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Nana Visitor, Gates McFadden and Tawny Newsome

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please watch Babylon 5 I’m begging you

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tbh i like torturing them by dragging vivienne and blackwall around together all the time because they’re actually pretty similar characters. both are lowborn marchers who managed to claw their way up the brutal orlesian social hierarchy. both are obsessed with the concepts of class and power. both grapple with the need to sacrifice personal (esp. romantic) relationships in order to abide by the obligations of their roles.

the divergence between them comes from the fact that while they’re familiar with the pitfalls of making yourself a tool of the nobility, blackwall’s fallen victim to them while vivienne’s bootstrapping has been comparably successful. he’s the “bad end” to her own story, which is why his criticisms of her are the most cogent of anyone’s. and vivienne, for her part, immediately recognizes what blackwall is because he’s so much like her.

it’s such a good detail that their animosity only kicks off when blackwall tries flattering her and she offends him by pointing out how obviously fake his chivalry is. blackwall uses this act frequently, and it works well on nobly-born characters like josephine, but vivienne isn’t a noble. she antagonizes him because she wants him to know that she’s used the same tactics herself, but against more difficult targets and to greater effect. she’s implying that she’s him but competent, and blackwall spends the rest of the game mounting the counter-argument that he’s her but with principles.

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you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

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Abolish the comic book industrial complex 🙂

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You see when I am ruthless, it gets us where we need to be. It's something to be proud of.

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I think if someone is getting into tim drake comics and you tell them to start off with red robin you should be sent to superhell

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[Image ID: A flow chart with two branches. The starting point reads "does this character have problems." One branch leads to "yes" then "make them worse," while the other branch leads to "no" then "give them some." End ID.]

#I like to take characters with trauma and make them worse #And then more worse #And then get them to a breaking point to make them better #If they do not start worse I generally do not write them

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ngl every time i see stuff about like, drugs affecting cognitive development of kids and teens, i think about the fact that it's normal for kids and teens to have caffeine, even tho caffeine also affects cognitive development. i think about the fact that teens are expected to get up extremely early in the morning to get ready for school, and go to bed real late because they only get free time late at night. i think about the fact that society already puts kids and teens through so many things that destroy their physical and mental health, and yet there's no serious effort to change the world to be a kinder place to them

#PA #Absolutely not #I think I had my first cup of coffee at 17 #Which was five whole ass years after I drank liquor for the first time #I get the idea of this post but this just isn't a normalized experience I lived #Coffee is a drug sure but I absolutely did not witness nearly anyone drinking it regularly #If at all #Someone else pointed out energy drinks and yes that was common #but that was also before the panic about it #I can't speak to how common it was after people realized it was like mainlining caffeine into your veins

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this video has been going around for a while but the English subtitles didn't match the energy of the spoken French at all. i had to fix it.

reblog to spread this version

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Impressions of ME: Andromeda after booting it up for the firs time:

I've never seen a more cluttered character creation screen

Tattoo options suck

Everyone is hot, but like in an uncanny valley sort of way

The Forsbite engine has and always will fucking suck

Bioware has yet again made a male love interest who is so queer coded we could have never fucking seen her being straight coming in Cora.

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LIVE (nothing wrong with me)

LAUGH (nothing wrong with me)

LOVE (nothing wrong with me)

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KRISTEN STEWART as Lou in LOVE LIES BLEEDING (2024)

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This war has to stop. Israel is stopping aid from getting into Gaza and people are starving.

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20% off items in my print shop until 30th April with Discount Code ULTROS! If you grab more than $50 of items I shall send along a 7x12 Ultros print for free! The only place to grab this print online anymore actually