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using the traffic light system during a kink scene but shaking my head the entire time so the audience knows i dont support car-dependant infrastructure and its influence on the common vocabulary

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there basically isn't a single established action archetype that you can't improve tenfold by making it a girl

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The Sopranos - 4x08 “Mergers & Acquisitions”

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rhava 'rook' de riva in red

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wooo trans men lets give it up for trans men big fan of trans men

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“…to me” is one of the most powerful disclaimers we have on here… is this character analysis accurate? debatable. but it’s real… to me.

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idk i think what is interesting about astarion to me is the fact that you have a guy who started out an asshole (normal type) and then spent two hundred years in a very carefully and specifically crafted (by the writers of the game) Become A Terrible Person Or Die nexus. like it wasn’t just a Torment Nexus, he wasn’t just in hell, i feel like this is very important not to forget, he was in hell but it was specifically a hell designed to, over time, kill the empathy of anyone trapped in it, kill their brain’s ability to prioritize other peoples’ survival, to numb one’s conscience.

and then he gets yanked directly out of that nexus and despite that the fact that he spent, again, two hundred years in a situation that was sort of a rock tumbler for the human soul, there’s still a pebble left in there. and it’s a pebble that can be grown if placed in the right environment and provided with a support network.

so i think it becomes interesting because it really does i think force you to start thinking about the limits of free will even on as basic a level as the human personality. i think the fact that he becomes such a different character based on player choice, that his end morality is so hugely dependent on player choice, is uhhh. a big part of what the devs were going for probably.

it makes a lot of people really uncomfortable to acknowledge some bad people would be good people if literally nothing changed except they had a good support network and different circumstances. especially because it means the opposite is also true. which is even more uncomfortable.

you know that part in the beginning of fellowship of the ring where gandalf is talking about how gollum is ultimately only like that because of the ring and gandalf thinks his story is sad? astarion is kinda like if they sexualized gollum.

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I wish to purchase goods and services without entering a blood covenant that entitles the provider to email and text me forever and also store a bunch of my personal data that they’re going to apologize for exposing in a breach in the next five to ten years

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You never recover from being weird in middle school

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you're just mad because you're hungry and tired and your legs hurt and you head hurts and you're too hot and you have depression

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two nebraska dates and some loser city in oregon but NO florida AT ALL as if miami isnt cocaine hq? flop

newark instead of nyc? flop

fuckass worcester instead of boston or gillette stadium? flop

no latin america as if brazilian gays wouldnt be singlehandedly keeping the other bandmates rent paid is crazy. FLOP.

st louis should be in a special font with glitter and hearts around it. flop

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Santa Cruz River, Wool Rug - Alexandra KEHAYOGLOU, 2017.

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shadow of a doubt (1943)

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"... You're what??"

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Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones (2002)