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you, who placed my heart back into my chest

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My mom said this is too weird but I think it’s just swell

Untitled I, first edition - acid etch intaglio

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you too

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Having just finished the first episode of exu divergence (the episodes are really long okay), it really puts into stark contrast the dissonance of the idea that the gods 'pick favorites'. It's a common argument thrown out whenever all the good the primes have done is pointed out: 'well the gods won't help my blorbo everyone, they just pick their favorites and answer their prayers and give them powers, meanwhile all the little people still suffer'. (nevermind that they seem to think that, if the gods can't help everyone, they should simply help no one, just to be fair about it)

This dissonance becomes especially clear the moment one of the 'favorites' isn't offered special privileges. Vax is just as much a champion of deep faith as Pike and Caduceus and Yasha and Fjord, yet many see him not as the Raven Queen's favorite but rather as her victim because she wouldn't break her rules for him. Bor'dor's mother, blessed by the Wildmother, was not saved from an angry mob by divine intervention. Suddenly, they are no longer favorites but rather betrayed victims, manipulated into their positions by gods who wanted to use them.

But the gods don't really pick favorites (or at least not in the way this argument insinuates; I'm sure there are some mortals they like better than others). Clerics and champions aren't given gifts and powers and support because they're the gods' special little princesses. They're given these 'gifts' with an expectation. Even ignoring the divine gate, the gods can't personally step in and help every single mortal; their clerics are expected to help where they cannot. They save the world, they work as healers, they travel to offer support where they can. As Caduceus once said, one day someone will pray for a miracle and their prayer will be answered because you will be there.

Crokas was given a divine boon not because he was god's special little boy, or because he prayed real nicely, or even because he was suffering greatly and deserved a break. Many people were suffering; it was a pretty shit time. Rather, the Stormlord, god of strength, saw him carry on his back two children he barely knew through a wasteland, offering his strength to save them. He was given a boon so he could continue helping, not only these children but others as well. He had proven himself capable and willing of being an embodiment of the Stormlord's domain, and so he was given a miracle not to help him specifically, but so he would spread the miracle around.

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guards !!!! take them to the Dungeon !!! no not the. not the Sex Dungeon. yes. the Regular Dungeon sorry i should've specified

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Yesterday night, I asked my parents to remind me to return The Terror (2018) to the video rental store. This morning I woke up to two — momentarily confusing and concerning — text notifications:

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there was a great study a few years that went into the whole "ppl online are bigger jerks than irl cuz theres a virtual wall and no repercussions" and the researchers were expecting to see that be the case but it turns out that people who were really angry or argumentative online were also found to just be assholes in person and people who were pretty patient and nice online were found to be patient and nice in real person as well

and it just debunked that whole cynical idea that people will naturally be mean if theres no punishment for it

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man i really don't think so but okay i guess

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Under My Skin

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Wiiip!

Ugh this neighbor, is weird...

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Doodle

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Painting by the great Christopher Fisher

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bad news gang rivals is actually fun and i love this freak