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I love how bad Astarion is with his cover story. You meet him and he's like "I'm a magistrate" then he stealths, disarms a trap, double dashes and backstabs a goblin all while giggling about spilling blood and you're just like hm yeah that's the legal system for you

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I'm starting to get smile lines.

How lovely to have smiled so often that happiness permanently etches itself into your face

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Remember that you are a primate, and one of the basic primate threat responses is to go absolutely bugfuck and hope that whatever's after you decides you're not worth the risk. Charging directly toward the problem waving your arms wildly in the air and shrieking like a gibbon is always valid.

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vampire oc who enjoys roleplaying as his vampire oc in forums online

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“They call us now, before they drop the bombs. The phone rings and someone who knows my first name calls and says in perfect Arabic “This is David.” And in my stupor of sonic booms and glass-shattering symphonies still smashing around in my head I think, Do I know any Davids in Gaza? They call us now to say Run. You have 58 seconds from the end of this message. Your house is next. They think of it as some kind of war-time courtesy. It doesn’t matter that there is nowhere to run to. It means nothing that the borders are closed and your papers are worthless and mark you only for a life sentence in this prison by the sea and the alleyways are narrow and there are more human lives packed one against the other more than any other place on earth Just run. We aren’t trying to kill you. It doesn’t matter that you can’t call us back to tell us the people we claim to want aren’t in your house that there’s no one here except you and your children who were cheering for Argentina sharing the last loaf of bread for this week counting candles left in case the power goes out. It doesn’t matter that you have children. You live in the wrong place and now is your chance to run to nowhere. It doesn’t matter that 58 seconds isn’t long enough to find your wedding album or your son’s favorite blanket or your daughter’s almost completed college application or your shoes or to gather everyone in the house. It doesn’t matter what you had planned. It doesn’t matter who you are. Prove you’re human. Prove you stand on two legs. Run.”

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Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Running Orders                                            

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/143255/running-orders

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Oh my god, you two, get a room.

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...yeah

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Apparently a part of the reason why farmed bees stay in the beehives that humans build for them is because the farm hives are safer and sturdier. I don't know how a busy Discord server's worth of bugs that only have one brain cell each would logically conclude that the humans protect them from outside threats, illness and parasites, but if I understood right, the bees would be free to move away and build a new nest somewhere else any time they'd want, and they simply choose not to.

You know how in almost every culture, people have some concept of "if I sacrifice something that I made/grew/produced to the Gods, they will ward me and my harvest from evil"?

So, in a way, don't the bees willingly sacrifice a part of their harvest to an entity not only far greater than them, but nearly beyond their comprehension, in exchange for protection against natural forces wildly outside of their own control?

So tell me, beekeepers, what are you to your bees, if not a mildly eldritch God?

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If you get this the way I get this, I salute you.

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I like haunted houses in theory BUT I have no idea how to react when the actors speak to you. They ask me a question and I just… answer it…

The scariest part of a haunted house is the unscripted social interaction.

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We're on a new platform with a totally different audience...we have to prove ourselves all over again...convince a totally new group of people to think we're funny and worth your attention....so allow me to drop some of my "A" material....the funniest thing I got.......here goes....... jeef berky

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TikTok update where the app won't open unless the user is wearing earphones

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Gale: You know what they say, the way to a mans heart is through his stomach!

Astarion: That's also excellent murder advice.

Tav, sighing: One dinner. Can we have one, normal dinner?

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I know people talk a lot about the parallels between Astarion and Karlach but I’ve been thinking a lot today abt the parallels/mirrors between Astarion and Shadowheart. Both were preyed on when they were younger and vulnerable and alone, deliberately picked to be manipulated in service of someone else. Both were on the precipice of having everything they thought they ever wanted… and both turned it down, both deciding to choose their own destiny for themselves instead of going along with someone else’s plan, both deciding to be better……….. i’m gonna get emotional bye