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thedomesticanthropologist · 4 months

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"You hide it from him,"

Halsins voice. Deep, warm. Mira looked up from where she had been gazing sightlessly into the fire before her.

"I'm sorry, Halsin, I was miles away. What was that?" She asked quietly, tone soft yet curious. The large druid stood a respectful distance away, but now gestured with a single hand to indicate if he could sit. Mira nodded.

"Forgive me for saying so, but I feel we are on fair enough terms with each other to ask. When Astarion is not looking, you cease to hide that sad expression of yours. Why not let him see it?"

In a bold but telegraphed move, Halsin slowly raised a large, calloused hand to her cheek. When she did not reject this, he gently thumbed her cheekbone, eyes searching her face for any sign of disquiet at this new contact between them.

"Hm... you're forgiven," the cleric murmured, leaning into the touch. The moment she did so, Halsin breathed in sharply, his movements stuttering. He swallowed audibly, breaking contact between them in the same slow and measured way that he had initiated it. Mira neither chased the touch nor did she question its end, returning her gaze to the fire in the space of the comfortable pause between them.

"He has enough going on." She answered after a few moments.

"We are none of us without our troubles. To unburden oneself with a loved one is to have such pains lifted, even in small measure. Do you think him unable to carry you, as you carry him?" The low rumble of his voice was so soothing. Mira smirked, blowing out a short breath as she shook her head.

"No. It's not that. I think I like it, keeping him believing that I'm..." she waved a hand.

"You are incredible, Mira. A blind man could see it."

"You flatter me."

"You underestimate yourself."

"Touché."

The fire crackled, small pockets of sap popping as they came to a boil from the heat. It smelled delightful, even if the freshness of the wood caused extra smoke to raise towards the sky. Thankfully, there was no wind to blow it to their faces.

"There, that's the look." He rumbled, "That one right there. The one that says you're hurting. I hope I do not overstep in saying that I ache to see it."

"... you're not overstepping. I don't think I have an answer for you, though. I think I just got used to putting on a brave face, honestly." She shrugged, posture tightening as she wrapped her arms around knees now drawn up towards her chest.

"You need not be brave with me." The druid offered, hand presented in the space between them. Palm up, resting on the ground. An offer.

Still gazing at the fire, Mira reached over to give that warm, large hand a single squeeze. Then she let go, returning to herself.

"... I know."

𓈒⠀𓂃⠀⠀˖⠀𓇬⠀˖⠀⠀𓂃⠀𓈒

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#baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #astarion #astarion romance #halsin #halsin the druid #halsin x tav #halsin x tav x astarion #if you squint #mira the cleric #tales of mira #hurt/comfort #fluff fanfic #drabbles #shorts

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theangrycomet · 23 days

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okay so Rise has Casey Junior, and 2012 has Mira.

Who else can join the Cool Apocalypse-Movie Kids Club for the other TMNT iterations?

Edit: I have been made aware of Cody Jones existence

Though he doesn’t come from an Apocalyptic future he does share enough traits with the others that I think he gets a pass.

#Rottmnt #Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #Rise Movie #tmnt 2012 mutant apocalypse #Raphael: Mutant Apocalypse #tmnt 2012 #tmnt 2k12 #teenage mutant ninja turtles #tmnt 2003 #tmnt 1987 #tmnt bayverse #tmnt mutant mayhem #Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #TOTTMNT #AngryComet Rambles #Casey Junior #Mira tmnt #Mira Hamato #Cody Jones

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lily-valley-hyperfixates · 6 months

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I’ve been thinking about Mira from D20 Neverafter.

For one, I absolutely love her. She’s amazing and can do no wrong and I would’ve loved to spend more time with her.

But to do a little *analysis* I find it particularly interesting that she never goes back to being a mermaid. The story of the little mermaid works very well as a trans allegory and the fact that Mira never reverts back to being a mermaid in neverafter feels very respectful of this reading.

Mechanically, keeping her a mermaid or at least giving her water powers would’ve added flair to her fighting (similar to Rapunzel’s prehensile hair), but that never happens. Mira never returns to her original body, because it’s not her true body. Instead of experiencing humanity and realizing that it’s not all it’s cracked up to be, that the grass is always greener, Mira gets to keep her legs and truly become the body she always wanted, even if that comes with pain.

And the most important thing is that she never even asks to be a mermaid again. When she has her moment with the sea witch, we never hear (and her body language never shows) her begging for a tail again, to go back to the water. It may be painful, but Mira’s body is her body and she never tries to change it once it fits how she feels.

I’m not sure if anyone has pointed this out yet or if this even makes sense, it’s just my ramblings too late at night, but idk to me this is something that really stands out about neverafter’s take on the little mermaid. As a cis woman obviously I am less qualified to talk about this stuff, and I’d love to hear trans people’s perspectives on this.

Anyways huge props to Mr mulligan, he’s done it again.

#dimension 20 #neverafter #neverafter spoilers #dimension 20 spoilers #dimension 20 neverafter #d20 mira #brennan lee mulligan #im rewatching neverafter and it’s just something I noticed #neverafter in general just holds to the fairy tales to well #while still critiquing them and embracing them #it’s just so good #loquacious lily

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sunburstsandmoonshadows · 1 year

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Very very interested in how Elody's place among the "destroy everything" princess brigade will end up shaking out, because one of the clear ideas we had gotten from Gerard and the flashbacks is that she is a woman governed by her duty to her people.

Like. She went to war with the giants, despite the hardship of it, despite how her husband hid away. She could have turned her back on her subjects and decided this was no place for princes and princesses. But she didn't; she fought for them.

Which is a heavy contrast to the princess brigade's murder plan, because it really is very selfish. I mean, it's understandable how they got to this point! From their perspective life is nothing but suffering and imposed happiness that doesn't last, which is a hard concept to grapple with, but they are still planning a suicide mission to end everything. It's easy to see it as selfish of them to take their pain as a reason to try and give everyone their idea of freedom by essentially killing them all.

These few princesses have agreed that the happiness the fairies force upon them is not worth the pain. The rest of the Neverafter may not have, and yet the princesses are making it happen with force.

But Elody is suggested by past deeds to be someone who cares primarily with others, so why go for a risky plan that ends in their deaths after trying to protect them from death via the giants? Is the idea of a free world, shaky as it is, too good to pass up.

I wonder how much the death of Gerard and the value the princesses place on princes factors into this. It feels like the princesses would have definitely pointed to Gerard and said, "he's meant to pacify you, to make an easy story. He's a tool, and the people of your kingdom are too. We've killed many of our princes, because they are simply tools for the fairies."

Then, the destruction plan will become one to free not only Elody from her place as a character with a certain ending, but the others as tools. After all, Elody is used to making choices for a kingdom, what's a whole world?

But now Gerard, the man who was a tool that was left to die, killed by one of the fairies who would have used him to make the tale work, is back, and awake, and growing and changing, and telling her that he believes that their past of suffering can be built into something better.

And that's a very different line of thought than the princesses' have ended up with. Completely the opposite, really.

So there's probably a good reason she excused herself after their talk for time alone.

#the casual way the princesses were mentioned to discard princes has fascinated me #because frankly the princes in their tales often have just as little choice about loving the princesses #as the princesses have in loving the princes #at least in the context of neverafter and the fairies and authors #especially now that we have mira #a princess who refuses to kill her prince even tho it directly leads to more suffering #so the fact that the princesses dont like...recruit their princes? try to turn them to their side like other princesses? its interesting!#anyway.#neverafter #neverafter spoilers #elody of greenleigh

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juniper-girl · 1 year

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Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (Mira Nair, 1996)

#mira nair #kama sutra a tale of love #kama sutra #indian movie #indian movies #indian cinema #color palette #indira varma

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konanyeh · 9 months

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ludger "you gotta love skirts" kresnik

#this is for no one #except me. but #anyway #tales of #tales of xillia 2 #ludger will kresnik #mira scribbles #its been less than a month since i last posted art but it feels like forever #tales

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felinetteagain · 5 months

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Where did Argos hide Marinette? Did he forget where? Did he do this on purpose? Or is it just an animation glitch! What if Felix hid Marinette not from the light of the Red Moon, but from cousin Adrien?

After all, this has already happened once!

Even if this is an animation error, which I highly doubt, then why are these containers completely different even in raw animation?

Why did he say there were only three of them? Did he forget about Marinette? Or hoped that no one would ask about her?

His behavior seems too artificially unnatural.

If Felix was so worried about destroying Marinette, then why was he so surprised by her return? Perhaps because he hid Marinette somewhere else!

All this can only be justified by the fact that Felix actually fell in love with Marinette during their dance and after which he did not want Adrien and Marinette to be together. To think that he fell in love with Kagami is stupid, since there was not a single moment that proved that Felix was in any way interested in Kagami. After all, he left Kagami alone in the middle of chaos without fearing for her life in the light of the Red Moon and after destroying people he did not even try to find her.

#ladybug and chat noir #miraculous ladybug #tales of ladybug and cat noir #felix fathom #felix graham de vanily #adrien agreste #feligami #kagami tsurugi #felinette #peacock miraculous #miraculous marinette #miraculous lb #mira

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incorrectaliceinborderland · 9 days

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Mira: It was the best of times.

Arisu: It was the worst of times.

Chishiya: It was the age of wisdom.

Karube: It was the age of foolishness.

Asahi: It was the epoch of belief.

Shibuki: It was the epoch of incredulity.

Kuina: It was the season of light.

Last Boss: It was the season of darkness.

Usagi: It was the spring of hope.

Momoka: It was the winter of despair.

Hatter: We had everything before us.

Aguni: We had nothing before us.

Chota: We were all going direct to heaven.

Niragi: We were all going direct the other way.

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fairytale-poll · 2 days

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LOSER'S BRACKET! ROUND 1, MATCH 3 OUT OF 4!

Loser's Bracket Propaganda Under the Cut:

Furina:

The layers of Little Mermaid symbolism in this, forming a heartwrenching onion in full. She’s and Oceanid who was turned into a human - just like everyone else in Fontaine but she got the extra bit of being cursed with immortality and had to pretend to be the Hydro Archon for 500 years all with the pressure that if she got found out the entire nation might die. Despite what it does to her mind, she fulfills her part of the plan faithfully, even to the point she’s begging and crying as the people put her on trial and condemn her, still trying to get these people to believe her lie since the apocalypse is about to happen and all she knows is they’re all about to die because she failed her part at the last possible second. The play she helps to direct and later has to take part in is also the story of an Oceanid that asks to become human, can’t tell anyone her secret identity, then sacrifices herself to save the land full of people that began to hate and condemn her. Her performance nets her a Vision, and honestly that tracks because the musical number we get to see is so beautiful, there’s a reason Hoyoverse uploaded multiple renditions of it. An extra layer is that the play is also symbolic to the former director of the trope she helps out who was also a big fan of her. Anyway, her story is one of Genshin’s best, maybe not being a 1:1 on the fairy tale but embodying the self-sacrifice out of love theme the original conveys. She really deserves another chance.

Mira:

I love her and, even though we don't see her too much in the story, what we do see is absolutely wonderful and shows how much she truly embodies The Little Mermaid. (Also she's a swashbuckler, which is very cool)

#furina de fontaine #the little oceanid #mira #genshin impact #dimension 20 #dimension 20: neverafter #neverafter #d20 #the little mermaid #little mermaid #fairytale #fairy tale #poll tournament #poll bracket #character polls #polls #loser's bracket round 1 #loser's bracket #the little merpoll

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darklinaforever · 2 months

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Me seeing people say that in the film I am dragon there is no coherence because it is winter in the girl's village and borderline tropical weather on the dragon island. The distance between the village and the island is not specified. And how does this delirium work ? Only love can allow man to reach the island, since both must love each other to find each other ! Why ?! And how could Arman know that ? And then it comes out where fog comes from ? And then Amran was born at the time of Igor's grandfather ! That does not make any sense ! This movie is stupid ! How can I put it...

These pseudo-intellectuals are getting to me. But with strength. This movie is a fucking fairy tale inspired by Beauty and the Beast ! Are you looking for realism without magic in a fairy tale ?!

Is the climate different between the village and the island ? Like in Beauty and the Beast where it's winter at the Beast's house and not in the village, or in the French version in black and white where it's night at the Beast's house when it's daylight in Belle's village. How far away is the island that the climate is so different ? The island is a fucking magical place, hence the different climate, and we don't care exactly how far it is from the village ! Oh it makes no sense that the power of love can reach the island. Once again FAIRY TALE ! How does Arman know this story ? Well it's simply a legend that one of his ancestors must have learned at one time or another through humans ?! And seeing that once transformed into a dragon Amran had access to the memories of these ancestors he knew it ?! I don't know, a little imagination ! It’s a fucking fairy tale ! If no one can find the island, why is there an animal ?! It's a fucking magical island with a visibly magical creature that also looks like one of the toys the heroine made at the beginning of the film... A bit as if this animal was only a symbolism of transposition of the young girl's dreams of Mira, exactly like the dragon that she also made at the beginning of the film... My god... and it seems intelligent to make this kind of remark ?! And then, the "oh it doesn't make any sense that Amran was still a young man when he was a child when Igor's grandfather swooped in to kill his father" well maybe he's just aging way too much different than humans ?! He's a fucking magical being ! Either he is potentially immortal, or he ages more slowly ! You know... the two versions we often see when we see individuals alternating between a dragon form and a human form in fiction ?

Besides, I choose to think that Amran simply ages more slowly. No, because thinking he's immortal would be depressing. And I doubt that if a dragon was immortal, Amran's ancestors would have taken such care to always have descendants.

Anyway, it's depressing to see this kind of pseudo-intellectual bullshit criticizing a fucking fairy tale. Something designed to be literally unrealistic and magical !

#on drakon #dragon inside me #i am dragon #he is a dragon #mira #amran #mira x amran #amran x mira #mira and amran #amran and mira #romantasy #farytale #fary tale #beauty and the beast

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thedomesticanthropologist · 4 months

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I'm not sure how many people pay attention to this, but Astarions tent area (inside and out) is not just blood splattered and mildly disorganized:

1) Dirty rags, blood and wine spills, rugs and pillows a bit haphazard, no proper bedding inside, empty blood bank jars everywhere, sleeps on a wooden palette rather than a bed roll

But the actual tent (yes I zoomed in and stared heavily at it shdjghfhdj)

It dirty.

It's SPLATTERED with dried mud and dirt, and I also noticed in comparison to his companions his tent is fairly small? And also kinda limp like he didn't wanna bother putting it up.

I bet this man hates putting together and tearing down camp SO MUCH that he just does the bare minimum and then trashes the place anyway. He's not going to voluntarily do laundry, he's not gonna clean the canvas, he's just here to put his shit together in some barely passable way.

And sure the exterior shows how he tries to decorate it in a way that's presentable, but he's decorating with dirty shit he won't scrub 😂

People, myself included to some degree, have chatted about why he is messy trauma wise but honestly I'm coming to the realization that he probably was, even in life, surrounded by servants to some degree.

He gives the air of being from money

I bet this little fool has never in his life had to wash his own clothes or clean a room. Even as a slave, when he was in Cazadors mansion he got trotted between the bunks where he only had minimal space to rest, (and a bunch of siblings he could probably manipulate into washing his socks for him if the servants didn't do it automatically ) and the Boudoir where he was to Look Pretty and Bend Over as requested

He never scrubbed floors in his life

Man's has never once cleaned a toilet

Astarion is living evidence that you can be severely neglected and abused while ALSO being 'spoiled' (in the sense that he never got to develop life skills bc the servants did it for him)

This really ties in with his personality and I think it's a nice touch. Cause what does he focus on keeping clean? HIM. He can do his hair, body washed, clothing IMPECCABLE. Man kept a shirt together for over a century without a single stain on it. But his SPACE ? His THINGS? neglected to the extreme

But yeah anyway, his tent is DIRTY and I'm pretty sure was originally a much more vibrant color too. Zoom in next time you get to camp you'll see what I mean

#baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #astarion #astarion ancunin #astarion bg3 #this is what the chore chart is FOR astarion #mira the cleric #tales of mira #shes gonna beat your ass #he will wash the clothing he wears but dont tell that man to clean his room #or he will have a hissy fit

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masalafilmsrevival · 1 year

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Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996)

#Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love #mira nair #Sarita Choudhury #indira varma #film #directed by women

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disneytva · 1 year

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And so, our streaming journey comes to an end. But yours continues on For you are the key to unlocking your own magic....

Top #30 Most Streamed 2022 Shows on Disney+ USA 2022.

Data provieded by Nielsen,ParrotAnalytics and Flixpatrol, Final Math and Stats by Nielsen.

1 - The Simpsons

2- Bluey

3- Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

4- Spidey And His Amazing Friends

5- Star Wars: The Clone Wars

6- The Proud Family: Louder And Prouder

7- Big City Greens

8- Puppy Dog Pals

9- Zootopia+

10-Cars On The Road

11-Baymax

12- Phineas And Ferb

13- Star Wars Tales Of The Jedi

14- Ice Age Scrat Tales

15- Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers

16- Mickey Mouse Funhouse

17- Alice’s Wonderland Bakery

18- Marvel Studios What If?

19- Mira Royal Detective

20- Gravity Falls

21- Firebuds

22- Hamster And Gretel

23- The Ghost And Molly McGee

24- Chibi Tiny Tales

25- Big Hero 6 The Series

26- Eureka!

27- Chip N Dale Park Life

28- Amphibia

29- Rise Up Sing Out

30- The Owl House

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beasanfi1997 · 4 months

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When tales of Jedi season two will show us the First meeting between Obi-Wan, Satine and Ursa before Phantom Menace and even the First meeting between Anakin, Ahsoka, Ephraim and Mira during clone Wars, we will mourns for emotion because Ezra and Sabine will be take care of Ben in the Mandalorian.

#star wars #ezra bridger #anakin skywalker #ahsoka tano #sabine wren #ursa wren #obi wan kenobi #satine kryze #mira bridger #ephraim bridger #tales of jedi #star wars the clone wars #star wars rebels #the mandalorian #ben solo #star wars sequel trilogy

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juniper-girl · 1 year

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Rekha in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (Mira Nair, 1996)

#rekha #mira nair #bollywood #kama sutra #kama sutra a tale of love

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pencilofawesomeness · 2 years

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I love how the latest DT chapter gave everyone, myself included, ample opportunity to talk about Natsu’s lack of subtlety. Great job everyone

#htryds #demon tales #what's wild is that it wasn't even his full backstory #it was just the zeref cliff notes #which makes it even wilder to poor mira #she literally was just trying to change the subject #she thought etherious would be a safe topic #boy was she wrong #but natsu was already combusting #it was bound to happen immediately

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