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itsclydebitches · 6 months

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I've been thinking about Astarion's lack of reflection combined with the, "Lol how can this idiot think he's hiding his vampire status his bite marks are RIGHT THERE" reaction from the fandom. Crazy thought but what if Astarion just... doesn't know? It's not like he can see the marks for himself. Would anyone ever mention that to him? Does every vampire scar so deeply? (I personally didn't catch any on his siblings.) Can he feel them? I have scars that look very raised but don't feel significantly different from the surrounding skin. Or at least, I may not have realized what I was feeling was a scar without having seen it first.

Really, I think it's difficult for those of us with sight to conceptualize just how much we take our appearance for granted—how often we see it throughout the day and how much subconscious info we glean from it. Does Astarion know how high a collar needs to be to hide potential scars? How wide he can open his mouth before his fangs show? That the white of his hair looks significantly different from someone who has aged? Sure, he'll pick up on some things from being around his siblings (oh look, everyone has glowy eyes. I must have those too) but even among the spawn there's a lot of diversity. It's not like seeing them truly gives Astarion a sense of what he looks like. Now, toss in the fact that he was enslaved within a community that likely wasn't offering up a lot of insight purely out of the goodness of their hearts (here, let me sketch you) and the fact that Astarion's job was seduction (obviously I still look 'normal' enough that people will trust/sleep with me) and I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility that he doesn't quite Get™ how vamapire-y he looks.

#BG3 #Baldur's Gate 3 #Astarion #now let's consider how much of his blood-based comments are auto-generated #(more within the realm of the game AS a game—meant for the player)#how many of his other comments can easily be coded as generic baddie threats voiced by someone flirty #(don't want to hurt that pretty neck)#the fact that he's WALKING AROUND IN THE SUN which is like *the* thing vampires can't do #yeah yeah it's honestly hilarious how obvious he is and I love the jokes #but also it's interesting to consider how *not* obvious this might actually be to Astarion

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anominous-user · 5 months

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full versions of my de-sticked/hsr'ed version of triple threat

types + paths

#thsc #the henry stickmin collection #ellie rose #henry stickmin #charles calvin #triple threat #honkai star rail #a-u art dump #thsc x honkai #using honkai as a general franchise term here cuz. brainrot (this is technically hsr related but my actual aus are honkai impact stuff)#so consider this a placeholder tag for whatever this is. anyway #a lot of this was thrown together as this was meant to be like “what if they were designed like mhyv characters”#hence the assymetry and the eyes and. basically everything.#though theyre not littered with too many details though even im not that mad #but the idea of taking literal stick figures and turning them into complicated ass designs was funny to me so ofc i had to do it #i do have reasons for why some things are like That though..#the stick poses were drawn before i completely figured out the style so if they look wonky…thats why #and for the record while i have these now i still wanna draw them with orb heads so. just imagine these fits but simpler and orbed for that #i jsut havent figured out how i wanna do that just yet…#anyway designs may and probably will change over the course as i figure things out... cuz the shoes arent cutting it for me #this was already done a bit ago right after the “warm up” i just needed to fix stuff and write the ID #writing outfit descriptions is difficult when you are NOT good with words...#ellie puts the harm in harmony

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mirabel-on-a-bicycle · 9 months

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Here's the thing about the royal family not fully understanding that Wilhelm and Simon were *truly* in love though.

And subsequently, why Wille's coming out to the entirety of Sweden was so so powerful: them not knowing, or simply refusing to acknowledge this, no matter how many times he tried to tell them, actually gave Wille a much higher edge over everyone trying to cover up the scandal, even if he didn't realise this at first.

Every single person had a misunderstanding that this was something he wanted. That they were doing him an obvious favor by helping him cover it up, preparing a speech for him, threatening him whenever he got sidetracked. Or at least something he'd see sense in once he got past that "hormonal driven teenage tantrum" and understand that covering it up was the best course of action. Of course he wouldn't bring the other boy and his feelings into all of this. Simon was just an experiment right? Who'd go so far as to sabotage themselves to bring justice to someone they didn't even love and care about?

And this. this exact misassumption was what eventually brought them all down in the end.

Take August for example. If he had secrets and lies as his weapons and to keep his crimes in the dark, Wille had the truth. A whole truth bomb in the palm of his hand, all this time. And no matter how ballsy Wille was trying to be in that "I'm gonna slowly ruin August's life" mission of his, he was still fighting fire with fire. He only won when he clashed against August as an exact antithesis of him in that coming out speech. August's whole plan was doused only when Wille spoke the truth and refused to play along with his games.

I mean really, had he not done this, what would've happened at worst? August would've.. gotten voted out of being rowing captain?? Maybe he would suffer a bit then, but would it really matter in the long run? August knew that, and so did Wille, deep down, but he ignored that part and instead convinced himself that he was at least doing something to make himself feel better.

Because honestly?!

August never understood, or even cared to! He'd pretend to be sorry whenever needed and go right back to being where he was if needed, as long as he was gonna be king. The moment August actually. genuinely lost to him was when Wille did something not out of hatred for August, but out of love for Simon. And when he did, without having August in his mind, but the person he loved and cared about, he made it impossible for August to go anywhere from there on. It wasn't revenge, it was reconciliation that finally got him. (And simultaneously saved Wilmon's relationship too, for that matter 👀)

This has such poetry in it btw?? I can't properly explain it, but it does remind me of atla and Zuko's arc in a way. How there's a whole world of difference between his firebending when it's fueled by rage, and when it's fueled by wisdom, focus and harmony within the elements. The difference in outcome is so visibly there when the motivation is switched, and when Wille has love and understanding and bravery in his heart instead.

The whole time, the entire Hillerska staff, student body, royal court and royal family and tHEIR ROYAL FAMILIES- *deep breath* WERE AFTER MY BACHCHA had anticipated Wille to lash out for having his royal image tainted and getting at odds with his family but the fact that he'd do it on Simon's behalf never even crossed their brilliant little minds. They had equiped themselves, sure, but never for this >:) Because for all their brains and strategising, no one had actually sat down and thought for once that Wilmon were actually in love. There was a power in it that no one had anticipated.

#like sir. SIR.#did you not consider them an actual threat?! ahhahahh well SIKE #young royals #young royals analysis #wilmon #prince wilhem #august young royals #august horn #young royals season 2 #OH GOAH and now i can't stop thinking about the kind of conversation he's about to have with kristina like #she can scream and trash around all she wants wille literally has the upper hand now omhsgg #they can't touch him?? and to think the way out was there all this time?#august is dead basically the whole country is gonna hype this case up now #the royal familys gotta look nice and definitely not homophobic to the public and wilmon can be together at least for the time being #AND THE TENSION EVERYWHERE #oh god. s3 is gonna be rollercoaster on fire isn't it :'''

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keep-ur-head-low · 1 year

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Although we don’t know the exact details behind the central conflict of Across the Spiderverse and it could very well be an intentional trailer misdirect, I think the possibility of Miles having to save one of his parents at the risk of the multiverse has strong potential to challenge the deeply rooted idea that tragedy and sacrifice define Spider-Man as a character. Much of Spider-Man media suggests that Spider-Man absolutely has to give up his loved ones and personal life for the sake of his duties, an idea that’s so ingrained culturally that many people weren’t satisfied with the MCU’s Peter Parker until No Way Home literally everything away from him. And while this is a staple of the character for a reason and even the first Spiderverse movie delves into the idea of getting back up from major loss, the new Spiderverse movie looks like it might offer the much more optimistic perspective that you don’t have to lose everything to wear the mask. Miguel sees himself as the protector of destiny, and most likely having lost a loved one himself, fully believes that Miles’ losses are set in stone for the good of the multiverse. But Miles has never been one to follow the narrative. He was bitten by a spider not of his world and went beyond the expectations of others by doing things his own way. He defines his own path and will fight to keep both the multiverse and his happiness alive, no matter how much he’s told he can’t have both.

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the-witchhunter · 7 months

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DP x DC: Dan

So I have a lot of thoughts about Dan, and just so we're clear I haven't read the new comic yet so not sure how the new material affects his character

Dan is a character that in DPxDC is see being just casually there... which is wild in context of his character because he was like suuuuper evil. Like i get liking his character and wanting to include him, but it rarely makes sense, sometimes it does, but man we love to do a handwavy "after his redemption arc" thing without actually talking about his redemption arc

So, let's give him a redemption arc, and lets make it get pretty gay

So stages of grief, I'm going to outright misuse it intentionally so don't tell me I'm using it wrong, I am well aware it is about coming to terms with your own death. Let's say in ultimate enemy, he was in the stage of Anger. He was angry. Angry at himself, at the world, at the stupid ghosts that messed up his life, he was angry and he took that out on everyone. Now here he is, his family is alive, his friends are alive, and he still is angry, but at himself. He can't go back to them, he's literally a whole other person than the Danny they know

So self destructive spiral. He's hard partying, hard drinking, waking up in a random gutter in Gotham, and doing it all again. He might also be dabbling in other illicit substances. The point is, if he wasn't already dead his behavior would lead to a quick grave

So we have this miserable, sad sack of a man who has done terrible things regularly abusing alcohol(and maybe more)

Now there's another character that had a similar issue. One Red Arrow turned Arsenal and his heroin addiction...

So who better to find Dan than the same man that got Roy sober and sponsored him?

That's right, Waylon Jones aka Killer Croc

To large, beefy, grumpy men with goodness hidden inside them bonding, maybe falling in love? all while Waylon helps Dan work through his emotional baggage and get clean

it has everything:

angst, emotions, bonding, gay, and potentially a happy ending for two former villains

#dp x dc #danny phantom #dp x dc crossover #dp x dc prompt #dpxdc #this is inspired by the fact I think the first step to redeeming Dan is making him absolutely miserable and self destructive #Also just need to ask the question of whether he can be redeemed #which considering ho many people he killed probably not?#idk it's just i rarely see people actually want to handle his redemption #they just have him be already redeemed so he can be there and also usually don't do anything with him #I like the character but it's always distracting #like we pay more attention to Jason's villainous past than Dan's #and Dan is probably a sub darksied level threat in canon #I feel like if there was anyone who could understand Dan and struggling with a past as a villain it would be waylon

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hussyknee · 6 months

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Not so friendly reminder that Tankies are people who deny not only the genocides of Russia but also Vietnam and China (including the Uyghurs), and are apologists for the North Korean regime. They push Russian propaganda of "colour revolutions" every time a Global South country rises up against a totalitarian government because they believe totalitarianism is merely anti-communist agenda; deriding, dismissing and dehumanizing the liberation movements of our countries that come at great human cost. They're not anti-imperialists or anti-colonial; their chief issue with the imperial core is that it's not their ideology seated at the heart of it. They only care about Global South lives when it serves their ideology, and have no genuine concern or curiosity about the ground realities or agency of the communities impacted by imperialism and colonialism.

I also want you to understand that every major power player involved in this conflict is a genocidal fascist. Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthis that are fighting Israel are funded by the theocratic Iranian regime headed by Ebrahim Raisi (begging you to remember the hundreds of Iranian girls and women killed for protesting it). Iran is also an ally of the notorious Bashar Al-Assad's regime in Syria, responsible for the genocide and displacement of millions of his own people while actively funding the Islamic State he wages war against. Both Assad and Raisi are allies of Putin, who is currently trying to colonize and genocide Ukraine and is terrorising Poland, Hungary, Georgia, Estonia, Latvia etc. However, Iran and Putin (half-heartedly) are also allies of the Armenians who are being genocided by Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan is supported by the US, but also Erdogan in Turkey, infamous dictator that hates the European Union and is a close pal of Putin. Meanwhile the US's best friends in the Middle East is Israel, which hates Arabs, and Saudi Arabia, who doesn't recognise Israel as a country but is hated by most of the MENA and is currently in a Cold War with Iran.

*yanks y'all by the shirt and shouts in your face* THERE ARE NO GOOD GUYS HERE, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?? ONLY INNOCENT CIVILIANS CAUGHT IN A SPIDER WEB OF GREEDY, DESPOTIC, GENOCIDAL, FASCIST CUNTS. THERE IS NO POINT TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHICH ONE IS THE BIGGEST THREAT TO GLOBAL DEMOCRACY BECAUSE ALL THE FALL OF ONE DOES IS CREATE A POWER VACCUUM THAT WILL IMMEDIATELY BE FILLED BY THE NEXT BULLY.

These governments can only be toppled from within by their own people once external threats like war with their neighbours are eased, because militaries with nothing to fight are economic black holes that try to eat itself, and it's this economic stress that act as catalysts for coalition building and civilian revolt. Military losses weaken imperialists' coercive power and legitimacy over their own people, so the best thing you can do to help them agitate for change is preventing imperialist expansions from claiming any more victims.

#TL;DR: if the US divests from Israel #withdraws entirely from Iraq and Syria and actually commits to helping Ukraine beat back Putin #it would break Israel's continuing destabilising of the Middle East #and consequent lessening of external threat might lessen some of these states' chokeholds over their own people.#Sadly‚ it's also why the US refuses to do so. Ukraine means little to the US #while the MENA keeps the US's arms and oil industries in business.#If Putin invades Ukraine and the US is tied up fighting seven different countries in the Middle East alongside Israel #he's going to try and encroach into Poland #and then we're on the brink of nuclear war.#Althoug actually we might not have to wait that long #considering the US is already aiming nuclear missiles at Iran for being mean to Israel #and also attacking the US's bases in Iraq and Syria in retaliation for Gaza.#tankies #war in ukraine #ukrainian genocide #palestinian genocide #armenian genocide #western leftists #geo-politics #decolonisation #colonization #imperialism #middle east #global south #totalitarianism #western propaganda #western imperialism #genocide denial #liberation #knee of huss

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short-wooloo · 3 months

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I have thoughts on the constant assertion by thrawn stans that Dave filoni "retconned" him from being "morally gray" into just an evil villain

This claim mostly comes from perceived dissonance between thrawn's portrayal in Rebels/Ahsoka vs his portrayal in his novels

Ok, 1.

Rebels/Ahsoka and any other movie/show thrawn may appear in are higher canon, they are more canon then the books, if there's a contradiction between them, movie/show wins, or put simply, the movies/shows are canon to the books, but the books are not canon to the movies/shows, the books must fit with the movies/shows, not vice versa

And 2.

I think people entirely miss the point of the new thrawn trilogy

Aside from the fact that Rebels came first, and is thus the primary source for thrawn's characterization, the books are in the past tense (even the ones that are supposed to run parallel with the Rebels seasons, since they would have been written after those seasons were, any inconsistencies are the fault of the books)

They're prequels

Thrawn's characterization in them is who he WAS, his characterization in Rebels/Ahsoka/future high canon is who he became

You're not supposed to take away from the books that thrawn is a "morally grey but ultimately good character who dies bad things for good reasons" (and that "fIlOnI rEtCoNnEd tHrAwN"), the takeaway should be "look how far he's fallen, look at what he's become, look at what the empire turns people into, look at what constant rationalizations of "the ends justify the means" leads to, look at how the dark side can even corrupt and twist people who cannot use it"

Thrawn before he joined the empire was inclined to believe that democracy was bad and only by brutally forcing it can there be order and "peace", the chiss ascendancy is a xenophobic authoritarian military-oligarchy, it has a lot of common ground with the empire (and it's successor states)

And that brings us to what the empire is

In the empire, bad people are rewarded, you cannot get ahead without being so, tyranny, brutality, and ruthlessness are encouraged, it gets you promotions, authority, and favor of the emperor, it's a system designed to bring out the worst in people, good people in the empire end up powerless, dead, or they turn against it

And thrawn is a grand admiral, one of the highest ranks in the empire, the only people who definitely had more authority than thrawn were tarkin, Vader, and Palpatine

He could not have gotten there without committing to the empire and it's values

Maybe he did have a good reason for joining the empire, maybe he really did believe he was protecting his people

But that all rings hollow to the people who were oppressed by the empire that he supported

#wooloo-writes #wooloo writes #star wars #sw #thrawn is a fascist #thrawn #thrawn critical #anti thrawn #dunking on the blue bastard #the empire #galactic empire #thrawn trilogy #the ends do not justify the means #and before someone goes wHaT aBoUt ThE gRySk #consider #are they actually a galactic level threat?#or are they a local threat?#a threat to the chiss' dominance in the unknown regions #and is it possible that thrawn and the chiss exaggerate the threat of the grysk in order to leverage aide?

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muzzleroars · 5 months

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How aware is Hell that it might be a mistake to let the machines in? either the machines slaughter everything and then all destroy each other and shut down because no fuel anymore, leaving Hell completely alone, nothing left to entertain it or the machines in their hunger begin to rip, tear and dismantle hell itself in desperation resulting in its own demise.

Unless the second was Hell's intent? one amazing bloody party before going out compared to an eternity of the same old tortures?

i think hell's intent is interesting and unknowable atm, but i also like all of the different implications of the reasonings. i do think it has something to do with hell's latent sentience and its need to torture, to commit atrocities, to do its utmost in creating the most horrific world that it can...and this is its ultimate end. god made it as something that could only know hatred and cruelty, but the damned are no longer enough to sate that purpose. it demands more, it must see increasing bloodshed that spirals into infinite destruction and, in this way, god created hell as humans created the machines. they subsist off of blood, of course this was always going to be the end of things (the slaughter of hell, as hakita has made it clear the machines did not end mankind). in the same vein, hell gaining access to humanity through the terminals and their expeditions gave it the opportunity it always wanted. but unlike the machines, i think hell is very aware that they are as insatiable as it is. i don't think it knew the exact outcome, i don't think it could have predicted one as unstoppable as v1, but hell welcomed their chaos and all the possibilities that could entail which includes its own end. but it knew too what a spectacular end that would be if the machines were enough to do it - they would wipe out the damned, they would eliminate the demons, angels would pour in en masse to try to stop their descent in a futile attempt to keep god's order and so destroy themselves too. i think it knows it can't be satisfied, but ruining so much of god's creation in the process of its own demise could perhaps come the closest to doing so, and it would consider that result enough

#very interested in how hell will be developed tbh...#bc of course there is the possibility that hell actually doesn't have this forethought #or like everyone else did not consider the machines this much of an existential threat #i do hope v1 gets to fight hell though lol #like now that we know it's sentient that's gotta happen right!!!#cake answers #hell

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todayisafridaynight · 7 months

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thinking of the very likely possibility there are true crime channels in the rgg universe and one (1) person has probably looked into masato's ''''''death'''''. for shits and giggles of course.

#snap chats #just got my spanish exam back and i love it when profs are like 'your lowest grade'll be dropped'#bestie i KNOW this'll be my lowest grade i just wanted to test the waters for how exams will go </3 i promise not to suck next time </3 #anyway main text post time. NO BUT DO YOU THINK #cause arakawa was infamous before and people knew of his son then but esp after the kamurocho k3 shit #his name DEF exploded and people DFE got nosy.....#i dont think anyone would have figured out that aoki was masato but maybe one (1) person figured he wasnt really dead #i still wanna know how masato's public death went..#but yeah can you imagine. going on youtube and some girl is talking about your fake death like it really happened and is speculating #and you just get to sit in your governor chair like Lol.#IMAGINE IF THE POOR LASS GETS FUCKIN. NECKED FOR THATLKEJKLJ #i dont think aoki would consider some random youtuber as an actual threat but that'd be hilarious if he did #anyway i just think we should exploit social media and the sort more with rgg characters #i think itd be really funny and the peak of comedy if we acknowledged how Actual people might react to shit #i mean... we already got vtubers interacting with the fuckinnn yakuza.. cant get more ridic than that.. lol..#ok bye im learning spanish now

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blackkatmagic · 2 years

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There are some characters that are just...so wasted. I'm not even talking characters who were in one scene and then killed off, but characters who are set up with fascinating backstories/powers/knowledge bases, the kind of character who legit could solve all the plot problems if you fully played out all the implications of what's been established, and then the author kind of halfheartedly does one or two interesting things with them and sort of...drops them. Kills them off or stops bringing them up and then never mentions them again. It's such a waste.

#kat rambles #for the record this is about granta #if you stop to consider his power set and what's established for force blanks in canon #it's WILD #and as much as i like some of jude watson's work she just never uses him the way she could have #he could have been an actual THREAT #and not a bit recurring villain in a kids book series #who has no consistent motivations and no real depth #it makes me feel true rage #granta omega #star wars

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niceferatu · 2 months

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if i were photomatt I would publicly reply to one of the death threats with "sayonara you weeaboo shits" and turn off my phone

#I highly doubt he's actually receiving death threats if the predstogen example is indicative of what he considers a 'threat'#dj

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dealwithadeer · 3 months

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Not sure if this is a controversial opinion but I do not think that Alastor actively wants to kill and torture Husk (the jury is still out on that 'torture' part until further interactions) but Alastors soul belonging to someone else is not common knowledge in hell. And I think Husk only knows about it, because as we have seen in a previous episode he is pretty good in listening to people and making deductions about what their deal is. Which explains Alastors "what did you say?". And I mean, if Husk ever made such a comment in front of others, Alastor is done for. Because sooner or later the news would travel to Vox. And any fear or respect towards his person would be gone.

So in a way, Husk did not only say something he did not like but said something that could be seen as Husk threatening Alastor (even if Husk meant it more as a jabbing comment rather than a threat).

#Listen in absolutely no way am I saying Alastor was in the right #which I think is given because Alastor is evil #nor am I saying that he actually cares about Husk like a person #all I am saying is that the sudden reaction is kinhd of udnerstandable when you consider the threat of Husk making such a comment #in front of others #Alastor can deal with a certain disrespect from Husk and maybe even fins it amusing #Husk Hazbin Hotel #Alastor Hazbin Hotel #What is Alastors deal? Find out next week

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plasticsandwich · 2 months

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i guess i should make a cohost now

#pretty depressing to hear how they've actually handled this case #considering the stupid fucking CEO actually dug through her blog to find posts where he personally was 'threatened' before terminating her #he literally could not avoid seeing all the posts where she was harassed by leagues of terfs. and chose to ignore them #no action taken against YEARS harassment. only 'death threats' towards the staff. okay #i guess admitting fault on their end would force them to admit their incompetence towards helping her and other trans women #and incompetence in properly reinforcing their guidelines in regards to the people & terfs who harassed her #better to just get rid of her than to admit any of that. huh #i want to put together an actual post with information just proving how horribly mistreated by staff she was #but with all her blogs fully terminated... not easy to find the posts im looking for #diary #others have already done it too but like. with few concrete examples and re-traceable evidence #not like any more proof is needed. but it hits the point home much much harder

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hadesknockedupintheunderworld · 5 months

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No one:

Some random person, every week since July: Has anyone done this yet? *posts meme redraw of Shadow breaking it to Sonic that they’re gonna have to kill Nine and Sonic going "Damn😔"*