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I'm so sorry 💔

In honor of the Kickstarter launch for Mystery Science Theater 3000: The RiffTrax Experiments, I created three new pieces!

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Tumblr went down so I guess I'll post this video I took of the opening ceremony here. You're welcome. #olympics

This parade of athletes is just Shaun White sharing his personal memories and stories about each country. So glad to know his mom likes the Philippines. #olympics

Anyway I think season 2 mostly still had season 1's scrappiness and didn't yet have the glossiness of Netflix's Flagship Big Budget Show. Season 2 is actually my fave. But I feel like the stuff with Will in season 2 will hit harder if you've seen what everyone went through in season 1.

Yeah the dynamics are way more real and complex too. The Byers family had a lot of flaws and struggles in the beginning (like their poverty and Joyce being a single mom meaning she put too much on Jonathan, the stuff with Lonnie, etc) And in later seasons all the rough edges got sanded off.

Lol her wig that season is _something_ There's a lot of good Byers family stuff in season 1 though. I think as the budget went up the characters got less grounded. But that first season they really didn't know they would be a hit and it felt more focused on character than spectacle.

Season 2 is peak byler but I personally would watch seasons 1 and 2 in order and then you can do the others however you want, but that foundation of trauma from season 1 is what season 2 is built on. (I never watch things out of order though so I realize we have different styles!)

So true!

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Sci-fi era MST3K cast is coming back for 4 eps. Gonna hit a million on this Kickstarter the first day. I like it very much. www.kickstarter.com/projects/rif...

Look at these cute ass little aliens. My new faves. (They died immediately.) #startrektos

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I bought an open box computer from best buy and they didn't factory reset it, so it still had a different user's login and when I went to factory reset it myself stupid bitlocker wouldn't let me. But I managed to do a new Windows install off a USB. im in ur bios deleting ur partitions

I also think vault dweller!Nancy is compelling but it would basically be the same arc she had on the show.

Started watching Fallout season 2 and remembered when the first season came out I wanted a vault dweller!Steve/wastelander!Eddie AU. I should check if anyone ever wrote it

face reveal, wrong answers only

I use freetaxusa. It has more options than a lot of the other free programs and it's easy to use. It's free for federal, but does charge for state.

Yeah that's the other thing, which is that Connor is not out. So that just adds an extra layer of ick to what the "fans" are doing. But legit we were mailing each other VHS tapes back in my day 😂 (l'm not even in this fandom btw! It's just gotten so bad it ended up on fauxmoi)

Because they're tinhats who want Connor and Hudson to be together IRL like their characters (even though Hudson supposedly has a girlfriend). They're also bringing up the age gap but it's just an excuse to justify the tinhatting imo.

J-Bone 💙

Apparently HR fans are attacking Francois Arnaud because he might be dating Connor Storrie IRL? ST fandom is not the worst fandom of the month!

🎯Exaaactly

P.S. I saw a comment that said ST fans seem super ignorant of how tv production works & that seems true to me. Like I see these out of context clips from the doc (which I haven't seen yet) with people wildly misinterpreting or reading into normal tv production things

They were always going to struggle to land the plane but it wasn't like some disaster ending imo. It was mid and that's fine? The show has always been mid with some great moments and characters? Oh well, glad I'm over here in my small steddie corner of sane olds.

I feel like people are going full conspiracy on everything st related right now and I'm just like guys they were hacks long before chatgpt existed. Please stop looking for fucking clues and portents.

Oh lol I should have read the comments before commenting but great minds!

I feel like the show already did the full arc of the relationship well, so I don't need anything else. It doesn't have that itch of unfulfilled potential that usually motivates me to read/write fic

You could always edit that out of your rewatch like how I usually edit out the Hopper in Russia plotline

I mean they're fun and the actresses are good and they serve their purpose in a story that's not about them, but let's not pretend they're fully developed characters.

I enjoyed HR and it's a romance, so it's fine if the secondary characters aren't that developed. But it does make me laugh a little when I see posts like what great female characters.

Foot sprains are no joke!