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if shes your girl then why have i slowly been replacing her parts until there’s nothing left of her original body? is she then still your girl?

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I think Gandalf's problem was spending too much time with the elves. Like yeah I know he's fucking ancient and was probably there when the world was being built, but the elvish languages are so damn incomprehensible that I could imagine he'd be walking around with his head so full of quenyan verb conjugations that he'd walk past an innocent hobbit telling him "good morning" and answer with "what the fuck does that even mean?"

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In case you've been wondering how small baby halflings are - I have been wondering since the episode where Alma embarassed Orym by showing off his baby booties, and Liam said, "Think about the babies in your life... and then think even smoler." And yes, that was absolutely how he spelled it when he said it.

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If you like to talk to tomatoes

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Vax's reappearance and temporary return to the mortal world last episode got me thinking about how, way back in EXU: Calamity, Zerxus was only ever able to offer a temporary reprieve to Vespin Chloras. His Cleansing Touch was able to give Vespin a moment as himself, to act under his own will rather than that of the Lord of the Hells, and he made good use of it, but ultimately he belonged to Asmodeus in a way Zerxus couldn't counter. He was no longer just a man who made a terrible decision and who could choose to make better ones and undo his mistakes, although he was certainly that as well, he was and is a fiend bound in the service of the Lord of the Hells who exists as an extension of his will. And that I think was the reason Zerxus couldn't full redeem him: while the man in Vespin could be given redemption, the fiend he became could not, so the man got a temporary reprieve to do his best with.

And this feels relevant to Vax because like Vespin he became something more than mortal, a celestial in his case, bound to the service of a god (though considerably more consentingly). To quote the Tal'dorei Campaign Setting Reborn: "The Champion of Ravens is not Vax'ildan, though Vax resides within him." So it feels appropriate that, like Vespin, the man Vax once was can have a moment, one single night, but no more, because the nature of his existence has been fundamentally changed in a way there's no coming back from.

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who is the first david you think of when you hear the name david

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It took almost a decade to do that too. We're entering year 5 of covid. It's global and airborne. Mask up.

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I do appreciate Vaxleth digging into why the whole Flying Dutchman arrangement in PotC only works in theory and is just kinda fucked in practice. like don’t get me wrong. I love that whole concept, but at the end of the day, you’re in love with a ghost and that ghost can love you every day of his long existence but he’s never going to be able to stay when he gets a chance to be there. He’s always going to have to go. It isn’t about choosing the sea or the Matron. It’s that he’s been dead the whole time and you’re only granted a brief illusion of what it would be like if he wasn’t. You’re only going to keep getting hurt the more you refuse to accept that there was no choosing here. He can’t stay, not because he doesn’t want to but because he’s dead and he has a job to do.

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EVERYONE NEEDS TO LOOK AT HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON UNTRAINABLE THE STAGE PLAY RN

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Edwin: Can I ask you for a favor? Charles: I would literally die for you, but continue. Edwin: We need to talk about you starting sentences that way.

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inspired by the ‘your afternoon was already ruined’ post

Death Star Stormtroopers: “Freeze!”

Han: (panicking, trying to come up with a lie): Woah there don’t shoot, uh, you can’t shoot us because—because this guy is Darth Vader’s son! You don’t want to be responsible for shooting Darth Vader’s own flesh and bone do you?”

Luke: *glares incredulously*

Stormtroopers: “That is the dumbest thing—”

Leia: (done at this point, absolutely done with this rescue, better than Han at lying) “Exactly! Why would we tell you something so phenomenally insane if it weren’t true! Why do you think Darth Vader is so obsessed with finding Rebels, huh? Call him he’ll tell you!”

Luke: (also done, much better than Han at lying): “Or you could just shoot us; I’m sure my father, Darth Vader, inventor of the lightsaber, would be thrilled to meet the men who killed his son and his son’s friends.” *waves lightsaber arrogantly*

Stormtrooper 1: “Maybe we should call this in. I mean—he’s got a lightsaber, so that’s—that’s Vader stuff anyway.”

Stormtrooper 2: “are you kidding me right now?”

Leia: *shoots them while they’re distracted*

Han: “…We’re friends?”

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Tarkin: “The rebels said what? You incompetent fool, how could you buy such an absurd stalling—”

Vader: “My…son…”

Tarkin:

Tarkin: Oh fuck THIS.

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Do you ever accidentally call your cats Mice and Valice? Because I do

Mostly I call them Meatball Supreme and Long Weasel, so it's not much of a problem. I have called them Long Meatball and Weasel Supreme, which is...something. I don't even know what a long meatball would be

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Rain Coat by Andrew Wun Silk Mix Jaquard and Embossed Taffeta. Hand Beaded with over 30000 Swarovski Clear Crystals.

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even if people voted for the leopards-eating-faces party. even if they went, "surely the leopards won't eat my face!" it is still bad, for people's faces to be eaten by leopards. you shouldn't gloat about people's faces getting eaten. that is not a good thing. you get that right

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Ngl I think live action remakes are just as much of an insult to live action filmmakers as it is to animators,,, because like

In addition to basically saying animation as a craft isn’t taken seriously and isn’t a good enough medium to tell a good story…

Live action remakes also imply that live action filmmakers aren’t good enough storytellers on their own and need to use animated works as a jumping point to make anything iconic…which just…sucks bro

I’m an animator and I’m super out of the loop on iconic live action films, but live action film is a really cool medium! And forcing it to just be a soulless copy of animated films is quite frankly insulting to live action filmmakers, who could probably make new and something super interesting that would utilize the medium better.

And like I know that as a whole live action film is taken more seriously than animation, and that to some extent live action filmmakers might be allowed more freedom than animators yadda yadda but like

My point is

Filmmakers, animated and live action, are super awesome and shouldn’t have to live in each others shadow, live action remakes are an insult to both mediums (as well as a waste of resources and talent), and all filmmakers should get to be the little freaks they are and make whatever weird shit their little heart desires