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I know "60s housewives who invented slash fanfiction" has taken on a life of its own as a phrase, but Kirk/Spock didn't really exist until the 70s and THOSE WOMEN HAD JOBS. They were teachers and librarians and bookkeepers and scientists and they damn well spent their own money going to conventions, printing zines, buying fanart and making fandom happen. Put some respect on their names.

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saw a post that was like "the keyblade wielders should unionize" and like. idk how to tell you this bro but they already did. like that was a very significant thing that happened and it did not end well for anyone involved

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that one trend but with roxas kingdom hearts :)

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I love how MGG’s audition process for Criminal Minds was so similar to Spencer Reid’s hiring process for the BAU Aka ‘this guy has like no experience and we don’t think he’s right for this job but there’s something about him and he’s oddly skilled so I guess he’s hired’

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Hotch: Gideon, why’s there a teenager in my office?

Gideon: this is Dr Spencer Reid, he’s our new team member :)

Hotch: is he even old enough to drink?

Gideon: he’s 21 so just about

Hotch: that’s barely comforting. Has he even gone through the academy?

Gideon: he pretty much failed everything that wasn’t book related but I pulled some strings

Hotch: you brought me a 21 year old who couldn’t even pass the FBI academy and has 0 field experience to be my new profiler?

Gideon: happy birthday

Reid: happy birthday

Hotch: Reid-

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this is the ONLY damian wayne design i accept by the way. brown skin, a crooked nose, dark green eyes and thick eyebrows. keep that white-washed monstrosity away from me

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Reblog if you didn’t write My Immortal

We’re going to find the author by process of elimination.

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my love for y'all (and him) is infinitive

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He knows 😂 screenshot from Walton Goggins Instagram story 😂

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it's all of them, your honor

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All Marcille knows is unethical science and lesbianism

#shitpost #delicious in dungeon #dungeon meshi #marcille donato

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Kabru is literally just Laois manipulative male wife!

#laois touden #kabru #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #labru #anime #manga

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Do I feel bad about how mean some of the Watcher comments are? Ah, sort of.

But mainly when I see people posting things like 'I no longer have to pretend that anything they did on Watcher was as good as Unsolved' I'm struck by how it just shows that people followed them, and stuck with them, out of love, loyalty and respect. So when the illusion of those feelings being mutual was shattered well, this is basically post-divorce honesty hour. It's the paraosocial relationship break up equivalent of 'I never really liked your apple pie.'

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people keep comparing the WatcherTV move to Dropout (for obvious reasons) but I cannot emphasize enough how vastly different the circumstances between the companies is. like astronomically different

• Watcher does not have the years of experience that Dropout/CollegeHumor did. CH as a company formed in 1999. They've been doing sketch comedy since the early 2000s. they were a company, like an actual company with offices and departments and everything. Watcher hasn't even existed for 5 years

• Because CH has been established for that long, not only do they have an established connection to the industry, but they have an established fan base already. People that knew about and were fans of CH for over a decade, before Dropout was even a thought in someone's head.

• When Dropout was in its infancy, CH was still under their parent company IAC, they weren't roughing it completely on their own the way that Watcher is. They were later dropped by IAC, but having that connection and funding in the vulnerable start was important

• CH was still posting sketches and skits on YouTube for free while filling out Dropout's catalog. They didn't hard shift into exclusively subscription based, they continued doing both for the first couple years in order to help get Dropout established. Even now, they still occasionally post full episodes for free on YouTube, including whole seasons of Dimension 20

• They have a large rotating cast that they move between multiple shows. They have a variety of content and a variety of entertainers to be guests on shows. Watcher has 3 guys which the occasional guest

• A big part of this transition is because Watcher's episodes have a high production cost. That's what they claim. That it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to film one episode of Ghost Files. but why?? why does it cost that much?? I get cost of travel for talent and crew but hundreds of thousands of dollars per episode?

• When IAC dropped CH and they went bankrupt in 2020, they only had 7 employees. When Sam Reich bought the company, they only had 7 employees. not twenty five. I'm not advocating for laying off people, but maybe they shouldn't be payrolling more people than they can afford

• also. Sam Reich is very vocal about how Dropout surviving and succeeding was nothing short of a miracle. They didn't get that success because the business model works, they got that success from years of networking, hard work, and pure luck

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