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People are talking about how reading Dungeon Meshi gives them an internal monologue Senshi for eating properly I think we all need to adopt an internal monologue Chilchuck at work. Like the boat is literally sinking and he's just watching it happen because he's on his lunch break.
*I worship you Tumblr don’t remove it
Red means I love you.
Lae'zel's character and her entire situation at the beginning of the game becomes so much more funny when you find out she's 22. It makes so much sense. Imagine you're 22 and you're exposed to this dangerous toxin or chemical or something - but not to worry, you learnt that this can be easily fixed, you just need to dial 911 real quick. Common knowledge. Everyone knows that. You learnt that in kindergarten, it's up there with fire alarm drills.
But the people you're stuck with have no concept of modern medicine and when you say "let's go to the hospital" they will say shit like "i think they kill people at the hospital" and "we should ask this swamp lady" or "this guy over there told me about this homoeopathic healer kind of guy but he got abducted" or "this random bard wants to help" and "I'm not going to dial 911 because I don't want the government to know my home address" or "maybe we should consider a deal with Satan". And then a bunch of them KEEP consuming the chemical because it makes them "stronger". One guy might explode for unrelated reasons. You have a few days before this situation is getting critical and suddenly they're solving crime and doing general charity for the community.
And FOR SOME REASON you still try to help these idiots and you STILL want to help them get the cure even though they all keep insisting the "doctors" at the "hospital" might try to "kill them" and they don't have insurance. And you keep telling them to just. go. to. the. hospital. before the time runs out and you all die very horribly of a very treatable condition.
And also you're 22 in a foreign country and you're responsible for shepherding this gaggle of idiots who are all ranging anywhere from 24 to 240 years old.
and then when you finally get to the hospital they do, in fact, try to kill you
I'm a sucker for a fucked up relationships. It's about that unhinged obsession. Limitless devotion. Love to the point of destruction.
I hate Kipperlilly - but this level of nickname shenanigans would have killed me on the spot in high school
once there were four children, by Liridi.
When did this get 10k likes wtf 😭😭😭
someone call 911. or the ASPCA maybe
there is something so normal about me when I watch the Geralt-Renfri sword fight
it was such a move to show Geralt absolutely lay waste to five armed men in under a minute only for his fight with Renfri to last like three minutes. Such a good way to demonstrate how absolutely lethal and skilled she was without the usual verbal exposition
AND THE COMBAT CHOREOGRAPHY
I’m chewing on concrete every time I rewatch it tbh
This is what makes me truly descend into madness! I’ve never watched an analysis, but to me it looks like he gives her
one:
two:
three:
four:
FIVE chances:
She stabs him several times throughout and he still stays his hand wherever possible, although he does land several blows.
Each time, he gives her a chance to disengage, but she advances again. the fifth and final time, he even lowers his blade completely. She advances again, and he kills her.
It is interesting to me that people debate whether Geralt was in the “right” here, because the intention of this story and its place as the first episode was very literally written to punish Geralt’s neutral stance. He adamantly refused to take a side and in the end is told he did choose, and he’ll “never know” if it was the right choice.
But it’s made clear that he does know. All of his actions in the story are determined by his regrets from that day. He should have chosen Renfri. Which is why he’s so determined to save the Striga Princess. Which is why Jaskier teases him for pretending to avoid conflict when in reality he always gets involved. He didn’t used to. Now he cannot walk away from anything. Renfri haunts his entire narrative.
I also love the line where Geralt says, “if we cross swords—“ and Renfri says, “I won’t be able to stop.” She could absolutely mean that she’s simply so determined that she refuses to give up until one of them is dead.
But immediately before that line, she tells Geralt magic doesnt work on her, whereas silver does, and Geralt actually balks because “silver is for monsters.”
We know Renfri has been mutated by some form of magic—whether completely by birth or even further by Stregabor’s experiments—and that she’s a ruthless combatant.
Although there is no actual proof of it in the show canon or the books, people have considered that Renfri literally cannot stop fighting once she starts—that her body is compelled and bound by her magic to see it through to the death.
Again, no “proof” of that, but it’s compelling! It would also mean that she doesn’t actually make her final choice the fifth time Geralt attempts to disengage. She would have made her final, fatal decision to fight to one of their deaths the minute the fight began, because she knew there would be no stopping.
And the scene really carried every ounce of that weight & the gravity of the consequences for Geralt.
That said, it is actually usually far more difficult to disarm and neutralize someone than to kill them. If you join a dojo, you usually won’t be placed with another beginner to spar right off the bat, because beginners are dangerous in that they don’t know how to hold blows. Two beginner combatants are more likely to hurt each other, whereas someone experienced will moreso “handle” you than actually fight you.
So that speaks to Geralt’s skill as a swordsman over Renfri, as well as—like you said—Renfri’s skill because it was so difficult for Geralt to “handle” her.
It’s the most poignant combat choreography I’ve seen in Western media in a decade. I’m Deeply
Deeply
obsessed with it.
this tag is making me laugh out loud because this is, in fact, Geralt’s worst job ever. he never gets it more wrong than this
she is literally adorable and i wanna be her. she is the mother i never had, the best friend every body deserves
This Sunday afternoon I was running for a tram and there was a knock at the door
I live in a city where you don't use the front door so thought "I'm already on my way out, I'll see who it is when I get round the front" (there's too much stuff in the way to even open the front door)
So I get to the front door and
... OK yeah I was a bit surprised.
A few friends know about this meme, live in the same city as me and know my address.
Four were at home and had yet to find a walrus with which to do this bit.
Two were about to leave the house to be somewhere else (same place I was going).
One is apparently in France.
Not one of them admits knows who did this.
I'm not ruling out the possibility they all know exactly who did it.
We're trying to figure out who it was on Discord and virtually everyone is saying "I wanted to, I planned on, but I didn't have the time" or "I couldn't find an appropriate walrus" or "I'd have given it fairy wings"
I feel like I'm in a reverse Murder On The Orient Express situation (spoilers I guess, sorry) where everyone had motive no-one had means but the victim just died anyway. Or in this case, received a walrus.
I'm being absolutely Agatha Christie'd on with a plush pinniped.
Wen Qing based from the Untamed bcs her costume looks damn fine
Shijie I drew for my friend REPRISE
All I'm saying is that "Song Lan's body will never deteriorate and Xiao Xingchen's soul will never reincarnate so they're separated forever yet Song Lan still bears their swords and dreams while yearning for a past that won't come back" literally sounds like the beginning of a whole epic danmei novel and not the end of a random subplot
So I get an email a few weeks ago from Tillamook, apparently years ago I had asked on their website if they could please considering making a havarti style cheese.
I might love cheese, just a bit.
I've been an avid admirer of them since I was a small thing in Alaska, in a rural town with one grocery store that carried mostly, yes Tillamook. This love followed me down the west coast and to every place I have ever lived, though it is harder to come by here.
Anyway, so I think great, they emailed me to alert me that this product is available so I can go forth and purchase it.
Oh no.
Not only did they keep insanely good records from what must be millions of submissions, they tell me I submitted in 2015, 8 years ago?! And I had forgotten by now. Of course. Not only do they want to tell me this cheese exists, they want to send me some.
I think great. I'm getting a coupon for free cheese and proceed to perform a not so short dance of getting all the cheese.
They ask for my address and tell me it will arrive within ten days, it does not.
I wait for 2 long weeks, checking every letter. It does not come. I give up all hope, assuming perhaps it was a scam or a fever dream.
Until today.
I received a full sized cooler box with not one but four packets of havarti cheese. To say I am in cheese heaven is an understatement.
I love it, what other company would ever? They not only exceeded, but shattered every expectation.
(If you haven't made a trip to their factory near the oregon coast, let me just say it is pure magic.)
And yes it is delicious, and it melts very, very well and I dearly hope I can find more to buy eventually because I am hooked.
Not that I wasn't before, I almost always have some of their cheddar on hand. If you haven't tried their cheese, you should, and if you have an idea for them, well, it might just pan out in copious amounts of free cheese.
my easily jumpscared gf has her back to the door in our new place and every time i need to announce myself like im an angel of god
new ship dynamic called schrodinger’s divorce where characters are simultaneously bitterly divorced and fondly married for twenty years
