#it's just that like...these were the Mains at a specific point in time

[dnphobe]

New to the phandom but why do we think sleepless night with phil was a lie?

okay i tried to find a post explaining this bc there Is at least one comprehensive post about this out there but thanks to tumblr's search function sucking i couldn't. so im gonna relay the info from memory for now and if anyone has the post im talking about handy please send it bc im sure it's better than whatever im about to write. anyway. hi anon question answered to the best of my ability under the cut lets go

okay so i'm referring specifically to 'A HUNGRY sleepless night with Phil' rather than the whole series. so the main and original reason this is believed to be fake is this moment:

phil says it's 1:40 a.m and he's downloading dream daddy for them to play on the gaming channel, but as you can see on his laptop...it started downloading at half past eight in the evening. which. not only does does phil not act like he's been downloading it for this long but rather just started, that would be a LONG long download time.

also, from our position of living in the future, we know for certain that the "bedroom" phil is filming this in is, as was long suspected, a set that he had specifically for filming, like the rest of that apartment. they confirmed it themselves in 'Dan and Phil finally tell the truth'. (i will add that phil has since said he DID sometimes sleep there, and honestly yeah maybe he did, so do with that what you will).

as for WHY he faked the sleepless night, not long before this video was uploaded he posted this series of tweets, known as 'the centipede incident':

which, as was noted by snoops (and just people with eyes) everywhere that is...not the floor of what at the time we were supposed to believe was phil's bedroom. the floor it DID match was what was known as 'the moon room'. at this point dan had stopped filming videos in his bedroom but he did lives from an otherwise unseen bedroom with a moon decal sometimes.

conclusion: dan and phil share a bedroom

context: dan and phil were not out yet (and would still not reveal that they shared a bedroom today, never mind then)

result: damage control, formally known as "A HUNGRY sleepless night with Phil"

#asks #ry.txt

[class1akids]

Honestly at this point it's our own fault for expecting to not be disappointed by theses chapters apperantly hori can only gives good moments to irrelevant characters therefor said moments are also irrelavent and don't have the impact they would have if given to someone that mattered

I've come to not expect anything else really anytime hori does something axtuly good it's followed by a million not (his characters and stories have so much potential and there all wasted like way are fanfics so much more impact full than the main story 😢

Although I'm a little confused as to what happened to the todorokis?

The leaks came in truly bad quality this week, but even so, it's evident that Hori is still trying to "hide" what happened fully.

All we know for sure is:

Endeavor and Shoto were awake enough to respond to the back-up call and come through the portals (this to me is not a surprise. Shoto especially is in relatively good condition. He only overstretched his quirk but had time for cooldown).

They come from two different portals, but at the same time to do a Flashfire Fist to drive back AFO away from Izuku. (It's a pretty basic move for both of them, and not very powerful, and it maybe because they are down to the last scraps or because of the crowd, they can't do AoE moves).

And then there is this cryptic flashback:

It looks like the robots are putting Rei (?) on a stretcher, while Natsuo is still moving. Toya is hidden. Using pikahlua's TL because the scanlation look inaccurate:

"Quickly, to where Recovery Girl is...!" "The old lady is also at her limit with injured persons... Whether or not anything can be done..."

-> This could refer to either Rei or Toya (or likely both) - basically implying that they are in critical condition and the family is trying to get them to Recovery Girl...

Then Natsuo says - I think talking to specifically to Enji (because he uses "anta") and not to Shoto:

"Even with you here, mom and the others will only be hot."

This confirms pretty much that Toya is there too.

Enji hesitated whether to take the portal or go with his family.

Natsuo basically says that there is nothing Enji can do and his presence could be even harmful - implying that Enji is still overheated (which if you look at both Shoto's and Endeavor's pupilless eyes makes me wonder if they absorbed a lot of Toya's heat)

"So go. Even if it's [just] a little, if you can muster [any] strength..."

Even if it's just a litte is written over Enji's panel, which may imply that he's on his last fumes and his presence here is not necessarily to boost the fight, but for whatever narrative conclusion purpose

if you can muster [any] power - this part is on Shoto's panel. As the Japanese uses "chikara", as in the famous "kimi no chikara" moment between Deku and Shoto, I'm guessing it foreshadows a more powerful attack from Shoto at a later stage (which could include a quirk upgrade if he absorbed Toya's heat - it would make sense or it could include a combo with Toya if he'll show up, which I have a strong feeling he will).

So I think the important thing is that Toya's fate, just like Toga's is left in limbo, as well as there is a strong sense that the Todorokis are running here on fumes, just like everyone else.

My personal feeling is that Hori is setting up a quite hopeless fight with a moment where the star arrivals to the battlefield will be the LoV (possibly because Kurogiri decides that this is the boost Tomura needs), and it will be the tipping point to bring Tomura back who will be essential in stopping / defeating AFO together with Deku (and maybe the other Origins - Bakugou and Shoto).

Bringing in the LoV would achieve tying in the efforts to save Toga and Toya (and Spinner) into the final main conflict, tying together Deku reaching Tenko's/Tomura's fused desire to be the hero of the villains and also for the civilians to see the villains fight against the big bad. It could also foster final conclusion of the big character arcs, including for Enji, Toya and Shoto.

#c1a asks #bnha manga spoilers #bnha manga leaks #bnha 421 #bnha speculation #tracking the fight #keeping up with the todorokis #bnha meta

[herearedragons]

Fan Work Friday

Hey look, I'm actually doing this on a Friday! Tagged by @bragganhyl.

Rules: if you're tagged, make a new post and show off one piece of fanart and one fanfic you like!

Fic: The Dunryd Archives (Pillars of Eternity) by dragonologist_phd (@dragonologist-phd on tumblr)

My mother once told me those names are the people who were cremated in those fireplaces. It’s not as common a practice these days, but back when the Citadel was new and people still worshipped the old gods, it was apparently custom for Magranites to dispose of their dead in that manner. To tell the truth, that always freaked me out a bit. I knew the bodies were already dead and it didn’t matter, but I still had this awful idea that they could still feel it; the flames eating at you, peeling away at your skin, consuming you until just a handful of dust remained. My great-grandparents were cremated, you know- I guess we had some Magranites in the family at some point, and the traditions stuck. Mom showed me the urns when she told me all this, and it just seemed so strange to me. I remembered the time I burned my hand on the stovetop, and how the skin on my fingers and palms blistered off at the heat. How much more heat would it take to reduce a whole person into something that was so easily scooped into a jar?

...so I've never listened to The Magnus Archives. However, AUs that remix canon in a fun way while keeping as much of the lore as possible are My Jam, and this is exactly that. I've been meaning to keep reading this for a while and ended up reading chapters 3 and 4 to make this post specifically, and hooo boy I'm glad I did because apparently I stopped just before the fun stuff started happening.

Fanartist: @ritelli-main

Honestly I just wanted an excuse to show off this art blog? ritelli's art style is really cool and she draws a lot of fun dnd-related characters and environments. This one is Legend of Drizzt fanart (I think), and, while I haven't read the books so I don't have the full context, the colors and shapes are just. Really Cool to me.

tagging: @solas-backpack-mug @curiouslavellan @layalu @ndostairlyrium @apeirotilio if any of you feel like it!

#tag games #fan work friday #pillars of eternity #legend of drizzt

[duckuwu]

This is obviously a lil bit geared towards those who were alive and watching tv in the 90s, but youngins who've found their way into these shows, feel free to chime in. I was just thinking that most of us had a singular show that was OURS back then, even if we might've watched the others. Which one did you fandom the hardest / would you have fandomed the hardest?

#xena #the x files #btvs #farscape #stargate #star trek #poll #love that i forgot charmed but included sliders sorry witches #but also these definitely were the MAINS #except for the whole sliders and charmed thing smh me #not that anyone is going to check these tags at this point but: #this poll was meant to encompass that moment in time where we had these big fandomable shows AND the internet was just hitting public homes #this also wasnt meant to exclude fandom elders. i definitely remember my cousin and i watching The A Team and how he was so into it #it's just that like...these were the Mains at a specific point in time #and if y'all can't see / acknowledge that then this poll definitely wasn't meant for you #at some point during this point in time you watched at least ONE of these and it felt like home. that's what this poll is about

[ciderjacks]

hey if u guys r sad about ofmd and want another show with gay people to watch you should consider watching Deadloch. It’s really good it’s really really good uh it might get a second season if the creators decide to do that.

if you watch good omens you’ll be able to watch Deadloch they’re on the same service. Uhhhh One of the actors from ofmd is there shes one half of the main duo (the other half is played by Kate Box who’s an amazing actor and Dulcie is now one of my fav characters ever) gets to wear an open Hawaiian shirt for like 3 of the 8 episodes which is a bonus. It’s extremely gay and it’s fun and beautifully written and no queer characters die and it’s satisfying and funny and Please watch it I’m begging you please watch itPLEASE

#ofmd #deadloch #PLEASEEEEEE please Im begging Im on my hands and my knees PLEASE WATCH THIS SHOW #It’s not shy about being gay it practically opens with gay sex ok please pleaseee watch it #It’s got so many amazing characters every character is so well written it’s a detective satire that ends on a pretty openly anti cop note #The main characters work so well together and the actors have such good chemistry and the storytelling is so good and well done #Literally my only my singular criticism of the entire show is that I think the lighting in some scenes could be brighter so you can #Actually tell what’s going on bc it’s sort of hard to at certain points #THATS MY ONLY CRITICISM AT ALL ITS THAT GOOD #Ive watched it 10 times now I’m still finding new stuff and connecting things it hasn’t gotten old yet #It’s seriously like unironically a masterpiece of a show. I would like it just as much if everything else was the same but the characters #Were straight #Though given how much of it is tied to gay and specifically lesbian culture it would be sort of hard to do that LOL #but still. like hypothetically. If it was straight I would not like it any less I would still be just as crazy about it

[jewishfalin]

There is a very specific sort of antisemitism that is seemingly common in mental health facilities and its fucking terrifying

#the last 2 times ive been in a mental hospital it was always the most visibly jewish person who got targeted by nurses #and i happened to be the most visibly jewish person in a psychward the last time #its like. the 1st time there were more jewish people in there and the one of us who got it the worst was an older woman with bipolar disord #and like. many of us who noticed how terrible she was getting treated had to tell staff off multiple times #like wtf stop u r literally just poking her with a stick at this point trying to get her to have a meltdown so u have an excuse #to lock her away #it was so fucked #and the rest of us jews in there were like... slightly more stable enough to ignore the taunting from staff #like they'd find the smallest shit to get on our asses about or tell us we're being delusional abt things out of nowhere #like they tried to get a rise out of us specifically so they could frame us as crazy and neurotic when we get frustrated #and the last time i had the mosfortune of being the 1 of 2 jews who was visible and very unstable #i was made sick by nurses on purpose and then gaslit when i was up all night vomiting #i had to be given an injection and sedated the next day just so i would stop projectile vomiting all over my room #i had multiple seizures and they told.me i was throwing myself on the floor #they did things to make me break on purpose #and they did it to others to but #it was different w how they did it to me? #and when they didn't let me go to the main eating area bc i kept fainting/seizing they ordered me shit with pork when i have kosher diet #it was fucked and i know this is a problem #its a problem in outpatient too #i ended up homeless for like a year bc an antisemitic counselor fucked me over #vent

[sysig]

My kingdom for a "So you say” (Patreon)

#Doodles #SCII #Helix #ZEX #Dexter Favin #Hhhh they ;; Their ''first'' interaction! #Officially up to three cryings - not that I'm surprised I love Dex <3 #My head was fully abuzz during this scene there are so so so many interesting details! #So interesting to see which ''held true'' and which were left behind - which ones became Helix while others didn't! #At this point I almost see Helix as an alternate timeline - kind of like how Defeated is a branching arm off the main body #Not terribly dissimilar but the details that are different are too interesting to let go of so just make it all canon in its own way! Hehe #Especially since Helix is largely from Max's 3rd person perspective so the way he tells it is different than Dexter haha #Very interesting what he leaves out in his retelling hehehehe ♪♫ #Anyhow enough of Max he's not even here rn sheesh ♪ ZEX! And Dexter ;; #Hghhghh it's all set up so deviously <3 That fact that up to this point ZEX has been relying on Zelnick especially to give him credence #And then as soon as someone he ''knows he trusts'' comes to throw a wrench into things - Dexter has as much weight or more! #He's specifically engineered to sow doubt and confusion! Gosh what a place to grow his character from <3 <3 #ZEX's pride undoes him completely it's So well written ♥ Truly a fatal flaw for VUX and the way he's picked apart aghh <3 #And?? The fact that I can hear ''Max's'' voice in ZEX's syntax as soon as he doesn't have a good argument??? Hello???? #I know they come from the same base but like!! How!!! Masterful 💖 #As I drew it it's a bit out of order - Dexter says he can't protect Max (😭) before ZEX starts crying it all got a bit mixed in my head #I was very emotional at the time you understand haha #It's all so sad! They're so close in some ways to being or having what the other wants but both fall just short #No wonder they took what little comfort in each other they could <3 ZEX comforted by his voice and Dex comforted by caring for his body #They have so little to offer each other trapped as they are ;; #It's all so interesting and distressing!! There's so much to think about as everything falls into place!

[coquelicoq]

les misérables:

Cela même lui avait été plus facile qu'à Roméo; Roméo était obligé d'escalader un mur, Marius n'eut qu'à forcer un peu un des barreaux de la grille décrépite qui vacillait dans son alvéole rouillé, à la manière des dents des vieilles gens. (IV, 8, I, p. 341)

me: that's weird, isn't gens masculine? guess i'll look it up on wordreference in case it's also a feminine noun meaning something different.

wordreference:

Inflections of 'gens' (nmpl): pl: gens Toujours au pluriel quand gens = les hommes en général ou un nombre indéterminé de personnes. L'adjectif qui précède s'accorde souvent au féminin.

me: what the

frick frack

#um?? french?? why would you do that????? #'s'accorde souvent' WHAT IS EVEN THE POINT OF NOUN-ADJECTIVE AGREEMENT THEN?? IF YOU CAN JUST CHANGE IT UP RANDOMLY???? #the other thing i don't understand is why it's des vieilles gens rather than de vieilles gens #bc i thought that if you have a preceding adjective in the plural then it's de instead of des? #but i'm not upset about that. it's whatever #it seems like one of those things that people ignore half the time bc the default 'des' makes perfect sense #like 'des' for pl nouns is the rule and 'de' for pl nouns preceded by a pl adjective is the exception. it's just ignoring the exception #but to use vieilles instead of vieux! that's ignoring the rule itself. that's like. going out of your way to mess with me!!! #vieux is actually the bane of my existence. i only learned a couple years ago that when spelled vieil before a noun starting with a vowel #you don't pronounce the l! you pronounce it as a y sound and call that a liaison!!! #i guess TECHNICALLY the y sound (the palatal-labial approximant [ɥ] to be exact) is a consonant. but it's a vowel-ass consonant!!!! #IT'S SO VOWELLY. HOW CAN WE BE CALLING THIS A LIAISON #french #my posts #i love screaming at the french language. i just read the argot chapters which act like slang is some kind of deformed demon #so i'm just here to say: STOP ACTING SO SUPERIOR STANDARD FRENCH! YOU ALSO ARE FUCKING BONKERS!!! #language is beautiful but it's so fun to be mad at french specifically. for a couple reasons but the main one is l'académie française #fuck those guys in particular. you want to interfere with the natural progression of language so bad it makes you look SO stupid #got all these fucking fossilized rules and you don't even follow them. zero legs to stand on #if this were any other language ignoring grammatical gender agreement on a whim i'd be like okay sure that's how language goes #but since it's FRENCH. on se bat à l'aube. en garde motherfuckers

[quirinah]

absolutely riveting day to be a nintama fan on twitter

#SUZUGOUYA YOSHIROU COMMITS IDENTITY THEFT ON OFFICIAL MERCH NO DAN #ive made this joke a total of twice times now but like. the episode they ripped the image from quite literally is him #committing identity theft... #quirinahscreams #so much context..god okay #so earlier these new holographic badges featuring a few nintama characters rolled out featuring i think... #images of said characters ripped from the episodes? i dont think they were unique renders #the secondary context is that there's two characters in the series #kema and yoshirou #who look really really similar. it gets pointed out a couple times. anyways theres this episode. season 28 ep 32 #where kema schedules a fight with his BIG TIME RIVAL! but catches a cold from training. because hes prideful and doesnt want #his BIG TIME RIVAL! to know hes sick #the main trio realize yoshirou looks just like kema and disguise him so he can pose as kema and cancel the fight #anyways there's a specific scene where he's practicing how he's going to go and cancel it and he smiles and winks after delivering his line #anyhow they picked the wrong character for kema's badge. #everyone proceeds to lose their minds. #PUT THE CHARACTER ON THE OFFICIAL MERCH KRONK!!! #WRONG CHARACTER!!!! #they fixed it three hours later tears rolling out of my eyes #kema is no longer smiling and winking. tragic #THE PEOPLE CALLING YOSHIROU FAKE TOMESABUROUSDNFSDBWVBEKWABSDFHAHAHAHA...hes infiltrated... #THE COMPARISONS TO SOUNIN HELP MEEEEEEEE #posts that are incomprehensible #this is not my sweet beautiful prince!!!!! #delete later??? i dont know #its two thirty in the morning.... (has problems)

[cyberbullyinc]

😐

#ive been added to this gc for the 3rd or 4th time after i explicitly asked to NOT be added back bc im always fucking getting ignored like #last time the person who added me was like omg i hope this is ok and i was like no it’s actually not ok i dont wanna be added back please #dont add me back and she was like omg im so sorry i totally understand :( and she did it again 😑 #the reason i didnt wanna be added back was bc i considered them my best friends at some point but ever since like the p*ndemic started #everything just went downhill and on one hand i understand they have their own lives and don’t have time to answer etc but on the other hand #they never had time to reply to MYYYYYY messages specifically 🙃 and it hurt bitch to be always the one ignored #and the reason i havent left this time like i just didnt care to be added back was bc idc anymore like alsjfjfk im still in contact to #whoever i wanna be in contact with i still text someone individually like i don’t need to be in a group setting to be friends with this #person and she’s mentioned a bunch of times how dead it is lmao so i was like wtv i do send a text once in a blue moon but it’s not as #active as it was when i originally left so it’s not obvious when im ignored lol BUT!!!!!! #the person who added me back…. the person who IGNORED my boundaries and request to leave me the fuck alone has ignored every single message #ive sent since she added me back :) #like she literally just wants public for her little show and she did this even before i left and was the main person why i left lmao bc the #rest were like going through stuff and i was like u cant be here i get it but she’s always ANYWAYS SO ABOUT ME!!! #i literally sent a text i think yesterday? and she didn’t reply to it at all but she just started talking about herself like 😑 WHY DID U ADD #ME BACK!!!! u dont ‘miss US’ lmfao u miss that i kept the gc alive which gave u attention !!!! #i dont want to be ur fucking spectator go post it on fb #anyways end of rant 😌

[starrysmiling]

i literally never post of my own volition but i noticed yesterday that ao3 canonised the unbound character tags so now i am excitedly running around in circles because the. the . the tags i am lovingly fostering exist. I MADE THESE TAGS WITH MY OWN TWO HANDS.

the funniest thing about this is that "protagonist's name is fern!" links to the francis character tag... i am sorry... for changing his name.......

the general unbound fandom tag is under pokemon fan games which is understandable. but i am so. i am soooooo fucking happy about this. fuck.

#pokemon unbound #urheuwhdhghsf i am a polished fic writer who started tags i feel so. i feel sooooo accomplished #sorry i am head full of the main gang... i have no plans for the rest of the characters to have a lead role yet....... #i absolutely love fern but my friends were all like 'wait unbound's protag is called francis? not fern?' when i told them about this #which is fucking hilarious. at this point he's literally just an oc who looks a lot like francis #also um. um. god i should say this too but fern is kinda like a whole separate guy from francis at this point we've given him so much lore #francis is the name we give to v1 unbound's protagonist actually! #'why this specifically?' you ask. good question. i am happy to share fern lore just ask me please. i wanna talk about him #i feel kinda insane honestly i'm so ridiculously happy over this #i made them in like january? with the upload of steps? god it's been six months #whiiiiiich is to say. please fucking read steps it's . it's so everything #anyway i enjoy unbound and fax a normal amount please look out for more unbound content in the future!!!! #that is all from your resident fax truther... #it's time to fix all my fucking tags

[pallases]

well that was positively disastrous

#i don’t think i did any part of that tolerance stack analysis correctly and it was worth 20% #fits and threads were fine but they were only worth i think 25% together :/ maybe 35% i don’t remember #edit no definitely 25% #then my actual drawings were pretty sloppy and i didn’t have time to review the details #i think if i had a different professor they’d let me get away w that bc the main idea was definitely there #but my prof is definitely not going to let it slide if there are any little mistakes like i assume there are #and he docks sm for the tiniest things it’s fucking awful and doesn’t even make sense in the context of how many points exercises are worth #like he doesn’t seem to follow a rubric if you made enough mistakes i firmly believe the way he grades would land you with a negative score #like. hello #anyway. whatever i don’t want to think abt this anymore. onward to smth im actually decent at (calculus) #personal #the engineering chronicles #also im still pissed over the fact that all the other sections of this class have gotten a bunch of extra credit and we’ve gotten none like #this is not at all equal. lol #ALSO pissed bc even w my professor’s insane grading standards my assignment average is nearly 90% so im clearly not Bad at the subject i #just suck at the exams especially by his specifications 😭😭 i hate time restraints so so much #what job am i gonna get where they go LEIGH listen up. you have exactly an hour and fifty minutes to sketch and fully dimension two full #drawings and complete these pages of calculations. time starts Now

[spaceradars]

one of the things i love the most about writing a story/potential book about bands/music is that i literally put all of my interests there. i couldn't do this if i didn't asdfgfdsa

#this thing carried such a negative meaning in a lot of senses (the story being my only way to voice so many negative emotions blah blah) #but at the same time the one big positive thing that i always had clear about it was the fact that since it was about music it had to be a #celebration of it. and specifically of the music that *i* (the author) love and enjoy so much #music is literally one of the most important things for me it TRULY is so having that as the bright side of such a story is just. the best #my greatest choice ever made was making it about musicians because YES it has so many cliches and many things that sound overdramatic #but that's not the point!!!!! music is!!!!! #i always make it clear characters and situations are just a way to put certain emotions into words. and half of them are negative #but then there are so many positive ones and it's always related to music #so like. when i write my main character being a pearl jam fan or a springsteen or fiona apple fan it's like. yes. he is!!!!!! but ALSO #that's me. and its some sort of tribute to all of those artists that literally were life savers for me #and ssame with the rest of the characters!!!! them having their musical roots related to 70s/80s rock and some punk and some britpop. same! #every chapter named in a way to make a reference to a song? that too!! #(also matt saying he'll travel to alice in chains unplugged if he could travel back in time..... so true bestie) #but my point basically is this asdfdsdfgh

[mihotose]

whenever i see someone wanting to get into hasu being told to just watch the stories it does get to me like. yes the with×meets arent critical to the plot but if you want to get to know the characters like on a 'personal' level (without the constraint of "needing to do something plot relevant") theyre definitely the best way. you dont want to play the worlds most incomprehensible game of charades with tsuzuri?

#i have no idea why the main story uses regular animation instead of mocap it doesnt capture tsuzuri's charms at all imo #like with the story animation only the character who is speaking moves so everyone else is frozen #and for tsuzuri who is relatively quiet she ends up just standing in a scene in a silence? #whereas in a with×meets she is constantly moving. she likes rocking back and forth and nodding and clapping at what people say #gemitus #something else i was thinking about wrt all the card art being part of the canon- (although i dont know when ceribou #went to venice for those fortune movie URs!!) is they also help to ground the story in real time #just like how half an episode of main story is released every two weeks essentially recounting the events of The past two weeks #since the last half episode. cards are released on around the same schedule. like i know eg cherry picnic are specifically set in june #bc thats not only when they were released but also the art depicts an event in the story in june mentioned in a june with×meets #and cherry picnic isnt like a 'special' set like deepness there isnt a cherry picnic plot point or anything #just saw a clip from today's holiholi and cried 💕

[supahstarrr]

i love my man whit but his outfit look so tacky and he looks hella stiff sometimes...

#and honestly... i dont like some of the colors (his shoes and short-sleeved undershirt) #it would be interesting to make a redesign but i dont have much ideas yet and. #i dont wanna be considered ''mean'' or ''rude'' lolol but i might knowing this fandom #plus he's considered stylish and stuff. and i mean he is. he's just bad at doing it LOLOLOLOLLOOLOLKHNJIOKGOL /j #but anyways ITS WEIRD CUZ LIKE... my main problem is with his sprites? #when the dev draws him and his outfits in their usual artstyle that doesn't suppose to mimic the canon DR artstyle (you know the one) #he looks way more better? like in general. his outfit still tacky but its slightly better #like could this be this thing that his design doesn't translate too well in the artstyle that mimic DR's artstyle or what...? #if i were to redesign him it'd be kinda tricky bc i want to keep his iconic/unique aspects of his designs #like his tshirt ONTOP of a short-sleeves shirt and the dots on his shirts. but... at the same time i don't like how those aspects are drawn #i very very specifically love the idea of a tshirt ontop of a short-sleeve shirt but i think its the colors i dont like #and the dots on his skirt are annoying to draw and thats one of the main things i dont like about his design so #i understand the dots purpose (or well i think its intentional but anyways?): its to transition his design to pink from blue #but idk man its just. i do not likee ittt #and the blue aspects- well accents- of his design.... is something i ALSO do not like as well #not talking about his jeans or eyes. talking about the shoes and symbol. i'd say the blue accents are executed not that greatly #the blue accents dont do much to the color pink.. it doesn't balance the pink and doesn't make the pink pop #and the symbol in the back of his coat has such a terrible bright ass blue. i hope its significant bc id take that shit off #so its like at this point. if i were to design him.. id ask the question. whether or not adding blue accents to him is THAT important #anyway im so obsessed with this one redesign of david on deviantart like holy shit its good. its by StuartWithNoPot on DA

[jadevine]

Preindustrial travel, and long explanations on why different distances are like that

Update March 1, 2024: Hey there folks, here's yet another update! I reposted Part 2a (the "medieval warhorses" tangent) to my writing blog, and I went down MORE of the horse-knowledge rabbit hole! https://www.tumblr.com/jadevine/741423906984951808/my-post-got-cut-off-so-i-added-the-rest-of-it Update Jan 30, 2024: Hey folks, I've posted the updated version of this post on my blog, so I don't have to keep frantically telling everyone "hey, that's the old version of this post!" https://thebalangay.wordpress.com/2024/01/29/preindustrial-travel-times-part-1/

I should get the posts about army travel times and camp followers reformatted and posted to my blog around the end of the week, so I'll filter through my extremely tangled thread for them.

Part 2 - Preindustrial ARMY travel times: https://www.tumblr.com/jadevine/739342239113871360/now-for-a-key-aspect-that-many-people-often-ask

Part 2a - How realistic warhorses look and act, because the myth of "all knights were mounted on huge clunky draft horses" just refuses to die: https://www.tumblr.com/jadevine/732043691180605440/helpful-things-for-action-writers-to-remember

Part 3 - Additional note about camp followers being regular workers AND sex-workers: https://www.tumblr.com/jadevine/740604203134828544/reblogging-the-time-looped-version-of-my

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I saw a post on my main blog about how hiking groups need to keep pace with their slowest member, but many hikers mistakenly think that the point of hiking is "get from Point A to Point B as fast as possible" instead of "spending time outdoors in nature with friends," and then they complain that a new/less-experienced/sick/disabled hiker is spoiling their time-frame by constantly needing breaks, or huffing and puffing to catch up.

I run into a related question of "how long does it take to travel from Point A to Point B on horseback?" a lot, as a fantasy writer who wants to be SEMI-realistic; in the Western world at least, our post-industrial minds have largely forgotten what it's like to travel, both on our own feet and in groups.

People ask the new writer, "well, who in your cast is traveling? Is getting to Point B an emergency or not? What time of year is it?", and the newbies often get confused as to why they need so much information for "travel times." Maybe new writers see lists of "preindustrial travel times" like a primitive version of Google Maps, where all you need to do is plug in Point A and Point B.

But see, Google Maps DOES account for traveling delays, like different routes, constructions, accidents, and weather; you as the person will also need to figure in whether you're driving a car versus taking a bus/train, and so you'll need to figure out parking time or waiting time for the bus/train to actually GET THERE.

The difference between us and preindustrial travelers is that 1) we can outsource the calculations now, 2) we often travel for FUN instead of necessity.

The general rule of thumb for preindustrial times is that a healthy and prime-aged adult on foot, or a rider/horse pair of fit and prime-aged adults, can usually make 20-30 miles per day, in fair weather and on good terrain.

Why is this so specific? Because not everyone in preindustrial times was fit, not everyone was healthy, not everyone was between the ages of 20-35ish, and not everyone had nice clear skies and good terrain to travel on.

If you are too far below 18 years old or too far past 40, at best you will need either a slower pace or more frequent breaks to cover the same distance, and at worst you'll cut the travel distance in half to 10 or so miles. Too much walking is VERY BAD on too-young/old knees, and teenagers or very short adults may just have short legs even if they're fine with 8-10 hours of actual walking. Young children may get sick of walking and pitch a fit because THEY'RE TIREDDDDDDDDDD, and then you might need to stay put while they cry it out, or an adult may sigh and haul them over their shoulder (and therefore be weighed down by about 50lbs of Angry Child).

Heavy forests, wetlands and rocky hills/mountains are also going to be a much shorter "distance" per day. For forests or wetlands, you have to account for a lot of villagers going "who's gonna cut down acres of trees for one road? NOT ME," or "who's gonna drain acres of swamp for one road? NOT ME." Mountainous regions have their traveling time eaten by going UP, or finding a safer path that goes AROUND, so by the time you're done slogging through drier patches of wetlands or squeezing through trees, a deceptively short 10-15 miles in rough terrain might take you a whole day to walk instead of the usual half-day.

If you are traveling in freezing winters or during a rainstorm (and this inherently means you HAVE NO CHOICE, because nobody in preindustrial times would travel in bad weather if they could help it), you run the high risk of losing your way and then dying of exposure or slipping and breaking your neck, just a few miles out of the town/village.

Traveling in TOO-HOT weather is just as bad, because pushing yourself too hard and getting dehydrated at noon in the tropics will literally kill you. It's called heat-STROKE, not "heat-PARTY."

And now for the upper range of "traveling on horseback!"

Fully mounted groups can usually make 30-40 miles per day between Point A and Point B, but I find there are two unspoken requirements: "Point B must have enough food for all those people and horses," and "the mounted party DOESN'T need to keep pace with foot soldiers, camp followers, or supply wagons."

This means your mounted party would be traveling to 1) a rendezvous point like an ally's camp or a noble's castle, or 2) a town/city with plenty of inns. Maybe they're not literally going 30-40 miles in one trip, but they're scouting the area for 15-20 miles and then returning to their main group. Perhaps they'd be going to an allied village, but even a relatively small group of 10-20 warhorses will need 10-20 pounds of grain EACH and 20-30 pounds of hay EACH. 100-400 pounds of grain and 200-600 pounds of hay for the horses alone means that you need to stash supplies at the village beforehand, or the village needs to be a very large/prosperous one to have a guaranteed large surplus of food.

A dead sprint of 50-60 miles per day is possible for a preindustrial mounted pair, IF YOU REALLY, REALLY HAVE TO. Moreover, that is for ONE day. Many articles agree that 40 miles per day is already a hard ride, so 50-60 miles is REALLY pushing the envelope on horse and rider limits.

NOTE: While modern-day endurance rides routinely go for 50-100 miles in one day, remember that a preindustrial rider will not have the medical/logistical support that a modern endurance rider and their horse does.

If you say "they went fifty miles in a day" in most preindustrial times, the horse and rider's bodies will get wrecked. Either the person, their horse, or both, risk dying of exhaustion or getting disabled from the strain.

Whether you and your horse are fit enough to handle it and "only" have several days of defenselessness from severe pain/fatigue (and thus rely on family/friends to help you out), or you die as a heroic sacrifice, or you aren't QUITE fit enough and become disabled, or you get flat-out saved by magic or another rider who volunteers to go the other half, going past 40 miles in a day is a "Gondor Calls For Aid" level of emergency.

As a writer, I feel this kind of feat should be placed VERY carefully in a story: Either at the beginning to kick the plot off, at the climax to turn the tide, or at the end.

Preindustrial people were people--some treated their horses as tools/vehicles, and didn't care if they were killed or disabled by pushing them to their limits, but others very much cared for their horses. They needed to keep them in working condition for about 15-20 years, and they would not dream of doing this without a VERY good reason.

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UPDATE January 13: Several people have gotten curious and looked at maps, to find out how a lot of cities are indeed spread out at a nice distance of 20-30 miles apart! I love getting people interested in my hyperfixations, lol.

But remember that this is the space between CITIES AND TOWNS. There should never be a 20-mile stretch of empty wilderness between City A and Town B, unless your world explains why folks are able to build a city in the middle of nowhere, or if something has specifically gone wrong to wipe out its supporting villages!

Period pieces often portray a shining city rising from a sea of picturesque empty land, without a single grain field or cow pasture in sight, but that city would starve to death very quickly in preindustrial times.

Why? Because as Bret Devereaux mentions in his “Lonely Cities” article (https://acoup.blog/2019/07/12/collections-the-lonely-city-part-i-the-ideal-city/), preindustrial cities and towns must have nearby villages (and even smaller towns, if large and prosperous enough!) to grow their food for them.

The settlements around a city will usually be scattered a few miles apart from each other, usually clustered along the roads to the city gates. Those villages and towns at the halfway point between cities (say 10-15 miles) are going to be essential stops for older/sick folks, merchants with cargo, and large groups like noble’s retinues and army forces.

Preindustrial armies and large noble retinues usually can’t make it far past 10-12 miles per day, as denoted in my addition to this post. (https://www.tumblr.com/jadevine/739342239113871360/now-for-a-key-aspect-that-many-people-often-ask )

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