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Please do not let debt collectors play in your face.

#info #queue

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“omg you’re so creative. how do you get your ideas” i hallucinate a single scene in the taco bell drive thru and then spend 13 months trying to write it

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Before I forget, here are a few things I think are worth discussing about Cradle that I haven't seen other posts about: Lindon and "reading between the lines" (in the first chapter, he misunderstands the full weight of what is being said. In later books, he understands people completely but willfully misinterprets them to his benefit. Most notably in Uncrowned and Wintersteel)

Akura Charity's emotions and stuff (she constantly is kept in the dark about things during Uncrowned and Wintersteel, and is jaded by the end of the series)

Icons that the characters could be close to (i.e. Mercy and the Bow Icon, Yerin and the Shield Icon (and Sword and Blood Icons), Ziel and the Script Icon (if it exists), etc.)

The labyrinth, lost history, the mechanics of madra combinations, the Sage of the Endless Sword, etc. (stuff that's been discussed in Discord and elsewhere in the fandom, but not on Tumblr)

#bump #I really should do these at some point

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"We have stared into the abyss and survived. I'm going to sleep"

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I've definitely posted this sentiment before BUT being the same age as your blorbos is so insane because Mr kaladin stormblessed is out here leading people into war and becoming a magical demigod figure but he's also never heard of college. never experienced the epic highs and lows of football or whatever. I'm also 20 and depressed but hey I'm getting me my degree and this bitch can't even read.

#I’m 24 an it’s surreal to be older than Kaladin #And to be frank I keep thinking of Lindon and Yerin’s ages at the end of Cradle like “would I feel weird in a convo with them” #as in I’d be constantly thinking about how they’re prodigies and are also younger if only by a few months #cradle runnerpost

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sorry i can't come in to work today. yeah sorry they killed me off last night. yeah i just wasn't relevant to the plot anymore. i should be in tomorrow but i'll let you know.

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when I see something dated 2019 I think “oh that’s not too long ago” and then I remember that 2019 was not only five years ago but those five years have somehow contained several lifetimes

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i've been seeing this around a lot lately as like a little memey jokey thing but "this is what they took from you" is a fascist meme.

"they" are jewish people/"the global elite"/"cultural marxists"/"globalists"/"the woke left" etc.

and it's basically the same as "RETVRN" like this is explicitly a fascist thing that fascists say about their fascist beliefs

please don't go around saying it

you can talk about capitalist enshittification without invoking fascism, and just because YOU mean something different doesn't mean it's not invoking those things it's explicitly meant to invoke

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people b saying things so definitively. like man i think it depends

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Me when my mutual and I are mutually reblogging and liking each others’ posts:

(me, smiling)

#let this post stand as a monument #that me and my mutual were online at the same time #and did a lot of reblogging and liking of each others’ posts (well each others’ reblogs of big posts) in real time

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More stories from hell (retail) today I was ringing up this lady and she goes oh I want to do part of this on a gift card and the rest on normal card and I go ok and then she hands me a folded piece of paper. I think oh OK it must be folded around the gift card, right? Wrong. It is a folded sheet of 8×11 printer paper with "$40" written on the inside in ballpoint pen. I go what is this. She says a gift card. I say this is not a gift card. She says yes it is. I say this is a piece of paper with "$40" written on it. She says "well it's a gift card." I say it absolutely is not. I am grinding my teeth. She says well I want to use it. I say you physically cannot do that bc it is a piece of paper. I cannot scan or swipe it. I apologize, as if this is my fault, and not because she is completely insane. I hate it here

#id

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“Lord Byron gets up at two. I get up, quite contrary to my usual custom … at 12. After breakfast we sit talking till six. From six to eight we gallop through the pine forest which divide Ravenna from the sea; we then come home and dine, and sit up gossiping till six in the morning. I don’t suppose this will kill me in a week or fortnight, but I shall not try it longer. Lord B.’s establishment consists, besides servants, of ten horses, eight enormous dogs, three monkeys, five cats, an eagle, a crow, and a falcon; and all these, except the horses, walk about the house, which every now and then resounds with their unarbitrated quarrels, as if they were the masters of it… . [P.S.] I find that my enumeration of the animals in this Circean Palace was defective … . I have just met on the grand staircase five peacocks, two guinea hens, and an Egyptian crane. I wonder who all these animals were before they were changed into these shapes.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley on the lifestyle of Lord Byron (via timemarauder)

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Uhhhh more Cradle posts possibly. Cradle ask game

So I have a serious work-avoidance and screen addiction problem, like 8-10 hours a day. I also have an undergraduate thesis to write. I can get a little bit of work done every day, and can get more done if I am kept accountable. I can also get more done if I get the ball rolling by doing some unrelated task.

With that in mind, here’s an ask game! It’ll give me a reason to convince myself to actually work on those Cradleposts that I said I would make a few months ago. Send one or more numbers or the questions verbatim, and add your input (i.e. send an ask that’s like “1, Ziel’s arc” or “1: Thoughts on a character arc in Cradle. I’d like to hear your thoughts on Ziel”). You could also just send the number/question with no input, and I’ll write about whatever I feel like.

Thoughts on a character arc in Cradle

Thoughts on a Path

Thoughts on a one-appearance character

Thoughts on any other character

What’s the last idle theory I had about Cradle (basically, just “Thoughts”)

Write a short canon-compliant fanfic (i.e. a battle Yerin had, or Gesha actually enjoying her time in the Blackflame Empire while the kids train)

Write a short fanfic, not canon-compliant (i.e. Lindon gets visited by Zakariel and not Suriel, or Yerin gets Solo Leveling system powers. It could be literally anything)

Draw a crappy fanart (please have low expectations lol, I don’t know how to draw and will also draw the whole thing in like 2 minutes)

Funny post (i.e. funny hypotheticals like “I wonder if Reigan Shen was any good at DDR” or funny observations like “Biggest Lindon L: he never made a totally epic launcher construct out of the Dreadgods. Huge loss”)

Short crackfic (basically the same as above, but narrated)

Hypothetical situation (i.e. how would the gang fare vs. Goku, what kind of pasta would Eithan cook, which member of the group would be best at video games, etc.)

Add an Image ID to Cradle art (I’ve been meaning to do that for all the ones I’ve seen but it’s so much easier to just scroll)

Just a reminder, send a number or the full question, and then add what you’d like for the question to be answered about! I’ll only spend a few minutes on any of these unless I lose track of time, since the point is to get me out of a scrolling rut and get to work on college stuff.

Does this actually work to get me on task? Kinda! It’s better than uninterrupted scrolling, which is my usual state.

Oh, and if you want to send these asks about Will Wight’s other work, I can also answer those. I’ve read all his other stuff too.

#bump #ask game

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I wanna see more Cradle posts, but that means I must make more Cradle posts…the dilemma.

The above is Lindon when talking about points or loot (he loves the process of fighting and Soulsmithing slightly less than the end result)

And uhhhh Mercy when talking about making the Akura family better (in Reaper she got really tired of work really fast (cause she was alone and overworked and possibly even asked to perpetuate the very problems she wanted to fix) and had to recharge with the gang)

And uhhhhh Larian about loot. Actually forget the first two characters, this post is now about Larian the “has fun with it” Sage.

#cradle series #madraposting

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I fucking hate the fear mongering over commercial dog foods, as a client I was in with today took that fear mongering to its (il)logical conclusion and was feeding their dog white rice, peas, sweet potato and boiled chicken or ground beef. I asked if the dog was also getting any regular dog food.

"Oh, no, there's things in that. It's bad for them."

This dog has unintentionally lost 3 pounds, 15% of its body weight, in 3 months. The owner looked shocked/confused when I said that the food was not nutritionally balanced and was missing many vital nutrients. I asked where the dog's source of calcium was and that's when it seemed to sink in.

Told the owner that if they really are determined to go the home cooked route that they MUST consult with a veterinary nutritionist, but that dog food is not going to hurt her dog. My dog is 13 and on dog food, albeit a prescription limited ingredient one. My cats made it to 19, 18 and 16 on Science Diet.

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whenever i'm trying to talk myself out of buying something i don't need i always hear my old russian professor's voice echoing in my head: "WHAT??? WILL YOU DIE THE RICHEST MAN IN THE GRAVEYARD?" and then i make an unwise financial decision

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I got these coasters to give for Christmas! I forgot to mail them though, this post reminded me to.

The Dragonsteel booth! Most of everything there was too expensive. I was gonna buy a Bridge 4 backback but it was $45. I did get these cute coasters though:

#dragonsteel #fandom runnerpost