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the elves in aramán are profoundly fucking sad. they're decaying. their people are completely unable to reproduce and they were created by the goddess of life. that feels like sylandri's real barrowdell. the elves as a dying people without her to sustain them.
the purpose of friends is to have people who unconditionally hate your shitty exes & relatives. like maybe YOU have a complex relationship with your father but i sure don't. i'm outside his house with a gun. he's not the unforgivable asshole who raised me he's just an unforgivable asshole
graham and arthur for the soul...
the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.
something I haven't seen people mention about The Hunger Games trilogy and movies is how it genuinely revolutionized the Minecraft server scene
I hatw when I click a link and it opens to "download our app to view this" Fuck you and your app I hope you die
how it feels to be obsessed with your own ocs but you cant think of what to say about them
what's the point of initiating conversations with people when 99.9% of them turn out to be normies
okay. how do I put this. if you approach interactions with strangers as if the vast majority of them are unbearable losers who aren't worth your time, you will find yourself not liking most of the people you meet because you'll be looking for any excuse to write them off as unbearable losers. I know this is hard to hear but sometimes the problem is you.
also, if you approach interactions with strangers as if the vast majority of them are unbearable losers who aren't worth your time, most of them will notice and react accordingly by treating you like youre a pretentious prick instead of opening up
im obsessed with her
text: [ “Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5000 years.” ]
And they're absolutely specifically pushing it, make no mistake. It's not just a matter of "it's there, it's convenient, so people are going to take the path of the least resistance", it is a legitimate and concerted effort on the part of these companies to get people to outsource all these things to their models.
They're preying on insecurities to do it. Yes, you can write an essay - but can you write a good essay, they ask you. Do you not want to improve your output? Do you not want people to think of you as competent and very clever? Why go through the mortifying process of failing and failing and failing until you succeed if you can just skip the "learning" part of doing, and simply generate a ready-made product?
I'm preaching to the choir here obviously but it's a concerning thing to witness nonetheless. My kid is 6 next week and I've been teaching her that failing at things is morally neutral and in fact necessary even before the advent of AI, but it's becoming ever more important that we teach the kids that criticism and failure and discomfort aren't necessarily bad things, but just a part of the growth process.
AI companies are heavily invested in making themselves relevant. They want people to believe they can't do the things they have done unaided before and to make them become reliant on the AI models, so the AI models' existence is artificially justified.
honestly the way we talk about "being in love" is so bizarre to me. you mean there's a secret, more intense kind of love that's only available in romantic relationships? romantic relationships, which vary immensely in form across cultures and time and don't even exist universally? but there's a special, unique emotion that you can only unlock through romance? you expect me to believe that?
Saying “this niche, properly tagged, warned, and rated piece of fiction could theoretically hurt someone” is not a good argument. This properly labeled cookie with the allergen information at the bottom that contains gluten could theoretically harm me very badly, but only if I consume it. Tags are like nutrition labels, and warnings are like allergy information. If you know you have an allergy to something, the logic is to stay away from it. It is the same with fiction. I’m not running through stores yelling at people to take all the products with gluten off the shelves just because it could hurt me. Instead I ignore it and go to the gluten free section and find cookies that are right for me. And if running through a grocery store yelling sounds ridiculous, that’s because it is. Stop doing the same with fiction.
this is the best way i’ve seen this put!!
And just like with food, what might be harmful for one person to consume could be quite *beneficial* for others. One man’s trigger is another man’s catharsis.
AND if you lack the maturity/self control/awareness to stop yourself from eating things that could potentially harm you, you either 1) are too young to be making your own food choices and should be supervised by a parent/other adult who is supposed to be responsible for you (and the store clerk who put the food on the shelf is NOT) or 2) need to take accountability for your own actions, because if you deliberately consumed something you knew could hurt you as a fully autonomous adult, then you really have no one to blame but yourself.
THE SPIRIT OF BUSTER KEATON LIVES ON
Thoughts on the latest episode of Critical Role c4 that are rolling around in my head tonight.
Obviously one of the larger threads in this campaign is how the concept of nobility and separated classes is bullshit and a constant invitation to strife. But while the machinations of the Tachonis and the Halovar and everyone else are good examples of that, I don't think there's any better, more stark example than Maya Davinos.
Because the thing is, she has a point, in the society they've been living in! To maintain power, the nobility must breed. Aranessa has failed Royce and their vassals in the way that noble society thinks matters. And given that all of the Sundered Houses are sorcerous bloodlines, there's something very real to be passed down from parent to child! And now Maya has lost a husband and is about to lose a daughter, and probably a son as well, and to her mind none of it would have happened if her liege hadn't been a romantic fool and had played the game properly.
But having a point inside the story doesn't mean she's right. In fact, her speech to Julien was Brennan telling us the main thesis the PCs are fighting against, at the core of it.
Because blood doesn't mean shit, outside of passing down magical ability. They want so desperately to believe that it makes them special, that it makes them better. Because without the Shapers, all they have is money and magic. So the Sundered Houses and their vassals do everything they can to hoard the money, the influence, to outlaw types of magic that might show the world that their blood is nothing special.
Everyone is supposed to stay in their boxes. The orcs were supposed to keep serving Azgra no matter how much pain he caused them. The commoners amongst the humans, elves, etc were supposed to accept that some of them might have to be given to Azgra to make things right. If the people at Castle Torch are all just as good, just as noble as Julien, then what does that say about the difference between them and the Davinos family. If there's no difference, then everything that the nobility has worked so hard to keep has meant nothing, and most of them will never be ready to realize that.
The only way the nobility keeps their power is by hoarding money/magic and continuing to produce children of their blood. Our PCs are fighting to prove that neither of those things mean jack shit, like all good revolutionaries. Julien could marry Ingrid or some other noblewoman and produce a kid like his mother wants, but that's not going to bring back the glory days she wants. And she's probably smart enough to know that, but she's also smart enough to know that doing so is the only way to hold onto even a sliver of the power they've had in the past. And the story Brennan and the players are telling - almost certainly, knowing what I know about them all - is the story of how all that power can mean nothing if the people you're holding down actually band together and rise up.
So KoTher'ai, Hal's play about the failed rebellion against Azgra that pre-dated the successful rebellion against not just Azgra, but all the Shapers, is going up the same night as the Sundered Houses meet. The Sundered Houses are meeting after months of actions that mirror their crackdown about 15-20 years ago that ultimately led to the events of the Falconer's Rebellion. The Falconer's Rebellion failed. Murray and Azune just successfully petitioned King Gus for aid in the seeds of its successive rebellion, the one they are gathering forces for now. The walls of the theater in which this play will be performed, which was once a dedicated space to Azgra now transformed into a space that "can be used to tell whatever story mortals deem worth telling," are painted with the derivative of the blood of the River Gavzidra with the explicit intent of liberating the souls of the orcish people. The performance of the play itself will be a revolt against one of the Sundered Houses that has requested an ending that in fact is in line with the purpose of the River Gavzidra at the time of the events of the play. These are statements of fact which can lead you to many conclusions and I'd like to let people draw their own however a relatively minor one is that somehow Yanessa Halovar is both the most and least genre-savvy person who has ever existed.
While I think part of Thimble and Thaisha being Thjazi's biggest defenders in the group scene can partially be ascribed to they're both being people relatively close to him who have not had to deal with trying to put together the pieces of his plan re: the paint et al., and all the machinations on his part that it exposed, I think there's more to it as well.
Thimble and Thaisha being the ones who defended Thjazi against Bolaire is also bolstered by the fact that they both knew Thjazi best in the context of his current work as a revolutionary.
Hal, and even to some extent Azune, seen to have largely been kept out of the loop on Thjazi's current activities. So they know Thjazi as a person but they were kept separate from his own actions and activities in the interest of keeping them both 'clean'. Murray largely knew him as a fence. Occtis was doing him a favor because Thjazi helped get him into magical school etc.
This was happening with everyone Thjazi was close with to some extent, as demonstrated by the cold open where he and Thimble agree to seperate their spheres of knowledge and influence, and in the fact that no one in the room had known about The Cloak and Thjazi being a part of it.
And yet Thimble was still his partner in crime. Thimble was able to arrange payment for the paints which means she had access to a substantial amount of their shared finances. They had stolen the Stone together recently.
Similarly not only was Thaisha tapped to aid Occtis in retrieving the coffin from Venatus, Thjazi also mentioned her as already moving to take action in the Fang brother's flashback right before the Rebellion. The two of them have kept in contact even through Hal and Thaisha's changing relationship and he clearly saw her as someone he could rely on, and I believe as someone with very similar goals and priorities (albeit on a different scale).
Which is all to say that I understand why the rest of the table had reasonable doubts about Thjazi's motive and methods.
But the people who knew him the best in the context that we're talking about- is the Thjazi of today someone who would sacrifice not just 5000 people in general, but a substantial portion of the Rungjani? Is he a person that would sacrifice his allies without warning, who would burn them on pyre for his own vision? Is he a person who would work with the Sundered Houses to any extent?
The people who knew Thjazi the revolutionary the best and most recently said 'No.'
I think that's worth keeping in mind.
I am very in favour of the Obramus Manor break-in happening simultaneous to the Sundered Houses meeting and the premier of KoTher'ai for many reasons, mostly because it would make for an amazingly jammed-packed evening in Dol-Makjar, but also because it would be extremely funny for Primus to get home from a long evening of having to play politics only to find that his undead son has broken in, specifically gotten into the crypts, left a dead body (not his own), fucked a bunch of other shit up, and then vanished back into the night. Even the Tachonis family manor is not safe from Random Occurrences of Occtis.
