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novelmonger · 1 year
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Moments That Bring Me Joy: Star Wars Episode II - Attack of the Clones
I'm going through some of my favorite childhood movies and listing all the moments in them that bring me joy. I'm fully aware that many of the stories I loved as a kid are deeply flawed, but I just want to take some time to appreciate what they did well. Just because I'm focusing on the positive doesn't mean I'm unaware of the negative.
Note: I chose the word "joy" deliberately. Not all of the moments that bring me joy bring me (or the characters) happiness. Scenes involving death or pain might not be very fun or cheerful, but I find joy in a good story well told.
I expect that this will be the shortest of the Star Wars ones, because it's my least-favorite movie of the main six. We'll see. I'm making a point to refrain from griping about why this is my least-favorite. The point of this exercise is to point out all the positives - and there really are some good things in this one too!
Because I need to say it sometime, I might as well say it here: The sound of the 20th Century Fox logo will always make me expect the Star Wars theme to follow. That is the sound of pure nostalgia to me <3
The warm regard between Obi-Wan and Anakin is just...well...heart-warming! ^_^
"Besides, your senses aren't that attuned, my young apprentice." "And yours are?" "Possibly."
All of the banter when they're chasing the bounty hunter is top-notch.
Obi-Wan catching Anakin's lightsaber like he's done it a dozen times before.
"Why do I get the feeling you're going to be the death of me?" - a;lkdjgf;sdlfj;sdlfkjdslfkj
"Where are you going, Master?" "For a drink."
"You wanna buy some death sticks?" "You don't want to sell me death sticks." "I don't wanna sell you death sticks." "You want to go home and rethink your life." "I wanna go home and rethink my life."
"I would think that you Jedi would have more respect for the difference between knowledge and...wisdom." - I really enjoy Obi-Wan and Dex's friendship. Kinda wish we got to see more of it!
The Kaminoans have got to be one of my favorite Star Wars alien species. They look so cool, and I love the smooth, sleek aesthetic of their technology.
"That's...why I'm here." - Endlessly quotable line.
Padme's dress when they first get to the lake house is utterly gorgeous.
Padme manages to have gorgeous hair even right after waking up. (Also, I've always been impressed by how Natalie Portman really acts like someone who's just woken up. Kind of rare to see, even from excellent actors.)
I think my favorite one of Padme's outfits is the blue one she wears on Tatooine. It kind of reminds me of Jasmine from Aladdin.
Seismic charges have the best explosion sound effects! 8D
All of Dooku and Obi-Wan's conversation is great, but especially the moment where Dooku says almost the exact same line as Saruman: "We must join with him." / "You must join me." Did they do that on purpose? XD
The sequence on the conveyor belts is fun. Feels like a video game!
"Then we decided to come and rescue you." "Good job."
The Geonosian language is really fun to listen to.
Mace Windu's awesome entrance, igniting his lightsaber right under Jango Fett's nose. And then all the other Jedi show up too!
The ongoing joke of Threepio being mixed up with a battle droid is comedy gold ^_^
Anakin fighting Count Dooku with two lightsabers (however briefly) is super cool.
Yoda flipping and hopping around while fighting is a bit silly-looking, maybe, but I think it's also pretty cool.
Another beautiful sunset on Coruscant.
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amnenome · 7 months
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I’m the ultimate George Lucas apologist apparently. Because I like all three Star Wars prequels as well as his critically panned 2015 animated movie Strange Magic.
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cardboardheartss · 3 months
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Kpop Twitter Fanwars Mini Reading
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⚠️DISCLAIMER! TAROT CARDS ARE NOT 100% ACCURATE! TAKE EVERYTHING WITH A GRAIN OF SALT! IF MY INTERPRETATIONS ARE INCORRECT FEEL FREE TO CORRECT ME!⚠️
Why are there so many fan-wars? : 3oC, 9oC, 10oC & AoC rx
I’m sure we all know the answer to this question lol! Many fans are heavily divided and do not like each other at all. People in their own fandoms generally like flaunting their ult groups success as if it’s theirs, and some fans can get quite emotionally detached and say thee most unkind words.
Are K-Pop Entertainment companies aware of fan - wars? : 7oS rx & KoS rx
The cards may be in reversal but these companies are aware but they don’t want to get caught up in the mess of stan twitter. They honestly think these fan-wars are honestly odd and crazy, they find it pretty arrogant and think fans are too impulsive for theeee most littlest issue.
Are K-Pop Idols aware of the fan - wars? : 4oP rx, AoS & The World
Yes, but they avoid their phones for the sake of their mental health. These idols have phones and have all sorts of access to social media… I would not be surprised some idols could genuinely be lurking around here on tumblr and possibly Reddit too..
How do male kpop idols feel about the fan - wars? : Strength rx, 8oS rx & 9oP
It’s makes them doubt their confidence and their groups potential. They definitely do see the comments of stans saying they doing too much, trying to be like so and so, and blah blah blah. Seeing their fans comments encourages them to actually work harder and push, but for some idols this could lead to them feeling trapped and feel some self hatred.
How do female kpop idols feel about the fan - wars? : The Emperor, KoC, 4oC & PoW
Some female idols get hyped up and feel like they have reached a really high level of success if kpop stans start attacking their groups. I think female idols actually sit together and read all the comments together and probably just laugh tbh. Female idols also think kpop stans on twitter are just bored and have nothing else to do with their lives.
All the comments really rile the ladies up and somehow build thier characters.
I’m aware there are some other female idols who go through a lot of mental issues because of these fanwars, but it seems as if the idols who are self confident and genuinely don’t care about these stuff, had their energies overpowering this response
Do K-Pop Companies control fan wars? - The Star, The Empress, AoP
Yes, they pay a lot of money for PR and also probably pay idols to interact with one another to somehow show the stans who fight, that everyone is “family.”
How does the whole K-Industry overall feel about fan - wars? : 7oC rx
They just think it’s a lot tbh… they have no choice but to let it be, because who has the courage to actually humble kpop stan twitter?!👀😭
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eretzyisrael · 5 months
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By 
Michael Kaplan, Sara Nathan, and Joshua Rhett Miller
Mass anti-Israel protests which stopped traffic out of Manhattan Monday were secretly coordinated by radicals — and are a dramatic escalation of their tactics, experts tell The Post.
At least six radical anti-Israel groups were behind the rush-hour protests which stranded commuters on the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg Bridges and the Holland Tunnel.
The groups, which include the Democratic Socialists of America whose members include squad member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, co-ordinated their actions then blasted their social media accounts with glossy films reveling in the misery they brought.
They also deployed the Hollywood star power of Susan Sarandon, the actress who previously had to apologize for antisemitic comments at a rally in Manhattan.
Justin Finkelstein, analyst with Center on Extremism at the Anti Defamation League, said it was evidence of secret backchannels between the groups and told The Post: “I this is the most disruptive that I’ve seen.
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“It’s slowing down daily movement of New Yorkers and making it impossible not to notice them. I think that is their goal. They think these direct actions raise awareness of the Palestinian cause.”
And he warned more attempts to interrupt ordinary people’s lives are on the way and said: “Anything that gets them visibility is something they might consider.”
The six groups know to have taken part in what they called “an autonomous collective” were Palestinian Youth Movement; Democratic Socialists of America, New York branch; Writers Against War On Gaza; Jewish Voice for Peace; Al-Awda; and Critical Resistance.
Between them they boast ties not just to AOC and Sarandon, but to “Angels in America” playwright Tony Kushner, elite colleges including Yale, Brown and UCLA — and have received funding from the Ben & Jerry’s Foundation, a Rockefeller family foundation and through Schwab Charitable, a fund set up with the help of the investment company Charles Schwab to allow people to make donations to other non-profits.
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eriexplosion · 5 months
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5 6 7 10 for Star Wars violence 👀
OKAY TIME FOR THE VIOLENCE (I don't know how actually violent these opinions are but pretend I am Very Vicious)
5. Worst blorboficiation?
sdfsdifj REGRETTABLY... OBI-WAN.... I love the man but fandom characterizations definitely show some Popular Guy Character Syndrome where it's all about how sad and tormented he is and while I respect that as a lover of tormented men, it is certainly an experience when you're like, reading a CodyWan fic and Cody is comforting Obi-Wan through his tragic past like he's never gone through anything difficult in his life. Also some of Obi-Wan's fun edges are sanded off, he's more generically sassy but considerate of others feelings and kind, etc, and like. He's not UNkind. But this is a man that faked his death and did not tell his emotionally unstable best friend like that was going to do anything but drive Anakin absolutely batshit insane. He watched like ten clones in a row die without a reaction and then the instant a Jedi died they all had to stop for a funeral. He tried to get Luke to kill Vader WITHOUT telling him who he was. He's kind of an idiot and can be kind of an asshole. Let him hurt people's feelings! Let him be socially inept! He is a dipshit not a harmless weep blob!
(This ties in with my desire to see CodyWan fic where they straight up get in a fight but is not ENTIRELY connected to that)
6. Opinion on canon and/or fanon use of the secret child trope? Discuss.
It works for Luke and Leia and I think it should have stayed at that. I'm not a big fan of the Palpatine reveal for Rey but I didn't want her to be a Skywalker either, sometimes you want a main that is Just Some Guy, doesn't need to be a secret child of anyone. In fanon I just REALLY do not like it, partially because it's plugging in a blood relation where it doesn't need to be. The other part is that I have mostly seen it for Obi-Wan and Satine with that Korkie kid and with how utterly repressed those two are at each other I refuse to believe they ever successfully fucked.
7. What is the weakest piece of canon writing?
It feels like cheating to say the sequel trilogy mostly because I never finished it so a thing that I definitely finished and loved but makes no sense - AOC is not the strongest movie but ROTS was like, fully just a series of cool scenes stitched together to approximate a movie. And don't get me wrong, I adore the prequels. But the only one that I think succeeds as a Movie is TPM. ANAKIN'S FALL ESPECIALLY IS NONSENSICAL AS SHIT. Like the underlying motivations are there but they were not pieced into anything resembling a coherent narrative. You have a start point, an end point, and everything in between just kind of jumps around with I think the weakest point being the Tusken Massacre - it's treated more like a sign of Anakin's potential darkness than anything when like. That's a whole village. He killed a whole village and it never comes up again! Lucas apparently didn't consider it that big a deal!
It's to a point where I actually think the massacre can't be addressed from a fully in universe perspective, because there's no actual way to twist it around so that it makes sense for that not to be enough to Make Anakin Fall without breaking the already very loose rules of the universe. Most other Star Wars points I can figure out some kind of justification for how it works in world, but to explain how Anakin wouldn't fall here you just have to kind of confront that Lucas is both not a very good writer and also approached the Tuskens with an incredibly racist viewpoint given that he doesn't appear to see their deaths as fully Counting, unlike the Jedi younglings in ROTS. It's a plot choice that, if treated with the full weight it would narratively deserve, completely unravels the entire rest of the series, the only way to make the storyline of everything else WORK is to take it out or change it so much as to be an entirely different scenario, and I can't think of any other things that fuck it up THAT bad.
10. What’s a ship you've unwillingly come around to?
I think 'unwillingly' is overstating it (but then I rarely DISLIKE a ship, so there's usually not much Unwillingly about it) but I thought Tech/Phee was cute at most until everyone started being Like That about them. Now I want them to kiss and get married onscreen. I hope that she hits that every night. Phee deserves whatever she wants.
Also Anakin/Padme probably counts because I did not actually go into the clone wars watch WANTING to love Anakin but Whoops. WHOOPS. So that meant I got An Affection for the two of them in all their messy stupid as shit glory.
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This day in history
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#20yrsago Emotional Design: The Principles ETCON talk notes https://craphound.com/normanetcon04.txt
#20yrsago My ETCON talk, in the Public Domain https://craphound.com/ebooksneitherenorbooks.txt
#15yrsago Apple sez jailbreaking iPhones is illegal and should be banned https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/02/apple-says-jailbreaking-illegal
#15yrsago RIP, Atomic Ed Grothus, curator and proprietor of the Black Hole of Los Alamos https://web.archive.org/web/20090213231519/http://wps.com/archives/EdGrothus/
#15yrsago Hard data on ebook piracy versus sales — slides from O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing panel https://archive.org/details/ChallengingNotionsOffree
#10yrsago Chinese-language Bing searches in the USA censored to match mainland Chinese results https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/11/bing-censors-chinese-language-search-results
#10yrsago The Coruscant Tapestry: 30′ long Star Wars cross-stitchhttps://web.archive.org/web/20140222222211/https://nineteeneightyeight.com/products/aled-lewis-the-coruscant-tapestry
#10yrsago Militant commander accidentally blows up dozens of trainee suicide bombers https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/suicide-bomber-kills-suicide-bomers
#5yrsago Police lobbyist: cops will not be motivated to stop crime unless they are allowed to steal people’s stuff https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/taken/2019/02/03/sc-civil-forfeiture-police-defend-practice-say-funds-essential-law-enforcement/2746412002/
#5yrsago Courthouse shut after sheriff notices bedbugs “falling out of” lawyer’s clothes https://www.3newsnow.com/news/national/oklahoma-lawyer-with-bed-bugs-falling-out-of-clothing-causes-county-courthouse-to-close
#5yrsago Thomas Piketty explains how Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax is American as apple pie https://www.lemonde.fr/blog/piketty/2019/02/12/wealth-tax-in-america/#xtor=RSS-32280322
#5yrsago After promising health care execs that Medicare for All was dead, Pelosi’s team plans toothless pharma deal https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/02/pelosi-advisor-proposes-non-binding-arbitration-road-lowering-drug-prices.html
#5yrsago Netherlands court strikes down Dutch grifter’s patent claim over Ethiopia’s ancient staple grain teff https://qz.com/africa/1545111/ethiopias-teff-flour-is-no-longer-patented-as-a-dutch-invention
#5yrsago Bank lobbyists are scared to meet with AOC because she might humiliate them on Twitter later https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-banks-aoc/banks-weigh-whether-to-embrace-or-avoid-progressive-firebrand-ocasio-cortez-idUSKCN1PV27N/
#5yrsago Barefoot Engineers: rural women from Malawi, trained as solar engineers, who are electrifying their remote villages https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2019/feb/11/barefoot-engineers-malawi-solar-power-in-pictures
#5yrsago Amazon just bought mesh wifi company Eero. Oh, great. https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/12/18221441/amazon-buying-eero-disappointing
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I remember when the left discovered that Tulsi Gabbard has principles and she went from rising star treated like AOC to a pariah overnight. It was all because she was unflinchingly anti-war.
Through the looking glass we go.
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echogekkos-writes · 1 year
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suggested by @snail-studios as a fellow mutual 3 ships: Mipha x Link (from BotW/AoC!), Garrus x Shepard (Mass Effect), Finn x Huntress Wizard (Adventure Time)
First Ship Ever: Midlink. It was what definitely got me into shipping. I love Midna and her personality and her design. Favorite LoZ companion by far.
Last Song: The Hunt Begins (Witcher 3 OST)
Last Movie: uhhhhhhh.....I saw Mad Max: Fury Road a couple months ago? (one of my faves). Been a while since I’ve seen a movie.
Currently reading: Rythm of War by Brandon Sanderson (i really need to finish it). If you don’t count all the fanfic, ongoing and oneshots, that ive been consuming.
Currently watching: Nothing! No show has currently captured my interest. Except for my recent deep dive into Escape from Tarkov vids on YouTube.
Currently consuming: Miphlink content on a broad scale. Against the Storm. Age of Wonder 4. Warframe.
Currently craving: Miphlink and Shakarian. Writing my fics and homebrew D&D campaign. Sushi. My constant state of forever.
Tags: @laconicstardust, @eldin-of-pherae, @only-by-the-stars @desiperc @enienah @creativesplat @doodlesandbooks @wanderingshieldmaiden @baradesign @exananas
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bloobluebloo · 5 months
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Fandom dividers that started out good but burned their goodwill: The BoTW trilogy (BoTW, AoC, ToTK) 🤝 The Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
Listen, for all the griping I do with TotK, I don’t think it will piss me off as much as “somehow Palpatine returned” The Rise of Skywalker. Thank goodness I watched it for free 🙃
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riddlemaster101 · 9 months
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top 10 female characters
tag from @rebelrainfall, thanks for the tag!
rules: name your favourite female characters from 10 different fandoms, then tag people
Ok so there's some overlap in fandoms and these are just my current fav characters (ask me 5 years ago and the list would have been a bit different)
Jyn Erso (Rogue One)
Leia Organa (Star Wars OS)
Vette (Star Wars: The Old Republic, Sith warrior companion)
Eowyn (Lord of the Rings)
Keladry of Mindelan (Protector of the Small)
Zelda (Breath of the Wild + Age of Calamity + Tears of the Kingdom version)
Purah (BotW + AoC + TotK)
Padme (Star Wars Prequels)
Lobelia Sackville-Baggins (Lord of the Rings)
Trisana Chandler (Circle of Magic)
tagging @imsfire2, @jynjackets, @rapidashmascot, @rifle-yes
no pressure
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chronicas · 1 year
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Okay ive been following aoc (not the politician) and i love your ocs esp karma but im missing context since i started following u presumably well after u started working on it. Can u give me a summary and rundown of aoc?
It’s cool, everyone started following me well after I started working on it because it’s been in the works since uhhh. I was in middle school. So like 8 years.
Array of Cicadas will (hopefully) be a comic in three installments. Array of Cicadas, Array of Cicadas: Cryptadia, and Array of Cicadas: [REDACTED]. The length of each part is the main thing I’m working on currently.
Array of Cicadas follows Akira Akamatsu two years after the death of her older sister. She moved from the magical realm of Genesis to Earth to settle for a more mundane life. Eventually her father shows up and ruins that whole plan by sending her to the realm of Hveske to protect her from a coming war. She meets Devan Ranim and his friends, they all set out on a journey to find the Sword of Gjalleon to fight the empire that’s threatening the universe. Karma Gjalleon is the main antagonist in AoC! She plots against the Hveske Quartet, but she’s NOT a part of aforementioned empire. That would be the Izebellian empire… I promise to update my World Anvil eventually…….
Array of Cicadas: Cryptadia takes place in parallel to AoC, but on Earth. It follows a group of three teens and their buddy mothman as they investigate the increasingly stranger paranormal phenomenon in their town… the paranormal phenomenon that isn’t them anyways. This part gives more insight on the Izebellian Empire and the world building of Genesis. The main antagonist of this one is Kirke.
Array of Cicadas: [REDACTED] is well. Blocked out that way for a reason. It follows Aranea Weltgeist after her escape from the Izebellian Empire. In its second half it ties together the previous parts as the casts combine to take down the big bad behind it all: Penumbra. And that’s all I can say about it.
I have over 300 characters in AoC and it’s incredibly convoluted. Unchained Phenomenon and Shifting Stars and Moving Mountains both exist in the AoC universe but have no connection (or very little) to the plot of AoC.
I’m very bad at summaries that aren’t literally just a synopsis. PLUS it’s hard to get into some of the story without is being pretty spoilery and I like to keep a lot of it close to my chest. BUT I do love answering questions about it! So always feel free to ask me more about it :)))
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creativesplat · 1 year
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Suggested by @echogekkos-writes and @desiperc!
3 ships: 
- Mipha x Link (BoTW, AoC) I LOvE them so much, my OTP! 
- Yue x Sokka (AtLA): one of my earliest ships, and even though it was a short romance I adore them:)
- Mara x Luke. 
Honestly all my favourite ships are doomed by the narrative Orpheus and Eurydice inhuman/ superhuman x human, so it really surprised me that I loved Mara x Luke so much. Neither is doomed, death and being haunted by one of the pair isn’t a massive part of it, and they’re both Jedi. So a break from my normal I guess 😄
First Ship Ever: Either 7kotay or Faramir and Eyowin (I was read the LoTR books as bed-time stories when I was a child) 7kotay from Star Trek Voyager is was one of my favourites for a long time. Seven of Nine and Chakotay just had this connection, and I started shipping them way before they became a couple on the show. 
Last Song (s): Dancing in a Daydream, Roses and Revolutions and Weathers, and Into the Light by Emilia Ali. They’re the latest two songs added to my MiphLink playlist (do send me an ask if you’d like me to tell you all what the whole playlist is!)
Last Movie: Enchanted, not my first pick but a great movie! Had a movie night with some friends :) 
Currently reading: The Two Towers (LoTR) - second time reading this one, and I’m loving it! A Venom Dark and Sweet - a new book discovery about a girl who can use magic tea, it’s brilliant! Pilgrims Progress - one of my all time favourites, it has made me cry on more than one occasion! 
Currently watching: Gravity Falls (again!), I am a twin, so seeing the twin relationships on that show make me so emotional and I love the characters. 
Currently consuming: lots of MiphLink stuff! (I need to catch up on some fics tho (cries in busy)), DnD lore - I’m a DM and a player in two connected campaigns, and I love my little guy and all the npcs and all the mythology - Tis great! 
Currently craving: Star Trek Voyager, MiphLink (them being a badass couple and being infatuated I love them ok? 😂), The mystery trio au (gravity falls but if Stan and Ford had worked it out 30 years in the past), Vaderkin aus (Darth Vader accidentally travels back in time to being a young general in the clone wars and shenanigans ensue!), and one character in Totk (though I shan’t spoil it - may mention it later!), and @doodlesandbooks‘s MiphLink modern AU. 
@only-by-the-stars @wanderingshieldmaiden @wanderingnightingale @eldin-of-pherae​ @doodlesandbooks @husborth @enienah @ananaskarasstuff
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chambers003 · 1 year
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I’ve been here for over a year now so it’s time to do a pinned post I think.
I’m Chambers, any pronouns, an adult, Australian. This is my main blog, but I also run @tango-but-everywhere, and I’m moderately active there. Same rules DNI-wise for both blogs, I don’t have one because they don’t work, just be kind, that’s it. The bar is on the floor.
I’m a mcyt main (hermitcraft, empires and trafficblr especially) but there’s a few other interests of course. I have no tagging system for reblogs unless I remember to tag spoilers and cw but I’m not very vigilant with that stuff so be warned!
Stuff other than MCYT you’ll find here includes:
The Magnus Archives (and probably its sequel, The Magnus Protocol)
Splatoon (All games. This is the only series I’ve 100% all of.)
Star Wars (I’m big into Rebels and Clone Wars but honestly expect anything)
Pokemon (Mostly scvi, I’m pretty new here but I have played Sword and the mobile games. Number 1 Pokemon Duel enjoyer)
The Legend of Zelda (most games, even if I’ve only played a few of them myself. BOTW, AOC, and eventually TOTK main though)
I do art, and sometimes I even post it. You can find it under #art moment.
When i find a post I particularly like, I bookmark it with #good post op.
I’m also the co-author to the TACOMLU, but this probably isn’t the right place for that? Check out #tacomlu for more information there.
I mostly reblog though.
Welcome on in! Enjoy your stay. I don’t care about the numbers so if you follow you follow and if you don’t you don’t.
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unefemmedamnee · 2 years
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So like if star wars was real life anakin/padme would be like aoc and logan paul
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hellonoblesky · 2 years
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I love my choices of Favorite Movie bc you've got:
Sharknado
Dead Apple
Sharknado 2
Star Wars. Like any Star War movie except AOC that one was Boring and I Cannot Sit Through It
Sharknado 3 (for the ending)
Princess Mononoke
Sharknado 6
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