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Something like that.
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Have fun, Mckeedee! On the pony front, they're probably not going away anytime soon, which makes complaining about them about as effective as complaining about a pug's smushy face.
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Yes, yes, I fear expunged data more than anything. You see, when I was a little girl, my mother never allowed me to read the nutrition facts on cereal boxes. …. What? Not every Emotionally Scarring Backstory™ has to be long.
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I never posted on the Worst Fears thread.
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Elbow-licking as an Epic power…. …well, I suppose Calamity's parents did tell him to start small….
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What if Lark is a mutant angel? O_O
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My brother is one of those people. He does it by planting his hand on a solid surface, twisting his arm around, and somehow reaching his elbow with his tongue. It looks just as disturbing as it sounds.
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Which is why I'm knitting my own replica.
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Precisely. You might as well channel Conflux. You know….
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Argue emphatically for the merits of Left Twix over Right Twix (or Right over Left, if you'd rather). Compare and contrast the society of the Time Lords with another highly advanced species from a different fandom. Prove that Tom Baker's Fourth Doctor scarf was the best scarf ever made, hands down, end of story.
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If Nighthound, Timeport, and Lightwards were all in a sinking rowboat in the middle of the ocean with their weaknesses, who would be saved? The world.
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Which makes this comic right here rather poignant.
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Oh, and Illuminati? If pug pictures really are your Epic weakness, then….
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With ponies on them.
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Well, persuasive speeches are all about applying logic and emotion to convince others of your position, right? So.... Lark is capable of performing all moves of the Macarana with or without music That one time when Lark did the chicken dance for a visiting dignitary moved said dignitary to tears. TEARS Despite these accomplishments, Lark's coworkers claim she cannot dance worth crap If Lark is not given the title of True Lord of the Dance, as she so clearly deserves, the world will crumble, nations will fall, and no one will ever dance again There. Feel free to use those.
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And then all of the raptors wanted some, and they never wanted to eat anything else. And that is how....obesity saved Oregon?
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While Funtimes called it a tubby wumpkins.
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Speaking of dinosaurs, it's a well-known fact that fat is one of the first things to decay when a creature dies, leaving no indication it was ever there in the first place b So the T-Rex could've made the 500 pound man look like a model, and we'd never know the difference.
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Wait a sec. Musical language. Customs not understood immediately by those in the dominant culture. Destiny that appears to be distinct from those within the dominant culture. Values system that is respectable by, if different from, those within the dominant culture. ZECORA IS PARSHENDI
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I didn't even look to see what my weakness was. Maybe because it's kind of hard to determine for you? I'm pretty sure Illuminati's weakness is shipping, but that can't be yours.
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Let's see, if I adapted that line for my own purposes…. "I'm here to kick your butt and pet my pugs. I have my pugs right here. They're going to help me kick your butt, and then I'll pet them." ….not quite as badchull as the original….
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Steelheart is a scathing denunciation of the American political system. Steelheart, perhaps the most powerful Epic in North America—if not the world—represents the President of the United States. His massive size represents the unprecedented political power the president wields; his wind manipulation represents the president's power over the Air Force; his invulnerability and super strength represent the way the Secret Service keeps the president safe from all harm; his energy beams represent the president's ability to rain nuclear missiles down upon anyone who stands in his way; the way he turns nonliving matter into steel when he is angry represents the way the media freezes up when it comes to reporting scandals on a president they happen to like. Under Steelheart, Newcago becomes a cesspool of scum and villainy, similar to the state of modern Washington, DC. Epics prowl the streets with the power to kill anyone who looks at them funny, much the same way politicians are able to casually ruin the personal lives and businesses of those who cross them. Even the tiny band of freedom fighters, the Reckoners, are afraid to assassinate the most powerful Epics, just as most grassroots political movements focus on one issue unrelated to the presidency rather than on bringing down the president himself. That is, of course, until David convinces the Reckoners to change their strategy after taking down Fortuity, perhaps analogous to the way some hope one brave soul will call the president on the carpet to answer for his wrongs. I'm not entirely sure which politician Fortuity—a precog whose hobbies include gambling, beating and terrorizing beautiful women, and murdering random citizens so he can use their entrails to foretell the future—represents, but that's probably for the best.
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My favorite one-liner actually isn't from a movie or book at all, but from history. In 350 BC, Phillip of Macedon sent a message to Sparta: "You are advised to submit without further delay, for if I bring my army upon your lands, I will destroy your farms, enslave your people and raze your city." Sparta replied with a single word: "If."
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And the best part is that Caveizel only takes roles he believes send a message, and Obliteration fits right in. So we get our incredibly terrifying Obliteration, Jim Butcher gets time for writing, and we get an awesome movie. Everybody wins!
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Um...maybe?