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made this super quick

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obsessed with this update in particular

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okay, listen. i know it's very angsty, and sad, and i'm fully aware of mëlinoe's suffering, as well as neglect, and her struggle to carry a gigantic weight on her shoulders, while trying not to lose herself

but like, imagine that hypnos really does wake up one day, and mëlinoe's like, "Oh, dear Hypnos!" and tells him her plight, and he just hits him with a sleepy dialogue:

"idk, maybe try not dying this time?"

COME ON. LIKE. JWBWJWW, zag and mëlinoe alliance against hypnos commentary ksnsns

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thinking about Icarus having burn scars

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Ok, am I dreaming, or is Chronos kind of a mean girl grandpa who is actually quite fond of Melinoe? I could be wrong, but he reads a lot to me like he's bantering her with some... acidity, let's say... and also indulging her in her visits. He's giving the vibes that he has a feral granddaughter on the loose and while he'll insult her friends and threaten her and to brag... He also is very cognisant that he has literally all the time in the world, and he doesn't try too hard to capture her to put her on ice like the rest of her family.

To me it reads like there would be LOTS of room for a reconciliation arc. Sucks a lot for mortals, but if Zag and co are truly in stasis, then by godly standards Chronos' war is pretty mild as vengence goes, and hasn't lasted so long that amends can't be made.

I somehow doubt this is going to be the end game, but man... I like that mean old man. I bet his badass granddaughter giving him a run for his money is the highlight of this nights.

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oh don't mind me, I'm simply crying thinking about all the time, effort and care my boy Zag must have put into renovating and decorating his home to make it look the prettiest for his sweet reunited family and baby sister and friends and loved ones and doggo, all that being just *gone* because some fuckass winged clock decided to come over and screw it all up like. Now all that sand makes it look like some old abandoned beach smh

Also think about the tragedy of the first game characters when Melinoe was born

Imagine Hades being excited to become a girl dad and welcome her into the newly reunited family, Zag enthusiastic yet anxious about becoming a big brother, with his friends/mentors/lovers being happy for him and encouraging him. Persephone thinking she'll be finally able to raise her own child and watch her grow up. But no. and meli doesn't even remember anything about them

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Y'all, max vow of rivals is Not only 12 fear. I'm like 30 attempts in and I have yet to beat either of them. I got close once with Chronos, but that was when I had over 500 health and an absurd build. And admittedly I have been focusing on Chronos but Typhon is also just. utter bullshit

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The entire book is like that yeah :)

no one told me Crime and Punishment was a comedy

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cosmic horror is visiting a friend for a week and then having to return to your normal life knowing how much better it could be

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quick sketch I made after the recent chapter

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stop reading tomes with the gnomes and come read a scroll with the ghoul

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Americans will really measure in any form of unit huh?

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thinking about when my brother got chatbanned from overwatch and the email they sent him after he tried to appeal it said “we dont normally bring up the incriminating messages, but in this case we feel its necessary to show you what got you banned” and it was all shit like “ i will kidnap you in the desert and make you forget how to eat”

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Dandelions symbolize everything I want to be in life

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literally any upper middle class tiktok self-identified ‘that girl’ in a pastel workout set with a thirteen step skincare routine and a green juice is a million times closer to being patrick bateman irl than any self-identified sigma film bro

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I'm mostly near potatoes and wheat right now but that sounds lovely, I think I'll go for a walk if I get the opportunity to see the corn :)

If you go to the American Midwest there's a wizard living in the corn and if you catch him you get three wishes.