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#critical role #the panel of mara is so fucking funny

Azune Nayar is not someone who was failed in his youth by the adults around him.

Azune Nayar is someone whose childhood and youth were marked by adults who, faced with bad choices, made the less-worse one because they cared about him.

His parents starved themselves to give him and his sister the chance of being recruited as child soldiers by a mercenary group, because that was the only way to protect him from starvation.

Thjazi Fang saw a child abandoned by the roadside, desperately, determinedly, and implausibly claiming he could fight. Thazi Fang was in the middle of waging a rebellion against the powers of Araman. That rebellion wasn’t the best place for a child of twelve. But it was a better place than abandoned by the roadside or picked up by another mercenary group, and Thjazi cared, so Thjazi took him in and assigned him to noncombat work away from the front lines.

By 15 Azune was fighting on the front lines. (In an earlier war, the same was true of Thazi at that age.)

Thjazi’s rebellion failed. He asked his brother Hal to look out for the teenage Azune. Hal did so, treating Azune as part of his family. Hal did the same for other people who needed it. Being like family wasn’t the same as being Hal’s kid.

The tragedy of Azune isn’t that he was failed or abandoned or uncared for or used. The tragedy of Azune is that the best that people who cared about him could give him still wasn’t the same as what he needed, because being an adult doesn’t make you all-powerful. Azune’s problems weren’t created by those who loved him. They were created by the world he lives in.

Azune lived his adult life for the Torn Banner because it was the life he knew; or out of loyalty; or because they were the ones trying to change that world into something different.

He offers understanding and empathy to enemies (Julien) and strangers (Vaelus). He learned that somewhere.

He will self-immolate for a cause. He likely learned that from his parents, who did it for him, and from Thjazi, who did it for the same cause.

#cr

zdr-77

Kira, her goofriend and the homoerotic tension between him and his archnemesis

#ds9 #star trek

terra-nightgale

OMG I CAN HAZ TUMBLR

so yea, i made a blog and now i need to post stuff XD

flareonfloof

omg finally

terra-nightgale

i’m going to blow up everything forever.

zxid

collection

fishlung8877

terpsikeraunos

on the one hand there are many aspects of academia that should be criticized but on the other hand i’m concerned about the rise of anti-intellectualism as a tool of fascism

catastrophic-success

Hey yo what the fuck does this say in English? Because if you can’t explain in layman’s terms you’re not doing a good job of getting your point across to everyone.

nl

hey man i think you might just be dumb

mosticonicposts

certified iconic post

undead-knick-knack

itberice

Would you like to go to a baseball game?

#ds9

angelicguy

me and the boys have a couple of chains wrapped around the sword in the stone hooked up to mikes toyota tundra gonna pull that fucker out like a tooth.

seaweed-station

Me and the boys misunderstood the arcane nature of the stone and now the Toyota is king of England

aeoris4lovers

vaelus saying "i haven't seen a dragon in quite some time" and azune's face absolutely lighting up like a little kid saying "i didn't think they were real!" is the cutest thing i've ever seen in my life

#critical role #cr spoilers

grayintogreen

Primus: I KNOW MY DAUGHTERS ARE WEIRDLY INCESTUAL. I KNOW THEY KILLED THEIR FIANCÉS (they’re banned from marriage now). AND I KNOW YOU’RE MORMON. NEVER TALK TO ME ABOUT FUCKING MY DAUGHTERS AGAIN.

#cr spoilers #critical role