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It’s still Pride in the Boiling Isles 🌈

I still cannot believe I got the chance to work on such an incredibly special show 🥹 Lemme rant for a sec:

There’s so much more to The Owl House than just Lumity, but watching these girlfriends fall in love in canon really touched my life and the lives of so many queer kids around the world. I was so honored to play a small part in Luz’s coming out story and her relationship with Amity.

I’ve visited middle schools, high schools, and colleges around the US where I spoke to classrooms about my job on TOH, and so many kids told me how much this show meant to them as young queers, artists, and neurodivergent weirdos. We need to be supporting those kids and their futures now more than ever. Nobody can diminish your light!

Queer rights are human rights. Joy and Pride is resistance. Expression and Nonconformity are threats to power. So is Humor, and Art, and Love, and Community— all precious as they are vital, especially in times like these.

Trans rights are human rights— the right to privacy, autonomy, and deciding what’s best for our bodies is between us and our doctors, not our governments. Anti-trans laws reflect fascist ideals, the lavender scare, and racist segregation throughout history.

Immigrant Rights are human rights— the rights to travel, seek asylum, build a life for yourself, share your culture with others. Immigrants are a disruption to an ethnostate.

Heroes and Villains from The Owl House, though fictional, represent and embody these very real concepts from our world. And that’s just part of the reason why this show genuinely resonates with me and so many people.

Ok enough rambling from me… please stay safe out there

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🩷

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So Lily has announced her intention to make Baldur's Gate 3 is Garbage and Here's Why (or a video to that effect) and has been playing the game on livestream to collect footage for the video. She has also made several posts on BlueSky that foreshadow her opinion on the game.

The video is being made in the wake of criticism from Crispy's Tavern, a youtuber in the DnD community. With Lily's current reach, I doubt it will gain traction. Still, there will doubtlessly be discussion on Lily's takes when the video does come out.

Let's make this clear before then; None of Lily's criticisms of Baldur's Gate 3 hold merit, because Lily refuses to engage with the game's systems in good faith.

Let me provide you with an example of Lily's approach to playing Baldur's Gate 3. It's not a recent one (it comes from a livestream aired in September 2023) but it is highly indicative of Lily's play style as a whole.

This is a pile of rubble in Grymforge, one of the latter sections of Act I. Destroying it grants access to the passage beyond. The player has the option of convincing some overworked herd animals to clear it away for them, or they can destroy it themselves with the appropriate weaponry. Since Lily has already slaughtered everything in this area, she opts for the latter.

The rubble has 45 hit points, resistance to piercing damage and most forms of elemental damage, and immunity to slashing damage. It also has the "sturdy" condition, meaning it will ignore any attack that deals fewer than 10 hit points to it. All of this information is freely given if you right-click on the rubble pile to examine it, and if you attack it with an ineffective weapon, it will even tell you if that weapon is ineffective.

Here is Lily's failed attempt at clearing the rubble.

video summary/description: Lily's OC attacks the rubble with scimitars, a slashing weapon. The pile takes no damage, and the text "immune to slashing damage" pops up. Lae'zel then attacks the rubble with a one-handed Warhammer - this attack could potentially damage the rubble if she rolls high enough for damage, but she doesn't.

Lily's henchman casts Magic Missile at 3rd level on the rubble - this sends out 5 missile that each deal between 2 and 5 force damage- since these missiles are counted separately, none of them damage the pile. Lily's OC then attacks the pile several times with a bow- no damage. Karlach follows suit with a crossbow - no damage. Karlach then attacks the rubble with a halberd* - a slashing weapon, so the pile is immune (and the "immune to slashing damage" text is displayed again). After 3 more halberd swings at the pile, Lily gives up and moves on from the undamaged rubble.

This is not a difficult section of the game by any means - this rubble can easily be cleared by an explosive barrel, or judicious usage of a Warlock's eldritch blast. Even without leaving this area or changing her party, Lily could have cleared the rubble by switching Lae'zel's Warhammer to two-handed mode and giving the pile enough hits.

Had Lily engaged with this obstacle with patience and a little curiosity, she would have recognized her current weapons were ineffective (with the exception of the aforementioned Warhammer) and been able to formulate an alternative strategy. Instead she frustrates herself with attacks that do nothing, ignores the game telling her those attacks do nothing, and leaves while complaining that D&D's rules are "ass-backwards." Baldur's Gate 3 is not a perfect game, and it certainly has issues - but withholding information from its players is not one of them.

This is how Lily approaches the entirety of Baldur's Gate 3. She is already determined to dislike the game, and as a result she refuses to engage with any of the game's systems in good faith. Because she doesn't engage with the systems in good faith, she doesn't know how to overcome simple challenges. Because Lily can't overcome simple challenges, she has a bad time, and because she has a bad time, she dislikes the game. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy, and Lily seems determined to make it everyone else's problem.

Why should we respect the opinions of someone who plays the game like this?

*Important note here - Karlach stunning herself has nothing to do with the rubble pile - the weapon she's wielding, Light of Creation, was looted from an automaton and will stun any non-automaton that wields it. Again, if Lily had taken the time to engage with the game and read the item's description, she'd realize that this weapon is… not an ideal choice for most characters.

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lily's biggest "telling on herself" moment is her never shutting the fuck up about how gay anna and elsa and what a freak the director is whenever she brings up frozen

Actually… yeah. You’re right with this one.

More than you might realize.

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people misunderstand what ‘gifted kid’ actually means but it’s ok it’s fine it’s cool it’s good

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It's interesting how in each episode Hunter first bonds/meets with the Hexsquad, he can relate to them in a way or he's paralleled to each member. Hunting Palisman: Both Luz and Hunter "failed" in some kind of way, relating to Palisman. Luz couldn't get one because she's too unsure about her future, while Hunter couldn't retrieve them for Belos. But while Luz got support and help from Eda and King through the Palistrom wood and words of kindness, Hunter got verbal abuse and degraded by Belos for failing. Eclipse Lake: Both Hunter and Amity are looking for Titan's blood to prove themselves, and both of them got some in a sort of way. Except Amity recieved support, kindness and concern for her safety from Luz when she returned home, we can see in Hollow Mind later that Belos was angry that Hunter didn't get enough Titan's blood, seeing it as a fail and not caring about his safety. Any Sport in a Storm: Both Hunter and Willow are trying to prove their strengths and skills in some kind of way. This is actually kind of positive for both, because Willow walks away with a newly established Flyer Derby team and Hunter makes some real connections outside the castle. It's also a little negative, because Willow still has all her friends and her dads, and Hunter may have Darius and a Penstagram, but he's still loyal to Belos and the FD team doesn't trust him 100% Labryinth Runners: Both Gus and Hunter struggle with self-doubt and self-trust issues, and in the end, they help each other out with it.

(also it spells out the word HEAL that's so cute)

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I love the palismen. Dana Terrace just said “what if instead of brooms witches flew on little guys that are also their pets”. Absolutely delightful.

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How I sleep knowing Lily Orchard/CD-Call's videos have been tanking in views this year and she'll probably never make a comeback at this point

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it’s always really nice to be reminded that lily is still effected by the joon the king video lol

It is, lol.

Especially because she tries so hard to pretend it doesn't bother her. But Joon doesn't have any skeletons in his closet or anything she can really hit him with other than "drama YouTuber" (which isn't even accurate).

But his video on her has over 1M views. Her growth has severely stagnated (if not flat-out died) since it came out.

Mention anyone else critical of her and she'll start mudslinging but any discussion of Joon gets shut down immediately.

Because she doesn't actually have anything to hit him back with.

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Calling the trial a huge breakthrough in behavioral science, researchers at Johns Hopkins University announced Tuesday they had trained mice to choose between life-saving medications and other essentials. “In this first-of-its-kind experiment, we were able to successfully teach rodents to make a cost-benefit analysis between paying for a surgery they needed to survive and their rent that’s due at the end of month,” said lead researcher Dr. Natalie Boyd, explaining that the mice quickly learned that if they chose to pay for necessary medical treatment, it would correlate to the denial of other equally important basic necessities, like food and shelter.

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some folks get REALLY upset when you talk on sincerity as much as i do, which is fine because we all have different trots. its beautiful to say 'no thanks' too. but if i had a wish it would be for those buds to feel safe enough to give it a shot. whole world isnt always snarling, just parts of it

it is just shocking how many buds walk around wearing old wounds like a mask and it is SO obvious. i just want to give them a hug and say BUD you dont have to wear those around anymore, you can set them down. love is weightless but i understand it looks so heavy after hauling all those wounds around