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- an elven rogue ex-slave with a scar to show for it, seeking revenge on the ex-master, AND a suave noble with ambiguous morals, a thirst for power, and a british accent (somehow, they're both Astarion)

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- an animal companion you meet rather early in the game and can later summon to aid you in battle

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- being offered to consume stomach-turning things in order to unlock the character's potential and tap into a certain power source (ha!)

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- an especially trustworthy guardian figure who's saved you from sure death to later meet you face to face on a different plane of reality, who you carry around with you, while they're guiding you on a path to the power you need to defeat the looming threat, nudging you as a voice in your head

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- a cult of a fake god whose main gig is kinda producing abominations

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i only have around 70 hours in dos2 as opposed to 1000+ in bg3, so take this with a grain of salt, but i'm starting a thread of things both games have in common (I'm eating it up):

i thought the flavour i had been chasing since playing bg3 was the dnd part, or turn-based fantasy rpg in general, but now that I've started dos2 i'm realising it was larian all along

psinka @soupyflapjack.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

turns out i called up my insurance, ran to a gp, got an ultrasound and a two-page long blood test just to realise yesterday that my periods are back after two years, and I've just been having some DEADLY cramps FOR A WEEK

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psinka @soupyflapjack.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

for all the talk about the diverse casting for the odyssey, is it just me or has there not been a single interview/press conference involving lupita OR elliot?

psinka @soupyflapjack.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

mostly better! i took every pill i could think of and something worked 😅 at least the whole ordeal got me so tired that i slept through the night..

anyway the fact of the matter is, i don't think i did anything wrong lately for this to be my penance

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..bc i left some store-bought marinated meat in the fridge, and the whole filter got fucking, infused with loose garlic molecules?? i guess??? felt like straight up drinking garlic tea 😭😭😭

for some reason my stomach got EXTREMELY upset and it felt like i was being stabbed in the abdomen with knifes while on the toilet for like, half a day (which is too long of a time to spend like this to be completely honest with you) AND we had to change the water filter and scrub everything..

man the fuck did i do to deserve today 😭😭💀

psinka @soupyflapjack.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"every exercise is a back exercise if done wrong enough" EXCEPT back exercise, which, if done wrong enough, can be arm and shoulder exercise

psinka @soupyflapjack.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

trickle down economics is when a billionaire becomes a trillionaire and still keeps pissing on your face

psinka @soupyflapjack.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

mum look I'm in a zine!! 😁 thank you to the wonderful organisers for letting me be part of this amazing collective work, it's a pleasure and a privilege to share pages with so many incredibly talented people 💖

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psinka @soupyflapjack.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

providing papers about papers that confirm the changes in other papers bruh smh

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psinka @soupyflapjack.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

so far they've been respectful and matter-of-fact about my transition but they DO need three additional tests from my clinic that i wasn't told about over the phone, as well as a confirmation of the trans diagnosis, and it cannot be the ones I already have, it can only be this specific one

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psinka @soupyflapjack.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

who would've thought that dealing with my hometown's military draft office would be torture not because of transphobia but because of the crippling bureaucracy of it all

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oyuuogothiczine.bsky.social @oyuuogothiczine.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Coming on the 16th of July HOC EST CORPUS MEUM: An OYuuO Gothic Zine Obscured family ties, secret siblings, murder, incest, hauntings, patriarchy, repressed guilt, familial terror, descents into madness, corruption and imperiled virtue - all the good stuff :-)

a promo image for the oyuuo gothic zine hoc est corpus meum, with red gothic script over an image of a crumbling house

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psinka @soupyflapjack.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

literally why is 6 a.m. the cats' prime shitting time

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psinka @soupyflapjack.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

but I'm really glad i decided to rewatch it as an adult with more analytical and critical skills, as well as the experience and knowledge i didn't have before. I'm getting so much more from it now than i did back then. for all its flaws, it's a great and complex story

psinka @soupyflapjack.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

it's like... watching a train wreck that is going to happen in a few minutes. that's the experience

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psinka @soupyflapjack.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

man, season 5 of merlin is a certified upsetting watch

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psinka @soupyflapjack.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I might be wrong but I think merlin bbc pmo so bad that I started going to the gym and continued reading the capital at the same time to procrastinate watching it further 💀

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psinka @soupyflapjack.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

also I saw someone say smth along the lines of "on a rewatch, the magic users aren't all as innocent as I remembered them to be" and it just pissed me off ngl, oh I'm sorry, is the oppressed minority attempting to fight for their lives? are the persecuted people getting radicalised?? fuck off

psinka @soupyflapjack.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

arthur has the tip of his sword pressed to uther's neck, enraged by the horrors he had inflicted on magic users in all those years, and this DUMBASS would rather save his own oppressor and further discredit his OWN PEOPLE give me a break 😭😭 this is unbearable

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psinka @soupyflapjack.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

bruh merlin be thanking gaius for "teaching him everything good there is about magic" and it's just being a class traitor 💀

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psinka @soupyflapjack.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I know they do this joke (half of it) in the show, I don't care

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psinka @soupyflapjack.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

look at my beautiful princess 😩😩

A screenshot from BBC TV show Merlin. It depicts Merlin with his eyes glowing gold as he casts a spell; his expression is a cheeky grin.

psinka @soupyflapjack.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

just finished the first season today, it's so interesting to see the parallels between merlin and uther. with all the daunting responsibility merlin carries at his young age, it could do him so good to learn from uther's best qualities; instead, he repeats his mistakes

psinka @soupyflapjack.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

BHAHAHAHHHAHHAH the NEXT second he replies "I'm glad" uther pendragon you're a lot of things but homophobic is not one of them

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psinka @soupyflapjack.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

the face of a man who's just questioned his son's servant's loyalty to him only to hear in response "you could say there's a bond between us"

The image is a screenshot from the TV show Merlin. It shows Uther Pendragon with an astounded and somewhat blank expression.

psinka @soupyflapjack.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

all my homies hate uther pendragon (because he is a well fleshed out character that was written to represent exactly the kinds of things we should denounce in real life)

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psinka @soupyflapjack.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

i remember staying up till 5-6 a.m. on weekdays, then waking up an hour later to go to college, taking my laptop with me to find an empty classroom and keep watching during free hours. tbh i WISH i wasn't 28 with a job now so i could do it again, im in bed and it's CALLING to me 💔

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psinka @soupyflapjack.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

man i did NOT remember how excruciatingly bisexual everyone in merlin bbc was

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psinka @soupyflapjack.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

im currently having a fever and trying to sleep but my brain just came up with "everyone and a french person" which i feel like is a banger, k bye gnight

psinka @soupyflapjack.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

unfortunately a single serving of grapes is however many grapes you bought, be safe out there

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psinka @soupyflapjack.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

update! the story did take a turn and does not, in fact, condone the traditionalist desire to turn back time

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also who knows, maybe the story takes a turn at some point? im nowhere close to the ending, so none of these conclusions are final

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anyway i think im done, i just found it really interesting, especially in context of the rise of...conservative views around the world. not trying to imply anything about the team's stance, but rather musing about how our surroundings can influence the way we think without us necessarily noticing it

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so yeah it must suck for the gods (the ruling class), but aren't we getting some clues in-game about mortalkind benefiting from this arrangement? sure, one tyranny for another if you think about it, so not great, but we're intentionally given the lens that obscures what else Chronos does

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we only see what Mel sees, and she sees the foes he sent to stop (or stall) her, including the dead city on the surface, the state of which she extrapolates on the rest of humanity, and the havoc on Olympus — from Chronos attempting to topple the gods' rule (some stories have heroes defeat gods btw)

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this is like a dictionary definition of a conservative, reactionary stance. but the game does good job making you root for Mel against Chronos, because we only know the things about him that play into that

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