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“I can’t hear your thoughts ”… It’s just so like… Imogen has never not known what people are thinking. She’s heard Laudna’s thoughts from the moment she met her. She would know if Laudna felt the same way. She would hear it. And if she was wrong, she would have to hear the fallout too. But now she can’t hear any of it, and she is burdened but also gifted with the opportunity to just have to take a blind leap of faith. My god.
Once the harsh winter is gone, when come the good and easier days, we often encounter bears swimming by the ice edge. Polar bears are extremely capable of having fun alone with whatever they find 🐻❄️ !.
another striking example of why must the most lethal of beasts be such a silly lil goober??
I was actually just reading about this in Caste: The Origins of our Discontent. The author talks about how one’s body goes into stress or anxiety or defense mode when the person knows they’re being followed, watched, or otherwise scrutinized. She brought race into it. A Nigerian man, who was just a person in his country, was healthy as anything. He got to the U.S. and within a year, his doctor told him he was suddenly pre-diabetic and had high blood pressure. He never had those things in his country. He learned that being Black in the U.S. is a very different experience than being Black in a Black-centric country. The author elaborated more about those in poverty, women, and being a minority in general. Having that “fight or flight” triggered in the body, sometimes for hours or days or weeks at a time, degrades the body’s natural defenses, making them more vulnerable to disease.
I can’t remember if I ever actually posted about this, but…
Ever since Matt first described the Judicators and their masks, I immediately thought of the descriptions in Calamity about how the betrayer gods basically used up, corrupted, and disfigured their clerics as basically just belief-power batteries. I have to watch [Calamity] again for the actual description but I remember it being gnarly.
I just… have a gut feeling that’s basically what the Judicators are. The weapon of the betrayer gods turned against them. That despicable method used in the name of good. Carefully guarded and limited, but not hidden or eradicated because it’s too useful. Too powerful to just let die out.
I feel like… If anyone ever successfully removed one’s mask… these respective followers of “good” and “evil” would be indistinguishable.
After seeing this post, I looked back at how the DMs talks about Judicators vs. the K'nauth (the Betrayer power-batteries) and.. you’re 100% correct. They’re exactly the same thing.
Brennan describes the K'nauth as people “so devoted to [a god] that it’s not even worth magically dominating them or charming them anymore. They just let [the god] into their soul.” (calamity e2)
Matt described Judicators (only on a nat 20 from Fearne, so this is pretty guarded information) as people who “volunteer themselves, giving everything to the cause, their individuality, their lives, to become a weapon for the Prime Deities.” (c3e43)
Judicators and K'nauth both have physical deformities and share in the motif of destroying their faces. It’s.. they’re the same. The lines between Prime and Betrayer Gods just continue to get blurrier and blurrier..
I love Miyavi so much. He’s been spending quarantine telling people to stay safe at home and putting on little performances on Facebook with his family to cheer people up. Here’s a video he posted of him playing one of his newest songs with the help of his daughters who are doing an amazing job of keeping up with him!
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