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I think about this tweet all the time because they would've been SO powerful...

Like Brendan IS the lovable "oaf" superhero, and Sandra IS the no-nonsense, competitive journalist. The VISION:

#goddamn #lois and clark #superman

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Blue Eye Samurai (2023-) dir. Jane Wu "In 1633, Japan closed it's borders to the outside world. Completely. Citizens would never see a white face, nor any face that was not Japanese. A child born mixed race would be considered less than human. Pitiable. Impure. Monstrous. From these times rose a legend. Of a swordsman. Of a sword. Of revenge."

#blue eye samurai

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I don't think most people realize just how absolutely gorgeous the backgrounds are in blue eye samurai, and I don't just mean the big shots of a city or a forest. Episode 7 especially is choke-full of tiny details all over the place that are never the focus of the scene so they don't get noticed.

I mean look at this

Have you seen how intricate that instrument is? And we don't even get a full shot of it

The boxes in the background too!! Some of them have unique patterns that didn't even get used in other assets (I'd know, I've been obsessively collecting screenshots of background details LMAO)

And my god, the wall drawings are GORGEOUS. There was another one like this in episode 1 that I barely paid any attention to when I first watched this show

It's not just the backgrounds, even tiny items and furniture have the most beautiful patterns and drawings. SO much effort went into making this world and so much of it doesn't receive enough appreciation.

I really hope the studio behind bes gets to release an artbook where they show stuff like this, they deserve it!!

#the show is stunning #blue eye samurai

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#what could have been what could have been #israel #palestine #(the problem is when a terrorist organization is voted into power)

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"nothing is real atoms never touch each other youve never touched anything in your life" ok. well when i pet my dog he is soft and when he licks my hand it is wet and that is far more real to me than whatevers going on at an atomic level

#GOSH

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leftists when white supremacists are virulently antisemitic: if there’s four people sitting at a table with a nazi, there are five nazis.

leftists when islamists, arab supremacists, and leftists are virulently antisemitic: well of course there’s bad actors at every protest, and anyway these are just outside provocateurs, and they didn’t do anything really, but if they did it’s because those jews fucking deserved it

#antisemitism #something something horseshoe theory

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if Jews don’t feel safe in the environment you’ve created, you’ve created an antisemitic environment. i don’t get why that’s a hard concept to internalize and comprehend.

#maybe don't tell jews what is and isn't antisemitic and makes us uncomfortable #antisemitism

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#antisemitism #something something horseshoe theory

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I sat next to the protest today.

I wrote fan-fiction about two gay jewish dads raising children to the play list of the chant- "No peace on stolen land!" on an American college campus. It isn't a name brand one either, nor does it have any legitimate ties to Israel. The anger is just there- it has rotten these future doctors, nurses, teachers, and members of society.

I don't even know what to call their demonstration- it was a tizzy of a Jew hatred affair. At points, there were empathetic statements about Gazans and their suffering. Then outright support of Hamas and violent resistance against all colonizers. Then this bizarre fixation on antisemitism while explaining the globalists are behind everything.

"Antisemitism doesn't exist. Not in the modern day," A professor gloated over a microphone in front of the library. "It's a weaponized concept, that's prevents us from getting actual places- ignore anyone who tells you otherwise."

"How can we be antisemitic?" A pasty white girl wearing a red Jordanian keffiyeh gloats five minutes later. "Palestinians are the actual semites."

"there is only one solution!" The crowd of over 50 students and faculty cried, over and over.

"Been there, done that," I thought, then added a reference to a mezuza in the fourth paragraph.

Two other Jewish students passed where I was parked out, hunching and trying to be as innocuous as possible. We laughed together at my predicament, where I am willingly hearing this bullshit and feeling so amused by this.

"Am I crazy? For sitting here?" I asked them. My friends shook their heads.

"We did the same last week- it's an amazing experience, isn't it?”

We all cackled hysterically again. They left to study for finals. Two minutes later, I learned from the current speaker that “Zionism” is behind everything bad in this world.

Forty-five minutes in, a boy I recognized joined me on my lonely bench. He came from a very secular Jewish family and had joined Hillel recently to learn more about his culture. His first Seder was two nights ago.

He sat next to me, heavy like the weight of the world was on his shoulders. There was just this despondent look on his face. I couldn’t describe it anyone else, but just sheer hopelessness personified.

“They hate us. I can’t believe how much they hate us.” He said in greeting.

And for the first time all day, I had no snarky response or glib. All I could do was stare out into the crowd, and sigh.

#-this- is a call for genocide #something something horseshoe theory #antisemitism

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do you like pasta

#snort

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Baruch Dayan HaEmet

This was Sharif Suad, an Israeli Arab citizen who was working for the IDF on a contract basis, who was killed in the Hezbollah anti-tank missile attack in Mount Dov by the Lebanon border last night.

May his memory be for a blessing.

#israel

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#something something horseshoe theory #antisemitism

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#israel #antisemitism

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SHE STOLE MY BLUEBERRY!!!!

#cat #cats #caaaat #video

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Guys, stop being crap to creators. You aren’t hurting Amazon. You’re stealing from writers.

#please please please don't do this??????

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no multi option, agonize and choose, no results option, pick one to find out or scroll onward

#do you know how many months of my life would be saved if the laundry appeared folded

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#nadia #gbbo #video #cast