"Lae'zel is so mean" she was raised in an oppressive military cult ruled over by a tyrannical god-queen who views her people merely as cattle and purges the weak, often at the hands of her subjects like Lae'zel and tells them it's for the good of the race because compassion, free thinking, diplomacy, and generally not being an unquestioning murder drone is viewed as weakness and will get you murdered or else hunted by your own people. She is scared shitless that she is about to suffer the most horrific and dishonorable death her people know, and only comes to realize everything she has ever known to be true is not only false but deliberately constructed to feed souls to her queen so that she may live forever, and then that same queen personally orders her death at the hands of her own people.

if i had a nickel for every time a fair-skinned, former slave, elf rogue, who fed on people, held a knife to my throat on first meeting, wanted revenge on their master, had a distinctive scar inflicted by said master (who also used to be able to mind control them but lost that ability over the character in their game), and who is also depicted facing away from the viewer and looking over their shoulder while wielding a blade in various promotional art in a Larian game, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

Been doomscrolling YT shorts and getting a lot of clips about people from other nations visiting for the World Cup and having positive experiences and taking a little bit of America home with them (like ranch dressing) and it’s so heartwarming and genuinely is what I needed to see considering the political bullshit of the US. We really are just people living our lives and more often than not, we’re happy to just hang out.

Friendly reminder to "outdoor cat" proponents that the common housecat (felis catus) is on the list of top 100 most dangerous invasive alien species and are listed as a worldwide threat.

Fell down a rabbit hole of sex toys shaped like tools, here's what I've found so far