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"Live each day like you've just smelled freshly baked bread." ~ Oreo 🍞

#freshly baked bread smells so so good :3

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I've been a car enthusiast for a very long time.. not so much when i was a kid but since i was into my teens i guess. I've been watching both old and new episodes of top gear and the grand tour for a while now. Yesterday my dad saw me watching an episode of top gear (he's seen me watch it several times before and we've had the same discussion a number of times like "whats this u watchin?") and he yet again asks me the same question and goes why u watching this who u trynna impress 😏.. i'm like 😑😑. Parents amirite!

#dads #parents #memes #topgear #the grand tour #jeremy clarkson #richard hammond #james may #amazon #bbc top gear #cars #lamborghini #ferrari #porsche

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Man, the new season six writers did NOT come to play. Rick in a suit and tie yet again.

#rick and morty #rick sanchez #morty smith #beth smith #summer smith #lmao i cant

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Loved this post :") 💖💖

i’ve been trying to understand my feelings about this character:

vs this character:

i HATE rick prime, which is funny because i don’t have much at all to go on other than he’s committed a grievance against the main protagonist. at the same time, i LOVE rick c-137, which is also funny because he’s objectively a pretty bad person.

they’ve both committed horrible atrocities, killed versions of their families, been absolute douchebags- but i just couldn’t come up with a good reason for my hatred of prime aside from the cartoon-villain trope he fills if i was going to compare it to my love of c-137. 

finally, i realized that i initially didn’t like c-137 as a person, either. he was a compelling and funny character to have on screen (much like prime is now), but i didn’t like him. he was mean, abusive, callous, and acted with reckless abandon for the safety of his family.

there’s a little spark of something in c-137 that’s not present in prime, though. our rick has these moments (even from season 1) where we can see his visage crack a bit, and the real him slip out in some odd little way. there is warmth within c-137, even if it’s buried so deep beneath the surface that it struggles to claw its way out.

i think the moment i realized, “hmm… i might like this guy” was in “close rick-counters of the rick kind,” when we see him cry while watching that playback of his scanned memories of morty. then, we have these little moments that follow it up throughout the rest of that episode, the finale, and the premiere of s2. 

“it would go without saying that the rickest rick would have the mortyest morty.” “i am in great pain.” “my new catchphrase is ‘i love my grandkids!!!’” “where’s your collar morty? i’ll fix it…” “i’m okay with this. be good, morty. be better than me.”

these moments were what had me deciding to root for rick after s1. not just for what he wanted, but for his healing, his growth, his bond with morty, with summer, with his daughter (shit- even jerry, honestly).

with prime… i don’t have anything to root for yet. he just seems cold, ruthless, and evil for the sake of being evil. completely self-serving. he seems like what we thought c-137 was in s1.

a comparison between prime and early-series c-137 also puts into perspective how different they are from one another, despite our rick’s efforts. prime would have never cohabitated with jerry. prime would have never bonded with morty. prime would have never play-wrestled with his grandson. prime would have never admitted to anyone he was “in great pain.” prime would have never carved pumpkins with his grandkids. prime would have never ended up going to family therapy. prime would have never hung out with jerry because he thought morty was worried about him. prime would have never gone out of his way to get his grandkids pizza. prime would have never taken his grandkids out for ice cream. prime would have never gone to get a drink with his daughter. prime would have never told his daughter that he loved her. prime would have never sworn to his daughter that he’d never leave her again.

he killed our rick’s baby. his baby. HIS. BABY. and he doesn’t even seem to care about it.

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Rick & Morty S6 spoilers ahead:

Episode five was so freakin good like omg omg I cant breath!!! Like Rick caring??!?!?! Both lowest and highest of tech on the same episode?!?!?! So so great to see Rick going full tech in somewhat Anime × Iron Man crossover style 🥹😩 . I used to dislike Jerry so much but now I have developed a liking for him because I suppose Rick did too :")

Loved Rick in a suit

Also the "I can just feel the savings" bit 😂

#rick and morty #rick sanchez #morty smith #jerry smith #rick and morty season 6 #rick and morty spoilers #rick and jerry #writing #love #new show #beth smith #summer smith #mrs smith #episode 5 #rick and morty episode 5

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Rick and Morty Season 6 spoilers ahead:

Guys! Guess who is back !! Me ; thats right :)!

So far I'm enjoying S6 of Rick & Morty !!! All 4 episodes till now was decent, good to see them focusing on Rick after S5.

The no portal gun thing is very refreshing.

The thing I liked the most about the 4th episode is the way they brought some genuine science into a hardcore science fiction show; like the cortisol level thing is a fact that I didnt expect to be true when Rick said it, like I know that science fiction shows are meant to exagerate already existing facts sometimes; but this was a nice little fact just there.

#rick and morty #rick sanchez #morty smith #rnm spoilers #rick and morty spoilers #rick and morty season 6 #writing #english #beth smith #summer smith #jerry smith #good shit #good stuff #nice #very noice #me likey

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“Everyone says love hurts, but that is not true. Loneliness hurts,rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Envy hurts. Everyone gets these things confused with love, but in reality love is the only thing in this world that covers up all the pain and makes someone feel wonderful again. Love is the only thing in this world that does not hurt.”

— Liam Neeson - (hatin)

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LOKI 'ICE BROS' LAUFFEYSON PRINCE OF JOTUNHEIM!!!!!!! MAN HE WAS GREAAATTTTTT!!!!

#loki #thor #party thor #marvel what if #what if episode 7 #rightful king of jotunheim #traumafreeloki #yas queen #great #marvel cinematic universe #marvel #tom hiddelston loki #tom hiddleston #mcu icons #a true bicon #bicon <3

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Marvel's What If Ep.5 was so painful ?? Like (spoiler alert) Bucky saying "I guess its the end of the line" hurt me bad 😭. Not Peter talking about the losses he suffered. Scott Lang's dad jokes 😭😭😭 Vision who gave so many deep philosophies having to face actual moral issues 😢 Marvel where are you going with this? Special mention to Okoye and T'Challa's characterization (Chadwick has all my heart🥺)

#marvel #wandavision #wanda maximoff #mcu spoilers #marvel cinematic universe #mcu #marvel mcu #what if #episode 5 #what if episode five #what if episode 5 #james bucky buchanan barnes #james bucky barnes #bucky barnes #hope van dyne #scott lang #peter parker #spider man #happy hogan #sharon carter #mark ruffalo #bruce banner #sebastian stan #paul bettany #rest in peace chadwick #chadwick boseman #okoye #wakanda #cape of levitation

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repeat after me: trauma does not make people good or kind. trauma makes people scared and angry and sick and wounded.

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i don’t like how endings in real life come on so suddenly without making sense, without much warning. one minute you’re in the middle of something and the next it’s all a very long time ago and you’re a different person and none of it is ever coming back

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"Everyone is out here trying explain that Earth isn’t hell. I beg to differ. If there is a God (I don’t believe that there is or isn’t, but if there is) and He/She/They are as benevolent and gracious as the religions of the world claim, then would the Supreme Being be too kind to make hell a place of complete torture? If God loves us so much and is so perfect, he wouldn’t even be able to bear sending those of us who deserve torture to a place where that would truly happen. He would send us to a place where we could try to learn from our actions and grow. A place we could stay forever if we never grew at all.

What if instead of fire and brimstone, he sends us here, to a place where we are constantly surrounded by amazing things that we can attain if we overcome our “flaws”, which very few people manage to actually achieve. I like to think of Earth as a prison with an exceptional reform program. Once we learn to overcome our souls ugliest aspects and ascend to a level in which we are able to lead respectable lives that make us truly happy (this doesn’t always mean riches), then we will be free to move on.

Think about it. Some believe that we are reincarnated. That would make total sense for a hell or prison. Until your soul reaches a higher level, you’re doomed to repeat your existence on a plane in which you have no control of when you are born or when you die (to an extent), who you will love, where you’ll live or even if you will be healthy. All of these inconveniences could be considered manifestations of our own personal punishment in this hell.

We are all given faults that seem tailored to make our specific personality type miserable. Think about it. The child who doesn’t receive enough attention may become a narcissist and overly confident. The child who was constantly praised may become self critical and feels like a fraud. Even the child with a perfect upbringing could start to loathe themselves for feeling any negative emotions when they had a great childhood, deeming their feelings invalid.

We are all fundamentally broken with no full proof guide on how to fix ourselves, and that is why this is hell. This is why it’s so hard to become one of those few people who truly change the world for the better on a global scale. I mean, what better way to punish us than to put us on a planet where we have little to no control over anything, and then tell us we should be able to control everything in our lives? It’s basically set up to make us feel bad about ourselves.

I mean, on this planet there’s the idea that there is no one to blame but ourselves for our own suffering, so we wind up punishing ourselves and each other, and that seems like the most sophisticated version of hell a truly mighty God could create, a real mastermind. God doesn’t even have to get involved because we do all the work for Him/Her/Them.

It’s only been getting worse as time goes on now with social media and the ability to perceive everyone else as being more in control of their lives than we are. This only solidifies the idea that we are incompetent and stunts our will to continue trying to get better because a lot of us feel like we’ll never be as good as those other people online. Instead of focusing on our own growth, we focus on trying to be like the people we perceive as better than us, and as a result nothing truly novel has been produced from this Earth in a long, long time.

That is hell to me. The idea that it would be obvious torture and hell-flames is actually a bit insulting to the complexity of whatever Creator there may be. In fact, this planet was once hot and full of lava and fire. Perhaps it started out as the traditional hell we read about in books, but has evolved over time just like everything else in this realm. I honestly don’t care. If it is hell, then obviously I belong here for some reason and I’m here to learn.

And the good news is, the only way to go from here is up." - Bloom Anderson on Quora

👆 This is an answer to a query that was on the lines of 'what if earth is hell?'. I want to believe in this rather than all the other ideas that exist of hell. This is what the Bad Place in The Good Place evolves to in the end(spoiler bit there. Sorry!). A place where you can improve yourself rather than the obvious torture. It makes a lot of sense to me.

#hell #god #the good place #chidi anagonye #eleanor shellstrop #jameela jamil #tahani al jamil #kristen bell #micheal the good place #heaven #goodness #bad #good #eternity #philosophy #concepts #beauty #love #rick sanchez #long post #long reads #angels

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Okay guess who is excited🌚

#mcu loki #loki laufeyson #loki series #loki season one #loki season 1 #mobius #time keepers #variant #tva #loki tv #time variance authority #sylvie #classic loki #vote loki #kid loki #boastful loki #alligator loki #lady sif #thor of asgard #prince of asgard #king of asgard #new asgard #asgard #thor odinson #loki odinson #episode 5 #post credit scene #loki poster #loki positivity #minecraft

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When I was young and looked into the mirror I recognised those eyes as mine. But now I look into the mirror and I dont know whose eyes these are. Like some stranger's eyes.

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Guys have you seen Infinite (2021) ? It was pretty awesome from my pov and critics gave it negative reviews.Its not seen anywhere like I never saw its trailer. Such an awesome movie guys just please watch it. Idk whats with people saying performances were bad and all that shiz. It was pretty intense for me. Like if they had more time to detail out everything it'd have been better but still its really good. Idk if its just me whos feeling this. And Dylan O'Brien was so good despite his short screentime.Does anyone feel like it wasnt good after watching it?

#infinite #mark wahlberg #film #hollywood #novel #english #thriller #tech #sci fi movies #reincarnation #technology #heinrich treadway #dob #dylan o'brien #katana

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Is there some kind of ant poverty or famine we dont know about? Because the ants in my room are like going after everything and anything they can get their tiny stick-like legs on - they are inside my earphones scrounging for ear wax!

#damn son #ants #insects #bugs #poverty #famine #desperate times desperate measures #hardwork #workmanship #workers #never stop #the world might never know

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i feel like i keep making this post every other month . but truly drives me insane that i'm made up of all the people who have changed my life, and how missing people is always partly missing yourself and u can't be your past self absolutely exactly ever again, and it's like. depending on your current relationship w the person in question, that's something to mourn or be grateful for . but it's a feeling of loss either way . we can never meet again as the same people we were