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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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I feel like grace was in such a rush to turn that ship around and hightail it back to rocky that he was indiscriminate about what data he sent back. just shoved it all into the beetle probes, just to realize ‘ok so 20% of that data is scientific breakthroughs to save the world……..80% me and rocky’s movie reviews. and I def forgot to delete the fifteen minute long dance off. hm.’
"you don't know what you have until you lose it" works for things that suck too btw. sometimes you need to experience life without something for a while to realise oh damn that was some bullshit
Me every time I clean my house and get to live in a clean house for a bit
Grace, explaining how humans evolved: yeah so basically we evolved to be persistance predators where we would just slowly walk towards our prey and track it until it got so tired it couldn't fight back or run away and then we killed it :)
Rocky, who is an Eridian, an AMBUSH predator, who can't see light and so cannot track things the way humans can, and that doesn't have a lot of stamina and literally won't be able to wake up once they fall asleep: grace what the fuck statement--
I think about Bolaire and Azune’s dynamic so much, they make me insane. Everyone in this campaign makes me insane, why did they have to make 13 whole characters designed to make me insane.
Just thinking about the two of them and how they were both made into tools of war. Azune is the way of being a child soldier, and though Bolaire was originally made for the action of killing, I don’t believe the Halfings intended any of the Panto to be used for anything other than the killing of Rauwyn. Both Azune and Bolaire were used for warfare they shouldn’t have been a part of, and treated like tools instead of their own beings.
Bolaire, seeing the play that initially made him gain his independence, realized that the purpose he was made for was already over. His job was complete, and he was left to find something else to do in the aftermath, and he decided to build his own life out of it. Azune is still coming to terms with his independence and life. He defined himself around being useful to Thjazi and others, and now Thjazi is dead Azune is realizing that purpose that propelled him force (the purpose that had him be an Arcane Marshall in the first place) is gone. He needs to find his own purpose outside of other people, just like Bolaire did in the past.
Speaking of Thjazi, it’s so interesting how Bolaire and Azune are on the complete opposite ends of opinion about him. And kinda for similar reasons. Azune loved Thjazi because he was kind to him and treated him like a human. Thjazi saw a kid who shouldn’t be fighting in a war and treated him with humanity. Though at the same time, Thjazi did use Azune to accomplish goals (Azune morphing himself into whatever Thjazi needed him to do). Azune, loosing that ‘usefulness’, is desperately trying to cope with the grief.
Bolaire, on the other hand, hates Thjazi because he treated him like a tool. He didn’t regard him as a full autonomous being, and used what he was as blackmail for him to serve Thjazi. (All these facts are things that Bolaire has told us, btw, so there could be details we are missing, since this party has basically no reliable narrators).
Maybe it has something to do with how Bolaire already found self fulfillment before meeting Thjazi, and Azune was looking for someone to lean on. Azune was easily okay, even desperate, to be used by him. Bolaire had been used before, realized his own self worth, and despised Thjazi for treating him like the past soldiers did.
Bolaire hates disguising himself with magic, and told Azune about how he wants to wear his face and name fully and normally because it’s part of who he is, and he’d never give it up. Azune had a whole scene looking at himself in the mirror shifting to seeing himself through the lens of everyone he cares about, and he doesn’t know who he is outside of those people.
Then there’s both of their dynamics with Hal. Hal, who is someone who (before all of this plot happened) treated them with full humanity and respect. Unlike his brother, he treated neither of them like tools; he treated Azune like a nephew/son he took care of, and Bolaire as he close friend he could talk about the arts with.
And the sister thing. It is really funny how both of them have long lost big sis plot twists, but it also reinforces my thoughts on these parallels. Both are trying to develop past who they were and the purpose they were forced to serve. And then they briefly meet their sister again. Mayali, who was presumed likely dead by Azune, who has seemingly been forced to work in horrible mercenary and assassination work and pushed to the limits, just being a weapon who can barely smile. Termina, who Bolaire thought was long dead, who seems to be wrapped up into this sacrilegious Frankenstein’s monster of all of these artifacts, and whom is broken and trapped inside a coffin centered around a celestial of the shaper the Panto were built to destroy.
Both sisters being reminders of the past and how its effects are still very present in their lives.
I don’t even need to talk about the ‘are you a person or a thing’ and ‘I’m not a thing, I’m not a thing, I’m a person’ notes. A lot of others have pointed it out made increased my insanity about this topic. Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, these guys 😭
sorry to my non-critical role mutuals for the sudden uninterrupted stream of fifty nigh-incomprehensible cr posts in less than twenty minutes. it will happen again.
a post getting popular on tumblr is like
imagine you are op
you are standing outside in the middle of a field
you say some dumb shit
a couple drops of rain fall on you
and then a few more
and then OH GOD YOURE DROWNING WHERE DID THE RAIN COME FROM THE SKY WAS CLEAR A FEW SECONDS AGO
EVERY TIME YOU PLEAD TO THE GODS TO PLEASE ALLOW THE RAIN TO STOP IT JUST GETS WORSE
THEY LAUGH AT WHAT HAS BECOME OF YOU
YOUR HUBRIS WILL BE YOUR DOWNFALL
and then a gimmick blog is like "this post contains no punctuation"
and then a gimmick
blog is like “this post contains
no punctuation”
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
"10k notes" this, "100k notes" that
you all failed
the notes have stopped
the storm is over
and what do you have to say for it?
Uhhh...
I say hi? Idk
fair enough
going over to my minimalist girlfriend’s house and she apologizes profusely for the mess and there’s just a single perfect, fresh pea on the floor of her living room
Blue Lois
can i help you
Red Marge
jesus christ. I Am Under Fucking Attack
World Heritage Post
i deserve a medal for this post. not because i was particularly funny but because i survived an onslaught of nearly one hundred gimmick blogs in the wake of this post popping off, and the fact that i didn’t try to track any of them down and snuff them out with my bare hands is a testament to my immeasurable strength and should be rewarded. at one point i had “the official letter h” add on to this post. you wanna know that blog’s gimmick? the really funny and original and worthwhile gimmick the official letter h blog had? yep you guessed it they just gave me the god damned letter H and then fucked off. only jesus knows the suffering i endured over that harsh winter, and he wept for me
Rare Achievement Unlocked:
After The Clouds Clear
Sorry, I don't give out medals, this is the best I can do.
Congratulations to Azune for his promotion from Sargent sad-eyes to Captain sad-eyes.
I passed a flower shop next to a tattoo shop and at first I laughed because I thought it was ironic and then i freaked because IMAGINE YOUR OTP IN A FLORIST/TATTOO ARTIST AU
OMG I COULD TOTALLY IMAGINE THEM LIKE THAT IT WOULD BE SO PERFECT
I cannot BELIEVE a post I made when I was 13 is circulating! And also apparently started this trope? I thought somebody had the idea separately and it blew up that way😭
College friendship is sending one of your friends who's graduating soon a giant list of monster theory and gothic horror academic reading recs so they can download as many PDFs as possible before they lose their university database access
Got a request for some of the recs here, so here's a short-ish list of some of the reading recs -- I've made an effort to link open source and/or at least slightly more accessible databases like JSTOR wherever possible, but some of these are, admittedly behind various paywalls that I wish everyone luck with circumventing in whatever manner you deem fit
Monster Theory - Really great anthology to start with, especially the first reading, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen's famous "Monster Culture (Seven Theses)" which is a personal favorite
The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts - A general SF/F journal, but there are definitely a lot of great monster theory and gothic horror readings sprinkled throughout. Consider taking a look at Veronica Hollinger's "The Vampire and/as Alien," the special issue on Dracula, and Faye J. Ringel's "Genetic Experimentation: Mad Scientists and the Beast," among others
Werewolf Histories edited by Willem Blécourt - Phenomenal anthology on werewolf scholarship, especially if you're interested in the connections between werewolves and witchcraft and/or witch trials in Early Modern Europe
Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters by Jack Halberstam - Of interest to those who are interested in the connection between the gothic and gender (among other topics). Halberstam has written extensively on both
The Journal of Dracula Studies - Exactly what it sounds like.
Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural - Another journal, which focuses on the connections between witchcraft and occultism, monsters, demonology, and the like.
Susan Stryker's "My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix" - An absolutely landmark piece of writing on Frankenstein and the transgender (and in particular the transfeminine) experience; one of my favorite pieces of academic writing of all time.
Speaking of Monsters: A Teratological Anthology - Another solid monster theory anthology
Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene - A really, really good anthology about the ecological gothic that I cannot recommend enough. As a known werewolf guy I especially like the piece "Wolf, or Homo homini lupus" by Carla Freccero
The Vampire Lectures by Lawrence Rickels - So many vampires
Monster Culture in the 21st Century: A Reader - Another anthology, I in particular recommend Rosalind Sibielski's "Gendering the Monster Within: Biological Essentialism, Sexual Difference, and Changing Symbolic Functions of the Monster in Popular Werewolf Texts" in this one.
"The Trans Legacy of Frankenstein" by Jolene Zigarovich - Definitely a good read if you enjoyed the Stryker piece earlier; it's a more general survey of the idea but might give you some ideas for further reading
TransGothic in Literature and Culture - A whole anthology of works on transgender identity and the gothic!
Twenty-First Century Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion - Not to be confused with the other similarly named anthology earlier, this one is on various modern perspectives on the gothic.
"Christians and Jews in the Twelfth Century Werewolf Renaissance" by David A. Shyovitz - Stand-alone article but really really interesting
Wonders and the Order of Nature: 1150-1750 by Lorraine Daston & Katherine Park - Incredible volume that gets into several different subjects surrounding the fantastical in the medieval and early modern eras, monsters among them. The same authors have written some other fantastic work, such as "Unnatural Conceptions: The Study of Monsters in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century France and England" and I honestly would recommend any of their work.
Monster Anthropology: Ethnographic Explorations of Transforming Social Worlds Through Monsters - A more anthropology focused volume, I particularly like Rozanna Lilley's "Drawing in the Margins: My Son's Arsenal of Monsters—(Autistic) Imagination and the Cultural Capital of Childhood"
Marvels, Monsters, and Miracles: Studies in the Medieval and Early Modern Imaginations - Another anthology, this time with a historical perspective
This isn't even everything I've dug into on the subject, but I hope it's enough to get folks started on some reading!
"Hey there pepperhead, legal isn't super exited about this tweet"
My gender is Homosexula
And they’re all Vlad
The Sundered Houses gathering according to the tables: They're planning something that might put the entire city in danger! They have a ritual and there's going to be casualties and sacrifices! We need to be ready for complete fallout!
The Sundered Houses gathering in reality: Hey, Primus? This is an intervention. What the fuck are you and your family doing?
hey pm do you ever think about the tragedy of the hero of time. how his exploits will never be remembered. how he's experienced a life he can never go back to. how he lost the one companion that was with him throughout it all. how his one childhood friend was torn away from him for a larger purpose. because i sure do and every time it fucks me up
That and how Shadow Temple revealed all the fucked up shit Hyrule did that likely attracted the attention of a fucked up man like Ganondorf to the kingdom.
Or how the Sand Goddess is the Gerudo’s depiction of Din, and the whole Spirit temple is a test of power to see if you earned the right to wield strength (the silver gauntlets) that she would respect and honor.
THIS GAME HAS ITS TEEETH SINKED INTO ME FOR THE LAST 20+ YEARS
Murderbot: this plan needs a distraction Threat assessment: they will know it's a distraction and not fall for it Murderbot: TWO distractions
It's been so long that I've forgotten specifically why the Halovars wanted Teor dead in the first place.
as a vaporeon your only mission in life is to slap your biiiiiiiig damn tail and splash around
as a flareon your only mission in life around is to be fluffy and have an awesome attack stat
as a jolteon your only mission in life is to run around super fuckin fast and be spikey and cool
as an umbreon your only mission on life is to glow and lurch around and go "rrrreaerrr" and stare at stuff with your red eyes
as an espeon your only mission in life is to hear a whole lotta stuff with your big ears and make stuff float and bask in the sun
as a leafeon your only mission in life is to have dope defenses and go around in forests and be cool and green
as a glaceon your only mission in life is to walk around graciously in the cold and lay comfortably in the snow
as a sylveon your only mission in life is to go around joyously and hold onto stuff with your big ribbons and go "(whistling sound)"
as an eevee
evui
