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[Spoiler] For years People theorising, joking and talking about the 10th class

We all though it was him

But this whole time, This. Whole. Time.

It was him. He was here this whole time.

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I think they ended the TF2 comics perfectly. There was no master plan, no world-ending threats. Just petty grudges and an inescapable hunger. For as bonkers as this game is, the message is legit touching. Nothing lasts forever. All the Australium in the world won’t sustain you, nothing perfect can last. Even if Ms. Pauling gave the Administrator the rest of the cache, how long would that stay? It’s a finite resource. Just to keep two people who don’t know why they hate each other alive. To have the strength to end that, and to end all the suffering the material caused…

I’m really glad the writers made that choice. Because it kind of echoes this being the last issue of the comic. The story’s over. Nothing lasts forever. Not even the grudges and meaningless conflict. The Gravel Wars are over. The mercs can rest.

Idk, just feeling satisfied with an ending is a weird emotion. I think part of it is the meta aspect of things. Despite all odds, the TF2 community is still kicking, for better or worse. It’s funny to say nothing can kill this damn game, but it’s not true. One day, TF2 will be well and truly dead.

And people will move on. The millions of hours people have invested into this game will inch further away. And that’s fine. Nothing can last forever.

It’s a beautiful farewell to the community. And maybe a greeting to whatever comes next.

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For a long time I wondered if the final TF2 comic would ever come out. For a longer time I wondered if I wanted it to. They built it up so much, hyped the Administrator's big plan so high, and then waited so long, could they possibly ever meet expectations?

I don't know if what they did was what they originally planned, or if there even was a plan, but I think they knocked it out of the park. It feels... right.

And it cemented the Administrator as one of the most terrifying villains in history. But before I discuss that, SPOILERS:

It was all pointless. None of it ever mattered.

The Gravel Wars, the fighting, the Australium, the deaths, the Classic Mercs, none of it mattered at all. Because Helen or whatever her name is just an addict getting her fix.

She kept a man alive for near enough two hundred years, trapped in the moment just before death by a thousand diseases, because she dedicated her life so thoroughly to ending him that when he finally croaked, she had nothing left. So she brought him back to suffer more. And then extended her OWN life so she could keep making him suffer.

And she doesn't even remember why. She was a child when Zepheniah Mann killed her parents, and she's something like a hundred and seventy years old now. It's been three normal lifetimes since then, and she's forgotten. But she never forgot the hate.

She sabotaged two infant's futures by raising them to be bafoons just to hurt their father. She orchestrated a forever war to spite a single man. She was prepared to keep this going until the heat death of the universe.

Do you know what would have happened if Pauling had lost her nerve and admitted they found a new stash of magic metal? With all three Mann brothers dead, she probably would have gone after Olivia. The last Mann standing, and a girl who at the time was only seven and had barely any connection to the Mann legacy at all, and probably didn't know her grandfather's name! And Helen would have gone after her and ruined her life just to make Zepheniah watch as yet another generation of Mann was ruined.

What a pointless, misspent life. What a waste of time. What an ending.

It makes what comes next all the greater. Scout and Soldier are dads with happy children, Spy still can't admit their relation but gets to be part of his grandkids' lives and he and Jeremy trust each other enough that Scout doesn't blink when he takes his mask off. Team Fortress is happy. They moved on. Found new lives.

Helen couldn't. She had all the time in the world and then some, and she just couldn't move on.

What a waste.

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Thanks Valve, I’m crying

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Ch. 187 | Chainsaw Man | Tatsuki Fujimoto

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Art credit: E_Volution_@Evolution_ygo Twitter.

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nami is usually the one who has a soft spot for children, so it means a lot for robin to be the crewmember bonney latched on to. robin who cut her hair and put on a dark dress so she could look similar to her childhood self. and bonney, who is finally comfortable and safe enough to look her real age

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despite everything ‼️

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beauty

The Great Renas

Ena as the great runas (or more so a follower)

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gay little man

i dont draw humans like at all but this guy has been rotting my brain

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has jojo as my blog subtitle, description is "posts about anime"

more than half of my latest reblogs have been ena

I need help

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ENA sketch from work today ^.^

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Mortis Ghost just released a video for OFF merch on Fangamer, but also in video featuring OFF gameplay there is a SECTION FEATURING GAMEPLAY IN A NEVER BEFORE SEEN LEVEL?!? ARE WE GETTING AN EXPANDED VERSION OF THE OFF GAME?!??

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i've heard it said that malazan is a three million word essay on the nature of compassion

and this is true

but if malazan is an essay then this here is the thesis statement:

“We humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know of its worth, yet in knowing we then attach to it a value, we guard the giving of it, believing it must be earned, T’lan Imass. Compassion is priceless in the truest sense of the word. It must be given freely. In abundance.”

and that sentiment is so utterly beautiful that by itself it balances all three million words and ten books of cynicism and despair and suffering

let alone the fact that throughout the series this thesis is lived out again and again

these books man

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Ring rong run