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Watching SG-1 again really has me looking at all my life choices re: fandom and going ‘huh. So THATS why’.
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No wonder I’m into the shit I’m into
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Literally almost ALL of my favourite tropes happens to one singular person, too
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I’m going through the show like ‘uh huh, in this episode he dies. Two episodes later he’s almost shot to death and subsequently blown up, two episodes after that he’s almost strangled to death, the next episode he watches his parents death on repeat, two episodes later he gets crushed by falling rocks...’
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I love this man
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Ah Daniel. The original punching bag.
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He takes so much abuse
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And they never talk about it after the credits roll
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They all need so much therapy. Or to at least acknowledge that Shit Happened and they’re probably not okay for a bit
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But it was the late 90's/early 00's. Therapy didn't exist!
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Continuity between episode plots only happens when sg-1 is in hot water with the government
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I love that they’re allowed to be emotional and affectionate
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It's such a good show. And a huge part of my adolescence.
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I have an autographed picture of Michael Shanks that a friend got for me years ago. It's one of the few possessions that I have that's survived multiple moves and even time in a storage unit when I was in Job Corps.
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Oh no. What a great gift. 
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Omg, is that a teeny JR Bourne
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I used to rp Daniel, but I can’t imagine I was any good
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S-same...
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I know I couldn't do it now. I just don't have the patience to google every smart thing he'd inevitably talk about.
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There's a reason Rin comes so easily to me xD
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XD
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I just think he’d be delighted in a proper jamjar
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A hundred different worlds come together to try and work together in harmony. The danger and death would just be another Tuesday
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And (hopefully) no parasitic race bent on destruction!
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I had him in Digital Dive for about twoish years and he lovedit
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Ofc he’d want to go home and all, but psh. He’d lose track of time so easily in the right moments
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Man. I wish I were smarter
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And by smarter I mean ‘reasonably capable of bullshitting’
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With Sam you’d have to bullshit understanding astrophysics and shit. Daniel’s biggest is his magical ability to work out every language, which is something that wouldn’t actually come up that often in a game.
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Bullshitting, as I realized as I got older, requires a lot of google and a lot of energy which I don't have anymore xD
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Same
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I was never good at bullshitting even when the bar was as low as ‘put some random numbers on a piece of paper because the teacher only checks that it’s done, not that it’s right.’
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I would make a crack about not having to BS as much if you sent him to Abaddonia bc zombies and base survival but xD
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XD
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Tempter
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God. I love how he completely adores his wife
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Always
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I'll get you here eventually-- I MEAN
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cough
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Dhiahxibdjs
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Man, her baby looks white af for being supposedly the child of Apophis
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God. In ANY OTHER SHOW the anger at this plot would have been aimed at Sha’re as well as Apophis
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But Daniel is very pointedly determined to insist that he loves his WIFE and there is nothing for her to apologize for
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Which is great because if anyone didn’t have stones to throw when it comes to being taken advantage of by a goa’uld, it’s Daniel. 8I
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ohyeah he was very defensive of her despite the fact that like. At that point she just wasn't, y'know, Sha're anymore.
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like danny come on you're smarter than this
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He could have just as easily been resentful of her and I’m so glad he wasn’t tho. Cause she’s 100% a victim
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Oh she was it was just more continuing to justify anything the goa'uld in her did with the whole idea of oh she's still totally in there somewhere.
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Yeaaaaaah maybe but you ain't gettin' her back son
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This is the first time he got to see Sha’re since she was taken by the goa’uld so it hasn’t reached peak desperation yet
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True
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Absolute tragedy that they can’t be reunited. If anyone deserves happiness, if just this once, it’s Daniel and Sha’re
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Except it’s probably a good thing. If Sha’re were with him permanently, she’d be constantly barraged by his intimate relationship with death
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Although the ‘please, I have a wife’ moments would be more frequent
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It's like that Shrek meme except it's
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Ladies can’t resist the soft geek
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"Can you stop dying... FOR FIVE MINUTES?!"
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“Surprisingly difficult to kill you, isn’t it?” - actual quote from Jack
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The body horror in this show is real, too
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look all i'm saying is if you want to keep the tradition alive temporary death in rp is a perfectly poetic way to do it xD
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god
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eah
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I was watching this shit at 13
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Same
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And it’s only at 31 do I realize just how horrifying this show is
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ahahaha
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Also. It aged brilliantly 
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I look back now and realize also that it originally started on I think Showtime?
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So many Bad Notes that I’m looking at now and going oof, this was not thought through
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Which was a channel you had to pay separately for (or with a package) back then
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like it uh
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100% was not meant for kids
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but my mom and I had loved the original movie so she was just like yeah sure how bad can it be
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But done in a way that makes it more ‘yeah, it’s bad but I still fucking love it’
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o o p s
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If this came out today tumblr would have torn it apart in the first half season
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Oh yeah
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completely
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the 90s were a different time...
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‘This part is absolutely racist in hindsight. That’s deliberate sexism. Oh my GOD. That’s just blatant noncon. He needs therapy!!’
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Never thought I’d see actual sex pollen on tv but it happened in the nineties
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IT DID
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/stares at ao3 bookmarks and just. Understands why now
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and we were all okay with it bc television
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XD
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stares at everything i've ever rp'd as well
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Honestly. And take it with a grain of salt and the acknowledgment that ‘this is Bad Vibes in many circles’, but I still fucking love it. I’m okay with this show on so many levels
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For the time, the climate we lived in and just the general state of scifi at the time it was fantastic
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It feels different than most shows, even at the time, where it doesn’t feel abruptly tone deaf where you watch and it just feels uncomfortable.
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It feels like an organic, breathing world that has its issues but doesn’t pretend they’re okay in that world
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Also the very bottom of the bar would probably be Game of Thrones and if you can beat that you’re pretty much doing alright
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tbh I've actually never been a huge fan of scifi but I wound up loving the movie and the show so much despite that and I think you're right, that it was different enough despite being in that genre
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For all it's problems it didn't actually fall into a lot of the other typical scifi tropes
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The only thing I do miss is that by the next episode everyone is pretty much Okay Again but I’m thinking about it and if they had to write in acknowledgement and the grieving process for some of the stuff that happened I’m not sure it could have worked as well
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yeah
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they at least give the impression that quite a bit of time passes in between each unless they're connected by tbc
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Like mentioned before. Daniel got taken advantage of. He was very much Not Okay. Even with dubious blackout memory (which wasn’t entirely stated) in today’s TV that sort of thing would have lingered. Or his sarcophagi withdrawal. Jack dramatically turning old. Them seeing their worst memories
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The “monster-of-the-week” format of that era did not lend well to actually coping with those plots
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Actually. Compare it to lj rp vs dw rp today
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jasdn
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There used to be a LOT more random month by month crazy events
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y-you right
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yeah
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yeah...
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Look, I loved it
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I did too xD But I also love what we have now, too
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shows growth and all that
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And players could carry that throughout the year in a reasonable way for their characters, but it was harder to do so organically than it is now
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Yeah I distinctly recall putting my characters through some serious hell in Digital Dive and Siren's Pull but by like
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Where events are more likely to happen the way they do because of what happened last time and character growth can more easily flow with the game
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a few months out it was either mostly forgotten about or a footnote at best
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Lol that crazy thing sure happened, didn’t it? What is it this week? Are we going to turn into cats, or become wildly affectionate to our furniture?
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DISNEY VIRUS
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now we're all singing
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Suddenly children
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sentient mistletoe
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Valentines chocolate with wacky effects
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From ‘you’re in love with the first person you see’ to ‘suddenly you are hoarding ALL THE CHEESE’
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XD
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Props to old mods. Thinking up crazy shit is hard
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It is. I've been a mod several times over now xD
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Reasons why Abaddonia is mainly a survival game
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/abruptly misses Awash something fierce
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they were good ones
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Prismatica too
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/crying salute
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I’m not kidding when I say the threads I remember most are with Rin. I have trouble remember specifics but like. /gestures at werewolves and sirens
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That game left an impact
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Nyx leaving then coming back to a memorial that had him in it
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fuck
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I forgot that one
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I think it was during werewolves but there was also "btw i'mma demon" and Nyx just
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oh
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let me
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process that a bit
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... ok you're fine
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If that came out sooner than it did there would have been problems
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yup
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also it wasn't like Rin could go anywhere at that point they were both stuck in the shelter waiting shit out
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Nyx learning that demon doesn't always equal bad sometimes it just equals dumb kid in need of guidance
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I vaguely recall them sitting on a log before nightfall because Nyx was infected and having a crisis
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Look. Body horror does a lot to change your perspective
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yeah Rin was like I'm not gonna let you go off and hurt people bc I know that's not you and also I don't want someone else to kill you either
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I am a little sad to be retiring Awash/Prisma Rin because he really did grow into an interesting young adult thanks to Awash and mainly Nyx's influence.
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They didn’t know it yet, but they adopted each other that night
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but I also want him to be Happy
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;w;
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There’s always .....uh. Holy shit I forgot the term
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psl
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and yeah
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thank you 
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I'm not like FULLY retiring him, there's still a version in Abaddonia and obviously that's an option too
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just not planning on bouncing him to yet another game bc that's just mean xD
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Yeah, he deserves it
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I did 3 with N back in the day and holy crap that was actually difficult
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Jdishci
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Vatheon closed, so he went to Bastion. Bastion ended, so he went to Sol Raveh and by that point I was just like what do. I even do with him.
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I got lucky with Nyx. He worked himself around to ‘there’s nothing left to do at home, I’m gonna do the best I can for the people of this world’ which is very easy to work with
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Veteran in two ways now
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Yeah. N was a case of "I didn't live my own life until I was nearly an adult, and then I speedran Adult things like relationships and marriage because of the places we wound up together in"
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(my only other married ship ;; )
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;w;
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He was a good bean
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troubled and very very different but good
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/chinhands
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Pokemon Black/White still one of the best main game stories I will fight everyone on this
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Omg 90s gangster kids
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Bro, dude is like a foot taller than you and built like a brick. Why you getting in his way
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XD
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bc kids are dumb
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Tru
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90's kids especially
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90's white kids especially xD
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Daniel: I die almost every Tuesday and you want me to put my hands on the murder bug??
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he was absolutely a white gangster kid
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XD
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its
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funny to think now
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that all the repeated deaths in Supernatural seem like such a big deal (esp after that disaster of a finale) but us old heads looking back at SG-1 are like
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yeah that's basically a Tuesday for Daniel
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This child is a Mood
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Teal’c going full out on a water gun fight will forever amuse me and give me the warm fuzzies
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I will amend. The consequences of Sam being a host carries through several episodes
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Ah yes that is true
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Back on my bullshit
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Because omg young JR Bourne
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These sets are so good
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It really feels like actual places
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Minor tic of irritation every time they are too lazy to properly pronounce goa’uld
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It’s SO WEIRD seeing JR as a kid instead of as a Dad
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God. This season has body swap AND time travel in it
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Daniel owns the death and near death experiences, Jack is the one that’s getting stabbed or impaled
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“Aliens are always poking me full of holes.” -Jack
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Oh sure. Strange wall machine grabs Jacks head and everyone just stands there waiting for it to let him go before rushing to help him
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You can tell they’ve been doing this too long
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Of course it’s Daniel who loses his entire gd body and almost dies
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of course why would it be anyone else