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The Decameron (2024) | Season 1, Episode 6 “A Stony Brook Away” | Lou Gala as Neifile

“What shall we do today?” “I just want to talk... about everything.”

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SWEET HOME (2020–2024) 1.10│3.05

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Here are my Dungeon meshi stickers! I basically thought "hey. lots of people will have cute food themed stickers. And that good and well, but I want that serious stuff too!" So I decided to make a series for the main gang based on sense of self instead!

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messy eater

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Dorian Storm meeting Paté de Rolo, colorized 2024

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The thing about the prologue to Downfall is that it also makes The Divergence a tragedy (or underscores the tragedy of it, depending on your view)

These beings came to the universe with Exandria broken, lost, and scared. They lost their home, they lost some of their family, and were somewhere totally alien to them, in bodies that were alien, too. Clinging to their siblings that survived.

And then, millennia later, they will seal themselves away from it, and largely away from each other, too, because they were fighting too much for this new place, this new home, to survive. They were going to end up destroying it.

If you think about it, much of the history of Exandria (its theological one, anyway, which is tied up with most of its history in general) is the story of a family dissolving, growing estranged and breaking apart. It's just that the family is a group of gods.

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During the Calamity, Asmodeus deceived and betrayed Sarenrae, and killed most or all of her worshipers, in one stroke.

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I'm in awe of how well each god's attitude toward Aeor reflects their divine domains.

Emhira, the matron of Ravens, sees no reason not to bring the city down. Death is inevitable. The Raven Queen does not quarrel with resurrection, and she does not quarrel with killing, because all souls come to her, sooner or later - what's a few decades more or less? What's the point of risking herself and the family she's joined, the order she's created, for the sake of postponing death?

Ayden, the Dawnfather, is the god of light and life and growing things. Those druid levels aren't for show; he's the god of agriculture. He looks at Aeor and sees that a harvest may yet come from barren ground. It's not in his nature to tear out roots; it's his nature to help things grow. You can't heal everything. You always have to try.

Silaha, the Arch Heart, looks at Aeor and sees its beauty. It's full of magic. Silaha is not opposed to destroying Aeor, because beauty never lasts: a flower dies, a spell fades, a shining tower falls. But neither is he convinced that Aeor has to die, because beauty is something to be treasured and cherished. Let's relax, let's get a drink, let's think this through. Beauty is wonderful, whether it lasts or not.

Asha, the Wildmother, wants to survive, because that is what wild things do. Predators kill to eat, and prey kills to defend itself. Aeor has backed her into a corner, and her fangs are bared. Nature is death as well as life, nature is brutal, nature endures at all costs. Civilisation no longer speaks to her. She's hungry. She's angry. Her teeth are looking for a throat, ready to tear, ready to protect what is hers.

Trist, the Everlight, hears talk of death and says no. The Everlight, who has let herself fall in love with a mortal and have mortal children, even knowing how much it's all going to hurt. Whose nature is to see the worth in broken things, violent things, irredeemable things. Who looks at the cruelty of Aeor and does not deny it, but will not let anyone forget that everyone here is a person. The bravest of all of them, to look at Aeor and say this, too, is worth saving.

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Game Changer Season 6 Finale

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i really like baby reindeer because of how fucked up it is.

i like that it captures the realistic complications of being a victim too.

so often people have a tight little box that they try to fit a victim into, like someone sweet, innocent, never wrong, etc.

you can be a massive pos and also be a victim to someone else.

also, sometimes you can be a really great person, and then you can encounter a trauma that wrecks your life and makes you appear "messy" or "problematic" to people who don't know better.

also, when you're a victim to ongoing abuse, it's a very normal reaction to have very complicated feelings about your abuser. especially if the abuse is sexual, be it outright or a suggestion.

also, it's a natural defense mechanism for victims to reciprocate the actions of abuse either by way of feeling like they have some control, or because they think it will hurt less if they seem willing. that can apply to any kind of abuse.

the bit of the police putting him as her equal is... jarring and painfully accurate. his own actions appearing equally abusive is so sad because only he knows why he did those things.

i'm not done yet with this series, watching now, but... i really love this.

this was a brave mini. the fact that it is based on his story makes it all the more beautifully tragic.

i wish more victims would share their stories in their authentic light.

the world needs stories like this.

the part where he said he was addicted to hating himself and that he loved hating himself... fuck, dude.

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MY DARLING BOY!

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EVERYTHING NOW, Season 1 (2023).

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Niamh Mccormack as Alison

EVERYTHING NOW (2023)

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Shout out to Cam for snitching on Mia. He absolutely did the right thing. Real friends don’t just watch you self-destruct.