I am losing my ever-loving mind over the new TR chapter. Be prepared I am never going to shut up about this.
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Thinking about the symbolic weight of smoking in the TLT universe that comes to the fore in The Unwanted Guest -- the way it moves through from person to person: Pyrrha smoked, and Augustine wanted to impress her in all her stone cold fox MILF James Bond glory (and tbf who wouldn't) so he started too. and even though as far as he knows she's been gone for a myriad and is never coming back, he keeps the habit. Ianthe sees something in the hollowed-out Faberge eggshell of Augustine that resonates with her, all that gilded eloquent emptiness and disdain through the ages, so she picked it up from him to try to emulate it. She picked it up so hard that Palamedes -- the exact spiritual antithesis of the 'smoking! on a space station! what a powermove' ennui Ianthe so admired -- spontaneously unnerded enough to even known how to, simply from a sort of contact contamination of the soul.
G1deon and Augustine sharing a jittery smoke after their near-Harrow experience during soup night, and it's the closest thing to any real sense of brotherhood that remains between them. Pyrrha going ten thousand years dying both literally and for a smoke (and then Camilla sold her fucking cigarettes (for a third of what they were worth, probably Pyrrha's own good, and also more importantly grocery money). what an entirely haunted time to be alive etc.). Augustine and Mercy trading a cigarette back and forth in the middle of their collusion over the love and murder of god.
An act of small and measured self-destruction in the name of something a little bit like connection when you're stuck somewhere in yourself where love itself dares not or cannot tread (ritualized, transmissible)..........
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"I have no sister." The words were knives. What do you know of my heart, priestess? What do you know of my sister? | Jon VI
--metaphorical knives at feigning neutrality regarding his sister
Jon fell to his knees. He found the dagger's hilt and wrenched it free. In the cold night air the wound was smoking. "Ghost," he whispered. Pain washed over him. Stick them with the pointy end. When the third dagger took him between the shoulder blades, he gave a grunt and fell face-first into the snow. He never felt the fourth knife. Only the cold... | Jon XIII
--literal knives from breaking that neutrality to save her
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oh damn, it's one thing to speculate, but it's another thing to learn that 60 Million Dollars was spent on covid-19 safety/compliance, which is why the 10th episode was inevitably cut
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imagine you are critical role ceo travis willingham and one day you get a text from aabria iyengar that just says ‘i’m coming for your ass’ and then a few weeks later she sits down next to you at work, on camera, as your fantasy ex and the only way you can respond to that is to ‘yes-and’
every day travis willingham wakes up
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MK: "Cool cool cool- okay! Everyone is asleep,"
MK: "Monkey King is gone."
MK: "It's just me and my thoughts, all alone! This is fine!"
(2x01 Sleep Bug)
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MK: "Ugh, this again? Look, I know you're not really here! I've been doing what you told me to do—believing in myself, blah blah blah. But I'm not ready for this! I can't face the Lady Bone Demon alone. I just feel so-"
(2x07 Shadow Play)
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(1x02 Duplicatenation)
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Tang: "I'm sorry, it's just that I'm stressed okay! Stressed that Azure Lion's probably taken over the celestial realm by now,"
Tang: "Monkey King's gone,"
Tang: "MK's MIA,"
Tang: "and I can't use my powers reliably! I just feel so useless."
(4x09 Roast of the Monkie Kids)
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I just feel so- useless.
Can you believe this one 10 second Tang scene parallels like 3 other scenes. Wild.
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Halsin: "Don't just stare, Gale. That mouth of yours can do better than just hang open, I wager."
Gale: "My word!"
"The image of Gale tuts disapprovingly, but the orb in his naked chest glows tellingly with excitement"
SO WHAT YOUR SAYING IS A GALE/HALSIN SANDWICH ISN'T COMPLETELY OFF THE TABLE????
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Hey Grizzly? I am in your walls.
WHY DID HE SPECIFY THAT THE LAST THING CHIP SAW WAS GILLION ARRIVING TO TRY TO SAVE THEM.
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wilfred mott really is the character of all time because i no joke cannot think about him without crying. he's on my screen and i'm bawling. someone sends me a picture of him and boom. tears. i remember him and i'm gone. goodbye.
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