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i really like that mary wasn't made to be the female character that gets between the popular gay ship but is in fact a whole character with goals and development like fuck yes

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Reblog with your score

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“And though Calamity is here, because of you it will not be here forever.”

Gonna be thinking about Calamity for a very long time my friends. 

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Ok so like I know we're all just starting to settle down again, but I just gotta say:

The calamity officially began the moment Vespin Chloris attempted the ritual. The betrayers had already been released from their prison by the time episode one began. The Lord of the Hells had already created his puppets and sent them throughout Exandria; it was only a matter of time.

We don't know what would have happened in a timeline where Laerynn didn't cast blight in an instinctual and desperate attempt to save the ones she loved. Or in a timeline where Zerxus wasn't fooled by the god of lies' honeyed words. We don't know what would have happened in a timeline where the ring of brass had decided to take the night off and look the other way, allowing the city to land normally, yet still dooming the world. But it's still very likely in all situations that once that ritual occurred, Calamity was inevitable.

The Calamity was the result of the Age of Arcanum, an age dedicated to a bunch of know-it-all wizards fucking around and finding out, certain they could avoid consequence. If not Vespin, Aeor had already begun creating weapons intended to kill gods and Avalir had created their response in the form of the taxmen. That much wizard hubris was going to cause a catastrophic event at some point or another.

So, in this context, none of the PC's mistakes mattered. Laerynn blighting the tree of names meant nothing except expediency, same as Zerxus.

What did matter, however, was their other choices. Cerrit's choice to walk away, to ensure his children's safety. Nydas choosing to make sure that the skyships were available to the populace, to save the children at the sorcerer's university. Patia's choice to use her teleport to preserve not herself, but her knowledge, in the hopes that the new generation could do with it what she could not. Loquatius' decision to stay behind on the material plane, with the woman he loved, to protect her with all he had, down to his last healing word. Zerxus' choice to stick with his beliefs and redeem Vespin for but a moment, a moment enough to give them all the time they needed to see things through. And Laerynn's choice to ensure a future for Exandria, by using her life's work to do not what she intended it for, but for what it needed to do in that moment.

Even in the darkest of ages, when catastrophic failure seemed to be the cause of all of that pain and suffering and loss, it was not, in fact, failure that defined those people's lives. It was their decision to continue on despite their failure and despite their odds that gave the world it's last bit of hope.

Calamity was inevitable. But the choices made in those moments saved the future, far more than their mistakes had doomed them.

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people who write for like the new yorker think that the piece of kitchenware that symbolizes the working class is the mason jar but it’s actually this

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Izzy: Ooh. Ooh daddy!

Lucius, Black Pete, Wee John, and literally every single viewer:

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“I’m gonna try and undo some of the… damage from that interaction.”

Oluwande/OFMD

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AO3: *is down right at my bedtime*

Me, a middle-aged adult, lying in bed in the dark, staring at my phone: No bedtime story? :(

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god i fucking love Buttons as a character. a competent, grizzled seaman, communicates telepathically with seagulls, clearly worships the Old Gods, horny for the sea…already SO fucking weird and intense, and then for NO REASON on top of everything else they decided to throw in “longs to consume human flesh”. truly no one is doing it like this writing team

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the "ooh daddy" scene in ofmd makes me feel like i'm going to die but i would not under any circumstances wish for it to be removed because i feel like it is integral to izzy's character

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trying to recover from a teenage brain that formed during the self-deprecating meme era of the internet 

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its so funny how much new taika ofmd content is coming out meanwhile i have not learned a single thing about the actual movie he is on the press tour for. like the man doesnt even know his own characters name but hes using the disney cash and exposure to be like heyyyyyyy does anyone wanna talk about my gay little pirates. like yes king i would love to