the story, in universe and in a meta fictional sense, they fall in love. But not because Clara loves Dr. Alex, but because she is interested in Brandy and her personality. Is specially tragic when this gets to an end and the plot has to continue, Clara gets her memories wipeout like nothing happened, but for Brandy...she lost her once.

Shout to Emma Corrin and Issa Rae, through the episode but that last scene in the movie and in the end of the episode, that got to me.

"Do you think it worked? The ending?

Did it for me" For me too.

I quite like it, but the USB not being noticed and the lack of safety precautions, feels like it was there to make the plot progress. Doesn't ruin the episode for me.

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Black Mirror 7x02 Bete Noire

Maybe is just me, but this one feel at a slower pace. But works well, because slowly introduces certain elements that become more important as the story progresses.

Also the rewatch value is so big with this one! Just one example, the first thing we hear in the episode is the news telling this: A woman who jumped from the roof of a multi-story building in Camberwell yesterday has been pronounced dead. Later we learn the the woman was Natalie.

The miso jam joke at the beginning, i like it a lot, i'm a sucker for those type of jokes.

I like how each day had a dramatic music with a huge font.

And then we meet Verity, i had to look it up and i found this:

I really like that her name correlates to her character and how she makes whatever she wants the truth and in part that also make us be more in the shoes of Maria and how she perceives things change.

I love how the episode starts to change little things that Maria (and us) notice. And how everyone starts to treat her like she is wrong, with the "Please, not raise your voice", we feel that gaslight because we know she was right and as i said, we get to be on her shoes. Like with the Bernie's and Barnie's change, the email that didn't had what she wrote, even the camera footage.

The line between truth and lies blurs. Shows how what we perceive as the truth is false but also how lies can become reality. And with a victim of bully as Verity, that first lie that became her reality affect her so much and we get to see how she felt in those times.

Alienation becomes other part of the episode, first we see how Maria starts to lose and alienate other people close to her. Then we learn that Verity did go through something similar, with her losing her only friend. Natalie, although we don't see her part, it is implied that she was going through the same. That was hard to watch but the effects of not feeling like you can trust your enviroment nor the people you use to is quite hard to deal.

When i first watch this episode, i notice how Maria acts uncomfortable with Verity being close to her. At first i believe that was because something was "off" with Verity, as Maria explained. But now that i rewatch. I believe is because Maria is worried that Verity might look for comeuppance for what Maria did. Like, she explains how Natalie did bully Verity the most, but doesn't say that she started the whole rumor, she denies the truth by lying.

About the ending, i was upset. But not because i thought it was bad. But because Maria didn't seem to be sorry of what she did, when confronted she just say she didn't remember, neither she seems to have learned a lesson about how her actions affected Verity, instead she got rewarded at the end.

Was sad to see how Verity, although having everything at the tip of her hands, even Maria points out that Verity can make it like the bullying never happened but the thing is, she still experimented all the torment and she was unable to deal with her trauma properly, nothing would have made her feel better. I truly believe that Verity wouldn't have catharsis in making Maria kill herself or worse yet, Verity would make another Maria kill herself and so on and on.

One thing i didn't like is that Verity didn't have a back up plan if she died and how easy it was for Maria to use her pendant. I would think that Verity would have some form of failsafe. I can kinda excuse it as Verity being so cocky about her power that she didn't believe Maria would be able to get so far, neither hurt her.

Although, after seeing some discussions of the episode, even ended up learning about the role of race between Maria and Verity in this episode that went over my head, i do need to rewatch this episode and i find interesting to see how the dynamic change between Maria and Verity. Verity becomes a case of bullied becomes the bully and althought we can understand why she does what she does, is overkill. I still don't think that Maria getting to use the pendant so easily is satisfactory but i get the ending better now, Maria needed a W and with the power of the necklace (and how her character was potrayed) is easy to see why she choose to be the empress of the universe.

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Amanda in a nutshell:

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Black Mirror 7x01 Common People

In the first minutes of the episodes i was happy but also kinda worried, not even 5 minutes into the episode we got two references, first being the ADIs from Hated in the Nation and then Anyone Who Knows What Loves Is (Will Understand). Although i like them, my mind quickly wish for the rest of the episode to not give more references. I feel like too many can take away from an episode. Fortunately that wasn't the case or maybe i just didn't catch them.

"Fucking Americans" -Mike. What a mood. Chris O'Dowd kills it.

The episode really kicks off when the subject of suscription based model is introduced. And is so terrifying the fact that i can see this happening. Medical miracle turned into predatory suscription model to get the most money possible.

With the new tier: Rivermind Plus, i loudly said "fuck off", but that's how they get you, promising new stuff while making the basic tier inconvenient as possible.

Also love how susceptible children are to these ads.

I ended up loving Tracee Ellis Ross character, how she presents the new tiers, while excusing the inconveniences of the lowers ones to people like is normal

"You're running ads through me." -Amanda. I can see a company being souless enough to have thought a way to do tihs.

Also how Rashida Jones can make Amanda say the ads so seamesly is so funny.

"Fuck no, hey babe" -Mike. That comedy timing.

Kudos to the make up deparment to make Amanda look more and more tired as the episode progress.

The Rivermind Lux and that feature: Use skills and attributes sourced from other Rivermind users. is so horrifying and i believe those skill and attributes that are being sourced are from the lowest tier users.

The terror in Mike and Amanda of not having income and getting reduced a tier is palpable, I feel so horrible during that part.

When the subject of pregnancy was touched upon, i wish for Amanda to not get pregnant, that would have been so bleak. But letting go of the crib was that last thing keeping Mike and Amanda afloat.

We got a time skip where so little is said but so much is implied. Rivermind Plus/Standar now only giving 30 minutes of temporary boost, another signal of the predatory model that Rivermind is running. Mike missing a tooth and Amanda prefering death instead of the lowerst tier. Leaves to the imagination how bad had that low tier had become after the time skip.

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Fami with Denji and Asa-Yoru // Fami with Fumiko and Yoshida

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Grandma yelling "pártele el culo" made my day.

Also, maybe i am the only one but the hair difference of the stunt double of Kreese was distracting in that final fight. Still, glad that the last thing he did was a good act to protect Johnny's family. Doesn't redeem him, he has done too much harm, but does atone with Johnny and Tory.

I like that Miguel beat Axel, the montage of flashbacks were quite emotional and Johnny giving him the headband, that got me a bit.

But ngl, i enjoyed more the fight between Tory and Zara.

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Alright, the Robby and Axel fight wasn't what i was expecting, still enjoy it.

The scene of Miyagi fighting the skeletons was a tad too much for me. But afterwards with Daniel and Him talking was nice. I would have prefered to leave it at only that.

But HOLY SHIT, William Zabka knocked out of the park and also Tanner Buchanan in the locker scene. That and Thunderstruck at the end was what did the episode justice for me.

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So...there's a part of this episode that had me like:

And i cannot tell if is so dumb i dislike it or is so dumb i love it, so there's that.

But the rest of the episode was awesome and had my fav scene between Miguel and Robby so far. I love their fraternal bond.

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That speech at the end of Into The Fire, when Daniel said "In the early days of this bussiness, things were pretty uncertain. We knew we were taking a risk. We had ni idea if we'd be well-received. But we build something of our own."

I believe was the writers talking to the audience.

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I find cool that the last 3 episodes are called: Skeletons, Strike Last and Ex-Degenerate, because it mirrors the first three episodes: Ace Degenerate, Strike First and Esqueleto.

[trashgyrl]

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Gi-hun is top while Frontman is bottom confirmed.