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The Nate Zone

@thenatezone / thenatezone.tumblr.com

30s, bi, he/him. Comics, old movies & music, some sports, and the rest is all Dropout and Critical Role thoughts.

I've been thinking about how shocked Trent was to discover Essek was leading the Kryn raid on Zadash (also a major deviation from the campaign I think?)

Like the last shot of him in season one is just mouth agape in disbelief that Essek turned on him, and not just because he had been underestimating Essek (which he was of course. Underestimating anyone who isn't him is one of Trent's favorite pastimes).

It was a good reinforcement of how narcissistic this old man is. For all his reputation as a master manipulator, he truly didn't realize he had been making an enemy out of Essek with his behavior when they were together because he's not capable of seeing other people as anything but potential pawns. That works at the Dwendallian court because his peers are all narcissistic sociopaths so he can understand how they think and what they value.

But people with moral compasses or professional ethics (which Essek has, even if he makes bad choices)? He can only guess what they care about, and with Essek he was wrong. It just does not compute.

He's thinking "We got away with it and we were making progress. We had so much power at our fingertips. How could you be so stupid?"

And he's never going to realize he was the stupid one. Good shit.

the two genders are “i no longer wish to be perceived” and “i have to be the most fuckable person at the grocery store”

2026 would be a great year for us to find out that the ancient pagans were right and the earth is just a beehive about to be smushed and eaten up by a giant bear or something along those lines. And then it could go ahead and happen.

the thing about tumblr is that I'm so entrenched here that they can make stupid ugly updates to the site all they want. I'll just sign in and go "ugh fine, I'll work around it" and then continue to post things I wouldn't even tell a therapist.

The Bisexual flag is officially 25 years old today 🥳 💗💜💙 (December 5th, 2023)

happy birthday to this gorgeous flag!! remember that bisexuality has never excluded trans and nonbinary people and has never had any restrictions on preferences to genders :))

when it’s really bad again and it’s still way better than it used to be but it’s still really bad. and you do all the right stuff and you try and try and it still really hurts but it’s working but it still hurts and you go see the beautiful majesty of nature and your soul is so close to being at peace but your mind is still in pain. and it’s better but it’s still bad. and the sun is setting.

bad news for chocolate lovers: amid massive corporate downsizing, Lindt has had to euthanize 2,000 of its handsome european chocolate chefs . an additional 1,300 will be thrown out in the cold with nothing but their stupid Fucking whisks

Sorry I wanted to flip the script but the best I could manage this year was to flap the scrap. Not ideal but at least I didn't scrape the flape.

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