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there's a fine line between being wary of manipulation and becoming completely paranoid because you get very close to the realisation that pretty much all human interaction involves doing things we hope will lead to a result we like

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A cartoon where Elmer Fudd gets married and gives up hunting Bugs Bunny to live happily with his wife only to discover 30 years into a blissful relationship that his wife was actually Bugs the entire time and also their three wonderful children were also Bugs

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the worst part of "you'll understand when you're older" is that you really do understand when you're older

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why do people hate subtitles. I kinda need those chat

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“fitted” sheets well why dont they then. why dont they

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dos games

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...I found the “girl falls into middle earth” fic I wrote when I was 11

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Joke SCP idea: Man immune to sandwiches. He cannot be harmed by anything that would otherwise be lethal so long as that thing comes in the form of sandwiches.

The deadliest poisons, being crushed to death, being pelted at relativistic speeds. None of it hurts him so long as a sandwich is the delivery method.

The Foundation begin experimenting on the extents of his abilities but then one of the researchers shoots him dead. Their reason?

"The world is not ready for an objective answer to what is a sandwich"

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redditors will be like "i have le cursed internet knowledge" and that knowledge is like. being vaguely aware of what furries are and making a big production out of gawking and going "errm wgat the heck is this weird crap"

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This may be a weird way to talk about this particular topic, but my interpretation of Belos as a colonialist and evangelist figure relies heavily on the symbolism his inappropriate feelings towards his brother convey.

Caleb as a character embodies a lot of concepts evangelists and colonialists like Belos like to tout as ‘what they’re fighting for’. A hardworking, honest man who protected the weak and came to America for a second chance, a carpenter and loving family member who sacrificed his own future for those in his care. Caleb, for all intents and purposes, is what Belos loves the human realm for. Being protected and catheter to and shielded from all the adult horrors of the world he was confronted with in his absence, all the people who disagreed with Belos, all the people he was certain were out to get him.

As the ideal Belos fights for, Caleb is everywhere on the Isles. His art is used for everything from tapestries for the Emperor’s coven to the masks the scouts wear. The witch children play witches and witch hunters just like Belos and Caleb used to, and Belos always softens around reminders of the brother he idealized, like the grimwalkers and memories of Earth. Even though Belos’s fondness towards his brother appears positive and even endearing, one must not forget how Belos does not view Caleb and these pieces of his life as puzzle pieces that create the image of a person; they are tools to surround himself in the comfort Caleb used to bring him, a way to stay in perpetual innocence surrounded by things that are pretty and clean to him, and are not his to use.

Caleb’s passions are abused in the name of something he never stood for, something he changed his mind about and threw Belos away for. Belos fights for the Caleb that spat venom towards witches and waited on him hand and foot, never contesting his opinions, never pushing him to be his own person and live above his privilege, a holy being BElos always knew agreed with him. But Caleb changed. He realized he wasn’t happy living in a sheltered echo chamber that perpetuated itself, and so he made his worst mistake and never brought Belos with him.

Belos’s views on his brother contorted until Caleb was a symbol of when he had power and when he was protected. He craved it to the point of fetishization; obsessing over Caleb’s corpse, recreating him over and over and over again for the perfect version of Caleb that was exactly what Belos wanted him to be, but the grimwalkers were all people, and digging your fingers into the flesh of a child doesn't make them want to protect you and will never make them your savior. 

The insidious, incestuous nature of Belos’s views on his brother mirror how colonialism inbreeds culture and destroys it with one wash of what the colonist thinks is right. Caleb loved the Isles; he married a woman and conceived with her, he learned a hallowed trade and became an important part of the community. Belos saw this, saw that Caleb was no longer focused on propping up Belos’s ideas and had in fact fornicated and deflowered himself, de-sainting himself, and he destroyed a human who wanted to be a part of another world. Belos wants Caleb, but he wants all of Caleb, every single morsel. He wants to worship and be the worshipped, and he needs to go back to when he was Caleb’s whole world, so he could live in innocence and power again, with a holy being at his side and accolades as the one who slayed the witches. It’s an inbred sort of obsession; Belos steals everything Caleb embodied and enmeshes it into everything, until society is a diseased mess and Belos and Caleb can finally be alone together.

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some lore on the boiling isles's lost nomadic people, now referred to as the barbarians.

transcript of the text under the cut!

Before the Belosian era, witches did not have central governments like the Emperor, instead congregating in resource heavy areas and forming societies built on barter and mutual aid with no true leaders. While settlements like these were the most predominant way of life, tribes of barbarians and scavengers still existed, and are also believed to be the \ earliest known specialists, usually forming tribes around mutual skills and occupations, such as merchants, tradesmen, warriors, and scavengers, and travelling to towns across the Isles to trade and hunt. 

Unlike modern Belosian propaganda suggests, opinions on these nomads varied, but unless actively hostile, they were welcomed into the towns they passed along their journey and often helped locals by using their specialized skills.

Barbarians had their own culture and a distinct way about them, with many barbarians possessing determined and adaptive personalities worthy of nomads, and competition and sport as a big part of their lifestyle. 

Barbarians also had very distinctive appearances; some say the adoption of face painting on the Isles in the early eras of witch civilization originated from barbarians sharing their practices of highly symbolic face painting to the masses. Piercings, tattoos, and animal remains also clearly marked a barbarian; it was seen as a sign of maturity and worldliness to depict your life and conquests on your own body through modification and clothing.

Many descendants of barbarians still exist on the Isles in the modern day amd preserve their culture, however many live in abject poverty after their family trades were locked away by coven systems and they were forced to adapt, or are stifled in the schooling system, since a barbarian’s propensity to do better in specialized fields makes them extremely powerful in a system designed to repress witches by forcing them into niches. Barbarian children are put in unfitting tracks or are deemed ‘dangerous’ as an excuse to refuse them schooling. 

Still, the barbarian instinct to adapt means many still press on and fight against the structures that suffocate them.

Next to Matt:

Dark paint around the top half of the face usually signifies mourning; not just death of loved ones but absences as well.

Next to Steve:

Witches with Demon blood are 65% more likely to have barbarian heritage as well, as most nomads married demons they met along their journeys instead of other witches.

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A white circle painted on the face symbolizes a birth on the full moon. Barbarians believed the light of the moon made children born under it more powerful.

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purple haze (alternate title: me and my son saw you from across the bar and we HATE your vibe)

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i'm seeing a lot of elderly and midle aged women with purple hair around lately and i think thats beautiful so i made a meme about it

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I used to be mad about "whole language" reading approaches in theory but now I work with school-age kids and I am mad about it in practice.

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montana agate rings that resemble landscapes