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like 2 hours post inevitable ruin and i have conceptualized the most self indulgent floor 10 fic that i cant actually say anything about because it will give me a false sense of reward and then i will not be able to write it

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iiiiiit's time for Mordecai text posts!!!!!

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one critical piece of advice is that opportunities are fractal doorways

you can take an opportunity that seems small, a group meeting for an hour once a week let's say, and if you really commit and put a lot of effort into even a small opportunity, if you work to prop open that passageway, then you will find that it can surprisingly quickly multiply into many future possibilities, many future paths.

one of the members of your small book club desperately needs a babysitter for the weekend. that's a gig. another one hits it off with you on some obscure topic. the bulletin board at the place you meet has a flyer for a class on writing. you go, and now you're in an environment full of other people who are there for the same reasons. talk to them. over drinks one night an older member encourages you to apply for uni with one of your short stories you wrote for the class. et cetera.

I spent a lot of time paralyzed with indecision, trying to find just the right opportunity to get me where i wanted to go. that's the entirely wrong way to go about it. practice pursuing possibilities is more important than optimizing your choice of path, waiting for just the perfect opportunity to magically drop into your lap. It likely won't happen like that, it's not necessary, and you don't need to live your whole life at once. Frodo didn't arrive at Mt Doom by making the optimal choice on the first crossroads out of the shire.

Instead cultivate an attitude of engagement with whatever imperfect seemingly insignificant opportunities that are already in front of you, and keep an open mind & eyes, and trust in the fractal nature of reality. look for threads to pull, opportunities to pursue, and engage with people as if every one of them has something new to teach you, and somewhere new to take you that you've never been. they probably do. the more you engage the more you'll find out that this is true; trust that paths will lead to more paths even if you can't see them yet. trust that the big scary void question mark of a future contains not only unseen dangers but also an unseen unfurling infinity of options and paths, friends and lovers, work and play. i love u

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guys that only read self help books are so cringe. like bro all books are self help books the characters make the mistakes so you dont have to. After reading oediupus rex i knew to not do that

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and yet the days go by

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being 13 was crazy cuz it's like no one is coming to save you. there's only one option and it's to read about band guys having gay sex

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Can we all take a moment to cry about Imani? She is 20 years old. She is BARELY not a teenager anymore. And she so so SO desperately wanted to escape being looked to as the bearer of responsibility. But the burden found her anyway. And she can’t ever escape it. Not really. People will always look to her to make the hard choices. And the worst tragedy of it all is that SHE will always step up to make the impossible choices when nobody else will and so she can never put the burden down because when push comes to shove, THAT is who Imani is

She ran so hard and so far to escape but here she is. In this inevitable ruin.

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Hate the whole "the AI doesn't love Carl" argument because it doessss but its love is a disgusting, vile, slimy love. It's an oppressive love shot through with obsession and sadistic want. It's the love of parts, not the love of the whole - love of the feet, the hair, the fiery attitude, but not the person at heart, not really. It's love not unlike what a dog might hold for a toy that will one day get discarded - torn into and shaken for enjoyment, then tossed away, broken. It's a love that is detrimental for the receiver of this "affection". However, it's love nonetheless.

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oh my god i didn’t even connect the dots but. the late inevitable ruin reveal that louis is convinced he can magically charm npcs into falling in live with him but in the alternate universe where they took the firas card from floor eight. my thoughts…my visions…..

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no little günter! don't go to the infinite bug temple!

Oh mein gott zis place is full of insekt und bomben 💥💣

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Dungeon Crawler Carl as Textposts!!

Part 2

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Katia upgrading from the simple leather jacket to locking tf in makes sense. Also doing this for future purposes

Inspiration below the cut

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(MAJOR SPOILERS UP TO DCC: BEDLAM BRIDE)

Finished this in a random one week sprint, this series gives me a lot of emotions. Cheers!

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Crying over this panel specifically

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dungeon crawler carl is so good it made me cry about a one-off character that didnt even exist for a whole chapter