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survivalist-anon · 7 days

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Log 9: Old wounds heal twice

Walking into a picturesque farmland seems to never get old, I could see Mr.McGregor's farm a little ways up the hillside. Fjord had tirelessly marched with me for a better half of 10 miles.

"Ah, ready to see some chickens?", i could tell he was exited.

"Aye, don't worry lass, I have plenty of bolts ready.", with absolute gusto.

Fjord seemed a little too exited, I'm not sure what he was expecting, but hopefully he wasn't going to cause too much trouble. On that thought, I suddenly remembered that slip of paper Aldercon had given me. Taking out the paper, I was a bit.....well.... confused.

Pine Hills is currently home to a population of 900 or so people.....there was 7 names on this piece of paper.

Three I recognized, I wasn't too shocked to see James and nurse Amila on this list. However, I was actually surprised to see Mr. And Mrs Bellcaller was on here.

The other four ....were a mystery to me....never have I heard of their names....or known anyone close to those names.

"Hmm...Fjord looks like you're going to have to sneak in, I'm not certain if McGregor knows about space marines...nor do I have any idea hows going to take it.", I tried to come up with a plan...and fast.

Scratching his head, he hatches up a deceptively simple plan. "...hmmm...why don't we ...tell him it's a costume?".

"A costume? That's actually crazy enough to work.", I gave him an agreement nod.

"haha, we can say it's for that strange celebration you mortals like to do during the colder weather! I'm certain you know ".

'A cold weather celebration', that had me a little bit puzzled for a second until I realized what he was taking about, "You mean Halloween, it's the only holiday where people intentionally use costumes."

He nodded, "yes! That's the celebration! I remember last year we passed by your village and saw the whole thing. We were wondering why there were so many screams yet...there was laughter? At first we wanted to stop what we thought was someone torturing some unlucky sod. The look on our faces when all we saw were you mortals dressed up all merrily...it looked like good fun.", he seemed to reminisce about that day almost to the point of nostalgia, even if was only last year.

I even started to remember my past Halloweens too, good times of mystical spooky fun. "Well, it's still six months away. I bet we can plan something for this year if you want.".

If he had a tail, he'd furiously wagging it. "Sounds like a plan.".

We both hurried a little to farm. "Wait here, I'll just get a head to see if he's there and tell him you're a friend working on a costume. Deal?", I patted him on the arm.

"Deal.", in return, he patted my head. I don't know why or if it's because I've been with him and his animalistic nature rubbed off on me....but I liked it. It felt good for some reason.

I jogged to the barn, as I looked around, no one. It was strangely quiet for some reason. I looked to see if there any sitting near the farm house, nope. I checked the inside of the barn to see if there was anyone in there. Nope, just chickens and a few pigs. McGregor and Anna weren't anywhere to be seen either. It was just them after all.

I had a gut feeling I should double check if their truck was still here. I run to their driveway, it wasnt there. Even there was something lurking anywhere, the chickens were doing fine, just running around either free roaming or in the coups. "guess they were on their farmers supply run.", I speculated.

I quickly run back to Fjord's line of sight, "ALL CLEAR!", I motion for him to come. He adjusted his clothes bag that Bilhard had given him, and runs on all fours up the hillside. Goodness, he was wild. "Looks like you have free range in the meantime."

He stopped and stood up, he sniffed the air. "Huh, so...what do we need to kill one?".

At this point I started tilting my head, "oh they're not big. They're small animals. Remember my first kill technically was at 5 years old.". Walked to one of the coops where McGregor keeps his "sale chickens", these are for purchase so long as you leave the money in the cash box attached to the coop. "See, I shot this breed.", showed him the iconic white chicken that everyone is familiar with.

His reaction was again interesting to see. "Huh, they're not that intimidating.....are they edible?".

"Yep, you killed them, pluck them, drain the blood, clean them up and then cook them. Most people don't do that anymore because they can just buy already cooked or butchered chicken in the store....I think a little than a few decades ago people did have to prepare one halfway through the process."

As I was explaining this, I hear a flock of chickens clucking violently, as if they were interested in something. I turn to see a small group of them, horrifyingly pecking and killing a mouse that was unfortunate enough to sneak into the coop.

I for one, completely forgot how vicious chickens can be..... considering they were once dinosaurs....I should be ashamed for not remembering that detail.

Fjord, for some reason was impressed, "Hmm, I see you faced a worthy adversary in your youth.", teasing me and my first hunt. Of course.

I roll my eye a bit, "yes it very harrowing. Now, let's see if there's any-" I open the outdoor fridge next to the coop, only to find someone had vandalized the fridge by crushing all the eggs McGregor had probably harvested this morning."-left.".

Fjord peaked into the fridge, "well now that's a waste."

"You have no idea..." as I drop my head in mild inconvenience, I noticed a clue. A name tag...a name tag with a familiar logo on it. The Wonder Mart logo.

"Interesting..........", taking my phone out, I take pictures of the tag on the ground, the tag next to the fridge and coop, and the inside of the fridge. ".....ooohhh Anna is gonna hate me for texting her dad this ....but this could be big.".

Fjord in the meantime was watching me basically collect criminal evidence, he looks at the coop and finds the rooster.

This rooster is the closest thing to either a domestic terrorist or those campy signs of the devil worship that Pine Hills could have.... because this was a Black Spanish Rooster....with a bad temperament.

I turn to see Fjord on the defensive and the Rooster (whom I've come to call Cortez), having the silliest standoff I could witness.

"Lass, where's yah bow? I think I need it.", he sarcastically asked. "Seriously, this thing has some brass balls or somethin."

Cortez had begun to angrily erring at Fjord. Apparently, human men aren't the only ones that can have their masculinity challenged. With feathers ruffled, he suddenly jumps on Fjord's helmet and furiously claws and peck the helmy.

I was at this point expecting him to grab the rooster and kill with his bear hands, but he just stood there.

"Lass help. I've angered it.", it was the most monotoned cry for help I've heard from anyone.

"Oh God, one second." I rush to open the coop door, hoping to let the rooster in.

The sound of the hatch being lifted was like music to Cortez's ears, he calmed down the second the metal scraped against each other. Flapping furiously towards the coop for a legendary night of love making.

I am certain, Anna is going to fucking kill me now.

Fjord shook his head, removing his helmet he begrudgingly wiped the feathers grime off. "Are the males edible? I bet that one would make a mighty mouthful." He glared at Cortez, who's bad behavior has now been rewarded with several very fertile hens. "So what's the plan now?".

I could see I was going to have to go to the corner store in town for eggs. Lucky, my property was just a mile away. "That way. We head home. I can't just raid McGregor's kitchen for eggs, also I don't have a coop to keep chickens of mine own... neither do I care to have chickens for eggs. It's getting late, we can have some food at home, relax and who knows you can come with me to work tomorrow.", since James is in the list, I'm sure he won't mind Fjord, at least in disguise, just hanging out.

"ah, sorry about your eggs lass.", I get another head pat.

"Ah it's alright, things like this can happen.", it happens, but not like this. I leave the tag there on the ground for McGregor to find, I've already set the pictures and gifted him several more chicks.

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Stewing on the hood of his patrol vehicle, having already eaten his lunch. Jeff postulates a way to make amends with Lorey.

"hmm..."Lorey, I know what happened back at the campground was....bad...but I'm sorry and I forgive you too", yeah...that should work....maybe I should have brought her a burger? Hmm...".

He waits a little more, class his partner from the patrol car walkie, " ~chk This is Officer Colt, any signs of the target?"

On the other line, his partner, another local PD named Thomas answers on his end, "~chk Jeff, come one man. We've been through this. Get over her, and find yourself a new gal. It ain't worth the embarrassment man."

Jeff not wanting to hear this, "~chk Tom, you don't understand. I really miss her, want to say sorry "

"~chk, bud, asking her out again isn't sorry. Just forget about her. Heck me and the guys are heading to Portland later this week for some fre-acky stuff man...you should come.... maybe you'll find a less spastic gal."

Letting out a heavy sigh, "~chk, let me try one more time, over.". He cuts off the walkie....he looks to the field and wonders if his plan is going to work. "maybe I have some fries left.", looking into his take out bag, he can see he had pretty much finished everything.

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"-and than, when it got darker, my dad let the grill up. Man with the light of the brackets it was so cool. It was like fire magic.", I saw Fjord's face going from enjoying my story to suspicious.

"Fire Magic?", he asked with a cocked brow.

"It's a figure of speech, it was a cool and interesting moment that can look a little extraordinary because it's bright embers at night.", that was the second time I could see a genuine look of seriousness about the concept of magic. "What's your issue with magic? You do understand runes like the ones all over your armor are pagan."

His cocked brow goes away, "Pagan?", again genuine curiosity had struck again.

I could tell the conversation had become complicated, "ugh....ok I'll probably be able to explain it when I get-fuck me in every fucking direction what is Jeff doing here."

Fjord looked like his heart skipped a few beats, until he looked towards my cabin. "....who is he? Is he an intruder? Should i-", I raise my hand to steady him.

"please no... unfortunately everyone here knows I use a bow and arrow and he's a police officer. If he disappears than I technically disappear.", whatever good mood I was in had just went out the window.

Fjord could feel my frustration, he gave a soft growl and attempted to pass me to get to Jeff.

"Wait wait, Fjord hold on what are doing?", I grab his furred belt and nearly dislocated my arm from the force of him leaving my grip. The closest thing to that was holding on to a car as it was slowly rolling away. I run in front of him, "Stop stop stop! What are you doing?! You can't just walk up to him. Please wait here, trust me. My wrath is already too much for his little sad skull to handle.".

He looks at me, than to the cop car in the distance, "ok lass ....but if anything happens....I won't hesitate.".

"you can scare him, just please put your helmet on while doing it.", I knew from the one marine who killed Grandpa and from the video of 'Big Blue' that their armor was completely bulletproof. Plus it would hide Fjord 's identity.

I give a reassuring pat on his breast plate. "I'll be ok". I take a deep breath and march to my driveway.

As the sound of my stomps came closer, Jeff decides to pull his gun, "FREEZE!", his flushed cheeks had all the blood drain from his face.

He was officially done to me.

"....first you leave me in the middle of the forest....alone...you TAKE my car and abandon me....now....THIS!?", I've had enough.

"Lorey!? Oh my lord I am sorry! I-I just wanted to apologize a-and I was just-", he knew he had just fumbled his last ball with me.

"JUST WHAT?!? AM I JUST SOME SUSPICIOUS CHARACTER TO YOU NOW?!?", I was shaking, tears in my eyes, almost blinding me. Probably for the better not to see his face.

What I didn't know, was the moment I screamed. Fjord was going to take initiative.

"Lorey for Christ's sake! Can you please stop being over dramatic! What about me!? I heard something that night that scared the living shit out of me and THIS IS HOW YOU TREAT ME?!", his shouting was just as bad as mine.

The difference was I wasn't use to losing my temper like he was, he was very use to it.

"AT LEAST YOU HAD A WAY TO GET BACK HOME! I SPENT SEVERAL HOURS UNTIL THE DEAD OF NIGHT! NEARLY 20 MILES AWAY FROM FUCK ALL NOWHERE IN THE APPALACHIA MOUNTAINS! If it weren't for a gang of bikers finding me cold, wet and SCARED to death on the side of the highway I WOULD BE DEAD!", whomever was in earshot, had just heard the truth behind my breakup with Jeff.

"Oh so you're calling me a coward?! For defending myself and doing what it took to survive?!?, his hands were spread out, lucky for me he had put his gun on the hood of his patrol car and rarely used his taser. "You know what!? You're under arrest!", he hastily took out his handcuffs.

I was absolutely dumbfounded, "For what yelling at you?!?"

He than spoke to me in a tone I would have never imagined hearing from him in my whole life, "For resisting arrest and assault of an officer.". Something in him changed that very second.

I was for the first time actually afraid of him.

I considering myself dead that very second....until....the patrol car had just dropped right behind Jeff.

Both of us letting out screams of own. However, I wasn't sure if I was the one screaming at a decibel on bats can hear.

I saw that Fjord had effortlessly thrown the patrol just inches away from Jeff's back.

Jeff, now visibly shaking, looked over his shoulder and saw his now turned over vehicle. "Oh man..... dad's going to kill me.", he haphazardly took out his taser and pointed to whomever did this.

He turned to see Fjord, just ten feet away, the eyes of his helmet glowing red, and menacingly standing there, growling loud enough for me to feel it.

I knew he and the others were protective, but this was a whole different level of scary. I could see him slowly coming towards us.

By this point, I was more scared for Jeff. I can see that he was crying, soaked in sweat, nothing in his training could prepare him for this. He pulls the trigger and as the electric dart shoot out. Nothing, just the drowned out sounds of the car alarm of the patrol vehicle and the pathetic buzzing of the wires.

Fjord didn't even flinch, of course he wasn't going to flinch.

Jeff had to now rely on his gun...which wasn't holstered to his belt.

"oh my God nononono please oh God no.", his panicked state had unraveled him into a mess. He saw that Fjord was mockingly holding his gun like a toy.

"yah want this, boyo?", even his voice was closer to growling than before. He than throws Jeff's gun back at him, "pick it up."

Jeff hesitated, still shaking and blathering nonsensically to himself.

"Pick. It. UP!", the growl had gone to a mild roar.

Jeff gave a quick scream, with a violently shaking hand, he picked up the gun.

Fjord coldly stared at him, unmoving. "....do it."

Still shaking, Jeff again hesitated.

"DO IT. COWARD!", he roared again.

I didn't know what to make of this, it was as if all the anger I had felt physically manifested in front of me and now all I feel is regret.

I genuinely hated Jeff, but this felt it had gone too far.

Jeff suddenly, stopped shaking. Something in him snapped again, he grinned and unloaded on to Fjord. All he did was yell, shoot until there was only clicks.

Fjord. Was completely unharmed. The bullets didn't even chip the paint off his armor.

Jeff's manic grin, slowly turned into a look of horror.

Fjord, silently steps up to Jeff, towering over him. Gently grabs the gun by the barrel, and crushes it as if it were make of old cheap plastic. He leaned closer to Jeff's face.

"boo."

Jeff screamed a blood curling scream and ran off as fast as he could

I was horrified, silently crying from yelling at Jeff and having just witnessed less than a fraction of what Fjord was capable of.

He turned to me, probably hoping for me to thank him, but I think he realized he scared me in the process.

He took off his helmet, "Lorey?", I slowly slumped down to the ground, everything has taken a good bit of my strength. "no no no please lass, I only ment to scare him. I swear, I wasn't going to do anything.... please.. please don't be afraid of me."

I took deep breaths, I stared out into the dusk of the evening, I looked to Fjord and all I can see was the look of guilt in those golden eyes of his. Now practically glowing in the dim light.

I knew what I was getting into, I could see the signs. I took a deep breath, this was a sign that I'm in a situation where I am dealing with extraordinary men capable of things I'm going to have to prepare myself for....he was slowly waking towards me, probably at this point not wanting to frighten me.

"please lass, I'm sorry. I won't do that ever again... please I'm-", he was like a child who had just been found with his father's gun and was begging for forgiveness. The heartbreak I felt for him just now was indescribable, he genuinely felt remorse.

I know why he did it, I was not going to be mad at him for doing his job. After all, Jeff wasn't just being an asshole that moment.... something felt terrible in him.

Wiping my face and nose, trying to control myself. "It's ok Fjord, it's alright...*hic*, you did good. It's ok ", we just hugged it out on the driveway.

I wasn't thinking about any witnesses, nor what Sten and Toke would think.

All I can do, should do...and would do, is forgive him. "It's alright, I'm ok....it was the heat of the moment, I was yelling at him too...and you protected me. It's all that matters. I'm not afraid of you, I'll never be afraid of you."

He looked up at me, I have no idea how I just made a harden warrior from fucking outter space cry a little for doing his job....but I can't blame him. All I can do now was hug his big fluffy red head, "now *sniff*, let's get inside before Jeff comes back with back up."

Fjord picked me up from the ground, carrying me, "yes lass....do you want me t-

"OH STOP THAT, you asshole joking in a time like this?!", my laughing betrayed my momentary anger at that joke. The tension had to have given way at some point or another.

His hardy laugh was contagious. "IM SORRY LASS, I COULDN'T HELP IT.", we just continued laughing to the door.

We're both morons.

End of log 9

@egrets-not-regrets @barn-anon @kit-williams

#space marine husbandry #warhammer 40k #space marine #survival log #space marine husbandry sentience #space marines #space wolves

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irradiatedsnakes · 1 year

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I've ran out of current vods from my favourite streamer, do you have any recommendations for fun rtvs vods to watch? I've really been meaning to check some out

oh yes absolutely!!

i don't watch every rtvs member stream, so if anybody wants to chime in with vods from other folks, please feel free! i pretty much just watch wayne, holly, and scorpy's streams, so:

from wayneradiotv:

looking through wayne's catalogue i'm running into the problem that most of my favorites (like the among us, jackbox, & 420 streams) are best enjoyed when you're already pretty familiar with the crew, so maybe save those for later if you end up enjoying rtvs' stuff. all of the proximity chat among us videos are fantastic (and i like watching the same one from multiple peoples perspectives, holly's in particular are great). RTVS congress, a stream by baaulp, is also great and worth watching once familiar with the crew

i think my best wayne (well, on wayne's channel, all of these feature multiple members of the crew) recommendation though is gonna be I.M. MEEN, which is a completely normal playthrough of a regular copy of 90's kids' edutainment game i.m. meen, which has nothing wrong with it. for some of the other "rtvs brand of weirdness" sort of streams, check out waynekenstein's lab (fun with ai generated faces) and chex quest hd (just.. watch this one)

wayne does a lot of "grand tour" streams (technically the im meen one is one of these but), where he goes through older/weirder/obscurer games. fin fin on teo the magic planet is a FANTASTIC one (fin fin needs no introduction, but in case he does, odd 90's virtual pet with a great theme song), plus the echs bachs catalogue (a bizarre collection of pretty awful games made by one dude called Echs Bachs), and club penguin rewritten (it's club penguin, bro).

if you like seeing a game played over many hours and multiple streams, i'd check out chulip, lisa: the painful, minecraft 24 hour charity stream, and moon rpg: remix. lisa and moon remain unfortunately unfinished, but the streams are still absolutely worth checking out.

from hollowtones:

most of my favorite holly vods are biiiig long streams of a playthrough of a whole game. her stuff tends to be pretty chill and i find them nice and relaxing. sometimes there's friends joining her, sometimes it's just her. of these, i really like bugsnax (adore these ones. idk how to succinctly explain bugsnaz. is bugs, is snax, are you a jokester?), hypnospace outlaw (PLEASE watch these ones especially if you havent played/watched hypnospace before), and moonglow bay (really sweet fishing game).

holly also does a number of wikipedia streams, where she (and friends) read and discuss wikipedia articles about food for upwards of 6 hours a piece. it's really good. it's really good. i like the soup one.

another favorite holly stream is GO-FISH DELUXE FOR SUPER PLAYERS, where holly and a friend play a custom game of go fish for 7 and a half hours. i love this one.

and i would be remiss to leave out, of course, the pigmas in july peppa pig stream. which is where holly, joined by her sister if i remember correctly it's been a minute since i watched, plays the peppa pig video game for nintendo switch. this one is very worth watching to the very end.

from socpens:

my #1 recommendation from scorpy's catalogue is going to be every single one of the VHS VIEWINGZ streams. scorpy obtains and plays a bunch of vhs tapes on stream with friends, it's always always always a good time. my favorite of all of them is probably this one, which among other things, includes a tape about learning to be a clown. make sure to watch to the end for a t-bone tickler! this one, featuring Escalator Safety and VOLTON THE ELECTRITY DEMON is also great. i'm having a hard time choosing just a few, they're all really good, so i'm just gonna link the eye palming one and be done with it.

for gameplay with scorpy, i really like a way out with wayne (unintentionally hilarious 2 player narrative game about escaping from jail), any of the david cage game vods but here's detroit become human, and not for broadcast (a FMV game about running a tv station- censoring stuff, monitoring broadcasts, that sort of thing. has a very interesting narrative)

and a couple other things

ok so these aren't like, the typical stream vods, while they are technically livestreamed stuff they're not quite in the same category. but they're all really fucking good.

of course, half life VR but the ai is self aware. there's full stream vods available for these, but if you haven't watched before i highly recommend watching the edited versions on wayne's main channel linked above. in case you haven't heard of hlvrai before, basic concept is that it's an in-character playthrough (wayne roleplaying as gordon freeman) of half life 1 in VR with a cast of self-aware ai NPCs (played by other members of the rtvs crew) accompanying him through the game. no prior knowledge of half life necessary. just fantastic.

next up, GAMECLAM. a yearly e3-style gaming conference about the best video games console that doesn't exist. here's the first one, there's currently 3 in total. there's also a commentary video on scorpy's vod channel. PLEASE experience the gameclam. PLEASE experience the gameclam

lastly, half life: alyx but the gnome is TOO AWARE. wayne does a gnome run challenge of HL:A with a mod that gives the gnome a biiiit more personality. (due to some references, best watched after hlvrai, but they're not part of the same series/continuity). not all the way finished at the moment- the finale's been streamed (and you can find a 3rd party upload of the finale stream on youtube (thank you youtube user sawsily for everything you do)) but the edited version of the finale should be coming out pretty soon.

#rtvs #WHUF i hope this isnt too overwhelming i know its a Lot adsxdsfxds #theres SO much stuff i havent touched on here i havent even mentioned faxmas... but this post is long enough

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biitchcakes · 10 days

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Ideas for a FALLOUT verse :

i'm gonna ramble here but i wanna get What I'm Thinking out.

OPTION 1 :

Jessica's Fallout story is very similar to how her life starts now ⸺ only, instead of Hydra that's employed her parents, it's the Institute. Researchers in genetics that would be very interested in some Big Brain Biologists like the Drews. Perhaps they're wanted for their research into irradiated spiders ( we don't see any mutated spiders iirc?? so like, maybe they survived pretty unaffected, stayed normal, and maybe that's why they're being researched on? 🤷‍♀️ ), or perhaps not and they're just normal biologists and one of them is more than willing to use their daughter as a genetic guinea pig.

She's poked and prodded at as a child, perhaps even still while she's developing within the womb. She's got a slight immunity to radiation ( decently so, but not entirely safe from it as i'm not looking to Ghoulify the gal ).

Does this make her some sort of mutant by Fallout standards? Just lacking the FEV? Something instead of the FEV, really. I suppose, sorta kinda. And I might touch on that.

OPTION 2 :

I mean, I mean, look at Fallout 4's main storyline and look at what's happening to her in her comics right now ⸺ her son is abducted by an evil organisation, goes on a wild hunt and stops at nothing to find him. ( Replaying the game rn with her as a character, and every time she sadly says something like "I need to find my son, they've abducted my boy" it's a GUT PUNCH ⸺ TOO REAL RN )

I'd make her married to someone random, and I'd rename Shaun to Gerry.

If I go this route, a more Fallout 4-esque story not a one for one, I'm gonna work her being a detective for Nick Valentine in there somehow. I can't not do that. Everything else is so perfect already, how can I leave that out too? ( in his Raggedy Ass Columbo Jacket and all <3 )

Either way, some KEY THINGS I wanna hit:

She's a bounty hunter.

Her weapons of choice? Modified biker gloves charged with fusion cells, looks like lil electrified balls firing as she uses them. As well as a pistol fitted with a laser attachment that she's affectionately named her Venom Blaster. ( Think Pew Pew from FO:NV. ) I was gonna go with knuckle dusters but I like the biker gloves more. Suits her. Plus that means she's got some sort of range on them like she would her real venom blasts. How do they work technically? I'll get there.

In lieu of her pheromones, she's got high as all hell charisma. Could charm the dew right off a honeysuckle. And, if possible, some way to work in the Black Widow perk from New Vegas, 3 & 4.

She'll be younger than she is now ⸺ instead of being typically 28 - 32, I'm taking her down to 24 - 28.

There's a brief, and I mean very brief, period of time in the comics where she smokes. I'm bringing that back for this verse. Pay her in caps, or depending on the job, a pack of smokes. If you wanna gain some points toward her good side, bring her a pack out of the blue.

Still from London, but her parents move to the States at some point before the bomb.

#idk been tossing around things in The Old Noggin #maybe i'll have multiple verses *who's to say*#*who's gonna stop me even*#if u read this - what a champ u are #bless u thank u 😘#i might reblog this with more ideas later #( o o c . )

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godsofhumanity · 4 months

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I like how the character Wonder Woman is a Embodiment of Feminism and she was created by A MAN!!!! Yet people said she presents some bigoted ideas

It's also interesting how she's inspired by Greek mythology and had heavy ties to Greek Gods,her mom was a daughter of Ares and I think the first time I saw her,she was given life by Zeus via his lightning bolt,hence he's technically her dad typical Zeus

I think she's a great character, it's just that many people don't really GET her character and ended up making her a man-hating sexist,a man-izer, basically a male version of womanizer, it's a huge misinterpretation

I'm sure you understand how misinterpretations feel,many mythologies were botched just for the sake of someone's ego and interests anyway

I shared the misinterpretation with my teacher and he said Zack Snyder's version is the best one yet,cuz in that iteration,she doesn't hate men or thinks men are pigs etc,no, she's simply interested with the ideas of men and she's totally fine with them,which makes sense

I mean the woman was raised by only Women and only lived around till she's an adult,so ofc she's interested or curious. I don't think the Amazons generally hate men, they're just aware of how terrible some men are cuz that their nature

Also my first movie of Wonder Woman where I first knew her,featured her love interest,the guy who got stranded on Paradise Island,where the Amazons reside and when he saw a bunch of Amazonian ladies bathing, I think he looked seduced and tidied himself to "look nice for the ladies", I remember he very clearly he didn't seem embarrassed when he saw a bunch of women bathing outdoors in a pretty discrete place

Okay I don't really blame him,the place was called Paradise Island becuz so many beauties live there, it's literally paradise on Earth, it's also my bisexual's ass dream world

No hate for him btw, he's cool ig. Also I think he pretty much explained why Paradise Island is a no-man area. Can't blame the ladies for not liking guys there,they have their reasons I won't comment

The Amazons even spared that guy for literally trespassing and if they really did hate men,they wouldn't let him go back to the mainland alive. One of the central points of that movie was Wonder Woman bringing him back home and therefore she got a chance of learning about the outside world

I'm gonna search for that movie one day

very interesting and valid points, Anon.

as a child, i never cared much for Wonder Woman because she always wore that skimpy skirt barely covering her ass and to me, a little girl, i just thought that was gross.

but now, as an older girl, i see Wonder Woman as hugely successful, hard-working, kind, strong both mentally and physically, and she still dresses up so gorgeous. i have huge respect for her now because she works hard to get it both ways; so now i really have no problems at all with Wonder Woman or her pretty, but short, clothes. i think she really is kinda wonderful tbh,, one of the better heroes.

tbh i haven’t seen the movie you discussed— i have only ever seen Gal Gadot’s WW, and i’ve seen the old comics i used to read as a kid. i do like the new WW. i hope you are able to find the film and watch it again!!

#anon #anonymous #asks

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walriding · 6 months

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character info sheet.

Name. Miles Luis Upshur Ramírez

Name meaning. Miles -- Latin, soldier. Luis -- Spanish, famous warrior or renowned fighter. Upshur -- English, literally just means 'from the upper shire', but the fun fact significance is that Upshur was the middle name of the famous American journalist Bob Woodward. Ramírez -- Spanish, wise / renowned ruler / counselor

Alias.( ses ). Fun Mount Massive nicknames: the Host, the Apostle, the Witness, Little Pig, buddy, etc. As far as actual aliases, he's used various combinations of his four names on fake IDs before -- i.e. Luis Upshur, Miles Ramírez, etc.

two pictures you like of your character.

The money shot, the big cryptid moment, the only third person view we canonically have of Miles:

2. Probably what I consider to be the definitive Oscar-as-Miles photo, one of the things I saw and was instantly assured of my FC choice. It might sound stupid but Oscar is such an irrevocable part of Miles to me. I can't see him any other way, and having such a strong visual representation of him has always been a huge help in making him feel real for all these years:

three headcanons you never told anyone. Disclaimer that I have probably mentioned all of this at some point but it's been seven years of writing this guy and I fear I'm out of completely new material lol

He's never been much of an exercise buff but Miles used to be into running. He had a set circuit when he lived in DC and tried to keep a consistent schedule even when traveling for work. Never got to marathon level but did a lot of 5 and 10Ks, even a half marathon here and there. But it's not something he does anymore largely because there's... really no point. One of the benefits of being possessed and also kinda dead is you don't need to workout! Yaaaaay! Unfortunately without the endorphins and the satisfaction of exertion, running has lost its luster.

Prior to Mount Massive, Miles had a long-term boyfriend from college until they were in their late 20s. The last couple years of it were a tumultuous on-and-off-again relationship that started to deteriorate after he lost his staff reporter job and had to travel more. Prop 8 meant that same sex marriage was off the table, but they talked about engagement and building a serious life together. If Miles hadn't lost his job he probably would've proposed. But, then, if he hadn't lost his job a lot of things would've been different.

Miles is genuinely obsessed with roadside tourist traps -- giant balls of twine and other objects, weird architecture, fake alien sites, that sort of thing. The kitschier the better. If you're roadtripping with him and he spots a funky sign, he's pulling over.

three things your character likes to do in their free time.

Listen to music -- he's almost always got tunes on in the background but will sit down and really get absorbed in an album when he can.

Read -- mostly current events articles, sometimes a good nonfiction book.

Drive -- loves driving around the middle of nowhere to clear his head, even though it's not quite the same without the Jeep (rip).

three people your character loves.

Not technically a person, but the Walrider. Judge him if you want, but after a decade he's accepted that they're fucked up soulmates that were always meant to be <3. It's been a slowburn enemies to lovers journey, but over time he's adapted and stopped hating it for things that weren't really its fault. He's gone from denial to acceptance to tolerance to feeling genuine affection for the Swarm. Maybe it's too complicated to really define as love, but he can't think of a better word.

@mslangermann in some form in all verses always.

People with conviction. People who stand up for themselves and the things they believe in. People who are thoughtful and who care about something bigger than themselves.

two things your character regrets.

Not being a better son and brother before everything went to shit. His life choices and the prideful stubbornness with which he committed to them drove a wedge between himself and his parents, which trickled down into a strained relationship with his sisters. In hindsight, they were just worried about him and only wanted what was best for him -- but he was too absorbed with his career and trying to piece it back together to see that. He regrets arguing with them so much. He regrets not making the most of the time he had when he didn't know it was running out.

Somewhat verse specific, but he very deeply regrets what happened with @mslangermann's husband Blake after Temple Gate. Murkoff picked him out of the wreckage and brought him to another facility -- Miles found him while trying to dig up whatever he could about the cult. Blake was completely catatonic, and probing around in his mind revealed that there was nothing left of him mentally, either. Rather than leave him to suffer in Murkoff's hands, Miles elected to put him out of his misery. And still hasn't told Lynn. He doesn't regret doing it -- truly, there were no options that would have saved Blake -- but he regrets not being honest with her. He also blames himself a bit for not finding him sooner and possibly preventing tragedy.

three phobias your character has.

the dark

confined spaces

heights

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#long post #it's been a hot minute since i've really done an in depth meme for miles #i miss rambling about him <3 #(ᴅᴏᴄᴜᴍᴇɴᴛ ᴀᴄǫᴜɪʀᴇᴅ) ;;; ʜᴇᴀᴅᴄᴀɴᴏɴ

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Book 15, 2024

There's something about an older paperback fantasy trilogy that can feel so ballsy when considering the current state of fantasy publishing, although maybe the main thing is how they can easily fit into a jacket pocket.

Patricia A. McKillip's "The Riddle-Master of Hed" is fascinating in the reminder of what a lie the gritty adultification of the fantasy genre is (we all know the direction I am looking in).

One of those loosely Celtic fantasies, "The Riddle-Master of Hed" is much like the later works of McKillip's that I've read in that McKillip has no interest in infodumping or taking the time to explain the world to the reader. Pick it up from context clues, you're here for a /story/. Let the first line of the wikipedia plot summary act as an example:

"The titular Riddle-Master is Morgon, the Prince of Hed, a small, simple island populated by farmers and swineherds. The prince, inexplicably, has three stars on his forehead."

What's a Riddle-Master? OBVIOUSLY IT IS SOMEONE WHO IS REALLY GOOD AT RIDDLES AND KNOWS THE SORT OF THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW TO ANSWER RIDDLES. What are riddles? MOTHERFUCKER YOU KNOW WHAT RIDDLES ARE. It doesn't take long to pick up that a Riddle-Master is a highly educated scholar, a fantasy philosopher, and Morgon's a really good one. You learn that "Prince" doesn't mean "Son of a King", it's a title in and of itself that involves a spiritual connection to the land he's prince of (Hed). The stars? THEY'RE INEXPLICABLE you and Morgon know they're probably some kind of omen or mark of Chosen Oneness because you've read a book before and so has Morgon, they're just a signifier.

Before the start of the book, Morgon won a riddle-game with a curse ghost king and now has technically won the hand of the second most beautiful woman in the world but he's kind of embarrassed about the whole thing. Deth, a wandering harpist and messenger of the High One (God?), jostles Morgon into leaving Hed to pursue this and thus begins a novel that is entirely a Hero Trying to Refuse the Call. Morgon just wants to Go Home; this man has no great longing for something more than his little farm island and pigs and beer and maybe doing riddles but in a casual way, not in a inadvertently uncovering the secrets of the universe way.

There is a shipwreck, there are shapeshifters, there is amnesia and mysterious relic cities from when there were Sorcerers, people with pasts too long for their ages, foresty warrior women, dreams full of hidden knowledge, a legendary sword, an unplayable harp. It's a series of fantasy incidents that seem to only be connected by the fact that they keep happening to Morgon.

As I have also found with McKillip's writing, there's a dreamy, soft quality to everything that pulls you along gently. "The Riddle-Master of Hed" is not a page-turner, it's almost cozy.

And terrible things happen. The ending is startlingly bleak without fanfare. If you read "The Riddle-Master of Hed" as a standalone novel, it would be like playing a videogame with bad end possibilities and then leaving it there. It doesn't feel like a cliffhanger, possibly because of the quiet quality of McKillip's prose, possibly because of the fairytale elements in the style of McKillip's storytelling.

My only real complaint? One of the land rulers Morgon encounters in his journey is called the Morgol. Ms. McKillip, please, don't give me Morgon and the Morgol in the same book. Don't do that to me.

#2024 books #the riddle-master of hed #patricia a. mckillip

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saffronapplemanga · 1 year

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Tenmaku no Jadoogar: A Witch’s Life in Mongol - 天幕のジャードゥーガル

HISTORICAL, DRAMA

Tenmaku no Jadoogar: A Witch’s Life in Mongol by Tomato Soup

(2 volumes, ongoing)

JP only. The first 5 chapters are up for free in JP here.

Links to my other manga posts here

Hi, Fatimah here to talk more about the story of Fatima >:)

Definitely check out my post for volume one because I worked really hard on that and there's lots of cool info there and I don't want to repeat myself here.

This post will be broken up into: Brief Volume Two Summary - My Thoughts - Let's Talk Religion (Again) - The "Middle East" Is Actually a Colonizer Term

Let's go!

Brief Volume Two Summary

***SPOILERS FOR VOLUME TWO***

8 years have passed since Fatima was taken by the Mongols. She has been unable to retrieve the book that was stolen even though she's had it in her hands over and over. Ögedei has been crowned the new Khan after the death of Ghengis Khan. Sorghaghtani has asked Fatima to go spy on Chagatai. While trying to get her to infiltrate, she ends up at Töregene's tent instead where Fatima is accused of stealing her "Jada Stone".

We learn about Töregene's back story and her forced integration into the Mongol Empire, losing those she loved, and her marriage to Ögedei. Töregene and Fatima bond over their shared trauma and hate towards their captures. They start working together on upending the empire.

And work together they are! Looks like they're gonna raise hell in the empire.

Töregene attends a meeting she normally skips, and there Ögedei Khan proposes that the nomadic Mongols build a city. Everyone is against the idea as they were expecting to discuss the invasion of the eastern country, Kin (also known as the Jin State). Ögedei says that he wants to use this new city for manufacturing, to gather craftsmen from around the world, and as a center for trade. They then discuss their war plans for the siege on the Jin State.

Töregene shares all the information she's learned at the meeting with Fatima, and they discuss potential weaknesses in the Mongol Empire that could cause its downfall.

***END OF SPOILERS FOR VOLUME TWO***

My Thoughts

I'm excited to see what Fatima and Töregene do and what their dynamic is going to be like.

I do wish that some info was incorporated a little more subtly. I'm not a fan of info being dumped for the sake of the reader. Author Tomato Soup clearly has put a lot of care into researching for this series, so I just wish they took that extra step to weave the information in more naturally.

They put a lot of care into the visual language, such as the shape of text bubbles (right pic), so seeing charts like this (left pic) feels visually inconsistent.

Let's Talk Religion (Again)

Once again, I want to put the disclaimer that I am NOT a scholar, this is just what I know and my understanding so please don’t quote me. I probably have to gloss over and simplify a lot because there’s… too much.

At the beginning of the volume, there is mention of Islamic meat slaughtering practices (halal meat) compared to the customs of the Mongols.

I think halal is a word a lot of people have heard, especially in recent years, but what does it even mean?

Halal is anything that is permissible in Islam. Haram is anything NOT permissible in Islam, or sins. There are also things that are makrooh (strongly discouraged but not a sin) and mustahab (recommended but not obligatory) and so on.

How does that translate to food?

Halal foods are foods that are permissible for Muslims to consume. Most things are okay for consumption, so it's easier to list what isn't allowed/haram. You might be familiar with the fact that Muslims do not drink alcohol or eat pork. There's a reason for all this, but I'll get to that later. Some other things that are haram to consume are the following:

Carnivorous/predatory animals (Pigs are omnivores, so they technically fall into this category as well. Only herbivores are permissible to consume.)

Animals that died from disease.

Incests, reptiles, and "pests" (such as mice/rats).

These next points are debated depending on what scholar you follow:

Some Muslims only eat fish that have scales, while some believe pretty much any seafood that doesn't fall into the previous categories is fair game (I call this The Great Muslim Seafood Debate loll).

Some Muslims believe you should not eat "beasts of burden" such as horses/mules.

Exceptions to these rules are if you are in a situation where you are left with no other choice but a haram food option, then you will not be guilty of sin for consuming. God never wants to place unreasonable burden on his creation. One of the most important things in Islam is intention, and God can see what's in your heart.

Okay, so you have something that clears these rules. But! That doesn't automatically make it halal. When it comes to consuming animals, the slaughtering of the animal has to be done in a specific way. Let's break it down:

Land animals -

When slaughtering a land animal, it must be done in a specific way so that it becomes halal meat:

The animal must be well-fed and given water before slaughter.

They must be soothed and calm. You cannot slaughter if the animal is fearful and agitated.

Other animals must not witness the slaughter as it can frighten them.

The slaughter must be performed using a very sharp knife to cut the throat. Doing this will cause the animal to immediately lose consciousness and thus will not feel pain. It must be done as quickly, painlessly, and humanly as possible.

Do not allow the animal to see the knife as it can frighten them.

The slaughter must be performed by a Muslim. They must recite a prayer before cutting the throat and do so while facing Mecca.

The blood must be drained from the animal's body after the neck is cut as disease/toxins/etc. can live in the blood. This makes the meat cleaner and more sanitary.

You cannot stun an animal before slaughter (such as hitting it on the head or zapping it with electricity).

In cases where you are hunting, you can use arrows, guns, or hunting birds when hunting an animal that cannot easily be caught for traditional methods of slaughter.

Hunting is only allowed with the intention of hunting for food, not sport.

You must say a prayer when shooting.

If the animal does not die immediately during the hunt, you should slaughter them as quickly and painlessly as possible and not unnecessarily prolong any suffering.

"There's a reason for cutting the neck and slaughtering this way, you know..."

I still don't like the way this info is visually presented. I feel like it could have been done more naturally instead of breaking the immersion to explain things to the reader. But the info is correct!

Animals of the sea -

The animal must die outside of the water (for example, using "blast fishing" or "fish bombing" is prohibited — it's horrible for the environment and does not discriminate on what fish are killed. Even animals like dolphins and turtles can get caught in the blast and die. Coral reefs and such can end up damaged as well. Also, according to Wikipedia "For every ten fish killed, only one or two float to the surface, due to damage caused to their otherwise buoyant internal air bladders. The rest sink to the bottom." This causes a lot of waste. Using this method, you also wouldn't know if a fish was dead from disease and already floating around or if it was from the blast.)

They should not be descaled/skinned while still alive (this is the same for land animals).

I know this might seem like a long and tedious list, but there is a reason for these halal food guidelines. The purpose is to not cause any unnecessary pain to animals, be as humane as possible, and not consume anything that would be bad for your health. Health is of the utmost importance in Islam. I think we can all agree that alcohol is not great for you. There are studies being done about the effects of consuming carnivorous animal meat, pork, and so on not being the greatest for you either, etc. Again I want to reiterate, I'm not judging anyone. You do you, I literally don't care. I'm not saying you're wrong and terrible for consuming these things.

But yeah, I think that's everything for relevant religious stuff that came up in this volume.

I'd like to use the setting of the series as a springboard to discuss something I never see anyone talk about — and I think we should.

The "Middle East" Is Actually a Colonizer Term

Before you roll your eyes at me, just hear me out.

A while back, Drew Mackie, the guy behind Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games where I work as a translator/consultant, sent me an email with some questions for a post he was working on. Long story short, he wasn't sure how to refer to these Nintendo characters who looked stereotypically "Middle Eastern".

Big sigh... I am TIRED of seeing character designs like this... Check out Drew's post here! He writes lots of cool articles that are super interesting!

Luckily for him, this was VERY MUCH my lane. Please entertain my oncoming rant about the term "Middle East" guys. I swear I have a point to make.

When Drew sent me the picture of these Nintendo characters, I groaned. When I sent my brother the picture, he got real ticked off.

I don't know where it started exactly, but everyone just decided that this is what the "Middle-Eastern-look" is. To me, it just looks like Disney's Aladdin — in which what I mean is that this is what Westerners decided the whole region between the far East and far West looks like and everyone was like, "Yeah sure, okay." This look that is so prevalent looks like some bizarre mash-up of West Asia, South Asia, and North Africa to me. That's quite a range of regions to group together...

I always found it weird that this was the "Middle-Eastern-look" since it looked nothing like Kuwaiti traditional wear to me (or any other traditional clothing I'm familiar with tbh). And yet, it's like everyone was telling me, "Yes, this is what you wear. This is what you look like."

Some actual Kuwaiti traditional clothing. You can see a lot of influence from other regions due to trade. The headdresses remind me of the ones you see in Tenmaku no Jadoogar! I believe Turkey has something similar as well! And idk about you guys, but it doesn't look like the aforementioned "Middle-Eastern-look". That is some unholy mishmash of "brown culture" from the perspective of those outside of said culture.

Bottom right pic is what ship builders and pearl divers wore. My grandpa was a pearl diver! The fabric tied around their waist that's different colors and patterns is called a wizar. Dishdasha (the men's robe) can come in various colors. White is worn in the summer and darker colors in the winter. The red qitra (the fabric on the head) is also for winter as it's thicker and warmer than the white one. You can mix and match, especially between seasons to suit you depending on the weather. The black and gold overcoat is a bisht and it's to dress up the dishdasha, usually for special occasions.

Honestly, I almost never use the term "Middle East" myself for a few reasons (and now that I think about it, most of my family and friends don't really either. Maybe that's just me and the people around me idk. I know some people from the region do use it but I'm talking about the people I personally know). Like, what does the term even mean? I mean, it's not a continent, but everyone seems to act like it's the eighth continent. I get that continents are usually further broken up into regions to help be more specific about similar groups since continents are, well, huge and cover a lot.

The problem is, the "Middle East" is wayyyy too big and broad, and it covers areas that often don't have as much in common as many would believe, and it spans multiple continents (Are there similarities? Yeah of course, but like...). It feels like they said, "All you guys talk Arabic so we'll group you. Oh, and throw Iran and Turkey in there because same thing, right?" But then what about Libya or Morroco, which are North African Arab countries? By some definitions, they're not considered to be in the Middle East even though they "fit" but Egypt, another North African Arab country is? I could go on, but idk it all seems very arbitrary.

Yes, these regions did have a lot of trade going on with the Silk Road so you'll see common things shared across various countries along this trade route, but many people have just mushed them together and decided it's all the same.

Which Middle East is the Middle East-est Middle East?

Where did the term come from? -

The term "Middle East" may have originated in the 1850s in the British India Office. However, it became more widely known when American naval strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan used the term in 1902 to "designate the area between Arabia and India".

Which reads to me like, because some colonizers said so.

There's also a term that's kinda worse I recently learned about called the "Greater Middle East" which Wikipedia describes as:

The Greater Middle East is a political term, introduced in March 2004 in a paper by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace as a part of the U.S. administration's preparatory work for the Group of Eight summit of June 2004, denoting a vaguely defined region called the "Arab world" together with Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, Turkey, and several other neighboring countries that have cultural ties.

I recommend reading the rest of the paragraph on Wikipedia for yourself. It comes off as incredibly nope. It's gross.

But even this description says, "denoting a vaguely defined region" which is what I mean when I say it's arbitrary. I feel like it's too often used as a blanket term with negative connotations.

Personally, if I'm talking about Arab countries, I say "Arab" but it also depends on what I'm talking about. If it's a shared Arab thing, then Arab is fine, but if it's a cultural thing that's unique to Sham Arabs for example, I don't use it as broadly. Arab countries vary A LOT. Many assume they're all the same, but truth be told, Arabs get culture shock from each other and have a lot that's different — including neighboring nations. Sometimes we don't even understand each other because of how different dialects can be across different regions.

Obviously, I don't expect everyone to know all this, but I think the way we divide up the region and how we refer to it could get a makeover.

The world seems to be okay with dividing up, for example, Europe into smaller sub-regions that make some kind of sense — like Northern Europe, Western Europe, etc. But we don't commonly do that for the "Middle East" — nothing that makes any kind of sense. "Middle East" because it's halfway to East Asia in relation to the West? Because the colonizers said so?

Personally, I generally refer to myself as West Asian and I always check "Asian" on forms, even when they try to convince me Arabs are apparently white as if that makes sense (meanwhile my dad is perceived as being mixed race/black in America and he's not even close to being the darkest on his side of the family. While I am pale, no one would perceive me as white). Like I mentioned in my volume one post, I'm not only Kuwaiti Arab. I'm also Irani which is Persian and NOT Arab, plus some Turkish ancestry (also NOT Arab). Allllll of those countries are in West Asia. West Asia is already a term! Why don't we use it?????? We should all know why by now if you've gotten this far in the post.

Map of West Asia, which is already a thing. An actual geographical term. Wow. Too many people don't realize these countries are indeed in Asia. Crazy how Asia isn't just Japan, China, and Korea, huh.

I'm sure there are "Middle Easterners" who don't care, and I'm not here to tell those people how they should identify. That's up to them. DO NOT tell people how they should identify because that is deeply personal, and who the hell are you to tell them who they are?

But for the rest of you, consider adopting less colonizer vocabulary maybe? A lot of my family and friends find the term to have racist connotations since it's almost always used in a not-so-great context and it's from the view of the West. We HAVE other terms that we can use! Time to brush up on our geography and unlearn some nonsense kids.

I'm done. Thanks for coming to my TED talk❤️

✨And once again✨

I await your email publishers, my resume is ready… [email protected]

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If there’s any Japanese-only manga you want me to check out, let me know! No promises, I’ll only read what I’m interested in, but I’ll take suggestions into consideration. Preferably, shorter manga or newer manga with a few volumes out since I like to take breaks from longer series I’m reading :)

#tenmaku no jadoogar #a witch's life in mongol #manga #manga recs #manga recommendations #shoujosei #josei manga #manga discussion #kono manga ga sugoi #漫画 #おすすめ #天幕のジャードゥーガル

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hi. zosan tattoo!au. a) no sensible chuckle here I'm fucking cackling b) love the paired sword through the pec tattoos they've got!!! love that detail!! c) does sanji have one of those butcher "heres where the different cuts come from off a pig / cow" guide tattoos or was that too cliche and d) how inked is the rest of the crew or were the brainworms contained to these two

this is a full ensemble cast AU baybee!! everyone's in it!!!!! the art is biased towards zosan because i myself am biased :^) but to give a very brief rundown: luffy's the owner of thousand sunny tattoo & piercing and the IRS would have his head on a pike if nami didn't have her shit together

everything luffy does is completely off the cuff, vibrantly colorful, extremely dynamic, zero guarantee that you'll get what you ask for bc he decides what he wants to do on a whim. his booking list goes like, almost two years out.

zoro's style is predominantly traditional japanese, will sometimes do reproductions of woodblock prints; very seldom goes back to traditional mediums but does so occasionally (this is a backstory to be unlocked)

nami is their piercer! she also has a backstory to be unlocked! she handles their licensing, inspections, and finances. they would all be dead without her.

usopp has a background in illustration (for children's books!) and loves to do both fun, imaginative, whimsical art and technical illustrations of plants

sanji does american traditional with unusual motifs (often food), still takes shifts at the baratie every so often, zeff has his paintings hung up, sanji finds this soooo embarrassing (endearing)

chopper is slowly working his way up to apprenticeship, was going to go into medical illustration And Then He Met Luffy

robin does extremely detailed and highly technical (body) horror

franky does sickass biomechanical type stuff

this is a direct quote from giffy because it's so fucking funny i can't bring myself to summarize it: "brook was a big name in the 80's and then luffy met him at like. a denny's parking lot and was like hey!! want a job. the denny's is run by moria, it's the closest place to undeath i can imagine"

jinbei does really bold, intricate geometric blackwork, guested a couple of times, and then luffy sniped him for permanents from big mom's for-profit college scam

i'll be real with you i am SO BAD at coming up with tattoos for characters but i think sanji would have something to do with different cuts of meat in some way tbh. the minute i posted this blue hit me with "okay please tell me sanji has a mermaid tattoo somewhere" and my jaw dropped bc i didn't think of that myself but it's absolutely correct, he does (either on the side of his ribs or on a thigh, idk). also glad you brought up the Tiddy Tattoos because now i get to make another bullet point explanation!

luffy has given everyone on the crew a tattoo over their heart (or like, as close as possible if they already had something there)

zoro was first, so his is the simplest: an anchor, for steadiness

sanji's is a reflection of where luffy met him: the way the baratie feels like for luffy via synesthesia, lots of colors and waves and love, very abstract yet vivid

zoro and sanji exchanged those right about when they both realized they're in it for the long haul re: luffy and originally it was just an acknowledgment of what each of them means to luffy

the italicized oh moment came later. everyone else continues to find this immeasurably funny.

(robin's is two hands: one reaching out for help, the other reaching out to offer it)

(usopp's is the shape of his kabuto with a bright burst of vivid green in the middle)

(chopper's is a caduceus staff with the wings bursting outwards in a spray of color, the edges fading out to cherry blossoms)

#THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE (salute emoji)#there is a coffee shop in this AU too don't worry : ) also a flower shop. we went for the (un)holy trinity because why not.#giffy and i have quite seriously talked over massive chunks of canon for this #AS US ABOUT LAW AND KIDD AND IVANKOV AND ACE AND MIHAWK AND—#one piece tag #tattoo au tag #not art

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eclecticbasementenemy · 1 year

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I've been wanting to get a little companion pet for a long time but I couldn't figure out one that would work. I LOVE cats but I'm allergic to them. I'm not allergic to dogs but I can't stand them. Guinea pigs and rabbits were both technically viable options but I've had both and we didn't really vibe because, well, sorry guinea pig and rabbit lovers but they're kinda dumb and skittish. Also I'd want to be able to have an outdoor run for them and that's just not possible.

Anyways, then I was reading a post about keeping rats and I realized they would make the PERFECT pets for me. Social, loving, but not overly needy like dogs are. Don't need a ton of space. (And by not a ton of space I mean I'm getting them a massive cage but I wouldn't feel bad about keeping them in a studio like I might with a dog or cat). Intelligent and easy to train, etc.

But ofc I wanna do this right so I've been researching rat keeping and I found out how incredibly important it is to get your rats from a good breeder that makes sure their animals are healthy and disease free.

Many many Google searches later, I found out there is one (1) actually good breeder in my state currently breeding rats. I assume this is because you can only sell baby rats for like $8-20 a pop so it has to be a purely passion project.

It's also actually difficult to find accurate information on rat keeping. Or it was until I caved and started putting "reddit" at the end of all my searches. Then I did find a wealth of carefully sourced and linked information. Guess it's good for something after all.

This one breeder, because it is a passion project (rightly) has an application for people to fill out. I, with fear and trepidation, because I am after all a former gifted kid and tests still give me heart palpitations, carefully filled it in with the info gleaned from Reddit about planned cages, food, handling, etc. (Which to be clear I am absolutely going to follow to the letter. I wasn't BSing to get some rats I am actually very committed to giving these little creatures the best goddamn lives rats have ever fucking had)

The breeder responded back that my application looked fantastic and they'd likely have some rats I could buy in February.

So there you go, I'm going to get a good grade in rat keeping, something that is both healthy to want and possible to achieve.

They're gonna send me some info on how to hand make fleece liners for their bedding and I've been compiling research on how to acclimate them to me and to the environment, litter training, shoulder training, when to start getting them used to walking on a leash, etc. So ig I'm a rat person now. Pretty excited ngl

#rat keeping #rats #pet rats #first time rat owner

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broodygaming · 7 months

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Ruthie is interesting. and as I was scrolling the tags someone made a joke about how they couldn't wait to see what unhinged symbolisms ppl say about Ruthie and what she means in the gravy boat or whatever.

Pigs are interesting critters. They're such an extreme of contradictions. They're as loud as they are agile - as satisfying and gratifying as they are disgusting. As clean as they are smelly.

And genuinely! They're very nimble creatures, considering a small pig is still over 150 pounds. It is SO satisfying to watch a pig eat some foods. They'll crush stuff and slurp stuff up and just consume with such an all powerful gumption that's hard to look away from - also it can be really gross as they'll eat just about anything. They like to poop in one corner of their pen to keep them clean and have been known to make their beds - also they don't sweat so they have to roll and wallow in mud to cool off.

Ed himself is a constant battle of weird contradictions. THE Blackbeard? Trying to claim he hasn't "technically" killed a lot of people? The denial? The back and forth? The inherent push and pull of being This but also undeniably That? That almost frantic uncertainty? What is a good person, what is a bad person. What the fuck is a clean pig?

Also that captain might have just owned pigs and it made an impression on him, idk

#ya know?#our flag means death #ofmd s2

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clambuoyance · 2 years

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Cool, get ready for my Essays (some of these are reaches I just have brain rot):

Luka Luka Night Fever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScSW9C3DF18 - not very deep of a rec, just a fun song that has a lot of nostalgia for me. The beat n stuff and how it's about just havin a good time remind me of Early Kon.

The Guinea pigs and the Mercenary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqdLgpiX0RM&t=92s - it is about being a Lab Rat, mostly I love the parts about them dreaming about the outside world by looking at the painting ahead (just like kon only had his implanted memories)

Kisaragi Attention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpYkMlyjITE - okay so it technically is about someone with superpowers AND they're famous and that's kinda the extent of the similarities but its a cute song okay

Konoha no Sekai: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB0jSbdsmHk - another kagepro song this one is a cover tho bc its a good (official too!) cover. So it's about Konoha who is a created organism made to do... stuff... i don't exactly remember but the song is about him losing his innocence as he realizes the world sucks. (OKAY SO, here's a version with eng subs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBm9HdjaR04)

Nikkori Survey Team! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Fc1x_aeFQ - i have mentally assigned the roles to all of young justice (red tornado is hatsune miku btw)

The burn marks on my E-Piano wont go away: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxVaStXxDK0 - no lyrics, just vibes. idk how to explain it, this song just oozes nostalgia but in a way where you realize the past may have been happy but that doesn't mean it's the best.

Do Better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhm5TSJIKy0 - out of left field, I know but I saw this in a One Punch Man amv and I think it fits kon too. kon does try his best so i think this is more a song at himself where he's chastising himself for not doing more and living up to his legacy.

Starseek Wayfarer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRwkFhsX7Hk&list=PLsT2Dcg75BOWbtiFOlUVG_UpYjvuD5vtG&index=5 - okay, so this is technically the character song for a different guy from an idol game but listen: its about hokuto finding out what he wants to do with his life through the power of friendship. (also i like space/stars theming for kon... space boy..)

Phony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpZLYcJ-Q28 - Cover bc the og doesn't have eng subs. Identity crisis song! I actu ally associate this with Tim and Kon for different lyrics and stuff. for kon its specifically about how love vanishing makes them question humanity: "What am I? Like claws in the night, I vanish, like love"

Bitter Choco Decoration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCyKJD6uQyg&t=49s - Parental Trauma :). All of kons parental figures control him or want him to be a certain way and this song captures that. (although this is the bad ending bc the end of the song the mc gives up living for themself)

https://open.spotify.com/track/79EkGysjP2dL5GdpeQjRxT?si=a90b3f58bffe4fee idk why this one is a spotify link, sorting through my playlists. Anyway this is a TimKon song lol- basic pining bullshit. (the focus on loneliness tho,,, v kon :>)

Hay- *gunshot rings out*

ussewa - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp3b-RXtz4w - a bit weird but also i like to imagine kon screaming, get that emotional catharsis baby! idk this general fed up ness with adults fits in with the kon-lex relationship. like yeah I'm your "genius kid" but also fuck you kinda type beat.

Unfriendly Hater - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr72YrBttvY - early timkon, its cute lol

Changes - https://open.spotify.com/track/1OJg6070T1v5dVZoU8uj0m?si=ac3d0f7a98944da8 "trying to grow in a world that changes" need i say more???

Hitchcock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7MBzMP4OzY - growing up is hard, anyway i haven't settled on which parental figure to put in the other role in this song bc there are so many good choices.

Planet Loop https://open.spotify.com/track/68R4fcBC4aMu14O3ChqtXD?si=40692dcd71de4199 ending with a cute space themed song- spotify bc the lyrics don't really matter it's about this vibes.

HOLY SHIT IM SORRY i blanked out and wrote a fucking dissertation oh my god i had homework today. Anyway here! sorry for writing so much.

ps. Vocaloid is kind of an acquired taste/weird sound so i'd recommend a cover if you don't like it also songs should have eng subs or cc.

im sorry it took me so long to get to this but i want you to know i literally love vocaloid!! its all i used to listen to when i was in middleschool. i was waiting to answer this until i listened to it all but im still slowly making my way thru them😔🙏 BUT THESE ARE ALL REALLY GOOD SO FAR and youve made me revisit my vocaloid phase…

#ill reblog this when i have listened to it ALL so i can ramble #kontent #clam answers #dc

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I have so many problems with Attack on Titan, but right now I want to talk about the illogical world-building.

Giant creatures who only eat humans and only have one 'Achilles Heel' to take them out. Got it.

And you want to fight them with swords?

How did two swords win? They went through the trouble to build a whole, physics defying harness contraption to make them fly?

There were so many other weapons they could have used if they couldn't get to 'the weak spot.'

Step One, discover electricity. Step Two, build a goddamn fence.

Do they breathe? I don't remember, but poisonous gas. (Not in a civilian setting obviously and you'd need a breathing apparatus.)

Invent the flamethrower.

Too much to ask? Fine, here's some less technical solutions:

Caltrops.

Boiling oil poured over the side of the Wall.

Sulfuric acid and other dangerous chemical compounds that will break down organic matter. (There's gotta be a chemist somewhere here.)

Put spikes on the Wall.

Survey Corps all gathered together in a concentrated group to lure the titans in to a trap...coulda used that tactic to dig a pit trap, no?

Set the titans on fire.

Let's also address the fact the Survey Corps was completely useless by existing as the living embodiment of Einstein's definition of insanity. “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” That 'brilliant idea' of Armin's where they travel to Shiganshina at night because the titans are less active..............you're telling me....that in a hundred years...nobody else thought of that?!

The government and public were right; they were a strain on resources and brought little benefit to society. If they wanted to be useful, the purpose of the expeditions should've been more forage/hunting based in order to bring food back to a starving populace. And there would have been food. The people of Wall Maria had to abandon their homes within a twelve hour or less span, so there is no conceivable way everyone could have brought all their livestock with them. Survey Corps could've been protecting civilians as they rounded up lost cattle, pigs, chickens, sheep, etc. And Sasha might’ve gone down in history as the greatest Scout of all time.

Another thing that doesn't add up: the textile industry. With as much land as they had, the pasture land food-clothing ratio was not adequate for the population.

There are not enough cows!

Based on available materials, I assume the ODM harness and boots are made of leather. With the limited space for cattle, that supply could not meet the demand at the rate the Scouts were being killed off. (They were definitely recycling dead people's boots and gear.) That's not even taking into account regular people who need footwear or the countless other things that require leather: saddles and other horse tack, gloves, tools, heavy protective aprons for factory workers or smiths, etc.

Cotton requires a long growing season. Do they have that? Linen comes from flax seed. You'd need space to grow that and flax doesn't have much nutritional use other than soup. Same goes for jute. Wool is a possibility, but is everything made of wool? What about silk? Do they have silk worms? What are the wealthy wearing?

We can probably rule out synthetic and mineral fabrics as I don't think they have the technology.

Natural resources: They use firearms and cannons, which means there has to be a sulfur mine somewhere to make gunpowder. Except naturally-occurring sulfur is most commonly found near volcanic regions. Volcano on that island? Maybe, if sulfur was one of the 'resources' the Marley people were after.

Where are they getting the alcohol? There's a food shortage and no sane nation is going to allow citizens to plant vineyards on land that can be used for crops and they're not going to use grain for beer when it could be used for bread. I get there was corruption in the government, but limited space is limited space.

Another thing I would like to point out is no matter how many times the Founding Titan suppressed knowledge of the outside world, any mathematician with enough determination could have gone rogue and calculated the size of their world. Despite what we were told in kindergarten, people did not 'discover' the earth was round when Columbus 'discovered' America and nobody believed the earth was flat. (He also didn't discover America, but that's not what we're here for.) Ancient Greek mathematician, librarian, astronomer, scholar Eratosthenes of Cyrene determined the circumference of the earth by comparing the sun's position in the sky in relation to two different points on earth.

He was off by 2%.

Why is this important? The old order of the Walls was very much greed-based. When word of exactly how much land (and wealth) they were missing out on got out, the merchant guilds would have had their own coup against the king.

#attack on titan #attack on titan criticism #shingeki no kyojin #the real cattle of shingeki no kyojin #worldbuilding #aot plot holes #plot holes #titans #armin arlert #criticism

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