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the furtive pick me @lauradernit.bsky.social · 2h

psychopathy not withstanding, I'm currently gobsmacked by the friendship between Ally and Georgia that is so intensely homoerotic it could make an AO3 veteran blush

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the furtive pick me @lauradernit.bsky.social · 4h

Ally McBeal may be a psychopath

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the furtive pick me @lauradernit.bsky.social · 5h

So, this Pokémon Go level rescaling is at least partially a ploy to make us pay to expand our item storage, yeah?

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corey jae white 🏳️‍⚧️ @coreyjwhite.com · Sep 16

TEETH TEETH TEETH TEETH TEETH TEETH TEETH TEETH!

(Image is credited to Paul Lehr, 1973, and found via Adam Rowe's 70s sci-fi art newsletter: 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io)

A man stands on a platform with some sort of apparatus attached. A row of giant teeth fill the bulk of the image, and the man appears to be mining enamel from the nearest tooth.

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the furtive pick me @lauradernit.bsky.social · 7h

so far it is shockingly misogynistic, which is intentional for sure, but also weirdly conservative? The 90s were a different time

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the furtive pick me @lauradernit.bsky.social · 7h

Now that I've finished Gilmore Girls and The Good Wife I was looking for something similar and settled on what I hope is the perfect middle ground: Ally McBeal

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the furtive pick me @lauradernit.bsky.social · 1d

she'll never get her snowflake in Hell

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the furtive pick me @lauradernit.bsky.social · 1d

roll a one and you become the Britani

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the furtive pick me @lauradernit.bsky.social · 3d

The Dungeonmaster (1984)

Why pick one genre when you can choose them all? Ridiculous in its plotting but extremely bold in the amount of ideas packed into its short run time. Leslie Wing's role is criminally underwritten, but the rest is a very charming Charles Band picture.

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the furtive pick me @lauradernit.bsky.social · 5d

Al Ewing returning to write an Arakko short for the Age of Revelation made me so homesick

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the furtive pick me @lauradernit.bsky.social · 5d

yeah, that end game "twist" was a little lacking

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the furtive pick me @lauradernit.bsky.social · 6d

I think it's nice that the Gilmore Girls writers didn't let the lack of any out gay characters stop them from using the idea of being gay as a common punchline

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