• conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    22 days ago

    Californians: “idk, he just kept asking and I kept saying, like, the beach? The coast? The seaside? Eventually he just stormed off in a huff, but, yeah, no, super weird guy. I still don’t know what he wanted.”

    Context: as long as I’ve been on the west coast, I’ve literally never heard anyone call it the shore.

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    21 days ago

    Except it doesn’t work that way. It’s not about wordplay, but the esoteric power of being explicitly invited.

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        21 days ago

        Counterpoint: Buffy (the series, not the movie, not the comic) is the only true vampire canon, and everything else is fanfic, and older stuff is from future time travelers writing fanfic.