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#greensalad#greensaladin#healthyeating#weight loss diet#weight loss#healthyliving#dietplan#franchise#cost analysis#initial investment#salad#franchise cost
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Horrible thing to say but I think there's a real chance Jiang Yanli was both of her parents' least favorite child and knew it and just kinda. Had to go on with her life knowing that.
#mdzs#jiang yanli#yunmeng siblings#madam yu's favorite kid is jc. she doesn't. um. SHOW it in a very affirming way but he's clearly the one she's emotionally most invested in#jfm's favorite kid is wwx. is he even one of his kids? doesn't matter. he's the favorite#(madam yu does NOT see wwx as her child so he doesn't factor into the calculation for her.)#i think jfm's neglect of jc is talked about. mostly because the both jc and wwx are clearly aware of it and so it's mentioned in novel#but um... DO we see either of yanli's parents give much a shit about her? ever?#jfm doesn't even ask if she WANTS her engagement dissolved before doing so#also the reason stated by other characters for jfm not liking jc is that he's madam yu's child. you know who is ALSO madam yu's child?#i think jfm may find jc.. harder to get along with. but i also think whatever discomfort from his marriage he projects onto his kids#it also extends to yanli. it's just that he's not constantly REMINDED of yanli like he is jc#(because madam yu keeps yelling about it)#and so he just... doesn't think about her much at all#madam yu meanwhile treats yanli with this air of disappointment. she seems to resent that she's 'weak' and gentle and quiet#and that she cares so little about status so as to treat wwx like her little brother#i think yanli is just fundamenally so clearly... not the child either of her parents wanted. and it shows.#i'm slightly peeved fandom doesn't talk about this as much as they talk about the effects the jiang parents had on the two boys.#but to be fair to fandom the book doesn't either#which is probaly just danmei-typical misogyny. but to give a slightly more watsonian reason#i think the yunmeng bros are genuinely unaware of this. yanli is PERFECT how could her parents not love her?#(of course they notice something like zixuan's initial dislike of her but that's blatant.)#(vs the attitude of the jiang parents towards their daughter which seems to be mostly... disinterest and disappointment)
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rapid fire french rayou strikes again (transcript below the cut)
[Video transcript:
[ENG] Etoiles: I— I’m speedrunning it [Mario Party], but it’s like—
[FR] Etoiles: The next person to bust my balls by saying, ‘he’s going to miss the Ascension [French competitive event happening this Saturday 28/10]’ even though my plane is at six PM, you bunch of morons, it’s not because ZeratoR [Ascension event organiser] said once that I’d miss my plane that I will miss my plane, because what you guys don’t understand is that a plane doesn’t get missed if you arrive three hours in advance, and the last time I missed the plane was because my corresponding flight was one hour and a half [late]!
[ENG] Etoiles: I was just saying to my chat that I love them :)
Tina: Awhhh
Foolish: See, once again I have a feeling maybe that wasn’t—
End Video Transcript.]
#qsmp irl#etoiles#étoiles#foolish gamers#tinakitten#jay rambles#jay clips#27/10/2023#a taste of one of Etoiles’ epic french tirades (you have not seen half of it)#they’re already incredible in English but dude gets so much more aggressive in French lmfaooo#also wanted to clip this bc foolish’s face is sending me . deer in the headlights looking mf#i feel like if Etoiles ranted at him in French with a similar tone he’d just freeze#also tina was so cute here :] she leaned forwards to try and read chat bc she initially thought he was reading a msg#im so invested in tina and foosh’s french arcs tbh#wish there were a bettee translation for casser les couilles tbh . bc bust my balls is literally accurate but it kinda lacks the pizazz#casser les couilles has . i think im just more partial to french swears in general
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happy one piece anime 25th anniversary and HAPPY ONE YEAR (and a bit) ANNIVERSARY OF ME STARTING ONE PIECE !!!!!!!!!!!
october 2023 feels like a lifetime and also a week ago and i am so so grateful for this stupid little pirate show and all the things it's made me feel over the past year. it is truly absurd the impact a story can have on you. i sure as hell didn't expect this one to, and yet here we are. wild
#i say a year and a bit because i actually have no clue when i started one piece#(i track most anniversaries of things i do based on messages i send to my friends#but i was too embarrassed to tell anyone i liked one piece for. several months)#BUT i managed to dig up an EVEN OLDER message than i initially thought where i talked about it#it was october 15th. which i consider my anniversary because#while it wasn't when i actually started it#it was when i became invested enough that my need to talk about it overcame the embarrassment i felt#which i think is as good a reason as any to celebrate#one piece#one piece 25th anniversary#one piece fanart#straw hat tag wall begins#monkey d luffy#luffy#roronoa zoro#zoro#cat burglar nami#nami#god usopp#usopp#black leg sanji#sanji one piece#tony tony chopper#chopper one piece#nico robin#robin one piece#cyborg franky#franky one piece#soul king brook#brook one piece
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these four should be roomies because i said so
for reference pearl is NOT the sane one she's a little shit
#joel joined the shrine to piss off bdubs initially but got invested lol#pearl owns a bean bag#this is irrelevant i just wanted to point it out#smallishbeans#bdoubleo100#pearlescentmoon#mumbo jumbo#secret life#miox art
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Eddie falls asleep during another live-stream but this time it’s inevitable. He starts the stream laying on the couch with a blanket pulled all the way up under his chin.
Steve’s at work, and Eddie’s alone, and he’s tired. He just wants to talk but eventually he nods off.
Steve comes home like an hour later and putters around the room for a bit as he mutters to himself about how middle schoolers can be so mean sometimes. You don’t get a good view of him until he fusses with Eddie so he can lay on the couch with him.
Steve practically manhandles him until they’re both comfortably on the couch and then promptly falls asleep too. They’re holding hands the entire time.
#Steve straight up moves Eddie around like a rag doll so he can be big spoon#Steve passes through the frame initially in his work clothes and comes back to lay down in an undershirt and boxers#fans at home: why am I so invested in two grown men sleeping?#eddie munson tiktok saga#steve harrington#eddie munson
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btw Still thinking about the moment where Tula first realizes she's literally, mechanically unable to keep up with / catch Jaysohn when he bolts and runs his full speed. That revelation that she's not fast enough to stop him, or get alongside him, much less get in front of him to protect him if he needed it. The dread terror of it. :(
#N posts stuff#dimension 20#d20: stupendous stoats#burrow's end#Siobhan said it almost like a joke but then Aabria put Weight behind it and oh boy. oh boy. there's Terror there babey!!!!!!#sure hope that doesn't come back in any significant way in any significant scene. ...........#It's like the moment in ep 2 when Tula's initiative fell behind Both Lila and Jaysohn and the only thing she could do was Watch#as they both jumped into the battle ahead of her. because she couldn't keep up with them...#look Sometimes catching a recurring theme in an actual play show doesn't necessarily Mean anything bc of the improv nature of it#but Obviously the dice also tell stories. and Aabria is a Fantastic GM. and the players are Excellent at role play. so it's..... 👀#certainly not off the table. G-D i'm so invested in this season i'm fully gonna lose my mind no matter what happens lmao#i'm on the edge of my SEAT
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Huh... had a banger time with this one, actually 🙏 I don't usually post about them since it feels like a very niche Fandom thing, but I was inspired whilst sketching and had to roll with it <3
#Card#Cardinal#utmv#utmv oc#oc#my art#spot!drawn#Card is a Fell!Bitty obv#any time he shows up it's usually that he's a calm and chill bitty who's been around long enough that he's less bite-y than you'd expect#playful. teasing. rough around the edges. kinda dude I'd stick in my shirt pocket and tote around w/ me#(he's also usually paired with Newt and Dingo. Sci and Wingdings bitties. so he's Scary Dog Privilege basically)#this was initially just meant to be a generic Fell sketch but I got invested and turned it into Card lol#(schueduling this for tomorrow <3)#spot q
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Return
#Saga Anderson#Alan Wake#Alan Wake 2#Alan Wake II#Remedy Games#Remedy Entertainment#Bright Falls#i enjoyed drawing saga more than alan#but i am. not a fan of the trees i drew#i'll admit that i honestly rushed them because i hate drawing trees#so#next time i'm gonna actually invest time and effort into them#but they are passable so whatever yk#digital fanart#fanart#digital art#my art#alan wake fanart#this coulda used more polish but#my back hurts and i wanted to post Initiation and Return in tandem so i'll live with it
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Screaming crying throwing up reading Tom's perspective on Alex.
Like how do you, a fourteen year old child, try to help out your best friend who has clearly been through something traumatic, but you don't know what. How do you deal with your friend disappearing for weeks on end and returning with bags under his eyes and scars all over his body. How do you deal with your friend leaving and coming back a little bit more changed each time, a little bit more scarred each time.
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"When the two of them had finally met again, Tom had been surprised at how much his friend had changed. He had been hurt. Tom had seen some of the scars. But Alex also seemed to have got a lot older. There was something in his eyes that hadn't been there before, as if he had seen things he would never be able to forget." - Scorpia (page 86)
#reading other people's perspective on alex in general usually makes me wanna cry#because from the perspective of people who don't know him that well like his teachers or Sabina initially#hes a weirdo who keeps disappearing and maybe doing illegal shit#which is funny yet so so sad thing#because i am amused by how everyone thinks alex is some sort of delinquent but also its so heartbreaking because alex wants more than#anything to be a normal teenage boy and he can't have that because of how his reputations been changed!#and then when its the perspective of people like Jack or Ms Jones or Tom#we just see a traumatised kid#like we get to see how much alex has been affected by all the things he's been through#jack's pov at the end of skeleton key had me in tears#god#and ms jones at the end of every single book mentions that alex has clearly changes#AUHFGURHFDSJNG#god wtf i did not mean to get this emotionally invested in a childrens book series#but look at me now#alex rider#alex rider spoilers#scorpia#GOD#i am on exactly page 86 of scorpia rn#im gonna go back to reading now
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me, dean, and everyone else watching: ok sure, sammy
#vics spn rewatch#spn 1x10#the apology is made worse by j*red's inability to actually sound sincere#he's doing his fake sympathy voice and it is so. grating#adds a fascinating unintentional layer to sam as we've talked abt before#and it's like not necessarily a Bad thing to perform rather than feel sympathy#but like. this is very much a non-apology and dean knows it and we all know it#sam DID mean those things on some level. maybe not as harshly as he said them bc his anger WAS being heightened by the ghost#but those feelings were real#and sam is allowed to feel them. but they are in many ways. a projection and also unfounded#sam literally could leave at any time and dean would let him go (as we'll see in thee very next episode!!)#just bc he feels those feelings doesn't mean they're inherently true#dean isn't keeping him trapped. dean isn't just blindly following orders. dean Does have a mind of his own#and in fact dean isn't being all that great of a dutiful son bc he actively is not all that interested in finding john!! not the way sam is#and you'd think for dean being the one to initially show up and ask sam's help that he'd be more invested in finding john#and making sure he's actually alive instead of following random coordinates to a case. and taking on every other case they find too#anyways. sam's feelings of anger are real bc he feels them and it's okay to feel things#but he's massively misinterpreting and projecting things onto dean#and then he feels guilty (like post-possession) and tries to swipe it all under the rug and claim he didn't mean any of it#but he Does. and dean knows it. everyone knows it.#his perceptions do not align w/ what's really happening. bc he doesn't have the full context.#bc he doesn't know just how complicated dean's relationship to john really is. bc he was sheltered from a lot of that.#he sees dean desperate for approval and a good little soldier#when in reality dean was playing peacekeeper and mediator and punching bag most of their childhood.#and rn dean doesn't really care that much abt finding john. he just wants to hang out with his brother#not samcr*t btw. we love all this abt him it's spicy it's crunchy it's tasty
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Who's the cold caller?
That's Percival Wrenchit! A department-transfer Cold Caller who's working under Chip Revvington as an intern. Ignore the fact ey aren't in any official records. Or that eir intern position seems to be unending. Or that eir last date of work was in Sellbot HQ in 2018. Or that you never see Perry and Percival in the same room.
In all seriousness, Percival is Perry...'s cog disguise. Custom-made with the help of a certain Mr. Fear and Loathing in order to make it look as authentic as possible, to be undetected by even the greatest of toon-sniffing scent detectors. Of course, Mr. FaL's intentions maaaaay have been a little iffy. Being able to keep Perry in C.O.G.S. Inc... maybe get em to be an official hire... and Perry, being how ey were, was stuck with an office job for a while. This... maaaay have led to a few identity crisis's where ey kept forgetting ey're a toon, but this was way back in 2018.
Present-day, this disguise made a come-back... in the form of Mr. Revvington getting a bit too upset over the fact that this strange, silent critter has somehow been getting his brother's blessing for two weeks, yet all ey're doing is just standing like a statue in his office with eir eyes on the floor. Pretty sure ey've sweat bullets to the point the rug's had to be cleaned from something other than cake stains. Regardless, he eventually had enough and figured if Perry was going to be stubborn in visiting him, ey might as well make emself useful. He knows toons take parts in order to build their own disguises, despite the fact they always come out at the very least a little off, to at most straight into uncanny valley for the trained eye. At least this one's got more effort put into it. He doesn't want to see a critter in his office (despite the fact eir first tasks are things such as cleaning the halls, fetching him oil or cogfee, or retrieving certain documents that specifically have information that wouldn't be useful to the resistance. He has absolutely no trust in em at this point and thinks ey could very well be a spy. He's being smart about it.), not to mention the eyebrows that might raise. So shoving em in eir disguise and having em be a department-transfer intern is a good cover-up story.
Get to work, Mx. Wrenchit.
#ask#perry winkles#chip revvington#chainsaw consultant#cherry#my art#long post#as much as i like talking about the later stuff where they're sweet. it's nice to talk about how they got there because whew#it's a little hard to talk about because it's very specific. chip is his usual stonewalling self. selfish asshole at a first glance.#perry is stubbornly persistent in trying to see past that “first glance” outlook#its very. very important to know though that perry has an out the whole time. at any point ey could stop working and just stop visiting him#it'll be like nothing happened. this is emphasized between both spruce and chip. ey aren't an official cogs inc employee#perry is persistent though. even in spite of the fact chip initially treats em like any other employee. he even falls into a rhythm with it#like at some point he forgets perry's a toon and just goes on thinking ey really are just his personal intern. then ey start talking to him#on days where he's in a better mood. just a single question each time. obvious stuff that makes him glance at em.#but slowly once he's used to that ey start bouncing off his answers to show ey're listening and actively invested. that changed everything.
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just read the new hatchling skin rules and am having Some Type Of Initial Emotional Reaction and am now writing down said Initial Emotional Reaction uncensored as i currently Strongly Feel A Type Of Way and Require Venting. i cannot word this more politely. i do not have the capability to render this rage into polite borderline corporate-speak for the sake of the damn rules that act like anything short of apologizing for being alive to make up for having even the most constructive understanding friendly criticism or even personal mild non-critical dislike of something like a color or a breed is tantamount to personal targeted hatemail. i cannot wait until i cool into calm bitterness later because if i think about this enough to write about it again i will just go right back to being furious and the fact that everyone ielse who's complaining is focusing entirely on the lolita fashion thing and not on in my opinion the far more significant and offensive part is pissing me off even more. extremely angry unedited ranting ahead
fr having it's own "female presenting nipples" moment right now, not that i'm particularly surprised, they've been a prime example of "conservative protestantism in a lefty-language veneer" for a long while now.
"don't adultify" is such a fucking vague and easily selectively interpreted rule, not to mention insulting for a number of reasons,
but putting that part aside the whole idea of "nothing that suggests that the dragon is an adult in a young body" is. look, i'm not exactly fond of the "adult who looks like an anime schoolgirl" trope myself, but i fail to see how in the absolute FUCK having it be canon in-universe that it is both possible and legal for someone to be forced to stay as a child permanently, is somehow LESS creepy than just saying eternal youth dragons have dwarfism. also, fuck you to anyone with dwarfism apparently i guess?
and "no zombie baby dragons" is just stupid. even fucking minecraft has baby zombies, and microsoft has steadily butchered that game into one of the most t for toddler babymode things on earth this side of cocomelon.
and "no scars on hatchlings" so fuck you to any kids with scars too apparently, even though that's way more common than anyone seems to realize. you hear that, kids? if you're under 18 and have scars your very existence is too obscene for public view. 13+ year olds will be irreparably traumatized if they have to know you exist at all! fuck you disabled kids and fuck you amputee kids and fuck you any kids that have suffered anything ever at all for not appearing as a perfect unspoiled image of conservative christian child-doll innocent purity. flight rising staff says your body and existence is inherently too nsfw to even be acknowledged as existing much less visually seen. everyone knows REAL children don't get damaged at all, and if they do then they're too horrifying and defective at their job of Being A Child Properly to exist in public spaces! how dare ugly things that might make us uncomfortable with their existence by contradicting out ideals about aesthetic moral purity be allowed where good respectable normal people can see them!
i don't say any of these words lightly, and i'm very much not the type to go around calling people whatever-ists and in fact find that kind of thing extremely annoying, useless, reductive, and more or less only ever see it used as a blunt cudgel to shame people into line so they don't question you, and have historically found it especially annoying when people pull out the accusations-of-ism card on fr staff over things that are far more likely just completely understandable (if dubiously competent) issues of certain things simply not occurring to someone on code and design level due to lack of sufficient exposure to the idea, and have always been of the belief of giving them the benefit of doubt (even if often that just means i think they either most likely made an understandable mistake that i would likely also make, or, when i'm feeling less kind, that they're simply not particularly competent rather than actively hostile) so understand how much it means coming from me when i say- flight rising staff, sincerely, from the bottom of my heart, fuck you, you ableist batch of pricks, so far up your own asses with your performative veneer of vaguely lefty-flavored language that you don't realize how fundamentally extremely conservative all of your actual beliefs underlying them are. for every update you make that i approve of there's another that does twice as much damage as the good update fixed (and i'm starting to wonder if you maybe know what you're doing with that too-always batching the fucked up shit on the tail end of some big thing you know people will be excited about, always hiding these controversial moderation changes under something shiny and new, to the point that now i dread any new good update that genuinely seems a step in the right direction and/or is something we've been wanting for awhile because i'm just constantly expecting the knife hidden behind the footnotes afterwards, the fucking "ban tiktok/gay marriage/strip rights from this population/end net neutrality/whatever/ect" clause stapled onto the end of a bill about something entirely unrelated functionally holding a change people want hostage until they allow the fucked up part through. i've been here most of the site's 10+ years and i've seen this sort of thing happen far, far too often.) and every year the shit that gets pulled on the management and moderation end of things makes me more and more almost glad i've never had an income to spend on this, and the fact that apparently the moderation behind every single other petsite in existence is somehow significantly worse fucking astounds me. the only reason i stay around here is because It's Free Dragon Pictures, because it's literally the only actually good petsite game i've ever played and not gotten sick of within a week or so (and really the only good low-energy game i've ever played in general, which i'm increasingly convinced is in spite of it's management), and because somehow, despite all of this shit, i still genuinely love the game itself, because unfortunately by some accident of creation it seems they apparently stumbled purely by coincidence into making an actually good game idea no one else quite has. and after all the fuckery that gets constantly pulled, i refuse to believe the game being good is anything other than, much like many of the of the incidents i think they're unfairly accused of malice and -ism over, an accident.
Disabled children too obscene to fucking exist. fuck you. good to know half the child population's existence requires a trigger warning to even be allowed to be acknowledged as existing to you. good to know if the heart surgery i had when i was 11 had left any visible external scars i would be considered inherently too obscene to exist to you. good to know if the overhealed and benignly potentially cancerous scar on my back from whatever actually happened when i was a toddler (i don't trust either of my parents to ever be accurate about something like that) was in a more visible spot you would demand i have a trigger warning to post selfies online. good to know if any of the shit that's broken me emotionally left visible physical marks you would think it was good and right for me to be forcibly hidden from good normal people's view and considered too taboo for even the slightest discussion without hiding it with makeup and lies, just so i don't make good, lucky, undamaged, normal people uncomfortable, god fucking forbid. should we hide the gays too, since they also make so many people uncomfy? i imagine it won't be long before disabled adults are too obscene for your polite societytm sensibilities too. i've had the feeling for a long time that amputee and disabled skins were living on borrowed time with your rules, kept technically not explicitly dissalowed where all other forms of injury and ""body horror"" are banned simply out of fear of the backlash it would cause to include them, and well. the doomsday clock on that one just got a little bit closer to midnight, huh?
the only reason i wasn't a (physically, visibly, externally) scarred kid was pure sheer fucking luck. the only reason you weren't a physically scarred kid too is pure sheer fucking luck. the only reason you're not some type of disfigured or ugly or amputated or visibly injured or whatnot is pure sheer fucking luck. you're lucky. nothing more. if having to contend with that fact-the fact of how easily it could have gone a different way and there is nothing they would be able to do about it- makes good normal tm people uncomfortable, then well, get the fuck used to it, other people children very much fucking included don't exist to cater to the aesthetic sensibilities of a lucky perfect few. the only thing that separates you from the damaged ones you find too obscene is a bad day and an unlucky hand. and one day, even if you were lucky enough to escape being damaged when you were young, you and i will both be just like them too.
more festival skin winners slots is good. elemental swords sound fun.
#flight rising#how do i always and only end up in fandoms where either the fans or the creators or the fans and the creators#are downright insufferable crypto-conservative nutjobs of the type who tend to think justifying suicide baiting is ever okay#i'm sure i'll cool down to a more calm bitterness on this eventually but for right now i've just read the post and my initial reaction#is still Burning Hot#you have touched upon a trigger subject and I Am Very Angry#the stupid school dress code-ass clothing rules is dumb but wouldn't have gotten much out of me other than an eye roll on it's own#but no scars? no sign of past injury? no implication of disability? no uggos basically?#everyone else who is angry is focusing on the dumb dress code rules when this bullshit is right fucking there#the experience of being an fr player all these years has been a slow building of papercut after papercut#with everyone telling you it's not that bad#until you're the unreasonable one for being so angry over 'just a papercut'#and you have no good way to tell them that it's been 'just a papercut' over and over and over again for *years*#and you would very much like if the chill thing that's supposed to be a low-investment de-stressor would STOP GIVING YOU PAPERCUTS#i don't know how much i can give the benefit of doubt anymore
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So someone finished the quest two days ago and hasn't stopped thinking about it-
#honkai star rail#hsr#aventurine#kakavasha#hsr spoilers#drawing#I was planning to pull for Luocha's LC but I finished the quest and had decided to try pulling for him instead#AKSJHAKSJha#I hate it when that happens#Guess I'll wait for another year to try pulling for his LC#Also#if Aventurine permanently dies I will riot#I may have initially thought of him as an interesting man that I liked because he gave me money#But I'm now too invested in him
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The stories tell of a dragon who falls to the hands of the spider. It was only thanks to the efforts of the Stag Beetle and the Hedgehog, that justice was served to the fallen dragon. For their efforts, the Stag Beetle decided to stay and rebuild his nation while the Hedgehog returned home. -Scrolls of Time
"What is this, some sort of weird bedtime story? And, I'd rather not be served to any dragons, thanks."
(I don't know what the spider, hedgehog, or stag beetle would be, but a dragon... no, I shouldn't think too hard on it.)
#𝔸𝕟𝕤𝕨𝕖𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕘 ..//~ apollo responds#ace attorney ask blog#ask blog#apollo justice#ace attorney#// only just now made the exasperated crossed arm gif and it's already proven to be quite the investment lmao#// even if the mouth looks a bit fucky. i tried to fix it i swear it looked worse initially
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How controversial were the tests to find out if newborns had powers?
Extremely!!!!!
#herotome ask#lol yall digging deep into the blog for lore huh bc I dont even remember when I told yall about that#thank you for being invested in herotomes little corner of the internet <3#but yea I think initially it was seen as a cool new thing they could do much like any new technological advancement irl#but then there were consequences like uhhhhhh people abandoning their kids#so now its extremely controversial and frowned upon#probably still done lowkey but considered hugely unethical
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