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They call me Lo! He/She/They/It pronouns. Magnus Archives, Junoverse, Critical Role blog that will occasionally babble nonsense.

something something jon buying the axe that later tim uses in the unknowing something something both of them dying there something something burying the hatchet, you know? you know

Juno In What Lies Beyond: [Does his internal monologue brooding™]

The entity that follows him around with an electric guitar that only knows how to play the Hyperion City riff who just had to wait 8 episodes for Juno's POV to come back so he could do his thing: [Just goes fucking apeshit]

I've been reading facts on Wikipedia again, and i'm overcome with the need to terrify non-Americans with the most underrated Terrifying American Thing: TORNADOES

Due to a quirk of mountain and ocean placement, the east-central United States has a higher number of tornadoes (particularly exceptionally strong tornadoes) than any other place on Earth.

And they're so fucking scary oh my God

Reasons tornadoes are So Fucking Scary:

  • they can form really suddenly and move really fast, so you have like a few minutes of warning when one happens
  • their behavior is arbitrary and unpredictable. They can obliterate your house and leave your neighbor's house untouched
  • the most powerful tornadoes are so strong that it's nearly impossible to even measure them because measuring equipment is straight up obliterated in those conditions, but they've been known to exceed 480 km/h wind speeds.
  • please just read this wiki article it's the scariest fucking thing ever
  • like with F5 tornadoes you'll see a lot of stuff about trucks, SUVs, furniture, appliances from homes like refrigerators etc being "lost/missing" and you may think to yourself "how does something that large just get 'lost' surely there's a better description of what happened"
  • and well. the above article does provide the 'better' description. And it's "granulated."
  • As in, "debris from many of the obliterated homes was finely granulated."

As a born and bred Alabamian, reading this is very funny when you're so desensitized to them that when you're woken up at 3 am by the sirens theres a very good chance you'll be like "if its my time its my time" and go right tf back to sleep

I mean I've been there but I contain multitudes okay

Tornados can put a 4x4 through concrete but also that siren going off right when my muffins come out of the oven is annoyingly inconvenient…

The big difference between hurricanes and tornadoes is that hurricanes are more… generalized. If you’re anywhere near it, you’re gonna feel it. Tornadoes on the other hand are extremely specific. They can destroy all your neighbor’s worldly possessions without disturbing your plastic lawn flamingos if they so choose. After a certain point you just end up with a “if it’s gonna hit me, it’s gonna hit me” kind of attitude. It’s less a “don’t care” attitude and more a “not much I can do about it” attitude.

I’m happy to make this all the more terrifyingly American by sharing my experience working retail while there were actively tornado sirens blaring outside and our managers literally informed us that we Should be locking our doors and sheltering, but instead we kept operating as usual. Personally I hid in the fitting room I was cleaning (center of the building) but we still had customers coming in like “wow! Really windy out there!” as if nothing was wrong. Thank god it ended up being a false alarm.

I love listening to Mechanisms songs and hearing the little details in the instruments.

Like in Torn Suits, you can hear the instruments representing each of the suits go out of tune before they stop playing as each suit dies.

Or in Odin with how the opening chords feel like a train starting to move.

And how the base line of Losing Track feels like the wheels of a train on the tracks.

Just all those little details make these albums worth listening to again and again.