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Hey so for everyone watching Downfall thats on the Cabaret Train...

Silaha gives big MC vibes, right?

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I fucking love how we have three different portrayals of the Wildmother: Matt, Aabria, and now Taliesin.

And it is so fascinating how Taliesin’s portrayal of the Wildmother is *so* different from Matt’s, especially as he said that this was the version of the Wildmother that Caduceus worships: always hungry and violent.

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Im kind of Infatuated with Nick's portrayal of Pelor because its so much like what we understand of The Dawn Father as a god. Pelor acts in the good of all, regardless of consequence and regardless of situation. He's brash and calm and collected and stern in his understanding that what he does is right. I think the fandom see's this as endearing in ayden because he's human and these acts are being seen on a human scale.

if i keep seeing so many people refer to ayden as an indication of an unknown softness in pelor i will start setting things on fire. just because YOU cannot handle nuance does not mean the story of exandria has not contained it and done so consistently. in fact the first in depth interaction that any party had with pelor (vex becoming his champion) was a portrayal of him that was explicit in his complexity. taken straight from the transcript for 1x104 elysium, “[vex you] spin and look, whereas there once was a burning star-- and to the rest of [vox machina], you see the painful, endless light that averts your gaze-- it doesn't hurt your eyes as much, and you can see the faint features, the soft cheeks, the hairless head, and the bright warm eyes of he who brings the dawn. And you can see the smile there, behind the light. “there is hope.”” sunlight can warm you and burn you in equal measure.

that burning image of the sun has much in common with a teenage boy who steps into a dark room, and reminds the dm that it’s not dark. the same way that a teenage boy who stands by as a woman who will not give up her worship of pelor is punished because he has more important responsibilities he must honour has much in common with a seemingly benevolent lord of the dawn might respond harshly to a cleric who asks if he is worth saving while he is trying to find a way to survive so he might keep helping to provide light. the gods aren’t simple and they never have been. i am as psyched about the particular angle that downfall is taking as anybody but it is already frustrating watching people act like the gods are suddenly more nuanced because they’re in literally mortal bodies when the entire Point of the gods in exandria in the various stories we’ve seen so far is that the only difference they have with mortals is the bounds of their power. they carry all the same flaws and the same profundity. just because so much of the fandom has reduced that to black and white flatness or faulty mapping onto real world religions (or the various traumas those might have caused individuals) doesn’t mean that complexity has been missing at all from the story.

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Saw this license plate today and I'm still ugly laughing about it

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my heart absolutely breaks for gaza. imagine screaming for help. for someone to save you and the world ignores you for the most part. shame on anyone and everyone who supports this. where is your empathy.

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"Mon Amour." Magazine cover illustration for La Vie Parisienne, November 20, 1920. Gouache and watercolor on paper. Rene Vincent.

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Patia Por’co.

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Source

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being on my period makes me feel like a wounded forest animal trying to find a warm dark small place to die

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Today in obscure Doctor Who jokes:

Somebody on Twitter pointed out that the Big Finish companion Hex is canonically from the year 2021, so when he occasionally abbreviates the word "suspicious" to "sus," it's probably an Among Us reference.

The punchline is that this character was actually introduced back in 2004. It was made-up future slang that they happened to get right.

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unfortunately i do believe posthaste is one of the funniest words out there. how quick am i doing something? fast as fuck my good sir

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Wizard worm just emerged from a wizarding hole! Lucky you!!!✨🪱🪄🍀

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You should be starting a recipe book. I don't give a shit if you're only 20-years-old. The modern web is rotting away bit by bit before our very eyes. You have no idea when that indie mom blog is going down or when Pinterest will remove that recipe. Copy it down in a notebook, physically or digitally. Save it somewhere only you can remove it. Trust me, looking for a recipe only to find out it's been wiped off the internet is so fucking sad. I've learned my lesson one too many times.

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Say no more, King.