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🎁HAPPY BIRTHDAY (Fanart)🎁

I received the loveliest birthday gift, and my friend gave me permission to share it on the socials!

Mari doesn't have an official birthday (but I'm personally convinced she's a Taurus). Look at how happy everyone looks! 😊

(Art by shmoki!)

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catching up on second citadel and agonising over how they not only explore the trope of "what we sacrifice for love" but extend that to "what parts of ourselves have we made space for love to remain and thrive". its seen in the way Lord Arum still declares himself a proud lizard but that now includes whatever it will take to keep his promise and return to Rilla and Sir Damien. it's in how Quanyii opens their arms to the universe itself, not out of indulgence, but to protect and prove they are worthy of connection to those who have given her love in return. it's how Sir Angelo has made what he cherishes in others a part of himself to always keep those people feeling near. it's in how Rilla saw worth in what years of her passion could accomplish, even if that was only to know your loved ones are safe.

and it's in how everyone desperately wants to succeed, not out of merit or having a space amongst those who remain, but to claw for and keep close what they know to symbolise love.

#tpp

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We're back!! The first episode of Shattered Echoes is out now! This anthology series includes stories set in different realities within the COPPERHEART universe, featuring new characters and familiar voices.

In this pilot episode, the story picks up right where season one of COPPERHEART left off...

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Okay, I’m curious. I know it may be a question for longer answer however polls get more engagement so I’ll do it this way. Feel free to simply write your opinion in a comment/reblog.

The important part here is the horror part. And I mean it literally, as a genre, not as a joke.

#it certainly felt like horror when i was 13 but it stopped feeling like horror and it started feeling like home when i got used to it #it's horror adjacent cuz it uses horror elements but i wouldn't class it as horror proper #cuz idk to me with horror the primary emotion it's supposed to evoke is fear #whereas with night Vale i think it's more trying to be weird and surreal and satirical and even comedy #there's certainly a lot of overlap but #with more horror horror shows they're all about the fear and terror that the unknown brings #whereas night Vale is about how the unknown and unfamiliar can become mundane and normal even if it's still incomprehensible #wtnv

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Bedrock | MIDST 3x10

#midst podcast

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circumstances surrounding the “leaked” documents about eiffel’s sentencing in need to know, as i understand them:

one of the very first things kepler does is offer eiffel, minkowski, and lovelace a drink. in true “at any given moment, kepler has about eighteen ulterior motives” spirit, it is, among other things, “hospitality”, sure, a test for eiffel, definitely, but… i think the main reaction he was checking for was minkowski’s. will she look at eiffel, or react to his reaction? how much does she know? how much does he trust her?

in don’t poke the bear, jacobi and maxwell stop lovelace from breaking into kepler’s server by pretending to be in on it with her: “she’s very good. it might turn into a problem.” / “i’ll run it by kepler.” two episodes later, files from kepler’s very secure server are “leaked.”

(the words "need to know" are spoken offhandedly by eiffel in the episode itself, but it also calls back to the excuse maxwell gives lovelace: "colonel kepler practically lives by the words 'need to know.' and, apparently, nothing i can say will ever convince him that i 'need to know' everything that's in our databanks.")

need to know opens with minkowski finishing an eleven hour shift, and then finding out kepler moved that shift to, well. now. she’s already frustrated and sleep deprived.

minkowski complains to kepler. jacobi and maxwell, on cue, barge in and complain to kepler. kepler assigns minkowski, jacobi, maxwell, and lovelace to punishment detail, taking eiffel out of the group because “you’re the only one who hasn’t wasted my time with pointless whining.” lovelace says: “um, i don’t think that i did any complaining either, so…” but that doesn’t matter. it’s just an excuse to remove eiffel from the group; he could just as easily have been singled out for special punishment. either way, it was going to happen.

hilbert isn’t there. not the most significant factor, since he’s already been effectively sidelined by kepler, but remember he already knows about eiffel’s sentencing, doesn’t care (about eiffel’s history OR about anyone else’s personal drama), and will later respond to minkowski asking by telling her to grow up and get back to work. it simplifies things to not factor him in.

consider the files themselves: we know from happy holidays that maxwell not talking to her family is common knowledge, but jacobi reacts like it’s news. we know from hera’s performance review flashback in memoria that kepler and jacobi were aware of “multiple attempted crew member homicides” in her record. the file about hera’s bentham directory was on kepler’s server. if there’s one person who would’ve been briefed on everything there was to know about hera, it would’ve been maxwell; her shock is entirely feigned. in fact, almost every reaction from jacobi and maxwell here is feigned. they’re black ops specialists who arrived prepared with divide-and-conquer tactics. there’s no reason they wouldn’t know these things. also note that none of the “leaks” reveal anything about the mission they didn’t already know, and that nothing about the si-5 is incriminating - if anything, it’s mostly silly and even humanizing. and, yes, all of that contextualizes maxwell’s reaction to “skiing?!”

eiffel’s file comes through last, once they’re already worn out. kepler sends eiffel to check on them at the same time so that he’ll walk in. jacobi shows minkowski the file. he lurks around waiting to see how her not-confrontation with eiffel goes, and then cements the thought in her head: what about you? are you going to care?

it’s true that there are aspects of the mission only kepler knows, but as far as information on the hephaestus crew goes (barring one very particular detail about lovelace)? that’s part of the job they were chosen for. when they kill the plant monster, kepler says: “you think we didn’t know about that thing? please. we listened to every log that you beamed down to canaveral.” kepler’s entire foundation is shaken when jacobi turns on him because this is how they operate: “have one person take the blame, say the mean things. meanwhile, the poor, betrayed little guy gets a bit more leeway - just enough to sneak up and hit you from behind.” the show is not subtle about any of this. you can pick apart any early-s3 interaction between two hephaestus crew members and an si-5 agent and see the same divide-and-conquer tactics at play. jacobi and maxwell are always - in morals, loyalty, job description - closer to kepler than they are to the hephaestus crew, and to even sort of believe otherwise is falling for that facade. it’s worth remembering that the hephaestus crew are prisoners. some of them were aware of it from the start, and some of them were lied to, but none of them were meant to leave. the si-5, on the other hand, went up there with a unified goal, and the knowing intention they would be, among other things, prison guards.

#wolf 359

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the funnest form of being a hater is hating something you actually have so much love for but sucks. it’s cathartic. corny people are always like ‘if you hate x so much don’t talk about it 😒 positivity always <3’ you could NEVER understand our WARRIORS BOND

#met my bf talking about how much we hate the tbs spin-offs lmao

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man, audio drama creators come up with some wild sequels sometimes

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LIVESTREAM HAS STARTED! JOIN MOTZIE FOR HER HOME SAFETY HOTLINE BIRTHDAY LIVESTREAM

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The Pilgrimage Saga is AMAZING in its own right, but this version of the theme? SO FREAKING GOOD.

#the pilgrimage saga #audio #genuinely one of the best themes I've ever heard in a pod #music

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Red valley but it's always sunny in Philadelphia

Gordon devito

Also this is my first time drawing Clive, there will be more of him B)

#red valley podcast

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Yeah, sure I’ll keep drawing Gerry and I’ll be so normal about it

#tma

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kingmaker histories au where instead of losing track of her, ariadne spent 25 years as colette’s secret horrifying fairy godmother, dropping gruesome medical texts on her doorstep as gifts (because isn’t that what all girls her age want?) and turning her bullies into materially unsound rat creatures

#the kingmaker histories

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*Full Question: A lot of horror, particularly Body Horror, find itself reflecting kinks and fetish. Have you ever deliberately watcheds a horror film/programme/episode that uses your kink/fetish?

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I also love to see Fleet’s perpetual air of exasperation break, too. He’s the put-upon Straight Man counterpoint to this zany world, that very British archetype of long-suffering and no-nonsense, his primary expressed emotions at people being “tired” and “annoyed” and “please can we talk about the murder actually, we are here for an investigation.” So it’s exciting to see, when Clara’s chipper enthusiastic façade cracks and she Goes Off about her life and her fears, that his implacable affect slips too. His response, “Clara, are you… all right?” has real surprise and vulnerability in it, actually punching through to genuine feeling & concern that he Britishly attempts to spend his whole life stomping down.

And then it’s Clara’s turn to go, actually let’s not talk about it :)))

#victoriocity

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nolira vast horizon podcast 🤝 lem ask your father podcast

getting kidnapped by their spaceship ai robot gf/bf into space in order to raise their babies together on an alien planet until the end of time

#vast horizon podcast #ask your father podcast #podcast blogging #fool and scholar

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I’ve listened to a lot of comedy podcasts, but nothing has made me laugh as hard as hearing “Hey pops” straight off the bat from a sixteen year old going to confession for the first time 10 seconds into the episode. It was just so immediate. So unhinged. The kids on this show have such insane balls, there has never been a teenage episode that wasn’t absolutely hilarious. I was literally driving down the parkway in the middle of the night laughing alone in my car it was so funny.

Anyway, anyone raised Catholic should listen to Forgive Me if you want to laugh at stuff that isn’t funny and cry at stuff that isn’t sad.