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aita for trying to summon a god to resurrect my wife?

i (142m) recently lost my wife (139f) to terminal illness. we were married for nearly 127 years, and were survivors of a disaster that destroyed our home city and killed nearly everyone in it. she was my best friend, the love of my life, and the light of my world. i’ve spent months trying to move on, but the pain of losing her has only grown stronger since her death, with my grief eventually leading me to quit my job and travel in the hopes of finding something else to live for. i will be upfront in admitting that, in the process of quitting, i blew up the school i worked at (no one was hurt), almost killed my assistant (he’s fine), and released a bunch of monsters from the abandoned gated community i had contained them in a few decades prior (long story).

anyway, during my travels i came across a relic that contained immense necromantic power, but i quickly realized that i would be unable to utilize it for my purposes on my own, as my wife had been dead for several months by that time and was well past the point of resurrection by conventional means. long story short, i decided to harness the power of the same god that caused the disaster that destroyed my and my wife’s former home.

as it turns out, my former boss (????m) picked up a kid (13x) off the street around the same time this was happening, and tasked my brother (also 142m, we’re twins) with teaching them magic. i won’t bore you with the details, but this thirteen year old now keeps following me around and fucking up my plans to reunite with my true love, which i’m frankly tired of.

(side note: this kid also won a fighting competition that hasn’t been won by someone from our school since i attended. i need to remind you, they are thirteen. i’m not certain they’d ever used magic before my boss picked them up, so i have no idea how this possibly could have happened, or when they had the time to even attend the fights since they’ve seemingly dedicated the majority of their time to fucking me over for no good reason.)

my ex-boss seems to think that summoning this being is a “bad idea” and could “destroy the world,” but 1. i’m doing it in my already ruined hometown and 2. i think that the world is a small price to pay to have my wife back. it’s not like it’s worth much without her in it, anyway.

edit: shut up about the fucking giant tree it’s an unrelated current event. you can’t prove that i actually did anything to him, and it’s rude to accuse people baselessly

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the best part of challengers is how they’re all barely 32 if that and it’s like listen my better years are behind me. my wife will shoot me like a dog if I don’t make it to semis this season

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Paul Lehr, visionary & influential science fiction artist 1930-1998

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Wanted to do a drawing about her tattoo, so I created this. Enjoy

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“But what can I do if you are not touched by my defects, whereas I loved yours. My candour was crushed underfoot by you.”

— Clarice Lispector, from “The Stream of Life.”

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Jack Gaughan’s cover art for the unauthorized 1965 paperback editions of ‘The Lord of the Rings’

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okay i'll bite is such a good phrase. like i will

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This is the BEST possible outfit she could’ve worn…. Retaining the integrity of his boob window AND the bob. Legendary

megan thee stallion wearing a bruno bucciarati inspired dress the the crunchyroll anime awards

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do you think, for a potato chip, being dipped in an onion-based condiment is like seeing an old friend for the first time in years, both of you fundamentally changed and soon destined to die but nonetheless still here in this moment?

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snoopy of the day

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but i'm a cheerleader (1999)

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PALM SPRINGS (2020) Dir. Max Barbakow

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― Ovid, Metamorphoses

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i really love seeing someone doing something a bit embarrassing. I shant kill myself... and neither shall you..

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Just watched blue eye samurai and I think the writing overall is just superb, but one scene I don’t see people talking about is the one where Fowler is explaining his childhood in Ireland during a manufactured famine to Heiji… this backstory… THIS is the scene that makes his awareness of the brutality of “white devils” in-character and makes sense. It explains his plain embracement of the villainous label. He knows first-hand the effects of colonization—if the events of the show take place in the mid 1600s, Ireland had recently been completely reconquered and colonized by England. The Stuart dynasty, King James I, had just started. This is his motive for becoming a smuggler, for wanting the money—the lacking and starvation that drove him to cannibalism. It’s just such a rich villain motivation and backstory, SO much more nuanced than how he could have been instead written as “British man who wants to colonize Japan because British people colonize :p”. He’s still white, still villainous and unforgivable, still benefitting from that privileged position, but DAMN! I just did not expect this villain to be Irish. Idc Kenneth Branagh devoured that voice acting performance. Perfectly encapsulated why Fowler became so numb, so ruthless.

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Alvvays obsessed