the-ipre

[the-ipre]

we talk a lot about ohhhh what if my calling is to be the greatest mammoth hunter ever and I'm wasting my talents in the modern era but we never think about what if Thog from 30,000 BCE was the only person ever born who could get a sub-7min Donkey Kong Country any%, and he never got the chance. what about thog

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Isn't Hannibal a bad person though?

I can't think of anything bad he did

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gnashing my teeth. the nested time loops in taz balance. the final cycle of the stolen century, they believe the grand relics are their bitter victory — their long overdue key to never letting the loop restart, never forcing them to do this all over again. they believe that with this sacrifice, they finally have the cycles conquered — and then, what do our heroes do, but lose their memories? they have to start from square one. relearn who they are. rebuild their bonds with each other that spent a whole century cultivating.

us, the audience, who are starting the podcast with episode one — we missed that story the first time you lived it. the first time you told it.

so, tell us again.

tell us how you met each other, tell us about your job. tell us the the destruction that no one but you survived, tell us about the way it shaped you. tell us all the hidden depths of the mongoose — tell us about your friends, the two lovers who cheated death together. tell us how you grew closer, throughout all of this.

tell us about the person who saw all of existence, who glimpsed the meaning of it all. tell us about the restless souls, the dissatisfaction — and how you reached out to that person at the center of it. tell us about a kingdom of robots. tell us, maybe don't admit it quite yet, but show us: the three of you growing closer still.

tell us a story about a time loop in a time loop in a time loop. where the apocalypse never ends, but your death never sticks. tell us how it affected you — for your actions to have no consequence, until they did. tell us how you'd do anything to stop the cataclysm, to break the loop, and tell us how for that, you were judged. tell us how you did good recklessly.

and tell us about the twins, tell us about the liches, about what you're willing to sacrifice. tell us how you leapt into danger to save a friend. tell us how you let yourself be saved. tell us everything you've finally had time to (re)-learn: how to care for each other and be cared for. tell us how you learnt to trust. tell us how, finally, you remember the mistakes you made last time.

we, the audience, missed that story the first time you told it. we need you to tell it again — but this time, this one special time, you'll have a shot at a better ending.

so tell us this story about time loops. tell us this story about stories.

#RAGHHHHHHHHHHH YEAH YEAH YEAH

[the-ipre]

Barry and Lup are so funny. they just said "we're not gonna get corrupted by the power, rip to all other liches but we're different" and then they were correct and they were vindicated and then they lived happily ever after. they and the IPRE's story as a whole has so many themes about scientists' hubris and desperation for power and corrupting thralls that prey off good intentions, but just, like. not the lich thing though. transgender necromancers of all time. they really are built different

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i'm like a stray dog in a lot of ways but i will not elaborate on that

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someone: hey I noticed this thing you did in your writing!

me, kicking my feet up flirtatiously: oh??? do you want to hear my thoughts on why I did that? do you want a play-by-play of the language choices in every related sentence? do you want an exhaustive breakdown of The Themes???

#PLEASE………I HAVE SO MANY THOUGHTS PLEASE NOTICE THEM AND ASK MORE

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when did we as a society start allowing a sandwich to cost sixteen dollars? eighteen? I know I've paid twenty-one dollars for a sandwich at this point. is this just the world now? sandwich prices don't come down like gas prices. they go up & up & up. good luck to us all

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#u are so many of these u are kind and funny and all around cool as hell but I picked trustworthy because! you’ve got good vibes #I would trust u with many a thing

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i take my little characters and i shake them VIOLENTLY and i give them a little kiss on the forehead and i fill their internal monologues with HORRORS and i tuck them into bed so so sweetly and i BITE THEM

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i mean this in the best way possible, i believe if you were a salad you'd just be a kilogram of lettuce leaves and 1 paper thin cucumber slice hidden somewhere in the middle

next time just slit me open from throat to taint

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Annalaura_art

#ohhhhh this is so sweet :]

[the-ipre]

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

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You’ve grown into someone who would have protected you as a child. And that is the most powerful move you made.

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cuddling doesn't have to be romantic

cuddling can be platonic.

cuddle your friends

cuddle your friends

cuddle your friends

cuddle your friends

#PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!

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Lemon shark 🍋🦈

#AWAAAAAA LEMON SHARK

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confession is so sexual. it's shame kink and praise kink all in one. bogo. two for one deal.

#ser penance has that name for a reason ayoo

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living things are meant to see the sun and when they can’t for an extended period of time they get a bit deranged. That’s why vampires are like that.