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[squebby]

I wrote a musical for my senior distinction project and I'm so excited to finally share it with y'all! Please enjoy Scott Pilgrim Strikes A Chord, I put a ton of work into this so I hope you love it

[rlyehtaxidermist]

"immortality sucks because all your friends die" all your friends die anyway. those we do not mourn are those who mourn us.

"immortality sucks because you forget who you are" we always forget who we are. do you remember who you were at four years of age? who you were at fourteen? "who i am" is a shadow cast on the wall.

"immortality sucks because" skill issue. skill issue. skill issue. give me your liver

[squebby]

I think my least favorite Marvel trope is "sudden evil action of previously ambiguous villain". It's a surprisingly consistent trope throughout the MCU, where they present a villain who has a surprising amount of depth and feels justified in-universe, then make that villain do something out-of-character that makes them unambiguously evil and completely absolves the hero of any moral conflict other than "punch evil person".

[squebby]

One of the most common Last Five Years takes I hear is that Jamie sucks, and is to blame for the relationship falling apart. There's definitely some extent to which that's true, but I also think it's very reductive to pretend as though Kathy is perfect and Jamie is evil; to me, the whole point of TLFY is that their relationship was fundamentally doomed, and they were both flawed in such a way that their relationship would never really work.

Both of the "new love" songs in the show, Shiksa Goddess and I Can Do Better Than That are demonstrations that, from the beginning, both Kathy and Jamie are in this relationship for the wrong reasons. The first thing we hear Jamie say is that his main interest in Kathy comes from breaking norms, being "the story he should write", and falling in love with "someone like you". In short, Kathy is the right type of person for him, but he never praises anything about her specifically. In I Can Do Better Than That, Kathy does the exact same thing. She sings mostly about types of relationships she's unwilling to have, and praises Jamie for being the right kind of guy, but with no praise about him. Think about the parallels between "you don't have to watch the news / you don't have to learn to tango" and "if you liked to drink blood, that wouldn't matter". The songs have a lot of differences, but they're both entering the relationship for the wrong reasons.

[squebby]

thinking about how i should start responding to random text posts with extremely long rambling monologues that broadly miss the point of what they were discussing. i think that could be fun

[iambad]

i’m sorry i moaned while eating garlic bread do you still think i’m cute

[gay-irl]

[play-now-my-lord]

Reminded by flag discourse about my proposal for a new Massachusetts state flag. The looming black triangle represents the creeping dread one experiences in Massachusetts, the white represents the horrible weather, the blue represents microplastics, and the slogan represents I saw it on a pack of cigs and thought it sounded sick

[escuerzoresucitado]

[squebby]

I scream into the void, hoping against hope to hear back even an echo, a fragment of what I send into it. My yells fill my head until my lungs ache, but as soon as I stop, silence consumes me. Maybe if I add tags, more people will see my posts?

[squebby]

Everything is a UFO if you're good enough at throwing and bad enough at identifying

[badjokesbyjeff]

Elton John got his pet rabbit a treadmill for Xmas.

It’s a little fit bunny.

[faithdeans]

garlic is my boyfriend garlic is a god garlic is the wind in my hair on the weekend garlic's a relaxing thought aren't you envious that for you it's not sweet like honey garlic is a cat purring in my lap cause it loves me flexing like a goddamn acrobat me and garlic vibe like that

[squebby]

Kevin McCarthy losing four five six seven eight ten consecutive Speaker of the House votes (so far) is legitimately one of the funniest things to ever happen. This is 2023's boat stuck in the Suez Canal. Something important has ceased working for the most hilarious possible reason and we are all watching desperate attempts to get it working again while secretly hoping it does not, and I think that's beautiful

[cowardishh]

in muppet knives out during the scene where benoit explains everything statler and waldorf cut in every so often to heckle him and he finds it delightful every time

[whentheynameyoujoy]

[squebby]

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