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I have never seen an animal sleep in such a cursed way what

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You know it's mind-boggling to me how people can - entirely correctly! - point out that Wyll gets the least attention and development of the companions, that the writing for him particularly in Act 3 is often half-assed and unpolished and that his storyline barely hangs together, that not enough space is given to his reactions and emotions about the terrible things he goes through, and that all of this is pretty obviously due to Larian not caring, or thinking fans will care, about their one black companion...

...and then the same people, when faced with inconsistencies in ULDER'S characterization, with him not reacting to things he damn well should (like Wyll potentially being in love or even engaged to be married), not having separate messages or dialogues for if you're playing Wyll etc., BLAME THE CHARACTER?! Because it's "clearly" the case that he just doesn't care about his son being in a relationship, for ex, and not just that Larian couldn't be arsed to create that dialogue?

Do you guys really think Larian are going to neglect their one black companion, then turn around and lavish attention on their one significant black NPC? Especially since Ulder is part of Wyll's hastily-rewritten and under-polished storyline?

(Don't even get me started on what that last says about Larian's treatment of their black characters. The survival or death of the Grand Duke, and last surviving member of the ruling council, of Baldur's Gate should be a huge plot point! It shouldn't be treated as "Wyll's side plot", like the stakes are whether or not Wyll gets sad, and not whether or not the city descends into complete political anarchy!)

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want to be clear that if i ever talk about a headcanon and then later discuss a headcanon that is directly contradictory to the first one, that’s because headcanons exist in a quantum state where they are all simultaneously true and not true up until the point where i discuss it in detail, in which case that is the one that is true in that instance. schroedinger’s headcanons

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“If a society puts half its children into short skirts and warns them not to move in ways that reveal their panties, while putting the other half into jeans and overalls and encouraging them to climb trees, play ball, and participate in other vigorous outdoor games; if later, during adolescence, the children who have been wearing trousers are urged to “eat like growing boys,” while the children in skirts are warned to watch their weight and not get fat; if the half in jeans runs around in sneakers or boots, while the half in skirts totters about on spike heels, then these two groups of people will be biologically as well as socially different. Their muscles will be different, as will their reflexes, posture, arms, legs and feet, hand-eye coordination, and so on. Similarly, people who spend eight hours a day in an office working at a typewriter or a visual display terminal will be biologically different from those who work on construction jobs. There is no way to sort the biological and social components that produce these differences. We cannot sort nature from nurture when we confront group differences in societies in which people from different races, classes, and sexes do not have equal access to resources and power, and therefore live in different environments. Sex-typed generalizations, such as that men are heavier, taller, or stronger than women, obscure the diversity among women and among men and the extensive overlaps between them… Most women and men fall within the same range of heights, weights, and strengths, three variables that depend a great deal on how we have grown up and live. We all know that first-generation Americans, on average, are taller than their immigrant parents and that men who do physical labor, on average, are stronger than male college professors. But we forget to look for the obvious reasons for differences when confronted with assertions like ‘Men are stronger than women.’ We should be asking: ‘Which men?’ and ‘What do they do?’ There may be biologically based average differences between women and men, but these are interwoven with a host of social differences from which we cannot disentangle them.”

— Ruth Hubbard, “The Political Nature of ‘Human Nature’“ (via gothhabiba)

Yes.

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THIS!!

THIS IS AN AMAZING WAY TO THINK OF CHRONIC PAIN

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Sometimes people demand you justify being an atheist with a 200 page well-sourced thesis on biblical scholarship but one of the reasons I am not a Christian anymore is so fucking simple. It made my life worse. It made me unhealthy mentally. I’ve grown one thousand times more as a person without it. If it were really the one true wisdom from an all knowing infinite god, it would make my life better. And that’s enough proof for me. And it’s a valid reason.

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you are not your parents and will not inevitably become like them. remember that. you are your own person. you will make your own choices.

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“jesus died for you” well i didn’t ask him to do that and my therapist says i am not responsible for other peoples actions

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Reblog with your score

#25

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That’s the game

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there should be more hours between 6 and 10pm. like even just two more hours. for my assorted hobbies & activities

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Man…I’m not going to lie, it’s not remotely rewarding anymore to buy what would normally be fun happifying things. Most of the time I have to return what I ordered because it’s poor-quality or defective in some way. And what I do keep, I usually keep because it’s adequate enough to not bother returning.

I can think of maybe one non-essential splurge I bought in the past two years that actually rewards me by virtue of its quality, and that was a bluetooth gaming controller for playing Minecraft on my iPad.

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if you think the posts i make are bad you should see the thoughts i am thinking. in my mind

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no multi option, agonize and choose, no results option, pick one to find out or scroll onward

#polls #waaahh it was hard to choose between the plate and veggie drawer in particular for me #but bc i *just* had to throw out a bunch of veggies that weren't that old (~1.5 week) #i gotta give an edge to the veggie drawer option and pick that one #but yea these are all 10/10 options op good job sjdjdjdjjdj

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stop villanizing disabled people. stop assuming we're just being lazy. stop assuming we could be trying harder. stop assuming that we'll "feel better" in a few weeks. stop assuming that we have the same energy levels as everyone else. thanks for coming to my ted talk.