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I know this'll never happen but imagine how cool it would be if bells hells died one by one and they didn't revive or make new characters, so there's just less and less of them around the table until they all die or it's a 1 v whatever small number of the surviving member(s) fight against ludinus

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and it's a feeling of joy...

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critical role c3e90: a story told in captions

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this has definitely been said before but there's no way Imogen "Horse Girl" Temult only has an eight in strength, at least from a story perspective

the little I know about horse care takes a lot of strength, she wasn't riding around on Flora with twig arms

Shout out to Imogen fan artists who saw that 8 strength stat and simply said "no I don't think I will." You are the backbone of society.

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I love listening to worlds beyond number and watching critical role around the same time because I get to hear a bunch of adults in their 30s and 40s figuring out how to go to the moon and the north pole

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my shitty memory did such a good job of convincing me that my lover by birdtalker is on yasha's official playlist that I cried while washing dishes because I realized that the verse about the circus could be a reference to molly

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well now I need to know what pies you're eating because so far the best pie I've had is the mcdonalds apple one which can't be right

I need to know what goes in Byroden pie that took Orym from never having eaten pie in his life to buying a whole apple pie just for himself before an actual war meeting

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on top of that, I feel like luc is a sort of "higher" level 8 than bh was

if you think about it, those 8 levels are something he's been working on literally his whole life, so those skills are much more ingrained for him

but bell's hells just did a speedrun (literally TWO MONTHS between them meeting at level three and the solstice), so even though they were also level 8, they were WAY less experienced than teenager(?) luc

I honestly think the funniest part of last night is that Luc is level 8 which is the same level the Bells Hells were when the solstice happened and yet the whole time everyone was like “you weak child you are going to die instantly” which isn’t wrong but it’s funny to put it in perspective

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I need to know what goes in Byroden pie that took Orym from never having eaten pie in his life to buying a whole apple pie just for himself before an actual war meeting

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brb gotta go scream about taliesin "have you not realized that I'm a hypocrite?" jaffe warning the group about fcg's martyr complex to the point of calling them dangerous only to turn around and do something guaranteed to make himself a martyr 30 episodes later

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loving the little fearne calloway fan club in episode 77

laudna choosing to bring her on the little night trip when nobody would've bat an eye if she just made it an imodna date thing

orym taking time to not only give her the spyglass, but also make sure she knows how much he loves her (also I personally believe it was liam talking to ashley at the same time)

everything with ashton, romantic and not. the kiss. the trust. the vulnerability. calling her hot.

just all the little scenelets appreciating fearne

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thinking about the light that shines when things end has me emotional

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I'm not even done with the vod yet but I had to

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Well, you know, some bathroom graffiti offers insight.

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transferring likes from my alt account to this one has me wishing I could tattoo 'do-it-yourself undead' on my heart

and if you're reading this as someone who isn't following inksinned, GO DO THAT RIGHT NOW. they're one of my favourite writers and I'll consider myself wildly successful if my writing ever comes just a fraction close to theirs

it's just - the way you were, the way that you got, back then. the bad rush, the oil spill so high up your neck that your teeth swam in it. what you needed back then was a barn raising. what you needed back then was all-hands-on-deck.

it's just - you needed a village, is all. you needed your parents to actually just cool it for a second, because for one minute if you were very still, in the middle of the act of being roadkill: you could feel it. the edges of that sharp thing, the other-world, the promised land, the bird that was supposed to be born in your throat.

if you'd just - if any one person had just - noticed. maybe that would have been enough. you could have convinced your body to do a strange form of necromancy: you could have come back with the rope ladder. you were an emergency flare. you were morse code.

it's okay. come home again. us do-it-yourself undead, those of us who broke the book and still found our way out of the grave again. we never got the return flight. we never got the party. we just got up. we got up and then we kept going, because nobody else was gonna clean the mess. we might as well. we just... exist here, half-ghosts, barely-made it kids. no medals, except the strange serene rush of spreading jam on perfect toast. of moving a paintbrush. the silence that knows about the danger of sparks. the little candle of our heart not a stormbreaker or earthshaker. just the persistent lick of hope.

it is a quiet reward. we will not get the barn, but we do get each other. a night sky of little lights made from the gruesome survival of blood and bone. the life we made in the dark. a little somber radiance. a spellwork that's all our own.

in the end - despite it all, we built ourselves a home.

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idk if this counts as an "unpopular opinion" or if it's just an Ace Thing but I'm so tired of movies and shows building up a (usually straight) romance only to have it culminate in an unspoken confession with a passionate kiss and some artful shots implying they had s3x

obviously there's nothing inherently wrong with it, I've definitely loved so many things that did this, but it starts to suck when it becomes the standard and intertwines romantic love with (s3xual) physical acts, which then creates unrealistic societal expectations around milestones like having your first kiss or losing your v!rg!nity

show me newly established lovers staying up all night telling each other how they feel in detail, explaining every step of how they got to the point of loving each other and all the different ways they feel that love. show me confessions and questions and consent for "normal" things like hand holding and hugging, or no physical affection at all. show me one of them making stupid puns playing on traditional romantic partner names, so stupid it makes the other person jokingly regret confessing in the first place. show me them existing comfortably in silence together after there were probably multiple scenes of them finding excuses to not be alone together because they felt awkward. show me them instantly doing cheesy couple things and adding hearts to their contact names in their phones. show me a friend-group-turned-polycule that does the same things they've always done but with a different understanding of each other and their feelings.

show me creative expressions of romance. show others that romance is valid even (especially!) if there's no s3xual/physical element. show love as it is, as an infinite expanse of feelings and expressions and experiences.