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  1. Greek Mythology Nerd: So how'd you guys become gods, anyway? 

    Psyche: I captured the heart of Eros and, after much tragedy and many difficult labors, I finally earned my place as a goddess that I might live with him forever. 

    Hercules: How much time do you have? Because it's not so much a long story as a whole bunch of really long stories that usually start with "unfortunately for Hercules, Hera spent that morning thinking about her husband's  latest affair." 

    Glaucus: I, uh, I ate some weird grass and next thing you know, I've got a fish tail and sailors are asking me for help. 

    Psyche: 

    Hercules: 

    Glaucus: 

    Glaucus: Yeah, I don't get it either. 

    1. TwiLyghtSansSparkles

      TwiLyghtSansSparkles

      @Cash67 "I…I put the old grape juice in a wineskin as a joke, but now people are buying them like that. Should I say something? I feel like I should say something." 

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  2. Okay, there's another weirdly specific theme I've noticed in the three Secret Projects I've read so far: 

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    Fairly big spoilers for Yumi and Sunlit, not so much for Frugal Wizard. Anyway, the theme is: 

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    Scientists behaving so badly that they make life objectively worse for entire populations, if not entire planets. I mean, in Frugal Wizard, you have….

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    Frugal Wizard LLC, who allow what amounts to demigods to run amok in technologically backward dimensions with no regard for how that will affect the lives of the people who live there, and 

    Yumi and the Nightmare Painter has the 

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    Torish scholars who built a superpowered soul-eating machine and killed everyone on their planet except for bands of nomads, locking the memories of the few Invested yoki-hijo into never-ending tedium while the planet itself was plunged into darkness and the nomads were left to contend with living nightmares attacking at random, and 

    The Sunlit Man gives us 

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    the Scadrian scientists, who not only developed a means to end the harrowing sacrifice system and told no one, but straight-up decided to help the planet's only unstable megalomaniac on his way to worldwide domination while they sat back and stared at the sun. 

     

     

     

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      TwiLyghtSansSparkles

      @Slowswift

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      Maybe it's just the Scadrian government that's evil? I mean, their planet spent centuries under a despot, so maybe they think that it's the government's job to support despots all over the Cosmere. 

       

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  3. Bondsmiths bond the grumpiest spren because if you can out-grouch the Stormfather, you can definitely stop a war or two. 

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      TwiLyghtSansSparkles

      @Thaidakar the Ghostblood The Stormfather needs someone who can beat him at his own grumpy game. 

      The Sibling needed a mom friend. 

      The Nightwatcher needs someone who won't let her hyperactive antics get in the way of cooking gourmet meals, so….I guess that means Gordon Ramsay will become a Radiant in the next book? 

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  4. Raboniel is a Karen. A murderous eternity Karen from Planet Hell. 

    Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. 

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      TwiLyghtSansSparkles

      @SmilingPanda19 Sure, but in my opinion, being a Karen and being cool are usually mutually exclusive. It's not impossible for a Karen to be cool as a hobby, but she's gonna have to be Hoid-on-a-Ryshadium-worldhopping-over-to-Earth-with-Lopen-so-he-can-make-rude-gestures-to-the-evil-Librarians-with-his-other-hand cool for her coolness to overwhelm her Karen-ness by even the slightest degree. 

      I work in customer service. Karens are my mortal enemy. Mortal enemies must work ten times as hard to earn any measure of coolness. 

      In the words of Ivory, this is. 

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  5. Raboniel is a Karen. A murderous eternity Karen from Planet Hell. 

    Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. 

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      TwiLyghtSansSparkles

      @Thaidakar the Ghostblood ….potentially. I still haven't finished RoW and I've just gotten a hint of her tragic backstory, which humanized (singerized?) her a bit, but she's such a Karen that her coolness is still a potential thing at this point. 

      Leshwi, on the other hand. I do like Leshwi. 

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      TwiLyghtSansSparkles

      If there's a song about how a man's truck leaves him, then it follows that there would be a sequel song where the truck's rebound driver starts slamming the brakes and leaving fast-food wrappers on the floor, leading the car to leave him as well, realizing that while her relationship with the first guy wasn't perfect, it was full of love and that's what matters. 

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  7. You visited, but didn’t say hi?

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      TwiLyghtSansSparkles

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      Actual video footage of me visiting people's pages

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  8. I always thought it was kinda funny when people would censor themselves online by saying "God dang", because I'd genuinely rather they say "Gosh damn". 

    Side note, sometimes I wonder about using substitute words like gosh, golly, or jeez--they're all just slight alterations of the original blasphemy, so is it really any better?

    1. TwiLyghtSansSparkles

      TwiLyghtSansSparkles

      I personally like the way the Strange Planet TV show did it. Characters say "Oh my Lorb" and "Oh Rorb," which sounds blasphemous, but it turns out the planet the series takes place on is orbited by two moons, Left Orb (Lorb) and Right Orb (Rorb). 

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  9. Tangled, man.

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      TwiLyghtSansSparkles

      Coco is extraordinarily colorful, but I can't decide if its colorfulness matches that of Tangled, or if it just seems more colorful because so much of the action happens at night, in the Land of the Dead, where all of the bright colors are emphasized by contrast to the blacks and grays of the background. Tangled, by comparison, takes place mostly during the day, so all of the colors in the world are bright and clear. 

      But even with that said, I feel like the comparison is kind of moot because both movies are colorful in different ways, and equally a feast for the eyes. And they're both colorful movies with extremely dark stories, told with fast pacing and quick jokes. For the kids! 

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  10. Tangled, man.

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      TwiLyghtSansSparkles

      Frozen: In this household, we exist in shades of blue, grey, white, and brown. You may have a little green and magenta, as a treat. 

      Tangled: Hey, kid. You like colors? You do? Well, we made a movie with ALL THE COLORS THERE ARE, including some shades that can only be seen by bees, art students, and mantis shrimp! 

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  11. I would've posted this yesterday (being exhausted will do that to you), but did you know Juneteenth has a flag?

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  12. I'm having waaaaay too much fun with this. 

    So this is the flag of Mapleton, UT, which--despite indisputable proof that it exists, having seen it in person--I couldn't find anything about online save a single blurry photo and a short description. This irritated me, so I pulled a Thanos and did it myself.

    It's not totally faithful to the real thing (again, no photos online) but it's got the essence of it.

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      TwiLyghtSansSparkles

      brb going to convince Reddit that Mapleton UT is an urban legend

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  13. The Spider-verse movies are peak Western animation, and I will brook no argument on this matter.

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      TwiLyghtSansSparkles

      Nope. I never watched the first one, but I had no trouble understanding what was going on in the second. It includes at least one character from the first, but she's reintroduced pretty efficiently and her relevant history with Puss is explained, so there's no need to go back and see what you missed. The story that's told is self-contained enough that there might not even be much need to watch any of the original Shrek movies, come to think of it. 

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  14. The Spider-verse movies are peak Western animation, and I will brook no argument on this matter.

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      TwiLyghtSansSparkles

      @Slowswift It should be. Not only is it beautifully animated with brilliantly choreographed fight scenes and a style that breaks through the generic Disney-Pixar CGI that's become so common, it's extremely well-written, surprisingly deep, and with not just one, but three perfectly executed villains. 

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  15. The Spider-verse movies are peak Western animation, and I will brook no argument on this matter.

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      TwiLyghtSansSparkles

      Full agreement, but Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is also qualified to sit at that lofty peak with the Spiderverse films. Partly because it was heartening to see DreamWorks going back to their roots by sticking it to Disney once again. 

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  16. Country Roads is one of the best songs ever written. This is a hill on which I will gladly die.

    Also, there are few things that can make me feel the way Ghibli movies do. It's like, I dunno, escapism but ordinary. I think the word for that is idyllic? Anyways, somehow they make living in a tiny little apartment seem as glamorous as living in a palace, and I'm here for it.

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      TwiLyghtSansSparkles

      The elusive Twi is drawn to all forms of music, particularly those that can be sung loudly in the car. Country Roads seems to be a song that draws this strange creature, but this species has been known to respond enthusiastically to emo music produced between the years 2001 and 2012.* 

       

      *Read in your finest David Attenborough voice for best results. 

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  17. Country Roads is one of the best songs ever written. This is a hill on which I will gladly die.

    Also, there are few things that can make me feel the way Ghibli movies do. It's like, I dunno, escapism but ordinary. I think the word for that is idyllic? Anyways, somehow they make living in a tiny little apartment seem as glamorous as living in a palace, and I'm here for it.

  18. As some of you have noticed, yesterday was my birthday! It was a pretty chill day. All we did was go out to eat at a fancy place up north, then pie at home. It started raining (and has been ever since), which made me very happy.

    One of my gifts was the Hoid box, which came as a surprise and may actually be a problem 'cause now I want all of them. The cards and book were expected and much appreciated. (The pen was my doing.)

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      TwiLyghtSansSparkles

      When you right, you right. 

      But if you can't wait 20 minutes for your peanut butter to thaw enough for you to spread it on your toast, Skippy Natural is a good alternative. 

  20. Got a haircut for the first time in over two years! I was pretty nervous leading up to it, but I must say I'm quite happy with the result!

  21. If anything can be said to slap, surely it is this?

    1. TwiLyghtSansSparkles

      TwiLyghtSansSparkles

      Rap isn't really my jam, but this sure is. 

  22. This morning, my grandmother recruited me to put together a new sewing cabinet. An IKEA shelf this was not--it required actual ground-up assembly. I show up with an armful of tools, open the box and...it's already done? 

    I mean, on one hand I was relieved, but on the other, a man has a right to assemble a cabinet, and I have been deprived! (Turns out I did actually have to adjust something, so I wasn't completely useless. :P)

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      TwiLyghtSansSparkles

      Depriving a man of the right to assemble a cabinet is like telling a baker that their cake-baking services are needed, and then showing them to a countertop with a box of cake mix that's already been mixed in the bowl. 

      It's inhumane, I tell ya. 

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  23. Do I:

    1. Go see the cutesy anime romcom with a friend or family member, thus outing myself as a weeb and stripping myself of all remaining dignity? or
    2. Go alone, appearing the very model of the lonely weeb, thus stripping myself of all remaining dignity?

    I mean, I could just wait 'til it hits Crunchyroll or something. But I kinda do want to see it on the big screen...

    1. TwiLyghtSansSparkles

      TwiLyghtSansSparkles

      If you go alone, you won't look like a lonely weeb. You'll look like someone who wants to see a movie and is perfectly confident seeing it without companionship. 

      It's all in the perception. 

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  24. Liquid Death, anyone?

    1. TwiLyghtSansSparkles

      TwiLyghtSansSparkles

      It tastes wetter than regular water. Which sounds weird until you try it and realize it's true. 

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  25. So my sister and I just finished watching Avatar: The Last Airbender for the first time, and uh.

    Wow.

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      TwiLyghtSansSparkles

      It's even more incredible when you consider that they managed to squeeze in episodes of a show about war, genocide, cultural self-destruction and forgiveness of the unforgivable between reruns of SpongeBob SquarePants. 

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