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i love when you read/watch an influential piece of storytelling and you're like ohhhhhh ok i see. so everyone else was copying this guy's homework

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i love enemy caretakers. people who shouldnt be helping the injured person but their morals just wont let them stand by. a soldier patching up an opposing soldier even knowing it might put their own life at risk. a criminal talking down a gang leader to keep a detective from being killed or leaving them an anonymous tip to a dangerous situation. a vigilante keeping the person who wants to arrest them alive even if it increases the chance they get arrested. theres just so many great versions of enemy caretakers!!

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I love when a character wants to be someone's dog so so bad. Dont mean it in a sexual way (although that can also be a part of it) I mean like. Let me be your loyal companion let me stay by your side give me a purpose in exchange for endless unconditional love let me stop being a person love me like it's my only use. Love me like that's the only thing I was made for. As you can tell. I'm normal.

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Prompt #3326

“Why didn’t you call me?! I would’ve helped, I would’ve-”

“Felt used,” the hero rasped. “Didn’t want to…use our relationship…to have you…fight my battles.”

“You idiot,” the villain sobbed. “You self-sacrificing idiot.”

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my goat washed. my goat aflame

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Some names just sound so ridiculously fake that had they been fictional, people would’ve rolled their eyes in complete disbelief. Like seriously. Wdym there’s a mf called Galileo Galilei. Stfu. You just made that up

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I've just finished the first Murderbot book and it's very funny coming from Star Trek to this. In Star Trek you have androids and such actively campaigning for themselves to be considered full people with rights that deserve the same considerations as anyone else. Meanwhile in Murderbot all the humans are telling this guy that it's a person with rights and it's their friend and they like it and its response is basically

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Season 1 Part 6: Ep. 33-40 (click for hq)

{worms and worms and worms and worms}

And that’s a wrap on the Magnus Archives Season 1 covers! Thanks again for all the kind words and encouragement! (What do y’all think, should I continue with s2? The correct answer is yes)

Season 1 Part 5

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"I love you but you're doing wrong in a way I cannot condone" and "I hate you but you're being wronged in a way I cannot stomach" are top tier and I need more of them.

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next dynamic were sexualizing is that of a bull and a toreador

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Prompt #2827

“Promise you won’t betray me,” the villain murmured. “You can beat me fair and square every day of the week, and I won’t mind a bit. But if you squeeze in close only to stab me in the back, I will never forgive you. There will be nowhere in this city–on this planet–you can hide from me.”

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by age 40 every warlord should have

4-5 trusted generals

a kind of useless emperor to be nominally loyal to

obsessively devoted relationship with an advisor

at least one strategically useful territory you repeatedly lose and recapture and at this point it just feels like a personal vendetta and everyone is begging you to cut your losses and move on but how could you move on from something you’ve pumped so much of your own blood into?

ominous relative

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healing angel

pov you have a savior complex

the grammar on this one almost killed me and it's a complete nightmare but i'm tired of looking at it lol

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WHAT is even the point of mind controlling a hero if it doesn't feel good. if you can't make them like it. if they don't learn to want it.

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Silly Concept: an Egyptologist/archeologist specializes in Middle Kingdom Egypt or something, and whenever she's in the field, her work in her actual field of study goes more-or-less fine, but she keeps running into various supernatural curses and revanants from other periods of Egyptian history, manifesting as wildly distorted magical versions of prevailing ideas from those periods.

"These hieratic papyri could really give us new insights into the inventory management systems of the twelfth dynasty... wait, what's this inscription? Huh, this isn't my specialty, but I think it's Byzantine period, maybe 5th century? My Koine is a little rusty, but I think it says 'Here lies the accursed tomb of the Heresiarch Pelagius, who denied the sinfulness of humanity. Whoever disturbs his eternal imprisonment shall face the wrath of Jesus, son of the God YHWH.' Huh. Cursed Christian tomb. Is that a... thing?"

"With the artifacts on this site, I think the role of both free and forced labor in the textile industry of... watch where you're stepping! What's this? Ah, Ayyubid period Arabic, I think: 'Here lies Al-Adid, last Caliph of the Fatimids. Though the foul Sunni usurpers have destroyed my reign, I shall rise again in the final days, reunite with Ali and the Prophet Mohamed PBUH, and take vengeance upon the House of Saladin.' Uh oh."

"So it's a long shot whether the isotope analysis will really be able to reveal whether these spices and dyes were really traded over as long distances as ... haven't I told you about what happened to my last graduate student who didn't watch where he was walking? Stay focused and don't look at stuff outside of our designated site, ugh. Hmm.... modern Arabic printed brass plaque. Looks about forty years old. 'This was the amulet of President Anwar Sadat. Should any foolish Muslim Brotherhood Jihadist try to destroy or steal this amulet, even as they destroyed its master, the Spirit of Arab Socialism shall descend upon him and...' oh come the fuck on."

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pick something so good that you get enthralled and save me until tomorrow. boom new 1001 nights format baby

sorry man i need a youtube video before i can eat you. give me like idk 20 mins to find something ok

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Oh!