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FINAL FANTASY XIV @en.finalfantasyxiv.com · 21h

Is it a chocobo 🐤
or is it a frog 🐸?

A screenshot from Final Fantasy 14 showing a chocobo wearing a green and yellow barding with a frog-shaped head and a golden crown.

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mr. sardonicus @mmcgrath.bsky.social · 9h

ending lifetime maximums and preexisting condition discrimination was actually a big fucking deal

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Karen Geier @karengeier.com · 10h

When I’m just trying to have a goddamned nap around here

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Evan VVaters @evanwaters.bsky.social · 4h

I mean it would be nice but there's a lot of things I want that I don't have any particular reason to think are going to happen anytime soon

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Evan VVaters @evanwaters.bsky.social · 4h

Like the first two episodes I thought “is this like Calais or is he over there on some weird Anglo-French police exchange”

Evan VVaters @evanwaters.bsky.social · 5h

The new Maigret series is weird because it’s in France but everyone is British

I guess the original adaptation was like that too?

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Sherin @mintsheri.bsky.social · Sep 20

Modern au farcille
(a good excuse to give them chiikawa merch)

#dungeonmeshi #farcille #art

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Evan VVaters @evanwaters.bsky.social · 6h

Damn I got outplayed

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Evan VVaters @evanwaters.bsky.social · 6h

Alita’s parents found

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TrickyC (he/him) @trickyc66.bsky.social · Oct 22

Bela Lugosi's friend

a 9 panel comic describing a surreal dream where actor tor Johnson had a brush with the surreal and the paradox of self identification, culminating in a confused, late night phone call to friend Bela lugosi

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Evan VVaters @evanwaters.bsky.social · 6h

Obviously I make exceptions for laughing at comedies or “don’t go in there” in horror movies, stuff that’s involuntary

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Evan VVaters @evanwaters.bsky.social · 6h

Okay but really how hard is it to not talk or check your phone at the movies

It’s like a few hours

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 3d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Evan VVaters @evanwaters.bsky.social · 6h

I believe this is a joke post, referencing something someone said on X about the AEW deathmatch

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 7h

Good lord police you're looking for someone who robbed an art museum the guy is RIGHT THERE

Original photo from post showing a well dressed man with a blazer, hat and umbrella standing next to police. I have helpfully circled the man on the photo and drawn arrows pointing at him to help law enforcement

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Evan VVaters @evanwaters.bsky.social · 7h

The Sentinel (1977, D. Michael Winner)

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 7h

“All my friends murdered and raped, sometimes they hung out at my house. Get over yourself.”

RFK Jr. explains why socializing with Jeffrey Epstein wasn't such a big deal for him:
...l ran into everybody in NY. I mean, I knew Harvey Weinstein, I knew Roger Ailes, I knew
-- O.J. Simpson came to my house. Bill Cosby came to my house."

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Ben, A.D. 1972 @franzferdinand2.bsky.social · 7h

Everyone's wondering who robbed the Louvre, but no one is putting 2 and 2 together and realizing that Mortdecai has been surprisingly quiet on social media.

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星空★lone @hoshizoralone.bsky.social · 13h

[ssb] bonus

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shiho @shihoran.bsky.social · 9d

#ffxiv wine aunt and uncles, dancing

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CC Kirby @cckirby.bsky.social · 12h

I'm creating a sign that I'm going to be tapping on when I see fit

A bluesky post I made that's way over the character limit:

"in basketball/NBA Twitter there's an account that's a parody account (NBACentel) that's purpose close to looking like a news aggregation account (NBACentral) that posts outlandish shit in the hopes that someone from the media falls for it and whenever anyone whether it be a fan or someone from the aforementioned media falls for the parody account NBA players like to go "you just got Centel'd". Anyway I think we need a "you just got Stealth40k'd" for whenever one of Stealth40k's ragebait posts get traction and then you find out the post is a quote being taken wildly out of context"

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blaaaaaaaaaines @blainecapatch.bsky.social · 12h

(Fred Schneider voice) pleased to meet you, hope you guess my NAME

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Farts "sʇɹɐℲ" Johnson @fartsjohnson.bsky.social · Feb 2

bunch of rednecks sitting around a bonfire on a very clearly cold night. the one sitting on the back steps, he spits and says "Dracula, huh?"

everyone nods and mumbles in agreement

the dude still sitting in his truck says, "We gotta go get that mother fucker"

in this seven-film pitch, I will

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Evan VVaters @evanwaters.bsky.social · 14h

20th Century Fox lost a million on Phantom of the Paradise and turned around and spent the exact same amount on Rocky Horror because I dunno do you have any better ideas

Evan VVaters @evanwaters.bsky.social · 14h

This is also why the New Hollywood was such a fertile breeding ground- the studios didn’t know what they wanted so sure, give Altman a couple of million to do a movie about country music, maybe it’ll pay off

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Evan VVaters @evanwaters.bsky.social · 14h

Even after Batman a lot of blockbuster filmmaking was still guesswork and chasing the success guys like Spielberg and Lucas had found just making movies they wanted to see. Studios still interfered but a lot of stuff slipped through because they had no idea what they wanted.

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Evan VVaters @evanwaters.bsky.social · 14h

I think it’s less “no one knows how” and more that THEY didn’t really know how at the time and a failed blockbuster like this feels more like they’re trying shit and less like an assembly line.

"Frightening" Dan McDaid @danmcdaid.bsky.social · 16h

What, at the time, seemed like a middling adventure film and a typically hohum Disney live action outing, now feels like a copper bottomed classic by dint of the fact that no one knows how to make this kind of picture anymore.

a close up of a plane 's propeller with the letter g on it

Alt: The rocketeer in flight

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