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friends, lemme share this little gem with you

FIRST! The inner flap:

oh dear indeed… 

some people crayons are jerks.

:’(

:D

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :’’’’) :’’’’’’’’)))))))))))

i just have a lot of feelings about this book and think everyone should own it

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Hey y’all in case you don’t know there’s going to be a YouTube walkout happening from December 10th-13th in response to the new terms and agreements YouTube put in place. According to the new terms they’re allowed to delete channels if they don’t meet community guild lines, which historically for them has included LGBT related channels and content.

Many creators are not posting during this walkout and is asking for people not to use YouTube unless it’s related to the UK election (if you live the UK and still want to participate in the walkout but need to use YouTube to stay on top of election info I think there’s a UK one from the 13th-16th too!)

Anyway fuck those new terms and I’m gonna be deleting my YouTube app on my phone until the 16th.

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I still can't believe he used that quote on me 🤣🤣

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people that are celebrating pewdiepie’s home getting broken into and him and his wife getting their shit jacked are pretty disgusting lmao

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Internet: Toxic Youtuber Is Accused Of Something Horrible Like Rape Or Grooming Teenage Girls For Sex, Or Straight Up Poses With And Makes Jokes Next To A Dead Body

People That Say They Are Taking Down Problematic Youtubers:

Markiplier, Jontron, Pewdiepie Or Any Other Million Plus Popular Youtuber: *opens mouth to speak*

People That Say They Are Taking Down Problematic Youtubers: GWOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH HOW FUCKING DARE THEY LISTEN TO ALL THAT RACISISMSISMS

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The daughter of Jester Lavorre is green.

The father is a half-orc, a sailor-turned-paladin, a champion who protected the balance of nature. They had a clandestine love affair before he was lost at sea, and now she stares out the window at night, longing to see him again.

“Hold on,” someone from the other end of the bar says, “that can’t be right. I just met him the other week, he was hunting a morkoth out by Rumblecusp.”

The father is a wizard, a master of magic, the man with panacea in his pocket. When his beloved was ill in her pregnancy, he made a potion to save her and her child. Her greenness was a stain that the potion left on the infant child.

“What potion was this?” an artificer asks, leaning across the table. “No, really, what was the potion. Because I can name five potions that I’d recommend before one that would turn a baby fucking green.”

The father was another woman, a monk wise with forbidden and secret knowledge. To have a child of their own, they performed an ancient ritual. But something went awry, and the child they created turned green.

A halfling sighs and pinches the bridge of their nose. “Wouldn’t they just adopt?”

The father is a god of green cloak and green power. His fey blood runs through the daughter’s very veins, and her greenness is proof of his might.

“If you hand me a pamphlet right now, I’ll fucking slap you with it.”

The father is a green dragon.

“No scales.”

The child was cursed by a green hag.

“No hags been round here for centuries.”

The child is really a goblin.

This one actually gets some consideration. Then - “Too tall,” someone says.

The child is really a troll.

“Too clever.”

The rest of the night - as with the rest of most nights - carries on this way in the tavern.

Unseen on the second floor landing, a green tiefling listens with evil glee as the debate rages on.

A voice right in her ear says, “Helloooo, Little Emerald? You’d better not be sneaking off into bars to spread rumors again.”

She grins. “They are spreading themselves, Mama! You should listen to them, they say I’m a troll, and a goblin, and a hag, and a dragon, and that I was cursed by a fairy prince, and that-”

She’s still listing monsters off her fingers when her mother speaks in her ear again. She sounds like she’s grinning. “All right, my little goblin-dragon-troll. Your Auntie Veth and Uncle Yeza are here.”

Harlequin Lavorre pulls up her cloak, slides down the banister, whispers, “The daughter of Jester Lavorre is really a fairy princess!” into a nearby ear, not because it was true but because it sounded interesting, and disappears into the streets of Nicodranas.

The daughter of Jester Lavorre is green.

Perhaps only she knows why.

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Dear friends of Tumblr,

Today at my school we had an assembly about internet predators and when I had said that most of my true friends are over the internet and they gave me a lecture about how “I don’t know who I’m talking to” blah blah. So please, if you aren’t a predator in any way, please reblog so i can prove a point.

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Heyo im Hon, not Solo

Your Simple Fantasy Name

Your first initial and the last two letters of your last name.

Tag yourself, I’m Ley.

#or potentially won ;o

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Cops had arrived at the property in Henderson, Nevada after a troubling call from the six-year-old in which he can be heard screaming “don’t hurt me,” and “she’s trying to kill me.”

The mum, named in local media as 37-year-old Claudia Nadia Rodriguez was found by cops completely naked and saying: “They’re trying to kill each other. They’re making us do it. We got to kill each other.”

When approached by officers she reportedly screamed: “You got to kill me,” and was  "agitated.“

A struggle ensued with the two male officers, with shocking body cam footage showing a naked Rodriguez grabbing one of the officer’s guns as they both try to wrestle it off her.

According to reports, the 37-year-old managed to shoot the gun once, but no officers were harmed.

Rodriguez was shot at the scene, later dying from her injuries at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Centre.

The youngster was taken to University Medical Centre in Las Vegas where it was discovered he had been stabbed 25 times by his own mum, police say.

The Henderson Police Department later released a horrifying photograph of the little boy’s blood-stained t-shirt.

The department also made public the harrowing 911 recording, in which the extremely distressed little boy can be heard screaming and begging his mum not to hurt him.

He also tells the operator through sobs: “She’s trying to kill me.”

However,  he is reportedly doing well and expected to make a full recovery.

Both officers have been placed on paid leave while local police chiefs investigate the fatal shooting, which has been ruled as a homicide.

Further investigations after the incident have uncovered the woman had a history of domestic violence and is alleged to have “mentally and physically abused” two of her older children.

She had been arrested four times in the last four years on suspicion of domestic battery, and has one conviction of the same charge from 2017.

According to reports, the child’s father had been locked in a fierce custody battle with Rodriugez around the same time and was fighting for sole custody of the boy on the grounds that                          ��     his mother was abusive.

But as of December that year the couple had joint custody of him.

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Apology Meta Part 1: Episodes 1-27 (The Empire)

For…reasons, I decided I’d split this meta up into 3 large sections: The Empire (episodes 1-27) The Pirate Arc (episodes 28-49), and Xhorhas (episodes 50-85).

Numbers and a long post incoming!

The Method

I’ve been using a word search tool on Critical Role Transcripts. Inclusion criteria: the words “sorry” and “apolo–” (root for apologize, apologizing, apologies). I looked at each instance of these words and tallied both who was apologizing and who was being apologized to by looking at surrounding context. Exclusion criteria: speaking OOC, “sorry” used in the sense of asking a person to repeat themselves, and “apology” being used in the sense of discussing apologies as a subject, rather than actively apologizing. Limitations: This method is reliant on the completeness of the transcripts it works off of. It can’t really gauge the sincerity of each individual apology, and it’s also possible for characters to apologize without using the words “sorry” “apologies,” etc–Caleb and Yasha for instance are apt to apologize without using these words, and this method does not count those apologies. Interrater reliability is also nil–I did NOT double check this work or ask someone else to code the transcripts to compare. 

Part 1: Who Apologizes the Most?

Beau takes the cake here, followed a bit distantly by Caleb, and then Nott. But let’s take a closer look on exactly who everyone is apologizing to:

Fjord, though middling in his apology number, splits his apologies evenly between the party and outside NPCs, whom he apologizes to usually in an attempt to curry favor or run a con. Within the party, he has a marked preference for holding himself accountable to the group at large, rather than apologizing to individual members.

Beau also has a roughly even split between inter/intra party apologies, though in contrast to Fjord, she has a preference for apologizing to individual party members. Her strong connection with Jester and Fjord–the original triad–manifests itself in an increased number of apologies as she seeks their feedback on interpersonal interactions.

Caleb apologizes almost as often as he draws breath when speaking to NPCs! His version of overbearing politeness manifests itself in an incessant stream of apologies. Also, a non-insignificant portion of his NPC apologies are directed at Frumpkin (poor cat!) Caleb is much more reserved when dealing genuinely with party members–like Fjord, he’s of a collective mindset and more likely to apologize to the group at large than to any one member.

As we move away from the top table “faces,” we encounter a group of people far less interested in smoothing things over with the outside world, and far more interested in smoothing over tempers within the party. Nott is unique here for being far more interested in Caleb’s opinion and forgiveness than anyone else’s.

Within the party, Jester apologizes most to those she perceives as being in distress. Her most frequent apologies are related to her healing not being enough, or over her decisions to help one party member over another. 

Molly has lived a life of few regrets–despite his screentime and talkative nature, he has one of the lowest apology counts in the party. He and Yasha’s exclusivity as the circus band manifests as well in their lack of apologies–of Molly’s NPC apologies, the majority were directed towards other circus members. The one thing he does apologize for–twice–is for his past life which he doesn’t see as the party’s business cropping up to bother them all.

Yasha’s extremely taciturn nature may have contributed to her having the lowest apology count in the party–however, she is perhaps the most nondiscriminate in who she directs her apologies to.

Part 2: Who Gets Apologized to?

You know me: I believe that our language reveals all sorts of power dynamics, and one of those is the dynamic of who apologizes–and who is apologized to. So, who gets the most apologies from their fellow party members in the Mighty Nein?

Caleb holds somewhat of a lead here, due largely to the influence of Nott. Most party members have been apologized to roughly the same amount as they have apologized to fellow party members–with the exception of Beau and Nott, who have both apologized significantly more often than they’ve been apologized to, and Caleb, who has been apologized to individually far more than he’s apologized other individual party members.

Let’s take a closer look:

Unsurprisingly, Beau has been the main source of apologies to Fjord. Smh at Fjord thinking Beau doesn’t apologize!

Here Nott takes the lead, as they begin to forge a bond made from swapped secrets and confessions.

Caleb’s confession and “Bowlgate” had a discernible impact on these numbers. But Nott also had a tendency to apologize to Caleb despite his protests from the first episode.

Nott gets a fair amount of apologies both from habitual apologizers like Beau, and from more reserved people like Caleb and Yasha. Yasha’s apology for the group all making fun of Nott for eating children in fact stands out as one of the very few apologies Yasha has made at all!

Featuring: Beau beating Jester to a bloody pulp, an argument over spending money with Caleb, and copious Detective Duo shenaniganery

Neither Molly nor Yasha have received many apologies–which makes the distribution of apologies look more drastic than it really is. Nonetheless, Beau’s attempts to connect with Molly have had an impact here.

Similarly to Beau and Molly, Jester’s continued efforts to engage with Yasha have had an impact in the number of apologies she’s given in proportion to the rest of the party.

And finally: the NPC chart! As we can see, Team Human holds the lion’s share of apologies–no doubt that rough Empire upbringing, huh?

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oh no

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Apparently we’ve all decided Fitzroy Maplesyrup is just “sexy Griffin McElroy”  and you might be confused as to what that could possibly look like and the good news is such a man does exist! Bad news? You’re all going to fucking hate it.

#bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbang #dead

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happy halloween folks

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I have an idea

every time i listen to “you’re a mean one mr. grinch” i can’t help but sit there and think “what did the grinch do to hurt you?” because dude just stands there for 2 minutes and 58 seconds and drags the grinch into the dirt

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i’m gonna use my hacking powers to do an all pyjama run in pokemon y

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Not so friendly reminder Satan is anti map

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I just can’t hear anything other than “Doc Cock ring”