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d34drapunzel · 7 months ago

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To all characters that live in my head rent free.

Start paying the fucking rent.

#seriously start paying #victor vale #eli cardale #vicious #vengeful #villains duology #sydney clarke #mitch turner #evervale #eli ever #v e schwab #pippa fitz amobi #agggtm #a good girls guide to murder #alaska young #looking for alaska

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marvelsmostwanted · 3 months ago

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Today in 🍂✨October surprises✨🍂

• Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and Secretary of Labor Julie Su quietly assisted in winning labor rights for dockworkers, ending a strike that could have had catastrophic economic consequences. (10-4-24)

• In Springfield, Ohio, where Haitian migrants have been blamed for the disappearance of local animals with Trump claiming “‘migrants are walking off’ with geese in the town” and “they’re eating the dogs” - a lie also promoted by JD Vance, Ohio’s own sitting Senator, with no evidence - it turns out that the missing geese were actually the victims of a 64-year-old white man who was hunting illegally. (10-3-24)

• A Trump-appointed federal judge blocked Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan again after another judge reinstated it earlier this week. (10-3-24)

• Republicans and crazy Facebook uncles everywhere have spent this week spreading disinformation about the FEMA response to Hurricane Helene, including AI photos of Trump standing in floodwater and wild claims that Biden is sending money to undocumented immigrants. In reality, the Biden-Harris administration has provided substantial emergency assistance and both Biden and Harris have visited the region. Meanwhile, it turns out that Trump was the one who redirected money from disaster relief to send to ICE during his presidency. Shocker. (10-4-24)

• Seriously, though, Trump is not who you want to call in an emergency. Before allowing disaster relief to reach victims of wildfires in California, then-president Trump forced aides to show him an electoral map to see if he had voters there. He evidently intended to withhold the aid if he found out it was going to mostly Democratic voters. This would be a career-ending scandal in any other political era but alas, we are living in this one. (10-3-24)

• Finally, far-right extremist and Oklahoma superintendent of schools Ryan Walters intends to put Bibles in public schools, which is already disturbing, but in a stunning display of corruption, the only ones that meet his specifications are the so-called “Trump Bibles” that include the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. They go for $60 apiece and Trump gets fees from each one. (10-4-24)

No, wait, I’m going to say that one again:

In Oklahoma, taxpayers’ money will be used to put Trump Bibles in public schools. Their money will go directly to Trump. Not a joke!!! Not an exaggeration!!!

…Surely the voters who are still undecided are lying, right?? Right?!

30 days until Election Day.

Go to vote.org for a sample ballot, early voting dates, and more. Seriously, we have to win.

#guys should I start a substack #joking but seriously. Pay Attention! It’s Time! lots happening and #remarkably little reporting on the wildfires thing and the julie su/pete buttigieg win!#I think the Oklahoma thing is actually organized crime?#he already has a rico case is he trying to get another one #us politics #mine #us news #kamala 2024 #vote

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indelen · 9 months ago

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Netflix robbed us of seeing Cameron and Ruby act out the aching, mortifying scene of Lucy's reunion with Lockwood at her Studio Apartment of Depression and I'll never forgive them for it.

#lockwood netflix #lockwood & co #lockwood and co #anthony lockwood #lucy carlyle #lockwood and lucy #seriously never paying for that shitty subscription ever again #Cameron looking at his trainers with his big sad sleep deprived eyes #saying “its only been a few months i haven't suddenly started taking sugar in my tea”#you're permanently on my shit list Netflix #yo ho ho i got other ways I'm not giving you money no way

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ineedhjalp · 1 year ago

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Queer Joy? No. Time to talk about Queer Fear.

conservatives saying that the queer community is indoctrinating kids are so fucking blind. Back when I was a kid I was worried constantly. Like what if some gunman sees this pride sticker on my water bottle and kills me? What if a terf outs me against my will? What if my transphobic grandma takes me to church and sits me down for a long republican conversation? What if I have an anxiety attack and hurt myself? (I was 12. I was FUCKING TWELVE. This was my childhood.)

I’m done with this fucking shit. Queer people are not groomers, pedophiles, or murderers. I feel safer with a queer person on tumblr than I would with ANY REPUBLICAN.

queers aren’t killing kids, conservatives are.

pls reblog to spread awareness

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caligvlasaqvarivm · 7 months ago

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Okay challenge mode. You are a therapist and Eridan Ampora from Homestuck has just walked right out of his intro page into your office. How do you fix him?

put him and karkat in a room with a pile of stuff and tell them they can't leave until they've jumped into it and talked about their feelings

#realtalk therapy doesnt work unless the person getting the therapy puts in the effort to make it work #eridan starts the comic in complete and utter denial that he's in need of help #so there's really nothing i nor any stranger could do about that #HOWEVER he does talk to karkat often about his feelings (and vice versa) and #the reason they didnt hang out during the game seems to be #1) they were on separate teams and didnt realize the teams were the same team until later on #2) by then it was too late and eridan had aggro'd all his angels #3) gamzee was deliberately keeping eridan away from karkat and vice versa (likely bc gamzee had a palecrush on kk)#4) karkat was too busy falling victim to his own insecurities abt being a leader to pay attention to his actual friendships #4a) eg. it shouldve been the time player doing the frog hunt with kanaya & not the blood player #like im not saying moirallegiance with karkat would have fixed all of eridans problems but i am saying #what eridan really needed was a friend who took his problems seriously and could see past his bullshitting #and karkat already WAS that friend - they just never hung out #so by the time the meteor rolls around eridan has spent WEEKS feeling abandoned anxious and alone on his death planet #and karkat has gotten used to not thinking about eridan too much #so karkat - who is basically eridans only actual friend at that point - isnt able to get through to him & eridan snaps #like the thing about sburb/homestuck is that it really stresses the importance of friendship and working together #letting each other help with each others' problems #thats why the smallest viable game is still two people by necessity #so when we see things like gamzee snapping or eridan snapping or vriska snapping #as much as these are the 'fault' of the person snapping they also need to be viewed as comprehensive team failures #the people who should have spent the game together didnt and the people who shouldnt have spent the game together did #vriska was allowed to bully tf outta tavros and nobody intervened #eridan was left all alone and nobody tried to help him #and everybody was mean to gamzee and nobody tried to connect with him #and you know whose job it is to make sure the right people are hanging out together? the blood player #and unfortunately our blood player was so insecure that he was doing jobs that werent his to do #im not saying pale erikar would fix homestuck but i am saying pale erikar is a symptom of things being fixed in homestuck

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puppyeared · 7 months ago

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i feel like im not making any sense but does anyone else feel like there are stories that let u run with them and ones that spell everything out for you

#im reading that post that says artists are directors of audience reaction and not its dictator:#'you cannot guarantee that everyone viewing your work will react as you are trying t make them react. a good artist knows that this is what #allows work to breath. by definition you cannot have art where the viewer brings nothing to the table ... this is why you have to let go of #the urge to plainly state in text exactly how you think the work should be interpreted ... its better to be misinterpreted sometimes than #to talk down to your audience. you wont even gain any control that way; people will still develop their opinions no matter what you do #im thinking abt this again cuz i was thinking maybe the thing that lets adventure time work so well the way it does is cuz it doesnt #take itself too seriously that it gives the audience enough room to fuck with subtext and then fuck with them back yknow. i think it was #mentioned somewhere that they werent even planning to run with the postapocalyptic elements that are hinted in the show but changed their #mind after the one off with the frozen businessmen and dominoed into marcy and simons backstory. on the other side there are stories that #explain too much to let the story speak for itself and i think it ends up having to do more with the crew trying to lead ppl in a certain #direction than expand on what they have and i see a lot of this with miraculous. like when interviews and tweets are used as word of god in #arguments and it becomes a little stifling to play around with it knowing the creator can just interject. u can say its the crews effort to #engage with its audience but it feels more like micromanaging. and none of this is to say there ISNT room for stories that spell things out #theyre just suited for different things. if sesame street tried abstract approaches to themes and nuance itd be counterproductive #a lot of things fly over my head so i need help picking things apart to get it- but it doesnt have to be from the story itself. ive picked #picked up or built on my own interpretations listening to other ppl share their thoughts which creates conversation around the same thing #sometimes stories will spell things out for you without being so obvious abt it that it feels like its woven into the text. my fav example #for this might be ATLA using younger characters as its main cast but instead of feeling like its dumbed down for kids to understand why war #is bad its framed from a childs point of view so younger audiences can pick up on it by relating to the characters. maybe an 8 year old #wont get how geopolitics works but at least they get 'hey the world is a little more complicated than everyone vs. fire nation'. same for #steven universe bc its like theyre trying to describe and put feelings into words that kids might not have so they have smth to start with #especially with the metaphors around relationships bc even if it looks unfamiliar as a kid now maybe the hope is for it to be smth you can #look back to. thats why it feels like these shows grew up with me.. instead of saving difficult topics for 'when im ready for it'#as if its preparing me for high school it gave me smth to turn in my hands and revisit again and again as i grow. stories that never #treated u as dumb all along. just someone who could learn and come back to it as many times as u need to. i loved SU for the longest time #but i felt guilty for enjoying it hearing the way ppl bash it. bc i was a kid and thought other ppl understood it better than me and made #feel bad for leaning into the message of paying forward kindness and not questioning why steven didnt punish the diamonds or hold them #accountable. but im rewatching it now and going oh. i still love this show and what it was trying to teach me #yapping #diary

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utilitycaster · 25 days ago

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There's an incredibly narrow line I walk in which like, I do not consider my meta to be A Gift To The Fandom and I find it irritating when people act like they are god's gift to a fandom or do a whole Little Red Hen style "I BUST MY ASS LOOKING FOR CREATOR TWEETS" routine; but also obviously I do not begrudge any artist who DOES make a decent amount of income through fandom and so I don't want to say this is ONLY a silly little hobby for everyone because obviously for some people it is an entry point to a larger livelihood through commissions. ANYWAY this preamble is just to set up this, which is that on the one hand I don't think of me writing meta as "labor" per se, but also the second someone throws a fit because I don't write the meta they like my brain immediately kicks in with "labor is entitled to all it creates". Anyway if you've ever sent a meta writer, fan artist, or fic writer hate about how they don't do what you want, consider: providing a fair hourly wage and benefits.

#the alluded to overreaction thing i had with people asking me too many questions about games is actually tied #to like. people either pushing me to monetize (non-fandom) hobbies i did for fun; or acting entitled to the fruits of (non-fandom hobbies)#queue #but also in all seriousness you want me to stop saying something or start saying something? pay up #i will say nice things about your ship/not say mean things IF you pay me otherwise i do what i want. and I'm not cheap.

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bluehairperson · 1 year ago

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Lady von Zarovich and her cringe fail boy toy dilf.

#heeeeeey I'm not dead I just started playing curse of strahd and now I'm mentally ill about these two #I need them to get married so bad I'm setting fire to barovia if I can't get them a happy ending I'm serious 😭#strahd himself paying me handsomely to make these #it's my first time drawing them semi seriously I'm satisfied by how I made him look but I might make some ireena redesigns #I've been sketching her for a while and it's super hard to get the vibes she has in my campaign #ALSO THERE'S LIKE NO CONTENT OF THESE TWO TOGETHER WHAT THE HELL 😭😭#curse of strahd #ireena kolyana #strahd von zarovich #strahdeena #cioè la ship si chiama stradina di cosa stiamo parlando raga dai #my art #dnd

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miodiodavinci · 3 months ago

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im being so so brave but also i am gripping you by the shoulders and leaning in and letting you know i am so tired of being brave

#my job has invented new and even more agonizing ways to make itself stressful to endure #and that isn't even counting the fact that i've now seriously fucked up my wrist transporting 30lb boxes up and down stairs #or the fact that i occasionally get piercing shoulder pains if i'm not super careful about how i use the hand truck #or the fact that whenever i come home on mondays my entire lower body is so sore that i can't move beyond a weak shuffle #it's the fact that my boss has no sense of organization #so my supervisor and i are basically salvaging or starting from scratch every week #it's the fact that some of our clients are asking for things we're not even contracted to provide #like access to our company materials or additional resources outside of our scheduled bookings #and that there's this constant looming threat of 'ohhh don't be bad at your job!! or else we'll lose our contract with these people!!'#but 'bad at your job' in this case means 'not bending over backwards to accommodate the least accommodating circumstances possible'#like 'hey you need to lead this training exercise meant for 20 people except actually you only have 4 people'#'and actually none of them are familiar with the prerequisites for this training or have any experience with the skills'#'and also none of them want to be there and half of them just Don't Do These Things as a rule'#'and if you try to make them do anything they don't want to do (even if it's literally the point of the training) they Will leave'#'and then we will no longer have enough clients to pay you'#like. what am i doing. this company was not designed to work with this format. we're not an arts and crafts group or a club meeting #hi so i wrote this post before starting weekend work prep #it has been 3 hours now #im still not done #i haven't eaten and my wrist hurts so bad #i need to.................. take a break................................

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silvermoon424 · 19 days ago

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i'm so tired.

#guess who has some kind of nerve damage or deep tissue damage or SOMETHING from my fucking wisdom tooth extraction #THIS GAL #not only did I have to pay $1200 for a new crown that the oral surgeon knocked off because my insurance wouldn't cover it #that same area has been experiencing pain and other symptoms for weeks now #AND now I've started getting dry mouth too #I finally made an appointment with the surgeon on Monday because I'm so tired of this #I've been extremely physically and mentally fragile since that surgery 2 months ago #and it feels like nobody takes me seriously because it's such a routine surgery and most people have no complications #I just want someone to acknowledge the pain I've been going through and how much I've been struggling #btw if you're reading this please please PLEASE listen to your gut when it comes to medical stuff #I didn't like the place I went to after the consultation but felt like I didn't have a choice #because they're one of the few places that do extractions in a hospital setting and I needed that #I should have listened to my gut and tried to find somewhere else to go instead of just passively accepting it like I fucking always do #when am I finally going to grow a spine #anyway yeah take care of yourself because no one else will

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deus-and-the-machina · 2 years ago

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you know the contrast between how Vergil is presented vs thinking too hard about Vergil’s story is pretty funny. Man’s reputation is this iconic badass, the pinnacle of what video game rivalries can be, the coolest guy to play as, the guy who breaks every game he’s added to,

and then you go to the story and like. man’s lost his free will and autonomy at 19 and then came back a fractured man half of which was a lovecraftian eye beast the other half of which was a chronically ill goth man. and then he reunites and hes in like his 40s now I believe but legit the last time he was actually in a game where he wasn’t being mind controlled when he was 19 which is both sad but also thinking about how this guy who’s considered one of the top badasses of gaming has never really lived life outside of being a teenager.

Anyways this is the secret comedic potential of post DMC5 for Vergil because not only has the human world probably changed a fair bit in terms of technology, if he’s sticking around Dante he’s gonna actually have to learn in depth how taxes and grocery shopping work. Amazing.

#thinking about dmc seriously for the first time in a while...I never stopped the occasional canary reblog but hmmmmmmm #like I imagine post 3 Vergil was probably similarly doing mercenary/demon killing work to get money like Dante was and thats sorta shown in #the novels. but like before that when he was a young young kid just post attack he was probably just living feral in an alleyway or smth #with just the yamato prolly similar to how v at the start of visions of v was. that child mugged and dumpster dived ok #point is while obviously he got to a place where he wasnt like. broke and homeless by the gilver era hes probably not had to think much #about money besides it buys me food and clothes mans was confused by one goaland power and yada yada while guess what buddy now you're #gonna be consumed by adulting. I dont even think he'd be that bothered by Dante not paying the bills at first but once he settles into human #living and gets a firsthand experience of what a cold shower when the heating is off feels like he is ON his ass about it #he pretends hes sooooo above human concerns until he has to live them lol and nowhes in charge of devil may crys finances prolly #nero taught him how to do taxes I bet #devil may cry #vergil sparda #vergil

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vaguely-concerned · 2 months ago

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davrin and rye ingellvar's dynamic continues to be unmatched. davrin invites rook along on the training trip with assan in arlathan forest as a sort of extended hand of peace because they've been getting off on the wrong foot a little bit (rook is gamely like HELL YEAH sounds fun! :) while sweating nervously), and then davrin spends the whole walk squinting at rook -- prancing around in his fancy little mourn watch silk robes getting caught on thorns, gawking at common plants and critters like he's never seen them before, stumbling over roots and laughing awkwardly about it even though davrin hasn't even said anything -- like 'who the fuck is this weird indoor kid, how have they survived this long, and more importantly why are we trusting them to save the world'. all while rook is going 'goddd I'm looking so dumb in front of the cool kid and he already questions every second thing I say or do this sucks'. but. they are both trying, and will keep trying. and this is what matters

#(rye is a they/he situation for clarity)#where lucanis and bellara were cases of unexpectedly finding yourself having a lot in common with someone #rye and davrin are almost diametrically opposed personalities and it's so funny #completely confounded by each other's world views and instincts having such a hard time gauging each other's intentions #bafflement and exasperation along the '...why are you like this' lines even as they keep it professional #'can you just be serious for a moment' '(annoyed and pretending not to be) hm. will you pay me to be. otherwise probably not #it's hard work. (maybe if you started acting like you WOULD take me seriously huh)'#it's going to be SO good when they finally start to get each other and get along haha #dragon age #dragon age: the veilguard #dragon age: the veilguard spoilers #dragon age spoilers #davrin #oc: Ellaryen Ingellvar #it's probably not helped by davrin's (very understandable) 'wait you're just letting a possessed master assassin have the run of the place'#while lucanis is nakedly rye's favourite lol. like okay you're passive aggressively tetchy with me and pretending you're not #but the abomination serial killer gets the silk gloves and 'oh dear. oh dear. gorgeous' gentle kisses on the hair???#I can see how that might gall a bit fhdkjsfhsa #('I don't have favourites!' protests local watcher currently trying to shield lucanis dellamorte with their body and soul)#rye was a bit of a wild teenager tho so I think he connects with davrin and assan's stiuation that way and can lend some insight #in that dynamic. and also starts to have some very deep sympathy for the adults in their life at the time eventually b/c oh my GOD

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bitchfitch · 3 months ago

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I've started playing Potion Permit, and so far it's one of my favorite games I've messed around with, but the most big brained move the devs made was giving you a dog on day 1, and then making that dog able to track NPCs and lead you directly to them no matter where they are in the town.

#im still early game but i like the play and the writing is passable #like #Theres a flatness #the characters Are distinct but theyre mostly just their jobs #with only a few who stand out and have like. something to really grab onto #Like rue? rues entire deal is little girl you can date. Nothing else behind those eyes. She has nothing better to talk to you about #than the fact her favorite color is red #Sorcelia? Sorcelia is a goth nun who loves singing and teaches one of the village children #Reynerd? sure is a guy #got nothing else to say about him. hes just a Guy™. Victor? Has ghost friends and loves bugs and cares deeply about the cemetery #he tends to. At the moment it feels like they're trying to imply there aren't actually ghosts. and hes just talking to himself/#insisting his imaginary friends are real people #and so far? The games been cool about it. Victor's a member of his community and his eccentricities are accepted and not ridiculed #all four characters ive mentioned are romance candidates. but its just as hit or miss with the regular towns folk #Opalheart is an older woman and a world renowned blacksmith who only takes jobs if they will do Good. regardless of whether or not they #pay well. She declines to make a dagger for a rich man but makes a helmet for a childs father bc the girl asked #and olive is here #anyways you can be best friends with a cat (shes just a regular cat) and i appreciate that #idk im putting it above sun haven in my ranking of life sim games #purely because there are older romance candidates.#no fat romance candidates. but sun haven doesn't have thise either.#and sdv has neither fat or old candidates Nor can you fuck a cat boy. it goes at the bottom.#gameplay wise sunhaven is at the bottom then sdv then potion permit at the top. sunhaven has the Most™ but having #a lot of crap doesn't mean its fun and it ends up making half the game feel really incomplete #idk. Sdv is a game you should've started playing a year ago. sun haven is a game that perpetually needs another year worth of updates #before id say its worth it bc the devs keep pushing content ™ updates instead of quality of life or polish so what is there is uh #Bad. plentiful. and a large portion is good #but a Lot is just bad.#its insincere and cant take itself seriously it gives you (the right dialogue option) an (the shit joke option) which is worse than just #i ram out of space. tldr. potion permit is good Now. sdv Was good. sun haven Might be great Eventually

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puppycheesecake · 3 months ago

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I thought you were kidding about them putting a post/apology behind a paywall. But then I checked and just had to scream lol. How does this community find a way to monetize *everything*.

Unlock my reply to this ask NOW for only $3!

#in all seriousness starting a post with 'I'm making this because I want to be crystal clear with you-' and then locking the rest #behind a paywall is HILARIOUS #'crystal clear' but only if you pay me #I refuse to speak to you dirty POORS

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niamhthefae · 5 months ago

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"new era" dan what does this mean. is he going blonde too? is phil's hair secretly curly too? are they moving to like,japan or something? are they getting married? are they splitting apart? are they launching the relationship? is phil gonna rebrand to just 'Phil Lester'? Daniel please explain.

#seriously though #is this tour going to start with them kissing on stage or something #dan howell #daniel howell #phan #dan and phil #amazingphil #danandphil #dip n pip #are they going to do the thing from the “no seriously imagine it” post #because if so then i think they will need to pay for everyone's therapy and hospital bills and funeral costs

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hugsandchaos · 7 months ago

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Y’all. I just remembered what my 3AM thought was. I’m just gonna leave it here and see what happens.

Wind: So you’re a hero in your world?

Shadow (as in Shadow the Hedgehog): Yes. Please refrain from touching me.

Sky: You’re a hedgehog, right?

Shadow: Not entirely. I was created with more than just hedgehog anatomy, but it’s true that the majority of my outward appearance is supposed to be that of a hedgehog’s.

Twilight: And you can do magic?

Shadow: Chaos energy.

#curled up in my writer’s corner #what have I done?#is it good?#bad?#what is it??#shadow is close to Wind’s height in my book #At least one of them struggles to take him seriously at first #Shadow helps Hyrule heal the others #Shadow meeting Wolfie and either being obvious and not paying kind to the wolf as big as he is #or knowing right from the start somehow #linked universe #shadow the hedegehog #shadow the ultimate lifeform

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