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sparring-spirals · 1 year

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Imogen's insistence on making things "GROVEL" when she could. make them "surrender" or "stop" or even "obey" is uh. Its. a choice. its a Very Powerful Choice.

#its a powerful choice targeting me and my weak constitution specifically imogen ma'am plese #critical role #cr spoilers #c3e50 #cr liveblogging #imogen temult #theres actual character meta here but im too busy being Weak Of Flesh and etc

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andi-o-geyser · 1 year

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heh... purvan

#purvan confirmed folks #this is such a dumb post it barely constitutes as a joke #but i’m so excited with these cast updates like holy shit #critical role #vox machina #tlovm #the legend of vox machina #tlovm season 2 #lovm #cr1

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the-story-of-how-we-died · 7 months

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once more, it becomes apparently clear that people are chronically allergic to complex character who make morally grey choices. Do you actually like morally grey characters, or just characters who are rude and sometimes resort to violence - but still always take the morally right choice? Because from my perspective, it seems that people mean the second when they say the first.

Don't be rude to the cast, regardless. Dislike the choices they make all you want, but if you personally attack Taliesin or attempt to speak on behalf of the rest of the cast? You're a massive dick! Period. No nuance, no caveats, you're just a dick.

Out of the 168 hours of the week, you spend ~4 watching a group of people pretend to be other people. You know nothing about them. It doesn't matter that you've been watching them for the past seven years, you still do not know them. And you certainly do not have the right to speak on their behalf ffs

#critical role #campaign 3 #cr spoilers #cr #as to #ashton #well #as nd I don't quite understand where and why people draw the line between manipulative and not #but i'm fairly certain that their actions would only constitute manipulation from the most uncharitable perspective #i tried writing my thoughts out here but ran out of characters. whomp whomp. oh well #i'll write another post if i care enough to elaborate

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chirpsythismorning · 1 year

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I think because closets have being associated with Mike so much, is why a lot of bylers predict that s5 will finally explore his sexuality.

Why have all that closet imagery throughout the seasons, associated with Mike (even more so than Will), if the resolution to his arc is just going to be, "Will loves me and needs me?! Yay!"

5 years of build-up, hinting at Mike hiding his sexuality, and with an audience that's almost entirely convinced he's straight because he hid it so well, warrants addressing the deeper context of why exactly he felt the need to hide in the first place.

It wouldn't be satisfying, both to ga and milkvans who were straight-baited the entire series, nor to bylers and even viewers open to supporting byler, but who think Will deserves better, all because they don't understand Mike beyond what he's willing to outright tell us.

Mike's character has dealt with so much criticism post s4, to the point where any articles or buzz regarding his arc, minimizes his importance as either being El's boyfriend or how he's basically declined in development over the years from a beloved character to most hated.

To have Mike's arc close with his role going from being El's boyfriend to being Will's boyfriend, wouldn't give closure to what all that closet imagery was meant to represent in the first place; Mike hiding his sexuality.

#stranger things #byler #mike wheeler #will byers #will is going to be the main focus early s5 #and also s5 in general but ESP early s5 #theres a reason they're only willing to share info on Will's role in s5 #think about it #why has there been little to nothing said about el's s5 arc??#or mike's?#or literally anyone elses?#they're okay with giving away the importance of will's arc bc it will be integral to #yes s5 overall #but esp early s5 #content from the beginning of a new seasons is what they're most willing to share in trailers/teasers to hype people up #in contrast they are less likely to reveal content slated to be revealed later in a new season bc that constitutes as a major spoiler #i do think birthdaygate is likely to be early s5 #potentially even s5 opener #which would explain the lonnie actor at the s4 table read #as well as the evidence that noah was at the rink o mania location in his yellow plaid #i have a theory they took advantage of the hiatus and filmed their s5 opener during s4 filming #essentially pre s5 time jump #so that no one could complain about the age difference #and so s5 is going to jump us right back into the action of whatever vecna wants from will #why he targeted him in the first place #why will said he wanted to kill everyone except him #seeing will go through all that is going to give s2 will vibes #and in turn have mike also giving s2 mike vibes #it'll be interesting to see elmike's dynamic #i'm excited

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heirbane · 19 days

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FIMBULVETR: TERNCLIFF'S TERMINUS.

aka: give us a wrap up for werlyt, squex.

Terncliff had been on the cusp of desperation several times before Endwalker. First, when they believed Gaius van Baelsar came to colonize and eradicate the culture and heritage that the cliffside port had cultivated; second, when his towering form disappeared from the area all together, leaving tints of Garlean occupation without the promise of industry and technology. The magitek units had come, providing the men and women with goods and services beyond any they would have been able to harness on their remote stretch of Ilsabard, and then simply disappeared, leaving infrastructure half-built and their people without the skills to finish it on their own.

When Valens van Varro began to encroach upon Werlytan territory, they had well and truly believed it to be the final chapter for their people. Valens pushed forth magitek reapers, shattering windows and crumbling brickwork with ease. He had been the Imperial officer they truly had expected when Gaius came to their shores over a dozen summers prior.

Valens was the shadow they had feared, and the depths of his depravity saw no end, as violent and unpredictable as the waves against its jagged, rocky cliff side. He had come simply to beckon the wolf out of hiding, the greying hound's children puppeteered by their loyalty.

The strings that bound them to the Empire would gather around their throats, a noose made of good intentions and false hope, and one by one the Imperial Legatus strung them up and let them rot.

Gaius had nothing to bury but broken machinery and the echoes of children at war. When the Warrior of Light finally helped him seek solace for all that Valens had done, he felt as if there was just as little left of himself, too.

It came as a surprise, then, when the sky began to fall, that neither Gaius nor his remaining child turned into their own fear and uncertainty. As the remaining villagers began to transform, skin and bone into decay and death, he and his daughter remained.

What was the end of the world to those who had lost all but each other?

The blasphemy that haunts the forestry around Terncliff screams one night, a sound half torturous and half inhumane, a vicious, guttural laughter that those who encountered Valens van Varro could never forget.

It is dubbed Fimbulvetr. It is a beast not to be ignored, a beast borne of a boy who had his orphanage ravaged by Valens' mechanical soldiers. He had lived through certain death once, and when the sky began to turn red, his peers collapsing into frothing, soot-bleeding things, he believed the worst days of his life were returning. He had fled into the woods, running for his life, until - under the full red moon - he came across the skeletal remains of the Diamond Weapon.

Fimbulvetr towers past the trees. They are part machine and part person, as if it had simply began gathering up the scrapheap remains of a Garlean occupation. When not cowering among the foliage by daylight, they are calling out for whoever can hear them, mimicked laughter and scared sobbing on an endless loop.

With little and less experience in combat and the inability to put down a child the settlement had once known and cared for, panic and unrest becomes palpable. Even if those in Terncliff got aid from others in Werlyt, they were farmers and fishmongers - few had ever involved themselves in conflict by choice.

And so it fell to the man who had seen his own children laid to rest. The man that had slaughtered nine throne usurpers. The man who had extended an olive branch on the Empire's behalf over a decade before and now resided, desolate and alone, at the outskirts of town, still trying to pull the gristly remains of his existence from the broken corpse the Empire had left behind.

He had led before. He would do it again - just once more.

In the ensuing conflict between Fimbulvetr and their cobbled together militia, Gaius cuts down yet another malady of nature. Their wounds weep blood-tinged ceruleum: flesh carves away to steel innards. They laugh. They laugh. They laugh, sick and familiar.

Until they don't, and it is just a boy begging as he had less than a handful of summers before: Don't hurt me. Don't hurt me. Please.

When Gaius awakes, the sky is blue and the moon is silver and full, shadowed by the sun. In the moment he had hesitated, a father looking at a son begging to be put out of his misery, the beast had lunged.

He is told the Warrior of Light appeared. He is told the machina melted into boy and then into soot and ash, that - finally, finally - nothing remained of the Weapons in the cliff side.

When he awakens, it is the middle of the night. Allie is asleep at his side. Severa and Valdeaulin are snoring in chairs brought from his sitting room. There are flowers on his kitchen table and meals in his Garlean icebox.

He is glad to be alive.

Once he recovers and is able to walk again, he adds the boys name to their memorial, etched below the name of his own children.

#6.0 spoilers #patch content spoilers #role quest capstone spoilers - potentially #blood tw #gore tw #graphic violence tw #body horror tw #ptsd tw #medical tw #ⅹⅳ tertius oculus ( hcs. )#ⅩⅣ aurora luna ( v ; ew. )#if even a single one of you reblog this i will literally go gather the goat man from my local wooded area and tell him about u.#also have mercy on me i've only had the mental bandwidth to play e.w once. listen. my constitution is fragile and i'll admit it #reminder that i operate the we.rlyt timeline a little different from canon but it's not rly that important #i squeezed it into pre-shb/EARLY shb but that's just how i like it happening #it's not. wholly relevant #i listened to k.pop while writing this. am i ok #sorrow of werlyt spoilers

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captainofthetidesbreath · 2 years

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I do love that Zerxus pointed out straight up what the Betrayers did wrong, it's actually very funny. "Whom did we betray?" and Zerxus is like "us, bro"

#CR spoilers #EXU spoilers #Critical Role things #CR #I love Asmodeus is such a weak-ass constitution tho lmfao like you can't create deceit and suffering and be mad when people don't like it #own up to your shit bro don't be weak like that #nahh why you upset you gotta own your shit lmfao

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heckyeahponyscans · 1 year

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I've been DMing my first D&D campaign and having a great time, but one of the players works in the industry (literally for Wizards of the Coast) so he knows all the official monsters too well to surprise him with any of them.

So anyway, which Pokemon should I reskin for their next encounter?

#dnd #dungeons and dragons #last session they almost got murdered by Zubats and Golbats #I gave the Zubat a Confuse Ray ability where anyone caught in it had to role a Constitution save #or be under the effects of the Confuse spell for one round

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thoughtportal · 11 months

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A federal judge has blocked much of Indiana's ban on gender-affirming care for minors

June 16, 202311:28 PM ET By The Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS — A federal judge issued an order Friday stopping an Indiana ban on puberty blockers and hormones for transgender minors from taking effect as scheduled July 1.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana sought the temporary injunction in its legal challenge of the Republican-backed law, which was enacted this spring amid a national push by GOP-led legislatures to curb LGBTQ+ rights.

The order from U.S. District Court Judge James Patrick Hanlon will allow the law's prohibition on gender-affirming surgeries to take effect. Hanlon's order also blocks provisions that would prohibit Indiana doctors from communicating with out-of-state doctors about gender-affirming care for their patients younger than 18.

The ACLU filed the lawsuit within hours after Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb signed the bill April 5. The challenge, on behalf of four youths undergoing transgender treatments and an Indiana doctor who provides such care, argued the ban would violate the U.S. Constitution's equal protection guarantees and trampled upon the rights of parents to decide medical treatment for their children.

Indiana's Republican-dominated Legislature approved the ban after contentious hearings that primarily featured testimony from vocal opponents, with many arguing the gender-affirming care lessened the risk of depression and suicide among transgender youth.

Indiana's Republican-dominated Legislature approved the ban after contentious hearings that primarily featured testimony from vocal opponents, with many arguing the gender-affirming care lessened the risk of depression and suicide among young people diagnosed with "gender dysphoria,″ or distress caused when gender identity doesn't match a person's assigned sex.

Hanlon, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, wrote that he was blocking the law from taking effect because its opponents had demonstrated potential irreparable harm to those undergoing treatment and shown "some likelihood of success" in arguments that it was unconstitutional.

The ACLU had provided "evidence of risks to minors' health and wellbeing from gender dysphoria if those treatments can no longer be provided to minors — prolonging of their dysphoria, and causing additional distress and health risks, such as depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, and suicidality," Hanlon said. "While the State has identified legitimate reasons for regulation in this area, the designated evidence does not demonstrate, at least at this stage, that the extent of its regulation was closely tailored to uphold those interests."

ACLU leaders hailed the ruling as a victory in the fight "to defend the right of all trans people to be their authentic selves, free from discrimination."

"We won't rest until this unconstitutional law is struck down for good," Ken Falk, the ACLU of Indiana's legal director, said in a statement.

At least 20 GOP-led states have now enacted laws restricting or banning such medical treatments for transgender minors after Missouri's governor signed that state's bill into law last week. Lawsuits have been filed in several states against transgender treatment bans. Federal judges have also blocked enforcement of laws in Alabama and Arkansas, and Oklahoma has agreed to not enforce its ban while opponents seek a temporary court order blocking it.

Indiana bill sponsor Republican Rep. Joanna King of Middlebury said as the ban was debated that it would "protect our children from irreversible, harmful, life-altering procedures."

Republican state Attorney General Todd Rokita's office said in a statement it was disappointed in the decision but that "we will continue to fight for the children." The statement said the ruling "recognizes that the State has shown there are good reasons for regulating gender transition procedures for minors."

The office didn't say whether it would attempt to appeal the injunction before July 1. Provisions of the law that were blocked gave trans youth taking medication to transition until Dec. 31 to stop.

A top attorney for the state told Hanlon during a court hearing on Wednesday that risks from gender-affirming treatments during puberty such as future fertility, bone strength, brain development and possible reversibility had not been adequately studied by scientists.

Such factors make it within the Legislature's authority to decide "we don't want our children to be part of this grand experiment," Indiana Solicitor General Thomas Fisher said.

Though guidelines from leading authorities on gender-affirming medical care already say surgery generally should be reserved for adults, with exceptions for older teens who meet certain criteria, the Indiana law calls for an immediate ban gender-affirming surgeries.

The provisions of the law banning gender-affirming surgeries for minors in Indiana will have no immediate impact. Hanlon wrote in his ruling that no medical providers in the state perform those procedures on people younger than 18.

Representatives from Indiana University Health Riley Children's Hospital, the state's sole hospital-based gender health program, told legislators earlier this year that for patients who are minors, doctors do not perform genital surgeries or provide those surgery referrals. IU Health was not involved in the ACLU's lawsuit.

#tiktok #lgbtq history #lgbtq rights #lgbtq #gender affirming care #gender identity #gender roles #gender #Indiana #article #14th amendment #1st amendment #law #us constitution #gender discrimination

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onlyblackcoffeez · 3 months

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just voted :3

#it was on two changes to our constitution about family and the role of the woman being in the home #me talking into the little hellsite (affectionate)

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worstloki · 11 months

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Thor in Thor 3 and 4 was a 'role model' for boys in the most superficial 'be strong' way. i would rather suggest a deeper reading featuring not minding getting hit on by the GM and Stormbreaker-riding subtext

#don't worry guys i know exactly what messages to osmosis from these movies #😎👍👍#like no sorry i don't think being mean constitutes good hero behaviour nor do i think Thor solved anything beyond plot convenience #being confident is great but don't be an arrogant jerk about it #Thor in Thor 3 and 4 isn't a role model and takes zero moments to self evaluate #he doesn't think about the consequences to his actions and this?? after his arc on self reflection??????????#yeah i don't think so

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lumuraa · 2 years

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“I don’t have any secrets!”

“Sam, we both know that’s not true.”

#but they're fun secrets!#sam what constitutes as a fun secret #critical role #cr spoilers #exu calamity #exu spoilers #loquatius seelie

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pagerunner-j · 2 years

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Something of note about the M9 two-shot, which has obviously already been filmed: Cinemark's got the runtimes. Part 1: 4 hr 37 min. Part 2: 5 hr 40 min.

All those of you who are willing to sit in a movie theater for six hours straight: godspeed.

#critical role #they're screening these in my town but i'm not sure i'm going to pass that constitution check #as it were #m9r

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aeide-thea · 2 years

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my tolkien revisitation has involved many big thoughts but my small thought from tonight's grocery-run-by-bike is: WHAT is up with that one 'hive of ants' simile. like. my guy. i am very sure hives are for bees. ants have hills, or nests maybe, or like, a group of them is a colony. but gandalf at the council of elrond is all:

I came to Buckland and found it in uproar, as busy as a hive of ants that has been stirred with a stick.

i mean. radagast would never!!