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The scene where Max saves Furiosa (which I have yet to watch all the way through without crying. It is cinematic brilliance.) Furiosa was stabbed because she was holding onto Max and wasn’t able to both defend herself and protect him. She continued to hold him long after she was stabbed, until he was able to climb to (relative) safety. Only then- desperate and dying- did she move onto her real goal: killing Joe, ending everything.

Everyone plays a role in the finale- everyone moves to align the planets so that she, Furiosa, can succeed. Max fights Rictus; Nux takes over driving the Rig; Cheedo tricks everyone so that she can be there to pull Furiosa onto the truck. Toast keeps Joe from being able to shoot Furiosa and then CLIMBS OVER HIS CORPSE to keep driving the truck (note: I LOVE that. She may have been captured, but she was no damsel in distress. May Joe RUE the day he ever underestimated his wives.) This is everyone’s hard-earned victory.

At the beginning of the film, Max had his humanity stripped from him and was reduced, like the Wives, to an object to be physically used and discarded. He was not Max; he was only “Bloodbag.“But not Furiosa. Furiosa gave him a name (even if it was just "Fool.”) She trusted him to drive. She let him have her back. She told him her story, and he witnessed her grief. She gave him options. She listened to his advice. She took a fatal injury to protect him. She comforted him, confessed to him, trusted him to literally and metaphorically support her so that she could make that shot. She gave him his humanity back

.And so him willingly giving her the blood from his veins at the end is an enormous moment for Max- it had been stolen from him, but now it was his again, to do with what he chose. He CHOSE to give it away. He had his humanity, he had his agency, and he was, once again, a “person.” At the beginning of the movie he tells her his name doesn’t matter- after all, he was only a Bloodbag. But when he GIVES his blood he is definitively able to say, “My name is Max,” because now it DOES matter. Because of her, he has reclaimed himself. That name and that blood is once again his to give. 

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The 4th annual Streamy Awards are coming up, honoring the best in online video, content, creators, and acting. Fan support is a huge part of winning a Streamy, so please just click to vote! We’re submitting our two shows under the following categories:

KISSING IN THE RAIN:
+ Best Comedy Series: Kissing in the Rain – Vote Here
+ Best Indie Series: Kissing in the Rain – Vote Here
+ Best Actor in a Comedy Series: Sean Persaud – Vote Here
+ Best Actress in a Comedy Series: Mary Kate Wiles – Vote Here

A TELL TALE VLOG:
+ Best Comedy Series: A Tell Tale Vlog – Vote Here
+ Best Indie Series: A Tell Tale Vlog – Vote Here
+ Best Actor in a Comedy Series: Sean Persaud – Vote Here
+ Best Actress in a Comedy Series: Sinead Persaud – Vote Here

SHIPWRECKED COMEDY:
+ Best Indie Channel: Shipwrecked Comedy – Vote Here

We love making content for you guys and can’t wait to share what’s around the bend soon! :D

Much love,

Shipwrecked Comedy
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“There’s not one Internet for deep-pocketed corporations and a separate Internet for everyone else — there’s the Internet, and it belongs to all of us. That’s the way it’s always been. And that’s the way it should continue to be.
 
But the FCC could change all of that by giving big Internet providers — corporations like Comcast, Time Warner Cable, AT&T, and Verizon — the power to pick and choose which traffic reaches consumers quickly—and which doesn’t.
 
Net neutrality has made the Internet a platform for innovation and economic growth. For example, YouTube started as a relatively small outfit above a pizzeria in a strip mall. YouTube wanted to compete with Google, which had an online video product called Google Video (later Google Videos). Net neutrality guaranteed that YouTube’s and Google’s videos would travel to consumers at the same speeds. Google wasn’t able to pay for a fast lane or any other unfair advantage. Even though Google was a bigger, wealthier, more established company, it had to compete with YouTube on a level playing field. And YouTube ultimately won because it offered a better product.
 
That’s what net neutrality is all about. There’s not one Internet for deep-pocketed corporations and a separate Internet for everyone else — there’s the Internet, and it belongs to all of us. That’s the way it’s always been. And that’s the way it should continue to be.
There aren’t many places left where every American can participate on an equal footing with deep-pocketed corporate interests. Our campaign finance laws are in shambles, giving uber-wealthy, often-anonymous groups free rein to amplify their voices over those of the general population. Our tax code is littered with special benefits for special interests. The rules of our civil justice system have been rewritten to insulate corporations from wrongdoing against workers and consumers. But the Internet remains an arena where the quality of one’s products, the value of one’s services, and the persuasiveness of one’s ideas matter more than the depth of one’s pockets. The FCC needs to keep it that way.”

– Senator Al Franken: Chairman Wheeler’s proposal would put start-ups and small businesses at a huge disadvantage. And the new costs created by this scheme will be passed along to consumers, who already are being squeezed by their cable and Internet bills. Big corporations will win; everyone else will lose. Americans never have tolerated this sort of thing, and we shouldn’t start now, especially as the biggest Internet providers are trying to get even bigger through mega-mergers. (via wilwheaton)

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Michael: I work for my family’s newspaper, I play a lot of video games, and I smoke a lot of —
Wendy: Hams! Yes you do. You smoke those hams, and they’re delicious.

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