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My brother got me DA: Veilguard for my bday. I love them (Davrin and my Rook) 😍

February 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM

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I was gone for awhile I developed a marvel rivals addiction

February 14, 2025 at 3:28 PM

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I turn 28 next week.

January 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM

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I'm not with my ps5 i miss my nikki so bad 😔

December 26, 2024 at 1:22 AM

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I started marvel rivals when i got my ps5 a little while ago...

Im a support main but i need to learn a tank bc ive run into so many strategist insta-locks 😭

December 23, 2024 at 10:34 PM

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Dune Lore Guy 🚀🪐✨

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I want a mockumentary sitcom (like Parks n Rec or the Office) about Emperor Leto II’s staff. Leto II is only ever shown at a distance. The series contrasts his awkward clumsy worm body with his evil deeds/body count, emphasizing the banality of bureaucratic evil. A Duncan dies every episode.

Dune Navigator Martin @dunenavigator.com · Dec 23

what else could we do while we wait?

starz does “Halleck” - a Spartacus-like series about the Harkonnen fighting pits, full of violence and sexy people

CW does “the adventures of Hawat” - an exciting series about a young mentat who meets an ambitious bull fighter who turns out to be a duke

December 23, 2024 at 7:05 PM

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Lady Emily ☄️

@ladyemily.nebula.tv

Here’s the thing about Mobile Suit Gundam, the original 0079 series: you think it’s going to be good with asterisks attached, right? Like oh, it’s good for its time. It’s good for what it is. Whatever. But no!! It’s just good! It’s just really really good even now!! It’s such a good show!!

December 14, 2024 at 7:19 AM

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Laura Lee

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I hope I can help spread some Dune cheer this holiday season.

December 5, 2024 at 2:29 AM

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@whosgabbi.bsky.social

🧍🏿‍♀️

Oatmeal raisin are almost always the softer cookie....... i prefer soft cookies idk

The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · Dec 3

I fully realize and acknowledge that everyone has their own unique preferences, and on the whole I do try to remain a judgment-free person, but I honestly can’t fathom how anyone could willingly choose oatmeal raisin over chocolate chip.

December 3, 2024 at 8:58 AM

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@whosgabbi.bsky.social

Valya Harkonnen really about that action omg

A reverend mother at such a young age too??? Jfc

December 2, 2024 at 8:34 PM

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@whosgabbi.bsky.social

TULAAAAAAA TULA TULAAA

December 2, 2024 at 8:16 PM

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@whosgabbi.bsky.social

The harkonnens going from arctic whalers to.... strange hairless sadists on a black and white planet is definitely a turn in 10,000 years!

December 2, 2024 at 7:54 PM

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil

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Maybe they could also do stuff like keep human feces out of our food supply and mandate the culling of livestock herds found to be incubating the next generation of deadly viruses likely to evolve and spawn a human pandemic. Idk just spitballing here

December 1, 2024 at 3:44 PM

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Now that land of the lustrous/houseki no ki manga has finished I'm going to reread the whole thing.

I don't think I was really ready to comprehend the final arcs and like. The talking pebble. And the final sacrifice of phos

December 1, 2024 at 7:37 PM

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Future Elmer's Glue♿

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In the end, Leto II was the chillest of them all. #dune

November 29, 2024 at 6:23 PM

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Ariana Benson // the Word Hashira ⚔️✍🏾

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wrote a piece that theorizes why/how Black people got/are into anime 👩🏾‍🎤

imo, Saturday morning Toonami + Representation (not in traditional “protag looks like me” sense, but in the structure of the story/world) = Black fandom!

some excerpts here, full story linked:

kenyonreview.org/piece/sho-ga...

You think back to those lazy childhood Saturday mornings, wiping the sleep out of your eyes as you searched the couch cushions for the remote, determined not to miss the next episode of whatever loud, bright, boom-crash-bang show the channel was airing that day. This was the height of leisure: no school, no need to get dressed or look even remotely presentable, no parents awake to interrupt your regularly-scheduled marathon (an early version of what we now call "binge-watching") with chore requests or boring errands-just a bowl of sugary cereal, an incessantly flashing screen, and an indulgent kind of innocence specitic only to the ritual of weekend cartoon watching.
You feel a lament for that version of you, that harmless naivete that allowed you to fully immerse yourself in a fantasy world-a world where the rules actually made sense. A character's power was directly measurable by their level, which was illustrated by numbers and symbols that flashed on cards in a magic deck or a sparkling ball of light that indicated "evolution"—a transformation into a higher being. Everything the protagonist had, they'd earned. Every fight they won, they won by grinding to the level of strength required.
You try to remember what it was like to believe that your world operated on a similar system, that all you had to do was work hard and believe in yourself and your dreams would eventually materialize right before your wide, sparkling eyes.

A KENYON REVIEW
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Anime is a genre that, perhaps more consistently than any other, relies heavily on tropes and common plot arcs to tell its stories. This is especially visible within the subgenre shönen (main article: Shönen), a form of
"Japanese comics and animated films aimed primarily at a young male audience, typically characterized by action-filled plots" (Oxford Languages Dictionary).
Shönen is bombastic, with fights and scenery that leap off the screen. It often doesn't take itself too seriously, and characters will frequently fight to what appears to be the death, only to be magically healed by some built-in plot armor. This phenomenon is a crucial element of what I call schematic Black representation in anime. The heroes have a cause and will fight for it until they drop, dedicating their whole lives to the achievement of a singular goal that, more often than not, represents some larger moral tenet of humanity: justice, love, freedom, revenge.

In many ways, to exist as a Black person is to be fighting each of these battles, with all the requisite drama and blood and tears, from the very moment you are born into the world. You, like almost every shönen protagonist, are an outlier, an outcast, a never-should-have-been. Anime, with its constant violent battles and explosions and injuries and hard-fought wins, tells a story that, more closely than any other genre, represents both the struggles and triumphs of Blackness-the tiniest nuances that explain why, even though being born Black is to be dealt one of the hardest hands in life, the vast majority of us wouldn't trade our cards for anything. This bloody, stylized, death-proof hero's journey is an example of schematic representation whereby Black anime fans come to understand themselves as being represented by the genre, not just at a skin-deep level, but in a way that is perhaps more relatable and lasting in its effect; one that, in dramatizing the struggles and battles of its protagonists, demonstrates an understanding of both our material and interior lived experiences.

Additionally, the characters aren't punished for justifiable violence. They are allowed, and generally encouraged, to run each other fades. They aren't demonized or labeled animalistic; rather, fighting is a means of self-expression. Each character has their own unique combat style that often aligns with an element of their personality or backstory. Taking, for the sake of argument, an agnostic position to unarmed, peer-level fighting among Black youth, one could understand anime as being representative of this long-standing in-group phenomenon. Don't start no fights, many a Black mother warns, but if another kid tries you, beat their ass. A contained, one-off fistfight has long been understood by many Black folks as an effective, if not flawless, method of conflict resolution among equals-but when taking place in a white world, these fights are often mischaracterized as symptomatic of some kind of inherent brutality and lack of humanity. In shönen, if you throw a punch, you better be ready to punch back-it's as simple as that.
Conflicts are, in large part, resolved in the moment and between the interested parties, without the interference of law enforcement (because lol what laws) and policing tactics.

November 30, 2024 at 4:03 PM

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist

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I’m thankful for the top ten scientific developments that improve health:

Vaccines
Antibiotics & antimicrobials
Clean water, sanitation, & hygiene
Food safety & fortification innovations
Modern agriculture methods
Public health education campaigns

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November 28, 2024 at 1:46 PM

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@whosgabbi.bsky.social

No one can tell me this aint my man in my head LOOK AT THE BOOKS

Quinn Sci-fi Guy from Youtube (Quinn's Ideas) @quinnsideas.bsky.social · Nov 14

My cozy little library.

November 26, 2024 at 2:20 AM

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Need to watch dune prophecy e2 😩 just so i can watch quinns ideas recap video on youtube

November 26, 2024 at 2:11 AM

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i love fictional women who lie cheat manipulate steal kill destroy. take those male dominated fields. “but what if she’s a bitch” even better!!!! i support women’s wrongs too

November 24, 2024 at 2:00 PM

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@whosgabbi.bsky.social

How do yall choose biases in kpop ive been around since 2nd gen and i cant just choose a single member from the groups i love 😭😭😭

November 24, 2024 at 2:03 AM

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Wait a mfin second!!!

Jonathan Forney (JB 🕵🏾) @jb4nay.bsky.social · Nov 23

The untapped potential of using your library card to read cooking magazines on Libby for recipes

November 23, 2024 at 6:11 PM

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@whosgabbi.bsky.social

They dont know what to do with a roux and are harassing that lil white girl

The equivalent of karens in the comment sections of recipes complaining about alterations they made tasting bad 😭

maybe it's gabelline @whosgabbi.bsky.social · Nov 23

White people eating baked mac and cheese because of Tini on tiktok is so crazy 😭

November 23, 2024 at 5:46 PM