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More romanced Minthara lines. These are supposed to trigger while walking about in the world, but not in combat or sneaking.

#WOAHSVDKDKDKD MINTHARA ROMANCED DIALOGUE WHEN

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Sooo what is it then bear man? Is cruelty the innate nature of drows born to the cult of Lolth? Is the whole (sub)race evil or is it because they are raised in an evil cult and lived a lifetime of indoctrination? 🎤

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*Fixing* her ❌️ indulge her evil ways ✅️

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Not strictly Minthara content per se, but I imagine she'd react in a similar manner lmao.

I can hear "In Menzoberranzan, keeping me waiting like this would be a capital offence." in her voice.

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okok so i'm normally not this canadian about things, i don't follow hockey but

but

the sens and panthers had an ICE-WIDE fight the other night that ended up shelling out ten min in the sin bin to EVERYONE ON THE ICE WHO ISN'T A GOALIE

LOOK AT THIS

the two seconds on the ice during the initial release from the penalty box to IMMEDIATELY throw hands

the continual zoom in on the player's grandma

the booting up of eye of the tiger as the refs desperately try to separate players

i cannot believe national hockey sometimes holy shit

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due to woke the hanged man tarot card is being replaced by the hung woman

#HUNG WOMAN YOU SAY... #i am no better than a man im sorry

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the fact that we only have “herculean task” and “sisyphean task” feels so limiting. so here’s a few more tasks for your repertoire

icarian task: when you have a task you know you’re going to fail at anyways, so why not have some fun with it before it all comes crashing down

cassandrean task: when you have to deal with people you KNOW won’t listen to you, despite having accurate information, and having to watch them fumble about when you told them the solution from the start (most often witnessed in customer service)

feel free to chime in i ran out of ideas much faster than i anticipated

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I think the Hunger Games series sits in a similar literary position to The Lord of the Rings, as a piece of literature (by a Catholic author) that sparked a whole new subgenre and then gets blamed for flaws that exist in the copycat books and aren’t actually part of the original.

Like, despite what parodies might say, Katniss is nowhere near the stereotypical “unqualified teenager chosen to lead a rebellion for no good reason”.  The entire point is that she’s not leading the rebellion. She’s a traumatized teenager who has emotional reactions to the horrors in her society, and is constantly being reined in by more experienced adults who have to tell her, “No, this is not how you fight the government, you are going to get people killed.” She’s not the upstart teenager showing the brainless adults what to do–she’s a teenager being manipulated by smarter and more experienced adults. She has no power in the rebellion except as a useful piece of propaganda, and the entire trilogy is her straining against that role. It’s much more realistic and far more nuanced than anyone who dismisses it as “stereotypical YA dystopian” gives it credit for.

And the misconceptions don’t end there. The Hunger Games has no “stereotypical YA love triangle”–yes, there are two potential love interests, but the romance is so not the point. There’s a war going on! Katniss has more important things to worry about than boys! The romance was never about her choosing between two hot boys–it’s about choosing between two diametrically opposed worldviews. Will she choose anger and war, or compassion and peace? Of course a trilogy filled with the horrors of war ends with her marriage to the peace-loving Peeta. Unlike some of the YA dystopian copycats, the romance here is part of the message, not just something to pacify readers who expect “hot love triangles” in their YA. 

The worldbuilding in the Hunger Games trilogy is simplistic and not realistic, but unlike some of her imitators, Collins does this because she has something to say, not because she’s cobbling together a grim and gritty dystopia that’s “similar to the Hunger Games”. The worldbuilding has an allegorical function, kept simple so we can see beyond it to what Collins is really saying–and it’s nothing so comforting as “we need to fight the evil people who are ruining society”. The Capitol’s not just the powerful, greedy bad guys–the Capitol is us, First World America, living in luxury while we ignore the problems of the rest of the world, and thinking of other nations largely in terms of what resources we can get from them. This simplistic world is a sparsely set stage that lets us explore the larger themes about exploitation and war and the horrors people will commit for the sake of their bread and circuses, meant to make us think deeper about what separates a hero from a villain.

There’s a reason these books became a literary phenomenon. There’s a reason that dozens upon dozens of authors attempted to imitate them. But these imitators can’t capture that same genius, largely because they’re trying to imitate the trappings of another book, and failing to capture the larger and more meaningful message underneath. Make a copy of a copy of a copy, and you’ll wind up with something far removed from the original masterpiece. But we shouldn’t make the mistake of blaming those flaws on the original work.

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..I was promised a painting of myself as a quest reward but apparently Oscar decided to paint Minthara instead

Laezel had some opinions too

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And I know there's lots of you that have other, non romance NPCs you'd date, but I'm just doing these guys for now.

Please reblog for a wider voting pool!

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commission for @/AlferaRaisa on twitter

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I'm like if a chivalrous knight kissed a fair maiden's hand and said "my lady, I fight for you" and then walked off and immediately tripped over his own armor and fell on the ground

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I'm not going to buy your art if you're going to reblog cringe.

This is one of the funniest asks I’ve ever gotten I don’t even know how to respond

You’re ON the cringe website. Do you also get mad when you open a book and words are inside

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