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I want words with the parent who decided to bring their kid to an intro to skating lesson while Covid positive.
#Seriously what the duck#I know this because they were masked (they a lady and her husband. At least one kid running around not really masked) and started complaini#“As soon as those ten days are up I’m getting this thing off forever haha lol lol“#“You’re lucky I’m wearing it now. Dw though I’m a good person I told all the people I exsposed to Covid when I thought I just had a cough-#As soon as I found out! Anyways now I’m here in this packed tiny room sending my children off to breathe in peoples faces!”#Ma’am seriously#Glad I didn’t have her kid in the group I was assisting holy shit#You have to have your face basically two inches from the kids#And they cling to you like monkeys#Blow snot everywhere scream cry and spit#I’m basically paired up with one struggling kid per lesson so if I kid I’ve got has Covid there’s a decent chance I’ll get it#And the outer rooms are notably not cold. And not big. They’re cramped hot and packed full of people and you’re gonna stand there and chat?#It’s an intro to skate lesson#Please. Please just skip it.#Also the kids in todays lessons were such a mixed bag#I had one great little girl one clingy little boy who just refused to stand#And then some other interactions#Including one with one of those asshole little boys who just like to be mean and violent#Haha yeah you’re funny buddy I’m not playing this game with you#Best thing to do with those kids is just be like “okay” and then ignore them
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“big sister makes a face like a dog kept in a cage”
#lyrics are from if you find me gone by black dresses#yall know what tf is up#me and my black dresses songs…#i think virgils prev role as a dark side. him leaving. and ducking out is like… seriously my favorite tss plotline to make fan content abt#its just soooo fucking GOODD BRROOOO#the brainrot of someone who joined the tss fandom like a week before accepting anxiety was uploaded LMFAO.#i havent been normal abt accepting anxiety since i was *checks calendar* 11 it would seem…#thomas sanders#sanders sides#sanders sides fanart#tss#tss fanart#sasi#sasi fanart#virgil sanders#virgil sanders fanart
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While rewatching ducktales, I realised that they looove foreshadowing, they do it all the time, sometimes they even give the whole plot of an episode in the very first scenes without the viewer noticing lol.
Anyway, I realised that they foreshadowed the whole “duke of making a mess” thing that Huey had in the sword of swanstantine episode!
THE THING IS, EVEN on my first watch, I could tell that this was supposed to be a multiple episode arc but they HAD to make it shorter because ducktales was getting cancelled and I’m PISSED. LIKE ALL OF MY FAVOURITE CARTOONS, THIS COULD HAVE BEEN SO MUCH MORE.
DEWEY had his own arc where he’s trying to uncover his mom’s dissaperance with Webby. LOUIE had his own arc where he was struggling with his place in the family and HUEY. DIDN’T.
Ughhh they foreshadowed the Duke of making a mess in the intern episode and even in Scrooge’s birthday!!
Those are BOTH season 1 episodes (I’m not gonna list more foreshadowing because you get my point) SO THEY’VE BEEN BUILDING UP THIS ARC SINCE THE BEGINNING AND THEY DIDNT GET TO CASH IT INNNNN RAHHHHHH 🗣️‼️‼️‼️‼️
When watching the ONE episode where he appears, you could IMMEDIATELY tell that it should’ve been a bigger deal. I mean come onnnn, they enter Huey’s mind scape and there’s a huge closed up door??? With locks??? DUUUDE THAT WOULD’VE BEEN AWESOMMMMEEE
I’m saying all of this but this is just to vent some frustration about how animation shows will just be cancelled without the chance to say all that they’ve wanted to say… and as the one who wants to hear it: *cries and wails and pees on the floor*
Ducktales was planning so many more seasons and only got 3, like every other great animation show nowadays i fear
#you know I complain a lot about these things#especially irl so iykyk lmao#but as a future animator#I seriously plan on doing something about this#I don’t care what people say#I’m bringing back 2D animation#I’m bringing back lore-filled action-comedy adventure series#and I’m fixing the mistakes that we’ve made in the past#by using what’s going on right now as a stepping stool#I plan on making the things I love better#and I know that I’m not the only one with that goal seeing how many new indie animators are doing this too#I hope that I’ll get to do it on a big platform and get a bunch of seasons#you know what? I could probably start with a short series and see how it goes from there#so many plans man#anyway#lmao#ducktales#ducktales 2017#huey duck#the Duke of making a mess#animation#ducktales spoilers#ducktales 2017 spoilers
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My brother died very suddenly yesterday.
He was the kind of person who always had dozens and dozens of friends everywhere he went because he was easy to talk to and funny and treated people with respect, and his friends ranged in class, race, age, social ability, introversion and extroversion--no matter who you were, he could and would befriend you.
He would scold me for not asking him for help when I needed it, and he would mean it. He taught me to tip well. He loved helping people. He played practical jokes on the new kids at work, including getting one guy to "chop flour" because the flour they had in the kitchen was "too coarse."
He introduced me to some of the best food I've ever eaten in my life. He would always help with a recipe that wasn't working. He would tell me what to buy my foodie friends for their birthdays, and he never got it wrong. He loved meat and whiskey but also wine and fruit and he got me to eat beets even because he knew how to make anything good.
Mostly, he thought that people were all deserving of respect and decency. He was outspoken on this. For all that his friends ranged across demographics, he didn't tolerate anyone being hateful around him. But even then, he was nice about it. He would try to get people to come around to his side. He saw the good in people.
And he was happy. He had finally quit chewing tobacco and managed to stay off it for three years. He had a girlfriend he really liked. The pandemic had put him out of work for over a year, but he was back at his job and doing well and he liked it. He was good at it. And it's complete bullshit that he's gone.
#when I think of him#it's him standing in the kitchen beckoning me over to taste the best duck I've ever had#duck that was catering for a special party#but he knew I was around so he saved me bites of all this spectacular expensive food he made#or it's him driving me to the library after our mom died#and I couldn't figure out how to complete a school assignment#and he picked me up and told me I could always ask him for help#or him telling me my car sucked#and when I asked him why he said he wants a car that can go fast#and I told him that wasn't important to me at all#and his attitude changed entirely and he was like oh then I guess your car is great for you then#or just how much he loved his nieces#no uncle has ever doted harder#or when I asked him what knives I should buy for my kitchen because I was tired of shitty ones#how seriously he considered the question#tw death#I guess#honestly he's the kind of person who is so good with other people I always wondered why he bothered with someone like me#a thought that hurt his feelings every time#he was my big brother and that's all there was to it
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Aziraphale's rigorously alphabetized, smudgily typewritten list.
Little things to love about Good Omens S2 (33/?) - Masterpost
Also - which shop is the Lucky Snake??
#haven't done one of these in a while :)#little things#good omens s2#whickber street traders and shopkeepers meeting#good omens 2#good omens gif#a duck talks#seriously though what do we know about the lucky snake?
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the Brian incident
#toontown corporate clash#ttcc#duck shuffler#buck ruffler#prethinker#myart#seriously what the fuck did brian do to him. im so haunted
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Pretty fly for a white guy why is this slug so WHITE do they shed their skin and turn white sometimes like other bugs??
#ny says#also my ducks are slacking ive been finding slugs all over the place they just ignore them now. shame on them#slug#slugs#seriously what is this thing#sir y r u so white
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The Ducktators is a fascinating little cartoon, though not a particularly enjoyable one. It’s very hard to watch nowadays but your review makes its strengths as animated propaganda very clear. As always, a very nice review. Also, sorry to bring him up, but I always thought the racist stereotype Japanese duck was supposed to be Hideki Tojo (Hi-duck-i Tojo?).
THANK YOU FOR THE KIND WORDS!!! that really means a lot! absolutely, it's not a short i revisit for obvious reasons, but i'm almost glad for that "fresh pair of eyes" point of view because it definitely allowed me to view its directorial strengths much more clearly. in terms of pure cinematography and directing alone, it really shows that Norm McCabe had a lot of potential to be a great director if he wasn't bogged down so much by shoehorning topical references (ie propaganda) into his cartoons! like, this is a crazy shot
it is an extremely fascinating watch to see how they play on the psyche and psychology of the audience. cartoons are manipulative! i know this from working in them! i don't mean that in a bad way, but objectively: cartoons manipulate emotions of the audience and inspire them to laugh, to cry, to be scared, to be triumphant, they manipulate where you're supposed to look or how you're supposed to ingest--or NOT ingest--the information. it's almost comparable to a magic trick. even the most inconsequential, silly, stupid, "nothing" cartoon you can imagine has some sort of subliminality in it dictating how you are interpreting the information on screen. i'm being hyperbolic with my wording and i swear i don't mean this in a Dale Gribble conspiracy theory way LOL. it's just a fact! and it's so fascinating to me! and propaganda cartoons are really at the zenith of seeing how these subliminalities and playing on the psychology of the audience works. obviously, not always (and really, seldom) for the better, but it's very neat to study and see how that is accomplished. it makes for a very fascinating deep dive
I HAD ASSUMED FOR THE LONGEST TIME IT WAS A TOJO CARICATURE TOO.. i've gotten some conflicting information. cartoon wise, i plucked the voice credits from Keith Scott's book, who bills him as a Hirohito caricature, Jerry Beck and Will Friedwald's book just labels him as "a Japanese duck"--i've been getting a bunch of conflicting research, and it evidently seems that historians themselves are in conflict as to the extent of Hirohito's role in the war. i assumed that for the purposes of the cartoon, the duck was Hirohito since it seems he was considered one of the leaders of the Axis Powers, which is of course what the short hinges on. that, and that he was Emperor, whereas Tojo just reported to him. the general consensus seems to be that Tojo took the majority of the blame (obviously, given that he was hanged)--the website of the National WWII Museum points out that Douglas McArthur and Harry Truman seemed hesitant to charge Hirohito with war crimes since they were scared of a retaliatory uprising, given that he was the Emperor, and so publicity instead fell on Tojo.
I TYPED ALL OF THIS OUT BUT I SEEM TO BE PROVING YOUR POINT LOL Tojo seemed to be much more active on the militant side and received more publicity, so i guess that technically would make him a candidate... but given that Hirohito was at the very tip top and considered the reigning Axis leader for Japan, my assumption was that it was him for the purposes served by the cartoon. it'd probably make more sense for it to be Tojo though if he was more directly involved on the military side... that, and it's clear there's a little bit of a divide in power between the Tojo/Hirohito duck and the Hitler and Mussolini duck, but i also assumed that was a byproduct of the clear resentment directed towards Japan, and was just them jumping at any chance they could to belittle and humiliate them. riding on the catharsis of making such a big figurehead seem small and weak and easy to pummel and all that. (it also doesn’t help that the extent of caricaturing is “uhhhhh Japanese people have squinted eyes and big teeth right?”, both Tojo and Hirohito wore glasses and so that’s really the only visual clue… but i guess the duck also has a military cap that probably would be most associated with Tojo)
any historians who are obviously much more equipped to answer this, i welcome any corrections! it's obviously been a bit since my last World History class and i am genuinely embarrassed i can't give a more concise answer :')
#anonymous#asks#also i just have to say shoutout to John Carey. again. what an insane talent#the Hirohito/Tojo duck is incredibly regrettable and thus not a scene i parade around showing Carey's animation abilities#but his animation on the 'Buckle My Shoe' bit may seriously be one of my favorite bits of animation he's done just in pure technicalities#the shoulder shaking and gradual leaning forward of the Mussolini duck's head and just how many different motions are happening so#seamlessly at the same time... it's ridiculous. it looks so good. and would look even better without a glaringly racist caricature in front#also gotta say i am extremely dreading the day i review Tokio Jokio#if you want a masterclass of just sheer and utter resentment and almost gleefully vitriolic racism..... woof
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SOL HAS A +2 TO CHARISMA???????
#is that a liveblog i see?#WHY DID I THINK IT WAS SO MUCH LOWER#i just feel like caldwell as sol says the most cartoon shit and every time it fails miserably#like so miserably. and every time. it's not beverly insanity it's zirk cringefail#well it's a mix of both but in terms of consequences it's Heavily on the zirk side. beverly actually got away with shit sometimes#why did i think his charisma was so much worse. seriously#i feel like sol Thinks he has a like +3 cha#but in reality his trains of thought are so fucking cartoonish that it's offputting#sol is so blissfully unaware that he's a little insane.#like duck team love each other for sure but even callie and calder sometimes are like. what the fuck#what are you on about man. kenna ignore this guy he's talking crazy
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I should probably continue my Inanimate Insanity watch through but uh, are you guys ok???? Who hurt you??
#seriously I see like so many posts of people breaking down what happened????#inanimate insanity#ii#ii16#ii 16#duck's inanimate insanity watch through
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Hokay, we’re gonna have a small little fandom etiquette lesson here:
#Anti [Character] #[Character] Critical
See these two tags? They’re very good to use (if you want to write negative posts about a character) and very good to block (if you don’t want to see negative posts about a character)
Because yeah, you should be able to voice your opinion! You shouldn’t have to pretend to like a character just because a lot of other people seem to like them.
But maybe
Just maybe
When a character tag updates, like, once every two days on average
Maybe it can get a little tiring for people who like that character to see a bunch of hate towards that character instead of enjoyment
(And then they do stupid things like engage with and argue with that dislike instead of just blocking and moving on, which is genuinely A Dick Move most of the time)
Maybe it can get a little upsetting to see the same
Exact
Mountain of misinformation that maliciously mischaracterizes the character they like
That just gets repeated over and over and over
And stuff out the posts that are about enjoying the character within the tags
So try to use #Anti [Character] and/or #[Character] Critical when you are bringing up your grievances with a specific character, and try to block #Anti [Character] and #[Character] Critical if drama about that character is likely to upset you
Live and let live, and don’t muck up everybody else’s space to engage with what they enjoy
#fandom stuff#here I’ll even give you an example of how to use the tags#anti della duck#della duck critical#yes this is about#della duck#like seriously it’s absolutely a dick move to jump down people’s throats just because they voice grievances with her#not a cool move#THAT BEING SAID#it is ALSO not very cool to fill up the della duck tag with hate for her#and then act surprised when people get upset by that#it can be extremely upsetting to have to dig through a veritable mountain of dislike#in order to get to the parts of the tag that we’re actively looking for#(also the fact that it’s pretty much always the same exact complaints is… not fun)#(ESPECIALLY because all of those bits are either:#misinformation#issues that exist but were solved in-show#mischaracterization#mischaracterization based on a DIFFERENT character’s blatant mischaracterization in fanon#and a basic disregard of any nuance the character might have)#and like- yeah no I’m sure that stuff still Is A Thing when defending the character#it’s a fandom thing after all#insert ‘you are not immune to propaganda’ meme here but replace ‘propaganda’ with ‘fandom bullshit’#but it’s still upsetting to see#which! is why ‘anti della duck’ and ‘della duck critical’ are important tags for the fandom economy#tags created for the purpose of filtering are very good at specializing what fandom bullshit that you see
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dw is a mid kid's sci-fi tv show and it's quality level has been mostly entirely consistent (mid, basically, with the occasional very good episode to balance out with crimes against humanity it sometimes produces) the whole reboot, and anybody acting like the Only thing going into peoples opinions of the characters are writing preferences are either Deeply naive or are trying to hide something they know people will not take kindly to.
#dw shit#but look. If you seriously think the one Single doctor without depth is 13 then that is a You having a woman issue. it just is.#there's lots of it#there's thousands upon thousands of words of meta about her and her characters online#as there is for Every Other Doctor#because they All have depth#if you fail to see it the one time you're Not presented with a dude that's not my problem#nor am i gonna hold any hands#i'm not trying to convince you of anything i'm not your mother#but sometimes a duck is just a duck and I will call it a duck#this isn't about Liking the story it's about having a brain not cooked in misogyny to even See it#to start with (you failed the challenge)#kinda hoping the large number of people living up rtd's ass will save gatwa from some of this treatment but i'm not holding my breath#'but I personally would never!' okay but... what about all your buddies??? what about everybody else?? if you're distancing yourself from#Those Bad People you are admitting they exist and there was no point getting pissed at me for pointing out they exist#the lady (gender neutral) doth protest too much#look i don't like Rose much (the og) but you can Bet i've seen some Questionable takes on why she's bad and i'll call them that#the classism and the sexism and the noxious fumes#you can just. Admit that. Even about characters you dislike lol pls
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With a sigh, Lucifer returned to his rooms on the penthouse floor to while the day away tinkering with a new duck design. He paused in the doorway, catching a faint wisp of music curling around the room.
On his fireplace mantle, dead center in the room, sat a stately cathedral radio. Unlike all the others in the hotel, this one had been painted a creamy white complete with gleaming gold grills and bright red knobs. Something classical, sweet and airy, played softly.
— A Taste Of The Divine by soot_and_salt
Hello and welcome to my further decent into insanity. There is someone on Etsy who makes absolutely stunning Hazbin cathedral radios. I asked if they would take a custom order and they were thrilled to do so. She was so incredible to work with. And now the Lucifer radio from my dumb fanfiction exists as a real actual object.
What a bewildering time to be alive.
The radio is 3D printed and hollow inside with a removable face plate. It is gorgeous. What am I doing with my life.
(Did I also sneak into the very fancy conference room at work to take these? Maybe.)
#hazbin hotel#hazbin lucifer#cathedral radio#hazbin fanfic#radioapple#seriously what have I done#Why do I have disposable income#Look at how goddamn beautiful this is though#The gilt around the screens I can't#It looks exactly like in my head#Which is insane#I need to get more normal#And then of course I had to go out and buy a rubber duck#Just normal Hazbin errands#That fic series is not even good enough to merit this I am delusional#chill soot fuck
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I just got through the Earthlings arc during my SU rewatch and im absolutely facinated by Jaspers character
She’s such an effective antagonist for so long because she clashes with every other character so fundamentally. She’s got this completely foreign to the show worldview that is shown to be contrary to what the rest of the show is trying to say but she still feels like a real person and when you think about her she’s just as much a product of her circumstances as anyone else. She doesn’t want to talk it out with Steven because why would she? She was literally born to fight as has been doing so since the second she was born, it’s all she’s ever known and has been drilled into her head that that’s what’s expected of her, she’s rewarded for fighting well and watches as others are punished for doing badly, either by losing or by facing consequences for failing.
And then there’s the whole “perfect solider” part of her character. She was literally born more capable and with a higher status than everyone else. But because of the way home world is structured to reward her and punish people like the off-colours, she’s been indoctrinated into thinking that the reason she came out on top had nothing to do with how she was made and everything to do with her behaviour and attitude. Peak “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” type person but because it’s a fictional story you can see what happened to make her this way. Her and amethyst are fundamentally different, they’re different quartzes, they were born in different places, they were just created differently, from the start jasper was always going to be better at some things than amethyst and amethyst would be better at others than jasper. But because of the way jasper has been “raised” for lack of a better word she doesn’t see that, she doesn’t understand that her and amethyst are simply different gems who were made different, she’s better at fighting and is picture image of what a quartz “should” be so that means it’s possible and anyone who can’t live up to that standard simply isn’t trying hard enough. And she even manages to get that into amethysts head, if jasper is capable of this then that means that amethyst must be too, even tho that’s simply not true. Through no fault of her own amethyst would have to try infinitely harder to achieve even close to where jasper is, jasper started out with a huge head start and trying to play catch up does nothing but hurt amethyst. It’s such a good analogy for so many things I think
Her main role in the story is serving as a character who simply refuses to talk it out with Steven, but again, why would she? From her perspective the entire reason her life is like this, she reason shes spent her life fighting endlessly, all the suffering shes lives through, its his fault. Rose Quartz started the war she was quite literally born to fight in. Rose Quartz also ended that same war by killing the only person jasper ever had to look up to, forced her out of the only reason she had for existing (both as in to fight the war and to serve Pink Diamond). And then heres Rose Quartz once again, saying she wants to help her? Where was she offering help when jasper when she was living to fight as much as she was fighting to live? Where was this „help“ when she shattered Pink Diamond and Jaspers entire world with her? „Help“? Help my ass shes the reason everything thats gone wrong in jaspers life went wrong in the first place
And then she gets poofed at her lowest point, gets removed from the story entirely until Future, and Future does nothing to make anything better for her! Last jasper knew the person shes been seeking revenge on her entire existence cant even be bothered to remember what she did, and then she loses herself to the Earth and corruption, the very things she prided herself on being better than.
And then suddenly shes brought back and „hey guess what! That war we created you to fight in? The one you created your entire person around? The one you lost Everything in? Yeah so it was pointless. Actually the person you idolised for the past 6000 years is the same person who you thought killed her and have been seeking vengeance on for the same amount of time. Crazy how that happens. Anyways so do you wanna come hang out with us now that we sorted that out and were chill about it?“
Can you even IMAGINE what that feels like? No wonder she runs off into the woods and becomes a hermit what else is she supposed to do! Shes got nowhere to go! Her entire life has been turned on its head and she’s expected to just move on! That’s ridiculous!
And thats just the backdrop for her appearance in Future. When she finally does appear they kill her and thats the first and only time we ever see her happy. Someone Finally speaks to her in a way she can understand and she actually dies, and uses that to find herself a purpose. If steven is powerful enough to shatter her, a feat never before seen by a gem, then sure she can serve him, anything to give her life purpose again. and then they just forget about her! Steven literally ditched her in his house! They pull the rug out from under her Once Again. but now she can be „normal“ now she can do what other people want her to do so they all assume shes „better“ now.
I think future did her so dirty the original show handles her character So Well and im not really sure how else they could have gone further with her character because people like Jasper in real life dont really change. And if she were to change and agree with steven it would feel like the show saying steven was right and jasper was wrong and she should have listened to him from the start. Shes such an interesting character to delve into because shes the antagonist yes but shes a very specific type or antagonist that doesnt appear very often and when it does its not with as much backstory, even if just implied, or delving into the thoughts behind the actions. Its so interesting to me
#hi my name is duck and im normal about steven universe characters#steven universe#su jasper#su rose quartz#su pink diamond#su analysis#Tree Man Posts#me when i go to the bestie gc and yell about jasper for an hour straight#listen okay. Jasper.#thanks for listening#no seriously i love thinking about jasper. shes such a product of her environment#but in a different way to all the other characters#and she has such a different just fundamental worldview compared to every other character and esp compared to Steven#she represents the kind of person who i see in real life but can’t understand why they are the way they are#but jasper. being a fictional character. means that i Can i Can look at all her appearences and consider other sources of information#and really Think about why she is the way she is. and at the wnd i dont even think she’s unjustified in her actions#i highly doubt anyone else in her position would have come out any different#len look what you did you supposed my jasper analysis and now here we are
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all my homies love pato
#what? did you seriously think the local duck collector WOULDN’T have pato? 🙄#rubber ducks#pocoyo#pato pocoyo#childhood shows#collector
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😀
#using my data#there's a 60 acre and a 30 acre fire happening near me#luckily we're quite a ways from it but the power company turned the grid off so the electricity doesn't feed into fires#when i say im getting 2020 fire flashbacks im getting 2020 fire flashbacks#i don't want to experience not one but 3 evacs again#im so tired#summer after summer being on edge#allegedly we may get power again by 3am its almost 7pm now but we'll see#and i get why they needed to turn the grid off its part of the fire safety thing the whole town and neighborhoods agreed to#but we're kind of sitting ducks on updates as to where the fires are heading#i only what i know cause of a neighbor#on to prepping#kinda magenta#some other kind of pink#needed to get this off my chest#seriously the 2020 fires looked like the fucking targaryans came into town and ransacked entire cities and woodland areas#everything scorched by dragons
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