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is it just me or do you ever love the original main character/books so much that’s impossible to enjoy the spin off series because its not about your first true love

#Vampire Academy #The Fold of the Air #although I'm aware they're not the original ones from this world. #hard life of a fan

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he heard "grooming will" and his vision went white

#'Nobody gets to fuck with my baby but me!' #Hannibal (TV series) #01×07: Sorbet #Alana Bloom #Hannibal #Jack Crawford #Will Graham

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I ship this ship because:

I have eyes

I can see

I am the smartest person in the room

I receive divine revelations about them in the dead of night, alone in my chambers

#Gotta ship 'em all #Darklina

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Catch me on Ao3 promoting unsafe sex, huge age gaps, adultery, and blasphemy.

#hard life of a fan #Antis got me into non con and underage Darklina fics. #Those incesty READING tendencies were already there...

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#tweets & messages

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rules: answer + tag 9 people you want to get to know better and/or catch up with!

favorite colour: Green.

last song: Alestorm- Magyarország

last movie: There's Deep Rising (1998) on TV atm.

currently reading: The Slavic Myths by Noah Charney and Svetlana Slapšak and several more.

currently watching: Nothing, really.

currently craving: Almonds in salted caramel white chocolate, but they're very far away...

coffee or tea: Generally tea, although I've started drinking better coffee two years ago, esp. when tired.

Tagged by @t3acupz ta!

Since I hate tagging people, whoever wants to do this, just tag me to look.

#já a švábi #ask game

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I love your salty comments about Malware,and how out of place he's for the supposed time period the story takes place in. However,his bullshit would still get him in hot water even in a modern/modern analogue setting. Mouthing off to an authority figure like he did with Nikolai wouldn't be a risk of execution/corporal punishment,but it might make a huge stain in his professional record. His deserting the army would get him in trouble even if it was missing workdays with no reason in the most lax modern job ever - aka,fired and with a bad reputation. You made the high school jock comparison,but even they have to have a modicum of responsibility - training, performance,all the works.

Therefore, Malcontent isn't only a modern teenager. He's a privileged modern teenager.

Absolutely.

I wouldn't dare to act in work the way he casually does, especially towards his "betters". You can think whatever you want, but as you wrote- unless you possess very, VERY unique and/or coveted skill (or deep pocket), you're disposable. Fired, fined, sued... depending on specifics of the situation and your contract.

Even when you're sick, you have to at least let your employer know. And there's no guarantee they will wait for you with their arms open.

Funnily enough- Mal's supposed to be the lowest low. No family, contacts, no coin in his pocket... He comes from nothing, his only marketable skill is his tracking mojo, and while he might be faring well in the army, there's no mention of some kind of official recognition. No rise through the ranks, no decorations, no special assignments (He volunteered for the Stag mission, he wasn't picked for it.)...

He's only "special" through his connection to Alina and her insistence to keep dragging him along.

In his case, I wouldn't even call the lack of suitable consequences of his actions plot ARMOUR anymore...

#reply #Grishaverse #grishanalyticritical #Malyen Oretsev #anti Mal #anti Leigh Bardugo

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"The mercenary captains are either capable men or they are not; if they are, you cannot trust them, because they always aspire to their own greatness, either by oppressing you, who are their master, or others contrary to your intentions; but if the captain is not skilful, you are ruined in the usual way."

Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, translated by W.K. Marriott

#Niccolò Machiavelli #quotes #The Prince

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#cows #Did you mean Hannibal? #What if/AU/...

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Futamono Flower Meaning

So you're telling me that the very night after Will whore Graham sent someone to murder Hannibal simp Lecter, the man created this?!

#Hannibal (TV series) #02×06: Futamono #flowers #Murder Husbands #Hannibal #Lie down on this comfy sofa and tell us about your childhood... Wooof!

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Maybe if he was a little less fuckable we wouldn’t be in this mess

#hard life of a fan #AO3

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no matter how terrible my day is. i can always end my day in bed imagining fictional characters making out sloppy style and fucking raw. and that's beautiful. there's some good in this world mister frodo and it's worth fighting for

#hard life of a fan #FanFiction #Gotta ship 'em all

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#Hannibal (TV series) #season 1 #Behind the Scenes/stills #Hannibal cast #Hugh Dancy

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armory-rasa:

I can't speak on textiles broadly, but I know you can over-dye the wool from black sheep with blue dye (which, from woad, was a super common dye stuff in Europe all the way back to the Neolithic period) to get a richer black fabric. In viking-era Scandinavia this color was called "blar" -- a term that has caused academic fistfights among subsequent historians over whether it means blue or black -- and while it seems to have been a striking color for clothing (based on saga evidence), it doesn't seem to have been all that rare. Leather is even easier to dye black (despite the common misconception that black leather in a historical/fantasy setting would be impossible, or impossibly expensive). All you have to do is soak iron shavings in vinegar to get vinegaroon, which is not quite as intense as modern black dyes, but will look black once it's been waxed/oiled. In any case, there certainly are processes that can achieve a true black in leather and textiles even using pre-modern materials and technology, but whether people would have had local access to those materials (like the black merino sheep), or know how to do those processes (some of which are quite involved and counter-intuitive), is going to vary a lot by time/place.

icantbearsedtothinkofone:

I spin. I have never seen a naturally 'black' wool which is truly black. It's always more of a very deep brown and/or has some white hair in it. In sheep that are available in multiple colours, the darker wool is usually coarser than the lighter. Maybe you can sort and carefully select for only the darkest wool but that's a lot of effort and means you're using only a fraction of the wool. You can make it seem more black with iron (which also makes it feel harsher and if you use a lot of it, will make wool brittle - iron gall ink dries very black, but it's also corrosive) and overdyeing with dyes like woad (blue) and madder (red) can make it seem darker still, as if nothing else if you use a lot of them with iron they'll make the white bits go a very dark purple, BUT if you're going to bother doing all that, then why wouldn't you use those dyes and labour for nice brightly coloured things? And just like modern jeans, the colour would fade out with washing. Getting a really deep black and *keeping* it that way, on a *nice* wool fabric would be not just difficult and expensive in the first place but require constant maintenance. And if you're using plant fibres like linen? Hooboy black is hard.

kethsposy:

Also, as @motsimages said but didn't go into the implications of, black wool fades into shades of brown as it ages, especially if it's been in the sun a lot. So even if you're starting with black sheep, black clothing is either from newly made cloth and/or an indicator you don't work outside, just like with dyes. Although it would be easier to dye or redye naturally brown fiber black than to do so starting with lighter colors.

francesweyr:

I’ve read that sheep with colored fleece used to be more common, but large wool producers bred for white sheep because it was easier to dye. Kind of like breeding flavorless tomatoes that ship well. Thank goodness for small farms to keep the colors. I’ve got a big square shawl spun from a gray Shetland fleece. It’s very nice

relevant-catnik:

Exploring Historical Black Dyes Byt the 16th century, you see plenty of references to "Poor black" wool, which is a term for wool from black sheep vs dyed. Black is decently easy to achieve with leather, all you need is iron soaking in vinegar.

So I've seen conflicting stories about the colour black in history.

Some say it's very expensive and hard to maintain, so that's why rich merchants wore black. Evidence in portraits.

Some say that for dyes it's on the cheaper side actually.

Some say the expensive black doesn't come from dye but rather the colour of the animal, so black fabric comes from black fibre which comes from black sheep. How exactly would black sheep be more expensive than regular white sheep?

Which one is right? I know this is probably influenced by which century it's set in, like maybe some eras have an easier time getting black dye

I found a well-sourced blog post about this, luckily, because I'm a 19th-century focused researcher and I've heard conflicting things about black in earlier periods. It seems to be that high-quality black-dyed fabric was difficult to obtain in the west from the Middle Ages potentially through the 18th century because it required massive amounts of dye to get the color very deep ("true black"). Lesser black shades were quite common, though, so black, period, doesn't seem to be more expensive than any other color. Possibly the intensively dyed, deep blacks might have been? But not black in general.

source

Rich merchants did wear black- but so did other people. They just usually didn't have portraits.

The black sheep thing I've never heard before. And anyway, that could only apply to wool- not cotton, linen, silk, leather, etc.

#Those colours! #history #dies #black

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A medieval treatise on the use of Godzilla in siege warfare.

#art #history #Godzilla

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Can you help me to understand the tether between Alina and Aleksander? I've seen people say that it was formed when he collared her but if that's true then why not use it when she's on the run from him? I always thought that's why he got his nichevo'ya to wound her and why he thanked her, because it allowed that connection to form. Am I wrong here?

Okay, well, I'm still re-reading, but...

They're written as two halves of the same whole. They're supposed to be complimentary opposites, that's why Aleksander's waiting for the Sun Summoner instead of settling for just any immortal, why he believes they're meant to be even after encountering other immortals' different worldviews and Alina's refusal to accept her own greatness. She won't only live long, they're bound by the Making, so she's predisposed to ~understand~ (And there are moments, when she does. Only her upbringing, issues and moral police companions prevent her from embracing what's between them.).

The first clear sign of their interconnection's showed during Winter Fete, although from the wording, I've missed at least two earlier ones:

The moment his lips met mine, the connection between us opened and I felt his power flood through me. I could feel how much he wanted me—but behind that desire, I could feel something else, something that felt like anger. I drew back, startled. “You don’t want to be doing this.” “This is the only thing I want to be doing,” he growled, and I could hear the bitterness and desire all tangled up in his voice. “And you hate that,” I said with a sudden flash of comprehension. He sighed and leaned against me, brushing my hair back from my neck. “Maybe I do,” he murmured, his lips grazing my ear, my throat, my collarbone.

Shadow and Bone- Chapter 14

"... the connection between us ..." suggests it's something Alina figured out exists before this time, so she didn't experience it only once.

Then there's the Collar that gives Aleksander access to Alina's powers, although it's not exactly clear how it works.

I had spared the stag’s life. The power of that life belonged to me as surely as it belonged to the man who had taken it. ... The Darkling looked momentarily confused. He narrowed his eyes, and I felt his will descend on me again, felt that invisible hand grasping. I shrugged it off. It was nothing. He was nothing.

Shadow and Bone- Chapter 19

Like: Sorry honey, either the power belongs to you both, or you have the upper hand.

I would kill for Aleksander's LOGICAL explanation.

The nichevo'ya bite deepened the Bond, that's why Sasha did it. My guess is it might be something about merzost affecting the Making, therefore the connection formed by it, AND the tiny little detail the creatures might be created with use of said force, but from his own being. He's basically running around donating his body fluids essence to his closest "enemies"... *wink wink*

We don't know more than what he tells Alina, so perhaps he could feel her presence before that. Perhaps Alina's youth and inexperience played bigger part in her use of their connection, than we think. Perhaps her many issues did. (I hate repeating this phrase, but THE WASTED POTENTIAL!) Why tell your stubbornly uncooperating soulmate you have an in-build compass to help you track them, if they left a trail of more profane kind?

#reply #Grishaverse #Darklina #The Tether #The Darkling #Alina Starkov #grishanalyticritical #S&B Chapter 14 #S&B Chapter 19 #books #quotes #Leigh Bardugo #He's a bit of a spiritual whore. #You've crossed me? #I'll punish you with black goo from my own soul!

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Can you imagine tearing someone apart?

Hannibal 2.09 Shiizakana

Happy 10th anniversary of this episode!

#Hannibal (TV series) #02×09: Shiizakana #Hannibal #Will Graham #Randall Tier #MY KIND OF ROMANCE