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a detailed list of things i hate

hot weather

high temperatures

heat

warmer than average conditions

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when reading the way of kings, adolin struck me as "aromantic and absolutely clueless about it". he didn't strike me as acespec - he clearly has no problems with his sexuality - so perhaps the specific way he acts is less immediately recognisable as arospec, but to me, at least, his total failure in romantic relationships seems very much like a young man who knows that he's supposed to be romancing young women, but cannot for the life of him understand how to do it. and he doesn't understand why it never works out, because once he gets past the initial stage of "girl hot", he never really wants to do any more than be friends with the woman he's courting. thus all his "dates" are abysmal, because he genuinely doesn't get that the women he's courting want to do conventionally romantic things with him, and that giving them a tour of the war camps or talking about horses (which register to him as fun friend activity -> basically romance, right?) is not, in fact, romantic. he doesn't feel romantic attraction, and lacks the framework both for engaging with typically romantic activities and understanding that he doesn't experience romantic attraction, so he just assumes everyone else feels the same way he does (sex + friendship). he has so many exes, all of whom seem to grasp that there's something he's not doing right, yet he doesn't seem to realise this. it would also go some way in explaining why he's so chill about being betrothed to a stranger he's never met - yay, my cousin is sorting out Romance (TM) for me! now i don't have to figure out how to get a woman to love me! shallan is refreshing - and relieving - for him precisely because she's fine doing friend activities with him, so he doesn't have to struggle with an attraction he doesn't feel. and whether he genuinely does fall in love with shallan, but it takes a close emotional bond, or if he's just happy to be married to a hot friend for the rest of his life, that's very much not how the rest of the world does things.

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see it. say it. sorted.

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you really can post anything on this site and eventually down the line someone will say gadzooks.... now This reminds me of the homoerotic kayfabe surrounding the career and public face of a gentleman or two who play hockey in a professional capacity

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real sadists understand that you can torture The Character simply by forcing them to live with themself

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successfully execute a compelling television show concept and people will be thinking about it for a day. utterly fumble a compelling television show concept and people will be thinking about it for a lifetime.

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and then you learn she's almost as traumatised as you are. ouch

with all the shit going on in the series, it's easy to forget that one of shallan's men is gaz, the guy who was a dick to kaladin whilst he was running bridges. wonder if they ever ran into each other after the apocalypse began

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kaladin has three twitter accounts: an inspirational quotes account which ends up being primarily managed by sigzil; a personal public account for him to dm friends and family which has exactly three tweets on it over seven years; and a locked vent account which has 30k tweets and has his internet friend, syl, seriously concerned for his safety.

if the stormlight characters had social media adolin would be on reddit making r/aita posts about his father's hallucinations and/or visions from a dead god

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I‘m sorry but every time I listen to Gallifrey: Weapon of Choice I just can‘t be normal about the way K9 is pretending to be the owner of Leela and Torvald. Like it just makes me so happy every time because it is so amazingly funny.

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so many people do not appreciate pacifism as a genuine political ideology. they just think of it as something kids grow out of or cowards hide behind, and literally cannot get their heads around the idea that some people don't want to use physical violence against other people or that "killing people is bad" is a sincere moral philosophy in its own right.

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I do think that people in the Stormlight fandom underestimate how exhausting it is to live through a war. Which makes sense, because I imagine most people don't have that experience! (Including me— I'm pulling from family and community history here.). But it's normal to go through hell and just be tired at the end of it. To be ready for it to be over and just live, even if it means compromising on some things.

To me, Rlain's choices and allegiances are the most understandable thing in the world. After years of being alone and vulnerable and afraid, after watching his people die, for Rlain to be like "these people have carved out a place for me where I can just live and they genuinely try to make it a good place, so I don't care what color their uniforms are"? Like, yeah. I buy that completely.

And honestly, saying "I'm tired of fighting, let's try something new" can be an incredible act of bravery.

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sometimes it's neither "he's straight" nor "he's gay" but "he's bisexual but he's also like sixty years old and doesn't know what gay sex is and he's been married to a woman for the past thirty years but if you asked him how he felt about one of his closest male friends it would sound an awful lot like he was in love with him"

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"Hi y'all, it's Chronomaster42, the only Youtuber with the ability to travel through, and control, time and space, here with another taste test. I'm here in 1976, and I'm gonna get some fries from Mickey D's before they changed the recipe, and then I'm gonna take 'em back to 2022, and get fries from the same McDonald's, so I can compare. Now, I've got my Nixon, uh, Ford? Carter? Era fries right here, so now I'm gonna"

*everything appears stretched and distant, and then the camera flies through space, through the sun, over millions of different Earths, past the faces of individual people in a thousand different timelines, splintered day by day, the long-dead alive once more, their varied futures lying before them. They appear to be screaming*

"annnnnd here we are, gettin' the new fries, today. I have to say, I like the old fries a bit better, bit more crisp, but Mickey D's fries are still Mickey D's fries, y'know? Anyway, I know some of you guys were freaked out at all the screaming time faces last video, but like, I'm used to 'em, and they aren't even audible to me? But y'know what is audible? That's right - Audible, use code -"

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*goes to Coachella in a white linen suit like an antebellum lawyer, sweating profusely and dabbing at my forehead with a handkerchief* now, I’m no fancy scientist, but would you folk know where a simple gentleman such as myself could obtain some acid? Now, I’m no big city lawyer, but could any of you fine youths point a country boy such as myself in the direction of some fucking acid?

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a top Steven Taylor moment is at the end of Celestial Toymaker when the Doctor tells him to 'preset for dematerialisation' and he goes to the tardis console and just starts smashing buttons. like Steven what the fuck are you doing.

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talk about doing a double take!

with all the shit going on in the series, it's easy to forget that one of shallan's men is gaz, the guy who was a dick to kaladin whilst he was running bridges. wonder if they ever ran into each other after the apocalypse began