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ladies, as you were

I wonder who the highest-ranking officer in history to ever get fragged was, Hegseth might be gunning for the record.

RAGGHHH HAPPY WIDE WITCH WEDNESDAY (office lady edition)

it's not even like. being subtle! it goes from like 3 episodes in of "haha cutesy elfslop" to "ontologically evil p-zombies exist in this world and you have to kill them all. full stop" it's not even drawing parts of it! it's the whole fucking hog all the way in all the time!

3. It's a good show.

Also genuinely, objectively the first demon Frieren kills uses language to gather information about what's happened since he's been imprisoned. The later demons discuss what tactics they are going to use against the humans and why certain lies work on humans. If they were just parrots that would actually be potentially interesting on some level, but they aren't.

As always my opinion is that giving the villains interesting motives is a great way to explore deep themes, but it's not mandatory. You can have one-dimensional villains and still tell an interesting story, you just have to focus more on other things. Which is what Frieren does. The one-dimensional evil-ness of the demons is not a big focus of the show, it's taken as a given for the backdrop of the things the show is actually interested in, which is the personal and interpersonal developments of the main cast and some side characters. The demons are evil because "how does this character react to evil?" is an interesting question. Even the fight scenes are mostly interesting because they tell us more about the inner lives of the people we have gotten to know. For the entire magic academy arc the demons are pretty much absent, because the show is just not about them. If you like politics and want to see shows that focus on complicated conflicts without obvious moral valence then Frieren is probably not the show for you.

PS - My immediate response is that Tolkien's Orcs are different because Tolkien is a better writer who actually knows how to use these tropes but I've never finished Lord of The Rings so maybe I just didn't get to the part where Legolas explains that we need to kill all the Orc babies.

I will be very surprised if any sentiment even remotely similar comes up in Lord of The Rings.

so, sensibly, i decided my best bet to expel this tiny man who i had NOT wanted to move into my heart (aside from surgery, which i discounted as an option when i imagined asking my parents about it) was to do the reverse incantation: i fell asleep that night mumbling and mentally shouting I HATE YOU JESUS I HATE YOU JESUS I HATE YOU JESUS, hoping he would get the message and relocate somewhere that wanted him.

I would still do all my unhinged Tumblr posting but it would be in a secret diary hidden within the walls of my holy bedchamber, undiscovered until the temple collapses when the sacrifice goes wrong. So no worries there, you'd get my posts late and all at once is all.

doesn't matter the model, you know terrible things happen in there

Especially since one of those is pretty reversible if you change your mind after a couple years and the other one, well, technically but that’s pretty frowned upon

The idea is that a Senator's sibling/spouse/parent/child knows their intentions and policies better than a political rival or a random person would. It's a pretty good way to prevent political assassinations tbh

waow

yes and people tend to overestimate the cost of shipping, but even if we decided we wanted to do everything locally we could use greenhouses.

Sometimes it turns out you can make the thing 2% cheaper and for 2% less greenhouse gas emissions by building One Big Packing Plant instead of Ten Local Packing Plants and that more than pays for both the cost and the emissions of overseas shipping. Like it's not free and in the abstract we would want to ship fewer things across the ocean, but making the thing at all is often a much bigger part of its impact than the time it spent on a boat.