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Shuffle On Repeat Music Game
Instructions: shuffle your on repeat playlist and then list the first ten songs. TIL: What an On Repeat Playlist is. Tagged by @wardog-of-the-endless (Everyone should just expect this now) Tagging people.. Uh @genometriics I am actually going to tag @fuckyeah-itme too and Neehehhh~ lmao. @ladynyoko @scattered-stardust .. And anyone who'd like to do this? I tag you too. I am sorry about how Asian heavy this is. You know what, I'm not. I'm not sorry. There's Muse and Mystery Skulls on this... and Marina. That's good enough. 1. SuperM - 100 2. Slot Machine - Free Fall (KinnPorsche Theme) 3. Jeff Satur - Fade (Thai) 4. Jeff Satur - Hide (Thai) 5. Shinee - View 6. The Boyz - Maverick 7. Jeff Satur - Highway 8. NCT U - The 7th Sense 9. TXT - Devil by the Window 10. Tilly Birds & MILLI - Just Being Friendly Bonus: Demian - Casette
I... WE GO 100!?
It's the Kinn version (Thai). I listen to power metal and this theme is up my alley.
Yep. Well.. I knew that even in Shuffle the moment Fade or Hide comes on...
The other follows.
My SHAWOL heart.
......Mmm-mm. They call me "Little Bad", bad, bad.
Okay uh you can tell I have Space Shuttle No.8 on my Spotify and I listen to it a lot. There might be my one and only fanfic in the works cause of this list of songs..
Fave NCT U song and that's saying a lot cause it lacks Haechan.
This. Song. Is. My. Jam.
Yoot khit baeb ni~!! Yoot khit LllllllLLllLlleyyy~. (My fave version is a mash up someone did of Fourth and NuNew's versions on YT)
Bonus: I gave you guys a Bonus cause I listened to JBF all the way through haha. But seriously. I love Demian I want more. Oneus - Valkyrie was my jam for the little Mar Notes List and.. That song also fucking slaps. I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S THEIR DEBUT.
#Tumblr Game#Answering a War Cry#I wasn't given the choice#I joke I will answer any War Cry I can#Bestie Knows Me#The Birds are Listening#Your choice to do a list!
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Veilguard is not about regret
I've seen a lot of discussion going around about the themes of regret in Veilguard. In particular I've seen a couple of related claims thrown around: one, that Rook and the Veilguard companions are supposed to act as parallels/foils to Solas, an example of how to deal with regret healthily, and two, that Rook is a terrible foil to Solas because there's nothing that they've actually done that's worthy of regretting, and anything that they theoretically should regret (like helping disrupt the ritual that freed the Evanuris, whether you think that's a deserving accusation or not) they simply don't. I'm here to tell you that both these perspectives are true, and it's because Veilguard isn't actually about regret.
Let's start off by talking about the companions shall we. Let's list off the regrets in their storylines. Bellara regrets not being more careful and not somehow saving her brother. Taash regrets not making up with their mother before her death. Davrin doesn't actually have one of his own, instead the regret in his storyline is Isseya's regret about what happened with the Griffins. Emmrich's storyline is more about wavering on the brink of a choice, which may cause regret, though I suppose we could include regret about where his friend has ended up in life. Lucanis regrets what happened to his relationship with Illario. Neve regrets Aelia remaining free, and the death of Rana's partner. Harding regrets not seeing through Solas earlier, and also I suppose the fate of the Titans, though I'm not sure I would categorise what she feels about that as regret.
Are you seeing a pattern here? Let's elaborate on it further. While in the Regret Prison, Rook is confronted by three regrets: the loss of the secondary team leader, the loss of the companion who disabled the wards, and the loss of Varric. And the solution to all of these regrets is this: it wasn't your fault. Those companions, they knew the risks, and they volunteered to go into danger. It was their own choice.
Now Solas. Solas has a great many regrets. He regrets tranquilising the Titans. He regrets taking a body. He regrets killing Felassan. He regrets killing the fragment of Mythal that was in Flemeth. He regrets creating the Veil. He may even regret starting his slave rebellion, given everything that followed after, though that memory is unclear what the actual regret is. These are all active choices he made. The only comparable regrets amongst the companion's storylines and Rook are Isseya's, and sort-of Emmrich's. I'll come back to Emmrich later. Isseya's regrets are actually a pretty good comparison point, except, as is obvious, that's not actually Davrin's storyline. Davrin's regrets on the Griffon front are more institutional, and feed into his storyline about having been made into a weapon, and what to do with yourself after your purpose as a weapon has been served. Actually a pretty good parallel with Solas! Except, once again, it wasn't really his choice, was it? And it's certainly not a choice about a horrifying atrocity he comitted.
Which brings us to Solas’s final regret. He regrets Mythal’s death (the first one). Except, that isn't his fault, is it? She chose to go and confront the Evanuris, rather than join the rebellion or run away with Solas. All he did was give her the information that they were interfering with the Blight, information that she would almost certainly have learned for herself eventually, and assuming she would have made the same choice to confront them would still have resulted in her death. The solution is: it wasn't his fault.
This is the regret that is being paralleled, by an overwhelming majority. And they're right, it isn't his fault and he should forgive himself for it. The thing is: this isn't regret. It's a twisted form of grief. Once you realise this, the whole theme starts unravelling, because not all regrets are created equal. I think this is why some people accuse the narrative of excusing Solas, or trying to sweep aside the things he's done: because it is. The whole message of Veilguard is that you should forgive yourself for the things you had no control over, except that Solas did have control over all those other regrets I listed out earlier, and I say that with a great deal of affection. He did that. He can't forgive himself because it wasn't his fault, because it was. Not all regrets are created equal. And the focus on the narrative of 'it wasn't your fault' means that people look for the person whose fault it was, and that blame lands on Mythal. Who does share some responsibility for some of those acts, but again the narrative is about deliberately pushing away culpability. I suppose one could make an argument for blaming Elgar’nan for everything? I think we should blame Elgar’nan for everything.
Indeed, the narrative focuses so hard on the idea of Solas doing everything because of Mythal, because of that twisted grief, that it completely loses sight of the actual reasons he had for doing the things he was doing. The spirits are trapped in the Fade, many of them yearning to access a world they naturally should have access to. The elves have been enslaved for millenia, and have lost almost everything about themselves, including their origins. Mages are either feared and reviled, or use their overwheling power advantage to lord over those who don't have the same access to magic. And let's not forget, two more Blights and the Veil comes down anyway, releasing the Turbo Blight (which he created) onto unsuspecting Thedas. Not to mention there were suggestions in Trespasser that there was something going on with the remaining ancient elves in Uthenara, who apparently vanished from existance along with his agents.
I mentioned earlier that I would come back to Emmrich. That's because his storyline, in my opinion, is the only one that actually depicts the theme they should have been going for with DA4, namely, when presented with a difficult moral choice, what will you do? What are you willing to sacrifice, and for what? In theory, as has been pointed out before, Bellara's archive choice might once have also been this: it is implied by the phrasing of 'free the spirit' that the Nadas Dirthalen was supposed to be a trapped sapient spirit, forced into servitude, rather that a fantasy VI, and the choice at the end would have been do you free the innocent at the cost of the knowledge you could extract? These naturally feed into: do you bring down the Veil, causing a great deal of sorrow and harm but also potentially creating a better, more equal future, or do you refuse to make such a great sacrifice of lives? At the very least, I think this theme would have stayed more true to the setup of Trespasser, as well as the design of the companion binary choice system, and who knows? Perhaps there might even have been a third option.
#dragon age#datv critical#solas dragon age#Tldr read the title#I will admit that I've only played the game once several months ago now so my memory of the character storylines and themes might be shaky#And i didn't find much to interest me in the companion storylines so i hardly count as a scholar of any of them#But this was what i picked up from it on a quick glance so probably what most people will take from it#This game has given me a deep seated regret: that it was ever made#Oh wait that was other people's choices wasn't it#I guess i should just forgive it then
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having normal thoughts about the demon king today
#long post#vtuber#holostars#holotempus#regis altare#doppelgänger gave me flour and I made bread#I love writing villains that don't have a choice but to be a villain#do you understand me#the demon king was created to be evil. he doesn't have a choice#and he knows he's going to lose it all because that's how he's been written#and yet he's an evil version... of a hero?#I think he envies altare personally#because altare gets to choose whether to be good or evil#but the demon king doesn't get that choice#he was born evil and he will die evil too#yet he sees altare having fun with the guild and getting the recognition a hero gets#and he's like... why was I born this way?#why wasn't I born in a world where I could be happy?#yes the demon king is selfish and cruel and violent#and he probably wouldn't change if given the choice#but he was robbed of any other option#he is well and truly alone. while altare lives surrounded by people who love him#and the demon king has to WATCH THAT#he has to WATCH his mirror self enjoy life while he rots in his castle#with nameless servants that don't care about him#then the fire prince destroys everything he owns#AND he knows his entire universe is going to vanish after the season ends. because their world is disposable. including him.#ugh. villains who have no choice but to be villains <3
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Hear me out (or don't... it's fine I'm just venting and mean) yeah um I don't believe Chakotay was saved in Prod*gy s2.
#the 'time travel' makes no sense when you think on it. What happened to Prime Chakotay? He got killed they showed that.#At the end s1 Janeway finds an 'alternate chakotay in an alternate timeline' and that's the one they go and get#we saw the original get merc'd in the message. That ACTUALLY happened. Lmao.....#They didn't prevent THAT death because they didn't go to THAT Solum with the Infinity and stop it from happening#instead it was 'ALTERNATE#' implying other.#OG Chakotay wasn't taken over by the alternative one either nothing suggests that was the direction for him in s2#they didn't do anything like 'well you see chakotay because at the end of s2 when we converged timestreams you have merged with your other'#if they did want to recover the original from s1 then keep that clear instead of being convoluted dont use an alternate timeline wtf#instead the plot was focused on gywns stupid fucking paradox plot and her being fixed#chakotay was the one in a paradox too did that not matter nah dw about it he had to die for this outcome or someshit lmao why#In the extended message given to admiral janeway it shows him clearly getting left behind and surrounded. Sadly no one intervened.#I dont understand why they couldnt have just made s2 about his rescue alone IF they took their time it wouldnt be so difficult#to follow#above that the one they rescued was ruined by the 10 year gap so he wasn't 'saved' at all. God i hate s2 when you break it apart#I dunno the more i look at s2 Janeway and Chakotay the more upsetting it is. Janeway would NOT have settled for an imposter.#everyone going goo-goo gaa gaa over s2 but it's sloppy af imo and undermines a huge portion voyagers struggles#id really like them to flatly lay out their ideas because literally nothing ive heard explains the story or choices of s2 with conviction#instead it's oh clap for wesley or the new vulcan and other references yay#describe to me your timetravel clearly and i'll happily take a seat on it (there is still other crap stuff mind you)#this is the most repressed shit i my head i swear#im angry because s1 is so clearly mapped out to a brilliant degree and for whatever reason it's not in s2#i can see through it#insultingly people are eating it up and claiming it's better than ever nah dawg embarrassing#there are nice ideas inside s2 but they arent adequately rewarded#it doesnt compare to the timetravel in other trek because they kept it clear#i mean it could have been an interesting parallel to endgame but in the end janeway didnt even rescue him lmao they dropped her#why bother building up this mission only for her to give up and go 'i'll hand it over because im told to'. Janeway had fuck all this season#let alone settle for not fixing her own timeline and her own friends deadly circumstance dw just grab another one from the shelf i guess#the emotional fallout was absolutely missed because they didnt elaborate on anything. Plenty of show but no substance from the characters
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@beatingheart-bride
"Oh!"
Hot, joyous tears sprouted from Susannah's eyes as soon as the question left Philippe's lips, a shaky smile crossing her lips as she put a hand to her mouth: Again, despite knowing exactly what he was about to ask of her, she still couldn't help but be surprised.
"Oh, Philippe..." she murmured, eyes glistening still as she lowered her hand to rest on her pounding heart, wondering if it was as deafening for him to hear as it was for her, hearing it thrumming and drumming in her ears. "Before I met you, I...I never thought about the future. I felt like...I had no future, other than working at Mickey's. That my life would always be so...boring, so empty.
But you...you changed that! You came into my life, and brought so much light and energy back into it, and you've...you've made me the happiest woman in all of New Orleans! And to be your wife...that would make the happiest woman in all the world."
She punctuated this declaration by throwing her arms around his shoulder and embracing him in an excited kiss, pale cheeks red as roses as she concluded, "Y-Yes, I-I'll marry you!"
#((i do think in many ways it'll be too little too late...but it *is* indeed something all the same!))#((they *are* being cruel! these are their grandchildren; the children of their daughter! and they're being cold to them))#((for no good reason! and i think that realization that they're shunning lon and erika *will* be a wake-up call))#((to say nothing of learning the truth about nicholas! i think it's going to be a *very* sobering experience for them))#((to see the ripple effect of their actions; how their choices impacted their daughter for the very worst))#((putting her in the path of a man who would eventually be her murderer; letting him pull the wool over their eyes))#((even as their daughter tried to warn them that he wasn't the man he presented himself to be!))#((and now they're having to live with the fallout: their daughter is now happily married with a family of her own))#((and it'll likely be for the best that they accept that they don't have a major place in her (after)life anymore))#((given how much trust they broke! like i said; *VERY* sobering experience for the de clairs))#((and i think the outcome is going to be very bittersweet come the end of this rp!))#outofhatboxes#beatingheart-bride#V:Genderbent
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On the one hand, Kind of bummed out that the OG soundtrack isn't coming to the Steam / Switch port of OFF
but on the other hand it doesn't seem like the freeware version is going anywhere and it's not as if you can't find the OG sountrack.
I will do my best to be open minded and the new soundtrack might also be great, but it really is that one thing spoken about with translation in those Legends of Localization Books RE: How people feel about translations they're more familiar with vs newer ones. Except rather than the translation it's the soundtrack and how much effect the soundtrack has on the game
#OFF#I was one of the people who played one of the 2.0 versions of OFF#Which is definitely *A* version of OFF with regards to interesting translation choices#I've been meaning to getting around to playing the 3.0 translation but that might sit on the back burner given the new port / translation#It's a little sad but also checks out if ACC and Mortis Ghost haven't been on speaking terms for quite some time that it wouldn't happen#I know the music will be good it's just gonna feel a little weird partially because It's some big shoes that ACC left in terms of OST#It's kind of wild that OFF is a bit like cavestory now with a freeware translation and an official translation#i suppose the one big difference is that Cavestory was all one guy so the soundtrack could carry over near 1-1#while OFF wasn't a one-person deal (though a very very small team all things considered)
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the fact that both times we see izutsumi's time at the sideshow it's her being fed WAAAAAAAA
[id one: izutsumi as a child sitting on the floor of a cage and eating a rat.
id two: she's now framed behind bars and standing on all fours, making it more clear how skinny she is. a hand in the foreground holds out a bowl of what appears to be kibble. narration says "thrown in a cage and given food every once in a while... is that what you would call 'being raised'?" end id]
#izutsumi finding freedom through food WAAAAAA#like. she was given real food at the nakamoto household that i can only assume was tasty and healthy#but she still had no choice. she still wasn't free. all she could do was pass the green onions off to inutade#and when she joined laios's party she could have left at anytime but still ate monsters as a means to an end#until she eventually learned that in order to eat what she wants she has to sometimes eat things she doesn't like#WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA#dungeon meshi#dm manga spoilers#flavor text
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real talk
(ramble doodles)
#not even going to bother to explain over there in the hell place because I dont owe anyone any reasons there#it's a hard choice#given if it wasn't for twt I wouldn't have grown as far as where I am right now#but ehhhhhh fuck it lmfaooo#tired man im tired#gummmyspeaks#rambles#doodle
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an idea for how another character could meet barton in an untraditional way: your muse met barton while he was in residency by expressing concern for him as they saw him at the grocery store... with only like five bottles of wine in his cart at the checkout 🫠 JSJSJ
#OF MONSTERS AND MEN: musings.#so i may or may not have this hc now that barton used to tell himself that wine didn't get him as badly drunk as whiskey / bourbon did-#while he was in residency so that was his uhhh. vice of choice i guess you could say at pretty much any given moment that he wasn't working#but if i'm being honest... it got barton drunk even MORE as he always drank red wine and that's saying something BC this man has a high#alcohol tolerance to the point where it usually takes him about maybe seven or eight shots of whiskey for him to start feeling anything#but yeahhh a lot if not all of this man's coping methods to deal with stress during residency were either unhealthy or on the borderline-#of being dangerously reckless such as him choosing to gamble at that one bar i told y'all about that he frequents to this day until-#he won big but wellll he wasn't always good at gambling let me just say that AHHH so no matter what this guy tries to tell you-#barton was going THROUGH it FR when he was in residency and he would neverrr want to relive those years again#tw: alcohol mention.#tw: mentions of unhealthy coping mechanisms.
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i'm very interested what ppl find to be the harder shakespeare plays and which they found to be easier. bc i was googling out of curiosity and i found a sparknotes article (link if you're curious) that ranked ten of the most commonly-read plays on difficulty and it put king lear kinda down low whereas it put julius caesar pretty high because of the politics/complicated conflicts. that kind of baffled me because julius caesar was the first tragedy i read outside of the classroom and i found it very approachable; it's one i often recommend to people trying to get into shakespeare because the plot is already familiar to most ppl and you can just enjoy the poetry and how shakespeare chooses to characterize these figures. on the other hand i read king lear a few years later in my shakespeare journey, and to be honest i still kind of have a hard time with lear. maybe i just don't connect with it on some level; i'm not sure. it's not a very tightly-organized play where the action is as centered as in the other tragedies like hamlet or macbeth. that's certainly a me thing and maybe that'll change with age. but i'm always a little surprised when i find someone's experience with the plays so much different than mine.
anyway if you're reading this feel free to reblog and tag or comment which shakespeare plays you found yourself falling into most naturally and which worlds you felt like you had to force yourself into. i'm interested in what ppl feel on this subject
#i also had a hard time w love's labor's lost for comedies. idk i just didn't connect w any of the characters tho the premise is interesting#on my inexplicable third hand: once i primed myself w the historical context to get into the wars of the roses plays i found them addictive#which is funny bc before i read them i kinda NEVER thought i'd get around to the histories#bunch of dead kings i had never heard of. i was like what care is that to me?#text post#shakespeare#king lear#julius caesar#sparknotes#that article rated cymbeline as the most difficult if you were wondering. which i think is an interesting choice#bc it's not really one of the top 10 you're most likely to be presented with#i LOVED cymbeline but it was like. the 30th play i had read. something like that lol#so clearly i was quite used to shakespeare by the time i read it. i wasn't someone who needed to psyched up to read him#(although even i can have a hard time w shakespeare still... and i have only 3 plays left once i finish this last scene in m4m)#i can't say it's a good play for a beginner to start with at all. for many reasons. but cymbeline is a great play.#a midsummer night's dream was also very easy to get into and that was the first one i read on my own#isn't it one of everyone's firsts? it's magnificent i mean. it's unmatched#and it's also one of the shortest and easiest to understand with some of the most lovely lyrical poetry#troilus and cressida was hard and i don't particularly like that one... waiting to change my mind#both t&c and love's labor's are ones i only read once and never watched in any form#so maybe i should give them another shot#i HAVE given lear a couple of other shots and i still find it kind of impenetrable to be honest#it's not that i don't understand the surface level. but i can't. idk. i can't feel much about it#by shakespeare standards
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i now get half days off from thinking about Asmodean by thinking about my oroboros ocs instead so that's smth
but at some point i need to analyze why he lives in my head THIS rent free
#txts#i am sure there are some good..ish reasons for it#but i am too exhausted to go too into depth today#the wheel of time has so many cool characters to obsess over#and i do adore them#there is so many rly amazing characters and most have at least 1 asshole trait which i love even more#so why the fuck did my brain look at Asmodean and decide to run off with him specifically??#amazing shit here#can't it latch onto someone that'd also be a good role model and motivator for irl bs? apparently not#i am having fun tho and that's the most important part#but sometimes i do look at my favs and get concerned about myself#and he is the most...potent version of that? idk how to words rn ergh#it's a bit too close to looking into a mirror...if it wasn't a mirror but a miriade of alternate choices i made in life#and also the world was ending i guess but y'know#like i said...i think i said it at least#Rand going 'these r all stupid motivations to turn to the dark' and including asmos of eternal music etc#into that...FEELING STILL CALLED OUT#like yes rand i agree and i know it'd be stupid BUT if i had the chance to hang around for as long as possible and enjoy the arts#and making more shit i like w or wout attention given#I'd take it more often than not so shush
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i know people are excited abt the possibility of joost joining tommy/kä on stage tonight but don't you think the man has had enough 😭
#needless to say these are just my thoughts and feelings#obviously im not joost and im not gonna speak for him or claim to know how he feels#but yk he's made it pretty clear in the interviews he's given since the dq that he was still recovering from the whole thing#which is completely understandable#and personally if i were him id want NOTHING to do w eurovision at this point#and even moreso seeing as the ebu still to this day refuses to acknowledge that they fucked up big time#but also dude is unpredictable so there's a part of me that wouldn't put it past him#remember when he spent all of last summer doing an eurovision 2025 campaign??#and many people (including myself) thought that he was just fucking around??? AND HE WASN'T. HE WAS GONNA GO BACK 😭😭😭#i would've respected his choice no matter what but im so happy he didnt and i said this many times#if he does show up ill eat my words lmfao but please i hope he doesn't#@ joost youre so much better than that#raquel speaks
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saw alien romulus.......lots of pussy even for a giger thing
#speak friend and enter#which im not complaining about! just seems a weird choice given the rest of the film#also seemed rly weird to have the cast be so young? again not necessarily a bad thing just seems odd for the franchise#like i don't consider alien the type of film to warrant a friday the 13th esque cast? it didn't hinder the film per se i jst thou it was od#but cailee spaeny was good and so was the guy who played andy he did awesome#but i could not understand a WORD half of those people were saying. chewsday innit#and i was upset that doug jones wasn't the one playing the monster at the end but what can you do#anyway solid C+. not the worst alien film by a long shot but also not the best
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A Remedy to Cure All Ills, 1x06
#coincidence? i think not#there are a few instances of characters saying “i have no choice” in the series actually#unsurprisingly. given it's also a series about the inescapability of fate. but this is in the same episode#also i am thinking about merlin saying “i have no choice” about letting mordred escape with kara#because he very much did have a choice but risking arthur's life wasn't an option#and merlin's loyalty to arthur in S5 very much mirrors gaius's loyalty to uther#and they are both a bit fucked up. gaius's more so of course#but i like to think it was a frog in a boiling pot situation#because uther didn't start out as a child-drowning tyrant surely#and like. what happened.#i'm intrigued by gaius and uther's relationship#toxic codependency#ep 1x06
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Seasons
I had a million ideas in my head, but also I wanted to do something a stretching my artistic abilities a little more, so I did a little colored bg as well. Definitely not really great at lineless stuff, tho. Stole the idea for Kris's braid from one of @artist-ladychelsea's designs.
#redemptionshipping#trainer kris#rival silver#I really wanted to draw Kris in a hakama#so let's pretend they're graduation from some pokémon university#it wasn't initially my intent to give Silver a lugia theme but my limited color pallet given traditional hakama colors left me no choice#also marker colors are a lot more dull when a picture is taken of them compared to irl#redemptionshipping day
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Exactly kaun se nashe karke squad selection kiya hai BCCI ne??!!
#shubman vice captain out of nowhere#i don't get how he's the better choice when we have kl in the squad#SURYA CAPTAIN????#especially when hardik is in the team and was the vc captain in t20wc#no jaddu#NO RUTU NO ABHISHEK#why is riyan there#no sanju#roko are back#GG YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BRING THE GOLDEN ERA#BUT YOU'RE DROPPING THE PERFORMING PLAYERS#wasn't he the one who said it's india's loss if sanju doesn't play#and complained about him not being the vc and virat being given the chance#now he did the same thing with hardik#i expect less favoritism in his era but well#cricket#ind vs sl#somi.exe#desiblr
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