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For the yeehawgust prompt “Sea of Dunes”

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OK, but I love that Essek might be appearing in the Mighty Nein series before he meets the Nein! It's not just me wanting More Essek (though I do) or wanting to see more of what was going on with his dealings with the Assembly (which I also do). I think this could be super fucking interesting from a narrative construction standpoint.

Because I cannot see how you can include Essek from early in the series and not make it clear to the audience that he's the Dynasty traitor loooong before the Nein find out. Essek having stolen the beacons will not be a surprise. It looks to me like the cast are swapping out surprise for a fuckton of suspense. (Suspense vs surprise was explained to me when I was studying narrative structure as 'surprise is when a bomb goes off that the audience didn't know was there. Suspense is when they see the bomb being placed and have to sit there begging the characters to realise it's there.' In this analogy, Essek is the bomb.)

When we watched C2, the question was is Essek the traitor? In the M9 show, the question for new watchers will be when will the Nein realise that Essek is the traitor? When Essek meets the Nein, the countdown starts ticking; people will know that he is a danger. He is manipulating them. He is going to hurt them. Will the Nein realise before it's too late? But then Essek starts really befriending them, showing more of his loneliness and vulnerability, and... I think the mood will shift. Oh, shit, he really cares about them, doesn't he? What will the Nein do if they find out? Do I even want them to find out? What if they reject him and it makes him worse? He can't keep this up much longer, this is unbearable, they're going to find out - OH FUCK THEY'RE FINDING OUT -

It's such a fascinating choice and I think it goes to show that adaptation is an art form in itself! The actual events in the world will be the same, or at least very similar, but a new format means you can show those events in a totally new way and create a completely different tone! Narrative structure is the fucking coolest! I'm so excited for this show!

#👀👀👀!!! #critical role #cr2 #essek thelyss

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right now on earth there’s a kindly old stray tomcat who just got adopted and he’s receiving enough food to fill his belly for the first time in his entire life and he’s so so so happy and he doesn’t even know that it’s going to be like this forever :)

#cats #txt #q

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let's play a game it's called how long can i pretend i don't have basic needs and human emotions

#😔✌️ #about me #txt #q

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An early Edwardian woman taking a mirror selfie with a Kodak Brownie box camera in 1900

#history #q

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what if you’re giving birth to twins and it’s the end of daylights savings day and the older twin was born first but the second twin travels back in time and is born an hour before the first twin, would that be fucked up or what.

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Printing this and hanging it up in the laundry room ☺

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Elwing in the moment when, against all expectations, she finds out she still might yet survive the First Age :)

#tolkien #silmarillion #elwing #q

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Expecting every trans woman to become a full fledged voice actor to have their gender respected is bad actually

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#hi. #beautiful people #q

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#none lmao #if i needed money for a school trip or something i had to negotiate with my parents #when i was like seven my parents gave me $1.50 a week for a while as like an education thing and then they got mad at me for spending it #so that stopped after. probably less than a year. #WAIT i also had to tithe 15 cents of that at church because my parents wanted me to learn about tithing

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I’m curious what the stats are in this area of tumblr because in some settings I feel like my number is a lot and in others it feels like barely any. If you want you can put in the tags if you feel like your number is high or low to you personally

#six for sure plus two edge cases (haha) #polls

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I fucking hate James Tissot’s paintings because in ALL OF THEM there is ALWAYS someone staring right at you, but it’s not always immediately visible. You just feel watched by this mf. Sometimes the little shit is right there at the centre, but others the bastard is just gazing from the distance, it is CREEPY, my guys

#hm. hm! #art #q

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I made a magnolia tea latte so good I'm having a religious experience at my desk

this is a PSA to go steal some magnolia flowers from your neighbor's yard TODAY

#txt #oooh #reference #q

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all things said abt les misérables "cop who experiences one (1) moral conundrum and then promptly kills himself" is like objectively one of the funniest characters you can have

#txt #les mis #q

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some more silt verses scribbles

[ID: Art of a small row boat floating on a dark river at night. Two figures in the boat are looking to the shoreline, shining a light at a huge black figure in the reeds. Dark trees line the banks and there is a crescent moon in the sky.]

#the silt verses #q

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Details of a golden sea, part II : Sunset at sea, by Diyarbakirli Tahsin (1875–1937)

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