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yes babe the sex was great but i never finished talking about vampires so i think we need to get back to that

#as if you would let sex interrupt you talking about vampires

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honest to god can't stop thinking about this song about jeff bezos by philip labes (link takes you to his spotify). it's such a good example of politically driven folk music.

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I just have so many feelings about the knight being named Ghost.

Because… nobody else gives them a name.

The Knight, in-game, is nameless, and they have no way (nor any clear intent) to communicate one. All the NPCs you meet give them their own sorts of nicknames, but they’re never more than descriptors or generic terms of address. Little one, pale thing, traveler, friend, little shadow, wanderer – the closest to a name we get is Bretta’s title of White Savior, and that’s not really for the Knight so much as for the fictional character she makes of them - they’re no more that than Zote is the Grey Prince.

But Hornet calls you Ghost. And it starts as a generic nickname, like all the others do – you’re a literal and metaphorical ghost to her, like every other sibling she’s killed – but then…

The grave in ash happens. and Hornet calls you, not just little ghost, but Ghost of Hallownest, capital letters and all. Suddenly, Ghost is not a description, but a title, and a name.

Keep in mind: until this point, Hornet has likely killed every vessel to cross her path before you. This dialogue comes after her second battle, testing your strength, proving yourself to her as someone who Will Not Die.

Keep in mind: everyone Hornet has ever probably cared about at this point has either died, abandoned her, or otherwise left her behind. Herrah is dreaming and will presumably never wake, PK is missing and dead (and a Bastard), the White Lady cloistered herself away completely, Vespa is dead and the Hive is infected, the Hollow Knight is *gestures to black egg*

Keep in mind, what you do with things you don’t expect to keep. Don’t name it. If you name it, you get attached to it.

This scene marks the turnaround of Hornet ’s attitude toward you. Every cutscene and event where Hornet actually helps you or keeps an eye out for you – rescuing the Knight from the castoff shell, meeting at the top of the Abyss, waiting outside the Temple of the Black Egg – requires the king’s brand, meaning it happens specifically after this event.

And in all those dialogues

the Knight is Ghost

with a capital G.

And so this dialogue, this line, basically marks the moment when Hornet decides that she can trust you to stay alive. This marks the moment she’s ready to risk getting even a little bit attached.

The name Ghost is a subtle gesture of trust, and I just get really emotional about that, I guess.

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big fan of situations where nobody gets hurt 

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Messy crits are the most fun. They lead to good choices :D

The Anarchs had 4 messy criticals in a row tonight :) Unlife is suffering :)

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Happy Pride to Maru “Maru-Maru” Maru who also lives in my brain, but they’re paying rent in the form of comics and tanking

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Art by RDJlock

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Day 286 of quarantine I have discovered www.webstaurantstore.com

It is, I BELIEVE, a website intended to be used by restaurants for bulk ordering food and utensils. And this is bringing me such unbounded delight scrolling through and recognizing that I, a single individual, ALSO can order ridiculous obscene enormous offensive-to-all-common-sensibilities shipments of BULK FOOD, to my LITTLE LITTLE APARTMENT, for PENNIES on the dollar. I have this god given power to flood my entire living space with bulk grains and it is one single button click away from my reality.

30 POUNDS of chocolate for $100. 20 POUNDS of peas for $13?? $13!!!! I will wake up every single morning from now on knowing that a box of donuts and a sack of dried split peas heavy enough to bodily injure someone both carry equal monetary weight. 25 POUNDS OF ONION POWDER for $50. Do you understand the enormity? the accessibility? the potential here? With the single click of the button I can put myself in a position of bequeathing more than a humanly comprehensible amount of onion powder in my will. AND IT WOULD ONLY COST ME $50 TO MAKE THIS A REALITY.

But what gets me

What truly gets me

is the 50 POUND BAG OF RICE 

FOR LESS THAN $20

Do you know how much that kills me? How much I’m losing my mind? that I can order MYSELF WORTH OF RICE for something to the tune of $50? I can OUT-RANK MYSELF WITH RICE, DEMOCRATICALLY OVERRULE MYSELF WITH RICE, IN MY OWN APARTMENT for the fucking PENNIES that is $50

I’m so sorry for the normal person I’ll be after quarantine because the cabin-fever version of me I’m inhabiting right now is perhaps just uninhibited enough to follow through on this dream I’ve just discovered of out-ricing myself.

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Final glamor shot of a recent commission I just sent out. Learned a lot about what my laser cutter can and can’t do.

#art #k40 laser #design #ok to reblog #laser engraving #laser cutters #k40 #inlaywork #inlay #inlaywood #wood inlay #laser cut inlay #family crest #commission #commissions #art commissions #k40 laser cutter #laser art #laser cut art #laser cut

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Think about why it’s illegal to hire a hit man.

All you’re really doing is speaking and giving someone money.

It’s legal to speak.

It’s legal to give someone money.

Even if they actually complete the job, you’re not the one who committed the murder.

So why is it illegal to hire a hit man?

Could it be because inciting violence is not protected under free speech?

And if that’s the case, why should free speech protect Nazis advocating genocide?

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listen!!! normalize giving swords as romantic gestures!!!

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Superman: Man of Tomorrow #12 - “Superman’s Day Off” (2020)

written by Robert Venditti art by Scott Hepburn & Ian Herring

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I have $24 to last me til Friday, what should I buy with it?

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Current USA reopening coordination agreements

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i think it was lost in the anime adaptation how genuinely confused hohenheim was when he came back. like in brotherhood he seems so stoic and All Knowing but in the manga he’s just like i dont get it….wheres my house…last time i was here i had a wife and a house where are they…….