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fun fact! at 39:09 there’s a split second when it changes to “Zac O’Pasta” and it’s the only instagram credit that zac gets for the whole episode!

The choice to keep the intro card as Grant O’Brien killed me in Deja Vu and it was only funnier when altered versions appeared

#the fact that you would never see zac’s insta handle in this ep unless you paused in the 0.3 seconds that it appears #love the dropout editors #zac oyama #game changer #dropout

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all of the glitched name cards from this week’s game changer for your convenience.

(transcripts and timestamps in the alt text)

#dropout editors went hard on this one muah muah #i might or might not have spent too much time trying to find the right symbols on wikipedia and ultimately failing #or on this post in general #game changer #mike trapp #ify nwadiwe #siobhan thompson #sam reich #brian david gilbert #josh ruben #grant o'brien #zac oyama #dropout

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Are you really John Green? Or someone he hired to deal with us? Which is a decision I would respect lol

Like I'd pay someone to be on tumblr for me when I can get those fresh hits of dreadrenaline myself.

#big fan of adreadnaline myself

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ok. as someone who has never watched an episode of fantasy high and has only watched youtube clips and therefore has the vaguest understanding of the six pcs: is kristen applebees called kristen because it sounds like christian

#like is this a well-known fact or am i over-analyzing #dimension 20 #fantasy high #kristen applebees

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#he’s wearing the tuc shirt too #i think #dimension 20 #brennan lee mulligan #izzy roland

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9 days away from the premiere of Chapter 3!

Fun fact: the 2nd "clear the room for a DM/PC one-on-one scene" occurs in this upcoming episode!

The first was Eursulon's conversation with The Pilgrim Under Stars in the finale of Chapter 2!

#this entire post will self-destruct in 10 minutes #< hi sorry what

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Redid the poll because I missed one...

#usually you or we #but sometimes bitchass

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I hate that I’m always trying to find cool biology themed stuff to wear but all the “nature inspired” clothing companies just have like two crossed arrows or a minimalistic mountain on a sweatshirt. Fucking lame, that’s barely even nature-adjacent. Put the life cycle of a salamander on a jacket, put hyena skeleton patterns on leggings, put a damn field guide of birds of prey on a peacoat and THEN you can have my money. Do NOT give me a shirt with a leaf on it that says “stay wild” or some bullshit I would much prefer clothing that broadcasts to everyone around me how many teeth an adult Jaguar has or how some pitcher plants can catch and digest rats.

#save #i have exactly one friend and myself who would want these

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About the Fear of Extinction in The Magnus Archives

What absolutely fascinates me about the Magnus Archives isn’t just it’s a huge critique of capitalism but it’s also unintentionally showing the gap in the fears between White Western society and those of people of color, particularly indigenous people.

First I must stress THIS IS NOT A PUT-DOWN OF THE AUTHORS. I love the story and it’s absolutely fantastic. I am simply pointing out that some aspects of the story make sense when you consider that both Jonny Sims and Alex Newall are white men.

Now that being said, I firmly believe that if the writers had been indigenous people or from any country that had been colonized then The Extinction would have not only been a fully realized entity but also the most prolific one. Like all the other entities there are multiple names for each of the Fears since they encompass a variety of related phobias and this one is also known as The Terrible Change, The Future Without Us and The World Is Always Ending and summed up as the fear of Catastrophic Change. Can you see where I’m going with this? Almost the entire planet was colonized and invaded by Europe. They literally wiped out entire ways of life and catastrophically changed the future of these countries and even today indigenous peoples across the planet struggle to even be recognized and also constantly fight to keep their way of life alive. This is literally the fear of The Future Without Us but the story directly states that it’s a “new fear” and even after The Change Jon confirmed that it exists but just not on the same level as the other 14 Fears.

An argument could then be made that the Fears concentrate on the people/countries that benefit the most on top of the capitalism chain which are the European countries and the USA and Canada but it speaks volumes that a type of fear shared by colonized peoples only appears in the story as sort of a vague afterthought by the story’s characters who are primarily British. For them the fear of a human caused apocalypse is only just becoming real while so many people around the world have actually lived it through colonization.

It was just something interesting I wanted to point out. For people who headcanon the main characters to be people of color (especially Jon) I’d personally love to see takes/characters’ perspectives on the Terrible Change in fanfics. Anyway it’s 3 am where I am so sorry if this isn’t very readable. I’m not good at articulating my thoughts into words on a good day lol

AFTER SLEEP EDIT: I also believe that if the main characters were in fact canonically people of color then their ties to the Eye would have been significantly more lax. People all over the world are literally fighting to be known since colonizers have tried to wipe away even the memory of them. The irony of the Fear of Catastrophic Change being almost nonexistent in the story while Whales, Scotland, and Ireland are right there isnt lost on me and yet the fears that eventually doom the world are those of Jonah Magnus, a white upper class supernatural Accelerationist. (Jonah/Elias is absolutely white and is the only character I will fight over that fact with)

And one last thought. If the Institute staff were all/mostly people of color or from another country colonized by the British then the story would have been more of a hopepunk horror. The global majority are still here BECAUSE they do not succumb to fear and never give up hope.

#oh #oh this is good #the magnus archives

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TONIGHT! A new Breaking News launches on Dropout at 7pm ET / 4pm PT. Featuring Grant Anthony O'Brien, Carolyn Page, Raphael Chestang, and Amy Vorpahl…and a very special guest. Don’t miss it!

#the moment i read Full Legal Name grant anthony o’brien in the caption i knew it was true facts part 3 without having to watch the video #and i think that says a lot about a lot of things #UPDATE: 20 seconds into the video and grant appears to have the same revelation #dropout

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first aabria post of the year is her trashing suvi’s cooking skills we love to see it

Actual footage of Suvi and the fox attempting to cook in her tower’s surprise kitchen

#worlds beyond number #the wizard the witch and the wild one

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i am not okay!!

if I had a nickel for every time one of Aabria’s NPCs commanded Brennan’s PC to attack another member of the party in a d20 finale, I’d have two nickels. which isn’t a lot, but it’s really kind of fucked up that it happened twice.

#ok i had to go back to see if it was actually Command and neither of them were #but #aabria what the shit #and the lines right before/after are sooo #“you’re so good at taking orders” “it’s the only idea you’ve ever had” GIRL #aabria iyengar #a court of fey and flowers #burrow's end #dimension 20

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if I had a nickel for every time one of Aabria’s NPCs commanded Brennan’s PC to attack another member of the party in a d20 finale, I’d have two nickels. which isn’t a lot, but it’s really kind of fucked up that it happened twice.

#rewatching acofaf and i forgot that this happened #aabria iyengar #brennan lee mulligan #burrow's end #a court of fey and flowers #dimension 20

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Taxonomy Tournament!

There have been a handful of animal tournaments held here on Tumblr. @rodentcompetition @anilams-from-outside @coolestoctopuspoll @battle-of-the-birds @littleguy-scuffle @animal-tournament @ultimate-shark-tournament . They've all organized the bracket either using seeding or randomly, and none have attempted to include every animal (although @battle-of-the-taxons is a similar idea, with a different execution)

Since brackets are a type of tree, I've organized the bracket to largely be the same as a taxonomic tree (though some liberties have been taken to keep the structure even). This means that for the most part, animals will be up against their closest relatives. For example, pictured below are the sections for Reptiles, Sharks, Cnidarians, and Cephalopods.

There are 256 competitors, mostly taxonomic orders, but some are classes, sub-orders, phyla, or other clades. Below is what the bracket will look like after being narrowed down to the final 32.

Tumblr doesn't let you put more than 30 images in one post, so here's a link to the full Chordate Bracket, and a link to the full Invertebrate Bracket

Tournament will start soon, once I finish making the polls.

@tournament-announcer @tournamentdirectory

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req'd by @un-deserts-your-bluffs

oh GOD YOUR BOY

text: YOU FUCKING VAPORIZED MY BOY??? MY ONLY SON???

#just in time for christmas

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bonus content

if I had a nickel for every time someone on make some noise used a donkey tail as a dick, I’d have two nickels. which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

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if I had a nickel for every time someone on make some noise used a donkey tail as a dick, I’d have two nickels. which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

#make some noise #dropout #lisa gilroy #josh ruben #sam reich