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Sure! Let's just call this entire segment of the episode 'The Liar' -- which could mean nothing....

I'm convinced 85% of Azune’s meltdowns are extreme trauma and 15% of them are the most absolutely twisted crocodile tears you have ever witnessed, and it is fucking chilling (affectionate).

Azune knows he needs Demodus to come with him to the Stahlkeep. He also knows he's on the verge of a nervous breakdown because of the :gestures vaguely: everything.

But Azune only gets to have a meltdown if the meltdown itself is useful, because that is how he's been conditioned.

So he waits until the big tactical meeting is over -- but doesn't wait until he's alone that night. He specifically gathers Murray, Thimble and Occtis, and then:

Destabilizes his audience by asking for Demodus.

Gets the 'no' he was expecting all along, for the reasons he expected all along: Demodus is a kid. Demodus deserves protection.

Is genuinely hurt by this, so he lets the barbs bypass his emotional AC and trigger the meltdown he was going to have anyway.

And then? He asks for Occtis instead.

Occtis is standing right there. Occtis can object. Thimble is even more likely to protect him than Murray was to protect Demodus. Suddenly the conversation isn't about whether Demodus should go. It's about whether Occtis should.

And Azune? Poor tearful Azune gets to look gracious in defeat. He was so willing to take no for an answer, and be seen taking no for an answer, that he didn't even want to let Occtis finish the rest of his (super touching!!!) thought.

But if Occtis isn't an option? Well, actually, Demodus starts looking like a suspiciously reasonable alternative.

By the end of the scene, Murray is offering exactly what Azune wanted in the first place, plus approximately one city's worth of ice cream.

The part that fascinates me is that I don't think any of this undermines the sincerity of the breakdown, nor how touching any of the character moments are within it.

Azune is genuinely devastated. He genuinely wants comfort. He genuinely needs someone to tell him he's worth protecting too.

But somewhere in the middle of all that pain is a tactical mastermind who found Murray and Thimble's pressure points, and pushed with ten times more accuracy than Thimble massaging his ear (which was fucking adorable, btw, but I digress).

Brennan had everyone roll Insight on this unhinged creature and nobody could beat his Persuasion/Deception check, which feels deeply appropriate. But I think it was even more interesting that Vaelus came over to him anyway, and connected with him about carrying the weight of memory and grief...

... I can't help but think if Vaelus had rolled high enough, the thing the two of them really would have bonded over is their capacity to weaponize that grief into something much more dangerous than a sword or cudgel.

And honestly, is there anything more terrifying in a world of mortals currently facing the obliteration of its afterlives?

Luis Carazo when I fucking find you.*

*I will buy you all the ice cream and cookies for this fucked up little guy you've created. Please let me find you.

#azune nayar #cr c4 meta #cr c4 spoilers #cr4 #critical role #critical role campaign 4 #critical role spoilers

skribblegurl

some people think writers are so eloquent and good with words, but the reality is that we can sit there with our fingers on the keyboard going, “what’s the word for non-sunlight lighting? Like, fake lighting?” and for ten minutes, all our brain will supply is “unofficial”, and we know that’s not the right word, but it’s the only word we can come up with…until finally it’s like our face got smashed into a brick wall and we remember the word we want is “artificial”.

heywriters

I couldn't remember the word "doorknob" ten minutes ago.

bumblewyn

ok but the onelook thesaurus will save your life, i literally could not live without this website

breelandwalker

REBLOG TO SAVE A WRITER'S LIFE

myfairkatiecat

LIFE SAVED

REBLOGGING TO SAVE ANOTHER WRITERS LIFE

sirowsky

I use this every time I sit down to write. It's the best tool in the world and I would be lost without it!

chinaofrps

onelook theasurus link

ollielephant

cumonthevoid

none pizza with left beef

the-chocolate-chip-pancake-blog

It should be a rule of Tumblr to always reblog none pizza with left beef

babymarkers

ive missed you

downthewitchingwell

let’s be cocooned by mama

ermine-57047

@letsblogwithmama :>

letsblogwithmama

official mama post

weaselle

her fur is such good insulation that she can sleep in a pile of snow without her body heat melting any of it (which means none of her heat is escaping her) and anyone who has done cold weather camping knows that without the right insulation, not matter how good your blankets are, the cold ground can suck ALL the heat out of you while you sleep. Her pup has not yet grown such a luxurious coat as the adults have, so this is a very caring embrace that keeps the puppy swaddled in her downy coat and insulated from the ground, which, on some nights, might actually save that little pupper's life

#wolves #cute animals

hejihra

The Vampire Lestat || The Elevation of the Cross, Peter Paul Rubens

#amc iwtv #iwtv #lestat de lioncourt #amc tvl #the vampire lestat

aquilaofarkham

A SECOND FAMILY PORTRAIT HAS HIT THE CASTLEVANIA TOWERS

#castlevania #castlevania netflix #trephacard

dr-paint

CAUSE I'M A PUNKROCKER YES I AM!

#Superman #Superman 2025 #david corenswet

technofeudalism

this guy really always had something to say about almost everything and nearly all of it is still completely relevant almost 200 years later. fascinating stuff.

identitty-dickruption

it's crucial that you untie "special interest" from "expertise". "it's true just trust me bro" doesn't have any extra weight when you add "I know because it's my special interest". you are not immune from falling for misinformation, and you are not immune from sharing misinformation. not to mention the fact that "amount of knowledge" isn't even a requirement for something being classified as a special interest lol!

#special interest #autistic #actually autistic #autism

destiel-news-network

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Three others were killed in the shooting. The assailant was later found dead, apparently by suicide, with a note blaming the NFL for his chronic brain disease (Source).

destiel-news-network

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If you are in or around the Pacific, please check your local authorities to see if a warning has been issued for your area.

prokopetz

While it's true that mandatory identity verification will inevitably be leaked on a massive scale, the thing you need to understand when framing these arguments is that a lot of the folks in favour of such measures don't see that as a bad thing. Full de-anonymisation of the Internet is their explicit goal. Like, the actual objective here is for everyone to have a public record of everything they say and do – online or otherwise – linked to their government ID. The universal panopticon is the good ending as far as these people are concerned.

evonnagale

So what's the better way to frame these arguments? Is there one?

prokopetz

If your aim is to persuade, you can't just stop at "your identity and activities will be made public". A lot of the people you're trying to convince don't see that as bad in and of itself, and as far as they're concerned, the fact that you do means you've got something you hide. You need to take it past "your identity and activities will be made public" and hit specific, actionable negative consequences of that disclosure.

vaspider

Starting with "your identity can then easily be stolen" is a pretty good jumping off point, I've found.

surmabrander

As Edward Snowden so elegantly put it: « Saying privacy is useless because you have nothing to hide is as dumb as saying that freedom of speech is useless because you have nothing to say »

I’ll add to that a specific point about rights in general: you don’t have them because you want to act on them at all times. You have them because they give you agency.

Abortion rights isn’t just about remaining child-free: it’s about body autonomy, just as online privacy is about deciding what you want to show to the world and what you want to keep private.

covidconsciouspdx

When I was an idealistic young intern at OMB under Obama, I said something along the lines of, "but if you have nothing to hide, why should you worry what information the government collects about you?" to one of the branch leaders of OIRA (Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs).

She stopped dead in her tracks, looked me in the eye and said, "It is ALWAYS the responsibility of the government to justify why they need any information about you, because you have NO power at all. Once they have information about you, there is NOTHING you can do to control how they use it or to stop them from abusing it."

She meant there was nothing I could do as an individual. But as it turns out, one of the purposes of OIRA is (was? 😢) to review Every Single Form/Tool that any federal agency uses to collect information from non-federal entries.

As an intern, I was responsible in for reviewing a lot of these "information collection requests," which were basically just forms (fun fact: any form that has an OMB control number on it has been reviewed by OIRA!), and every single agency had to be able to justify every single piece of data that they collected on every single form, how they were going to use it, how they were going to protect it while retaining it, and how they were going to destroy it when the time came.

Like the above post said, privacy is basically your autonomy applied to your personal information. It's about you getting to choose what you share about yourself, how, when, and with whom.

Please guard your right to privacy with the same rigor you would your bodily autonomy.

Once it's gone, it's really hard to get back.

oidingus

Something Jayce can’t do. Based on the hilarious vid from breeandclint on tiktok

#jayce talis #sky young #viktor arcane #jayvik

accessibleaesthetics

Very Silly Concept: a show called "Accessibility Nightmares" but it's structured exactly like Kitchen Nightmares. An accessibility specialist goes to different establishments and helps them make their businesses more accessible.

The accessibility specialist asks why the door at the top of the small set of stairs has a wheelchair symbol on it. The owner replies that's the accessible bathroom. The camera zooms in on the specialist as they process this information.

A customer with a service dog comes in to a restaurant. The hostess tells them they don't allow dogs. The accessibly specialist looks over at the hostess like

And there are web accessibility episodes too. The accessibility specialist stares at the white text on the light pink background of the home page like

The specialist asks why not a single product picture has alt text, and the business owner says "Well I mean, it's makeup, why would a blind person be shopping for makeup?" The specialist just

The specialist asks the web designer how a screen reader user is supposed to complete the captcha portion of the password reset process when there is no audio alternative. The designer admits they don't know.

accessibleaesthetics

#this post has 10k notes to me

When you left this tag three days ago, I thought "that's so sweet, but no. No way this concept is even close to that popular."

#actually disabled #disability

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socially-awkward-supervillian

Fun fact: Cheetahs only attack prey that runs

youwinagainmoffat-blog

jesus that is good to know.

chandra75-deactivated20180905

Yup, that’s the point you just stay still and let it do whatever the fuck it wants that doesn’t involved you getting eaten.

magehenry-moved-blog

REALLY FUN FACT for big cats cheetahs are fucking docile as shit

my grandfather ran a cheetah sanctuary in south africa and he’d just lie with them and sleep among them and they’d rub against him and chirp at him they’re big fucking babies

pkmnbreederbrianna

Another Fun Fact: Cheetahs are incredibly nervous animals. One of the (many) reason’s they’re going extinct is that cheetahs are so sensitive and nervous, some of them are literally too nervous to breed. Others will breed, but stress themselves out so much, they’ll lose their cubs. So zoos with breeding programs had to figure out how to make cheetahs comfortable enough to first of all, get laid and secondly - not spazz themselves into miscarrying. So what’d they do? They gave the cheetah’s their very own Service Dogs! The dogs make them feel safe, protected and secure!

emo-islandniles

AJHHHHFDDGHH SO PRECIOUS

renirabbit

this post just got so much better

enjoying-nudiustertian-deactiva

THIS IS OFFICIALLY MY FAVOURITE POST

wylltingtrees

sashayed

this is emmett and cullen they are best friends

clover11-10

This is the greatest thing I’ve seen all day.

Dogs are truly angels.

oshiawaseni

so THATS why these cheetah ft dogo pics exist

erin-luci-and-me

the anxiety cat

peppermint-madness

Also! Cheetahs are not in fact classified as big cats, they are simply very large lesser cats, due to the fact that they purr, meow, chirp, and cannot roar. Also many cheetahs have learned to recognize wildlife photographers are friends and not foes, so they will just come up to people and be friendly occasionally as pictured at the top of the chain. Some will even leave their Cubs with photographers to look after while they hunt. So. Yeah. Cheetahs are great

elfwreck

bunjywunjy

this works because cheetahs are actually fairly social animals, and they look to members of their group for context on how worried they should be about any given Situation. but since cheetahs are also nervous social animals, they can work each other into an anxiety spiral pretty easily over things like “being in an enclosed habitat” and “there’s a guy over there”.

so by introducing a dog as a member of the group, the cheetahs will now look to the dog for context clues on how worried they should be! and the dog Is Not Worried At All, Thanks, so the cheetahs think everything must be chill even if they were personally unsure about it, and they stop being so freaked out about literally everything.