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Welcome to week 9 of The Escritoire! This is a space for Avocado members to submit in-progress writing for feedback. We’re here to read your stories, slide decks, smut, weird essays, love letters, or anything else you want to improve. … Continue reading The Escritoire Week 9
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Here is a list of the upcoming meetups. This thread will be pinned as long as there is a meetup upcoming in the next month and merely seeks to condense them. Feel free to still discuss upcoming meetups on separate … Continue reading Upcoming Meetups – Southern California
That’s right, July 20th is Sandra Oh’s birthday!!!! I loved her as Christina Yang on Grey’s. Oh was excellent in this year’s Killing Eve. She was nominated for an Emmy for this role, thus becoming the first woman of Asian descent to … Continue reading OH Night Thread!! (7/20)
Butts. Post the best comments you saw this week from our site, the Mothership, or the wider Kinjaverse. (Or some other site; I’m not your boss.) (Sorry for stealing your thunder, Liz.) Continue reading Comment of the Week Butts Edition
It gets uglier and uglier every round. Another 16 beloved characters have fallen. There are now no characters from Fraggle Rock, Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, or any other Jim Henson movie or series. All players left now are from the Muppet … Continue reading The Great Muppet Tournament – Round 4
Someone posts a year, and people argue in the replies over the best album released that year. Continue reading Favorite Albums of a Year
Nearly six years since its abrupt cancellation, Young Justice is finally returning with both Greg Weisman and Brandon Vietti coming back as showrunners. Here’s the first trailer for Season 3 revealed at SDCC. Continue reading Trailer Talk: Are You Whelmed? Cause I’m so Whelmed for Young Justice: Outsiders
The Avocado is a concert loving bunch, so let’s find out which band or artist is the one the most of us has seen. It’s pretty simple: We’ll list all the shows we’ve seen that we think other Avocados have … Continue reading The Great Concert Survey
Hey, all; Happy Friday- In honor of recent events, we here at A.V.O. Chintzee’s are offering a special, Friday-only Happy Hour menu from now through the fall of 2020, or whenever any other governmental body should deign to take power. … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 7/20/2018
Hey friends, I’ll be back with Sassy in a week! In the meantime, check out Zoot Koomie’s excellent scans of Soviet Russia Today from 1935! It features some amazing art, classic 1930s art deco graphic design, crazy propaganda, wacky political cartoons, fanatical hatred of William … Continue reading Let’s Do Something Else Because Old Magazines Is On Vacation!
Jeopardy! recap for Fri., Jul. 20 – Today’s contestants are: – Dave, a director of technology from Pennsylvania, whose Twitter account covers odd NFL odds; – Emily, a consultant from Georgia, won $250 with her essay about Watson; and – … Continue reading Jeopardy! recap for Fri., Jul. 20
Which gif? Gif with the power. The power of voodoo, who do? You do….post a gif. (Always a good idea rewatching Labyrinth) Anyway, post, identify, ????, Profit Continue reading Identify This Gif
WARNING: This is a Not Safe For Work (NSFW) discussion! If you are afraid of others seeing what’s on your screen, leave now and come back later! Greetings, Avocadoans! We’re doing this again this week: a second LGBTQQIA+ weekly discussion, … Continue reading NSFW: The LGBT+ Sex & Relationships Discussion
