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And never will.

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Kakashi really will just deliver you food so you don't die stupid 💜

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Live tonight!

Just sharing in advance, JS (CraftyW1sdom) and I will be doing a joint craft stream filled with resin & miniatures from MGA! 4 hours from now, 21:00 EET until we run out of ideas. Bad jokes, 1:6th scale shenanigans and doll comic lore drops! #twitch #dolllcollector

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I'm not sure, does The Soldier's Girl count?

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It occurs to me that there are people who weren’t on this website in 2012 and therefore never saw the magical gif that you can actually hear:

It’s been over five years and that still impresses the hell out of me.

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I come from a culture that has no nudity taboo - nudity is not considered inherently sexual, or somehow traumatising to witness. What that means in practice is that there is a clearly drawn line between sexual and non-sexual nudity. There is nothing wrong or inappropriate about nudity in a sexual context, and nothing wrong or inappropriate about nudity in a non-sexual context. However, it is 100% inappropriate to be nude in a situation where it is not obvious from context whether this is sexual or not.

I've seen random kids who briefly escaped from their parents bolt across a public park buck-ass naked after they were playing in the water fountain and their parents were in the middle of changing their kid from wet clothes to dry clothes when the small nudist escaped. Changing your small kid's clothes right there in public is ok because there is obviously nothing sexual about a child whose clothes got wet. But although people will have baby pictures of their kids in the bath or just running around the house like that because sometimes little apes hate clothes for some reason, it's considered common sense to not share those pictures on facebook mom groups and such, because you have no way of knowing who's seeing them, and that blurs the line of context.

It all boils down to the clearly defined context. Bathing nude in the same sauna with five of your co-workers at the office christmas party? Clearly nonsexual, therefore completely fine. Your friend-with-benefits inviting you to come over and opening the door in nothing but a doggy collar and the most porn-scented perfume? Clearly sexual, therefore completely fine. A woman checking her breasts for lumps in the gym lockers just before or after a shower? Clearly non-sexual, therefore completely fine.

But if you went to the bank today and there's some guy who walks in and immediately strips naked, doing his banking business wearing nothing but a deep smile and being clearly very content with this situation, you have no way of telling whether he's getting kicks out of this or not. There is no contextual reason for him to be nude. Therefore, that is inappropriate.

Then you go home and post on tumblr - as one does - going like "there was some dude completely fucking buck-ass naked in the bank today. That was fucking weird and I wish he had not done that." And someone immediately swoops into inform you that actually nudity is not inherently sexual or inappropriate, and there are cultures out there that have no nudity taboo. It's not fair to call somebody a freak for something like that, maybe that guy was just finnish.

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too many ppl who know nothing about Filipino folklore n culture r talking shit about my ate. she’s based off of the manananggal, which you can compare to the European vampire, if that helps you understand it better. although, i’m reluctant to mention that becuz some ppl, who choose to be ignorant, currently hold the view that she’s just an Asian-colored vampire mishmash monster. she is not. other than the fact that she manages to exist at all, here are some details i appreciate about her.

first, she has a face that looks like my family’s. that’s my lola’s nose. that’s my mom’s birthmark. shit, those are my uncle’s cheekbones. the headpiece features jasmine, our national flower. the translucent petals are cool.

second, you can display her in two pieces, split by the torso. its not just a “cheap gimmick” you ignorant pos. at nightfall, the manananggal severs itself in two, leaving behind a vulnerable lower half while its upper half hunts for nourishment - blood, raw hearts, livers, fetuses. the red fringe represents her dangling intestines, hanging loose as she flies after ripping her body apart. the string detail is on the skirt for consistency, but also, intestines are long as fuck? why wouldn’t they also hang from the bottom, assuming they also get split in half.

while we’re on the outfit, the top is an extremely traditional (Spanish colonial, ugh) style in both fabric and shape. i have attire that looks exactly like it, minus the monster high red foil pattern. the tiny, “woven” sleeve cuffs are a nice touch. the earrings and bracelets look to be woven palm too, but aren’t as effective in plastic. the bottom half skirt is quite a bit shorter than is traditional, and the heels higher. it’s a monster high doll.

most accurate would be barefoot, tbh. but you guys would riot, and again, its a doll. actually, the shoes reference a lot from Filipino culture. the heel is a coconut tree overlooking a kubo, a one-room stilt hut built with natural materials such as bamboo and palm, and specifically made to be remade as necessary. the sole is “wooden”, also an accessible material of which some shoes were made with. it is attached by braid to what looks to be a straw strap. also not unusual for a shoe.

her fan and wings feature embroidery, and if you look closely at the latter, you will see a thin and delicate flora design in between the spider web pattern. this is extremely reminiscent of calado, a type of traditional hand embroidery akin to lace that is difficult as fuck. a dying art, btw.

i didn’t wake up looking to ride this hard for a plastic woman lmao. but if you’re gonna come for her, it better be because of the fluorescent green in her colorway and not because you don’t know what you’re talking about. honestly, a lot of Filipinos are just happy to be considered and celebrated. “wins” like this mean everything. maybe it’s not good enough for your collection, but now you know more about my culture than you would’ve gone out of your way to. and that’s good enough for me.

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Ranking characters by how funny they find jokes about Maedhros' missing hand

8. Maglor HATES them. He feels incredibly guilty everytime any topic close to Maedhros' imprisonment gets brought up.

7. Same with Fingon. He feels less guilty about the whole situation, but still wishes he could have found a different way to free him (eventhough nobody blames him for it, least of all Maedhros)

6. Caranthir has stopped feeling guilty and has started feeling annoyed

5. Same with Turgon, he doesn't feel guilty, he just thinks the jokes are pretty bad

4. Finrod felt bad at the beginning, but when he saw that Maedhros didn't mind the jokes he started to find them funny and make them himself

3. Maedhros. He is the person that makes those jokes the most, but he always keeps a straight face so nobody is sure if he even is joking. Internally he's laughing his ass off tho

2. Elrond and Elros. After getting over their initial fear, these jokes became one of their biggest bonding moments with Maedhros. Sometimes they can even get him to smile at one and it makes their whole day

1.Celegorm. He thinks they're HILARIOUS. Exactly his type of humour. When Maedhros is returned to them Maglor asks if he's alright, and Maedhros looks down at his stump, answers "no, I fear I'm all left" and promptly passes out. There's a moment of silence in the tent before Celegorm begins to cackle. Then he's on the floor, crying and howling for laughter. His brother's just kinda stand awkwardly by the side.

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In Prince's funky name, amen.

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i dont think any of you understand how important i am to the plot

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also idk if anyone else caught it bc chat was caught up in the other reveals but Garren (otherwise known as the All Hammer) was helping build Stilben, which, IF YOU RECALL, was the first town Matt made when he was first DMing this game before they were ever a live stream. and if that makes you cry, its okay, me too.

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a wonderful episode. i love the way they told this story.

to start, nia being a steward, a prophet of faith in the severed divine, one who holds the torch even when she cannot see who lights it.

fiedra and crokas. his newfound wisdom and insight clashing against years of a learned distance, of careless use even as she loved him. her immediate reaction of someone so used to violence as the expedient route, trying to carve out her grief by solving a problem.

the callister reveal. brilliant. brennan truly has asmodeus as his pet betrayer god. one of these days i would love to see a compilation of every time he's been asmodeus in exandria to see the evolution of it.

garen restoring the poem and keeping it as a living record of the tenets of the all-hammer and the story of the end of calamity.

nia and erro going to her parents’ house.

the fight. the last ditch effort, the contingency plan for the very end of the calamity.

fiedra's nat 20 insight. for someone who had not cared to direct her cunning inward for years, she took the lesson and immediately clocked the breach of her trust. among the very few mortals to see through the deception of the lord of lies.

also i deeply hate how awful timothy's existence was.

erro, protecting garen in his final moments, a brother-in-arms to the end. enshrined beside the beloved who gave him happiness in his mortal life. wrapping his wings around the world, a membrane of divine protection, the guardian of the gate before the keystone is laid.

fiedra adopting timothy. taking responsibility for the second child that landed in her hands. she could not fix the harm, but could try again, better.

crokas helping to found the cobalt soul. i called it. it is so important to me that this crocodile man is foundational to exandria as we know it

nia, a pillar of the community, taking the time to understand the faithless even in her deeply faithful life. also? moon cleric. both crokas and nia played exandria-based subclasses (technically. they never actually did, being level 1).

and garen, the mortal aspect of moradin. i called this last week also. stayed a cr 1/8 npc to the end. memorializing erro. hallowing kraghammer, founding stilben (it's still bend, it's always been bend).

getting to fly over the world he built, both in and out of character, carried by erro, played by liam, who first brought them together to play d&d for his birthday.

it really is the writer’s instinct to tie things up in a bow.

if this is where they leave exandria, it's a fitting close to the chapter. wraps all the way back around to the beginning, where vox machina first set off.