So it occurs to me that I posted most of their lore on my OC blog (though a few posts on here have the story info) and honestly I think it's very important to note that the entire reason a guy from Florida is recruited to help defeat the demon lord isn't him as the hero. His younger brother (by about ten years younger) is the Chosen Hero and... not very good at it. So the goddess (Solei) who had selected the hero has to begrudgingly go back to earth and convince his older brother to help save her world.
(Also Reynold admits to Solei that "Sascha could never be a bad influence. He's the best impulse control I've ever had" and she really doesn't like to hear it. That's terrifying.)
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My neighbor has once again facebook messaged me to ask for help with a little bit of sewing, which I genuinely love, I really enjoy being part of a community that helps each other with things like this
Especially since his wife usually includes my family in her next round of baking when I sew something for their family, and everything she makes is absolutely delicious. Like, I would (and have) fix stuff for neighbors without the incentive of baked goods, but the mini cheesecakes definitely don't hurt lol
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another thing I do wish had at least come up in ds9 while talking about the bajoran faith is the idea of just like. secular bajorans. I think the way they’re written that’s kind of ‘everyone just believes in the religion and that’s it’ is honestly a little flat? but I think there would be people who have a very complicated relationship with the prophets, who maybe didn’t believe in them before the events of the show and now maybe they have to but they think of them more as the wormhole aliens rather than gods, or just don’t believe (anymore, if they once did) that they should be worshipped because they allowed the events of the occupation to happen. but that wouldn’t mean entirely disengaging from the practices of religion as a community thing, or as comfort in times of need bc sometimes that sense of ritual can be a good one, who still wear the earring not so much as a sign of faith but just as a sign of being bajoran and being connected to their people.
idk not to sound like I’m overexplaining secular approaches to an ethnoreligion when that’s a lot of people’s lived experience but I’m just kind of thinking about what it would look like in this context, and I don’t know that it ever would have been a whole plotline but I think a mention could have been interesting. maybe something as small as rearranging duty schedules and it’s something that would interfere with religious services, but a couple specific bajorans are willing to take that because they’re not religious, and it’s a one line mention (which is the kind of thing ds9 often did well so it would feel natural), but it makes them a little less homogenous as a species.
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@a-mag-a-day I love this episode, both for the statement as well as its place in the narrative. Yesterday many people shared how Anglerfish hooked them from the start, but Do Not Open is the one that convinced me to at least see where this podcast would go.
If Anglerfish was the lure, Do Not Open is the warning to both Jon and the audience. Advice on how not to fall victim to the supernatural: be lucky, be smart, but most of all, do not engage. Do not open, look away, don't be curious about what's in there, don't walk into the kitchen to see what's screaming. And hope that whatever is haunting you loses interest.
So of course both Jon and the audience completely disregard that warning ;) This statement is just fun and a bit weird! A mysterious warm(?) singing (but only when it rains) scratching (at oj) coffin, that compels people to open it.... On first listen, I thought it was just a new take on a vampire. But then, what was up with his appartement complex being completely empty? How did that figure into it?
And I love how descriptions in a statement seem to gravitate towards the themes fitting their main Fear, even when it's not directly relevant. Like John being described as short and "having an odd density" (despite being of the Stranger), or the rain being "hard, heavy, dark and wet".
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