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Dewerstone Woods Dartmoor UK

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“Hope not built on reason brings disappointment only.”

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Mistress of Spices

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Glass mosaic fragment, Roman late 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE

image credit: The Met

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Seed packet cabinet (1940s) via

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Wallington Hall by thiswildandbeautiful.

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Sylvia Plath, The Moon and the Yew Tree

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“Let’s just sit quietly and listen to the secrets the rain wants to tell us.”

— John Mark Green.

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Fate decides How these columns align Birth by chess or benign Every moment Marble gods Tango circles in space Round the already dead Hung by staircase up -White Ball by Miracle Musical

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Commission from @kirnet of Alorus, my dear sacrificial lamb.

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Something about dragons were surprising to Kore, though she couldn't place why. Yet past that initial confusion, she found their presence very soothing, almost familiar.

#febhyurary :: day 10 - dragon

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Thank you so much @ambalambs for letting me borrow your boy for this!

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WHEN: 4/27 at 8PM Eastern WHERE: Lavender Beds, Ward 10 House 3, Mateus

CIRQUE presents: Treasure Planet

Like a Candarian zap-wing overtaking its prey, Captain Nathaniel Flint and his band of pirates swooped in out of nowhere, and then, gathering up his spoils, vanished without a trace. Flint's secret trove was never found, but stories have persisted that it remains hidden somewhere at the farthest reaches of the galaxy. Stowed with riches beyond imagination, the loot of a thousand worlds.

Jim Hawkins always had dreams of leaving his family's inn and exploring the stars in search of Flint's long lost treasure. Then one night, after a sudden crash landing, the dying words of a notorious pirate brings danger to Jim and his family, as his home is destroyed. Left with the map of the dying pirate, Jim sets out in search of its treasure to save his family from this dire situation but does Jim have what it takes to sail among the stars like the pirates in his stories?

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I just finished it and I think the entire sequence of the Endwalker lvl 83 quest In From the Cold is kind of amazing.

I've been wanting to talk about it since I saw it happen in a playthrough.

It brings together the soul research lore, Zenos and Garlemald in general in such a cool way.

Your friends could've been dead here.

You could have been forever stuck in that soldier's body.

It's absolutely fantastic gameplay/story integration. Endlessly frustrating and annoying, but absolutely awesome thematically.

And it's not just about understanding the situation of the regular Garlean soldier, but also how powerful you actually are.

And how much the Warrior of Light cares for their friends and people.

You are crawling forward by the end to get to the camp.

That duty said so much more by having no quest markers and just throwing you into the chaos than any line of dialog ever could, even if it took me like more than an hour to beat.

(Varis' fate is disgusting and meaningful in just the right way, too. What else would be controlling Garlemald?)

Thancred's duty earlier in the story was equally cool because of thematic and gameplay reasons, but served a much different, chiller purpose.

This game has grown to be so ridiculously good at making thematic encounters.

And I hope we will continue to see it in Dawntrail. I still remember so many solo duties in ARR being so generic. But then gradually it just got better and better.

I really, really hope they won't shy away from it even if it is "frustrating". Not all of the solo duties need to be like this, but I hope they continue sneaking in stuff like this.

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Massive carved Smiling Faces of the Bayon Temple of Angkor, Cambodia