Anyway if Domination only showed up on Azeroth with the Lich King and is used only in reference to maw creations that means that Darion was most likely the first proper mortal to harness it in such a massive way other than maybe Kel’thuzad and that’s wild for like a forgotten side character lmao.
@fairshaw the fact that warcraft lore has retconned darion into like, the first person who isn’t the jailer/mawsworn (which is where i’d but kel’thuzad bc he was ostensibly knowingly working for him/learning from him) to master ‘domination’ magic, but also this fact has zero bearing on the plot other than like One (1) singular quest in the intro to the expansion and a legendary questchain back in wrath is honestly 100% the funniest thing ever
darion couldve made the maw his bitch by now but instead he’s circling oribos like a dog with cabin fever because the writing team didnt realize what they actually wrote
@fairshaw i will be honest there was about a week long period, from when i left darion behind in the maw to when i finally had the time to go back and get him, where i expected to find him running around the maw making trouble and breaking shit and being all ‘i’m not trapped in here with you, you’re trapped in here with me’…and then i got to the maw and found him just like, sitting in a cage, and remembered that this is a blizzard game and i was Foolish to think that darion’s years long progression into a terrifying undying master of necromancy and death magic would pay off in any other way than hollering about his father and then standing in a corner to lurk while other people do stuff about things he’s an expert on
In highschool I wrote a story about a middle-generation of stellar travelers. Their parents were born on earth and left as children, and the middle generation will not live long enough to see their destination. They live their entire lives on the ship and I wrote about them trying to find their place in everything. They will never know blue skies and warm beaches and open fields with warm breezes. They’ll never know birdsong or crickets or frogs. They’ll never hear the rain on the roof of a dreary day. I never could find the right way to end the story. I wanted it to be a happy ending, but I didn’t know how to do it.
I realize now that it was a book about me dealing with depression before I even knew it. Looking back at how blatant the projecting was, it’s obvious now. It wasn’t then.
In the story, the middle-generation people are lost. They’re apathetic. They’re just a placeholder. The only job they have is to keep the ship running, have kids, and die. As the middle generation of people began becoming adults, suicide rates were skyrocketing. Crime and drug rates were jumping. This generation was completely apathetic because they felt that they had no use.
In the story, a small group of people in the middle-generation create the Weather Project. They turn the ship into a terrarium. They make magnificent gardens and take the DNA of animals they took with them and recreate them and they make this cold, metal spaceship that they have to live their entire lives on into a home. They take what little they have and they break it and rearrange it into something beautiful. They take this radical idea and turn the ship into a wonderful jungle of trees and birds and sunshine.
And I realize now how much it reflects my state of mind as I transitioned from a child into an adult while dealing with depression. You always hear “it gets better” and “when you’re older things will be easier” and I was so sick of waiting for it to get better. I was in the middle-generation stage. And I was sick of it. I was so sick of waiting.
When I was in highschool I didn’t know how to end the story. I didn’t know how to have a happy ending. I didn’t have the life experience then to finish the story in a meaningful way. I didn’t know how to make it better for these middle-generation characters.
But now that I’m older, I’m learning. That if you sit and wait for things to get better, it never will. You have to take your life and break it apart and rearrange it into something beautiful. You have to make the cold metal ship into the garden that you deserve. You have to make your own meaning. You have to plant your own garden.
You have to teach yourself that being happy is not a radical idea.
God you guys I never thought this would become so popular 😱 I was gonna name it The Weather Project after the art installment that inspired it
By Olafur Eliasson
This is the most important post that I’ve ever made. Its for screaming out with every fiber of your being that you’re worth something. You’re worth everything.
