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Do new clex shippers know there's a comic where Superman died and Lex is insane and lives on the Kent farm making Superman clones and wears Clark's shirts and wax poetry about how perfect he was and his last wish before sacrificing himself is for people to tell Superman about it

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something very fascinating about discworld as a setting is how the books are mostly set during a period of after

the color of magic and the light fantastic are set during the waning days of barbarian thug heroes. cohen and his cohorts are either old or dead, and the incoming generation isn't finding much profit in the hero business. tax fraud is more profitable than pillaging.

the mention of horrific wizard wars that are so old that even the aftermath of them are relegated to allusions instead of explicit description.

lancre is haunted by the spectre of black aliss, who never appears on screen and has been hansel and greteled by the time of granny and nanny being the witches of authority, and even they feel like their time coming to a close.[1]

uberwald is the remnants of a fallen evil empire.

ankh-morpork had kings, then despotic tyrants, but on page is governed bureaucratically by a man who, i will always argue, was working to ultimately get rid of his own job.

we are introduced to a city watch that has been defanged and recovering from several failed revolutions.

moist von lipwig is a reformed con man being forced to repair the damage done to public institutions by other con men, but we never truly see the shell games played by moist or others.

even small gods concerns itself with the reformation of a fire and brimstone religion.

basically, if epic fantasy is a party, discworld is the story of the people who have to clean up afterwards despite not being on the guest list for the event.

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[1] the way that shepherds crown is not only an explicit conclusion to granny weatherwax's tenure, but quietly implies nanny receding from prominence herself is an aching sadness i wish pterry had the time to explore. tiffany is the person who arrives first to an empty but clean dance club.

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yikes, unfollowing now. was a huge fan of his opera. had no idea he kidnapped the lead soprano and threatened to kill her fiancé if she didn’t marry him

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Destiny 2 Year 7 Episode thoughts (ymmv):

For years now I've had the habit of taking notes then trying to do some sort of review about the recent Destiny 2 season, yet I'm struggling to put my thoughts into words about the 3 episodes post TFS. tldr: feels like the right time to take a break from Destiny

The obvious sports car in the room, is that the things I'm critical about assuredly were affected by two rounds of layoffs and corporate monetization. Things like character arc fatigue of the same characters appearing vs ones we haven't seen in years is the same problems tv shows have with recurring guest character availability vs cost, the noticeable decrease of voicelines in activities (unrelated to the VA strike), the first two episodes repeating the exotic mission, the removal of seasonal weapon crafting and how more challenges require longer time spent in game, ultimately the way that some plotlines seem disjointed with character arcs under baked (ie they could have used another editing pass or a week more to play out), some other smaller things - they all have the same root cause and I don't want to remember this year with a essay of grieves.

There is a lot I really did love about the episodes:

The new style of cutscenes that heavily feature match cuts and the pans between highly detailed stone/glass/metal figures were gorgeous and I know I'll rewatch them for years to come

Shohreh Aghdashloo returning to play Maya Sundaresh in an toxic yuri evil scientist was a delight. I only wish she had gotten more screentime. “There is no version of her wife that would accept her now” I'll always wonder about the darkest timeline Maya and Chioma

It's funny how Eliksni get used as a placeholder faction for different aesthetics (vaporwave, pirates, the goonies, now vampire hunters) but I thought Revenant was a satisfying sendoff and wrap up of the storylines for characters like Eramis, Variks, and possessed!Misraaks.

Oryx and Savathun's voice actors really stole the show every scene they were in, one of my favorite things about Destiny has been the worldbuilding of the Hive and Savathun as a character. The Echo of of Oryx's goodbye soliloquy was especially outstanding

Why I’m waiting to get the next expansion:

I was already annoyed by the return to episode power level increase post TFS, but I have less than 0 interest in a leveling currency where it expires every 6 months. I'm tired of the enhancement core economy and it's only restricted me in solo content like Lost Sectors vs when I do team activities and power is shared.

Armor and Gear 3.0 combo with the absence of crafting - don't feel like time is respected grinding for a godroll especially in a noted aging audiance and when I have less time to play. Things like the tonics and shaping slab are not a good replacement (overly complicated and require you to do several hours of the story on each character to unlock). 

Most everyone I played with quit - not a joke the difficulty of Verity in Salvation Edge was the start of the death knell for my clan and there are some real assholes in LFG

Hater moment: the comparison of Outlaws with Star Wars does not fill me with confidence when considering the overall quality of Disney Star Wars it's mishmash of tone

Why I will come back: 

Bungie has a history of course correcting: I remember when they Sunsetting sunsetting after 1 season, and eventually simplified the overly grindy transmog from requiring synthstrand. I’m sure aspects of the new power system are going to be improved

IMO it has some of the best gunplay "feel" of FPS games (Halo MCC is good but I don’t like the Flood) and the visual and sound design of all the abilities and weird weapons is top notch

This is the only MMO where I like the raids/dungeons (not all of them but I've been having a lot of fun with Rite of the Nine)

If they put Aunor in the Dredgen Renegades expansion as she is in the lore then yeah I’d definitely come back

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ok im going to #seriouspost for a second here. I don't think Harry Potter is a manifesto. I think it was a flawed passion project that millennials latched onto because of the fantasy of sticking it to their mean teachers and arbitrarily categorizing themselves (hogwarts houses; it's the thinking millennial's astrology). I think the fact that the series got popular when and how it did was very much a product of its time.

I don't think Harry Potter is the biggest symbol of JKR's bigotry. I think the most flagrant sign of that was how she responded to critics. I watched her become radicalized in real time. I watched how she doubled down on her racism when she was called out for the ways she promoted her tragically mid fantastic beasts movies. I watched her chase marginalized teenagers with a double digit follower count off of twitter for daring to criticize her thought process, and no one with any kind of power standing against her because she was the one who was paying them. This isn't to say Harry Potter is without flaws. This is to say she really didn't give a shit about that. Getting rich and powerful is a hell of a drug, and she had enough sycophants that she had no reason to care about what her critics were saying.

She was convinced that she was a martyr; a voice for the unheard; a leader for the ages, so of course her detractors were the bad guys. And I think we should take this to heart. We should see this as an example of how easy it is to get radicalized; if you think of yourself as a paragon of virtue, you are going to think that whatever you see as good and right is an objective fact. Most people don't know this, but the majority of terfs start out as trans allies. You are not immune to propaganda! You are not immune to falling into dangerous ideologies!!!

This is why the most important thing you can do as an activist is to listen. Do NOT think you're above being wrong; do NOT develop a god complex; do NOT form an identity out of being right all the time. Involve yourselves in the groups you claim to speak for. Listen to trans women; share resources that help trans women; familiarize yourself with the diversity of experiences that trans people have and the struggles they face.

No, none of you are as bad as JKR because you don't have her money or her power. You will likely never have the capacity for harm she does. But check yourselves. Do not affirm yourselves into thinking you always have the moral high ground. Watch yourselves; humble yourselves; check yourselves for signs of cult behavior and internalized prejudice. You are always learning. You will always be learning. Do not allow yourselves to get a power trip from brushing off marginalized voices.

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war40k rogue trader is incredible cause every time you meet someone new you can be like "Abelard introduce me" or "Abelard slap his balls off" and everyone nods sagely. yes lord captain

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Replaying Witcher 3 DLC and what I really want out of Witcher 4 is multiple good vampire quests, and ideally one of them has a hot lady higher vampire who also gets a cool monster form (like Detleff). If there’s a quest where we can take her side it would probably make it my favorite Witcher game.

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american idiot but all the lyrics are removed except for the f slur

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its crazy how nobody has ever been as objectively beautiful as danny john-jules in red dwarf and nobody ever will be again

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ok i have to know why is york your one sided beef character im sooooo curious

also thanks for feeding my love of rvb in the year 2025 lmao

york is a guy who thinks he's owed carolina's affection, love, and focus when he's done nothing to earn it. when he breaks with PFL and helps tex with the break-in, he does nothing to explain himself to carolina, gives her no heads up beforehand, and when he refuses to elaborate on why he does anything he resorts to trying to disarm and fight her instead of explaining himself despite the fact that this life is all she's ever known. he's asking her to go against everything she's stood for, and refuses to give her a reason as to why she should beyond "uhh cause it's the right thing!"

he gives me the ick, a "nice guys finish last" energy that i cannot stand LOL and it's frustrating how later seasons frame it like this was carolina's failure, like it was her fault for being completely left in the dark by those who supposedly cared for her. cemented that their "love song" is him calling her a bitch in the chorus, cannot stand his stupid ass hahaha

also you're welcome LMAO i haven't rewatched rvb in ages but i will always have strong opinions about!!! thanks for giving me a reason to hate on york again XD

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For y'all's attention,

If you stick the trans pride shader on Rake Angle (reggo or Adept) it puts the trans flag really clearly on the base of the blade, which WHIPS.

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honestly the biggest shock to me in msq after spending arr thru hw with the leveilleur twins in their little spacesuit cutout leotards and y2k music video platform heels was getting to old sharlayan in endwalker and discovering everyone else there dresses normal

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we need more divorcebaiting. how strongly can canon imply (without technically outright stating) that these two characters are bitterly, acrimoniously divorced? essential we explore this

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Reminding everyone again of Batman’s Aff His Nut by Robert Florence—the most poem ever.

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