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I love dnd until it gives me brutal sudden unrequited therapy

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my dnd party has run into an npc who may or may not be evil and may or may not decide to betray us and the dm was in chat today like “just so everyone knows…not addressing this comment at anyone in particular…his favorite colors are red and black…wink” so now i’m desperately trying to get a real physical friendship bracelet done before session tomorrow in the vain hope that i can somehow stop this npc from trying to do a murder on my party

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[ID: A digital drawing of Dorian Storm, Imogen Temult, and Ashton Greymoore. They're all wearing their level 13 outfits and smiling. Where their outfits are sheer and/or open they have hickeys visible on their necks and chests. End description.]

Taking some risks with all that exposed skin

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Pretty Percy heehee

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Close-up of the percahlia doodle… silver fox Percy with Vex in his lap, im blushing. Also I’m still not done with my first ever watch through of VM so this was such a pleasant surprise!

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There are so many heroes/anti heroes who are willing to kill and are still accepted in the dc vigilante community, and even begrudgingly tolerated by Batman. If Jason Todd came back to life and killed the joker I believe the majority of heroes willingly welcome him back.

But the thing is he made it about Batman as much as the Joker. He was just as mad at Bruce for not avenging him as he was at the Joker for killing him. He made sure Bruce was there watching when he tried to kill the Joker and that he felt complicit in it. From that moment post crisis Jason went from an anti hero who kills on a revenge quest to a Batman villain. This only became more evident when he chose to hurt completely uninvolved people (like Mia Dearden) seemingly just to get a rise out of Bruce.

And that's the tragic thing, in choosing to involve Bruce he turned himself into an antagonist of the DC hero community. He was no longer just an agent of bloody vengeance (like Kate Spencer or Helena Bertinelli), and certainly not as a person who would only kill in the most extreme cases (like Wonder Woman). Instead he came back desperate to pull The Dark Knight into the bloodshed and the despair of breaking his vow. And if he apologised, disavowed that behaviour and made amends they might forgive him knowing Jason but that seems unrealistic. And after that attack on another hero's (and his own father's) values and such a brutal violation of his boundaries I feel like Jason's relationship with the broader community is going to be inherently strained. A lot more than if his one crime was being a vigilante who kills.

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Iwtvtober Day 5: Companion

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Everything I know about Deep Space Nine as someone who has only ever seen the memes

O’Brien suffers

The captain would condone murder, as a treat

The cop is made out of liquid?? (sometimes)

There’s a tailor who’s a spy and also gay

There’s a bisexual-coded doctor

They play baseball at some point

Kira is a major (I’m not sure who Kira is but they are definitely a major)

There’s a ferengi capitalist who runs a bar

Worf is also there

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One of my favorite types of relationships in Star Trek are close friendships between characters who are in certain ways exact opposites but who nonetheless get along really well and have found strong common ground on which to base their relationship. Some examples:

Data and Deanna: Opposite relationships to emotion and opposite methods of attempting to understand/connect with other people. Deanna literally senses other people’s emotions and is about as intimately connected with emotion as a person can be, while Data believes he has no emotions and has difficulty understanding the emotional states of others. Despite this, they get along really well and greatly respect each other’s perspective. Part of the reason is potentially because both characters have a strong drive to reach out to and connect with other people, even if their starting points for this goal and their methods of attempting to accomplish it are very different.

Kira and Jadzia: Opposite in a lot of ways, but particularly in terms of their relationships to religion and other elements of their respective cultures. Religion and other aspects of Bajoran culture are deeply central to Kira’s identity and understanding of the world, whereas Jadzia couldn’t care less about religion and has an ambivalent relationship with her own culture. Sometimes, she rebels against it or seems to turn away from it in favor of seeking connections with other cultures (such as Klingon or Ferengi culture). They also have opposite personalities in many ways – such as their opposite approaches to leisure with Kira unable to relate to Jadzia’s ways of enjoying herself. Yet despite these major differences in ideology and approach to life, the two of them spend a lot of time together and are close friends. Maybe this is partially because one thing they do both have in common is a sort of open-mindedness about difference – an acceptance of a difference of perspective as it is without truly resolving it. (Up to a point, of course, especially in Kira’s case, but I do think that the fact that both of them have several close friendships with characters with whom they disagree on a large number of topics indicates that they share this open-mindedness).

Jake and Nog: Opposite life trajectories. They come from very different cultures and are introduced to the audience in opposite ways (as a well-behaved child vs. a petty criminal), but the strength of their connection is immediate and enduring despite all the barriers put between them. What makes the contrast between them extra interesting is how Nog is the one to become a Starfleet officer, and how the contrast between their personalities in later seasons (Nog being rigid and organized while Jake is more relaxed and disorganized) is very much not what you’d expect when you first meet their characters in season 1.

Harry and B’Elanna: Opposite relationships to/histories with Starfleet. Harry is the golden boy – the young prodigy with a bright future who represents the very best of Starfleet and can (supposedly) do no wrong. B’Elanna seemingly failed Starfleet and was failed by Starfleet in every sense. She couldn’t make it through the Academy because she felt like she couldn’t belong there – because she was made to feel that way throughout her life. And yet it’s within Starfleet (at least the make-shift Starfleet on Voyager) that the two of them connect and become friends. And maybe in some ways that’s because you don’t need to go far below the surface to see cracks in Harry’s supposed Starfleet perfection, and also because it takes only the promise of belief and support from a few (including Harry) for B’Elanna to reforge her connection with Starfleet.

Mariner and Boimler: Opposite personalities in basically every way (at least initially). Mariner is bold, rebellious, and reckless while Boimler is a cautious obsessive rule-follower. They approach basically every situation in opposite ways, and yet they are inseparable best friends. It’s interesting to see them both become a little more like each other over time, and maybe that trajectory is partly why they’re so close.

Interestingly, in some of these cases, what initially seems to be a great difference between two characters actually becomes a source of common ground between them – a contrast becomes a parallel. I find this kind of connection between characters who might in theory be opposed to each other very compelling. In a way, characters being best friends despite being really different gets to the heart of what Star Trek, at its best, is about.

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wow! so many fish!

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"If you were the last vampire on earth, it would be enough. YOU AND ME. ME AND YOU. YOU AND ME." 🖤

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not enough Gambit!!