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somehow instead of saying "as a treat", I've started using the phrase "for morale", as if my body is a ship and its crew, and I (the captain) have to keep us in high spirits, lest we suffer a mutiny in the coming days.

and so I will eat this small block of fancy cheese, for morale. I will take a break and drink some tea, for morale. I will pick up that weird bug, for morale.

I'm not sure if it helps, but it does entertain me

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Question: What is the greatest magic of all? Answer: Friendship, right? [B]: The greatest magic of all is not friendship, it's chronomancy, the ability to control and warp time. If friendship were the greatest magic, look, it's a pet peeve of mine (...)

DUNGEON MASTER BRENNAN LEE MULLIGAN ANSWERS DnD QUESTIONS (TECH SUPPORT | WIRED)

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a collection

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He’s so chaotic

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IT'S TOMORROW!!!

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Fire Fearne

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cannot believe there are people who aren't familiar with the 2002 movie Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. it's not remembered as one of the animated classics of the early 00s because it's so different than other beloved movies - no talking animals, no fantasy settings, limited comedic elements - but my god did it shine in so many other ways. arguably some of the best 2D animation ever created, outstanding soundtrack, an hour and a half of pure anti-imperialism and anti-colonialism in a kid friendly story about horseys.

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Episode 103- You're a Heartbreaker

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Approximately 100 years before Downfall, the night the Calamity began (EXU Calamity, E2)

Zerxus: Let's get you cleaned up.

Asmodeus: (cries) Asmodeus: I have only known darkness for so long, and even before that, no one has shown me kindness.

Zerxus: That's going to change, and that's a damn shame. This is your home. Don't you forget that. You belong here.

??? years ago (C3E99, Downfall Part 1)

Brennan: Imri leaps to the deck of the ship, throws up a wall, and [Luz] see[s] that suddenly there is a face and eyes and hair, as []

Imri: Let us through! Let us through! (screams)

Brennan: Heat pours over Imri and burns him terribly as he stands at the front of the ship, pushing forward with the will of this eternal place, making a way through the heat for your vessel to--

Ashley: I go to help.

Brennan: As Imri is dying, you put a hand on him. What do you do? What do you say in this moment?

Luz: I'm so sorry. I don't know what to do.

Ashley: I-- I sort of take my form, and the only thing I know how to do is just hold Imri in this moment in the warmth of what feels like a hug.

Brennan: You hug Imri, and that is the only thing that saves him from destruction. You heal him. As the heat touches him, it bursts into fire. This mane of-- Imri was so beautiful, and this mane of hair stretches back, and the fire burns it until it blackens into two swirling spikes that stretch back from his head, wrapping around him like horns, as the heat touches you and you burn brighter and brighter, until you are pure light.

??? years ago, during the Calamity (See the Taldorei Campaign Guide)

The Fall of Aeor (C3e99, Downfall Part 1)

Father Milo: My goodness. Are you a cleric of the Everlight, young Ayden?

Ayden: I stick up for my family.

Father Milo: I'm just glad she's still got a worshiper. (laughs)

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An interesting aspect of Laudna and Imogen's relationship and how it has developed is the fact that they got together early in their campaign, long before either of them had any chance to work through their respective issues. Vax confessed his feelings for Keyleth early on (relatively so; c1 had been going for a while before it started streaming), but she explicitly turned him down at the time, and they didn't actually get together until she felt she was ready, later in the campaign. Percy and Vex didn't get together until after Percy had worked through his figurative and literal inner demons. Jester and Fjord didn't get together until he had moved away from Uk'otoa and his self-worth issues, and she from her romanticized ideas of romance. Yasha and Beau didn't become a couple until both of them had moved away from their self-destructive tendencies and Yasha had let go of Zuala and Beau of Jester. Caleb and Essek didn't get together until the epilogue, when Caleb finally let go of the past and embraced the future.

When Laudna and Imogen got together, Laudna was at one of her lowest points (and has since started digging), having just invited Delilah back in, and Imogen was (is) still struggling against the temptation of Predathos. While Imogen has since gone great strides in growing, Laudna has regressed, using her feelings for Imogen as an excuse to further give in to Delilah to protect her. She's too bogged down by her own self-worth issues to uphold a healthy relationship, and keeps hurting Imogen by hurting herself, not realizing how or why this upsets Imogen.

And I can't help but wonder, would Percy and Vex's relationship have been as destructive had they gotten together before or during the Briarwoods arc? Jester and Fjord if they got together during the pirates arc? Yasha and Beau if they got together before or just after Obann, when they were both self-destructing massively? Caleb and Essek if they got together while they were still low-key manipulating and honeypotting each other for information?

But even without the romance, Laudna and Imogen likely wouldn't have escaped the situation they're now in. They started out already kind of co-dependent, and remind me of Vax & Vex and Caleb & Nott in that way. But whereas the twins and Caleb and Nott's arcs had them learn to question each other and embrace love for other people rather than isolate themselves, Imogen and Laudna has only gotten more entrenched in each other's issues, more unwilling to push each other to grow.

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It is so funny that Travis has an aversion to playing a wizard because wizards are too squishy, given he was in the same party as Laerryn Fucking Coramar-Seelie.

You do not have to be squishy as a wizard, sir! You can play a shit brickhouse of a wizard and you witnessed the proof of that in real time!

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Swamp Star | Baldurs Gate 3

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One of the funniest things about enemies-to-lovers ships is how they’re almost always obsessed with each other. Like if a character actively chooses to interact with another character over and over again instead of simply ignoring them? Throw darts at it all you want, but you still printed out a picture of them to hang on your wall

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it's not that I need a quiet day or a day off exactly; it's that I need a pocket of time that exists entirely outside of linear time as we know it that would allow me to get things done without time passing in the real world, and frankly, I don't think that's too much to ask.