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please witness its power

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at the JRPG cafe, and the drink sizes are sod, soda, and sodaga

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tanerelle by seb xavier

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I didn't watch the first series of the Netflix Sandman, and I'm definitely not planning on following it now thanks to my fun new "no giving Neil Gaiman money" rule.

And yet

Yet

I'm still Appalled and Incensed at just how much the directors chickened out on Despair. It's so clear they didn't want to touch her with a ten foot bargepole. Like they looked at her canon design, awkwardly shuffled their feet, and went "oh, gosh, um, I suppose she can still be fat maybe? That's probably fine? Um. Can't. Can't have any of, y'know, of the rest of it though."

This post brought to you by "The new series trailer just popped up on my dash, and it shows Despair in a nice dress with her hair and makeup done, for crissakes."

I know it's a bit petty (especially as it's a series I've only seen one episode of, and that is hastily being wrapped up). But it still annoys me. Despair is supposed to be 'ugly', monstrous, and uncomfortable to watch. The fact that the TV adaption depicts her as very much not those things is hard to see as anything other than sexist cowardice. They couldn't let a complex female character not be pretty. That's all it boils down to.

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anyway you should always remember that all those foreigners you see dying on the news are just as real people as you are who have just as much interiority as you do. there is nothing about you that makes you more important and it is by pure chance that you are not in their position. in fact, this holds for all of history. every person, no matter the horror of the fate that befell them, had just as much interiority as you do. i feel like some people haven't fully internalized this.

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Detect evil but it becomes increasingly clear that whoever calibrated it had some really weird moral stances.

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Open another front. In the land war, just open another front. Surely you will not regret opening another front.

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Owl Trinity in Quatrefoil - North Norfolk (Richard Brooks, 2009)

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The ink bottle lying on your desk... begins to crawl away..???

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i actually think its incredibly funny that people can just log on to the internet and get in a fight with a guy in another country. what a privileged time we live in. you used to have to go to war to do that

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The thing about being British is that I know what all the ridiculous titles in politics/government mean, so I've become kinda immune to them. Someone will be called “The Shadow Lord True, Supreme Chancellor of the Evil Eye, Daughter of the Fifth House, Heir to the Holy Rings of Betazed, Holder of the Sacred Chalice of Rixx, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon” and I'm just like oh yeah, that's Bob Bigglesby from Upper Buttford, Twatinghamshire, his office actually got closed 83 years ago but we kept the title because it sounded cool, meanwhile a non-Brit will come along like wtaf

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excUSE you, that’s my emotional support unromanceable npc x oc ship

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*Coming out of my grave and I’ve been growing nine eyes*

Sticker available in my Redbubble shop!

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there's nothing quite like a dark souls game when you're really depressed. fromsoft places a hand on your shoulder and says "yeah no you're right. sometimes the whole world really is coming at you shrieking and flailing and trying to claw your face off and there is no hope in sight. what is left for us here but the deep sorrow of a magnificent beast doomed to a slow and possibly endless descent into ruin? here's a sword about it. go wild"

and then you stand there with tears in your eyes clutching your giant claymore to your chest like a lover and whisper "I. love my sword" and you do. you love that sword

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drew dark souls bosses from memory as i played through the game, starting at ornstein and smough

Bonus npcs under cut