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patxi in lb1 never having seen the beautiful sky past the stormclouds but urging guda to destroy his world because the only thing that exists in his world is strength and patxi laments how there had to be a limit to misery in the yaga continuing to emulate old human customs especially laughter when they didn't understand it and instead lived a cruel lifestyle where only the strongest survive leading to a stagnant cycle of violence and survival and despite everything the world of panhuman history sounds beautiful vs oberon in lb6 wanting to utterly annihilate the world because it's nothing but a bastion of cruelty where even the small kindnesses that he's fighting for are all but stamped out where the fairies emulate humanity but are in fact cruel to everything they don't understand and later on aiming to destroy panhuman history for their actions in destroying lostbelts and in turn declaring themselves as a true history and once he's defeated the one and only truth he sees after all his time as a living lie is the blue sky of panhuman history so beautiful it disgusts him

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something about how in the garden of lost will the reflection of guda telling them it's ok to give up is oberon the guy that specifically is too stubborn to ever give up. guda throughout lb6 subtly pieces together that oberon is shady but only really puts it together right at the end and before that what they understand the most about oberon is that even if they aren't being fully forthright and they use underhanded methods they are fully committed to helping castoria. so oberon in the garden as a reflection of guda comforting them by saying its ok to give up also ties back to the moment in gloucester when oberon says that because he and guda share the spot of spectators, that guda is the only one who can really punish oberon when all is said and done. both of them are witnessing each other's mad dash towards their ends and as much as they would like to comfort the other they also share the understanding that neither can really give up even if they stand directly in each other's ways

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what a lovely day to get fucked up about how lb6 keeps having castoria proudly talk about the magic merlin taught her and because you know that merlin mentored artoria pendragon in panhuman history and know the incredible magic feats he’s capable of you have zero reason to doubt that this artoria indeed was taught some incredible magics by merlin, but then she shows off her magic teachings and it’s all party tricks and petty crime. her signature move is sensing the structure of a building to get in and out fast, the chief principle behind her fighting style is to cheat and use everything possibly available to get the upper hand. but you’ve met merlin, and you know him to be kind of a shithead, so it seems plausible that he would teach her how to do crime because it’s funny. merlin prefers whacking em with a sword to casting spells so you have no reason to doubt that he’d teach her to take the most efficient road to victory even if it’s a little scummy.

and then you learn it wasn’t merlin, it was oberon. castoria’s magecraft is all party tricks because oberon has no aptitude for anything more complicated or grandiose than that. castoria was taught to fight doing whatever it takes to win, pride or honor be damned, because oberon wasn’t trying to raise a king to lead the country, he was trying to give this girl the tools to survive in a world the cruelty of which he is more familiar with than anyone else. not because she’s the chosen one and definitely not because he’s the end of the world but just because someone had to and nobody else would

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seeing tonelicos profile where it's basically morgan without the 2000 years of suffering in trying to save a land trying to kill itself really hammers it home she and castoria are both the avalon la fae. the planet made a faerie to become the sword and made them live as a human in order to deconstruct and understand what humanity is but despite that and both morgan and castoria having hated every single moment of their life they have never stopped fighting for their tiny light of hope. as avalon la fae you are the only one who can judge me when i abandoned it. in another life, i was once exactly like you. not a single thing is different, not a single thing is the same

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I thought I was the most devoted to our order’s sacred code of law, but it turns out I’m just autistic and like following clearly defined rules

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commission for anonymous!

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there is only one number who has ever ate another. there is only one number who has ever died. which one feels worse

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Some time ago (I think in 2021) I had to go see a neurologist over really scary symptoms that resembled seizures. I was a nervous wreck about what I was feeling and had barely slept all week, which seemed to be apparent to the doc’s assistant when I sat down in the exam room for questioning or whatever. Dude was pretty young and soft spoken, around my age. He was laser focused doing something on one of those tablet-laptop Surface things as I spoke, presumably writing down my symptoms.

Midway through talking about my symptoms my voice audibly started shaking as I was describing them, clearly upset.

In the middle of my monologue he turns the tablet to face me, closes whatever program he has open and the wallpaper is this fucking collage of pictures of lord farquaad from shrek, lovingly decorated. Dude just sat there placidly smiling at me until I noticed and stopped dead in the middle of a sentence. We sat there in silence like this for like a solid minute before I started wheezing laughing. Before I could even say anything else or process it he picked up the tablet and wordlessly left the room, and I just sat there dumbfounded until the doctor showed up. 10/10 doctor experience tbh

I didn’t own a cell phone at the time to get a photo so this rendition from memory is all I can provide you

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I know that some British people take umbrage at Americans calling the Great British Bake Off relaxing, but it's just because GBBO is such a different kind of stressful from American baking shows.

American baking shows will be called something like "Cupcake Knife Fight", there's horror movie lighting everywhere and dramatic stings every 5 seconds. All of the contestants are shit talking each other and fist fighting over the one single deep fryer provided by production. It will show the judges all whispering to each other at their super villain table overlooking the whole kitchen, and one will be like, "Oh my god. Everyone look at Brenda right now. She's straight tanking it." And it will cut to Brenda, who is running around covered in flour and crying and also bleeding for some reason. Then you get a clip from an interview with one of the contestants, and they're like, "I really need to win this. Without this award money, I'm gonna need to close my restaurant, sell my dad, and live out of my car. AGAIN." Then the giant digital doomsday clock overhead lets out a horrid klaxon, the judges tell half of them that their cupcakes taste disgusting, and one of them gets eliminated and sent to walk down the dramatically-lit shame hallway never to be seen again.

Meanwhile GBBO is in a lovely, brightly colored tent, there are delightful and friendly hosts/jesters there to keep everyone entertained, and all of the B Roll is of like... a bumblebee going into a flower, or a lamb running in a field. And yes, there will be moments where someone will mess up their timing or something, and they'll be looking at their bake through the oven door like, "oh gosh I don't think this will rise in time!" Then they stand up to find Paul Hollywood directly behind them ominously. His creepy whitewalker eyes will glow white, and he'll say something like "the 12th of June. 2035. Drowning." And his eyes will go back to normal and he'll walk away. Then the baker gives a playful grimace to the camera and says "that didnt sound great, did it?". Cut to a sweet looking older woman sipping tea on a stool and she says "oo I do hope that Prue enjoys the taste of my sugary, sticky baps!". Then, at the end, someone gets a gold star for doing good, and the loser of the episode gets in the middle of a giant group hug. You see all of them at the end of the series at a giant carnival with their families and the post credits informs you that all of the contestants have become a Partridge Family-style traveling band and stayed friends forever.

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no animal was harmed during the making of this video. not one. for the few minutes that we were shooting film, the guns of each hunter fell silent. the industrial bolt throwers observed a moment's peace and the jaws of every predator hung softly open. no fish bit any hook and the bait worms held off on drowning only until the cameras stopped. the tails of ruminants ceased to flick just as their attendant flies, in unison, landed on their flanks to catch their tiny breaths. a spider instantly stopped winding silk around a wasp, patiently waiting for the caesura to end. a young veterinarian paused with the syringe in their hand. somewhere, a colicky baby stopped biting its mother's nipple and nursed happily for the very first time. we're sorry. we're sorry it couldn't have been longer. we didn't know this would happen.

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Jedi are absolute adrenaline junkies at their hearts of hearts and I respect that.

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Rebecca Sugar cooked with "Character whose entire existence is devoted to the service of another character who's now dead and now they have no idea what to do with themselves except live." I love that shit. I forged myself into a tool for you and now you're gone. I'm sniffing this like a bloodhound

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I loved when “Drift Compatible” entered pop lexicon cause we were in DESPERATE need for a way to platonically express “one of us to the other is as a limb to a body; we are a left and right feet of a dancer; we do not need to speak because any one word inspires an exchange of unspoken words that conveys a full conversation in which a mutual conclusion is determined in an instant”. Huge win for the QPRs out here

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abandoned space elevator

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