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His fishing.
I was so weirdly astonished by this video
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hey! iām kicking off the #ADHDInvasion hashtag for adhd awareness month with a comic about CONSEQUENCES, and how my lifelong failure to react to them has been a huge source of frustration for me and for the ppl in my life who rely on me. even worse, it makes me seem apathetic or careless to others, when in reality it weighs really heavily on me - i just struggle to show it.
the best way iāve found to deal with this is accepting that shame-based motivation DOES NOT WORK AT ALL for me (which is hard to do, when itās all thatās been modeled for you by parents/educators/bosses) and try to replace fear/shame based consequences with positive outcomes: i.e. instead ofĀ āeveryone will be so disappointed in me if i donāt do this,ā sometimes itās more helpful to thinkĀ āif i do this on time, iāll feel so relieved, and everyone will be happy that i pulled through.ā
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So I rewatched the entire dinner scene instead of sleeping, and hereās my hot take: I donāt care about Trent. Heās an asshole abuser, so I will eat up othersā probably far more insightful meta on THAT topic.
No, I want to talk about Astrid, Eodwulf, and Caleb.
That scene didnāt go at all like I expected it to. I think I, and everyone else, were expecting the mind games, the subtle threats, the manipulationā¦
But I wasnāt expecting half of it to be directed towards Astrid and Eodwulf.
In those previous encounters, we kind of got what we thought the two of them would be ā confident, duty bound, convicted, a certain sense that they were where they wanted to be, that they knew their environment and had some control. Astrid came from a place of slightly patronising pity for Caleb. Eodwulf didnāt bother talking to the Nein overly.
So we all sat here and made jokes about Calebās evil ex-friends, donning their scariest wizard robes and staring stonily down the table for the evening. Thatās what we expected. People who didnāt hesitate. People who, though abused and brainwashed, were committed to the cause, were perpetuating the cycle.
That is not what we got.
They start that way. Annoyed at the Neinās antics. Stern. Supposedly full of conviction. But there was no righteousness, and they got more and more nervous as the night went on.
Astrid and Eodwulf were afraid. Astrid was not one step away from coldly offing Trent and taking his place. She was leaning away from him, begging Caleb to stop provoking Trent, stop calling attention to her. Eodwulf was reluctant to talk, was worried about how Caleb would react, froze up as soon as things started getting confrontational.
Every moment of their interactions at that table screamed ABUSE.Ā
Iām sure our previous assumptions are true. Iām sure they kill, torture, and do worse for the Empire. Iām sure they defend it at every point, have parroted lines they refuse to let go of. Itās possible that they mean it.
But those werenāt powerful mages whoād grown up to shoulder the horrors of their youth as just and right without another thought. Those were beaten dogs.
On top of that, those were beaten dogs who know theyāre not allowed to think for themselves. Every time Caleb asked Astrid a difficult question ā every single time ā she would look over at Ikithon nervously, steel herself, and then mimic him almost exactly.
I didnāt realise until rewatching the scene, but her speech pattern varies GREATLY between speaking in a manner I believe to be honest, and speaking about dicey topics like the Empire, her duty, their actions, and so on. When addressing more vulnerable topics, Astrid spoke softly and looked like this:
Whenever she had to speak about something that she clearly felt she was on thin ice with? She lowered her voice, evened it out, and changed her cadence to match Ikithonās perfectly, the only difference being that her voice is slightly higher pitched. Itās so close I sometimes had trouble telling if Caleb was talking to Ikithon or to her.
Astrid straight up told Caleb that whoever is her superior is right, and she and Eodwulf will do as that superior says. Nothing more. No moral judgements of her own. Eodwulf, for his part, never directly defended his actions or their jobs. Whenever he was pressed, he looked to Astrid. Who, in turn, would look to Trent.
Thatās a pretty obvious sign of whatās going on, here.
The only times Eodwulf is startled into genuine reactions are when Trent drops the first real bombshell on Caleb, at which point he makes these faces:
And afterwards, when Caduceus parted with a scathing last word to Trent, wherein both he and Astrid looked like this:
Astrid tried to share her hair techniques with Jester. She smiled when the Nein joked about kidnapping her. Eodwulf liked the moniker they gave him. Eodwulf decided he liked Caduceus right after heād told Trent no one would mourn him.
As soon as that dinner was over, Eodwulf pulled out alcohol, took a swig, passed it to Caleb, who took a swig, and then to Astrid, who took a swig. That quick and unhesitating exchange speaks of long experience. Long experience leaving Trentās presence and immediately trying to get drunk.
It said a lot about the three of them, I think. That little moment, the ease of it, how normal it seemed, displays a genuine (at least at one point, and maybe still) camaraderie between them, and also a genuine unease in Trentās presence, even after a decade and a half.
And that leads to the other thing I wasnāt expecting, but maybe should have. Caleb.
Heād hesitated from condemning Trent. This was the man he had spent most of the campaign running from, the man who had groomed him into killing his family, and yet he was reluctant to speak about violence, even though his friends half begged him to give the okay on it.
I think we were expecting Caleb to hunch his shoulders, to look away, to be eaten up by anxiety. And maybe he would have been shrinkingly cautious through the whole affair. Yāknow, if Trent hadnāt said Calebās parents would have been okay with him burning them alive. If Astrid and Eodwulf hadnāt desperately tried to blend in with the furniture at every opportunity.
Caleb starts the dinner making these kind of faces:
But slowly, that changes. He stops doing his usual habit of avoiding eye contact and rubbing at his arms. He starts glowering when Trent tries to insist that Calebās parentsā deaths were a good thing, were what they wanted, would bring honour to the family he had eradicated, somehow. He likes it less when Trent claims credit for his escape. He really looks pissed when Astrid tries unconvincingly to argue that what they did was okay, obviously signalling her discomfort with the situation.
By the end of the night, Caleb looked Trent in the eye and said he dreamed of murdering him, brutally, with his bare hands. By the end of the night, Caleb had THIS look on his face as he stared at the man whoās haunted his every moment for as long as heās been a lucid adult:
This Caleb? This is the Caleb who isnāt paralysed by his own guilt and fear. This is a Caleb who is very, very angry.
So regarding the dynamic between Astrid, Eodwulf, and Caleb? The script was, in the end, rather flipped. We went in expecting three wizards trying to manipulate an overwhelmed Caleb. Instead, we got one wizard crushing the souls of two others under his heel, with the only one currently outside his direct influence growing more and more furiously bold as the situation became evident.
The fact that Trent was his abuser was never going to bring Caleb to violence on its own. But Caleb called Astrid and Eodwulf āfriends,ā present tense, the day before he watched them sit, afraid of saying the wrong thing, through a dinner with their abuser. I donāt think heās going to be so hesitant about violence towards Trent in the future.
They may have learned very little about Trent and his true intentions. Itās even possible that everything we saw of Eodwulf and Astrid is some elaborate fiction, though I donāt think so. But whatever else, it did one thing Iām not sure Trent wanted; it solidified a path forward for Caleb that he wouldnāt commit to before, and I donāt think it involves Trent surviving.
i think the weirdest thing about the shelter-in-place has been the nightly howl, which i forget about every night until iām walking my dog and the neighbors just suddenly start fucking howling.
see, we all live literally miles from each other; with the shelter in place in effect, most of us never see other humans FOR DAYS besides the ones we live with.Ā so my neighbors decided we should just howlā like dogsā every night at approximately the same time to āencourage community bonding and release tensionā.
itās also a useful reminder that everyone is still alive. iām not sure what weāre supposed to do if we notice a howler is missing.
at least one neighbor suggested, āhey, maybe we should just set up a telephone tree insteadā but was soundly called off because ālisten, we all moved to the mountains because we donāt want to talk to other human beings, weāre just going to howl insteadā.
You know what? I miss it. I miss the Nightly Howl.
My neighborhood evacuated due to the fire. Weāre all scattered now, almost lost. Weāre in cities that are not our own, and voiceless.
I havenāt heard a single howl. 8 pm is silent now, which is somehow the worst aspect of this. It passes almost without notice.
Someone on the site asked if we could still howl, regardless of our location. Maybe weād find our neighbors that way.
Maybe Iāll head out to the beach tonight with my dog and howl.
iām delighted to inform you all that the Nightly Howl is back.Ā Now that evacuation is lifted, the werewolves are back and louder than ever.Ā iāve NEVER heard so many howls, so many voices, and for so long.Ā Someone even has some sort of horn.
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This is a long walk, but don't worry. I will get there
Had to chase some nosey pokƩmon away. Don't worry. The journey continues
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At last
My journey has come to an end. Thank you for joining me here at the end of all things
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