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The fun thing about romance in Girl Genius is that because most of the couples are made up of mad scientists, all of their romantic gestures are deeply fucking weird. It's not a Spark courtship unless date night runs the risk of townspeople fleeing from their homes in terror before coming back to chase both of you down with pitchforks and torches.

There's just something so good about an action that in any other genre would signal someone's descent into madness while their loved ones watch in confused horror being treated like flowers. Potential Boyfriend 1 is like "Okay, so I recognize that my foster mother ripping the loving parents your bio dad gave you to into bloody shreds was upsetting. So in order to make that up to you, I found the pieces, reanimated their corpses, and also gave them each functional reproductive systems so you can potentially have some siblings." All of the protagonist's Token Normal Friends are like "What the ACTUAL FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT, JESUS CHRIST-" while the protagonist herself is torn between Heart Eyes and Horny Eyes because as far as she's concerned this is the most romantic thing anyone's ever done for her. She is SWOONING.

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The thing you need to understand about Girl Genius before you consider getting into it is that it's the sort of comic whose authors are 100% willing to pause the action not only mid-scene but mid-dialogue with a little note to the effect of "hey, we need to take a few days to go over our scripts and sort out some potential continuity issues with the back half of this arc, so in the meantime, here's a short non-canon side story to tide you over!", and then it's five months and sixty-seven pages later and that short non-canon side story is still going, and shows absolutely no signs of getting to the point any time soon.

You also need to understand that this isn't a hypothetical example. It's happening right now.

#I love them so so so much #legitimately invested

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rain in spring —

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~ whitewolfcritters on ig + © spilled sunlight

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Speaking of heaven and identity, here’s what one of my favorite professors says: 

“We are told in Revelation 2:17 that God has for each of us a new name written on a white stone, which God will give us in the next life but which we do not yet know. We can think of God as already calling us by a name that expresses what God is calling us to be, even though we do not yet know this name. Returning to Scotus, we can suggest more about the name. Scotus holds that our happiness, the end toward which we are directed, is to be co-lovers (condiligentes) entering into the love that is between the members of the Trinity. The particular end, … ‘the aim of our history,’ is thus a particular way of loving God, and the life of the redeemed in heaven is the union of all these particular ways of loving. …  We can suggest, then, that the name is a name for the particular way of loving God that is unique to each of us.” (John Hare, God’s Command, 145-6)

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#itwasme #Imadethis

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*puts glasses on*

"Oh, you Weren't looking at me?" *forcibly relaxes*

#nearsighted & paranoid #sense-presence #whyamIlikethis #I Am Blind And Vulnerable In The Mornings

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I just want to be able to leave the bed and move around without someone staring at me. So what if I'm not wearing pants!! Leave me alone T.T I really have to go to the bathroom *frustrated tears*

*very deep sigh*

... okay. we're good.

#studio apartment #roommates #adhd #neurodivergent #executive function