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Podfic is the ultimate portmanteau btw

i literally love saying "ON IT BOSS!!!!!" whenever someone asks me to do something like i'm some sort of henchman. it doesn't matter if they're my boss or not for real even because in the moment they are, and whatever they requested of me i'm on it

bittsandpieces

yeah no aside from the persistent fear that im not enough and will never be smart enough or beautiful enough or talented enough im doing fine

theblindassassin

30 Rock - 3x01 - Do-Over

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Real fun fact!! NASA is launching the first manned mission of the Artemis program TODAY: Artemis II

Currently set for launch TODAY (April 1st, 2026) at 6:24PM Eastern Standard Time.

You can watch the live view for free on YouTube; here is a link for the live coverage.

They'll circle the moon and be back within 10 days, with later Artemis missions putting people BACK on the moon for the first time in 50+ years

Good luck to the flight crew and everyone else involved on their trip!!

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T-10 to launch (unless something gets in the way)!!

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And we're off the ground, baby!!!

p4nishers

the project hail mary universe is one of the only ones out there where orpheus turning around actually saved eurydice btw

technicolorrelays

the ides of march

ilexvici

MMMM WATCHA SAYYYYYY

flamingbluepanda

For the love of god, ceasar, and the ides of March, unmute this video

cassieoh

Medieval garden vase, ready for the kiln!

I found a botanical manuscript and was possessed

Im going to be listing a few pieces from this series for sale on kofi soon, so give me a follow there if you want to be notified!

cassieoh

Good news! It came out amazing!!

Video turnaround and more angles here!

olhetti

oh my god its so pretty

journoeil

what bothers me most about Fennell’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights is the discourse that continues to be propagated (often by women themselves!) that because it was written by a woman, the novel must reflect the kind of relationship the author secretly dreamed of, that she was quirky, dark, perhaps secretly romantic in a morbid way. if it had been written by a man, everyone would say: “oh, the author is analyzing toxic relationships through these characters. he’s criticizing them.” it always bothered me that Brontë was immediately branded as a weird lovelorn woman, when in reality there is not much in her biography to attest to that. she was just a very intelligent writer who thought about a very intelligent subject like any of her male counterparts.

the canon always sees men as universal observers and geniuses who undertake social studies, but when it comes to women, they are reduced to being mere subjective chroniclers of interiority, supposedly recording their personal romantic fantasies.

many novels contain a romantic thread. among other things, Wuthering Heights opens with one. but most of the book is about revenge, cruelty, trauma, inheritance, generational damage etc. and yet, because it was written by a woman, only the love story is treated as significant.

if Wuthering Heights had been written by, say, F. Scott Fitzgerald, critics would likely praise the ruthless anatomy of obsession. I am just so sick of this. I sure would love to see the day when The Great Gatsby is marketed as the greatest love story ever told, overflowing with loose erotic scenes, rather than the highbrow social critique it’s usually presented as. the idea that women write “from emotion” while men write “from intellect” is still too deeply sedimented in how we talk about art.

roadhogsbigbelly

i think the reason "fiction affects reality" trips so many people up is because they think it means "engaging with media that depicts uncomfortable subjects will taint your soul" when really all it means is that "fiction is meant to reflect certain ideas of the world intentionally or not, and it's going affect your perception of it, if you don't go in with a healthy bit of skepticism"

roadhogsbigbelly

like playing a first person shooter isn't going to turn you into a school shooter, but that doesn't mean that Call of Duty isn't like. explicitly military propaganda.

or (for a more specific but also weirdly common example) enjoying horror movies isn't going to turn you into a serial killer, but if you watch a lot of horror where the killer is "a gender confused man who kills women whilel dressed in drag, because his repressed female split personality hates his attraction to women because it gives her gender dysphoria" than you should like. be a bit criticial of what you're enjoying. or something like that.

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But at the end of it, the point shouldn't be "certain kinds of stories should not be enjoyed by anyone bc they will warp you" and more like "please use your brain sometimes when watching/reading/playing things because every single story has messages in it about important ideas"

Even if sometimes the message is "the author/artist etc put zero thought into this idea bc it's something people make blind assumptions about"

I don't even think you Must Perform Criticism Of Thing Or It's Bad And You're Bad

Just like, have thoughts idk, be curious about what things mean, have that be something that matters to you sometimes

nigelgraz

Almost lost my mind but i finally finished my fabric study

dreg-heap

God could you imagine how mad geologists must have been to slowly watch the "hey all the continents kinda fit like puzzle pieces :)" guy get proven right