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Kittens
So this year hasn't been off to a great start, even without the daily garbage fire that calls itself the Trump Administration. In December, Pixel got very sick -- she was hardly eating and it seemed like all her age suddenly caught up with her at once. It's very likely she had something cancerous going on, but the tests to confirm that were all ( Read more... ) -
More political salt
So everyone's talking about the white working class and its importance in the recent election. Usually, this is in the context of people pointing fingers at the Democratic Party for caring too much about the "bubble of coastal elites" and ignoring the concerns of Real America. In this narrative, rural and working class white people voted for ( Read more... ) -
Politics
I'm too burned out to get too salty over the recent Presidential election, so I'm just going to make a few brief points to start with ( Read more... ) -
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So this song has been my on-repeat jam for the past week or so. I like it for a lot of the same reasons I like "Friends on the Other Side" from The Princess and the Frog -- though this one is an "I Want" song instead of a villain song.
https://youtu.be/IWdBOsk8D7A
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Ten-Year Anniversary
So, I've had this journal for ten years now, as of today ( Read more... ) -
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This is a swing jazz cover of the Final Fantasy 7 boss battle music.
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The Fauxtopias of Detroit's Suburbs.
"In cities other than Detroit, history is often obscured by the present. But Detroit's abandoned historical buildings demand that you stop and consider them. What were these places? Who spent time here? Where are they now? When historic structures are demolished in Detroit, no one is lining up to build ( Read more... ) -
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(Now, with all that being said, I think Zack Snyder could have done with talking with the folks who made the Final Fantasy games to get a better idea of the sort of thing he was trying to go for.)
(And talking of Final Fantasy, I think that Aeris is a Manic Pixie Dream Girl. And you could make a pretty strong case that so is Rinoa.)
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