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bella-rose29 · 3 months

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deep analysis of a very obscure thing in lockwood and co (bc why not)

Omg ok (spoilers for episodes 2 and 3 of lockwood and co, and also the books)

So the song that plays when Lucy is holding the ring in episode 2, during the experiment, that she says is Annabel Ward and her lover’s song (“it’s their song”), is Peer Gynt Suite No. 2: Solveig’s Song.

The version I listened to that made me go “oh okay this is the same song” (after playing it through my earphones in one ear and playing the episode in the other and desperately trying to get the timings to match up to see if there were differences in the singing) is by Edvard Grieg — Yvonne Kenny, The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & Vladimir Kamirski. From what I could work out, the song starts in the episode from just before the singing starts.

The story behind the song is as follows:

"The long-suffering Solveig is devoted to Peer and she sings the song just as he – once more – abandons her. As she sits at the spinning wheel, she sings that although the years may pass she knows that he will come back to her – and that he will find her waiting for him, just as she promised.”

Lyrics:

Perhaps both winter and spring will pass by And next summer and the whole year will expire But surely you will return to me, I am certain And I shall be waiting as I once promised.

May god give you strength, wherever in the world you may go May god give you joy, if you before his footstool stand Here I shall wait until you come back And if you wait above, we’ll meet there again, my friend.

I did an initial analysis and stuff and then did further research, so I’ve rejigged the document I had before to make more sense here :D

Story of the whole play:

The title character, Peer Gynt, is based on a Norwegian folk hero who is a rogue and will be destroyed unless saved by the love of a woman.

He is described as a lazy and arrogant peasant youth who leaves home to go in search of his fortune. He’s very confident that he’ll succeed, but he keeps having disasters on his journey.

At one point, he goes to the wedding of a wealthy young woman (that he might have married), where he meets Solveig. She falls in love with him, so naturally his first thought is to abduct the bride from her own wedding and abandon Solveig.

Then he has really cool and awesome adventures, going around the world and gaining wealth and fame from all his different exploits, but he is, at the middle of it all, deeply unhappy. Eventually, when he is old and disillusioned, he goes back to Norway, where Solveig awaits him, welcoming him home and redeeming him.

Annabel and John Fairfax are sort of foils to Solveig and Peer respectively, in that they are what happens as a result of a different kind of abandonment (Annabel’s murder).

Solveig is what Annabel would have been had she stayed alive and Fairfax had simply broken things off in a more traditional sense (i.e. if he hadn’t killed her), and while Peer is redeemed and saved by the love of a woman, Fairfax is destroyed by it, because he twisted the love into hate.

Now for the parallels between Fairfax and Peer:

Peer is a peasant with little success in life -> in episode 3, as they get off the train, Lockwood notes how Fairfax “came from nothing”.

Peer has a series of unfortunate disasters on his hunt for success -> Fairfax (in the books), before the Problem, spent his time drinking, gambling, and getting into show business, instead of going into the family business. In the show this does not seem to be the case, but it’s a nice parallel that includes the books!

Peer abandons Solveig to run off with the bride -> I interpreted this as Fairfax abandoning (murdering) Annabel for his own bride, which is his desire for success. In a way his bride is the Fairfax iron company, because he’s practically married to it.

After the abduction, Peer has really successful and fantastical adventures, very different to the disasters that he had previously experienced before the kidnapping -> after Annabel, Lockwood again (Lucy says he has a hard-on for Fairfax which I think is hilarious) in episode 3 (just before talking about how Fairfax came form nothing) notes that Fairfax “succeeded in everything he’s tried. Publishing, show business - he didn’t even start smelting until he was in his thirties. Now look at him”. Fairfax by his own admission also worked in casinos, adding another job (or adventure) to his list.

Peer gains wealth and fame -> Fairfax gains wealth and fame (just dropping in “miss Kingston got her hair done special” because I love it and it's vaguely related)

And this is where the similarities split off from one another:

Peer is deeply unhappy -> Fairfax seems to be perfectly fine with his situation.

Peer comes back home old and disillusioned -> Fairfax in a way comes home, as he ends up back in Combe Carey Hall (although this is not where Annabel was killed, it is still one of his properties), and he is old, but he is not disillusioned. He says in episode 3 that he doesn’t regret buying the ring, he regrets “leaving it behind when I bricked her into that chimney” and that he “knew it was monstrous. But I couldn’t throw my whole life away for one mistake. Not then, not now.” He still isn’t willing to give up his life, because he is perfectly content where he is.

The final parallel I want to note is between Annabel and Solveig. While one was murdered and the other neglected but still devoted and in love, both women wait for their old lover. In completely different ways, sure, because one is sitting at her spinning wheel hoping that he’ll come back and see that she’s the right one for him (cue “you belong with me”) and the other is bricked into a chimney as an angry Type Two ghost that kills people, but both are waiting.

“She’s been wanting to see you for a very… long time, Mr Fairfax” Lucy says.

Annabel is devoted to Fairfax, and as she dances and sings along to the song, he abandons her (kills her). while waiting in that cavity in the wall, and her spirit is bound to the ring/necklace, she is waiting for him.

We see in episode 3 that when Lucy lets Annabel out of the ring, throwing it in the air to set her ghost free, Annabel doesn't attack the agents, or even Ellie who is stood nearby.

She goes straight for Fairfax, because she's been waiting for him. Her devotion to him may have changed into devotion for revenge over the years, but she was waiting for him nonetheless. In a way he did come back to her, even if it was unintentionally, and he ended up being greeted by her one last time.

He is not saved by coming home and finding his version of Solveig, he is instead destroyed, because his version of Solveig was killed along with any love she might have had for him.

#I spent hours on this and I'm not even sorry #if anyone has anything to add or correct me on then please let me know!#belle says stuff #lockwood and co #lockwood & co #episode 2 - Let Go of Me #episode 3 - Doubt Thou the Stars #Annabel Ward #John Fairfax

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moonsaurora · 2 months

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you know. it leaves a very bad taste in my mouth when people bring up the allegations against drake bell when talking about his abuse. it feels like “yeah this very bad thing happened to you, but you did this” ????

it’s like. you see this man disassociate at the thought of what happened to him. it being so horrible he can’t even say it. 11 charges against brian peck for what he did to drake ALONE, including but not limited to sodomy, forcible penetration with a foreign object, using anesthesia, and even filming it…like knowing all if this you still go “he also perpetrated abuse”

idk. i just feel like you can say that you feel horrible for what he went through and talk about that without bringing up his allegations. like imagine he’s sitting in front of you recounting the horrific shit he went through, and then you say back “yes that’s awful, but you did this”

idk how to explain it but it just feels wrong

#quiet on set #nickelodeon #drake bell #also. i may be wrong but she lied about her age right?#once he found out he blocked her and then she kept coming to m&gs and stuff #like wasn’t it proven there was nothing physical between them #he plead guily to the text messages i think but not anything else #that’s what i’ve been seeing anyway #oh and i’m not saying that didn’t affect her i’m sure it absolutely did

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finncakes · 1 year

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mothafuckin' tanks bitch!!!! 💥👊💥

redraw of photo under the cut

#critical role #bells hells #deni$e #denise bembachula #orym #orym of the air ashari #ashton greymoore #deni$e bembachula #cr3 #I LOVE THESE THREE #orym & the two barbarians that are so so charmed by him #all their interactions have been excellent #that conversation between orym & deni$e is living in my head rent free #and ofc 20 ep later still thinking abt ep 40 boat conversation #pls reach out orym....or ashton check on him :((#they've been nonstop i feel like team wildemount had like. a lil more of a chance to talk abt their feelings and stuff before uthodurn #anyway realizing there is a likelihood that when they finally scry they will just see chetney stealing #cause they only have stuff that links to him & if it's during the whole thing with umudara (sp?) then he is not with the group LOL #we'll see ! cause i'm sure matt is keeping track of the days and how they're lining up #anyway this is my long-winded way of saying i want it to be thursday already #feel bad that i'm more pumped for this group than i was for wildemount...but look #two out of three of my faves are here. the ship i'm routing for is together. the guests are all my brands (and AMIEE).#there's also no background wondering how the other group is doing and once this is done we're back to the full group #and ALSO high likelihood that hishari stuff will show up....and i have been WAITING #HISHARI I LOVE U #i have so many thoughts swimming in my brian this is where i release them #GOD OK AND ORYM THOUGHTS. SO MANY ABT HIM I AM SEEING MORE PARALLELS BETWEEN HIM & ASHTON THEY NEED TO TALK.#AND ASHTON ALMOST START /THE CONVERSATION/ THEY'VE BEEN AVOIDING ABT THE HISHARI BUT QUICKLY STOPPED #GIRL TALK TO HIM !!!!!!!!!#OK if you read all this thank you i love u byeeeeee

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firawren · 5 months

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Beauty and the Beast 1991 text posts, part 11 out of ?

#say what you will about the enchantress but she was fantastic at puns #beauty and the beast memes #beauty and the beast 1991 #batb 91 #beauty and the beast #text posts #belle #the beast #gaston #mrs potts #the enchantress #disney #my stuff

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revvethasmythh · 6 days

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One thing I find really fascinating about this last ep is that the confrontation with Laudna, in Orym's own words, "brought [him] back to himself, a little bit." Because of this, he chose not continue his plan of using Ishta, a blade Dorian refers to as "clearly a threat." Orym turns away from it and admits it's probably a good thing he's been diverted from this path.

Meanwhile, both Laudna and Dorian use Orym and his (now defunct) desire for the sword as a point of comparison and/or mental justification for their own ill-advised risks. Laudna leads with, "Just as Orym wishes to wield that sword, I wish to wield Delilah" (obviously this was said before Orym gave up the sword, but his doing so has not, as far as we know, dissuaded her from this path at all), and Dorian holds the Gambler's Blade "thinking to himself about Orym last night, and how serious he was, how dedicated he was to the cause of wanting this sword that was clearly a threat" and sits with the reality of the situation he's in and decides to take an extra risk on his own life.

All three of them, in some manner, are pinging on the same concept: that the stakes to this fight are enormous and taking a massive risk might be necessary to finish this mission. But in this specific scenario, Orym is the one who backed off, re-evaluated his position, and decided the potential risk (to both the cohesion of the team, and his own mental health/morality, presumably) wasn't worth it. But the impression was already made. Laudna still wants to bring Delilah into this fight (something she'd already basically decided, but chose here to really double down on), and Dorian made the active decision to lower his chance of survival for a better chance to hit. Both of them doing the opposite of what Orym ultimately did, while still keeping Orym in their minds as they do so.

#just. it's so interesting #also orym so desperately doesn't want to be a leader but he is SUCH a leader and I have always believed this #the party genuinely DOES look to him for guidance on how to handle stuff--which is maybe not great when he's not intending for #them to be doing that! and it's not to say that imogen isn't a good fit for leadership but i do think orym tries to push it on her because #he so much doesn't want the responsibility of leadership himself. he wants to support a leader not BE that leader #but i do think he has a bigger influence on how the party operates that he perhaps realizes #cr spoilers #critical role #bells hells

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homosandhomies · 2 months

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truly wild that the only person on set who cared for drake bell after his abuser was arrested was dan fucking schneider. he really said "i may be a predator but i didn’t sodomize anyone so who’s the REAL bad guy here”

#the bar is SO low at nickelodeon huh #anywho i'm on episode 3 and it's really powerful #drake is SO brave for speaking out like this #i cannot even imagine how difficult his life has been #quiet on set #drake bell #brian peck #dan schneider #nickelodeon #summer says stuff

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garlicrrow · 2 months

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like whats up doomed yuri

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utilitycaster · 20 days

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perhaps unpopular but while I do agree the EXU interlude likely killed some of the momentum, I also...don't mind that the party didn't talk much this episode? I feel like the start of the episode created an opening that not everyone took, though we did have some good moments, but also, for all I adore episode 2x30 and 1x69 re: wake of a character's death, and i do think 3x92's first half was very strong, it feels very right and in-character that Ashton isn't ready to talk about it (and that Dorian isn't really talking yet either).

#i feel like i'd just be rehashing a very old discussion but like. this just isn't a party that talks much #and we can talk about root cause and perhaps mourn what the bells hells campaign could have been; but that campaign doesn't exist #this is c3 and it is what it is and honestly i'm liking this arc not just for the wildemount stuff but for fearne and dorian and aeor #cr spoilers #i also feel like complaining that past characters show up is kind of pointless given that orym and laudna existed from the start.#especially since a lot of the complaining about this LOVED keyleth when she was the Laudna Resurrection ticket #like. feels a little have your cake and eat it too; idk i feel people like me who complained a LOT earlier and know c3 isn't their fave #are having a much better time. adjust expectations bc there were a bunch of as the naddpod crew says roses and buds

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staticrevelations · 9 months

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i can’t wait for laudna and imogen telling everyone they're together and orym just silently being 100% unsurprised and, to himself cuz he’d never say it out loud, going “took you long enough” cuz it has felt this whole time like orym is the Elder Queer seeing two inexperienced people secretly falling for each other and watching a repeat of moments and feelings and dynamics that are so deeply familiar to him

#i know laudna is older than him but u get what i mean #he got fully married and is way more experienced with this stuff #thinking about how sad but wistfully beautiful it must feel to him #watching the way liam has played orym watching them and responding to them has been one of the joys of imodna for me #also i think ashton might actually say “took you long enough” out loud #imodna #laudna #imogen temult #bells hells #critical role #campaign 3 #cr3 #orym of the air ashari #crit role #mine

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fleckjayky · 3 months

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Wouldn't it be crazy if Dorian actually did respond but Orym couldn't hear because the lake monster was already messing with his hearing

#critical role #campaign 3 #bells hells #cr spoilers #critical role spoilers #orym of the air ashari #dorian storm #wouldn't that be crazy #I mean he did hear stuff that wasn't there who's to say he could not hear stuff that WAS there

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bella-rose29 · 3 months

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since Deck the Halls (and not your partner) is very nearly finished I was wondering (@neewtmas I know you've already said you want to know everything and I love you for it) if people would want a post about my writing process for DTH?

it's currently at just over 50,000 words which is the minimum average length of a novel (w h a t ?) so idk I just wondered if that was something people would want

I've got some really (I think) fun symbolism/motifs and parallels and hidden meanings (that aren't actually that hidden but if you reread from the beginning with the fresh knowledge gained in later parts then you might notice some things idk maybe I didn't write it too well), and if people wanted to know how the hell I found the time to write what is essentially a small novel while simultaneously studying a degree then that might answer some questions!

also if anyone has any questions about DTH they want answering, either about the characters, storyline, or my writing process, then pls let me know and I'll answer them in the post!

if this gets to... 20 notes? I'll make the post 🫣

#deck the halls (and not your partner)#deck the halls (and not your partner) analysis/commentary I guess?#belle says stuff #lockwood and co #lockwood & co #anthony lockwood #anthony lockwood x reader #anthony lockwood x you #lockwood x reader

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no-light-left-on · 1 year

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considering the historical influences in the fashion of Dishonored (and the extent of nsfw fanfiction this fandom has) I’ve been thinking about the layers that would be, realistically, part of the daily dress

which means: dishonored seems to honour the importance of a vest in a properly dressed gentleman’s or lady’s wardrobe

vests were, and I cannot stress this enough, a mandatory part of an outfit, to the point of men wearing only vests if they could not afford a fully tailored suit (trousers + vest + jacket) and a new shirt and opting to only wear a fake collar under the vest for the illusion of a full outfit

shirts were underwear, so to speak. there were no occasions in ‘polite society‘ where one could only wear a shirt without a vest on top.

this is something we see mirrored in both dishonored games, though the style of the vests and clothing have somewhat changed, they still follow the same rules of vests worn with every outfit, as far as we can tell. (we could argue that Jessamine is not wearing one, or that some higher class women aren’t wearing vests under their buttoned up jackets, but since we don’t really see underneath we can’t judge.)

we see the vests be worn even by the Whalers in the first game (which in itself brings up many questions. are whalers, the actual whalers that capture and kill whales, held in high enough regard by the society that they made a vest part of their uniform? or is it merely something that is worn by all? something that every citizen of sound mind would don, were they to leave their house?)

there are a few exceptions to this, of course, but this whole thing came to be by asking a simple question

does the Outsider wear a vest under his leather jacket?

now, in the first game, his jacket is unbuttoned just enough for us to get a good enough peek at what lies beneath. which is to say: there is no hint of a vest underneath. judging by the vests in the first game, the fashion was that the vest would go up high, often covering collarbones or even having a standing collar. what we see on the Outsider is just... an unbuttoned shirt

it’s much the same in the second game, even if we examine his final concept art, his outfit consists of a shirt (more or less underwear) with most of the top buttons unbuttoned, and a jacket on top. no hint of a vest underneath

what I’m trying to say is that the Outsider is a slut

#dh #dishonored #the outsider #I got hyperfixated on fashion of the belle epoque (the inspiration for dh fashion) so most of this information in regards to history #should be accurate #mind you the books I read had a heavy focus on habsburg monarchy fashion so it might be slightly different to say the US or france etc etc #but that should be right #if anyone has stuff from the games to disprove the vest in higher classes statement bring it on #I doubt the artists would do such a great transgression against polite manners though /j #but yeah tl;dr the outsider wears the equivalent of a blazer on top of a bra #I have so many thoughts and feelings about the fashion in these games I could go on for Ages #this all started when I was thinking about human outsider being taken in by corvo and emily and as he takes his clothes off for a bath #a maid is absolutely scandalized by his lack of a vest underneath #I do want to acknowledge that there is concept art of outsider in dh2 that DOES have a vest under the jacket but that one went unused #the pattern on it kinda reminds me of the pattern on corvo's and emily's clothing tho that might be a reach. or just a pattern thats popular #i firmly stand by my headcanon that the outsider tries to imitate the fashion of the real world in the void with a bit of his own Void spin

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oetscop · 1 month

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this is kinda old and i almost didnt post it. i kinda gave up on making a full rainer ref like i did with daniel soooo take this ^}^

this is after 1997 and before 2000 when he went missing for good.

#eyes #my art #petscop #petscop art #petscop fanart #rainer hammond #petscop rainer #i like to think the reason his stuff is in the marks garage is bc daniel nlm was just squatting in there #so now she like refuses to speak to him #mostly bc she only just got care back and they didnt even want to be living there in the first place #same night he was trying to get a picture of care #almost breaking the door down #anna had never seen him cry before so it was jarring #you can imagine why she went no contact #he actually stays in contact with belle for like. a really long time #theyd leave silent messages on their answering machine until she left for college #she reported them missing and nothing came of it #idk why im saying all this LSJSKSJSKSHSJ I PROMISE ILL WRITE AN ACTUAL FIC OR SMTH ONE DAY

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3-2-1-annihilation-station · 12 days

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It had to be said

#rdr2 #arthur morgan #micah bell #red dead redemption 2 #i keep seeing this argument everywhere and it's wild #like i get it #they don't want to admit arthur is a bad person so they're saying this stuff to downplay his actions #but doing that is really fucked up and just not true #also because lol you know they wouldn't do the same for micah

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walrus150915 · 8 months

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Made this image a few months ago and I feel like this is still very accurate to how I feel about "Beta Ambrosius was so much better!! We were robbed" take😬

(I'm speaking about the design/LOOKS specifically, not the character - campy Ambrosius from the novel is one of my favorite things abt the novel itself)

#like bro are you into him because hes got cunty rapunzel hair or because hes white #when (mainly white) ppl r calling m!ambrosius ugly because of his looks #meanwhile he was modeled after an asian actor who put a lot of his soul into the performance #and talked about how model minority theme is important to the message of the film #it feels borderline racist to say stuff like that #im not saying that if you prefer the comic version of him then ur 100% racist #just #be careful with your words #and accept that sometimes asian gays need their win #also i swear i feel like i wouldn't like goldenheart that much if goldenloin was a white rich bell-end #white rich bully x brown poor man would be such a bad dynamic for them id hate it #so yea #my light-skinned asian ass who looks like ambrosius if he had taken estrogen is biased #sry </3 #nimona #ambrosius goldenloin

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sparring-spirals · 2 years

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i just love it when characters Say Things. u kno. just a real sucker for characters. Saying Shit.

Imogen saying "She's not any person. She was special. She was chosen." (Chosen, once, twice, thrice, for an early end). Ashton saying "Do I look like a person who doesn't know that?" (That things often have unsatisfying ends). F.C.G saying: "It seems kind of hard." (being alive, finding purpose). Orym saying "It always mattered." (F.C.G's life, what they chose to do with it, them). Ashton saying "I have had a lifetime, of bad hits." (Hits, and falls, and losses, that I am weathering. But I am telling you where I am drawing my lines, here and now.) Imogen saying "Laudna, you're safe!" (we chased off the shadows, you're not alone, you're safe, we're here).

F.C.G saying: "Well, I have to live."

Ashton saying: "Unfortunate, but true."

im just. such a fan of characters saying things, all the time, about all kinds of things, with all kinds of meanings. God i just. love it. when characters say shit. u feel me.

#this post brought to you by theres so many things from the last ep that are so good and so many Specific Lines to make me go feral #god characters are just out here Saying Things and i am. cheering wildly in a distant room.#critical role #cr spoilers #c3e36 #quote #bell's hells #orogorgorogoghghrhfhhr #spar speaks #ive got asks in my inbox and stuff to reblog but ive just got like 6 conversations on loop in my head #there isnt really a theme in this post sorry im just obsessed with SO many convos in this ep #anyway cheers ill get to the asks soon. probably. maybe.#character meta #??? very vaguely i GUESS #my meta #what a CRUNCHY episode #anyway if i were to make a nonexhaustive list of things im chewing on:#- bells hells (the therapist group) diving into a nightmare scape to confront and fight laudnas personal demons (see last meta)#- fcg is alive and has to live for themself now and thats Scary And Hard And Kind Of Sucks (ur so right king) but it MATTERS #- imogen darling how u doin #- ashton and his approach to powerful people and their own shifting worldview #- chetney grabbing pate and the tools off the table #- orym bud how u doin #- fearne... fearne i think youre okay rn. maybe. i think you miss laudna tho which Me Too #- LAUDNA ARE YOU OKAY #narrative meta

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