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I've given the cats a bit more catnip than usual. I thought just a teaspoon's worth more wouldn't hurt.
Boggy will not unhook her claws from my slacks, and every time I come back to the kitchen I find that Loki has reopened every single cabinet.
It has been three hours.
I've created a pair of monsters.
-D
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I want to boop back... :(
You know what? For each boop I get, I shall boop Loki and Boggy for you!
~ᗯIᒪ
#Devoted Fans#Announcement!#Flowers & Knicknacks#loki the god of mischief#boggy destroyer of worlds#wilford warfstache
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, and of course all other configurations of being! My name is Wilford Warfstache, and tonight I shall introduce the new member of the family!
Everyone! Meet Loki!
Loki is still a young lad, but he's very mischievous! In fact, I happened to found him sneaking around the studio and making quite the mess of all the wires. Quite the rapscallion, this one.
Immediately I knew that I had to take him home and make him part of Darky (@fromthedeskof-darkiplier ) and I's family. Now Boggy won't be lonely whenever we're too busy with work, and I get to see my sugarplum smile more often! :D
~ᗯIᒪ
#markiplier egos#wilford warfstache#darkiplier#darkstache#darkiplier x wilford#boggy destroyer of worlds#loki the god of mischief
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A Fat Bike Is Not Just for Christmas But For All Year
Everyone by now will have heard about or seen a fat bike. Some people believe that their time in the sun is now at an end. We though don’t believe that and feel that everyone needs a fat bike in their quiver. In fact, a fat bike might make the perfect quiver killer. With a fat bike, you can get multiple bikes in one, which is a great way to justify the cost of buying a new one, especially a well thought out one like our ICAN models.
One of the things everyone assumes about fat bikes is that they are all about winter and crossing frozen tundra. They are undoubtedly good at this, given that fat bikes were originally created to cross Alaska during winter. They have thought far more utility and use than just this one condition, which is possibly why you think you don’t really need one.
Fat bikes can be ridden everywhere
You can use a fat bike as a go anywhere trail bike during summer. I have yet to find a comfy commuter. In fact, fat bikes are great for commuting you can bomb downstairs and then you can bomb right back up them. Riding a fat bike upstairs is worth it purely for the look of bemusement that crosses other commuters faces. You can use them to ride across the beach. You can even use them to go and pick up your shopping with and if you feel like doing so, you can use a fat bike to tour the world.
The other thing you might not realize is that you can do all of this at speed. As fat bikes have such wide and low pressured tires you’ll roll through rock gardens, sail off drops, ride over curbs, and possibly even cars. The fat bike is indeed the bike that can get you everywhere and anywhere.
As we said earlier you can even turn a fat bike into multiple bikes. Change your fat bike wheels for a set of narrower rimmed plus wheels and tires and you now have a trail destroyer. Your fat bike will already be fat but now you’ve just given it another little speed boost. You’ll be able to destroy your local trails rising the bike in this setup.
Bikepacking on a fat bike
Add some bags or racks and you have a perfect bikepacking machine. One of the most important requirements for a bikepacking bike is that it is comfortable. You’ll not want to cover vast distances on an uncomfortable bike. You’ll also not have an issue should the terrain become a bit rougher than you expected. You’ll just carry on rolling.
Then we have another characteristic of fat bikes that makes them great for bikepacking. Due to their wide tires, they have a load of grip and this will help you get up inclines where your standard adventure bike has already run out of traction. It might not be beautiful and it might not be pretty but they can help you climb like a mountain goat and when you're fully laden you don’t want to risk a spill when climbing due to losing traction.
Using a fat bike in summer
Not only will you be climbing in new terrain with a fat bike but you’ll also be able to explore areas that none of your other bikes can manage. A fat bike will be able to ride across the beach with ease, you won’t sink in the soft sand but you’ll float over the top. This also goes the same for boggy and swampy areas. Your bike will get you through areas where normally you’d have become a squelchy mess. Nothing beats a nice ride along the beach during the heat of summer.
An ICAN SN01 at the beach
As we hinted at when climbing it is hard for a fat bike to lose grip and crash. The ability to stay upright is something that many newcomers to mountain biking will appreciate. It is a great way to build your confidence knowing that your bike will help keep you the right way up as you fire through berms.
By now your probably thinking that you want a fat bike and after all who could blame you? Well, we offer a nice choice of fat bike frames to build into your dream fat bike.
The ICAN SN01 fat bike frame
The SN01 was our first fat bike frame and was a success. On various forums, you’ll be able to see people enthusing about their SN01. Some have had them from when the model was first released. It looks like they are planning on holding onto them forever. Which we feel is better praise than any 5-star magazine review.
The SN01 is constructed from Toray T700 carbon. This has allowed us to build a very light fat bike frame. An idea that many people can’t get their heads around, fat bikes don’t need to be heavy and made from steel.
The SN01 may be light, but it is still strong and stiff. You might not notice how stiff it is though thanks to running tires at 5 psi. It would be a great bikepacking rig and has room for you to get a great big frame bag in the front triangle.
As well as the ability to take a frame bag the SN01 has rack and fender mounts. So not only will you be able to go bikepacking but you’ll also be able to use the SN01 to get to work in comfort. As we have said fat bikes can be used all year round and have multiple uses.
The ICAN SN02 fat bike frame
The SNO2 Is a fat bike frame that looks like it wants to be a race bike. It looks fast, and it is fast. It would be a great choice if you wanted to get out and do some fat bike races. There is even a fat bike world championship if you fancy trying to become a world champ and the SN02 is the bike to get you there.
Like the SN01 the SN02 is constructed using Toray T700 carbon fiber. The T700 allows us to bring you a fat bike that is light as its racy looks imply. It is also stiff enough to make sure that your power gets to the back wheel. Your power goes through a 100 mm BSA shell. We choose a threaded bottom bracket to make sure that you have no issues if your out riding in an ultra-marathon event.
The ICAN SN04 fat bike frame
The SN04 is our full suspension fat bike. The SN04 sets new standards in comfort. If you find a standard rigid fat bike comfortable the 120 mm travel SN04 makes riding as smooth as silk. Look at the picture above the bike would hardly notice riding over those boulders.
The SN04 will make you a great trail rider. Rock gardens will no longer hold any fear for you. You’ll just lean back and roll through them. The bike will do all the hard work for you. With the suspension helping to keep your tires on the ground you’ll find no lack of grip with the SN04.
You’ll even notice this grip if you take it on an urban ride or use it for your commute to work. When at lights you’ll be able to track stand practically forever. The bike will keep you upright and not let you waver to the side and fall over, which always hurts your pride more than your body.
The SN04 like our other fat bike frames is constructed from Toray T700 carbon fiber. The carbon this time is built up to make sure that the frameset is stiff despite having a shock linkage built into it. We recommend a Rock Shox Monarch XX shock at the back and a 120mm Rock Shox Bluto out front.
The ICAN fat bike family
Our fat bike frame might only be 3 models big, but it is hard to see why it would need any more models. With our 3 models, we have covered all the fat bike bases. We have brought you high-end carbon fiber fat bike frames and done so at a very affordable price.
The use of carbon fiber allows our models to not only be useful during winter, but they can also be a great summer bike. As you won’t be carrying any excess weight around you’ll definitely find our bikes great for getting some foot out fast cornering actions during the summer. Fat bikes might have been designed initially for floating over snow, but that doesn’t mean you can’t hammer them down dry and dusty tracks in summer.
Once you’ve tried one of our fat bikes you might find it very hard to go back to “normal” bikes, it is not very often that you can call buying a new bike a life-changing idea but with a fat bike you sure can.
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30 English Words Borrowed from Dutch
By Mark Nichol
During much of the 1600s, the Netherlands was a world power, especially at sea, and this influence contributed to the English language in the form of borrowings from Dutch into English of various nautically and aquatically themed words. Here’s a list of many of these terms (a few of which were adopted from, or may derive from cognates in, other languages) and their definitions and their Dutch origins.
1. avast (“stop”): from hou vast, meaning “hold fast”
2. bow (“front of a ship”): from boeg (or from Old German or Old Norse)
3. brackish (“salty”): from brac (or a Low German cognate), meaning “salty”
4. buoy (“marker” or, as a verb, “mark with a buoy” or “keep afloat”): from buoy, ultimately from the Latin word boia, meaning “shackle”
5. caboose (“the last car on a freight train, used for the accommodation for the train’s crew”): from kabuis or kombuis, meaning “galley,” or “ship’s kitchen”
6. commodore (“senior captain” or “naval officer above a captain in rank”): probably from kommandeur, ultimately from the Old French word comandeor, meaning “commander”
7. cruiser (“warship larger than a destroyer but smaller than a battleship,” or “pleasure motorboat”): from kruisen (related to kruis, meaning “cross”), meaning “sail across or go through”
8. deck (“any of various floors of a ship”): from dek, meaning “covering”
9. dock (“mooring structure for vessels” or, as a verb “tie up at a dock”): from docke, meaning “pier”
10. dredge (“riverbed or seabed scoop” or, as a verb, “drag” or “scoop”): perhaps based on dregghe, meaning “dragnet”
11. freebooter (“pirate”): from vrijbuiter, meaning “robber”; the second half of the word is related to booty, also derived from Dutch
12. freight (“shipped goods” or, as a verb, “ship goods”): from a word variously spelled fraght, vracht, and vrecht and meaning “water transport”; the Dutch word is also the source of fraught, meaning “heavy” or “weighed down”
13. filibuster (“obstructive act” or, as a verb, “obstruct”): from vrijbuiter by way of the Spanish word filibuster (see freebooter above), which in turn comes from the French word flibustier
14. hoist (“lift” as a noun or a verb): from hijsen
15. jib (“spar”): from gijben, meaning “boom”
16. keel (“spine or structure projecting from a hull”): from kiel
17. keelhaul (“punish by dragging over the keel”): from kielhalen, meaning “keel hauling”
18. kill (“riverbed”): from kil
19. maelstrom (“whirlpool” or, by extension, “confused situation”): from maalstroom, meaning “grinding current” or “strong current” (the second element of the word is cognate with stream); possibly based on an Old Norse word
20. morass (“boggy or muddy ground” or, by extension, “complicated or confused situation”): from marasch, meaning “swamp,” partly based on the Old French word marais, meaning “marsh”
21. plug (“stopper” or, as a verb, “stop (a hole)”): from plugge, meaning “stopper”
22. school (“large group of fish,” unrelated to the term for an educational institution): from schole
23. scow (“small, wide sailboat” or “flat-bottomed boat”): from schouw
24. shoal (“large group of fish”; unrelated to the same word meaning “area of shallow water”): cognate with schole
25. skipper (“captain of a ship”): from schipper, meaning “someone who ships”
26. sloop (“sailboat,” either a small modern boat or a specific type of warship): from sloep, either ultimately from slupen, meaning “to glide,” or from the Old French term chalupe
27. smack (“small sailboat”): possibly from smak, meaning “sailboat,” perhaps from the sound made by flapping sails
28. smuggler (“illegal trader”): smokkelen or the Low German word smukkelen, meaning “transport (goods) illegally”)
29. stockfish (“cod or similar fish prepared by drying”): from stokvis, meaning “stick fish”
30. yacht (“small, light pirate-hunting naval vessel” or “pleasure motorboat or sailboat”): from jacht, meaning “hunt” and short for jachtschip
(via 30 English Words Borrowed from Dutch)
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30 English Words Borrowed from Dutch
During much of the 1600s, the Netherlands was a world power, especially at sea, and this influence contributed to the English language in the form of borrowings from Dutch into English of various nautically and aquatically themed words. Here’s a list of many of these terms (a few of which were adopted from, or may derive from cognates in, other languages) and their definitions and their Dutch origins.
1. avast (“stop”): from hou vast, meaning “hold fast”
2. bow (“front of a ship”): from boeg (or from Old German or Old Norse)
3. brackish (“salty”): from brac (or a Low German cognate), meaning “salty”
4. buoy (“marker” or, as a verb, “mark with a buoy” or “keep afloat”): from buoy, ultimately from the Latin word boia, meaning “shackle”
5. caboose (“the last car on a freight train, used for the accommodation for the train’s crew”): from kabuis or kombuis, meaning “galley,” or “ship’s kitchen”
6. commodore (“senior captain” or “naval officer above a captain in rank”): probably from kommandeur, ultimately from the Old French word comandeor, meaning “commander”
7. cruiser (“warship larger than a destroyer but smaller than a battleship,” or “pleasure motorboat”): from kruisen (related to kruis, meaning “cross”), meaning “sail across or go through”
8. deck (“any of various floors of a ship”): from dek, meaning “covering”
9. dock (“mooring structure for vessels” or, as a verb “tie up at a dock”): from docke, meaning “pier”
10. dredge (“riverbed or seabed scoop” or, as a verb, “drag” or “scoop”): perhaps based on dregghe, meaning “dragnet”
11. freebooter (“pirate”): from vrijbuiter, meaning “robber”; the second half of the word is related to booty, also derived from Dutch
12. freight (“shipped goods” or, as a verb, “ship goods”): from a word variously spelled fraght, vracht, and vrecht and meaning “water transport”; the Dutch word is also the source of fraught, meaning “heavy” or “weighed down”
13. filibuster (“obstructive act” or, as a verb, “obstruct”): from vrijbuiter by way of the Spanish word filibuster (see freebooter above), which in turn comes from the French word flibustier
14. hoist (“lift” as a noun or a verb): from hijsen
15. jib (“spar”): from gijben, meaning “boom”
16. keel (“spine or structure projecting from a hull”): from kiel
17. keelhaul (“punish by dragging over the keel”): from kielhalen, meaning “keel hauling”
18. kill (“riverbed”): from kil
19. maelstrom (“whirlpool” or, by extension, “confused situation”): from maalstroom, meaning “grinding current” or “strong current” (the second element of the word is cognate with stream); possibly based on an Old Norse word
20. morass (“boggy or muddy ground” or, by extension, “complicated or confused situation”): from marasch, meaning “swamp,” partly based on the Old French word marais, meaning “marsh”
21. plug (“stopper” or, as a verb, “stop (a hole)”): from plugge, meaning “stopper”
22. school (“large group of fish,” unrelated to the term for an educational institution): from schole
23. scow (“small, wide sailboat” or “flat-bottomed boat”): from schouw
24. shoal (“large group of fish”; unrelated to the same word meaning “area of shallow water”): cognate with schole
25. skipper (“captain of a ship”): from schipper, meaning “someone who ships”
26. sloop (“sailboat,” either a small modern boat or a specific type of warship): from sloep, either ultimately from slupen, meaning “to glide,” or from the Old French term chalupe
27. smack (“small sailboat”): possibly from smak, meaning “sailboat,” perhaps from the sound made by flapping sails
28. smuggler (“illegal trader”): smokkelen or the Low German word smukkelen, meaning “transport (goods) illegally”)
29. stockfish (“cod or similar fish prepared by drying”): from stokvis, meaning “stick fish”
30. yacht (“small, light pirate-hunting naval vessel” or “pleasure motorboat or sailboat”): from jacht, meaning “hunt” and short for jachtschip
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Work is getting in the way of me carrying my cats around the house and kissing their little heads.
I miss them.
-D
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(OOC:
Okay, so my interpretation of Dark doesn't like being around cameras if they don't have to, since their aura is known for fucking up A/V equipment. But if there is one (1) thing they use the MarkiplierTV official TikTok for, it's for showing off their cats. Giving their Sphynx little baths and putting him in little sweaters, putting the microphone next to their Persian so everyone can hear her little trilling purrs, doing those faceless, narration-less cooking videos where they make treats for them -- that kind of stuff.
They love their babies. So so so much 💟💟💟)
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Our Babies
Cuties, aren't they?
~ᗯIᒪ
#Lookie what I made Darkles!#tagged for Darky#boggy destroyer of worlds#loki the god of mischief#cats
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Did Loki + Boggy get all their boops
They most certainly did! The little rascals even started to boop me back! 😸
~ᗯIᒪ
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How's Boggy been
Boggy is doing very well, thank you. She and her brother are nearly ready for leash-walks outside in the Springtime... nearly. I still have yet to successfully lead them at the same time, without them pulling me in two different directions.
Not that that means they get any less treats for their effort, of course.
-D
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hello hi, i promise that i am a normal man with normal feels who doesn't get really sad while drunk, and I do not worry about things deeply forever, anyways, please disregard anything that I said in my previous message, I'm gonna go throw myself into the ocean now, love you zaza, unfortunately i must simply disappear now -Quill
Take care of yourself, son. Do let me know when you and Malik are next available, I'd love to have you over soon.
-D
#as does boggy#she almost appears to know when i'm talking on the phone with you#ask darkiplier#ask dark#darkiplier#hostiplier#the host markiplier#markiplier the host#books bound with gauze#glitched muse#boggy destroyer of worlds#alcohol
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🍄, 🐑, and 🕯️ uwu
🍄 Mushroom: What is a quote you find comfort in?
"Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
🐑 Sheep: What is a comfort item you own?
I have a small sachet pillow I keep in my pocket during work. It's a stress-toy that makes me feel much less ridiculous using it than those unsightly clown-shaped ones overcrowding the boxes in the HR room.
🕯️ Candle: What is something you can’t go to bed without?
There are quite a few prerequisites I have to abide by before I can get to bed. To name only a few: the outside doors and window screens are to be locked, the cats' belongings are to be cleaned and put away and, whether he's in the house for the evening or not, I have to know for sure that Wilford is safe.
And that's all just to get into bed, mind you, not necessarily to fall asleep. Insomnia has its fangs firmly lodged in my neck....
-D
#ask darkiplier#ask dark#darkiplier#wilford warfstache#favorite color#darkstache#boggy destroyer of worlds#loki the god of mischief
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I made up with my son, I got to spend an afternoon with three cats in my house, and now I'm enjoying time with my husband.
Quite an improvement from last week, I daresay.
-D
#ask darkiplier#ask dark#darkiplier#the host markiplier#markiplier the host#hostiplier#books bound by gauze#boggy destroyer of worlds#loki the god of mischief#wilford warfstache#favorite color
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I'm opening the good wine and sinking into my cat's fur face-first.
I am officially unavailable at this time. If you are not my husband or a cat, I don't want to hear it.
-D
#ask darkiplier#ask dark#darkiplier#wilford warfstache#favorite color#boggy destroyer of worlds#loki the god of mischief#alcohol
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Good afternoon.
We have returned from our Honeymoon. It was a lovely little break from the world, and Wilford and I will be happy to recount what happened.
That being said, I'm happy to be home. I'm currently getting a much-deserved talking-to from Boggy about being away for so long, but Loki seems more interested in making up for lost cuddle-time as quickly as possible.
Come talk to us.
-D
#ask darkiplier#ask dark#darkiplier#wilford warfstache#favorite color#darkstache#boggy destroyer of worlds#loki the god of mischief
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