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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 4h

I'm in a group that does Gilbert and Sullivan and if you change the text and don't let the G&S people know? They will have a strongly worded letter prepared the moment they leave the theater since they were mouthing the words along with the show

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 11h

None of these terms are in the Orange Catholic Bible.

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 12h

I realized that I downsized my bookshelf and this book/duology (At the time) was gone and that there's a third book, so just in time for things getting darker, I bought the ebook bundle and am diving back in! You should to! It's a wonderful book series!

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 13h

"oh, there's a deal on a Castlevania bundle I don't have!" *buys it* "I could just play Symphony of the Night again."

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 13h

fusion is presenting a delicate white woman taking the submissive role to aggressive masculine POC women and therefore it's racist. And then Sugalite adds to this by having the two POC women fuse into a rampaging monster who can't be controlled.

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 13h

HO BOY, so the original stuff, and I think this was long before the later seasons came out, said that Pearl is white coded and passive and feminine and Garnet and Amethyst are both POC coded and aggressive and dominant. So by Pearl often taking the follower role in the dances and being ballet based

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 14h

Is Luigi from Pittsburgh or is this just some sort of unrelated glomp onto poster thing?

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 14h

Maybe I should switch to Threads since none of you bothered to tell me Sister Wives is back on.

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 14h

I'm not Italian and adults who've been alive fewer years than I've lived in NYC will call me a transplant but this all seems like NYC stolen valor. Unless Luigi wasn't an NYC resident. I haven't followed him too closely

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 17h

I'd say community theater but I joined the board and ... (It's fine. This year has been really rough for me and community theater drama isn't helping but it's still fine)

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 17h

According to the preview I just saw, 9-1-1 Nashville is really leaning into the wtf this season with "Biblical plagues"

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I got into it fairly early and stayed off Tumbler so I've only heard stories and don't have first hand experience but the Kids on TikTok are looking to repeat the ancient texts

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Eacaflowne? But ymmv and it's not all of them. Dilandau sure isn't.

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I ...wasn't expecting the "Pearl in Steven Universe HAS to be white and is always in the feminine role during fusion therefore Rebecca Sugar is racist" argument to show back up but here we are.

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

you're fine! I didn't mention that in the first part and have been kinda in my head the past few days. I had only really known about the menstruation part and not the adding "It's the Jews' fault" part until I watched a longer breakdown.

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I can't tell if she's trying to do a queer not gay thing or if she somehow has missed all the signs about you that are public and on your username, profile, and feed.

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

SPECIFICALLY some sort of gender essentialism tied into The Mystical Power of The Womb™️

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I feel like some things are missing here and I'm not entirely sure where it's coming from. 1) the origin of the manuscript isn't part of the issue here. 2) The person who said it's a menstrual cycle also said that burning witches is a plot started by The Jews to destroy women's power.+

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you take the term Nazi Bar, and turn the z into another n and ignore the B, and rearrange the letters, you get Narnia. I think Tolkien would have something to say about his Inkling friend . . .

static.klipy.com

Big Brain Meme Gesture

ALT: Big Brain Meme Gesture

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There's a range and it really depends on who you are talking to. A lot of people from or descended from the people around the Med. sea are given a sort of "Spicy White" category. As in the Anglo Saxon forerunners viewed them as less than but y'all are still paler than the folks they want to export

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm sorta condensing what she said but it was basically "patriarchy is the fault of the Jews" which... Again, I didn't expect but should have

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Voynich Manuscript is trending again because some lady thinks WitchTok has solved it. What I wasn't expecting but should have, was "Judaism's practice of mitzvah* and separating women from the power of the womb is the genesis of the patriarchy" *I'm pretty sure she says that not mikvah

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It is Sunday night. I don't need to argue with other Christians who are doing the whole "everything we do was stolen from The Pagans™️" bit that comes around, especially as we get closer to Christmas.

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I feel a lot of my performing came to a halt and now I'm just older and out of the loop and don't know if I can get back into it or not

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

People have mentioned Dorothy Day and Helen Prejean but there's also Fr. Oscar Romero to add to that list.

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My current church speaks out regularly about Gaza and the one I attend sometimes that's further away ends every service with a prayer to end white supremacy. There's a third I've been to that includes Dignity meetings (the actual queer Catholic group). Jesuits are pretty left in the church

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm reading a horror novel that has a supernatural scary movie with a chant in it. The problem is the chant scans REALLY well to the "Pinwheel" song, including the opening repetition.

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oh!!! We're getting a Custom of the Country movie!! Staring *checks IMDb* ... Sydney Sweeney... I mean ... I guess?

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

(side note, I'm not in any danger. I'm sitting here processing how I feel like the world's biggest loser who can't do anything but it's not like ... that level of bad. I'm just ... livejournaling shit. I thought being middle aged meant not feeling like an angsty teen anymore)

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I have no idea if it's social media, a mid life crisis, my glp-1 meaning I can't eat my feelings, the general sense of malaise, unprocessed grief from my mom's passing and loosing her house this summer, all of the above or more but I've been angry as fuck for weeks and have no clue how to process it

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That's not my intention. You're welcome to ask follow up questions instead of assuming my intentions. Especially since you responded to me initially and then want to tell me I'm the one acting in bad faith.

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That's a really weird and dismissive response. I'm sorry I don't agree with your interpretation but that doesn't mean I "can't" see someone else's vision. Peace out.

A cross stitch sitting on top of a book. Text on stitch: I send no compliments to your mother

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I feel like making a man being ok with emotions being automatically sexual (as opposed to attractive) does the same mistake as assuming all men having emotions with each other are gay.

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That's ... Very broad. Is the move A Few Good Men sexual/horny? Is A Christmas Carol horny? Green Eggs and Ham?

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm both surprised and not surprised that the immediately obvious themes of the movie aren't obvious to all. *Big sigh*

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

social media! Where we are both over thinking and under thinking literally everything at the same time!!! 🤣

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That was probably a bad example. I've been thinking about it more and i think "Is Lizzie horny" is a perfectly valid question and response but I also feel like it diminishes the novel and even the 2005 movie makes it more than that. I also realize I could be sounding like snob here.

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Furthermore for Austen, "Is Emma/Lizzie/Fanny/Eleanor/Katherine/Anne horny" is both a valid question but also ignores a shit ton of societal and cultural pressure and constraint being put on these characters that make them what they are.

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

which... opens up a thing where if we can't see two men being emotional and vulnerable with each other without labelling them as fucking, I feel like we're part of the problem, even if it's perfectly valid for two men to be emotional with each other and to also have sex.

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

two examples I can think of are 1) The Third Man. I watched it and was like "This is the gayest straight movie I've ever seen." @kristenklopez.bsky.social episode on it walks that back since it's not in the text (as opposed to the Maltese Falcon). 2) Frodo and Sam+

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Jumping off this thread to have my own thing but when we completely discard authorial intent, I feel like we're ... missing something? I think we have our own personal experiences and can read things into things. Death of the Author doesn't mean the author has nothing to say, though.+

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I realize that this isn't what you're saying and I'm taking this to an extreme but "makes people horny" is, at least to me, not a great metric for any of this, since people have been arguing about Lolita since it was published.

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Between this and the fans who were mad at the West End production celebrating the King's coronation, I feel like everyone who says they're a fan are lying

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I realize autocorrect does a lot of things but repeatedly not correcting Austin back to Austen when you are discussing the author makes me want to ... Something. Not sure what cause discount is too harsh. One off? Fine. An entire thread? What's going on, friend?

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm gonna push back on Austen being "horny." I'm not making a judgement call on horniness or regency romance but Austen, at the novel level (not the adaptations which is another story) isn't horny as opposed to constrained.

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My aunt lived in Aruba in the 90s and the entire island held a party when they got a Dunkin Donuts (it might have been another chain coffee shop but still)

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Carriage Return of the Living Dead @carriagereturn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ted Cruz shows that not understanding the plot and character motivations in Les Mis is a universal human experience that brings everyone else together except for me, who's read the book multiple times, and is standing outside the human experience, judging everyone

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