Conclusion: Dinosaurs

i got inspired by antique furniture -> decided to try and make a wooden doll.

azune has a name that is from another language, and probably a dying one at that. he has lived away from his culture for so long that he has simply adapted to hearing his name mispronounced. his people are scattered and forgotten, and had probably already been dwindling in the centuries since the last living dragon was seen. navika'an is not widely known. so he simply allows for mispronunciations, and keeps the real way it's said to himself.

the inverse of this is tyranny, who was given a name in the common tongue despite being of na'ahavri. her father has a name of the pit, but he gave his daughters mortal names. their names are still evocative of their demonic origins to someone on aramán, but in a way that's more "accessible." she is the scary exotic pagan monstrosity being converted to the Light, after all. meanwhile, to demons she's an anomaly. it creates a sense of distance between tyranny and her home. she's not quite from aramán not quite from na'ahavri, and feeling torn between the two at every turn. torn between her purpose and her nature.

What is going on here? This house is all remodeled and ready to go. It's 4bd, 2ba, 1,269sqft, $599k. And, then, there's this:

PROPAGANDA:

[Starscream]

"He would be STRUTTING with it. He's gonna raise an ARMY of LOYAL UNDERLINGS and they're going to make him RULER OF THE UNIVERSE. also he would be fucking miserable and so so angry and i think that would be fun."

"I need need need my conniving flying bastard man to be pregnant, he'd be so insufferable about it. Can you imagine? TFP Starscream would use his pregnancy as a way to manipulate the autobots and pretend to "care so much about my precious baby" and then he'd stab everyone in the back. G1 Starscream would have a bunch of grand dreams of shaping his baby into the ultimate Megatron-killing weapon and then they rule the galaxy together."

"I need to see him manipulate someone into getting him pregnant only to abort it in an attempt to hurt them only to have no effect at all. I need this."

"He’s funny and endlessly miserable in most continuities and I think being pregnant would make him happy even if he complained about it at the time."

"LISTEN……. It would be funny as shit if all the time he tried to usurp Megatron he succeeded in the one thing he didn’t want and lost so disgracefully. And in some media interpretations having “kids” or pets mellows that fucked up prideful and very much traumatized abused but unwilling to admit it and look for help man."

Starscream propaganda from last season

[Gomez]

"It's not fair if Morticia's the only one hogging all the pain of childbirth. Her hubby wants some too!"

This was prompted by me and my boyfriend discussing handedness and being able to tell apart left and right. And me, being ambidextrous, was baffled by how do people with an obligate dominant hand mix up which side is the one with their Writing Hand and which one isn't?? And my boyfriend pointed out that I go "turn left - no I mean right" so much when giving directions that I have lost my navigator privileges.

I argued that mixing up the words isn't the same thing as mixing up the directions. Like if your mom accidentally called you the dog's name doesn't mean that she literally can't tell you apart from the dog. And he looked at me like this

Food: candied oranges dipped in chocolate

"They’re evil, they’re nonbinary, they’re gonna suck your blood and transform you into a monstrosity. What’s not to like?"

Ship Tournament, Round 1 — Match 2 / 30

Cazador/Vellioth

"creator and creation, abuse and obsession, the person who made you into a monster being the person you eventually surpass and destroy"

"Vellioth is THE ghost in Cazador’s machine. You can feel him in how Cazador talks, how he punishes, how he treats spawn like possessions, how obsessed he is with never being beneath anyone again. That man really said “I’m free of you” and then built his whole life out of your lessons."

vs. Elminster/Withers

"imagine Gale finding out. IMAGINE. his mentor/legendary wizard situationship and the camp skeleton death accountant. he would never recover."

I know Astarion is technically a chaotic goose but imagine if he was a cat. He would be that cat.