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Well alright then.

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Spirit Halloween is defrosting as we speak

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sending out my burger of killing and violence to all my haters. good luck

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"Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not, or that you feel good this morning, or that it is a morning to be good on?"

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oh so the SUN can cast billions of years of beam attack at us but when *I* want to beam attack laser destroy the sun nobody is cool with that and also willing to give me billions dollars to make it happen

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Happy birthday, Twilight Princess

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Some Stardew Valley merch I’m preparing for future cons, I hope to share the final art soon 🫢

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indulging in a hyperfixation I had back in 8th grade.

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Nathaniel: This is a mistake. Bartimaeus, enthusiastically: A mistake we're going to laugh about one day! Nathaniel: But not today. Bartimaeus, still enthusiastic: Oh, no. Today's going to be an absolute mess.

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Nathaniel's relationship to alcohol during the books is quite interesting.

When he attends the reception with the Underwoods, he is stated as wanting champagne, but recieves a non-alcoholic drink instead because he is underage. By the end of the Amulet of Samarkand, as he relates the story of the Underwoods' deaths to the prime minister and other politicians, he is drinking champagne unreservedly. He's twelve years old, and the adults around him aren't stopping it. The magicians don't care.

In the second book, in Prague, he is still only fourteen - yet he orders a carafe of wine with his dinner, immediately after Bartimeus confronts him about the deaths caused by British imperialism.

In the third book, as far as I remember his only interaction with alcohol is when he's at a masquerade party for high-ranking politicians, holding a cocktail, wishing he could take his mask off and drink it. He's seventeen, so still under the UK drinking age, and he's in the habit of using alcohol as a way to cope when he's uncomfortable at parties.

For Nathaniel, alcohol, adulthood, political power, and guilt are all inextricably linked, and he's grasping at all four of them far too young.

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Oscar Parviainen (1880–1938) - Skeleton Men

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Accidentally zoomed out on my maps app when looking for a restaurant and it gave me results for “lunch” in all of north america lol