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thetyrannosaur:
watho:
Reddit is the hub of intellectualism on the Internet
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watho:
Reddit is the hub of intellectualism on the Internet
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lynati:
jujubiest:
jujubiest:
I think it’s important to recognize and discuss how superhero movies can function as military propoganda, but I also think it’s highly suspicious that this has suddenly become a major talking point around Marvel’s only female-led film when it’s hardly the first Marvel film this criticism applies to.
@oodlyenough your tags are too great:
Also…one of the big plot points [SPOILER ALERT!] of the movie is about not blindly trusting the military, and that they aren’t always the champions of the cause that they make themselves out to be. All the flashbacks she has to her US military training involve men being assholes to her because she’s a woman, and there’s no “oh you’re one of us now!” moment to offset that. She was a test pilot because she really wanted to fly, but we weren’t letting women be combat pilots in the 90′s, so testing new planes was all she (and Monica) had available to them. They seem more annoyed about the fact that they were facing limitations that the men weren’t than the fact that they weren’t allowed in combat specifically.I’m not sure this movie is going to do as much to inspire girls to go join the military as some people (who I guess haven’t seen the it?) think it will. In a lot of ways, it paints military service- particularly for women- in the worst light out of all of the Marvel films that reference it.
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lynati:
jujubiest:
jujubiest:
I think it’s important to recognize and discuss how superhero movies can function as military propoganda, but I also think it’s highly suspicious that this has suddenly become a major talking point around Marvel’s only female-led film when it’s hardly the first Marvel film this criticism applies to.
@oodlyenough your tags are too great:
Also…one of the big plot points [SPOILER ALERT!] of the movie is about not blindly trusting the military, and that they aren’t always the champions of the cause that they make themselves out to be. All the flashbacks she has to her US military training involve men being assholes to her because she’s a woman, and there’s no “oh you’re one of us now!” moment to offset that. She was a test pilot because she really wanted to fly, but we weren’t letting women be combat pilots in the 90′s, so testing new planes was all she (and Monica) had available to them. They seem more annoyed about the fact that they were facing limitations that the men weren’t than the fact that they weren’t allowed in combat specifically.I’m not sure this movie is going to do as much to inspire girls to go join the military as some people (who I guess haven’t seen the it?) think it will. In a lot of ways, it paints military service- particularly for women- in the worst light out of all of the Marvel films that reference it.
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a-fragile-sort-of-anarchy:
whoamiamneko:
a-fragile-sort-of-anarchy:
whoamiamneko:
a-fragile-sort-of-anarchy:
I’m going to save up for a new motorcycle by running a scam where I bet straight dudes at bars twenty bucks that I can get a girl’s number in under five minutes and then politely walk up her and say, “I just bet that asshole twenty bucks that I could get your number. I’ll split it with you if you pretend to laugh like I just said a good pick up line and then write a fake number on my hand.”
Like, I never understood those kind of bets in those shitty teen movies. Everybody loves being part of a scheme, man. Use your head.
If anyone ever does this to me I’ll call them out on being a con artist.
Joke’s on you, buddy. That’ll only have consequences the first, what, couple dozen times? I can take a punch.
But then eventually, I’ll have money for the bike, and whenever I get called out, I’ll just speed off, and, sure, maybe I crash and die in a gutter and the police can’t figure out why I have hundreds of fake phone numbers stuffed in my jacket and it launches a huge investigation that becomes sort of a local legend, but you know whose problem that is? Not fucking mine.
Because I’m a slutty motorcycle ghost, and who’s gonna’ stop me then? The ghost cops? Nice try. Everybody knows cops can’t become ghosts because they just go straight to hell. It’s basic math.
Moral of the story, don’t be a con artist or you will die in a horrible accident and become a lonely ghost.
First of all, don’t you ever accuse me of having morals, narrative or otherwise, ever again.
And second, where did I say I’d be lonely? I’d be a ghost on a motorcycle. That’s the sexiest thing that there is. You look me in the eyes and tell me you wouldn’t bone Ghostrider. Look me in the goddamn eyes.
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a-fragile-sort-of-anarchy:
whoamiamneko:
a-fragile-sort-of-anarchy:
whoamiamneko:
a-fragile-sort-of-anarchy:
I’m going to save up for a new motorcycle by running a scam where I bet straight dudes at bars twenty bucks that I can get a girl’s number in under five minutes and then politely walk up her and say, “I just bet that asshole twenty bucks that I could get your number. I’ll split it with you if you pretend to laugh like I just said a good pick up line and then write a fake number on my hand.”
Like, I never understood those kind of bets in those shitty teen movies. Everybody loves being part of a scheme, man. Use your head.
If anyone ever does this to me I’ll call them out on being a con artist.
Joke’s on you, buddy. That’ll only have consequences the first, what, couple dozen times? I can take a punch.
But then eventually, I’ll have money for the bike, and whenever I get called out, I’ll just speed off, and, sure, maybe I crash and die in a gutter and the police can’t figure out why I have hundreds of fake phone numbers stuffed in my jacket and it launches a huge investigation that becomes sort of a local legend, but you know whose problem that is? Not fucking mine.
Because I’m a slutty motorcycle ghost, and who’s gonna’ stop me then? The ghost cops? Nice try. Everybody knows cops can’t become ghosts because they just go straight to hell. It’s basic math.
Moral of the story, don’t be a con artist or you will die in a horrible accident and become a lonely ghost.
First of all, don’t you ever accuse me of having morals, narrative or otherwise, ever again.
And second, where did I say I’d be lonely? I’d be a ghost on a motorcycle. That’s the sexiest thing that there is. You look me in the eyes and tell me you wouldn’t bone Ghostrider. Look me in the goddamn eyes.
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thatravenclawbitch:
Fandom is such a weird place. Like I watched a tv show and thought “wow, these two nerds have a lot of chemistry and I’d like to dedicate a large chunk of my life to thinking about them” so I went in search of other people who also thought these two nerds had a lot of chemistry and then it turned out that a shit ton of people were talking about these two nerds having a lot of chemistry and now it’s 4 years later and we write each other porn on holidays.
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thatravenclawbitch:
Fandom is such a weird place. Like I watched a tv show and thought “wow, these two nerds have a lot of chemistry and I’d like to dedicate a large chunk of my life to thinking about them” so I went in search of other people who also thought these two nerds had a lot of chemistry and then it turned out that a shit ton of people were talking about these two nerds having a lot of chemistry and now it’s 4 years later and we write each other porn on holidays.
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montygreen:
3.02 | 3.10
#soulmates trying to help each other
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montygreen:
3.02 | 3.10
#soulmates trying to help each other
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sexhaver:
we’re approaching wokeness levels that shouldnt even be possible
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sexhaver:
we’re approaching wokeness levels that shouldnt even be possible
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napcaster-mage:
catch Marie Kondo going OFF in the mosh pit
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napcaster-mage:
catch Marie Kondo going OFF in the mosh pit
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aqueerkettleofish:
queen0fheaven:
kgschmidt:
avelera:
sunspotpony:
prettyinpixiedust:
So one day a dwarf is talking to a human and finally realizes that when humans say woman, they generally mean “person who is theoretically capable of childbirth” because for whatever reason, humans assign social expectations based genital differences. (What a fucked up culture, the dwarf thinks.) But hey, better communication! So the next time the dwarf introduces theirself, they say, oh, by the way, I am what you call a “woman.”
And the trade negotiations just stop. They just stop cold. The tall people insist on speaking to the man, they insist on talking to the lady dwarf about all sorts of irrelevant bullshit, like recipes and childrearing and perfume
so the dwarf goes back home, enraged
and is like “BTW guess what happened, we’re all just going to be men forever now as far as the tall ones are concerned”
and everyone is justly horrified at this barbarism but they all agree to do whatever it takes to squeeze those tall bastards for all the resources they are worth
and the dwarves get surlier, and the trade agreements less generous
and the tall people are all “what a miserable and greedy race”
but really they’re just still nursing a grudge about how goddamn backwards and sexist the tall people are
because their best negotiator, one of their sacred cave people, got snubbed the instant she said she was capable of childbirth - and a mortal insult like that can never be forgiven
Because Pi’s tags are great:
#yes good #personal headcanon: dwarves have fundamentally misunderstood human pronoun usage #and gender roles #they are very perplexed by it #eventually they went ‘fuck it apparently ‘he’ is the correct word’ #‘it’s their language and they keep using it for us’ #so then you have this situation where dwarves are cognizant of the words ‘mother’ and ‘wife’ #but not the usual use of ‘she’ secondary headcanon specific to Tolkien dwarves #dwarves that choose to bear children are held in high regard #because they are making new dwarves it is the ultimate craft #that’s what mahal did you made a new person #it is very impressive #everyone is impressed
Just as an additional thought, we hear that women dwarves generally stay within the mountain and are a protected, guarded subset of the dwarves. There’s not many of them, so there’s an implication that women dwarves are too precious to be allowed out.
But what if this too is a mistranslation? What if the dwarves were talking to the Men and when asked “where are all your women?” they hit a wall. They whisper amongst themselves, and eventually come back with a question, “What’s a woman?” The Men are incredulous.
“Why, the members of your race that bear children, of course!“
More dwarven whispering.
They reach the conclusion that Men mean dwarves who are currently pregnant. Well! Of course those dwarves are currently safe within the mountain, well cared for and generally loathe to travel until the child is born. The Men take this to mean that all dwarven women are discouraged from traveling, and that their primary purpose is childbearing. Dwarves find this a satisfactory outcome, especially with the way Men treat their women, and so even when the misunderstanding becomes clear to them they never correct it.
I have never converted to fan-canon so hard before.
I’m in love with this.
@lanthir
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aqueerkettleofish:
queen0fheaven:
kgschmidt:
avelera:
sunspotpony:
prettyinpixiedust:
So one day a dwarf is talking to a human and finally realizes that when humans say woman, they generally mean “person who is theoretically capable of childbirth” because for whatever reason, humans assign social expectations based genital differences. (What a fucked up culture, the dwarf thinks.) But hey, better communication! So the next time the dwarf introduces theirself, they say, oh, by the way, I am what you call a “woman.”
And the trade negotiations just stop. They just stop cold. The tall people insist on speaking to the man, they insist on talking to the lady dwarf about all sorts of irrelevant bullshit, like recipes and childrearing and perfume
so the dwarf goes back home, enraged
and is like “BTW guess what happened, we’re all just going to be men forever now as far as the tall ones are concerned”
and everyone is justly horrified at this barbarism but they all agree to do whatever it takes to squeeze those tall bastards for all the resources they are worth
and the dwarves get surlier, and the trade agreements less generous
and the tall people are all “what a miserable and greedy race”
but really they’re just still nursing a grudge about how goddamn backwards and sexist the tall people are
because their best negotiator, one of their sacred cave people, got snubbed the instant she said she was capable of childbirth - and a mortal insult like that can never be forgiven
Because Pi’s tags are great:
#yes good #personal headcanon: dwarves have fundamentally misunderstood human pronoun usage #and gender roles #they are very perplexed by it #eventually they went ‘fuck it apparently ‘he’ is the correct word’ #‘it’s their language and they keep using it for us’ #so then you have this situation where dwarves are cognizant of the words ‘mother’ and ‘wife’ #but not the usual use of ‘she’ secondary headcanon specific to Tolkien dwarves #dwarves that choose to bear children are held in high regard #because they are making new dwarves it is the ultimate craft #that’s what mahal did you made a new person #it is very impressive #everyone is impressed
Just as an additional thought, we hear that women dwarves generally stay within the mountain and are a protected, guarded subset of the dwarves. There’s not many of them, so there’s an implication that women dwarves are too precious to be allowed out.
But what if this too is a mistranslation? What if the dwarves were talking to the Men and when asked “where are all your women?” they hit a wall. They whisper amongst themselves, and eventually come back with a question, “What’s a woman?” The Men are incredulous.
“Why, the members of your race that bear children, of course!“
More dwarven whispering.
They reach the conclusion that Men mean dwarves who are currently pregnant. Well! Of course those dwarves are currently safe within the mountain, well cared for and generally loathe to travel until the child is born. The Men take this to mean that all dwarven women are discouraged from traveling, and that their primary purpose is childbearing. Dwarves find this a satisfactory outcome, especially with the way Men treat their women, and so even when the misunderstanding becomes clear to them they never correct it.
I have never converted to fan-canon so hard before.
I’m in love with this.
@lanthir
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freakxwannaxbe:
agentduckorico:
freakxwannaxbe:
freakxwannaxbe:
It’s been years now but honestly, biggest youtube plot twist ever has been that cr1tikal is just that hot
you know how his shtick was that he was just a weirdly deep, monotone disembodied voice and that he never showed his face for a long, long time, and then just one day he went “hey guys guess what I have an instagram” and we were all greeted with this out of nowhere
It’s even FUNNIER because he dropped his snapchat in a comment first and of course everybody rushed to friend him and the first story he made was him playing a recorder and everyone was losing their fucking minds
the tags you left absolutely kill me because basically yeah it all made sense the second we saw him
legit the first thing that ran through my head when I saw him was “oh, well, that explains the pee story completely”
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freakxwannaxbe:
agentduckorico:
freakxwannaxbe:
freakxwannaxbe:
It’s been years now but honestly, biggest youtube plot twist ever has been that cr1tikal is just that hot
you know how his shtick was that he was just a weirdly deep, monotone disembodied voice and that he never showed his face for a long, long time, and then just one day he went “hey guys guess what I have an instagram” and we were all greeted with this out of nowhere
It’s even FUNNIER because he dropped his snapchat in a comment first and of course everybody rushed to friend him and the first story he made was him playing a recorder and everyone was losing their fucking minds
the tags you left absolutely kill me because basically yeah it all made sense the second we saw him
legit the first thing that ran through my head when I saw him was “oh, well, that explains the pee story completely”
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universefemme:
softclary:
you ever read something so fucking stupid you want to blow your brains out
Bisexual women aren’t straight for dating men
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universefemme:
softclary:
you ever read something so fucking stupid you want to blow your brains out
Bisexual women aren’t straight for dating men
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vaspider:
thekgalaxy:
theholleywoodsigns:
neuroticpantomime:
tilthat:
TIL Minnesota keeps the original Confederate flag hidden and refuses to give it up, even when Virginia sued for it
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“In 2000, Virginia legislators got involved, asking Governor Jesse Ventura to return their captured icon.
‘Why?’ he asked. ‘We won.’”
LMAAAAO
All the salty racists in the comments are a cherry on top.
Die mad about it energy strong af
Okay but this is a story that @dadhoc loves to talk about because this is a REALLY BIG DEAL in Minnesota.
I have heard the story of The First Minnesota at LEAST ONE HUNDRED TIMES in the course of my marriage and now I GET TO TELL THE REST OF YOU.
So. It’s not just ANY Confederate flag. It is the Confederate flag that the First Minnesota captured on July 3rd, 1863. The First Minnesota prevented the Union line from crumbling by keeping the Federalists from being pushed off of Cemetery Ridge on July 2nd, and on July 2nd, the First Minnesota sustained 82% casualties.
EIGHTY-TWO PERCENT CASUALTIES. They started out as 262 men and ended as 47. But they held the line. They held. The. Line. Then on July 3rd they were placed in one of the few places where the line was breached, and they thus had to charge in again and retake the line breaches, and they did.
It was during one of these charges – remember, they’d already lost eighty-two percent of their friends – that Private Marshall Sherman of Company C captured the flag. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for this.
The survivors of the First Minnesota at Gettysburg served through the rest of the war.
Now, Virginians have asked for it back repeatedly, saying ‘it’s our heritage.’ But the response from the Minnesota Historical Society has basically been, as @dadhoc has summed it up, “to us, this is the legacy of 215 men who were killed or wounded in the preservation of the Union. What, exactly, is its legacy to you?”
No one’s been able to give an answer that isn’t ‘it’s our legacy of trying to destroy the US over slavery,’ because there isn’t one.
Fuck Virginia wanting that flag back, it belongs in Minnesota.
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vaspider:
thekgalaxy:
theholleywoodsigns:
neuroticpantomime:
tilthat:
TIL Minnesota keeps the original Confederate flag hidden and refuses to give it up, even when Virginia sued for it
via reddit.com
“In 2000, Virginia legislators got involved, asking Governor Jesse Ventura to return their captured icon.
‘Why?’ he asked. ‘We won.’”
LMAAAAO
All the salty racists in the comments are a cherry on top.
Die mad about it energy strong af
Okay but this is a story that @dadhoc loves to talk about because this is a REALLY BIG DEAL in Minnesota.
I have heard the story of The First Minnesota at LEAST ONE HUNDRED TIMES in the course of my marriage and now I GET TO TELL THE REST OF YOU.
So. It’s not just ANY Confederate flag. It is the Confederate flag that the First Minnesota captured on July 3rd, 1863. The First Minnesota prevented the Union line from crumbling by keeping the Federalists from being pushed off of Cemetery Ridge on July 2nd, and on July 2nd, the First Minnesota sustained 82% casualties.
EIGHTY-TWO PERCENT CASUALTIES. They started out as 262 men and ended as 47. But they held the line. They held. The. Line. Then on July 3rd they were placed in one of the few places where the line was breached, and they thus had to charge in again and retake the line breaches, and they did.
It was during one of these charges – remember, they’d already lost eighty-two percent of their friends – that Private Marshall Sherman of Company C captured the flag. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for this.
The survivors of the First Minnesota at Gettysburg served through the rest of the war.
Now, Virginians have asked for it back repeatedly, saying ‘it’s our heritage.’ But the response from the Minnesota Historical Society has basically been, as @dadhoc has summed it up, “to us, this is the legacy of 215 men who were killed or wounded in the preservation of the Union. What, exactly, is its legacy to you?”
No one’s been able to give an answer that isn’t ‘it’s our legacy of trying to destroy the US over slavery,’ because there isn’t one.
Fuck Virginia wanting that flag back, it belongs in Minnesota.
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dreamingofbabylon:
followthebluebell:
adulthood is just a constant struggle of, “man, i want cookies for breakfast, but I also recognize this is a bad nutritional decision. On the other hand, the only one who can stop me is me. i know that fucker’s weaknesses. i could totally take me in a fight.”
frog and toad are my two remaining brain cells struggling to keep my horrible body alive
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dreamingofbabylon:
followthebluebell:
adulthood is just a constant struggle of, “man, i want cookies for breakfast, but I also recognize this is a bad nutritional decision. On the other hand, the only one who can stop me is me. i know that fucker’s weaknesses. i could totally take me in a fight.”
frog and toad are my two remaining brain cells struggling to keep my horrible body alive
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logblog:
i love how this could either be about driving or using excel
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logblog:
i love how this could either be about driving or using excel
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xmoonlitxdreamx: long time no fan art…….
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xmoonlitxdreamx:
long time no fan art……. here’s a fancy boy.
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xmoonlitxdreamx:
long time no fan art……. here’s a fancy boy.
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fluffybunnybadass:
thebeakincarnate:
@kasutamasabisu
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fluffybunnybadass:
thebeakincarnate:
@kasutamasabisu
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anarqueer:
wakeupontheprongssideofthebed:
herovigilante:
please support this interracial french gay couple and their 20 kids
“le couple homosexuel interracial français milieu a vingt enfants” en fait c’est une erreur statistique. georgs d'enfants, qui habite dans une cave et adopte dix mille enfants chaque jour, est une donnée aberrante et il faudrait pas l’avoir compté
I don’t even speak French and I know what that paragraph says
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anarqueer:
wakeupontheprongssideofthebed:
herovigilante:
please support this interracial french gay couple and their 20 kids
“le couple homosexuel interracial français milieu a vingt enfants” en fait c’est une erreur statistique. georgs d'enfants, qui habite dans une cave et adopte dix mille enfants chaque jour, est une donnée aberrante et il faudrait pas l’avoir compté
I don’t even speak French and I know what that paragraph says
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unicyclehippo:
lightningfbone:
unicyclehippo:
i love when Matt does a rly cool like minor sound like a lock pick or door squeaking open & the cast just looks, Delighted??
I’m delighted by every single flying arrow that just… plucks into whatever surface and… he makes this sound? Until it rests quietly? That whole sequence??? WHOLESOME.
a great example!!! someone brought up when he uncorked that bottle & liam in particular was like THAT WAS SPECTACULAR MATTHEW. other good sounds:
- chairs & doors creaking
- lockpicks, as stated before, but also the clank of locks being freed
- that sound when someone trips a wire or a trap or smth (this is a very broad category, sometimes it’s a little ting of wire or a whistle as a blade flies through the air or a puff of poison or smth but it’s Always Amazing & i think it might be bc he tries to keep a straight face but gets this little look of glee to him)
- horrible monster screech when struck
- that gross slurping sound when they’re stepping in swampland or wet sand or smth & their boots like pop out of the ground w each step
feel free to add ur own, this is a matt mercer appreciation post now
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unicyclehippo:
lightningfbone:
unicyclehippo:
i love when Matt does a rly cool like minor sound like a lock pick or door squeaking open & the cast just looks, Delighted??
I’m delighted by every single flying arrow that just… plucks into whatever surface and… he makes this sound? Until it rests quietly? That whole sequence??? WHOLESOME.
a great example!!! someone brought up when he uncorked that bottle & liam in particular was like THAT WAS SPECTACULAR MATTHEW. other good sounds:
- chairs & doors creaking
- lockpicks, as stated before, but also the clank of locks being freed
- that sound when someone trips a wire or a trap or smth (this is a very broad category, sometimes it’s a little ting of wire or a whistle as a blade flies through the air or a puff of poison or smth but it’s Always Amazing & i think it might be bc he tries to keep a straight face but gets this little look of glee to him)
- horrible monster screech when struck
- that gross slurping sound when they’re stepping in swampland or wet sand or smth & their boots like pop out of the ground w each step
feel free to add ur own, this is a matt mercer appreciation post now
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caroldanverssupremacist:
the lesbian power is strong
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caroldanverssupremacist:
the lesbian power is strong
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mumblytron:
tom-marvolo-dildo:
mumblytron:
Getting up at 6 am IRL: aw fuck it’s so early oh my god
Getting up at 6 am in an rpg: *banging pots and pans together in front of the cobbler’s shop* WAKEY WAKEY THE SUN IS UP I WANT SOME SHOOOOOOOES
customers the same in all universes
this is it. this is the best response i’ve ever received on this post. everyone pack up, go home, we’re done here
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mumblytron:
tom-marvolo-dildo:
mumblytron:
Getting up at 6 am IRL: aw fuck it’s so early oh my god
Getting up at 6 am in an rpg: *banging pots and pans together in front of the cobbler’s shop* WAKEY WAKEY THE SUN IS UP I WANT SOME SHOOOOOOOES
customers the same in all universes
this is it. this is the best response i’ve ever received on this post. everyone pack up, go home, we’re done here
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