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Ghost has dog treats in his room. For I assume Riley, or just some other dog on base.

The screenshot is from the Rice Cake Rumble event in CoD Mobile where you visit your friends, and npcs rooms. The J358 is allegedly his 'favourite' weapon or the one he has killed most people with.

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Sketch C. Price

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Now all I can see is him hugging Gaz and Soap with no problem and then the team-building exercise of hunting down Ghost and hugging him as well. Big guy threatens to kill them all as Gaz and Soap hold him in place while Price goes in for the kill hug.

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I know I am late for Suits (US) but it's literally like this:

Harvey: I don't have emotions.

Donna: what about Mike?

Harvey: That is my emotional support associate.

Mike: 😊

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At this point I would kill for a powerbottom!Dream x servicetop!Hob fic. Just imagine Dream, with not the perfect track record in relationships and thus hesitant to start things with Hob being completely spoiled rotten by the man. Dream, trying so hard not to be so elite after being humbled by his capture only for Hob to waltz in all: "Whatever you want, you tall king! All yours! Have been for X years!"

Just short Hob absolutely topping this powerful endless entity but also giving him anything he can. And Dream, while used to being obeyed,is not used to being spoiled.

If I wasn't so horrible in writing smut myself I'd write it but all I can produce is just not worthy of reading. So, please, anyone?

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Is it Corvosider or Hob x Dream?

Either way an emo godly being falling in love with their brown-haired not-quite human interests.

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Stranger Things: Humanity

This will be highly based on the new episodes of season 4, so spoiler!

Furthermore, this is in no way an attempt to excuse Dr. Brenner's actions.

Now that I binge-watched the new episodes so that my brother stops nagging me about them, I must admit that I am taken with Dr. Brenner and how he was presented.

As someone with an abusive parent (mental and emotional) I had to admit that Martin Brenner showed familiar patterns. The way he always blamed others and how he still filled the father role, was even called Papa by the children although he did what he did. Not to mention the shock-collars but I will get to them later.

I understand that people look at him and see a villain and that all he said to eleven were lies and manipulation. Yet, I find that, especially considering the time Stranger Things plays in, most of his actions are understandable. Which does not make them right.

The series plays in a time, when playing D&D is enough to make you a suspect for murder, that people demur the fact that he took the children from their parents. I wonder if eleven’s fate would have been better if she had stayed with her mother. If, at that time, a supernaturally gifted child would have survived without any protection. Not to speak about the government. I always wonder why children with those abilities were not send to fight. Physically that is. We have seen how quickly eleven took care of the guards if need be. And I think that Dr. Brenner, with his research, offered an alternative to that. Raising the children militarily to send them to fight would have been cheaper than paying for an entire institute where the children were allowed to play whenever they were not tested on.

I know this sounds harsh, but reality is that neither society nor the government would have simply let these kids walk around freely. That, when he found out what might happen with these children, he offered a non-violent alternative which, at the same time, allowed these children to test their abilities while in a safe environment.

What this shows, and what Dr. Brenner himself states, is that he is human, and he tries to make the right decisions. Afterwards, it is always easier to look back on it and see the mistakes, but no one was there when he had to make those decisions. He had made mistakes; he is only an ordinary man (thank you Vecna for pointing that out).

Regarding the shock collars and the shock therapy. Later is still used today. Back then it was more than common to use those kinds of treatments. Doctors today still defend shock therapy, and it is still used on patients. Furthermore, the shock collar so far, as seen, only to be used as a last option or as the worst kind of punishment. It is the equivalent of hitting children, also something practiced today, but hitting telekinetic children probably does not end well. Now, for the last part, I assume that Dr. Brenner is dead and will stay that way. If he comes back, I call bullshit on that. Anyway, in his last moments, he is a father figure that has dedicated his life to protecting the children under his care as best as he could. He is a character that once again proves that morality and humanity are not black and white. He is a monster for what he has done, but a well-meaning one. Would he rather have opened a school for gifted children like the X-Men? Probably. Could he have done so without having society and the government hunt the children down? No.

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My Thalassian HC

I got the headcanon that all spell incantation are in Thalassian, the language the highborne found. I imagine that the highborne, especially under Azshara, studied magic and the incantation they use and formed Thalassian, a “magical language”, as understanding magic helped them use it. 

I imagine that it used to be called differently and that the Quel’dorei named it Thalassian. Still, the highborne created a mix made of magical incantations and Darnassian. It was a language only they knew and one they probably kept to themselves. A secret way for the few “chosen ones” to communicate.

 After the sundering, the highborn that managed to escape probably took as much of their texts and knowledge with them as possible.

 The highborne split from the other Kal’dorei and would become the Quel’dorei, Sin’dorei and Ran’dorei. They probably took every text they could find on magic along with them.

 Kal’dorei later learned from other highborne. Humans in turn learned from Quel’dorei. I would assume that translating the incantations into common or any other language would probably not work as they were fixed incantations before becoming a language and thus other races probably just assumed that magic was part of Thalassian and either tried to learn the whole language or learned just the incantations they needed.

 The fun part begins when considering the possibilities:

           Imagine a Sin’dorei ambassador in Suramar being showed around the collection of ancient texts only to find that some of the most treasured ones are written in Thalassian, the language of his people. Maybe they were even some silly texts, rumours one highborn wrote down in a letter to his friends. And that ambassador standing there while his guide droned on about the historical meaning of the letter and how Shal’dorei have spent decades trying to decode their obviously very important meaning and they are frantically trying to find a way to tell them without starting a disaster.

Like: “That very important scroll is just Lord Moonguard telling his dear friend Lady Morrowmoon that Lady Duskwind is a hoe.”

 There might have developed some dialects over the decades, the old Thalassian might have become high Thalassian which is still studied by the mages, and a common Thalassian that is spoken outside of magic.

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Words have power Pt.1

Words have power, as a student of linguistics I am well aware of that. Yet, often I find that most people realize how much a slight change can affect the way they talk to others.

And this might lead to some misunderstandings between myself and those around me.

Words have power, as a student of linguistics I am well aware of that. Yet, often I find that most people realize how much a slight change can affect the way they talk to others.

Lately, for example, I grew to resent the question “I everything alright?” which my family would often ask me. As someone with a major depression I can assure you that, except on my rare good days, there is always something bothering me. However, thanks to my therapy I am able to live with most of it.

 So, if someone were to ask me that hated question I could either lie and say yes or I could be truthful and say no; later would lead to the question “Why?” or “What is wrong?”. Yet, I mostly do not want to, or am unable to explain what is bothering me every day and I do not want to lie to my family on how I am doing.

 Instead, I would prefer the question “How are you?”. I could still answer “alright” without lying because that is normally the truth. I feel alright although not everything is alright with me. But this way I would not have to lie or try to explain my many symptoms that often like to mix together.

 At the end of the day, I believe it originates in the problem that people without chronical health problems are unable to understand that things like depression don’t leave you alone. “Something is always wrong” my therapist once said, and I find it very fitting. Yes, most days are worst than others and, as I mentioned earlier, there are days were the shadow might lift completely, but those days are rare and in-between.

 Asking me during a day where I only lie in bed and wish to end my tedious existence with the snap of my fingers if everything is alright is useless. The answer is obvious. Asking me that on days where I am quiet and trapped in my thoughts is useless. Days where I am fidgeting and unfocused or days where I am in pain from the blackness sitting in my chest are not days that I would consider everything as alright. Yet, those are most of my days and I am alright during those. As long as not too much happen at once I can live through it.

 If someone asks me if everything is alright I wish to answer “No and I am not sure it will ever be ‘alright’ again” but instead I nod my head and answer with yes because explaining it all is tedious and a waste of every precious minute I have after winning them in my many battles.

 Obviously, I can only speak for myself, but I can assure you that I much rather hear the question “How are you?” than the question “Is everything alright?”.

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Do you ever consider the possibility that you might become (or already are) the villain in someone else's story?

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The Little Magister

Heartwarming animated musical about Aethas Sunreaver, a young red-haired magister forbidden by his guardian, Grand Magister Rommath, to join the Kirin Tor. Featuring such musical numbers as “Under the Dome”, “Kiss the Mage”, and “Part of Your Council”.

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The sun is always brighter on somebody else's street. You dream about going up there But that is a grave mistake. Just look at the world around you right here on Silvermoon's streets. Such magical objects surround you what more could an elf be looking for? Under the Dome. Under the Dome Child, life is in favour down where it's safer take it from me. Up in the city they lavish all day out in the sun they waste away. While we're dovoting our time to learning under the Dome. To be continued ... And now picture Rommath singing that.

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Hurrican

North Rhine-Westphalia right now: Making my way downtown, walking fast ... walking faster, walking even more faster, getting chased by a garbage can.