#emir-dynamite

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When I was like 6 I saw about 5 minutes of an episode of Scooby Doo and it gave me nightmares for years.

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I feel like my greatest fictional trauma was being inspired by Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator to think deeply about the concept of mortality. I remember my dad had to drag me out to a park and sit me down and try to help me reconcile with the concept of nonexistence

[hellscabanaboy]

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I know a lot of people for whom they were Formative. Since i was an easily-scared kid I’m not sure whether they would have scared me or not, but it was a moot point.

yeah my liveblogging it has drawn people out of the woodwork to reexperience their childhood trauma which is great because if I’m going to suffer I want to drag them all down with me

I was and remain so afraid of literally everything that avoiding scary things sort of loses its value but I feel like I would not have appreciated some of the character aspects as a kid that I now appreciate VERY much so *shrugs*

[hellscabanaboy]

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I was forbidden from Animorphs as a child but secretly longed for them because they were shiny and had mysterious dealy-boppered creatures on them.

I just didn’t read them because I thought they looked fairly silly-looking

honestly given the amount of actual war crimes that you heard about as a child you probably would have been fine it’s just a few extra doses of bodily possession and deelie-boppers

I myself am unsure whether I would have wanted to experience this as a child or save myself the torment for an extra decade or two

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Are andalites like the blue centaur guy with the deely-boppers, or…?

yes they are and thank you for this because now every time I think about an andalite instead of thinking “damn that war criminal for giving me feelings!” I’m going to think “deely-boppers”

[strayhopes]

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Do you have any recommendations/anti-recommendations?

I don’t really recommend any of them tbh. I like Greg Boyd even if he occasionally does apologetics because he’s really gracious with his opponents and does exhaustive research, even when he’s wrong. He’s the only one who doesn’t seem to be playing The Game

My most vehement anti-recommendation to the entire Jesus Myth camp. Not only do they push an untenable hypothesis to embarrassing extremes, they’re without exception very nasty people

[hellscabanaboy]

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emir-dynamite replied to your post:I feel like the Dathomir eps are always fun bc...

Have they talked about the part where men have to be half-naked and wallow around in mud or whatever

they haven’t really described it in a general sense but like Ventress went to a Man Village and picked up the strongest man and then forced him to do her bidding and called him her mate so I got a....very........clear picture

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Yeah it took me years to figure out that being short on sleep didn’t make me more creative, it just makes my brain feel like used-up chewing gum.

I think I occasionally hope it will make me less inhibited and maybe it does but before I become uninhibited I lose my ability to do anything with it skillfully