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oh dear indeed… 

some people crayons are jerks.

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Many creators are not posting during this walkout and is asking for people not to use YouTube unless it’s related to the UK election (if you live the UK and still want to participate in the walkout but need to use YouTube to stay on top of election info I think there’s a UK one from the 13th-16th too!)

Anyway fuck those new terms and I’m gonna be deleting my YouTube app on my phone until the 16th.

Reblogging for the additional info on the alternative dates for people in the UK. Good luck Storming the Castle, I mean: With the Election!

@vampireapologist @vaspider @seananmcguire @historicity-was-already-taken @irresponsible-black-unicorn @itsagifnotagif @kaijuno @thebibliosphere @biggest-gaudiest-patronuses @bitchesgetriches

pewdiepie is an idiot, but he’s not a damned nazi.

and he does not deserve to have his house broken into like nobody deserves to have their shit broken into.

i know people that have had their places broken into, and even when they “only” live in a shitty apartment and got a cheap pair of speakers stolen, they were really torn up and shaken up over those speakers because it’s not about the fucking material goods, it’s about the sense of security and safety being violated. it’s about a traumatizing event where you don’t feel safe afterwards. his wife said there’s stuff that can’t be replaced, like nicknacks they inherited or jewelry that can’t just be bought and replaced, but fuck that guy since you can’t even see anything besides someone’s net worth, right?

you are the American Psycho that Ellis was writing about. you have warped your brain and commodified interactions, and literally can’t tell anyone apart because you have deep fried your brain by seeing only the net worths and salaries that people make, but you pretend that shit is woke.

you say nazis fuck off, but you sublimated those very same dehumanizing values within your very core.

People That Say They Are Taking Down Problematic Youtubers:

Markiplier, Jontron, Pewdiepie Or Any Other Million Plus Popular Youtuber: *opens mouth to speak*

The father is a half-orc, a sailor-turned-paladin, a champion who protected the balance of nature. They had a clandestine love affair before he was lost at sea, and now she stares out the window at night, longing to see him again.

“Hold on,” someone from the other end of the bar says, “that can’t be right. I just met him the other week, he was hunting a morkoth out by Rumblecusp.”

The father is a wizard, a master of magic, the man with panacea in his pocket. When his beloved was ill in her pregnancy, he made a potion to save her and her child. Her greenness was a stain that the potion left on the infant child.

“What potion was this?” an artificer asks, leaning across the table. “No, really, what was the potion. Because I can name five potions that I’d recommend before one that would turn a baby fucking green.”

The father was another woman, a monk wise with forbidden and secret knowledge. To have a child of their own, they performed an ancient ritual. But something went awry, and the child they created turned green.

A halfling sighs and pinches the bridge of their nose. “Wouldn’t they just adopt?”

The father is a god of green cloak and green power. His fey blood runs through the daughter’s very veins, and her greenness is proof of his might.

“If you hand me a pamphlet right now, I’ll fucking slap you with it.”

The father is a green dragon.

“No scales.”

The child was cursed by a green hag.

“No hags been round here for centuries.”

The child is really a goblin.

This one actually gets some consideration. Then - “Too tall,” someone says.

The child is really a troll.

“Too clever.”

The rest of the night - as with the rest of most nights - carries on this way in the tavern.

Unseen on the second floor landing, a green tiefling listens with evil glee as the debate rages on.

A voice right in her ear says, “Helloooo, Little Emerald? You’d better not be sneaking off into bars to spread rumors again.”

She grins. “They are spreading themselves, Mama! You should listen to them, they say I’m a troll, and a goblin, and a hag, and a dragon, and that I was cursed by a fairy prince, and that-”

She’s still listing monsters off her fingers when her mother speaks in her ear again. She sounds like she’s grinning. “All right, my little goblin-dragon-troll. Your Auntie Veth and Uncle Yeza are here.”

Harlequin Lavorre pulls up her cloak, slides down the banister, whispers, “The daughter of Jester Lavorre is really a fairy princess!” into a nearby ear, not because it was true but because it sounded interesting, and disappears into the streets of Nicodranas.

The daughter of Jester Lavorre is green.

Your first initial and the last two letters of your last name.

Cops had arrived at the property in Henderson, Nevada after a troubling call from the six-year-old in which he can be heard screaming “don’t hurt me,” and “she’s trying to kill me.”

The mum, named in local media as 37-year-old Claudia Nadia Rodriguez was found by cops completely naked and saying: “They’re trying to kill each other. They’re making us do it. We got to kill each other.”

When approached by officers she reportedly screamed: “You got to kill me,” and was  "agitated.“

A struggle ensued with the two male officers, with shocking body cam footage showing a naked Rodriguez grabbing one of the officer’s guns as they both try to wrestle it off her.

According to reports, the 37-year-old managed to shoot the gun once, but no officers were harmed.

Rodriguez was shot at the scene, later dying from her injuries at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Centre.

The youngster was taken to University Medical Centre in Las Vegas where it was discovered he had been stabbed 25 times by his own mum, police say.

The Henderson Police Department later released a horrifying photograph of the little boy’s blood-stained t-shirt.

The department also made public the harrowing 911 recording, in which the extremely distressed little boy can be heard screaming and begging his mum not to hurt him.

He also tells the operator through sobs: “She’s trying to kill me.”

However,  he is reportedly doing well and expected to make a full recovery.

Both officers have been placed on paid leave while local police chiefs investigate the fatal shooting, which has been ruled as a homicide.

Further investigations after the incident have uncovered the woman had a history of domestic violence and is alleged to have “mentally and physically abused” two of her older children.

She had been arrested four times in the last four years on suspicion of domestic battery, and has one conviction of the same charge from 2017.

According to reports, the child’s father had been locked in a fierce custody battle with Rodriugez around the same time and was fighting for sole custody of the boy on the grounds that                                his mother was abusive.

Fucking tell me about it.

I have seen so many articles where a mother murders / tortures her child to death right after she’s been arrested for the 4th 5th and 6th time for abusing her child.

I honestly don’t know what’s worse,the fact that there’s always a ton of people that know the mom is going to kill that child or the fact that so many horrible child abusing moms avoid jail time

because the Court doesn’t want to separate that child-abusing Mom from her child.

It’s like they know she’s a predator but they can’t bear to separate her from her favorite defenseless victim.

Yeah the shot she got off missed, but at this point, shooting her was 100% selfdefense on the part of the officers!

For…reasons, I decided I’d split this meta up into 3 large sections: The Empire (episodes 1-27) The Pirate Arc (episodes 28-49), and Xhorhas (episodes 50-85).

Numbers and a long post incoming!

The Method

I’ve been using a word search tool on Critical Role Transcripts. Inclusion criteria: the words “sorry” and “apolo–” (root for apologize, apologizing, apologies). I looked at each instance of these words and tallied both who was apologizing and who was being apologized to by looking at surrounding context. Exclusion criteria: speaking OOC, “sorry” used in the sense of asking a person to repeat themselves, and “apology” being used in the sense of discussing apologies as a subject, rather than actively apologizing. Limitations: This method is reliant on the completeness of the transcripts it works off of. It can’t really gauge the sincerity of each individual apology, and it’s also possible for characters to apologize without using the words “sorry” “apologies,” etc–Caleb and Yasha for instance are apt to apologize without using these words, and this method does not count those apologies. Interrater reliability is also nil–I did NOT double check this work or ask someone else to code the transcripts to compare. 

Part 1: Who Apologizes the Most?

Beau takes the cake here, followed a bit distantly by Caleb, and then Nott. But let’s take a closer look on exactly who everyone is apologizing to:

Fjord, though middling in his apology number, splits his apologies evenly between the party and outside NPCs, whom he apologizes to usually in an attempt to curry favor or run a con. Within the party, he has a marked preference for holding himself accountable to the group at large, rather than apologizing to individual members.

Beau also has a roughly even split between inter/intra party apologies, though in contrast to Fjord, she has a preference for apologizing to individual party members. Her strong connection with Jester and Fjord–the original triad–manifests itself in an increased number of apologies as she seeks their feedback on interpersonal interactions.

Caleb apologizes almost as often as he draws breath when speaking to NPCs! His version of overbearing politeness manifests itself in an incessant stream of apologies. Also, a non-insignificant portion of his NPC apologies are directed at Frumpkin (poor cat!) Caleb is much more reserved when dealing genuinely with party members–like Fjord, he’s of a collective mindset and more likely to apologize to the group at large than to any one member.

As we move away from the top table “faces,” we encounter a group of people far less interested in smoothing things over with the outside world, and far more interested in smoothing over tempers within the party. Nott is unique here for being far more interested in Caleb’s opinion and forgiveness than anyone else’s.

Within the party, Jester apologizes most to those she perceives as being in distress. Her most frequent apologies are related to her healing not being enough, or over her decisions to help one party member over another. 

Molly has lived a life of few regrets–despite his screentime and talkative nature, he has one of the lowest apology counts in the party. He and Yasha’s exclusivity as the circus band manifests as well in their lack of apologies–of Molly’s NPC apologies, the majority were directed towards other circus members. The one thing he does apologize for–twice–is for his past life which he doesn’t see as the party’s business cropping up to bother them all.

Yasha’s extremely taciturn nature may have contributed to her having the lowest apology count in the party–however, she is perhaps the most nondiscriminate in who she directs her apologies to.

Part 2: Who Gets Apologized to?

You know me: I believe that our language reveals all sorts of power dynamics, and one of those is the dynamic of who apologizes–and who is apologized to. So, who gets the most apologies from their fellow party members in the Mighty Nein?

Caleb holds somewhat of a lead here, due largely to the influence of Nott. Most party members have been apologized to roughly the same amount as they have apologized to fellow party members–with the exception of Beau and Nott, who have both apologized significantly more often than they’ve been apologized to, and Caleb, who has been apologized to individually far more than he’s apologized other individual party members.

Let’s take a closer look:

Unsurprisingly, Beau has been the main source of apologies to Fjord. Smh at Fjord thinking Beau doesn’t apologize!

Here Nott takes the lead, as they begin to forge a bond made from swapped secrets and confessions.

Caleb’s confession and “Bowlgate” had a discernible impact on these numbers. But Nott also had a tendency to apologize to Caleb despite his protests from the first episode.

Nott gets a fair amount of apologies both from habitual apologizers like Beau, and from more reserved people like Caleb and Yasha. Yasha’s apology for the group all making fun of Nott for eating children in fact stands out as one of the very few apologies Yasha has made at all!

Featuring: Beau beating Jester to a bloody pulp, an argument over spending money with Caleb, and copious Detective Duo shenaniganery

Neither Molly nor Yasha have received many apologies–which makes the distribution of apologies look more drastic than it really is. Nonetheless, Beau’s attempts to connect with Molly have had an impact here.

Similarly to Beau and Molly, Jester’s continued efforts to engage with Yasha have had an impact in the number of apologies she’s given in proportion to the rest of the party.

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In the first picture, Cassandra is struggling to help Percy through the woods. Cassandra is a 12 or 13 year old girl. She has a mess of brown hair, multiple bloody cuts on her face, and her eyes and mouth are open wide. She is wearing a simple green dress. She has one arm around Percy’s shoulders and one fisted into his shirt, clearly trying to hold him up. Percy is very pale-skinned 16 or 17 year old boy, paler than Cassandra, whose skin is a shade or two darker. His hair is white, and he has blood all over one side of his face and dripping from his mouth. Percy is slumped over, though he has one arm thrown over Cassandra’s shoulders. He is wearing a green and brown fur cloak over a simple white shirt and brown pants. It is snowing, and there are many trees around them. The lyrics from Dust Bowl are written on the screen: “I’ve been kicked off my land” to the siblings’ right, and “at the age of sixteen” to their left.

The second picture is sectioned into two parts. In the top, to the left, is a close-up of Percy’s gaunt face. He is looking wide-eyed over his shoulder. There is blood streaking the left side of his face, from his temple past his eyes. He has a hint of darker hair above his ears. Next to him are the lyrics “and I have no idea where else” against a backdrop of snowfall and distant trees. In the bottom, to the right, is a close-up of Cassandra’s face and neck from beneath her nose down. She has a huge bleeding cut on her right cheek. She now has the fur cloak over her shoulders. Her mouth is still open wide. To her right are the lyrics “my heart could have” against a backdrop of snowfall and distant trees.

The third picture is of Cassandra alone. She half bent over, and she is staring wide-eyed at her hands, which are streaked with blood. Her hair and the cloak are whipping in the snowy wind. There are three black arrows piercing through her back and out of her chest. The lyric “been” is written to her right.

The fourth picture is a wide shot of Percy kneeling in the snow, in a small open space surrounded by trees. He has one knee planted, though his other leg is positioned like he may be trying to stand. He’s holding his left side, which is heavily caked in blood. He is looking in front of him. At the edges of the picture is Cassandra’s cloak in a pool of blood accompanied by a few arrows in the snow. The lyric above his head is “I placed all my trust at the foot of this hill.”

to be Grinchy

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To my followers….

Mission parameters set.

Fuck that noise.

God this is gonna suck when I get to Frost Cavern. 

Still holding on tight to that 3DS I don’t have and couldn’t figure out how to get back. Our mom’s probably holding it hostage.

Oh hey, do you want to see how it resolved the issue of not having a full render model?

I am not a satanist so I can not provide in-depth knowledge but there are many branches/types of satanism. Here is the ones I know of.. I might get a few things wrong but as said before I don’t practice satanism.

The Church of Satan: The church of Satan belives in no deity except for that of yourself! You are your own god/goddess. You worship yourself in the form of self-love, self betterment, happiness, and pursuing knowledge. To name a few. This branch of satanism encourages sex, but sexual acts towards children or animals are considered sins. (This church was founded by the man who wrote the satanic bible)

The Satanic Temple: Above all this branch encourages benevolence and empathy as well as the embrace of common sense and justice. This group does not worship Satan as a deity but rather as a figure off rebellion. Recently you may have heard that the temple erected a statue of Baphomet on public property in Detroit because of the city building a statue of the 10 Commandments. They also held a “Pink Mass” at the funeral of Westboro Baptist Church Leader Fred Phelps’ mother. Gay couples were welcomed to the pink mass and encouraged to publicly display affection and wish for Phelps’ mother to be “gay in the afterlife.”

Luciferianism: Luciferians are most concerned with the pursuit of knowledge. They worship Lucifer (mostly as a symbol but some as a deity) rather than Satan. To them he embodies self-determination and liberation from the slave mentality. Luciferians’ main goal is to help people “take responsibility for their own life and act as an individual moral agent, using the full potential of their own genius and thereby optimizing possibilities.”

It would also be why some of those sects encourage hatred and judgement, something they’re also not allowed to do. In essence, everyone who goes to church or gets blessed by a pope is going to hell, but people practicing “witch craft” in a basement have figured out the real god.