i love paintings that look as if they have ghosts in them
Listen... I love how floppy and throwable Astarion is. I love that he has a whopping 8 strength. I adore that a particularly stiff breeze could send him far, far away, and you'd have to search the trees for half an hour to find where he went.
BUT I do headcanon that he has the strength benefits of vampirism like any other spawn. They're just kind of? Inaccessible unless he's VERY well fed and/or is in a situation he'd very desperately rather not be in.
Like a mom who summons the strength of 100 gorillas to lift a truck off of her child. He's scooping you up with one arm and leaping out of the way of danger like it's nothing. Or snapping a guy's neck like a twig when he ambushes the two of you one night. Or punching a hole through a rock wall and bending back metal bars as thick as your forearm to break your asses out of jail.
He'll also be just as surprised as you are when it happens. Every time it happens. And then once that wears off, he'll be ridiculously smug and giddy about if for the next ten-day AT LEAST.
Bro, you ok? Bro, humans arenāt separate from the ecosystems around us. Weāre a part of them, bro. Bro, weāre never going to have absolutely zero effect on ecosystems, because we live here, bro. Bro, I never said it had to be a bad effect. We donāt have to immediately be perfect either, bro, sometimes doing what you can is what you can, and its way better than nothing. Bro what do you mean humans are a plague. Youāre starting to sound a bit like an ecofascist, bro⦠Bro?
Fun fact: Iām autistic Iām gonna do a thing inspired by another person
oh and
glad that im not popular enough to have an evil shadow version of my blog that exists just to make contradictions on my posts
Starting to think a cooler headcanon for Clarkās upbringing might just be that the entire town of Smallville collectively decided to just go with it and accept that Martha and John's kid has superpowers, but we don't talk about it.
Someone's tractor gets stuck and nothing can get it out? "Be a dear and run down to the Kents, would you? Ask for Clark?"
"Why Clark, we need a machine--"
"Run along now."
Or if he kicks too hard and the football vanishes into the upper stratosphere, no it didn't, we all collectively saw it land over there *vague hand movements*
I genuinely think that any change in behavior starts w telling yourself that your worst days, worst performances, just worst moments in general arenāt who you ātruly are.ā Itās all about unlearning any thought process that essentially chalks up traits you arenāt proud of to āthis is who I really amā āin reality Iām lazyā āin reality Iām just a bad personā bc not only is that never true, but it impedes your efforts to try to do better as well. Anything we struggle with has roots in things like childhood trauma, thoughts youāve been fed before, your upbringingā¦. but never that youāre inherently a bad person. What Iām learning this year is that a lot of us doing better & being better & improving really comes down to self-talkāto disavowing the very notion that deep down weāre simply bad.
"There, and I will live to tell the tale, when I've found the day to bid farewell...!" -- Ringmasters, Notre Dame Medley
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