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continuing to follow a beloved mutual but tag blocking all the fandoms they post about. baby i LOVE you but there is a demonic force that controls your interests.

#okay but like. me @ my sister. in real life.

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Orville Peck & Willie Nelson Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond Of Each Other (2024) dir. Ben Prince

#orville peck #willie nelson #UGH

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#prev is correct so it's none of these options

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was reminded about Essek's geometer and I'm here to pitch a reverse Home Alone situation where the Nein break into Essek's towers to get a bunch of cool shit he had to leave without, but first they have to get inside without alerting the Aurora Watch by setting off his forty-seven ridiculous security measures

#looks like whoville on Christmas morning by the time they're done #no but for real this would be such a funny one shot #essek thelyss

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the Nein are the best because literally every one of them is feral but it's the upper class political aide who gets put through the domestication arc

#the rest of them get to keep being their perfect feral selves 🥰 #megs watches c2

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literally every time I look at Verin's stat block in Netherdeep I laugh a little bit. he poses like he's in an emo photo shoot. he's referred to as a beacon to the town despite being the elven equivalent of 23. his weapon of choice is a glaive. absolute best boy, he might be a let down to his family but he sure is successful at carrying on the Thelyss name for drama.

#this is entirely unrelated to me watching episode 2 but the book was on the table and i had to go find him again 🥰 #he's best boy! baby brother! #my spouse might run Netherdeep for me and a bunch of the cousins and i am hyped #verin thelyss

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The conversation Caleb has with the Trostenwald bartender about romance novels while they're investigating is SO funny, first because it is not clear whether or not Caleb's bullshitting him, and second because WHY does this small town bartender have a contact for romance novels in Rexxentrum.

#like zadash alone I'd get it but REXXENTRUM? SIR #megs watches c2

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They really are covering the full spectrum of phobias in this one, huh?

- Confined Spaces

- Falling

- Creepy Crawlies

- Fungus

- Elevators

- Drugs

- Creepy Children

- Betrayal

- Ghosts

- Body Horror

- Liam's Terrible Mouth Sounds

#co spoilers #candela obscura #honestly. writing checklist. Liam is so valid.

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Dating a prof

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https://x.com/zwagreeus/status/1783306576402489667?s=61

#critical role #shadowgast #LMFAO

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can't stop thinking about how the "convinced to return for one last job" trope is a kind of resurrection. digging up a restless corpse that maybe should have stayed buried.

#:)))) #[blows a kiss] to my crew

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fucked around and it would be so inefficient to do full paint as a first layer before doing lineart and shading, but honestly, it might be the correct way to actually force myself to work on line art

I snorted at the Trostenwald crowns guard threatening to bring "the might of the Cerberus Assembly" on the weird circus commotion folks but Caleb was definitely not laughing

#anyway. we move on. (to episode 2) #caleb widogast

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tbh I’ve always found it very funny that Elrond is like “there’s no point bringing Glorfindel on the quest, even though he’s a balrog-slayer. You won’t need balrog-slayers” and then thirty pages later they run into a balrog

#lotr

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not a Candela post but I was actually thinking about The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K Le Guin w/r/t Liliana. Spoilers for a 50+ year old book, but it centers around a man who unwillingly has the power to alter reality to match his dreams and who retains the memory of the world before he changed it. He is required to see a psychiatrist due to his drug abuse, since that suppresses the ability, and the psychiatrist believes him - but uses him to try to fix the various ills of the world. This becomes a monkey's paw-like exploration of various dystopias - to solve overpopulation (really popular theme in the early 70s) his dreams create a world where most people died of a plague; racism is eliminated by the concept of race being eliminated thus eliminating a number of people and a good deal of art and history; world peace is achieved via an alien invasion that unites the people of the world against an external threat rather than each other (a la Watchmen). The man (Orr) who has the dreams becomes more and more insistent that this is wrong, but the psychiatrist does not listen, and things spiral out from there.

I really do think Liliana believes she is doing the right thing, but the fact is, waving away people's legitimate question of "what will happen if you get rid of the gods" - particularly since pretty much everyone not directly within the Ruby Vanguard, including one of the major representatives of planar stability from the natural side (Keyleth) and her wizard counterpart (Ryn) and like, every other wizard who isn't directly under Ludinus's sphere of influence is like "I think that ends in disaster" - is such a massive red flag. Treating geopolitical problems as neatly fixable by One Change that definitely won't make everything worse (source: trust me) is, even in fantasy, a fantasy.

#critical role #i am at all times recommending the lathe of heaven #no but this is a great point and i do just constantly think about this book wrt this kind of argument

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I snorted at the Trostenwald crowns guard threatening to bring "the might of the Cerberus Assembly" on the weird circus commotion folks but Caleb was definitely not laughing

#once again what is a line art #literally that threat is SO funny in retrospect like #bruh the assembly does not give a flying fuck about zombies in a southern farm town that thinks they're hot shit cuz they've got breweries #LAUGHABLE. #critical role #caleb widogast

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Rainbow mo

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love a character that's like. i survived (<- not a brag) (<- this is a curse that weighs on me every waking hour)

#yeah. yeah.

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"How much for this book on hoe techniques?" Why do you ask, Caleb? Out of practice? Been a while?

#i did fucking laugh out loud #perfect intro book for caleb 'bisexual maelstrom' widogast #megs watches c2 #in other news i actively grimaced over caleb's 12 hit points