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but seriously i think learning about nature is Hard for many people, especially adults, because you have to rationalize the symbiotic experience youre having next to the contemptuous and abusive way we treat the land. I think USAmericans fear nature as a way of making sense of the fact that we're waging war against nature, with our lawns and our suburbs and our landscaping and our cosmetic use of pesticides.

There was a post on facebook my mom was showing me where someone found a salamander and was asking what it was. thankfully half the comments were like "that's a SALAMANDER they are SPECIAL and a BLESSING and you must PROTECT it"

but the other half were things like..."I don't know, but I think it's time to move" "Burn the house down" "Kill it with fire" "I would scream if i saw that"

this is why i have such specific preferences in horror fiction that nothing seems to really hit: for me, horror is not about bad things happening, horror is about fear. So occasionally I find these really satisfying stories that are about fear of the unknown thing and the experience of fear, but the unknown thing being harmless is generally seen as a "twist" rather than a perfectly sensible and satisfying outcome.

on the face of it: why would you be afraid of a tiny creature weighing only grams, whose body is so delicate and frail? it's heartbreaking, but it's not unexplainable. What kind of a childhood makes someone an adult who is totally unprepared to comprehend the idea of something both unexpected and good?

a bizarre universe to try and place myself in, where a salamander is more likely to be...what? a mutated fetus of a brain-sucking alien? rather than one among the thousands of gentle creatures that you can marvel at, forever, for free.

It's the same way with bugs: people argue with the simple fact that nearly all insects cannot harm you, and I think it's because it's so difficult to reconcile with how liberally and carelessly we use insecticides with proven harms to humans and pets, and how we treat and speak about these creatures in general. If that weird bug almost certainly would not have harmed you, that means you killed a living thing because you didn't understand it, and that's a troubling thought.

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Listen, folks, I also hate generative AI and do not think it is an effective accomodation, but if your argument against it is "Oh, you think [task] is hard? What a stupid idiot baby!" then I'm sorry to say that is Literally Just Ableism. Please think about what you are saying. The point should be that it doesn't actually work to solve the problems that people are struggling with, not that they're wrong for struggling in the first place.

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PatD (with Spectre details) electric boogaloo

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Can you teach me to be Real?

ibis paint couldnt handle this one, it keep crashin brah 💀

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The woman smiled ear-to-ear in a convincing recreation of earnestness. "My name's Lily Veselka. You can think of me as a friend, for now, and isn't that what's important?"

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hey. don't cry. great artist Yoshihide has been tasked by the Lord of Horikawa to create a painting upon a folding screen of, you being loved by all of your friends. and he claims to only be able to paint what he has seen :)

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Based on some NG+ post-battle dialogue lol

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Idk got tired and kinda gave up ^_^;;

Immana try 2 post more often ㅠ>ㅠ

Tlq is crying cuz I cried playing this chapter

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4th Match Flame ego corrosion Yi Sang and Ryoshu.

There is no Rodion because of my obsession with bones

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the cage except i couldnt look at any references because i was in school (and i drew this before i knew everything there is to know about the route so WE BALL)

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If you were told to read a book or paper until a paragraph has justified text alignment

does justify means the end?

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Let's talk about that Teaser

If you haven't seen it yet, go watch it. It's short, but absolutely packed I believe.

So let's talk about it

Let's just address the elephant in the room. We have Kim Sin-woo, Hong Lu's VA, voicing Daiyu in the teaser. I would have said that is proof enough of Two in One, but I'll give a more thorough analysis of the teaser.

The teaser starts off with a view of a gate of some kind, potentially to the garden. The colors and lighting are pastel, very light and soft.

In the background, Daiyu is reciting the Flower Burial Song poem. We know it's Daiyu due to the text color - white with red. Crimson Pearl. I won't be commenting on it further, but just know I called it being used for the teaser.

Next is an image of someone sorting through flower petals, likely Daiyu themself. The colors are still soft pastels. No face is shown.

This image fades into another person doing the same. This outfit matches the one Hong Lu is shown wearing later on in the teaser, meaning we know it's later on. The lighting changes to be warm and full of reds and purples, giving a nostalgic, melancholic vibe. Again, no face is shown.

We see the gate again, in the melancholic palette this time. It gives off the vibe that something changed to shift the atmosphere of the whole place.

A shorthaired child bounces and happily calls for someone before running off. Multiple children follow, with one slowly doing so matching Hong Lu's silhouette. This entire scene is in pastels again, with no faces being shown.

Then, the vibe shifts.

A child's feet dangle over a bloody massacre. The text here stops being the poem, instead being completely original lines. Also, now the text has cyan letters sneaking in, roughly half and half.

What appears to be younger Hong Lu stares blankly ahead, his outfit matching the second flower sorting person's.

After a zoom in on this Hong Lu's eye behind a veil, we fade to adult Hong Lu, the color in his eye more faded.

Hong Lu in his Sinner uniform stands before two hanging corpses and nods, another bloody massacre behind him. The text is now primarily cyan with only a few white letters.

Then, cut to the E.G.O.

So.

What does this give us?

I believe all the scenes that take place in the pastel palette happen before Daiyu "dies", while all the others are after. Notably, I don't believe Hong Lu's silhouette in that one scene is actually him. I believe that is Daiyu, while Baoyu is the child happily calling out in the beginning.

Additionally. Well. Come on. The cyan letters in Daiyu's text are obvious tells. Baoyu is in Daiyu's body, and is speaking the last two lines in their voice.

Even if you don't believe me, one thing is clear - Daiyu's death is going to be a major thing for this Canto.

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shes not gay greg

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Ghastlings are so cute i think we all should kill oursrlves idk

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it's a shame you can't Cool, Silent, and Mysterious your way to being very close to people. we are unfortunately going to have to embarrass ourselves for this

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Kasane Teto is back!

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