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this is what happened in that one scene right?

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It really irks me when people are like 'lol Cloud went snowboarding immediately after Aerith died!!' NO!! NO HE DIDN'T!!!!

After she dies, a still grieving Cloud goes to the Icicle Inn where he finds the house Aerith was born in, complete with video tapes of her biological mom and a dad she never knew she had falling in love with eachother before deciding to have her. You hear them choose her name. The final tape shows Hojo gunning down her father and kidnapping Aerith and her mom, thus beginning a lifetime of Shin-ra torture, while the player is left with the heartbreaking realization that if Aerith had lived just a little bit longer, she could have known everything about herself she ever wanted to including how loved and wanted she was from the very start. And now she never will, rubbing an incredible amount of salt in a very fresh wound. and THEN Cloud went snowboarding, which is way funnier.

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Lillies!!!!!!

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In the late 1970s a glowing orb appeared in the sky. Every day at about 5:00 Greenwich standard time, the orb would go somewhere new, shoot out something similar to a laser, and kill one person. Every day, always at the same time, always exactly one person.

The person killed by the orb seemed completely random, with almost fifty years of studying it we've been able to find no rhythm or reason to who it kills. It kills the old, the young, the rich, the poor, the urban, the rural, anyone. Every human on earth seems to have an equal chance of being killed by the orb. It's a headline the few times someone of note is killed by the orb: Britain famously lost a Parliament member to the orb, Brazil to this day remains the only country where a head of state was killed by the orb while in office, there was a short lived sitcom in the 1990s called Freinds that ended halfway through its first season due to the orb killing one of the main actors on set. However, these are outliers, on any given day the person who dies via orb is very likely to be someone you never heard of. There are billions of people on earth, and only one is killed by the orb every day. In almost fifty years only a little over 18000 have died because of the orb, which is nothing in the face of the sheer amount of humans that exist.

When the orb first appeared people were horrified. Both the US and USSR thought it was a weapon from the other side. Almost every religion made some claim of it being proof of their beliefs, oftentimes claiming it was divine punishment. Atheists claimed it was proof no loving God could exist. People were so very apocalyptic and horrified by it, they thought of it as part of the end times, because when it was new that's really how it looked.

However, it's been long enough so that's changed. Most people have lived their entire lives in a world where the orb exists. The orb isn't that scary a concept. People know their odds of being killed by it are low and that it's not going to end the world or anything. The orb has become normal, and we've accepted that the orb is just something that kills people the same way cancer, or heart attacks, or natrual disasters, or car crashes kill people. In the nineteen eighties there were efforts to find a way to stop the orb, but it's since proven to be extremely difficult, and it's as distant and nebulous as finding a cure for cancer. When a community is struck by the orb you'll see that community in mourning, but it's not a global thing anymore.

So people grow up learning about the orb, as part of science, like anything else. A lot of gen z remembers learning about the orb from Magic School Bus. It's just something normal. There are a few people with an orb hyperfixation, and a few cults that give the orb importance but it's not most people's concern. The orb is how we first confirmed that interdimensional objects existed and are possible. A lot of people theorize dimensional studies wouldn't exist without it, meaning without the orb we might not have thermitizers or grand drives, we might not even have a moon base without the orb. Some have even rather tastelessly claimed that the orb has saved more lives at this point that its taken with all the knowledge it's given us.

Which is why I regret to inform you, that just last week, without warning, the orb killed two people in one day. And for the past seven days it's been killing two people instead of just one. Nobody knows why.

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I love homura, she’s so normal

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Is 25 years old too late to start wielding the cursed sword? Will I ever be a real inheritor of all the world's sins?

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is this anything

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kingdom of predators 🌱🐜

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i really really hope qui'lon isn't immune to lure because imagine. enlightened buddha who cannot be contained by samsara waylaid by the worldly desire to pet One Cat

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Customer: NICKNAME DMV: URBAN DICTIONARY COMPARES IT TO FUCKED, SCREWED OR SHAFTED. ONLY 7 UP AND 2 DOWN (CUSTOMER NAME IS DAWN) Verdict: ACCEPTED

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at the end of a world, the pebbles sing a song for their smallest sibling.

(part of a hnk zine i'm making with @neile for AX!!)

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2̴͉̦͇̔͑2̶̳̌͘.̸̲̱̂͐0̵̧̜̂̏͘4̷̨̢̛͔̠̻̻̻̪̺̫͔̘͈̞̤̬͇̟͕̩̣́̏̈́͋̈̀̋͊̉͒̓̂̓̒̽́̚͘.̶̡̜̗̪̮͉̺̰̳̮͈̼̘̟̭̰͙̠͊͗̓̉͆̈́̒̽͌̅̃̈́̇͒́͂͆̕͝2̵̬̫͔̞̱̹̞͑̎͂0̸̛͔̫͠1̶̡͔̾̚͝1̵̱̙̟́́̐ ̸̳̮̇⏳̵̧̨̓̒ ̵̮͐́today'̸̜̬̙͆ś̵̠̻͈̔ ̸̦͕̮͌̿̅ţ̶̧̚i̷̺͕̟̒̆m̵̰̑͘è̵͕̲l̵̰̣̀̿̾ͅi̸̘̩̤͋̽̐n̴̡̻͔̊͊͝e̵̳̿͘

h̵e̸y̷ ̸c̶a̶n̷ ̵a̷n̷y̴b̷̡͉̌͗ǒ̷̙̠́d̶͈̅̽y̷̘̒͠ ̵h̵̥͗͗͗̑͋̑̈́͘ȩ̶̛̲͕̯͓̫͉͙̅͝͝a̶̛͉͌͒̽̊͗̈́͝r̷̡̫̭͕̹͗̊̀̚ ̸̯͐͑̌m̵̗͒̀̎̔͝e̵͙͕̭̹̋̂̊͘͠ ? b̵r̸o̶ ̷r̵i̷p̸ ̷e̸v̴e̴r̶l̴b̵a̷r̸ ̷j̴u̵b̵ ̷h̵f̵r̶f̵ ̵f̵p̸e̵r̴r̸a̸ ̶ȇ̵͚͋r̶̘͌̕n̵̩̦̙̓̈́̐q̵̡̜̈r̶͙̄̈́͝ë̷̪͔͚̈ ̷̰͖͕͆͆j̶̜͐̄̃v̶̗̞̎͜ģ̶̺͓̇͘u̵̪͉͚͛̈́ ̸z̷l̷ ̵c̸b̵f̴g̸f̸

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I think "no hatewatching" is a good policy to have, but less because you have to deprive Big Media Corp of your $15 or whatever for a movie ticket, which makes very little difference to them, and more because you should not, for your own spiritual health, waste your time on movies that you know are bad and/or you will not enjoy.

Surround yourself with what is true and good and beautiful. Avert your eyes from what is cheap and soulless and ugly.