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ctommy's character as a whole is characterized by love, hope, and grief. you cannot have one of these things without the others.

tommy's love for his friends, pets, and belongings is the first big motivation in his story. he is attached to his discs because they represent happiness, safety, and home, all things that he loves. his love for these things fills him with hope for the future, and now hope is a major part of him. when wilbur and tommy are exiled, he has hope that he'll be able to save l'manberg and wilbur by proxy, a blatant display of love. this is also where grief enters tommy's story. he is grieving the loss of his home, but remains hopeful, because he believes that he can reclaim it. tommy's feelings of grief are exacerbated by wilbur's death, which he has a front row seat to. he grieves not only his brother, but the idealized view he had of wilbur. he grieves because he loves wilbur and because he had hope that wilbur would get better, that his problems would be fixed after they got l'manberg back. all three are cogs in a machine that keep tommy moving. each of them motivates him to continue, even in the darkest of times. he lived through exile because he found hope in his escape. he lived through doomsday and didn't break down because his friends who he loved were there to support him. he lived through the disc war finale because of how much he loved others; they came to save him. he lived, he lived, he lived. in his finale, his love, hope, and grief ultimately led to his demise; he loved tubbo and had hope that tubbo would live a fulfilling life if he committed an ultimate sacrifice.

love, hope and grief is what makes tommy. they are the reason why he lives, they are the driver of his tragic death. tommy loves with his entire being, he holds hope in his entire being, grief wracks his entire being. tommy is love, hope and grief incarnate. it's why he wears his heart on his sleeve; tommy is his heart.

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wei wuxian YOU KNOW THE TRUTH, stop your poor man from torturing himself

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Wei Wuxian- I pretty much only write him with Lan Wangji but I love them a lot. <3

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not even JRR Tolkien, who famously developed the concept of the Secondary World and firmly believed that no trace of the Real World should be evoked in the fictional world, was able to remove potatoes from his literature. this is a man who developed whole languages and mythologies for his literary world, who justified its existence in English as a translation* simply because he was so miffed he couldn't get away with making the story fully alien to the real world. and not even he, in extremis, was so cruel as to deny his characters the heavenly potato. could not even conceive a universe devoid of the potato. such is its impact. everyone please take a moment to say thank you to South Americans for developing and cultivating one of earth's finest vegetables. the potato IS all that. literally world-changing food. bless.

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people are clowning on this guy on reddit but uhhh let's pause for a minute and ask...so what happens if someone has a skin condition? what if part of their face has been burned? what if they're missing their eyes? and so what if they just have a fuckton of tattoos? recognition algorithms are aligned with the most ""average"" / ""normal"" features which means any deviation gets denied access to shit we didnt need age verification for 1 year ago. i dont care if it's a choice versus not, dont care if it's accessing porn or wikipedia, this needs to stop

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