#and they're of research facilities not power plants

[buttons-beads-lace]

I kinda buried this at the bottom of a long post last time so let's give it its own space. One thing about the nuclear plant in Burrow's End that is 100% legit and real is the blue glow:

This is an effect that happens when certain types of particles released by the radioactive materials in the core, hit the water around the core at a very high speed. It's called Cherenkov radiation and you can read more about it on Wikipedia but like. Isn't it stunning?

#burrow's end #dimension 20 #these photos are all from wikipedia #and they're of research facilities not power plants #because at a power plant this part would normally be sealed up in a pressure tank and you wouldn't be able to see it #but this is what it looks like in there!

[froot-batty]

next batch of designs are done! gotham city sirens time >:) blurbs about them under the cut, along with explanations of flags and neurodivergencies!

Pamela Isley came from a rural flower farm a long ways from Gotham. Her parents let her run wild from a very young age, and one of her favorite places on their property to go was the pond, deep in the woods, where everything grew just a bit too tall and nothing looked quite as it should've. Pamela didn't know that this pond was actually highly polluted by the dumping of experimental chemicals from a nearby "research" laboratory. She thought being able to communicate with the plants - the Green, she called it - was completely normal.

...Until the people from that laboratory heard about the mysterious girl helping the plants grow stranger. They came to Pamela's parents to ask if it would be possible to study it, and they, not realizing what exactly that meant, agreed. They whisked it away to a facility in Gotham, where Pamela would end up never seeing it's parents again.

She was kept there for the rest of her childhood and into her adulthood, being experimented on until she twisted into the plant beast that she is today. When she escaped, it came after years of hiding the true strength of her powers, so she could build them up enough to turn the facility to rubble.

(It is AroAce, Agender, and Intersex)

Harleen Quinzel always had trouble controlling her impulses. Coming from a very wealthy, very upper-crust family, any step out of line was harshly corrected by either of her parents. As a child she didn't know any better, but after years and years of repression coming from her family, she eventually clammed up and tried to fit into their perfect little mold. This included going to medical school, though she did at least get to pick something she was genuinely passionate about - psychology.

Harley was finally living on their own by the time they started working at Arkham, though they'd not yet broken out of that mental control their parents still had over them. Being in Arkham was like being on an alien planet. They had come from a world where everyone was fake, and Arkham seemed so...real. Talking with their patients opened their mind up even further. Even if what they did was violent, or utterly nonsensical to everyone else, insanity seemed like it was a sort of freedom that Harley never had.

This was compounded by it meeting the Joker. He saw that piece of it that wanted, desperately, to get free, and through their sessions he was able to get into it's head and...push it over the edge, so to speak.

(Harley and the Joker are not explicitly romantically involved in this, I should mention. They've got a weird queerplatonic thing going on. Also they're not toxic they're BFFs forever)

(They are Pansexual, Genderfluid, and have ADHD and Borderline Personality Disorder)

Selina Kyle grew up like an alley cat on the streets of Gotham. With two addict parents in the Narrows who cared very little about her, she was virtually homeless, with how little time she spent at home and how much she spent wandering the dangerous streets. It was in the Narrows that she met one of her closest childhood friends, Harvey Dent, and through him, the elusive Bruce Wayne.

The three of them were thick as thieves all through her childhood, though began to drift away when college time came around. Bruce had up and left the moment he turned 18 without any real warning to the two of them, and Harvey was off to college to try and become a lawyer. This left Selina all alone, once again.

But she had made a pact to herself. She didn't want to live on the streets of Gotham forever. She had started pickpocketing from a very young age, so she would just expand her skills - become Gotham's cat burglar. It started out as only a way to pay her bills, but she found she grew addicted to the feeling of it; the freedom of being able to slip into wherever she wanted and make some poor, rich fool a million dollars short. It was a sort of revenge for her (and the regular cash flow didn't hurt).

She was surprised when Bruce came back to Gotham and tried to reconnect with her. They hadn't talked in over a decade, but they found themselves reconnecting with surprising ease. Their close friendship would drive Harvey mad with jealousy, but neither of them realized that until it was too late.

The scar on her face is from Harvey's attempt on her life, after he became Two-Face.

(She is a Lesbian)

#SORRY THE BLURBS ARE SO FUCKIGN LONG #i debated putting them in separate posts but eh. im too lazy. just putting them here #frootverse #rogues gallery #pamela isley #poison ivy #harley quinn #selina kyle #catwoman #gotham city sirens #batman #my art #rogue design

[hmshermitcraft]

more hurt/comfort, this time polyhermits + a few others and research subject au. i continue my several years long tradition of being The Longpost Anon in whichever fandom i am in.

some of the hermits (zedaph, etho, impulse, xisuma, hypno, keralis, iskall, stress, beef, pixlriffs, lyarrah and TFC) are working at a research lab that has its own server. (there's a bunch of other staff too) the main focus of their research is the new species they're finding through various portals, which is like 33% biology 33% ethology and 33% anthropology because sometimes through the portals is a sapient species.

false and gem are security

cub and scar are high-ranking concorp executives who fund the place.

joe's a member of a poet's club and also a technician who mostly does fixing up arcade machines but occasionally gets called in to fix stuff in the lab

grian, pearl, scott, jimmy, welsknight, bdubs, ren, martyn, tango, jevin, doc, xb, cleo, joel, lizzie, and sloy are various kidnapped or otherwise entrapped nonhumans stuck in a different research facility with terrible conditions.

grian, pearl, and jimmy are the newest ones in - grian and pearl are watchers, and jimmy is a listener.

tango's a blaze-person (a firey techno-organic construct from the nether), joel is a hippogriff, scott's basically a living waystone, ren is a wolfman, xb's a guardian guy, cleo and sloy are obviously zombies, welsknight is a humanoid bird missing part of one wing, martyn is a pufferfish-person, bdubs is just a regular architect who found a plant symbiote, lizzie is a catwoman, doc is a creeper-guy with a little snow creeper in him, and jevin is obviously a slime.

the unethical lab has various ways of preventing escape attempts, mostly regular restraints and stuff but bdubs is kept chronically dehydrated and soil-deprived so he can't spread his plants around and control them to escape, scott isn't fed enough to safely use his energy-draining teleportation powers unless they're needed for the lab (whereupon he's forced to use them), joel jimmy and pearl have their wings clipped (grian is flightless anyways), cleo and sloy have healing potion dispensers set up around their cell, tango's hooked up to a generator and is powering a lot of the lab, and the watchers and jimmy are kept collared and shackled to dampen their powers and keep them from messing with their emotions.

unethical lab isn't sure how to get watchers or listeners to eat in captivity and is pretty sure their claims the collars are interfering are bunk

joe gets called in to fix something in the unethical lab, sees some of the terrible conditions, and goes to tell the hermits lab and also concorp. they manage to get everyone out of the unethical lab and into the hermits' lab.

they figure the rescued people would just stay for a few days or weeks while healing and having some low-pressure research conducted like "sunscreen for zombies: what's the most effective kind" and "what's going on medically with bdubs' plant symbiote, he's a little worried about that let's check" and "watcher and listener feeding behaviour, just, in general" and "since scott is teleporting around cautiously again, how does that work". except then some of them won't leave and the ones that do leave keep coming back.

doc ends up working with iskall (who is Extremely Old in an immortal kind of way) to make a prosthetic eye and arm for himself, cleo hits it off with TFC talking about geology and joe in a sparring match, bdubs doesn't want to go back to renting and starts building a house Immediately Outside the lab and planting a very large amount of plants and mushrooms, grian is actually interested in being studied and is outright offended the unethical lab was so bad at it, scott's trying to teach everyone to cook, tango's determined to learn redstone, etc

this quickly turns into just about all of the rescued people being either live-in research subjects, employees, or both. there is a small amount of very awkward flirting and an increasingly out-of-control prank war, but very little of the flirting is going anywhere. watcher and birdperson flirtatious display looks really similar to threat displays especially when they're really nervous, none of the scientists want to pressure the rescued research subjects, there is cross-species and cross-cultural confusion, lizzie's attempt to flirt with scott in the ancient catperson tradition of cooking them fancy food is foiled by a. everyone is feeding scott anyway and b. scott doesnt swing that way, etc

some of them have gone a little weird - joel spends a month wearing a hippo mask and insisting his name is griff, lizzie keeps wearing a mask of a person's face and claiming to be human to any visitors, grian has become a hoarder, rendog got a paper crown and started calling himself king, and welsknight got extremely into metallurgy and wearing armour all the time

they end up having to hire a new technician, mumbo, because it turns out watchers and listeners can take a humanoid form and grian keeps using this for getting into the walls and making the jankiest redstone ever with jukeboxes in the walls.

aaaand then grian comes up with the idea to defuse the prank war into "we larp a war on the weekends". disstracks are made. welsknight, pearl, grian, and jimmy are all subconsciously reading "friendly disstrack" as "flirting?" and somehow this is what causes the actual communication about relationship status etc to occur. the larp war. not bdubs growing flowers and struggling to conceal when they bloom (a lot harder to conceal than some other signs of arousal), not wels or the watchers displaying their wing patterning at people, not scott's insistence on making sure everyone knows how to cook, not scar showing up shirtless for no reason or doc deciding to wear 3/4s of a labcoat and no other shirt when his job doesn't actually need a labcoat at all, the larp war.

(bonus worldbuilding notes: bdubs' plants can link into the fungal-and-plant-root network to communicate with and control regular plants, as well as providing him a supply of sugars, vitamins, and oxygen in exchange for water, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen compounds his body wants to dispose of anyways; watcher and listener humanoid form is actually a feeding adaptation to make it easier to stir up strong emotions; doc's snow-creeper ancestry means he can't explode; listeners have venomous spikes like pufferfish-people and he and martyn are immune to each others venom)

It's not the outcome they expected when they planned to shut down the lab. They went about it the legal route, eventually, but they may have been a little illegal about how they rescued the subjects.

There wasn't much to shut down in the end.

Some of the subjects were already dating each other upon being rescued. Being in close captivity can do that, so the freedom to explore their relationships was nice.

Initially, all the staff that dealt directly with the subjects got trauma response training. It was an important part of rehabilitation, making sure the subjects were comfortable returning to their normal lives. Then they refused to only interact with the staff they were supposed, so now all of them are hands on staff. The amount of times Scott nearly caused an accident by watching people from dark corners or high ledges fills several pages.

A lot of the non-humans and hybrids are happy to help with the research once they're further along their recovery. Many of them didn't have a community to grow up in, so there's a lot they don't know about themselves. Sometimes they're even the ones who propose hypotheses to explore.

They're also a great asset in introducing new people to the lab. People are often scared and unsure coming in. Seeing people like them, being reassured and being able to ask questions helps a lot. Jimmy is particularly good at it, xB as well, but he's less of a people person. He's calmed his far share of rampages regardless.

They make sure their relationships don't interfere with their work as best as they can. After all, funding is still sort of important. With the variety of species here (many not even documented anywhere else) and amount of results they can produce, they're sitting pretty, though. They can mess around and have fun. Hey, dating even lets them document some new things!

#hermitshipping #trafficshipping #ask #grian tag #docm77 tag #jimmy tag #scott tag #joe tag #bdoubleo tag #martyn tag #polyhermits+ #i can't list them all man. im too weak. #polyhermits [new game +] lmao #mod 🎀 #blood tw #dehumanisation tw #experimentation tw #wing clipping tw #injury tw #long post

[nervosims]

Gryps Hilago Ruleset

Osiyo! Welcome to Gryps Hilago. This BACC isn't necessarily starting from scratch, per see. Moreso, the families have lived on the land for quite some time (and have stubbornly refused to leave). The 'founder' is just the one sim with initiative to transform the ghost town into something nicer.

This is an Esotheria stan account, so I'm pretty much abiding by those rules (with some alterations).

RESTRICTIONS

- No electronics. So things like TVs, stereos, computers, electr-... you get the idea. Period appropriate 'hidden' appliances are a-okay, however (within reason, of course). Things that feel too cheaty will probably get ignored (so hidden TVs are a no-go).

- No running water. Sims can take baths, shower, the whole lot... but they won't have the luxury of plumbing. With mods like Fetch Water and Water Require for Bathing, this is pretty easy to manage.

- No cars... except horses. Horses are a-okay. New families'll need to raise and train the horse (with the help of Barnyard Bash). However, it makes sense for my founders to already have horses, right?

- No delivery services

- No services

- No fertilising. Dude... I'm totally not gonna stick to this.

- No community lots (at the start). I do have some parks, mining outposts, etc. but they're more for lore than actual use. So they're more like places to grab water and materials for crafting. They don't earn me CAS points... but they're so pretty :)

- No businesses that sell stuff you can't craft/catch/grow (remember, no deliveries!).

- No hobby lots.

- No townies

FOUNDER

Only the politics career is available and it's only available for the founder. Our founder is the de-facto mayor, and every promotion means better stuff for the town

- (Lvl 3) Lobbyist: Befriend a sim who has the Mechanical skill maxed out to gain access to electricity & running water. I think, lore-wise, they should have some sort of power generated. Like a power plant. I'll expand on this a bit more later.

- (Lvl 4) Campaign Manager: Befriend a sim who is the owner of a business to unlock community lots & townies.

- (Lvl 6) State Assembly Person: Politics is now unlocked to everyone (but only one sim can be Mayor at any given time)

- (Lvl 8) Judge: Befriend a sim who is highest in the Law Enforcement career to unlock the Law career. - (Lvl 10) Mayor: Downtown unlocked.

UNLOCKING the CAREERS

- ATHLETIC: Add connection to Downtown and build a stadium with town funds ($50,000) - MILITARY: Add connection to Downtown and build a Military Base with town funds ($50,000). Only one Sim can be General at any given time. - BUSINESS: Once one of your Sims’s businesses reaches top rank, they can enter the career. When they reach the top of the career, it is unlocked for everyone. - SCIENCE: The career is open to any Sim with maxed out logic skill and a golden talent badge in Robotics. Once they reach the top of the career, they build a research facility with town funds ($50,000) and the career is unlocked for everyone with a University degree in Physics. - CRIMINAL: When the population reaches 100, a place in the Criminal career opens up. Once the top of the career is reached, it is unlocked for everyone, but only one Sim can be Evil Mastermind at any given time. - SLACKER: Once the population reaches a multiple of 500, a position in the career opens up. The career is unlocked to everyone when a connection to Downtown is added. - CULINARY: the Sim entering the career has to open a restaurant business. It does not have to reach a particular rank, but needs to be played at least one day a week. Once they reach the top of the career they can start hiring personnel, and the career is unlocked for everyone. - LAW ENFORCEMENT: A position opens when the town has had its first burglary. Once the Sim has reached the top of the career, they build a Police Station with town funds ($30,000), and start recruiting more law enforcers, unlocking the career for everyone. Burglar alarms are unlocked. Only one Sim can be Captain Hero at any given time. - MEDICINE: When one of your Sims has fallen ill, and has passed on their disease to at least 2 other sims, a position opens to one Sim who has studied Physiology. Once they reach the top of the career, they build a Hospital with town funds ($70,000), unlocking the career for everyone with a University diploma in Biology.

EP CAREERS: - EDUCATION: A position opens up once the first child in your town reaches childhood. Once the town’s teacher reaches the top of the career, they build a school with town funds ($20,000), and the career is unlocked for everyone with any University degree. - ARCHITECTURE: Unlocked when a connection to Downtown has been established. - SHOW BUSINESS: Unlocked when a connection to Downtown has been established - ADVENTURE: Unlocked when the founder builds a museum community lot ($30,000). Once the top of the career is reached, it’s unlocked for everyone. - GAMER: career unlocked to every sim who owns a computer, tv, console and arcade game, after Electricity has been added. - INTELLIGENCE: Unlocked once the top of the Law Enforcement and Military career have been reached, but is only open to Sims who graduated college with a GPA of 4.0 - OCEANOGRAPHY: open to any Sim with a golden fishing talent badge. Once the first Sim reaches the top of the career, it is unlocked for everyone with a University degree in Biology. - DANCE, ENTERTAINMENT: Unlocked when the founder builds a cultural center ($50,000) - JOURNALISM: Unlocked when a connection to Downtown has been established. A position opens up everytime there have been 5 burglaries where items have actually been stolen (burglaries interrupted by the burglary alarm do not count), 5 Sim-Instigated fires where an object actually burned down (fires put out by the fire department do not count), or a Sim reaches the top of any career. - LAW: A position opens up every time a Sim gets furious at someone. To enter the career this way, a Sim needs to have studied Couples Counselling. The career is unlocked for everyone with a University degree in Political Science once the Founder has fulfilled his requirements as a Judge. - MUSIC: Unlocked to everyone when at least 3 instruments have been placed on a community lot. - ARTIST: Unlocked when a connection to Downtown has been established. The career is open to any sim who has sold at least 5 masterpieces. - PARANORMAL:  A position opens when the town builds a cemetery and 5 graves have been sent to it. Additional positions open whenever a Sim is turned into a creature (vampire, werewolf, witch, zombie) or an alien is born. - NATURAL SCIENCE: The career is open for any Sim with a golden gardening talent badge and a University degree in Biology.

EARNING HOOD ADDITIONS

Community Lots: When the founder is promoted to Lvl 4. Either a playable sims buys a lot, or the town funds are used for the new business. Not only that, but you earn 1 CAS Sim (how cool). You can make these sims whenever, there's truly no rush.

Downtown: Once at Lvl 10, the founder unlocks access to the Downtown region via railway (it's the Old West... it's definitely the railway). Hobby lots are also accessible. Of course, it comes at a cost ($500,000) but look on the bright side! We get 5 CAS sims.

University: Unlocked when your town’s teacher reaches the top of the Education career. They have gathered enough renown and connections to set up their own campus of Sim State University. The Mayor will be required to fund the start of the construction, costing the town $500,000 The establishing of a new campus naturally draws new students to the area. You earn 5 CAS Sims.

Shopping District: Unlocked when your town has 5 player owned businesses of any rank, and the Business Career is unlocked. The Mayor will be required to fund the acquisition and conversion of the new stretch of land, costing the town $1,000,000 More businesses means more job openings, and your town attracts Sims looking for work. You earn 10 CAS sims.

TAXES

I've never played with taxes, so I'm playing with them from the start. Taxes will all go to Sheriff Qaletaqa Brokejaw. I imagine she's an incredibly trusted member of Gryps Hilago, and she's storing it for community use sometime in the future. She'll hold onto the taxes until our founder becomes The Mayor (I imagine this is when she finally begins to trust Ayizan... she's a hard lady to impress).

Taxes are paid on the first day with Money Order, and are stored away using Rainy Day Savings. Donations are also accepted, and will be added to the tax pool.

Households are divided into tiers based on their total funds (check from neighborhood screen): Upper Class (net worth $150,000+) Middle Class (net worth $70,000-$150,000) Lower Class (net worth $30,000-$70,000) Poverty (net worth below $30,000)

Each tier earnsEach tier earns the city tax per week based on the number of sims in that household: Upper Class: $1,000/Sim Middle Class: $500/Sim Lower Class: $250/Sim Poverty: $100/Sim

SIM MULTIPLIER

The SM is just a number that you will multiply your number of playable Sims by in order to get the city’s population. The goal of this challenge is create a city with a population of at least 50,000.

At the start of the challenge, the SM is 1. As you progress and unlock certain additions for your neighborhood you’ll increase your SM. Points for your SM are added as follows: +1 for your first community lot +1 when you reach a total of 5 community lots +1 for every additional 5 community lots +5 for adding a Downtown +5 for each Business District +5 for each University -From now on when population is mentioned, it simply means your total number of playable Sims multiplied by your SM.

EXTRAS

Electricity and Running Water: PersimmonSimmer has a really cool rule for getting running water/electricity. A power plant must be built for sims to be able to use electricity. This plant will cost $75,000 and can be purely decorative. Same for a Water Treatment Plant ($75,000) that unlocks running water.

Phones: For phones, both mobile and landline, there should be some sort of structure for them, right? So phone towers are $75,000 as well... No I don't hate my self :).

LINKS:

- Esotheria's BACC Rules

- Nepheris’ BACC Rules

- PersimmonSimmer's BACC Rules

- Olivethegreat’s BACC rule additions - MCC Rules - Redmond-flats BACC rule changes, additions and tweaks

MODS: - ACR V2   - Visitor Controller - iCad’s Aging Mod + Kidsimblr ACR fertility tweak for iCad’s Aging mod + Chris Hatch’s Neighborhood Age Correct - Invisible Fishing Pond - Gain hygiene from Hot tubs - Cyjon’s Job Stopinator - Simlogical School System

DOCS & REFERENCES:DOCS & REFERENCES: - Excel spreadsheet for Nepheris’ BACC - Taxes spreadsheet for MCC (long post by Eumachia) - Mortia’s Medieval Game Setup Guide (contains tons of awesome tips & links!)

#hilago.txt #long post

[ormspryde]

Some short character profiles I did for the cyberpunk Vesperia AU I'm outlining right now:

Patty: An experimental mech pilot who escaped from the science district with her mech.  With no memory of the time before the experiments inflicted on her, she uses her wits and her machine to survive in the harsh landscape outside the dome.  Occasionally she experiences thoughts and memories that don't seem to be her own...

Damuron/Schwann/Raven: A system created by the trauma of being brought back from the dead after the Great War.  Schwann tends to be in front while they're in Imperial Megacity, and Raven while they're in Dahngrest; Damuron rarely comes out at all.  They have a lot of responsibilities in either town, but now and again they either manage to relax or someone makes them - usually that someone is either Yeager or Whitehorse.

Yuri Lowell: An adrenaline junkie who rides his bike for kicks and to drive the dragoons crazy.  He was once part of that institution and got some decent implants out of the deal, but he left when he realized they weren't going to let him do jack for the undercity.  He gets by doing odd delivery jobs and selling vaporthorn.  He feels stifled living where he does, but he also doesn't feel like he can leave.

Rita: An orphaned ward of the state, Rita works as an independent government researcher in the science district.  Her primary interests are nanobots and aer, with a side interest in the field of cybernetics.  In her very sparse downtime, she either relaxes in cyberspace or reads one of the hardcopy books she keeps in her quarters.

Estellise: An experimental AI housed in the security wing of the dragoons' district, Estellise knows little of the outside world other than the sparse digital library she has access to.  Her only real social contacts are in cyberspace and with the scientists who run experiments on her.  She has an advanced android body she can upload herself, but she's rarely allowed to.

Repede: Repede is a cyberdog with enhanced reflexes, senses, intelligence, and fighting ability.  He's bonded with Yuri, who stole him when he left the dragoons.  Repede is picky about people, but is more disdainful than usual about both Estelle and Yeager.

Judith: Judith travels widely with her friend ba'ul, when she can.  She maintains ties to the hidden city of Myorzo, where she grew up, but she rarely visits so as not to draw the attention of the Empire to it.  Inside the megacities, she has to rely on more mundane transport; if Ba'ul is captured, it means a fate worse than death for him.  She knows Duke, and occasionally helps him out.

Karol: 'Adopted' in turn by a number of street gangs in Dahngrest, Karol has a variety of skills, including some less-than-legal talents such as hacking and lockpicking.  His cowardice has gotten him shunned by most of the gangs he's been in, until he's come to not expect anything better for himself other than to simply survive.

Flynn:  Flynn stayed with the dragoons where Yuri chose to leave, though he still maintains his ties in the undercity, where they grew up together.  When the story begins, one of his duties is inspecting power facilities around the megacity.

Yeager:  Yeager's the owner and operator of Leviathan's Claw, a corporation devoted mostly to operating pleasure clubs and smuggling drugs in various cities, although he has a number of mercenaries and assassins at his disposal.  A survivor of the Great War, Yeager is under Alexei's hold - although the yoke is beginning to chafe.  He lives vicariously through his beloved daughters, and gets together with Raven, when they happen to be in Dahngrest.

Duke:  Duke is one of the vanishingly few humans that know the location of the last group of free Entelexeia.  He is almost fanatically devoted to the cause of freeing the Entelexeia the Empire has captive in their power plants, but secretly only wishes to see his dear friend Elucifur again.

#tales of vesperia #under distant skies #fanfic #alternate universe #patty fleur #raven vesperia #yuri lowell #rita mordio #estellise sidos heurassein #repede vesperia #judith vesperia #karol capel #flynn scifo #yeager vesperia #duke pantarei #cyberpunk #character profiles

[dream-meister-translations]

MAIN STORY : CHAPTER 2 PART 15

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Kai led us all to a dilapidated research facility on the outskirts of the pavilion.

KAI : It was over here, there was some black miasma rising-- There!!

EMMA : What is that…?

GUI : It's Sion's little hideaway. He never lets us get this close either…

GUI : Ugh… I have a really bad feeling about this… I've never actually wanted to be wrong before~…!

NAVI : I'm sorry, but we need to leave.

HIMMEL : Indeed… They're here…

EMMA : …Huh!?

EST : Sion…!?

SION : Ahahahahahaha!!!

SION : Wow… I can have all the power in the world!

KAI : Sion!! What the fuck are you doing!?

SION : Huh!? No, don't come any closer…!

EST : Watch out!!

EST : Sion… This magic… What have you done?

KAI : Sensei, what the hell is this!? I don't care how strong he is, Sion shouldn't have this kind of power!

GUI : Sion and his magic are both… Pitch Black…!

EST : …….

JOE : Heh, ahahahahaha!! Chaos only repeats itself… Now it's time for round two, Moon Wanderers!

CROW : You guys again!?

GRANDFLAIR : You planted the Black Fairy in Sion just like you did to me!

EMMA : This can't be happening!

NANASHI : Wrong!

NANASHI : He volunteered…

KAI : Is that so…?

NANASHI : Sion wanted the power to make all his dreams come true.

NANASHI : But… Too bad! I'm afraid Mateo was too much for a runaway like him to handle.

KAI : You!

SION / MATEO : Uuuuu… Wwaaaaa!!!

EMMA : We need to purify Sion, asap!

CROW : You don't have to tell me twice!

We nodded to each other, preparing for the fight to come when…

NOAH : Crow, move!!

CROW : …Wha!?

Out of nowhere a blast of energy flew past Crow, way too close for comfort. Turning toward the attack, we saw…

EMMA : NAVI!?

NAVI : Fu… Fufu…

EVAN : Humans…

HIMMEL : ……..

NAVI : Ugh… Urgh…

EMMA : Navi! It's gonna be okay…

CROW : Wait, Emma! There's-- ...Something's wrong...

He was right… Navi and others… The black miasma was rising from their bodies, too, just like Sion…

They materialized, gasping for breath… Their eyes filled with black light as they turned to face us.

NANASHI : Ooh~, I see Mateo's influence is far more powerful than I thought.

EMMA : This miasma again!

NANASHI : Mateo's getting really excited. How unexpected… Hm~Hm~.

SION / MATEO : Uuuuuuuuuuuu……. Wwwaaaaaaaaa!!

SION / MATEO : They're gonna regret looking down on me!

SION / MATEO : I'll make them pay for laughing at me and my family!!

CROW : Emma, get away from Navi!

EMMA : I'm still here…

HIMMEL : Heheh…

EMMA : Himmel?

HIMMEL : How stupid… Humanity... What fragile creatures...

HIMMEL : You dream of great things, only to be consumed by despair.

EVAN : You act all righteous, but all you do is betray those you love…

NAVI : People… So selfish and useless… I hate them all!

EMMA : Please… Everyone… Calm down!

GRANDFLAIR : Emma, get back!!

NAVI : Ahahaha!

CROW : Watch out!

EMMA : …Hn!!

EVAN : Raa!!

NOAH : Korokuro!

KOROKURO : Kuuu!!!

EVAN : …Hm!?

CROW : They're going after Emma…

GRANDFLAIR : They're resisting the purification!?

EMMA : Navi, Evan, Himmel!!

NAVI / EVAN / HIMMEL : ……

EMMA : (…I can't reach them…)

Their eyes are filled with an even greater hatred than when we'd first met…

EMMA : (Will we really never be able to understand each other… No matter what I say…?)

CROW : Hey, Emma, do you remember what we were talking about earlier?

EMMA : C-Crow…?

CROW : We've said all there is to say. The only thing left to do now…

CROW : Is talk with our fists!

EMMA : Huh!?

ITSUKI : …Wait, fists talk?

NOAH : Not the time, Itsuki!

GRANDFLAIR : Hm. A primitive approach, but that's just like us…

CROW : Okay, then I'm gonna hit 'em as hard as I can!

CROW : Y'know he'd always say, "People aren't that bad."

EMMA : Don't you think this is a little extreme?

CROW : Sometimes fighting is quicker than arguing with each other, y'know? That's the Eden approach!

EMMA : …Yeah, okay, I get it… We gotta blow off steam, right?

EMMA : I know it's crazy, but… I sense something real in their rage and hatred.

EMMA : I want to hear them. And respond in kind.

CROW : Heh. Then it's a good thing I'm here. Evan. Navi. Himmel. Come at me!

CROW : That way if one of us gets hurt, we're both to blame!!

#Yumekuro #YMKR #Yumekuro Translations #Yumekuro Chapter 2 #Chapter 2 #YMKR Chapter 2 #Dream Meister #Dream Meister Translations #Otome #Otome Translations #Dream Meister And The Recollected Black Fairy #Dream Meister And The Recollected Black Fairy Translations #CH2P15 #Navi #Evan #Himmel #Mateo #Nanashi

[computerything]

Opinions on The Adventure Zone [comic vers.]

I decided to, a while back, read up to book 3 of the comic version of TAZ along with skimming book 4 enough to get a good idea of it. And I've certainly got a few thoughts here in this noodle of mine.

Disclaimer: I have not listened to the original podcast the comic is based on. I've only read the books. So keep that in mind.

Also, spoiler warning.

Individual reviews:

Book 1: I rather enjoyed it! It was some silly guys going on silly adventures with a nice helping of drama and mystique, mainly from the flame glove thing and all the weird static talk. The characters were likeable in a doofus-y way, and I liked the implication that there was advanced tech in this universe in addition to magic. That's something I wished was in more fantasy.

I really liked Magic Bryan's over-the-top theatrics. I do find it odd that a supposedly high-level wizard lost to a bunch of random adventures, but okay, it's DnD. That stuff happens for the plot.

The magic fire glove was badass, and I like the concept of the guy using it being consumed by his own rage and going ham. Rather fitting.

Art wise, the style was very nice. I like the semi-sketchiness of it, it fits the narrative!

Book 2: I didn't like this one quite as much as book 1. We meet the Bureau of Balance, who immediately act suspicious. For heaven's sake, they have a damn otherworldly abomination that sucks the knowledge out of people's brains on a universal scale! Yet it's played off as "perfectly fine" and "nothing to worry about." Huh? Wha? It's... it's a giant brainwashing jellyfish thing... and that's not spooky? WHAT? And don't worry, I have more to say about these bureaucratic buffoons.

Garfield was great though. Very cool guy.

Anyway, the idea of a murder mystery on a train is absolutely awesome. Murder on the Oriental Express, anyone? But everyone clowning on the murderer [Jeeves, this butler-looking guy] made him feel like less than an actual threat, and his rather anticlimactic disposal felt contrived and forced.

I rather liked the concept of the Oculus, the idea of making an army out of illusions is kind of neat. A shame that not only was it never really used, the damn bureau destroys it.

This was when I began to realize that I hated the BoB. Rather than research the artifacts and try to find a way to safely use them, they just destroy them. Sure, they're dangerous, but perhaps there's a way to filter their power so that it is no longer corruptive? But no. Artifact bad, must destroy. Knowledge bad, must feed to big fish. Urgh.

Book 3: Kind of not super memorable to me. Uh... The car designs were pretty neat. I like the idea of underground racing, it's an old trope but it's a good one. The artifact was cool, though I wish it was more racing-based. Or the race was more plant-based, like in a giant tree or something. That would have rocked.

Overall, I really liked Hurley and Sloane's dynamic. They had nice chemistry and I actually felt for them! In fact, Sloane was definitely the star of this one. I always love a badass thief with a cool outfit, lol.

The one thing I didn't like was that it felt like Sloane being turned evil was just shoved in by the DM to go, "See? See? The BoB is good because the artifacts made this lady go all evil and kill her girlfriend! And she felt so much guilt she sacrificed herself too! The artifacts are totally evil guys! More evil than the BoB!"

And the random council guy turning all evil was kind of pointless. I felt nothing when he died.

Book 4: Oh boy do I have some words about this one.

Positive first... positive first...

Uh, the setting was nice. I like science facilities. The imminent demise of the world was a pretty good motivator, too.

The main guy trying to bring people back from the dead [cough cough his mom] in robot bodies was a little cliché but still a neat concept.

The art was pretty much at its peak here, I think. I love the robot designs!! I love guys with screens for faces so much. Especially Hodgepodge, he was such a silly smug bastard.

Hodgepodge...

Dear, sweet hodgepodge... he didn't deserve to perish. Him dying because of the jellyfish's meddling took my hatred for the BoB from mild annoyance to PURE UNBRIDLED LOATHING. Actually, this whole book kind of did, really.

As I implied before, TAZ has this weird underlying plot thread of "knowledge is evil" that has always bothered me, and it's on full display here, and even extends a bit into "scientists are evil" territory.

For starters, apparently none of the science guys' ideas are theirs, they're just stolen from other dimensions. Which is stupid as hell. If this is supposed to be "no idea is original" again, it does a poor job.

For another, the science guy's mom goes crazy from, you guessed it, knowledge, and would rather die than have said knowledge. Which really pissed me off because I'm the kind of freak who would read all the forbidden texts which drive people mad.

And for yet another, the BoB is portrayed as heroic all over again. The comic literally ends with them all agreeing to trust the director of the BoB and called stupid for having any doubts about the organization. So remember: don't think, don't seek to learn things, just blindly follow your superiors!

Overall:

TAZ has wonderful art and pretty neat characters, settings, and scenarios, but is deeply undermined by it's uncanny promotion of blind trust, discouragement of thinking, and hatred of knowledge. It's weird and creepy.

Also, I will not forgive them for killing hodgepodge. Look at this smug little feller:

Poor guy. Rest in pieces.

#taz #taz balance #taz comic #review #ramblings #sorry for how poorly structured this is I'm not a great reviwer

[theanoninyourinbox]

New Fakemon new fakemon new fakemon we return to the Faux region

Blossnip, the Gardener Fakemon, Bug Type. Height 18 inches, Weight 15lbs. Based on crab spiders.

Blossnip are curious arachnid Fakemon, found on every part of the Faux Region. Wild Blossnip will create gardens, transplanting choice flowers and herbs into a well protected area, though it has been seen that large groups will create a community garden together. The older a Blossnip gets, the larger and more beautiful their gardens can be. With time and care, some Faux Rangers and Researchers have become friendly with large groups, and are permitted to retrieve samples from the gardens.

Like Eevee, they are exceedingly genetically diverse and adaptable, with their hatching ground determining their secondary typing. Listed here are the wild types, with a few unique cases left out - an Electric type hatched in a power plant, a Rock type hatched in a mine, a solid bug type hatched in an insect research facility, and a starling Fairy type hatched in an observatory. These have yet to be researched extensively, and have yet to be replicated - leaving them unregistered as a new variant.

These are based on Spider Crabs, and my wish for more diverse Pokemon like Eevee - and more cute spiders. They're the approximate size of my dog Buster Keaton, and probably just as cuddly once they trust you. Most are based on flowers, except the Poison one, but I just love Danger Coloration! They are also soft and plush, with short velvety fur. They also have an oddly pleasant scent, because who expects a spider to smell good

#my art #pokemon #pokémon #fake pokemon #fakemon #faux region #spider pokemon #fake pokemon region #fakemon region #fakemon concept #blossnip #bug type #grass type #flying type #ground type #water type #steel type #poison type #fire type #ice type #ghost type #thank goodness for the copy/paste tool #more spider pokemon please #hug a blossnip

[ansixilus]

@humormehorny Eh, close enough. You did ask, even if it wasn't via the ask function, so it works for me.

Keystone Research

When I was a teen, my friends and I were quite fond of the games Second Sight and Geist. The paranormal that creeps all too close to home, the morally bankrupt corporation researching supernatural weapons, and the lonely, haunted feeling... perfect recipe for firing up the imagination. I wanted to turn this into a video game, but alas it's rather quite beyond my scope. And so, I wrote down some of it, bits of lore and character concepts.

A sprawling, underground research facility, seemingly with endless staff and yet clearly a skeleton crew for something of this size. Security checkpoints and scanners everywhere, yet the place has glaring holes for simple lack of manpower. Streams of new equipment somehow don't dispel the pervasive feeling of slight grime, as if everything is just slightly outdated and had to have the dust blown off a moment ago.

And of course, the test subjects, the prisoners, the victims. They who would be the player characters. Captured and stolen from their lives for no greater crime than their psychic potential, imprisoned and experimented upon without justice or recourse.

There's the boy who can start fires. At first, he was grateful to be somewhere that his powers couldn't hurt innocents, couldn't hurt his family or friends. Couldn't kill anyone else. His opinion changed all too quickly. Once they knew how to prevent him from burning them, they had no need to be gentle, nor kind. At least complying is less painful than resisting them... for now. Who knows how long it will be before they decide to biopsy his brain. He wouldn't be the first.

There's the girl who can see the future. They think she's telekinetic, which she is a little, and a mind reader, which she also is a little. But she's been trying to figure out how to escape. Death after death, gunned down or beaten or victim of grenade, caught in a flamethrower a couple times, once she fell into a chasm and broke both legs. She hasn't escaped yet. They think she's plagued by nightmares, and that's why her mental health is deteriorating. If you acknowledge that her life is a nightmare, then they're right about that too. They don't know she's trying to escape. They don't know she knows they'll kill her before too long. They don't know she's both desperate and resolved to live.

There's the man who's telekinetic. They don't experiment much on him. He doesn't trust them. He's killed more than one so far. He knows there's no getting out of this for any of the test subjects, not without violence. He just doesn't want to abandon the other subjects, but he doesn't know how to break them all out yet.

There's the woman who's blind, but can see through other people's eyes. She's not used to being blind, she's always had other people to see with. People, cameras, animals, bugs, and even plants to a small degree, she's always had a way to navigate. Being in such an empty place is new, and would be bad enough without her looming doom. She can hear the girl who sees the future, so she knows that they all have so little time.

... I hadn't gotten so far as to figure out the third act yet. There's got to be some reason for the seriously short time limit, some reason for why this corporation is killing their golden geese. I just haven't figured out what yet. The demon curveball from Geist always struck me as way out of left field.

Semiautomagic

What happens when you play video games while listening to audiobooks? Your brain invents crossovers, of course! The Dresden Files crossed with, of all things, Terraria.

If you take it as canon that the player characters from Terraria are fundamentally different from NPCs, and that this is common knowledge, worlds of possibility open up. Literally, perhaps. If "heroes" are the few people who can return after death, who have the power of Creation, and who can jump between different worlds... then what happens when one comes to the Dresden verse?

This is clearly a Quiet World. Heroes have little power here... well, little compared to the power in a Fated World, though most heroes could well be heralds of apocalyptic destruction in a Quiet World if they set their mind to it. But heroes have no need for power in Quiet Worlds either, their name is for a reason: Quiet Worlds are not besieged by corruptions, or undead plagues, or incomprehensible monsters from beyond the stars. They're quiet. The only things the people in such places have to fear is each other, which prospect doesn't much scare a hero. These are the places heros go to take vacations.

So why does this world have a wizard in it? Why does this world have monsters? Why are the people here doomed and fated? Why are they hunted by creatures of night, why are they besieged by evil? There is something terribly wrong with this world. And heroes confront the wrongness, destroy that which is evil so that which is good may flourish. This Wizard is clearly the fated champion, whom the hero must assist. No matter the sharp limits this un-Quiet World puts on their power of Creation, a hero can fight through any attrition and win in the end.

Now if only the fated wizard would stop being quite so suspicious of them.

The Monarchs

In the mid 90's, there was a game called Total Annihilation. It was quite successful in its own little strategy niche, and wound up being able to launch a spin-off, which was just... odd. It was fantasy instead of sci-fi, it was in many ways simplified in bizarre directions, and it was largely unknown for a host of reasons. That said, it still left a fair impression on those who played it, especially the surprisingly good story.

But I thought, "Well, the story is good, but it's very high scope. It's about kings and generals, and other grand bits of history. Can we talk for a moment about people? Spare me for now the story of the Trojan War, the heroes and sieges and tallies of the dead, and instead tell me about a complicated man. Let me see the moment when the messenger from Queen Thirsha, a bold and cunning harpy who has never til this day needed fear any human, truly realizes the enormity and power of the sorcerer-king before her. Let me plumb the motivations of King Lokken, let me explore the mind of a well-intentioned extremist, truly understand this man and the doom he sought to avert."

And then we moved and I couldn't find the dang game discs for several years, so I couldn't actually finish the story to write the fanfiction. I recently purchased it from GoG, but getting a twenty-four year old game working on a modern computer's alien OS is a challenge which has thus far bested my modest computer skills.

#asks answered #tag game

[iviarellereads]

Harrow the Ninth, Chapter 8

(Curious what I'm doing here? Read this post! For detail on The Locked Tomb coverage and the index, read this one!)

(Slashed Fourth House icon)(1) In which we run it back on book 1 again.

Harrow sips tea, overwhelmed at the flavour of it,(2) while Nigenad recites the Ninth House intercession at Canaan House.(3) Teacher asks that the Ninth grace them with the Ninth prayer, and Harrow is furious that she can't remember it. Nigenad, however, steps up and recites it. While he does, Harrow thinks about the constructs, how she hates that they've been dressed as it smacks of whimsy. She was also horrified to realize that the constructs leading them into the atrium were dropping plant matter.(4) As Ortus wraps up, the priests smile, and Harrow realizes that the First and the Ninth are the only Houses that had to learn how to wait for something that will never happen. Teacher fawns over Nigenad, while Harrow hates everything.

This time, when the keyrings are distributed, the Ninth ring comes with a key already on it: a completely uninteresting key with a triangle head and two teeth.(5) Then Teacher tells them about the history of Canaan House and the research facility. It was meant to be the palace for God, in the time before the Lyctors. They were ten disciples, at first, half necromancers. The King Undying kept them alive with his power, but they had to stay close to him for this to work, and they wanted to serve in his name elsewhere. Others took up the position, while some left and became the first cavaliers, or honed the craft of necromancy. He says that this, Canaan House, is where the research took place to discover what would become Lyctorhood.(6)

At this, Abigail Pent exclaims her excitement that the path to Lyctorhood is independent research (one of the kiddos "made a sound like an exhausted balloon squeal"), but Teacher cautions that it is only part of the path. The other part is silence and care. The Sleeper lies in the heart of the facility, and is their greatest threat, "for although they lie in sleep… in that sleep, they walk."(7) The Sleeper cannot die, may not even be wound-able. Their best defence is silence and traveling in groups.

There was no pause here, just a perfect babel: "--isn't how it--"(8) "How much sound is--" "--doesn't make any--" "--what kind of cack-handed--" "I do not know the answers to any of these questions," said Teacher calmly. "Only that, already, you are being too loud."

At this, everyone stops speaking, and even Harrow and Nigenad, who had not started talking, grow more still. At this, Teacher says he's making a joke, they're all perfectly safe up here, on this side of the hatch. Only down in the facility is there danger. However, he adds that he can guide them no further, "this place has changed beyond [his] ken." Still, he wishes them all luck, and constructs lead them away.

As they are escorted to the Ninth accommodations, Nigenad wishes Harrow had chosen someone else. She says there's no changing it now unless he can summon Matthias Nonius, whose service she will only take "if he promises not to speechify." Harrow notices that the constructs are TOO good, they do things that are beyond her ability and thus impossible for anyone of the Nine Houses.(9)

Nigenad asks outright why Harrow chose him. She says there was no one else, and his affect slips. Exasperated, he says "You never did possess an imagination," then he gathers his composure and asks her forgiveness. He says he does not know yet how to die, and he forgets his graces so far from the Locked Tomb. Harrow says to forget about dying, and get on with the task at hand, because the Ninth "should not let our hearts falter or fail regarding some fiendish somnambulist", and if something happens he can simply recite his poetry at it, which should solve any insomnia. Nigenad says Harrow is humorous, and he understands.

The skeleton construct gestured to them both as they made the initial step to follow, and Harrow was struck when it opened its yellow-molared mouth. "Is this how it happens?" it said.(10)

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(1) There isn't a specific use of or focus on the Fourth in this chapter, the only remark we get out of one of the teens is a noise. I think this icon is in use because of the Fourth part of the opening poem about the Houses: Four for Fidelity, facing ahead. Also, there's a pattern to the icons: the ones in this side story are all slashed or cracked, depending how you want to interpret the chunk missing. (2) You may recall that Gideon was super into flavour in the previous book, but had never had anything at the Ninth that wasn't bland. I wonder if an oversensitive palate runs in Harrow's family, or if it's just a trait of hers that the whole House accommodated because she's so important to them. (3) Have you found a pattern to Harrow reliving Canaan House in this strange almost retcon way? (4) Imagine growing up in a place with almost no water and nothing green, and seeing someone throw flower petals at a wedding. Horror indeed! (5) This doesn't match any key described in Gideon the Ninth as far as I can find, in case you're wondering. (6) How much of this is truth, how much is fiction in this undefined side story? Certainly, he never mentioned the facility the first time around. Why would Harrow's brain rewrite it this way? Or is this something other than a dream? (7) That is definitely, absolutely, and entirely new. (8) Hmm, now what was that? What isn't how what? (9) We know otherwise, but it's interesting that the skeleton constructs are even more whole and unusual than the ones in Gideon, which were already pretty weird being souls bound to constructs and not simple automata. (10) And here's why I don't mind drawing attention to the sentence in the atrium babel. The Body also said this in the first part of this strange side story: "This isn't how it happens." The reader is absolutely supposed to know this is more than it seems. A construct talking is downright absurd, they don't even have vocal folds! So, if you're reading with me for the first time, what do you think is going on here? Why are things happening differently?

#the locked tomb #tlt #harrow the ninth #htn #harrow the ninth spoilers #htn spoilers #harrowhark nonagesimus #ortus nigenad #teacher (gtn) #abigail pent

[the-firebird69]

Sikorsky to lay off more employees after losing Army contracts

This is pretty big news these guys going to shut down and they are switching over to different hardware no the US military is phasing out. The whole military it's happening all over the world that there's not going to be the United military for countries no that's not right countries will have militaries. United States is fizzing out helicopters and not really so you wondered what the hell is going on and they are having a problem in Connecticut and other military manufacturing facilities there not not willing to make military hardware for the pseudo empire and even though they're attacking them they're kind of taken over so they don't want to to work for them and they don't want to supply them with stuff so they are find it and our internet end up shutting these places down and it shut down because they know who they're working for they don't want to have anything to do with it and they quit so tons of them quit all right deserts the picture and they're trying to do the job and then it fights on me facility for and outside and it really starts causing problems so this place here is in Connecticut and it doesn't make that many helicopters if they do the research and development center and they do a lot of that they will run all the new prototypes through there and still but the place is closing we still have Bill helicopter and hewey and McDonald's ugly and general electric. But as soon as right to point this out our son is correct the other facilities are not doing well either and it's because these two are fighting and it is not a healthy mix helicopters don't do too good in the tunnels but people use them a lot these days because they cover up spaceships and modern jets and stuff so this plant will probably close and several others nearby and the bases nearby will not be supplied with defense and that would be for pretty much New England no it's about a third of it. And it is a big deal and these two groups are lowering the shields forgieners will come in I haven't been in for quite a while. It has already begun in many areas for us have an influence is not true but they're trying to come in and have a huge fleet now and I'm trying to use it to get a better foothold and they're kept out with the two intend to use Force. Now you see some stupid things coming out of you yesterday you people here just saw a review of social security and yeah you're just dying up there now some people are dying and it's probably what happened he forced his way in social security and people up there response and grab them and that's the information and they got to it now they're trying to come apart he won't have much longer and he's going to be out of here because of portal power levels low power. We went ahead and put restraining orders on them well other people did. And they're going to get arrested every time they come here and it was not stan. They're going to be expelled from this area it's because of their attacks and their rings and they just don't have it they really don't they pulled out shortly and they don't really know it and thirty households went out 20 of them returned and 10 did not they were all killed and it's what is it returns came back at about 4:00 a.m. and they did say we need to go back out there and they're out there now and about 10 of them are surrounded and it happens we think they'll be gone and that would make 20 households out of the past couple days and bring the neighborhood to 100 five of those right here usually don't count them but they're the ones who won't move out... Seriously and those 10 of those 20 are surrounded and five more shortly. I'm told that 10 out of the 20 are surrounded at this moment five more are going to be just as we just said. And there's a lot of people here who are switching and saying it's a joke and they're laughing and things like that. It's not funny and her son is under duress. In large part by you people here but for order of the empire.

-we have a lot to discuss with the above is extremely important so I've been to print now

Thor Freya

Olympus

Zues

I have a master plan yeah and it's going well they have huge projects coming up and we're suggesting that I was hiring people accordingly we need a lot more people than what has been coming out and right now. A lot of these performers and people are actress and such are Max and their other scrutiny and being pulled in globally if I have no idea

In the series fast and furious and other such movies the warlock is stealing a lot of stuff but really they're just taking it out of where they sort it and other supposed to fall for it and are not and I currently truly them up chewing them up including Washington

It was a friend you can see in Normandy of the situation and American and it's just true here is involved in it

Thor come out where they off they have three miles and it's really helpful as big mouth and secretly they are cutting VGA down and is returning the attacks

more shortly

Thor Freya

Olympus

#Youtube

[leschanceux]

headcanon from the tea room!; how does your muse use a public library?

as a precursor to this headcanon; dillon has always been interested in learning things and reading as many books as he can get his hands on, with a particular affinity for non-fiction books. his father had an encyclopedia set in his study ( one of those massive collection-type encyclopedias with multiple books for each letter covering literally everything ) and dillon would spend days and days lying on the floor with one of the books and just read it cover to cover. he's more of an academic reader than a getting lost in a good story reader; for him, reading is all about knowledge and learning, and he gets his pleasure from reading that way, but he fully appreciates the power of a good story and he'll encourage other people to indulge in those too.

- do they just go to browse the in-house catalogue, or do they use it for interlibrary loan & extended research?

dillon ( who does actually work in a bookstore ) loves to read but his focus is more non-fiction, and he finds a different interest or a different rabbit-hole to follow pretty regularly, he'll peruse both the library's in-house catalogue but he also regularly uses the interlibrary loan facilities and research materials to find out as much as he can about different subjects from different places. luckily, his library's interlibrary loan system covers libraries from all over the world - as long as you have a title or a specific subject, the books will be sent from anywhere in the world to that library for you to pick up. these facilities help dillon in his day to day life, but it also helps him to have read a broad range of books on various topics for work, because then he can recommend several titles to customers if they ask about a specific subject.

sometimes this helps when deciding which books to stock in his bookstore; for example, when he went through a plant phase, he borrowed a lot of books on subjects like the medicinal uses of plants, or the language of flowers, or even flower arranging, and they went down quite well with the customers when he ordered a limited amount of stock for his shelves, but other focuses like the history of certain types of machinery are more niche, so they're less likely to appear at the store. it's a balancing act, and dillon can sort of judge by now what would sell better ( unfortunately, even magic bookstores only have a finite amount of storage space, which sucks ).

- do they take children to events, such as story times or guided crafts? how about teenagers? do they encourage their children to keep going & using resources after they're "graduated" out of story time? are there other support structures in place for children, such a literacy programs?

dillon doesn't have children of his own, but he does have a couple of niblings ( the children of his siblings; his nieces and nephews ) and he definitely takes them to the library when he's looking after them and encourages them to join in with events and interacting with the library. their local library has literacy programs like a reading marathon in the schools' summer break, where the kids have to log each book they borrow and read, write a little synopsis and they get a prize at the end depending on how many they've read. his niblings are good readers themselves; they do enjoy the story time activities when they're small, but they also enjoy workshops geared toward teens as they grow, like the poetry writing sessions or that one write your own comic session that the library offers.

- do they themselves go to events, like open art studio nights, computer/digital literacy classes, community DIY/crafting, or the more traditional book clubs?

dillon's more likely to host a bookclub at the store than attend one at the library. he's been to a couple of events at his local library when there've been things that play into his interests, like a night where they hosted authors from various cultures who'd written books around the same subject, but on the whole, he's not really that kind of person --- though he does keep an event schedule for the library up on the store's noticeboard for his customers, just in case they're interested in such events.

- are they the sort to stay in the library & read their mini hoard, or do they prefer to check out things to take home for a time? what sort of things do they check out (books, DVDs, manga, ebooks, audiobooks vs power tools, fishing rods, museum passes, mobile hotspots, & seeds to be planted?) (yes you can check all of these things out depending on the library)

dillon definitely prefers to take his hoard home with him, just so he can take his time with the materials he borrows and get the most out of them. he also has a favourite reading corner at home with a cosy chair and a lamp that's angled just right and the facilities to make a drink or snack while he reads, so he definitely prefers to go home to read through the pile of books he comes away with.

as for the things he checks out, they're mostly books, but he does also like to borrow audiobooks to listen to while he does the store's stock-check or some cleaning, and he'd definitely borrow museum passes or ingredients ( like seeds ) for potions or magical rituals if his personal stash is running short.

- how do they feel about "human libraries" - programs where you can sit with a human "book" & learn about different cultures, backgrounds, & life experiences? what sort of human would they "take out on loan" & why?

dillon absolutely adores human libraries. as someone who regularly comes into contact with people of different cultures and species, and one whose life has been dedicated to learning so much about as much as he can possibly learn about, he'd spend absolutely ages with those people who are willing to be "loaned" out to tell their stories to other people. he'd spend a couple of days thinking of questions to ask them first, then go along and sit with them and just listen to everything they're willing to tell him.

he'll do his research if he knows the person he'd like to "loan" out in advance, but if he doesn't know what culture they come from, he has a set of more general questions about cultural practices or observations. it's easier when he knows in advance who he'll be meeting, of course, but not knowing is not something that would stop him from utilising such a wonderful resource.

- does their library host D&D events? if so, do they partake or socialize, or do they skip that night in favor of other community events?

dillon already lives in a magical society so they don't have d&d specifically, but they do have something similar that involves creatures like dragons or different bird kingdoms than species like fae or warlocks ( because that's who lives in his society ).

he does attend these nights at the library, but not regularly because that's creating a ficticious storyline and he's not really into that sort of thing. but the concept of it definitely intrigues him and it'd give him the opportunity to create a character that maybe utilises some of the knowledge he's gotten from books, like the plant phase.

- does their library have a mobile outreach service? if so, have their used it themselves or partnered with it for work & community events?

yes, dillon's local library has a mobile outreach service; they actually do book deliveries for people who are stuck in their homes for various reasons ( temporary or otherwise! ) and for schools to make sure that everybody in their community has some kind of access to the library services. and yes, dillon partners with them - he'll take in library books from people to be returned, if they can't make it themselves for whatever reason; he partners with the library to bring some of their events into the store if the times at the library itself is inconvenient for a certain amount of people ( so if 20 people said that they couldn't attend a class on how to start a novel, he'd contact the library and arrange for a repeat of the workshop at a later time for those people, if the library are willing and able to do that! ). he knows the library staff very well at this point, and to be able to join in on spreading a love of books is an amazing feeling.

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Home Health Care Vs. Nursing Home Care: Pros And Cons

The Difference Between Home Health Care And Home Care Services

Cleansing your home, transforming sheets and doing washing, watering plants, looking after pet dogs, rearranging storage rooms and also cupboards so they're a lot more easily accessible, and extra basic housekeeping services can aid to save powers so elders have more interest and also stamina for more satisfying activities and also leisure activities. Routine residence cleansings also guarantee living problems are secure as well as hygienic, that stressed out light bulbs are changed and also that accountable celebrations are notified when maintenance issues need to be addressed.

It also calls for a whole lot of energy to prepare, prepare and also tidy up. Include that to the reality that several seniors can not reach the grocery shop conveniently and also you can see why malnourishment, bone density loss as well as weakening of muscles as well as joints is a danger for senior citizens that live alone or are not efficient in preparing healthier meals.

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Assisted Living Homes Vs. Home Care

House treatment aids are additionally delighted to maintain customers firm while they consume, which advertises much better cravings. Basic health is an additional point that can slip by the wayside as one day discolors into another, or if tight joints or a fear of dropping make it much more hard to get dressed or take regular showers.

Not only is it wonderful to be bathed as well as dressed, caretakers can also design hair, trim and file nails, placed on accessories, and so on, so senior citizens can seem like themselves once more. These are a few of one of the most asked for residence care services.

Differences Between In-home Care Services

In this situation, a physician's recommendation allows the customer to agreement with a certified house healthcare firm who will certainly send out the ideal caregiver, varying from RNs, LVNs, CNAs and work or physical therapists. Since the services are clinical in nature, they may be covered by Medicare, Medicaid and/or an exclusive wellness insurance carrier, depending upon the specifics of your instance and also the policy.

The manager will certainly check-in routinely to monitor the patient, checked out caretaker notes, make adjustments as needed as well as talk about the case with the doctor if it's really felt more intervention/prescription modifications are required. Under the Registered nurses supervision, other members of the wellness care group offer treatment on an everyday or multiple-days per week basis.

What Is Home Care And What Are The Different Types?

This medical-care-at-home version provides care that is comparable to the level of care supplied by a healthcare facility, outpatient surgical treatment facility, rehab center and also so on, but it has a tendency to cost much less. Researches show that the residence health and wellness care services make a remarkable difference in health center readmission rates. Plus, it's a rare patient who favors to recover in a medical facility when home health and wellness treatment is an alternative.

Sometimes the one introduces the various other, various other times a person who had house healthcare services never completely recoups to their original "self." Using residence care companies' help can improve the customer's quality of life. Below is a very typical instance of just how home care solutions can combine with house healthcare services: Allow's state Mary is an 80-year old woman who takes pleasure in bi-weekly sees from a home care service provider.

What Is The Difference Between Home Health And Home Care?

Mary goes through a knee substitute as well as experiences a couple of complications. The doctor enables her to return house but suggests house healthcare services to assist her with the recuperation directions and also elements of fundamental care that Mary isn't able to perform on her very own. At this factor, any one of those solutions suggested by her medical professional for the healing durations (bathing/hygiene, dish prep work, and so on) previously managed by her certified, house caregiver may now be covered by her insurance in addition to the medical residence health care services that are supplied by a certified house wellness treatment company.

The medical care service providers will certainly terminate, while her house care supplier will likely stay in position, spent for by Mary once more. Do you have a senior liked one who would benefit from residence treatment either to age-in-place or to boost their house health and wellness care services?

Know The Difference: Home Care Vs. Home Health Care

Caring for an aging moms and dad or loved one isn't constantly easy literally or mentally. But with the average UNITED STATE life span as much as age 79 in 2013 compared to 68 in 1950 it's increasingly coming to be the new typical for families to be increasing kids and caring for elderly moms and dads at the very same time.

For families requiring an additional collection of hands, there are a few options depending upon needs and budget. Home wellness treatment as well as house care are two separate methods to aid aging family members manage their wellness while supplying them with a high-quality way of life. Home healthcare gives professional solutions, whereas residence care offers non-clinical assist with day-to-day living.

Assisted Living Homes Vs. Home Care

Rehab treatment administers medication, does clinical tests, keeps an eye on wellness standing, dish preparation as well as shipment, residence cleansing, support with bathing, dressing and grooming, transportation, pointers to take medication, skilled nursing, pain management, injury care, treatment and shots, incontinence treatment, toileting help, and Friendship. Home healthcare can assist with an individual's treatment.

House healthcare typically includes the management of medicine, clinical testing, caring for a wound or injury, aid with healing from an illness as well as different kinds of therapy, consisting of physical, work-related as well as speech-language. Home treatment concentrates on supplying the senior with aid in their daily activities. You may likewise see residence care referred to as individual treatment, companion care, housewife solutions, custodial treatment, unskilled or non-clinical care.

Differences Between Home Care Agencies & Private Caregivers

They may likewise help alleviate isolation by supplying friendship. It is very important to note that the fields can overlap. Sometimes, a house health and wellness treatment company may also give personal look after an individual if it's part of their care strategy. As a result of the clinical nature of its solutions, home wellness treatment is typically required after someone has been hospitalized, is undertaking recovery or is transitioning out of a nursing facility.

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The Difference Between Home Health Care And Home Care Services

Nursing Homes Vs Home Care - What's The Difference

Cleaning the house, altering sheets and also doing washing, watering plants, looking after pets, rearranging closets and cupboards so they're extra easily accessible, and much more general housekeeping services can help to preserve powers so seniors have more interest and endurance for more enjoyable tasks and hobbies. Regular house cleansings additionally make certain living problems are safe and sanitary, that burned out light bulbs are changed and also that liable celebrations look out when maintenance issues require to be dealt with.

It likewise needs a whole lot of energy to prepare, cook as well as cleanse up. Add that to the truth that several elders can not reach the supermarket easily and also you can see why malnutrition, bone thickness loss as well as weakening of muscle mass as well as joints is a risk for senior citizens who live alone or are not qualified of preparing well balanced meals.

Home Health Aides: What Are The Differences?

House care aids are likewise happy to maintain customers business while they consume, which advertises better cravings. Basic hygiene is one more point that can slip by the wayside as one day discolors right into one more, or if rigid joints or an anxiety of falling make it more tough to obtain dressed or take regular showers.

Not only is it great to be bathed as well as dressed, caregivers can also design hair, trim as well as documents nails, placed on accessories, etc., so elders can feel like themselves once more. These are several of the most asked for residence treatment solutions.

Comparing Home Health Services

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In this case, a doctor's recommendation permits the client to agreement with a qualified residence healthcare company that will certainly send out the ideal caregiver, ranging from Registered nurses, LVNs, CNAs and work or physical therapists. Because the solutions are clinical in nature, they might be covered by Medicare, Medicaid and/or a personal health and wellness insurance coverage provider, relying on the specifics of your situation and the policy.

The supervisor will check-in frequently to check the individual, checked out caretaker notes, make adjustments as necessary and review the case with the medical professional if it's really felt additional intervention/prescription changes are needed. Under the RNs guidance, various other participants of the health and wellness care team offer clinical treatment on an everyday or multiple-days each week basis.

Differences Between In-home Care Services

This medical-care-at-home design gives care that is comparable to the degree of treatment given by a healthcare facility, outpatient surgical care facility, recovery facility and more, but it tends to cost less. Research studies reveal that the house health treatment solutions make a notable distinction in hospital readmission prices. And also, it's an unusual client that favors to recover in a hospital when home healthcare is an option.

In some cases the one leads into the various other, other times an individual that had residence health care solutions never ever completely recovers to their initial "self." Employing home treatment carriers' support can boost the client's high quality of life. Here is an extremely case in point of how house treatment services can merge with residence health and wellness care services: Let's say Mary is an 80-year old lady that enjoys bi-weekly sees from a house treatment provider.

Learn The Differences Of Home Care Vs. Nursing Homes

Mary undergoes a knee replacement and experiences a few issues. The physician allows her to return residence but prescribes home health treatment solutions to aid her with the recovery directions and aspects of basic treatment that Mary isn't able to do on her own. At this factor, any of those solutions suggested by her medical professional for the healing durations (bathing/hygiene, dish preparation, and so on) formerly handled by her certified, residence caretaker might currently be covered by her insurance along with the medical home healthcare services that are offered by a licensed house healthcare company.

The healthcare companies will eliminate, while her house treatment service provider will likely stay in location, spent for by Mary once more. Do you have an elderly liked one that would take advantage of home care either to age-in-place or to increase their house wellness care services?

The Benefits Of Home Health Care Vs Hospital Care

Taking care of an aging moms and dad or relative isn't always easy literally or emotionally. But with the typical UNITED STATE life expectations approximately age 79 in 2013 contrasted to 68 in 1950 it's increasingly coming to be the brand-new typical for households to be increasing kids and looking after elderly parents at the same time.

For family members requiring an additional set of hands, there are a few choices relying on demands as well as budget. Home healthcare and also house care are two different ways to help aging relatives handle their health and wellness while supplying them with a high-grade way of life. House healthcare supplies professional services, whereas home treatment offers non-clinical aid with everyday living.

Home Health Care Vs. Nursing Home Care: Pros And Cons

Rehabilitation treatment carries out medicine, does medical examinations, keeps an eye on wellness standing, dish prep work and distribution, residence cleaning, support with bathing, clothing and also grooming, transportation, tips to take medicine, knowledgeable nursing, discomfort management, injury care, therapy and also injections, incontinence care, toileting help, and Companionship. Home healthcare can assist with a person's healthcare.

Home wellness care often consists of the management of medication, clinical testing, looking after a wound or injury, assist with recovery from a disease as well as different sorts of treatment, including physical, work-related and also speech-language. House treatment focuses on providing the elderly with support in their daily activities. You may additionally see residence treatment referred to as personal care, friend care, housewife solutions, custodial care, unskilled or non-clinical care.

Understanding Home Health Care And Private Duty Services

They might also help minimize solitude by offering companionship. It's crucial to keep in mind that the areas can overlap. Often, a residence health and wellness treatment company might additionally give individual look after an individual if it's part of their treatment plan. Due to the medical nature of its services, home health and wellness care is generally required after somebody has actually been hospitalized, is going through rehabilitation or is transitioning out of a nursing center.

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In happier times... Photo by Aaron

I try to include in these pages somethings to remind me of my home where I lived worked, maintained, cooked slept danced cried played guitar kept my books files research poems photographs stones candles pcs music equipment pictures household items plants bills letters records medical records paper archives feathers Garden patio set outdoor plants mum and dads two items of furniture and my dust my clothes shoes all fitted rather miraculously into the tiny small space where I lived since 2004.

This is over two years since I've been in hospital... And despite 13 months in a fantastic facility the months being held in this acute hospital in Dublin absolutely horrendous.

I've had so Many items stolen, hidden, even down to my socks being taken and by thieves in this place it is with the greatest of tedium to continously face the sticky fingered depravities of others to my person.

I had a mean spirited African health care agency staff dislocate my middle and ring finger five weeks ago on my right hand after being forced to do reduced ability djuru 1 from my bed at 3 am and which I responded with you broke my finger.. And he laughed and sat back down in the room I was staying in alone. I was left with a slightly straighter ring finger as the hand on my right has been slightly clawed. That was five weeks ago.

Then there was the night on the old ward, that when trying to manually heimleich and manual push of chest to get phlegm up from covid I would have the oral secretions smeared all over my face by yet another health care assistant. These were the people responsible for overall hygiene and failing miserably in their attempts to be a positive force of care. Then they're was the pressure sores which are grade 4 and placed on sacrum and left and right bottom cheeks. I am paralysed from chest down but have feeling and sensation internally, yet if I hit my leg with my hand I would not feel it. I suffer spasms, feet movement and reactions.

Then there are difficulties such as maintaining hygienic practices such as bedbaths private areas being cleaned, catheter care and bowel care.

This is some of the needs of myself and of course I'm grateful for all the help I've received in the second facility... Not so here.

The real test of my patience was the lack of information regarding my covid positive status of diagnosis, the lack of information or notification to my next of kin. Another distressing moment came this morning when having dressings removed and viewing the saucer sized oozing on my right leg being told by the two health care assistants there was rumours circulating I had poured boiling water over myself for attention. I cried yet again at the slanderous gossip on my character as I observed the pus on my leg which was very painful. I got my dressings done insisting there was a recurring issue with the vac machine attached to my rear. The carers asked would I like to sit in my chair as being in bed was not always what they advised. I insisted on pausing the vac machine and waited to the dressings to be done, as they're were two leaks on the vac areas and I explained its excruciating on the area on my rear. I was put into by hoist my newly returned power chair which was missing since late February and out of action due to some problems I encountered while using it. As it was I wore one of my black dresses and velcro moon boots without socks as they'd all been stolen. I went out for some air... Met a friendly comrade and sat talking for 90 minutes before returning to ward to have soup and soft roll. I returned to bed and just spoke on phone to friends and caught up on work and research.

Many thanks to the loveliest nurse Laura who bent over backwards to help me organise my items and bring me pots of boiling water to have tea. I had so much relief talking today to two friends who didn't know where had I gone or if I was even still alive...

Thank you Laura.... 🙏🌈🙏