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Spending adult money correctly

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She didn't really need all the guards at the Hex Gates

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Living his best life

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Oppression breeds radical behavior. What else will get the system to listen to those it abuses?

A lot of people died and suffered before it got to this point. Words don't do much but action does. And when peaceful action doesn't work, things escalate.

School shooting after school shooting goes by. Crickets. Then this guy ALLEGEDLY offs 1 CEO, and he's a terrorist.

And not just a terrorist they made sure to sensationalize him in the media. They dug as deep as they could to fabricate as much as they could to make him look like a criminal. And the worst part is that this whole time they've been labeling him a murderer and a terrorist when he has not been proven guilty.

They want to use this guy as an example to teach the 95% that we can't retaliate.

This world is run by a bunch of cunt bags.

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Animals are perfect

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NGC 6357, Celestial Cathedral

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I LOVE it when creators make such strong characters that not only have an authentic back story but authentic development arcs.

Thinking about how Shadowheart is so thirsty, y'know? She flirts with Karlach and Wyll, pines after Shar, has an incredibly homoerotic dynamic with Lae'zel, dreams about Halsin, and, if prompted, is enthusiastically polyamarous.

All of this is all well and good from a horny standpoint, but I think it also illustrates something important about Shadowheart's personality: No matter how prickly she tries to present herself, she's a lover at her core.

She loves life, even when she attempts to mask this love behind cold violence. She loves cute animals and pretty flowers. She loves her parents, even as she struggles to remember them. She loves her goddess (In her own, fucked up way). She loves trashy romance chapbooks and good wine. She loves her friends, even when they annoy her. She loves herself, after a fashion, and loves her body, loves other people's bodies. Even before fully abandoning Shar, as a partner she's caring, affectionate, even a little girlish and goofy behind the veneer of brooding mysteries.

And these things manifest even after being raised in Shar's cloister, after several decades of trauma and memory wipes. So strong is Shadowheart's love that Viconia literally has to erase her multiple times to build a colder, more callous acolyte. So strong is her love that even when mind wiped and personally guided by the hand of the Lady of Sorrows, she still harbors doubts about the thing that tells her to abandon her love.

It's the love of and for her companions, and the gnawing feeling of absence where her she knows her other loves should be, that ultimately leads her away from Shar. Her first priority after enduring timeless torments in the Shadowfell is affirming her love to a romanced player character. If her parents survive, she abandons what would have almost certainly been a life of fame, fortune, and power to care for them on a cozy farmstead, surrounding herself with the things and people that she loves. And if it comes up, she sees any proposed nonmonogamy not as an indictment of her partner's loyalty or their bond with her, but as a chance for them to spread and share and revel in the love that she holds so dear.

It's no wonder Viconia and Shar were so desperate to control her, to turn her away from Selûne. This is a woman whose love burns so brightly that even the goddess of darkness and loss failed to snuff out her light.

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Caitlyn doing the most insane “if you love them let them go” stat like she just got Vi back and in classic Vi fashion she immediately almost dies and Caitlyn goes. oh my god life has meaning again. this right here is the love of my life, the chance to be happy I destroyed when the rest of my life imploded, and she’s back in my orbit and I’m going to move heaven and earth to make sure she’s okay and then I’m going to let her go. I’m going to use the power I gathered to myself when I was at my worst and used for my own ends to help this girl who has always been fucked over by the system. both the girl I love and my mother’s killer might disappear straight off the face of the earth and I’m going to make peace with that possibility. because I love her

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As someone who’s reported alt-right harassment and rhetoric on various social media sites and been told “there’s nothing here that violates our TOS,” seeing what RPGnet is doing is a welcome breath of fresh air.

Please, more social media sites need to do this.

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AI under capitalism

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Caitlyn x Vi in Arcane Season 2 | Season 1 version ↳ "I am the dirt under your nails, Cupcake. Nothing's gonna clean me out."

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