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wait somerunner you fw 12 miles below?

My jaw literally dropped. No way you also know 12 Miles Below

Like, I don’t even have a quip right now.

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I keep forgetting that Zorian is so fun to read because he's so petty.

For the record, that's only internally -- he never really seeks out revenge. And even though he holds a lot of grudges, he has an even deeper sense of indebtedness to his allies and he always pays his debts.

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Why does my nothing post get 17 notes. The Mother of Learning fandom must be starved for content.

Uhhhh how do I make this post relevant enough to add tags. Man it sure was fun when Zorian and Zach pulled off a heist of the most advanced airship on the planet, huh?

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Kaleshwi and Varic/Mell are my two favorite “never quite develops into an established romantic relationship” ships. Frankly they might be the only two I even know of but I like them strongly.

Man. If it only weren’t for frequent life-threatening danger and even more frequent quests/responsibilities, these ships could have been together. But that’s what brought them this close to each other in the first place. Augh the very nature of what brought them together denies them from getting closer.

Basically this:

[Image ID from alt text: A graph of potential energy vs distance. The curve reaches the minimum of potential energy at a non-zero distance.]

Longer ID below. [Image ID: A graph of potential energy of a two-atom system versus inter-nuclear distance. There is a minimum of potential energy at a non-zero distance; to either side of the minimum, the energy rises. As distance approaches zero, energy approaches infinity asymptotically; as distance approaches infinity, energy approaches zero asymptotically.

There are several other labels: “repulsion” for the positive energy quadrant, “attraction” for the negative energy quadrant, “equilibrium bond length” for the distance at which energy is a minimum, and “bond energy” for the energy at its minimum. The axes are labeled, and the graph is labeled BYJU’s, the website that displayed the graph.

/End ID]

Image source: BYJU’s, from this webpage specifically: https://byjus.com/chemistry/potential-energy-curve/

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Kagurabachi is probably the best manga ever made. Yes I am exaggerating. But it is one of my favorites and I can exaggerate on the Internet. Lie, even.

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Five-minute sketch ideas that I should really get around to:

“The” Reaper spoiler character, walking away from his devastated homeland, with the caption “A new persona with the same old flaws” (song — Battle Tapes: Brand New)

That If Only thing of Yerin reaching down to Lindon but better (song — Battle Tapes: If Only)

“The” Reaper character, again, kneeling in the ashes. A divided scene of red and blue ahead of him: red, the portal to the BFE; blue, an opening to the Way. (song — Paradigm: Leslie Wai, or rather the music video Kaizo Trap from timestamp 3:50-3:55)

Ziel rocketing through acceleration rings at Mach 5 while Mercy flails through the air at Mach 2 (video — Kerbal Scuffed Program 4: War)

Any scene from In This Economy — either a scene from chapter 2 (“How’s that for unalterable record?”) or chapter 5 (“My country, for better or worse.”)

One of the scenes I mentioned drawing in earlier posts and forgot about

None more come to mind immediately, but I’ll brainstorm some other scenes I want to see. Notably 12 Miles Below, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter, and The Last Horizon. Small fandoms of those on Tumblr rn.

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One of my favorite tropes is when characters have traits or mannerisms that reflect their parents. Even if these traits are bad, or their parents are generally bad, for some reason it just makes me smile to see the similarities between characters and their parents. Maybe it’s because it gives me hope I can live up to my own parents; maybe it’s because it indicates that everyone rubs off on each other over time, leaving a legacy behind in how they influence each other; maybe it’s some other reason.

Anyway, the main examples that come to mind here are Kaladin’s curmudgeonly attitude and mostly-inflexible code of honor (both inherited from Lirin, and the second partially also inherited from Hesina), Miles Morales thinking of his parents‘ and uncle’s words at critical moments in the Spiderverse movies (and also him and his dad walking down stairs instead of taking risky parkour jumps), and Yerin’s whole manner of speaking (inherited from the Sword Sage, a father figure).

Funnily enough the thing that brought this thought up was Varic Vallenar and his father Benri having a pettiness/oneupmanship contest every time they talk. It’s just funny and endearing to see them both act so calm while inwardly seething, and both care about their charges so much (Varic’s charge being “the safety of the galaxy” and Benri’s charge being “the financial state of the corporation, and guaranteed cooperation from his son”)

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I remember some documentary/interview/“director’s commentary” kind of video about the Office, and specifically about Dwight Schrute. How he’s a man of contrasting stereotypes; very blunt and cynical and a hard-working salesman, but also having deep interest in nerdy things. The commentary put it better.

Anyway, this reminds me of Orthos (in the Cradle series) and Shyrax (in the Last Horizon series), partly because they’re both curt and blunt like Dwight, but also because they contrast with what you’d expect from that kind of personality. Both of them (not Dwight) are often very encouraging to their allies, despite seeming like they’d be demanding.

I’m rereading chapter 49 of The Engineer (where Shyrax calls Mell out for imposter syndrome (mood)), and thinking of Orthos’ “A dragon is not ashamed of tears” quote, if you couldn’t tell.