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rb with whether people assume you’re older or younger than your actual age

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rb with whether people assume you’re older or younger than your actual age

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explain your gender in 10 words or less without using boring words like “male”, “female”, “nonbinary”, “masculine”, “feminine” or “androgynous”.

go!

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today one of the student workers at my job told me that if she’s struggling to remember something important in her course work she’ll wait until her professor asks a question related to that topic during a lecture and then she’ll purposefully raise her hand and answer it wrong because, and I quote, ‘the combined shame and embarrassment of getting an answer wrong in front of more than a hundred of your peers will make sure that you’ll never forget what the right answer actually was’ and if that is not the most next level balls to the wall bonkers extrovert thing I’ve ever heard then I don’t know what is

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Cis people think trans people have this:

Deadname

Chosen name

But honestly we really have:

Name

Other name

Deadname

Business name

Old nickname only some people have rights to use

Online name

Extra special secret name you don’t get to know, unless… ;)

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Fugitive telemetry is not my favourite book in the series but it still has my favourite scene. There are so many good scenes in the series but the one where MB comes up with an extremely convoluted plan to rescue a bunch of kidnapped humans it doesn't even know, and thinks to itself how proud it is of its function for ONCE, it's not being used as a shitty combatunit, this is a SECUNIT plan, it's what it was made for and once it is proud of that. And it launches this insanely risky plan that could very easily get it killed, and finds the hostages, then runs up to the door to stop it from being jettisoned, and stays there so it can fire on the kidnappers and keep them safe. And while it's standing in that doorway, having succeeded at this plant it was so proud of without a single innocent death

One of them shoots it in the back.

And it doesn't kill it. It's fine. But everything is gone. All that pride, all that satisfaction, all that... Hope. And then outside Indah is like. Furious and shocked. She wants it to PRESS CHARGES against the TRAFFICKED KIDNAPPED STARVING HUMAN. She has hated it this whole time but. They shot it in the back. It saved them and they shot it in the back and she truly cannot wrap her mind around it. She finally sees like. What it's like to be a rogue SecUnit who cares about other people. They will never trust it no matter how many times it proves itself. And it waves that away. It's not going to press charges. That's ridiculous. And it just like. It just doesn't mention this again (shhh ooc reasons are irrelevant) because this just one little thing in a lifetime of things. It's not unique. It's not even worth mentioning

It. It saved them and they shot it in the back. She didn't even apologize. They shot it in the back.

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The first thing the new Barish-Estranza explorer had done was power up to ART and try to intimidate it/us. (I know. I was below 66 percent operating capacity at the time and I thought it was a bad idea.)

ART had dropped its main weapon port and transmitted, Targeting lock acquired.

The explorer had replied something to the effect that they didn't mean to be intimidating and was the widdle academic transport crew scared, but in corporate speak, and ART had replied, it's so easy for ships to disappear out here.

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environmental storytelling

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hmm

dragonflies. haunting implications:

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Did a brand new kind of bowling shot today

we called it the "trust the Force Luke" shot or the "through God all things are possible" shot

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Finally picking BG3 back up, and I have a visceral need to see the Tadfools casually using their tadpole telepathy with each other. I’m thinking sending warnings that there’s an ambush ahead, confessing feelings via “shove a mental hug and run,” calling everyone to dinner via mental shout. Even Lae’zel gets into it. There is a major adjustment period when Halsin joins the party and everyone realizes just how dependent they are on tadpole communication.

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Shoutout to whatever mindflayer that was able to tadpole Wyll and Karlach while the Nautiloid was crashing through the Hells.

A+ employee of the month

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Today my professor picked up a garter snake, said “Ow!” five times as it bit him, set it back down, and said, “Okay. That’s one defense mechanism snakes have.”

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I believe I said something to this affect in some tags ages ago, but I absolutely think jon giving jess tyrell the name of his workplace was a deliberate attempt at getting caught. parsing some timeline stuff, he took his first two victims in the first three weeks he was out of hospital, and then he did his third another maybe 3-4 weeks later after the coffin, but then jess was his first after two months of nothing. I think he tried to stop, realized he couldn't keep it up, so (maybe subconsciously) set a trap for himself while also making sure he'd be on a boat to norway for the immediate fallout.

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im not gonna lie I’m straight feral about Gale + physical damage from the orb so ur reblog expressing similar excitement about it made my day. There’s so many hcs of Gale & chronic pain and I’m like yeah I agree but ALSO what if the pain was only directly from the orb hungering and the nerve damage was the permanent consequence. mmm omnomnom gale’s trauma leaving physical consequences that aren’t magically fixed by the orb being stabilized. that’s it send tweet

YESSS you get it!! you get it!!!!!

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Netherese Orb + Physical Impacts.

I want to talk more on the subject of the specific physical impact of the orb on Gale, because I think it’s very glossed over in canon (and because I like this wizard a normal and socially acceptable amount).

When you see the night of “Gale’s Folly” through his memories, the narrator describes it as “…blackest Weave that pounces. Its teeth, its claws, its unstoppable as it digs through and becomes part of you. And gods, is it ever-hungry…”

Netherese Weave is not just dangerous - it is the kind of dangerous that even deities like Mystra refuse to touch because of the threat it poses to the very nature of reality and magic. Karsus’s attempt to ascend to godhood not only brought his civilization to ruin but destabilized the entire Weave.

In Forgotten Realms lore: “[The Weave] is an essential element of the universe. It runs through everything in unseen threads. It is what makes magic possible.“ (Excerpt from Magic of the Weave - An Introduction)

If we view the Weave as a constant source of underlying energy, like electrical currents, then absorbing even a fragment of Netherese Weave into a biological system would be like plugging an entire unstable power grid directly into your nervous system.

It seems unlikely, almost unreasonable, that such an unstable, predatory force would plant itself neatly in his sternum and neck and leave the rest of his body untouched.

Gale himself speaks about the orb like a chronic illness (“affliction”, “condition”, “remedy”, “stabilization”) and describes biological symptoms that track incredibly closely with neuropathy (nerve damage) if he does not feed the orb: “It begins with a biological deterioration. muscle spasms, disorientation, a slight ringing in the ears. and if left for too long… catastrophe.”

Based on what we know about Netherese Weave and the descriptions if his condition isn’t managed, the original incident likely was devastatingly medically and magically traumatic to his body - regardless of the subsequent status of the orb. Nerve damage to that severity would leave permanent consequences.

Think:

- Hands that shake when he’s tired or magically spent

- A slight limp, barely noticeable, after a long day of walking

- Rising just a bit slower, or leaning on his staff too heavily to disguise muscle weakness

These would be consequences that last regardless of the orb’s status, and likely are irreparable due to the nature of their origin.

While magic in the Forgotten Realms can heal and restore functionality, there is a limit to what it can do. Healing spells fix “recent injuries,” but can’t undo deep trauma or structural damage beyond what the body can naturally mend and even spells like Restoration have limits. Additionally, the narrator says the Netherese Weave “becomes part of [him]”. That doesn’t suggest just damage - it suggests fundamental magical and biological rewriting.

It’s also directly shown that the orb causes him pain/discomfort when he gets the Arcane Hunger status effect - but it doesn’t seem to be a surprise to him. He doubles over and clutches his chest (indicating the severity) but doesn’t cry out and speaks to you with in pained, but calm tones. This is not the behavior of someone with sudden, unexpected pain - this is the behavior of someone with constant chronic pain noticing the point where it becomes unsustainable. (Sidenote: This is a pretty common headcanon, I’m just mentioning it for context - other people have explored the idea of Gale & chronic pain supported by canon much more deeply. I’m looking more at consequences of nerve damage more specifically in this post)

So I present:

Gale with chronic pain and neuropathy. Gale with hands that shake when he’s exhausted. Gale who knows how to work around the reminders of his body’s limitations. Gale who can still cast and is a force to behold in battle, but who adjusts subtly afterwards to hide the way he’s favoring one leg - because the other is giving out on him. Gale who overuses Mage Hand because he doesn’t trust his own. Gale who sits by the fire a few minutes too long after a stressful day because the world feels like it’s spinning. Gale who is still himself, but who bears physical consequences of his ambition.

Thank you for coming to my TEDTalk.