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I did love that Matt rewarded the party's, and especially Zach's, investment in Bowen but both giving him the opportunity to save him -even though mechanically Alphonse doesn't have healing abilities- and by having Bowen decide to travel with Alphonse in the epilogue of the story.

It was Zach who did a lot of the heavy lifting with Bowen, having Alphonse talk to him about what he wanted and where he wanted to go; it was a critical success from Zach that convinced Bowen to side with the party at Oxudos. And after their harrowing escape it was Alphonse checking in with him, getting his opinion on things and coaching him through the horrors. And after the dimensional orb spit him out Zach had Alphonse rush to try and save him, and was willing to give up a mechanical boon to do it.

And Matt rewarded that investment by having Bowen respond to the mentoring advice Alphonse had been giving him and decide that this was a man who could guide him through surviving through the wastes of the world and enduring all the troubles it throws at them. Especially given their similar backgrounds as people raised in deeply devout Sallowlands communities who've lost their faith in the Veiled Gods but not in people. And given Alphonse started the miniseries as someone wandering the wastes alone holding onto the memories of those closest to him that he's lost, him gaining a traveling companion emphasized the idea of him letting go and starting something new symbolized by him finally scattering his wife's ashes. Bowen surviving and choosing to travel with him means he's finally not alone and not clinging to the past, Alphonse is finding new people and forging new relationships. It capstones Alphonse's story and rewards the mechanical effort put in by the players to carry Bowen through Sallowlands.

#critical role #cr spoilers #critical role spoilers #age of umbra: sallowlands #alphonse brute #now bowen can be the Robin to his batman:)

wilwheaton

Felicia Day and I are getting the band back together for a new show about the games (and some other things) we love, and you can help make it happen.

bogkeep

there's something so deeply dystopian to me how tech companies don't understand that a forced convenience is not a convenience at all. i'm sure autocorrect is helpful for many, but a function that forcibly changes my actual written words and punctuation is taking away my language. photo filters can be nice but i need to choose using them myself or else i have lost the ability to take the picture i want. i don't want a machine to draw or write for me. taking away the option for me to do things manually feels like violence!!!! all this talk of endless opportunity, why are you RESTRICTING me

#full sentences will get produced by autocorrect sometimes #replacing entire things i am actively sending to friends and family #also awesome when it does it like 3 times how convenient #to have to type a sentence over and over what a time saver 🥰

saulwexler

how to explain to non-americans that the better call saul ads aren’t exaggerated for comedic effect they are super normie

queenofnots

2urban2fantasy-deactivated20241

Morgan & Morgan. For the people.

mornington-the-crescent

Fieger Law: All We Do Is Win

crownedpatriot11

What do you think he does

red-faced-wolf-deactivated20251

How you know you’re in the great state of Alabama

theodoretheninja

I don't have a picture, but our area is flooded with a dude holding a comedically large hammer and looking to sue the shit out of any truckers that have injured you.

wanderer-chronicles

serregon

🤨

proship-fictionkin

THE TEXAS HAMMER

nanitecitys

Alexander Shunnarah is such a big meme in Alabama that people got this man to attend anime conventions multiple years in a row as a special guest that furries and cosplayers can take pictures with and get autographs from. He's on nearly Every billboard in the state.

elphabaoftheopera

don't forget these jungle law billboards i have to pass every day

that doesn't even scratch the surface there are so so many of them

therogueduchess

knightofiris

I remember my friends and I laughing our asses off when we saw this billboard.

asteroidtroglodyte

Sweet James

nada-nothin-nil

used to pass this every day

brightside-brigade

This is just how lawyers are.

rabbitmotifs

morris bart is practically a state celebrity in louisiana

#billboard lawyers #i was reading this in mild amusement until #i came across mr dick ‘put my name in their mouth’#and actually yelled #welp now my cat knows i ‘m awake

podcastwizard

every day i walk into work and my manager says “here is the rule you must enforce” and i go “got it bossman” and i spend a couple days enforcing the rule and then my manager comes up to me and says “why are you enforcing the rule? we changed the rule yesterday and didn’t tell you” and i go “ok bossman new rule it is” and then a customer comes in asking to break the new rule and i say “sorry you can’t it’s the rule” and they say “but you don’t understand the rule doesn’t apply to me” and then my manager comes out and says “they’re right the rule doesn’t apply to them” and i ask why and my manager says “it just doesn’t.” and then the next day we get rid of the rule entirely and no one remembered it existed in the first place.

anyway this sounds like a metaphor for neurodivergence or something but it’s not this is just my fucking life

#:) :) :)#so I enforce whatever rule i feel like that i think i can get away with #because the rules are both ever changing and apparently arbitrary anyway #but yeaaaaah

hellenhighwater

You tell em, yard boy

#cats #unrestrained summer fun #i’m losing it at the last pose

pokemon

Hello, Official Pokemon Tumblr Account. I have a simple request - please show us one (1) photo of Ditto in its classic blob form. Any official media is fine, I just like seeing Ditto. Thank you in advance.

#pokemon #ditto #chansey #hopital…

mammalianmammals

When ranchers in Utah's Rich County found eighteen sheep killed in March 2022, they assumed coyotes. USDA Wildlife Services flew a plane over the kill site and found something feeding on the carcasses that had only been confirmed in the state eight times in forty years. It was a wolverine. Utah sits at the extreme southern margin of the wolverine's North American range. The animal is built for the deep snow and high alpine of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming, country above ten thousand feet where the winters last eight months and the terrain rejects everything that is not specifically engineered to survive it. A wolverine showing up in Utah's ranch country was not a routine predator complaint. It was a biological event. State wildlife managers had no protocol for it because they had never needed one. Biologists set specialized barrel traps near the sheep carcasses. Catching a wolverine in a live trap is considered one of the most difficult captures in North American wildlife management. The animal is trap-smart, solitary, covers enormous distances daily, and operates almost exclusively in terrain that humans struggle to access on foot. The odds of a wolverine walking into a barrel trap were close to zero. The next morning, a sheepherder found one of the trap doors dropped. Inside was a healthy, twenty-eight-pound male, estimated at three to four years old. It was the first wolverine ever live-captured by biologists in Utah's history. The team sedated him, packed his body in ice to keep his core temperature stable during the examination, fitted him with a GPS tracking collar, and released him into the deep snow of the Uinta Mountains. For researchers who had spent careers studying an animal they almost never got to see, that collar was the first real-time data source on wolverine movement the state had ever produced. The data that came back over the next twenty-five days confirmed what wolverine biologists in other states had documented but Utah had never been able to verify on its own ground. The animal logged over 195 miles of travel in less than a month. He did not drift south toward lower elevations or leave the state. He locked into the high peaks of the Uintas above ten thousand feet and ran massive looping circuits through avalanche chutes, rocky ridgelines, and snowfields deep enough to bury a man standing upright. The daily distances he covered would qualify as an endurance event for a human athlete on flat ground. He was doing it through the most physically punishing terrain in the state, in winter, alone, at elevation, without stopping. The eighteen dead sheep that started the whole sequence were never repeated. The wolverine moved into the high country and stayed there, operating in a landscape so remote and so hostile that the only evidence of his existence was the GPS signal pinging coordinates from ridgelines that no person had visited in months. The collar proved what the forty years of scattered sightings could only suggest. The wolverine was not passing through Utah. It was living there, quietly covering nearly two hundred miles of frozen alpine rock in less than a month, completely invisible to every human being in the state.

Source: Utah Division of Wildlife Resources / USDA Wildlife Services

elf-kid2

@elodieunderglass

elodieunderglass

Wolverine - the relentless! Greatest of all mustelids, kindly child…

#wolverine #animals #nature #animal reference

themoonandmyman

hello I am at my wits end and I need to know something. Do you talk to your mother every day?

Yes

Remaining time: 1 day 22 minutes

No nuance. If you don’t have a mother/are no contact etc this is not a poll for you.

You can elaborate as to how often you feel is a regular amount of communication between an adult child and their mother.

#tumblr polls #yes currently…but that’s because i currently live w her lmao

00000066

#seriously 😂😭

artmadval

a running family of sallowlands

#critical role #age of umbra sallowlands #age of umbra #critical role fanart #age of umbra fanart #cool art

musashi

Hey can you guys reblog Cheeseburger so he can take a sunbeam nap on lots of blogs. No other reason I just want you guys to see him.

musashi

So, Cheeseburger died on November 21st after an unfairly short battle with an unfairly rare cancer that is rarely seen in cats. I only got to spend a month with him after his diagnosis, and losing him has been the greatest heartbreak of my entire life so far. He was my best friend and my soul cat, and he was there for me when I was completely alone, for twelve long years.

I made this transparent PNG the night he died in preparation for one of the many ways I was going to memorialize him--a surface rug in his likeness that I planned on laying directly in the line of his favourite sunbeam. And I uploaded that PNG here, because this is the website where people post their cats.

I was not expecting the reception I got. Many people have pointed out that this post has more reblogs than likes, and how insane that is in 2025 when reblog culture is at an all time low. I didn't even talk about the fact that Burger passed away in the original post, it wasn't a tearjerker reblog bait or anything like that. People just loved Burger that much, in the same way I fell in love with him at first sight. He was such an ugly kitten.

Anyways, it's really special to me that so many people have reblogged my best friend. I made this PNG to memorialize him in a completely different way, and you all wound up doing just that in ways I never even imagined.

Thank you. Wherever he is, I know the sun is shining.