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URDNOT WREX, LIARA T’SONI, & GARRUS VAKARIAN MASS EFFECT 3 (2012) dev. BioWare

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goes back to medieval times

oldschool runescape music is actually playing everywhere i go

me: i knew it

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his wtf face

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Relistening to the Hadestown soundtrack a lot recently and you know what. I think one of the biggest things that ultimately doomed Orpheus is he changed the shape of his song and his resistance to please Hades. He's "working on a song" that "isn't finished yet", but when he DOES finish it, who is the audience for that song? Not the people he's trying to free, but the God he's trying to take his lover back from.

Epic I is mostly about setting the scene if like, any audience members happened to NOT know the story of Orpheus/Euridyce, but it's still directly critical of Hades. Hades saw her, he wanted her, he fell in love with her because of how she moved in the sun, and the shape of his wanting necessities someone else's deprivation. So he took her where "the sun never shone on anyone", and the world was worse off until she won her 6 months of freedom.

Epic II is the most directly critical of Hades. He is "king of silver, king of gold", king of "everything glithering under the earth", and his capitalist hunger means that will never be enough. Epic II emphasizes Hades' jealousy that someone he wants could ever want to be somewhere else, even temporarily, his exploitation of workers, how the riches that he violently guards only exist because of "a million hands that are not his own".

But Epic III? Epic III is the story defanged. Hades fell in love. It takes away his agency and his responsibility in his own cruelty. It pays deference to him as king put quickly pivots to framing him as just "a poor boy", "afraid", versus a God. but he was always a God! Orpheus tries to reach him by appealing to Hades' view of himself -- a hard worker, laboring thanklessly for the woman he adores, the woman he fights for. He tries to reach him by helping Hades remember love. And it... doesn't work. It can't work.

Hades will never let him go. He will "let them try", but he rigs the game and lays the stakes, and more importantly by capitulating to Hades' rules and agreeing to play the game on Hades' terms and reshaping his song to please the very God he is trying to outsmart, Orpheus loses himself, and he loses the strength and resiliance needed to take Euridyce (and the other Workers!) home.

Something something about how art can be people power and resistance and revolution, but it is also so easy for that resistance to be taken and twisted away from us. It's so easy for that power to be freely given, by us, in some hopeful-hopeless attempt to win over people who will never, ever simply allow us to leave. And how that process systematically removes any real power our art and voices once had because when you play by their rules, you lose. "It's an old tale, it's a tragedy".

And I say all of this knowing that Hadestown itself is has now become a comercial product. Sure we sing it again and again and again, but can we take it back? Once we give it away. Can we take it back?

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what is it about capybaras that attracts groups of small animals to them? Its not just mammals either its like birds and turtles and frogs too

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Pov: You are Pedro's girlfriend and this is your camera roll.

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The Wards

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GALE DEKARIOS — [ 5/? ]

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"There's a Reaper in my way Wrex!"

Will probably always be my favorite single line in the trilogy. There's just something so special in how pissed Shepard sounds; plus the first time I heard it happened to perfectly align with the Reaper's leg landing right in front of me so it was a beautiful moment where she really did say exactly what I was thinking

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Knight escorting his prince/ss back to their bed chamber after a long evening of merriment and drinking. Prince/ss wobbles and struggles to stand up straight, leaning against their loyal knight’s muscled form. Knight ignoring the wandering hands and pleading coos of their prince/ss, desperate for touch. It’d be improper.

“Here we are, your highness, now let’s get you to bed…”

Prince/ss pouting and insisting that they are simply too helpless to undress all on their own, that they just need their knight’s assistance to disrobe. Knight holding his breath as he loosens ties and watches fabric fall to reveal prince/ss’s skin, soft and warm with blush. Knight clenching his jaw but letting eyes wander along the curves of their royal highness’s form. It’d be improper.

Knight tucking their prince/ss beneath blankets with a chaste kiss on their forehead and a gentle brushing of hair from their face. Knight closing the door of prince/ss room softly behind himself as he heads back to his own quarters. It’d be improper.

Knight, alone in his bed, sweaty and flustered, desperately bucking and rutting himself into his own hand. Knight growling and whining, utterly desperate, mumbling his prince/ss’s name again and again until he cums, shuddering. Knight panting and catching his breath, staring hopelessly up at the ceiling. He’s not sure how many more nights like this he can take before breaking…

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Bro, we are cooked. The knight that dogs the prince's shadow like a dark and silent wraith just knelt to press his forehead to the prince's hand. Yeah, now he's uttering a prayer whose recipient is ostensibly God but in reality is the deified version of the prince that exists only in his mind. Aaand the prince just caressed his cheek to preemptively grant him absolution. I gotta... I gotta get out of here.

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Daveed Diggs during the Hamilton ten year reunion performance

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history has its eyes on you / i'll write my way out, overwhelm them with honesty

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It's time for the soul-gazing exercise. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021)

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Shakarian au where instead of enlisting Shepard ends up drifting around before eventually ending up on Omega and becoming Aria T'Loak's No. 1 Attack Dog (and lowkey adoptive daughter though both of them would gag if anyone even attempted to point out their very weird found family vibe).

Whenever Aria has a problem, she just throws Shepard at it who deals with it with extreme prejudice. A renegade force of nature who has never failed to deliver on a job. Despite all the enemies Shepard has made as the most versatile ace up Aria's sleeve, no one's ever managed to one up her. At least until a certain Turian vigilante starts causing problems in Omega.

Archangel never directly attacks Aria's chief enforcer and Shepard has no reason to go after some upstart vigilante that's probably going to get a bullet to the back of the head before too long, but they keep running into each other doing their respective jobs. Sometimes they're working towards opposite aims, sometimes they're working towards the same goal. Either way they're constantly trying to outdo each other in semi friendly competition and being obnoxiously flirty about it.

Garrus' team won't stop teasing him about the flirting especially since half the time he doesn't even seem to realize just how flirtatious and outright seductive he gets when he's taunting Shepard and are placing bets on how long it will take the two of them to put everyone out of their misery and finally resolve all the unresolved sexual tension.

Aria on the other hand is going to fucking lose it if Shepard comes into the Afterlife one more time mooning over her stupid vigilante not-boyfriend. Aria almost wishes Shepard would go back to being the argumentative little shit she usually is than listen to her talk about just how impressive whatever trick shot Archangel did to take out some Eclipse Lieutenant. Aria's lived for over a thousand years but she does not think she's ever been as stressed as she has been in the last decade since she first met scrappy 19 year old Shepard, and now she has to deal with lovesick 30 year old Shepard who is somehow infinitely worse. Everyone knows Aria actually cares for Shepard though because anyone else would have met the wrong end of Aria's shotgun if they pulled even an eigth of the things Shepard gets away with on a daily basis.

However no one suffers more than the criminals of Omega as Shepard and Garrus compete to outdo each other in increasingly ridiculous stunts to impress each other, most of which culminate in some merc dying a truly humiliating death as little more than fodder for whatever battlefield banter Shepard and Garrus are exchanging.