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Briana Boston didn't threaten anyone.

When my grandmother was sent a death threat through text message, I reported it to the police. The officer told me that "it's not considered a death threat unless the message mentions a weapon and a deadline".

As a result, they didn't do anything. Not even a verbal warning to that person.

Or, there's a double standard when it comes to billionaires and big corporations. Who'd have thought.

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People really do assume the FromSoft formula is just "super hard boss fights" but really it's Tall Ladies, Hidetaka Miyazaki's barely contained masochistic death fetish, incredibly hard but usually fair boss fights, community graffiti, annoying rat, even more annoying dog, walk walk fashion baby, poison swamp, bottomless pit, Large Jovial Dad Figure, jolly cooperation, Berserk Reference, and slapstick comedy.

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I think there's something to be said that saying the words "Deny, Defend, Depose, you're next" to an insurance sales rep can get you arrested for 'threats of mass homicide' or whatever with a threat of 15 years in prison

But when I was a manager in a fast food restaurant I've had customers throw food at me, demand for my personal phone number with an added threat of "Well I'll just have to FIND it", customers charging past the front counter to physically intimidate me and my coworkers, screaming and swearing, demands to know what time I get out of work, demands to know when my manager would be at work as a threat, people sitting in their car waiting for me to finish closing because they were angry at me, causing me to stay in the office watching the camera waiting for them to drive away...

But none of those incidents are arrest-able offenses, not one, any time I called the cops on any customer I would just hear excuses like " "there isn't anything illegal about calling a restaurant", that nothing physical happened and therefore there's nothing they could do, to call back and let them know if anything else happens

Idk, just think it's A TEENY TINY BIT ODD

Cop in the news goes "words have consequences" as if people don't berate and threaten fast food and retail workers every day

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The Mighty Nein really are the “tonight we cancel the apocalypse” party, because that is the attitude of the patently insane and patently hypercompetent in ways that are too insane to be real and yet WORK. VM have Big Justice League energy. They’re saving the world by the book. They’re very much the epitome of their classes. This is not a knock. They are good at what they do, but their flair is extremely straightforward. Percy is gonna shoot fifty times a round. Keyleth is gonna archdruid her little heart out. Grog’s gonna smash. Scanlan is gonna sing a little song. That’s them! We like that for them! But it is very straightforward clock in/clock out heroism. They have day jobs now.

I’m not gonna be unfair to BH right now because I think they haven’t really figured out their niche yet and are constantly stuck in the mindset of not actually being heroes and being, and I say this out of love for their stupid little faces, selfish little turds. We might get a better idea later on when we come back to them as high level adventurers after how they shake out here, but so far they’re somewhere in the middle. A little Suicide Squad-y.

The M9 on the other hand are not clock in/clock out heroes. They’re barely heroes. They get told something could be a threat and they deal with it and they won’t just kill you, they will EMBARRASS you. They will act like you’re nothing and bet on fight outcomes mid-combat, call you names, hit you with lollipops and dicks, turn you into a fruit bat, whatever they have to. They’ll ruin your action economy, stun you, whatever. Not only did they come to stop you, you’ll be shamed so hard that your Lich won’t even want to rise again to seek vengeance because you know they’ll do it again. They’re canceling the apocalypse not because the one doing it is dead, but because they’re so demoralized there’s no gong forward. When the Mighty Nein come for your plans, your plans DO NOT survive because they’ve had dicks drawn all over them.

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One time I was in a 7-eleven in Taiwan and a guy walked in wearing a jacket that said "KNOTTED" and I just about sprinted back to my dorm to tell my friend. As it turns out that is just a donut brand over there but for a few glorious minutes I was living in a world where people proudly announced that they had been knotted

i'm choosing to believe that 7-elevent was a spacetime rift and you briefly entered the omegaverse

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I don't think we're giving enough credit to this dude for turning the fuck around when they fell into fascism.

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He’s blue. He’s a prince. He gets called beautiful every 30 minutes even by gods. He’s a bard. He has stage fright. He has a dead brother. He had his first meaningful kiss an hour ago. He’s a bisexual disaster. He’s inexperienced. He put the most powerful mage of Exandria in a forcecage. His best friend is a disaster lesbian. He wears chiffon. His tits are out.

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Oscar de la Renta: 'Crafted like a mosaic, discover the making-of the #odlrfall2024 stained glass gown — ushering in a a new House-signature embroidery technique.'

Constructed from hundreds of polyamide panes, hand-sewn together in an Art Nouveau style reminiscent of Tiffany glass. Ready-to-wear: £36,546.

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i love you, Two Catfish as Street Musicians in the Kashina district, ca 1855 of an unidentified artist, you go so hard

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The Mighty Nein were nominated in absentia to face a psychic abomination on the moon they knew fuck-all about before they were sent to eliminate it, purely on the grounds that they have form with this sort of thing. Like, that was it. They're here for the same surface reason Bell's Hells are: Because they were considered uniquely qualified to deal with the specific threat set before them. They were asked to kill the Weave Mind because they can kill the Weave Mind, and that was reason enough for them to step up, lay their lives on the line, do the job, and (so long as Bell's Hells come through in what is now their Moment) slip back into their lives tomorrow with the world none the wiser.

They understood the task here, players and characters alike. There was no Vax equivalent to raise the personal and emotional stakes for them, so they didn't pretend there was. The moon plot didn't begin with a ground strike that killed any of their families, none of their mothers got sucked into the moon cult and are (possibly) in need of saving, and none of them are struggling with accepting that sometimes the adventure chooses you, fair or not, and all you get to decide is how you rise up to meet it. There was no other reason for them to be here except they were asked, because they're up to the task. They know how much that sucks for them, and yet nobody was taking anybody else aside to say, “You don't have to do anything you don't want to do, if you want to bail I'll be right behind you;" they didn't need to take a beat where they considered that and rose above it, because this wasn't the making of them as heroes, so they didn't pretend that either. They're on the fucking moon, they're beat all to hell, Beauregard's down 150 gold, at least one of their options for getting safely out of there is off the menu, and they might still get called to go in and finish the job with Ludinus, only they didn't get to rescue a beloved friend who'd been lost to them for thirty years, or avenge the deaths of their loved ones, or become the heroes they were meant to be (while facing the risk of never achieving that) out of the deal. The only thing they're taking personally is that they weren't asked to fight the god-eater. Five days ago they didn't know what a Weave Mind even was when it's at home, but there are five piles of dust at their feet all the same, because the world needed it done, and they could do it, and so they came at a moment's notice and just fucking did it. Of course they did.

In the context of this story, The Mighty Nein are “I know a guy” on an epic scale. They were here to wreck shit and to entertain us while they did it and they leaned all the way into that and played it for maximum fun. The dicks were flying, the bookies were making bank, and most of the planning they did was about weddings. “Do you want to hear my prayer?” has never sounded more like an existential threat, and neither has “There are no chairs in here.” The stunning strike has rarely been this stunning, or the ball bearings this ballsy. Wizards have never been sexier. They're going to go home tomorrow (please) and tend the garden, open the shop, relieve the substitute teacher, and pick a colour scheme for the bridal party. I know who they were, I know what it took to get them to this place. I couldn't love them more.

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naruto characters as posts that remind me of them pt 2 (please don’t murder me for the shisui one thanks)

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Slutshaming women is not ok Slutshaming Alexander Hamilton is totally ok Tumblr logic

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Me, fighting a yoga mom in the organic food market circa 2023: take your hand off that peach or I’ll vaccinate your children against polio

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"Vax coming back wouldn't be narratively satisfying!" is a take I keep seeing so it's time for my daily reminder:

This narrative does not exist to satisfy you.

This is a group of people you don't know who have been kind enough to share their personal, deeply emotional DnD campaigns will an audience. If Matthew Mercer decides that its worth it to let his friends have a happily ever after including Vax - you're just gonna have to suck it up. If it bothers you so much that you have to write full-length essays on Tumblr, or, god forbid , harass the CAST, go make some friends and run your own campaign. Or write a fucking fanfic.