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    He didn’t need this kind of treatment from people who didn't believe in him. Paige was trying to get him to give up, right?

    “…I want to help, y'know. I think you can really do it.”

    …right?

    “But relying on ACME is just… holding you back. It’s just getting you stuck, and I want to see what you can do with things that work.”

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    Wile E. Coyote vs addiction recovery.

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    20 Sep 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 82

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    Acme's defense, stripped of its framing as a labor dispute about professional mayhem and reasonable recognition of inherent risks in the workplace, amounts to an assertion that its test subjects fell into neither category. Not human enough to require consent. Not animal enough to require oversight.

    The Court rejects this argument.

    Or - an in-universe court opinion for a federal class-action lawsuit taking place sometime after the Coyote v. Acme case in the movie.

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    19 Sep 2026

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    One must imagine Sisyphus happy (or, at the very least, that he likes the pain of being crushed by the boulder time and time again).

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    14 Sep 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 35

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    Simon wakes up in a strange dark place, delirious with pain and surrounded by monsters moving in the shadows. He thinks he's fighting for his life... and an Eridian medic is badly injured. Despite Grace's protests, Simon is deemed "dangerous" and banned from the surface of Erid for the duration of the judicial process.

    This is how the Hail Mary becomes a jail cell parked at the top of a space elevator.

    Grace feels awful about his part in all this. As Simon's advocate, he's asked to provide evidence that "The Man From Mars" isn't actually a threat. But how do you get a testimony from a man speaking a completely unknown dialect? No problem, Grace has experience with language barriers... Except Simon won't even say Grace's name, let alone interact with "the madman" voluntarily. Which might have something to do with the 'pinning and sedating' thing...

    Yeah, now that he thinks about it, maybe Rocky's idea to help Simon "make friends on Erid" isn't so crazy.

    [Archive of the TMFM Translation Game questions, responses, and related fics/art from my Tumblr.]

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    08 Sep 2026

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    Anything would be better than babysitting a strange tabaxi in the woods without a drop of booze to be found. At least Gricko’s funny, at least Kremy gets to have a night out on the town.

    And listen, it’s not Gideon’s fault that the eerily quiet, telepathic cat gives him the heebie-jeebies. He just thinks a man has a right to his own mind, that’s all.

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    The big red one and the striped fuzzy one have an overdue conversation.

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    04 Sep 2026