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I am utterly captivated by this video series that Taryn Delanie and friends have been making on TikTok

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you cannot headcanon your way out of overt thematic structures on which the entire narrative is built

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It's funny how american guys who got "73% Scandinavian" in a mail order DNA test once will be like "I have Viking blood coursing through my veins, I'm a natural-born warrior and I've got +5 poison resistance and I'm immune to frost damage", while the average Norwegian guy is just some guy named Lars who works in IT, rides a bicycle to work, and looks like this.

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Sometimes fanfiction is about liking characters so much you want to put them in Situations, but sometimes you have a Situation and no characters to put in it without writing them wildly OOC for how you usually portray them

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how dare the item of clothing i developed a weird attachment to and have worn almost every single day since i bought it start to show signs of wear

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reblog to squeeze prev's ass

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saying “be safe” like a spell that’ll protect them

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I did it. After a lifetime of using light mode on all my devices, I switched to dark mode. My eyes just can’t take it anymore, and after a few days of using it, I decided dark mode was actually kind of cozy and nice. So it was time to update my light mode art with a new version!

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My baby

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...what is the "sex is just rock climbing" category

It was kind of a joke between me and a friend ("you wouldn't judge someone for having gone rock climbing with a bunch of different people") but honestly the more I thought about it the more I bought into it unironically because:

It is a physical activity done with one or more partners

You should only go rock climbing with people you trust to not let you fall

You should not go rock climbing with someone who is drunk or currently incapable of rational decision-making

Some people get super super super into rock climbing and do not shut up about all the places they have climbed and how many are left on their bucket list and these people are usually men between the ages of 20 and 35 and like it's fine dude I'm glad you're happy but I don't know what most of those mountains even are

While many consider it a fun activity, pressuring someone into climbing when they don't want to (or ignoring their feelings and just dangling them off a cliff,) could cause both psychological and physical trauma

There is no moral value to it whatsoever. Who you have gone rock climbing with (or whether you have rock climbed at all) has no bearing on who you are as a person. Imagine telling someone "it's not that heights make you nauseous, it's just that you haven't found the right person to belay you!" or "you need to save your first time rock climbing for someone special." That would be absurd.

For some people it is a deep and moving personal experience.

historically I have not asked myself "will this aggravate my hip flexor injury" before participating when perhaps I should have 😔

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dishonored is just so amazing cuz like. what doesnt make it so phenomenal (at least to me) isnt its main plot. its the little things and all the bits and pieces of the world n the small stories you find while exploring that make it a fuckign masterpiece.

like. the main premise is admittedly simple. I'd almost say cliche. youre on a mission to avenge the death of the empress and find her daughter, putting her own the throne and restoring your name. like thats fucking GREAT obviously but

its all the other shit. the bits and pieces of the setting. the items you can find. all the little notes and books and corpses. all the things that you could completely skip over are what makes it an amazing game. like you could play the entire thing without learning about slackjaw and granny rags, or finding out that the rat plague was a product by the big bad dudes to weaken the economy and the empire. You could just kill everyone and not learn how many of your targets become victims of their own devices.

idk man the shits just. so good. i fuckign love it. theres so many things that just pile up and add up to this amazing picture. i always remember that one room you can go into in i think the second mission where you find two bodies at a table gambling, a note showing how one dude was winning, so you just piece together that they ended up fighting to the death. Or in the sewers theres two corpses that are holding each other, and a note saying how they knew they were dying but didn't want to be apart. Or the audiograph you can find in the empress's secret room where she talks about how much she cares for corvo. Or how once emily is safe you can go into her room while she sleeps and hear her dream about the outsider. its just. god.

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observation: among a certain subset of tumblr users, the term “blorbo” has become unchic, but the concept it describes is still important; and so it has been replaced with “The Character”