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wintersoldierslover · 2 years

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my fic recs masterlist

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Bucky Barnes:

all bucky barnes

headcanon - blurb - one-shot - series

dbf!bucky - brothers bff - bff’s brother

neighbour - housewife reader

lumberjack - firefighter - bodyguard

priest bucky - college

football player - hockey player - boxer

professor - teacher - librarian/bookshop

coffee shop - soulmate - royal

other AUs - taboo

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Stranger Things characters:

all eddie munson - all steve harrington

eddie and steve (x reader)

billy hargrove - jason carver - mike wheeler

dmitri enzo antonov - jim hopper

robin buckley - nancy wheeler

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Outer Banks Characters:

all Rafe Cameron

all JJ Maybank

Rafe Cameron and JJ Maybank (x reader)

Pope Heyward - Topper Thorton

John B. - Sarah Cameron

Kiara Carrera

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Marvel characters:

Wanda Maximoff - Kate Bishop

Natasha Romanoff - Yelena Belova

Peter Parker - Pietro Maximoff

Steve Rogers - Stephen Strange

Frank Castle - Matt Murdock

Moon knight - Steven Grant

Joaqín Torres - Clint Barton

Loki Laufeyson - Druig

Eddie Brock - Miles Morales

Miguel O’hara - Hobie Brown

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Harry Potter characters:

Sirius Black - Remus Lupin

James Potter - Poly!Marauders

Lily potter - Cedric Diggory

George Weasley - Fred Weasley

Severus Snape - Tom Riddle

Draco Malfoy

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Avatar (James Cameron) charachters:

neteyam - aonung - lo’ak

rotxo - kiri - spider

jake sully - neytiri - tsu’tey

tonowari - ronal - colonel quaritch

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Top Gun chracters:

Fanboy - Hangman - Rooster - Bob

Iceman

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Wednesday characters:

Xavier Thorpe - Ajax Petropolus

Wednesday Addams - Divina

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Bridgerton characters:

Anthony Bridgerton - Benedict Bridgerton

Colin Bridgerton

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Criminal Minds characters:

Spencer Reid - Aaron Hotchner

Derek Morgan

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The Last of Us characters:

Joel Miller - Ellie Williams

Abby Anderson

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The Devil All The Time characters:

Tommy Matson - Lee Bodecker

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Uncharted characters:

Nate Drake - Sam Drake

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Euphoria characters:

Elliot (Euphoria) - Fezco

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On My Block characters:

Mario Martinez - Oscar Diaz

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Modern Family characters:

Luke Dunphy - Alex Dunphy

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Ted Lasso:

Roy Kent - Jamie Tartt

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NHL players:

Matthew Ktachuk - Trevor Zegras

Nolan Patrick - Tyler Seguin

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Actors:

Sebastian Stan - Joseph Quinn

Jamie Campbell Bower - Danny Ramirez

Drew Starkey - Rudy Pankow

Ben Hardy - Bella Ramsey

Jenna Ortega

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Miscellaneous characters:

Eli ‘Hawk’ Moskowitz - Marcus Baker

Rodrick Heffley - Hunter Sylvester

Lloyd Hansen - Ari Levinson

Nick Fowler - Tangerine

Rhett Abbott - Hayden ‘Harvard Hottie’

Colin (Not Okay) - Min Ho (Xo, Kitty)

Ash (No Exit) - James Maguire (Derby Girls)

Jake Peralta - Nick Miller - Brian O’conner

Anakin Skywalker - Bruno Madrigal

Tadashi Hamada - Kakashi Hatake

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Miscellaneous real people:

Billie Eilish - AEW Hook

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*Updated whenever there’s a new character <3

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transdimensional-void · 9 months

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Japanese Language and World-building in Ascendance of a Bookworm

I decided to make this post because a conversation with @mesaprotector made me realize that readers experiencing Ascendance of a Bookworm in English (through Quof’s admittedly excellent translations) might not be aware of Kazuki-sensei’s extensive use of Japanese linguistic features in shaping the world and its characters.

Disclaimer: I don’t have any particular credentials that make me an expert in this area. All I can boast is good enough Japanese language skills to notice these features! But, if you’re interested in my explanation, read on...

About Japanese

Japanese is a language that allows people to easily express their relationship to others through their choice of words. This is likely rooted in Japan’s feudal past, when social roles were much more strictly defined and enforced. Some features that allow this are:

Masculine vs. Feminine Speech: Men and women can (and often still do) use completely different vocabulary as a form of gender expression.

Use of Different Titles: Most manga and anime fans are familiar with titles like -san and -sama used to refer to others politely. Not using a title for someone is also a way to express your perceived relationship to them.

Polite vs. Informal Speech: You use polite speech when speaking to people you perceive as being of a higher social ranking than you, or people you are not close enough to use informal speech with. There are varying levels of politeness. For example, “aru” is casual, “arimasu” is polite, and “gozaimasu” is ultra-super-polite.

Pronouns in Ascendance of a Bookworm

I (first person singular pronoun)

Commoner women, like Tuuli and Effa, use わたし(watashi, written in hiragana) to say I. Commoner men, like Gunther, use オレ(ore, written in katakana) to say I.

Noble women, like Florencia and Elvira, use わたくし(watakushi, written in hiragana) to say I. Noble men, like Damuel and Sylvester, use 私 (watashi, written in kanji) to say I.

There are some commoner women who exclusively use “watakushi,” like noble women do. Frieda does, and so do all of the gray shrine maidens in the temple. Similarly, the gray priests in the temple use “watashi” instead of “ore.”

Well-trained commoner men who are interacting with nobles (e.g. - Benno when he gets fancified) will switch to “watashi” as well.

Even after becoming a noble and referring to herself as “watakushi” when speaking, Myne still calls herself “watashi” in her inner monologue. This is not the case for other women who have been trained to use “watakushi” since birth, so it’s a sign that Myne's inner self is unchanged despite the new, noble veneer.

You (second person singular pronoun)

Commoner women almost never use any version of the pronoun “you.” Instead, they will call a person by their name, either with or without a title depending on their relationship to that person, or by a title only. Commoner men use おまえ(omae, written in hiragana) to say “you.”

Noble women also will usually refer to others by their name, though when they do use a pronoun, they use 貴方/貴女 (anata, either in masculine or feminine form depending on the gender of the person they are addressing, written in kanji). Noble men use 其方 (sonata, written in kanji) when speaking to people of equal or lower rank and 貴方/貴女 when speaking to those of a higher rank.

And then we have 君 (kimi, written in kanji), which I have only seen Ferdinand use, though I believe other men in the temple use it when referring to someone of a lower rank than they are (e.g., the former High Bishop Bezewanst uses it to refer to Myne in the anime, so I’m guessing he used it in the LN as well, though I have not read part 1 in Japanese). Ferdinand normally uses “anata” and “sonata” like any noble man--except when speaking to Rozemyne, who he calls “kimi.” It’s a regular reminder that their relationship began in the temple, not in noble society, and that he feels differently toward her than he does toward any other noble.

Titles in Ascendance of a Bookworm

No Title

This is used among commoners to indicate someone with whom the speaker has a close relationship. For example, Lutz just calls Myne “Myne” with no title attached. Among nobles, it is used when referring to someone of lower rank. For example, Sylvester calls Ferdinand just “Ferdinand” because he is his younger brother and a lower-ranking noble than Sylvester. Noble men will also use it to refer to those of equal rank, and retainers serving the same lord or lady use it regardless of rank to facilitate quick communication.

-san (-さん）

This title only gets used within commoner society. It indicates distance in relationship between the two people interacting as well as a desire to speak politely. For example, Myne calls Benno “Benno-san” until she becomes a noble. Afterward, she drops the title to indicate that he is of a lower rank than she is, except when they are in the hidden room together and she reverts to her commoner speech patterns.

-sama (-様）

This title is used by commoners when speaking to nobles. It is also used by nobles. Noble men use it when referring to someone of a higher rank than they are. Noble women use it when referring to someone of higher or equal rank to themselves, including their husbands. For example, Cornelius calls Rozemyne “Rozemyne-sama” when he is on the job as her retainer, but when they are speaking as siblings, he just calls her “Rozemyne” because she is his younger sister and therefore lower in the family hierarchy. Rozemyne and Hannelore always refer to one another as “Rozemyne-sama” and “Hannelore-sama” despite their close friendship and equal rank. Eglantine refers to Anastasius as “Anastasius-sama” both before and after they are married.

Family Titles

These are used among both commoners and nobles, though they use different ones. Myne refers to Gunther as 父さん (tou-san, written in a combo of kanji and hiragana) and Effa as 母さん (kaa-san, written in a combo of kanji and hiragana). Lutz refers to them as Gunther-ojisan (Uncle Gunther) and Effa-obasan (Aunt Effa). Myne and Tuuli refer to one another with their names only, no family titles required, indicating that commoners are more relaxed about the hierarchy among siblings.

In noble society, different titles are used by men and women. Noble men use the following:

Father = 父上 (chichi-ue, written in kanji) and Mother = 母上 (haha-ue, written in kanji)

Older Brother = 兄上 (ani-ue, written in kanji) and Older Sister = 姉上 (ane-ue, written in kanji)

Uncle = 叔父上 (oji-ue) and Aunt = 叔母上 (obaue)

Grandfather = お祖父上 (ojii-ue, written in a combo of hiragana and kanji) and Grandmother = お祖母上 (obaa-ue, written in a combo of hiragana and katakana)

Noble women use:

Father = お父様 (otou-sama, combo of hiragana and kanji) and Mother = お母様 (okaa-sama, hiragana and kanji)

Older Brother = お兄様 (onii-sama, hiragana and kanji) and Older Sister = お姉様 (onee-sama, hiragana and kanji)

Uncle = 叔父様 (oji-sama, kanji) and Aunt = 叔母様 (oba-sama, kanji)

Grandfather = お祖父様 (ojii-sama, hiragana and kanji) and Grandmother = お祖母様 (obaa-sama, hiragana and kanji).

Myne also uses yet another set of family titles to refer to her adoptive family! Sylvester is 養父様 (tou-sama, literally “adoptive father-sama,” written in kanji) and Florencia is 養母様 (kaa-sama, literally “adoptive mother-sama,” written in kanji). She also often calls her older brothers by their names with nii-sama attached, such as Wilfried-nii-sama, as opposed to just by onii-sama. This is probably to distinguish among her multiple older brothers.

Other Titles

A variety of other titles get used in place of calling people by their name or pronouns, both in commoner and noble society. For example, Mark exclusively refers to Benno as 旦那様 (danna-sama, kanji), a title that Lutz begins calling Benno as well once he begins working for him.

Myne refers to Ferdinand as 神官長 (shinkancho, “High Priest,” kanji) almost exclusively until she becomes a noble. Then she refers to him as Ferdinand-sama when they are outside the temple but still shinkancho when they are in the temple, up until he stops being the High Priest (;_;). She also usually drops the -sama when referring to him in her inner monologue, further indication that while she can walk the noble walk, she doesn’t really believe in the hierarchy.

Professors of the royal academy get called -sensei. Giebes, Aubs, and the Zent also get called by their titles sometimes in place of their names, sometimes in addition to their names.

Formal vs. Informal Registers in AoAB

I’m not going to list every single word that is different between different registers here because that would be way too long. However, I’ll give some examples.

Commoners generally speak in an informal register all the time, unless they have been trained to speak politely to people of higher-rank. They use contractions such as -って (-tte, written in hiragana) to mean “said,” and they also often drop the ends of sentences entirely. When they do use verbs, they use the simple dictionary form, e.g. - aru instead of arimasu. Male commoners will often use interjections such as “na” or “ze” or “zo,” which makes their speech sound manlier and rougher. They also tend to use “da” instead of “desu.”

Any commoner who has been trained to use polite language will tend to use the politest forms when speaking to nobles, e.g. - gozaimasu instead of arimasu.

Nobles in general will use politer forms of verbs except in very private, relaxed situations. For example, 参ります (mairimasu, kanji and hiragana) instead of 来る (kuru) or おっしゃる (ossharu, hiragana) instead of 言う (iu, kanji and hiragana).

Noble women have extremely restricted speech patterns. They always speak in the polite or politest registers. For example, a noble woman speaking to a social equal or inferior might use “arimasu,” but when speaking to a social superior, she will use “gozaimasu” or “irasshaimasu.” They also say えぇ(ee, hiragana) to say “yes” instead of the more familiar “hai.” Noble men will use あぁ (aa, hiragana) to say “yes.”

Noble men have a little more freedom in their forms of speech. Many will use informal masculine speech when speaking to social equals or inferiors while still using slightly different vocabulary choice. For example, Ferdinand often says 解せぬ (gesenu, kanji and hiragana) instead of 知らない (shiranai) to say “I don’t know.” They will switch to the polite (but not necessarily politest) forms when speaking to someone slightly above them in rank and reserve the politest forms for those very high above them. However, some men will choose to use polite language all the time, even when speaking to social inferiors.

This is especially notable in the speech patterns of Anastasius vs. Sigiswald. Anastasius chooses to use more stripped-down, rougher language when speaking to social inferiors, whereas Sigiswald still uses “anata” and -masu endings when speaking to social inferiors such as Adolphine and Rozemyne. It demonstrates a stark difference between the two princes’ personalities and how they wish to present themselves to the world.

Another notable use of informal vs. formal is when Myne is in a hidden room with someone who knows of her commoner past. She’ll revert to how she spoke as a commoner. My favorite instance of this is in Part 4 volume 8 when she and Ferdinand are in his hidden room just after she learned he is leaving. As she grows more and more emotional with her threats, she loses the ability to speak in noble speech patterns and starts speaking to him the same way she would Lutz or Tuuli (</3).

In Conclusion

I know this has been a very long post, but hopefully those who are as in love with Bookworm as I am will find it interesting and useful. Kazuki-sensei does a masterful job of exploiting the Japanese language’s unique features to make this world and its characters come alive, and it’s unfortunate that English lacks easy equivalents to allow us to appreciate these effects in translation. When reading the text in Japanese, as long as you know which characters are present and what situation they are in, you can almost always guess who is speaking just from their speech patterns.

In the English version, Quof will often insert a character’s name to let us know, and also will sometimes add clues such as “spoke in a very stiff manner” to replace the linguistic features lost in translation. I encourage those reading in English to keep their eyes peeled for these little insertions.

My hope is that the above can serve as a window into this aspect of world-building for some English-speaking readers!

#ascendance of a bookworm #bookworm #japanese language #long post

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thisisnotthenerd · 5 months

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and here's the rogues from the rogue heavy seasons:

feel free to share your reasoning/propaganda. all of these rogues come from rogue-heavy parties--this is your opportunity to decide who among them is the most roguish.

#dimension 20 #ultimate d20 class fight #rick diggins #car-go jones #liam wilhelmina #ruby rocks #gangie green #buckster $ boyd #daisy d'umpstaire #sylvester cross #raphaniel charlock #karna solara #colin provolone #amangeaux epiceé du peche

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parvuls · 1 year

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jack retires because of a leg injury and takes off to a small massachusetts town, still recovering physically and mentally. he spends his first few months in town getting accustomed to life without hockey, to bi-weekly therapy sessions, to walking with a cane. he spends most of those months angry - at the pain, at his limited mobility, at the world. he doesn't have much patience for others, and puts very little energy towards socializing with the locals.

by the time the next fall comes around, he's been through enough therapy, physical and otherwise, and actually looks forward to being home all halloween for the first time in years. to see the kids go trick or treating, maybe unearth his camera and take pictures of the festivities. maybe even participate in something. start feeling like part of a community again.

but when halloween comes, jack spends all night on his couch, alone, holding a full-to-the-brim bowl of handmade candy. no one comes to knock on his door. because kids judge quickly, and parents are slow to trust, and his first few months in town were enough to establish a reputation as someone to be avoided.

he stays up later than he has since he was a teenager, but when it becomes clear that no one is going to stop at his house he dumps all three bags of the halloween treats he ordered special - none of that chemically manufactured shit that's so bad for kids - and puts them out front, to be picked up with his garbage. and then he goes to bed, and tries very hard not to think.

bitty opens his bakery early. he happens to walk past jack's house on his way to work, and recognizes the bags sitting out front; it's hard to forget that order, from the man who asked him question after question about the ingredients of the candy he'd be giving to kids on halloween. bitty made him a candy-cane inspired sweet in the form of a hockey stick, and watched the man crack the first smile bitty's seen from him since he moved to town.

but the bags are all full out here on the sidewalk. and although bitty wishes he didn't know why, he can make a pretty good guess. he was new to town, once, too.

it's hard to purposely bump into someone who keeps to himself as much as mr. zimmermann does, but bitty is nothing if not determined. he stops by mr. zimmermann's cart when they're both out grocery shopping and makes sure to exchange small talk with him, just loudly enough for others to overhear. he moves his daily run from the evening to the early morning, although it's torture to get up even earlier than he already does, so the jogging crowd spots him running into mr. zimmermann and waving cheerfully. it's the little things. and if bitty can make one of his neighbors feel more at home, then he darn well will.

gradually, little by little, mr. zimmermann starts opening up. insists that bitty call him jack. keeps walking with bitty all the way to the register when they're both out grocery shopping, while gravely telling him about the importance of eating clean. changes his running route so bitty and he start their loop around the park at the same time, and when it gets colder, brings another set of gloves along because bitty always forgets his. bitty's not even sure how jack figured that out.

and it's other things, too. one day mrs. sylvester who lives down the street tells bitty that jack joined the book club, and while he never says much, she swears he reads all the books. ms. bishop, who works at city hall and can't keep a secret to save her life, leans over to bitty during their shared pilates class and whispers that she's not supposed to tell, but someone made a big donation to the town's community center. principal stacy announces the annual career day at the elementary school, and unsubtly suggests that perhaps new residents with unusual career paths may like to sign up.

the next halloween, jack spends all night on his front porch, wearing cat ears and whiskers drawn in eyeliner, with his arm around bitty's shoulders and a constantly emptying bowl of handmade candy in his lap.

#omgcp #omgcheckplease #zimbits #all of my feelings about jack building a new life after hockey just spilled onto the paper I'm so sorry #I have a huge thing for rebuilding and healing arcs #text #pavfics

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tassjis · 7 months

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My friend is reading Ascendence of a bookworm for the first time and it's amusing to read their theories

Their thoughts below

She is a mage, and her magical tool is going to be a quill or brush

I mean does stylo count?

I fell like Fey will fall for Myne

The devouring is obviously magical overload

I mean, yeah

The merchant, I feel he is going to be the bad guy of the story

Benno? The bad guy?

I don't think Benno is evil anymore. I think he will be savour for Myne.

Eh?

Lutz, will be Mynes best friend and likely fall in love with her in time. I am unsure if she will feel the same way for him though.

Probably might have happened if the end of p2 didn't happen

Freida I expect will be the one to convince the guildmaster to give her a magic tool, as she will not want to loose a friend to the devouring.

The guild master will not want to but I see him not being able to say no to his granddaughter.

I see Benno and Lutz have to make a great sacrifice to enable it to happen though as the guildmaster will frame it is such a way to win even if he was doing it for his granddaughter

Freida does give her a magic tool and it was to save her friend but it was also part of a bet...

Close but it's Myne who sacrifices some of her savings

I have a feeling she will meet a noble that will fall for Myne and then give her magical tools as a gift. And it will because of Freida introducing her to someone

Looks at the pile of feystones and magic tools Ferdinand has given her...

Yeah Freida doesn't introduce them

The high bishop is a dick, the high priest seems nice, He's your favourite character isn't he?

Correct on most fronts... Ferdinand is the lord of evil for a reason but he's still a sweetie

Orphanage director at age of 7???

Yes

I get a feeling that the high priest is going to set up Myne for a potential suitor based on the harspiel lol

He is the the suitor x3

Love the pokemon reference.

Alright, I choose you, Stretchy tree thingy!

Hehe

The high bishop is a dick, she should of killed him when he attacked her in the beginning.

What? The evil Santa is a dick? /s

She should just kill everyone who gets in her way.

Then there would be no one left...

She has no shame!

Ah so you're in her memories now

I feel like the knight captain is manipulating Ferdiand and planning to kill the archduke

??? Ferdinand being manipulated by Karstedt??? No it's the other way around and definitely not to kill the archduke... the archdukes mother on the other hand...

I just met Sylvester. He sounds like a dick

He's just childish

I feel like Sylvester is a possible love interest for Myne, after all age gaps are normal here, or they will have some kind of connection

Yeah that connection is father/daughter... but he was the 3rd option of a suitor in Ehrenfest

#ascendance of a bookworm #honzuki no gekokujou

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crumblita · 6 months

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chess choco cookie idpack pls ?

-councilor anon [used to be maruki anon]

chess choco cookie id pack

names : noir( e ) , blanc( he ) , queen , pawn , pawnine , rookie , bishop , mischief , chevalier , knight , cheval , cavallo , checker , sylvester , sylvie , cheshire , cheshette , checkmate , pawnette , pockette

pronouns : tease / teases , mock / mocks , smug / smugs , noir / noirs , blanc / blancs , pawn / pawns , piece / pieces , queen / queens , chocolate / chocolates , choco / chocolate , board / boards , check / checker , rook / rooks , bishop / bishops , protect / protects , kni / knight , knight / knights , milk / milks , swirl / swirls , truffle / truffles

hope you like it councilor anon ! !

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sillyidol · 1 year

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hi!! this blog is definitely one of my favourites eva!! i think the aesthetic is divine. anyway, i was wondering if the angel had any names that felt dark and cruel, but at the same time mischievous? thats kind of a hard theme i understand, so im happy if the marionette skips this request /g

♡ : dark , cruel , mysterious . . .

? names : virus , sylvester , pepper , mimic , jinx , elixir , spider , dice , bishop , pawn , scythe , stitches , rook , juno , lorelai , victor , crypt , cryptid , sal , nyx , nox , nocturne , spell , atlas , jester

#( ☆ )#~ ♪#mogai #name ideas #name help

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dexterouslycharming · 1 year

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Oh also uh *pulls out sketchbook* would you mind giving a physical desc of like all of your ocs?

Absolutely omg

This is gonna be long lol

Augustine Ella - a fair bit paler than her sister, freckles fleck her cheeks and across her nose. She's around 5'2 and has a slim build. Her hair is an auburn red type of color and its slightly wavy. Her hair is either up in a braided style or fully down. She has a small scar above her left eyebrow from a sword accident, and a longer scar going down her right thigh to her ankle from when she into someone while she was ice-skating and their ice-skating blade sliced her leg open. Her eyes are a bluey green color and have little gold flecks in them. Outfit and Hair Style inspo below

Sylvester Bishop - Tall and lanky, around 6'2 or so, much like the mad hatter himself. Sylvester dyes his hair a stark platinum white to match his mother's hair. His natural color is the same as the Mad Hatter's fiery red hair. He does have various, faint scars from certain things he endured at the hands of his maternal grandmother, and due to the basic sword training he's had. His eyes are a soft blue color. Outfit and Hair inspo below

Rosie Midas - Rosie is a bit taller than most of her peers, at 5'5. Her hair is a dark, chocolate brown and is always up in what seems to be like a wedding knot. She always has some form of gold hair piece in no matter the day or the occasion. Her eyes are a hazel-amber color, mixed with a little bit of green. She's slightly tan, and has freckles throughout her face, shoulders and arms. Outfit and Hair inspo below

#I'll add more ocs to this once i get their styles nailed down a bit more #eah #ever after high #eah ocs #my ocs #poppys ocs #augustine ella #Sylvester bishop #rosie midas

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anastpaul · 4 months

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Sunday Within the Octave of Christmas, Santa María la Real de Uxue / Our Lady of Uxue, Spain (8th Century), St Pope Sylvester I (Died 335) and the Saints for 31 December

Sunday Within the Octave of Christmas New Year’s Eve Santa María la Real de Uxue / Our Lady of Uxue, Spain (8th Century) – 31 December:HERE:https://anastpaul.com/2021/12/31/the-seventh-day-of-the-octave-of-christmas-santa-maria-la-real-de-uxue-our-lady-of-uxue-uxue-spain-8th-century-and-memorials-of-the-saints-31-december/ St Pope Sylvester I (Died 335) Papal Ascension 314. Bishop of Rome,…

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#ourladyofuxue #saints31december #stcolumbaofsens #stmariusaventicus #stmelaniatheyounger #stpopesylvesterI #stzoticusofconstantinople

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thepastisalreadywritten · 8 months

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SAINT OF THE DAY (August 16)

On August 16, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast day of King Saint Stephen of Hungary, the monarch who led his country to embrace the Christian faith during the 11th century.

Before the future saint's birth in 975, his mother, the duchess Sarolt, is said to have received a vision in which the original Saint Stephen – the Church's first martyr – appeared telling her she would bear a son who would evangelize their land.

Together with her husband, the Hungarian duke Geza, Sarolt is believed to have been converted and baptized by the bishop Saint Adalbert of Prague.

The same saint baptized their son Vaik in 985, giving him the name of Stephen.

Geza had desired to convert the Hungarians to the Catholic faith, a passion shared by Stephen once he reached adulthood and succeeded him in power.

After conclusively defeating an alliance of rival pagan nobility, he used their acquired wealth to build a monastery and invited clergy to convert the people.

Stephen established laws favoring Christianity over paganism and sent an emissary to Rome with a request for the Pope to proclaim him as king.

Pope Sylvester II accepted the request, sending him a crown and a gold processional cross, while also giving Stephen certain religious privileges.

He showed great diligence as king, while devoting the rest of his time to his religious duties – including charity toward the poor and sick, as well as the worship of God – and to his household.

Gisela, Stephen's wife, was the sister of the ruler later canonized as the Holy Roman Emperor Saint Henry II.

Greatly devoted to the Virgin Mary, Stephen had several churches built in her honor both in Hungary and outside the kingdom.

Her intercession is credited with preventing a war between Hungary and the Holy Roman Empire under Conrad II, and stopping an assassination plot against Stephen himself.

The Hungarian king also established a monastery in Jerusalem and set up institutions to aid pilgrims in other major cities.

Stephen counted saints among his friends and correspondents. He fulfilled the Pope's charge to use his royal authority for the good of the Church.

Suffering came to the king, however, when only one of his children survived to adulthood.

Stephen's only living son Emeric received a strong Catholic upbringing and was expected to succeed his father. But Emeric died before Stephen, after a hunting accident in 1031.

Emeric was later canonized as a saint in his own right, and Stephen eventually came to rejoice that his son had been permitted to enter God's presence before him.

The king's final years, however, were marked by illness as well as a succession dispute among his relatives.

In 1038, on the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Stephen delivered his final words to leaders of the Church and state, telling them to protect and spread the Catholic faith.

To the Virgin Mary, the king directed one of his final prayers:

“To thee, O Queen of heaven, and to thy guardianship, I commend the holy Church, all the bishops and the clergy, the whole kingdom, its rulers and inhabitants; but before all, I commend my soul to thy care.”

St. Stephen of Hungary died on 15 August 1038. He was buried alongside his son St. Emeric, and the two were canonized together in 1083.

#Saint of the Day #Saint Stephen of Hungary #King Saint Stephen of Hungary

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Brief Thoughts on Judge Dredd Novels, Part IX: Wetworks by Dave Stone

And so Virgin's Judge Dredd books end in much the same way they began: with Dave Stone.

Quality-wise, Wetworks ends up splitting the difference between Stone's two other contributions to the series, being less characterful and efficient in its storytelling than Deathmasques - and there's nary an Armitage or Steel in sight, for shame! - but considerably more coherent than The Medusa Seed.

After book upon book of David Bishop warming up his conspiratorial muscles for Who Killed Kennedy - well, OK, it's just The Savage Amusement and Silencer, but in a nine book series, two out of three ain't bad - we finally get Stone's take on the matter, and it's exactly as zany and off-the-wall as you'd probably expect.

Which is to say, basically, that for all that I just called it "more coherent than The Medusa Seed," we're still making that judgement by the parameters of Dave Stone. In the thick of things, the conspiracy just about hangs together. It's only when you think to pull back a little, really, that you start to properly question the particulars of exactly why an extradimensional being masquerading as a Mickey Mouse stand-in should make a bid to control the Earth by means of staging a big feature-length action movie in which the planet's various Justice Departments get overthrown.

None of that really matters, however, because Stone's narrative voice is in full swing by this point, and it's rather glorious. More than Deathmasques or The Medusa Seed, Wetworks truly reads like the work of the madman who is going to produce Sky Pirates! in a mere five months' time, and this carries the novel quite far. Even if the book's musings on conspiracy and apocalypse aren't anything especially original for the 1990s, the fact that they're delivered with that idiosyncratic Dave Stone charm counts for a lot.

Indeed, while I'm nowhere near versed enough in the context of 2000 AD fandom in the 1990s to know what the expectations were for the 1995 Danny Cannon/Sylvester Stallone movie - which I'll probably get around to watching and reviewing in a few days' time - I don't think it's reading too much into Wetworks to detect a barely concealed undercurrent of cynicism directed towards the idea of big-budget cinematic spectacle, which can't help but feel pointed in light of Virgin's eventual decision to can the Dredd novels in response to the film's high-profile failure.

And it's a shame, really, because these nine books have been solid. Not always anything exceptional, by any means, but certainly solid, and the contributions of Stone in particular rank as rather entertaining slices of bizarro, ludicrously violent dystopian sci-fi. I'd also be remiss if I didn't give an extremely honorable mention to Stephen Marley's Dreddlocked, my beloved, but alas it seems that it is the way of all Virgin sci-fi novels to eventually find themselves subsumed by a failed cinematic adaptation, regardless of the actual material quality of the books themselves.

I'll still do the Black Flame novels, but as it stands I've really enjoyed doing these nine books, and I hope I've managed to make it generally entertaining in the process.

Current ranking:

Dreddlocked

Deathmasques

Wetworks

Silencer

The Medusa Seed

Dread Dominion

Cursed Earth Asylum

The Hundredfold Problem

The Savage Amusement

#2000 ad #judge dredd #dave stone #virgin books

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I have never heard about Pope Sylvester II, may I ask about him and what he did? God bless!

Thank you, and God bless you too!

Pope Sylvester II is a very interesting figure; he was an astronomer and mathematician who is credited with the invention of the mechanical clock, the creation of a more effective abacus, and the introduction of Arabic numerals to Europe.

Sylvester seemed to like his life as Gerbert the monk more than being a bishop and eventually Pope; he was just some guy content to write poems and elaborate math puzzles and teach his friends how to build astrolabes. But he was elected Pope in the year 999, probably partially because of his friendship with the Holy Roman Emperor, and began a program of reform in the hopes of politically reuniting Christendom (he named himself Sylvester because the first Pope Sylvester was a partner with Constantine the Great). When his friend and protege died, though, the dream died with him, and Sylvester II died shortly thereafter.

His death was followed by a campaign of brutal character assassination, where rivals accused him of being a sorcerer and trafficker of demons. His image has been rehabilitated somewhat since then, though. But he's just such an interesting character.

Nancy Marie Brown wrote a popular history book called The Abacus and the Cross which is centered on Sylvester II, the historical context in which he lived, and the scientific worldview which he both thrived in and helped to develop.

#asks #Pope Sylvester II #Catholicism

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Holidays

Anti-Obesity Day

Bonn Om Touk (Water Festival; Cambodia)

Casablanca Day

Constitution Day (Abkhazia; Georgia; India)

Coton de Tulear Day

Corn Salad Day (French Republic)

Economic Abuse Awareness Day (Australia, Canada)

Family Day (Palau)

Festival of Big Talk

Festival of Shadow Economies

Flag Day (Colombia)

Fraternity Day

Good Bath Day (Japan)

Good Grief Day

Holiday List Day

International Bananagrams Day

International Day of Cats

International Shoemaker Day

International Women Human Rights Defenders Day

Iron Deficiency Day

Kelaghayi Day (Azerbaijan)

Kodanikupäev (Citizen Day; Estonia)

Lion Day USA

Mākua Rothman Day (Hawaii)

Mumbai Terror Attacks Remembrance Day

National Alexis Day

National Eric Day

National Heath Day

National Law Day (India)

National Ranboo Day

Netherfield Ball Day

Republic Day (Mongolia)

Sojourner Truth Day (Michigan)

Tazaungdaing (Myanmar)

World Lewis Day

World Olive Tree Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Cake Day

National Milk Day (India)

World Olive Day

4th & Last Sunday in November

All Souls' Day (Visu Dvēseles Diena; Latvia)

Artist’s Sunday [Sunday after Thanksgiving]

Crystal Skull World Day [4th Sunday]

International Laksa Day [Last Sunday]

International Shift Worker Sunday [Last Sunday]

John F. Kennedy Day (Massachusetts) [Last Sunday]

Judgement Sunday (Tuomiosunnuntai; Finland) [Last Sunday]

Mother’s Day (Russia) [Last Sunday]

Museum Store Sunday [Last Sunday]

National Bicycle Day (Philippines) [4th Sunday]

National Secondhand Sunday [Last Sunday]

National Youth Sunday (UK) [Last Sunday]

Pasadena Doo Dah Parade [Sunday after Thanksgiving]

Small Brewery Sunday [Sunday after Thanksgiving]

Stir-Up Sunday [Last Sunday before Advent]

Sunday of the Dead (Totensonntag; Austria, Germany) [Last Sunday]

Independence Days

The Golliez (Declared; 2022) [unrecognized]

Mongolia (from China, 1921)

Feast Days

Alypius the Stylite (Christian; Saint)

Basolus (a.k.a. Basle; Christian; Saint)

Bellinus of Padua (Christian; Saint)

Celebration of the Excellence of Genevieve in Paris (Roman Catholic)

Conrad of Constance (a.k.a. Conraal; Christian; Saint)

Day of the Covenant (Baháʼí)

Ethelwine of Athelney (Christian; Saint)

Feast of Christ the King (Christian)

Feast of the Holy Family (Christian)

Hugo Ball Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Isaac Watts (Episcopal Church (USA))

John Berchmans (Christian; Saint)

Kara Walker (Artology)

Nicon Metanoite (Christian; Saint)

Peter, Bishop of Alexandria (Christian; Saint)

Racist Depreciation Day (Pastafarian)

Sidney (Positivist; Saint)

Siricius, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Stylianos of Paphlagonia (Eastern Orthodoxy)

Sylvester Gozzolini (Christian; Saint)

Tantan (Muppetism)

Valraven’s Day (Pagan)

William Sidney Mount (Artology)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Today (because it’s National Baby Dropping Day.)

Premieres

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Novel; 1865)

Alien: Resurrection (Film; 1997)

Anarchy in the U.K., by The Sex Pistols (Album; 1976)

Australia (Film; 2008)

Bad Santa (Film; 2003)

Casablanca (Film; 1942)

The Daffy Doc (WB LT Cartoon; 1938)

Dangerous, by Michael Jackson (Album; 1991)

Flood Waters or Drown in the Valley (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 234; 1963)

Fragile, by Yes (Album; 1971)

Heir-Conditioned (WB LT Cartoon; 1955)

Home Defense (Disney Cartoon; 1943)

I Believe I Can Fly, by R. Kelly (Song; 1996)

The Ice Storm (Film; 1997)

Imitation of Life (Film; 1934)

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcast (Film; 1999)

The King’s Speech (Film; 2010)

Licorice Pizza (Film; 2021)

The Mosquito Coast (Film; 1996)

Orchids in the Moonlight, recorded by Xavier Cugat (Song; 1940)

Penguins of Madagascar (Animated Film; 2014)

Rockshow (Paul McCartney Concert Film; 1980)

Squeeze: Unplugged (MTV TV Concert; 1989) [1st Unplugged Concert]

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (Film; 1986)

Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (Film; 1993)

Timeline (Film; 2003)

The Toll of the Sea (Film; 1922) [1st Technicolor Film)

Treasure of Monte Zoom, Part 1 (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 233; 1963)

The Triplets of Belleville (Animated Film; 2003)

Unplugged (Music TV Series; 1989)

The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins (Novel; 1859)x

Today’s Name Days

Anneliese, Gebhard, Konrad (Austria)

Stilyan, Stilyana (Bulgaria)

Hugo, Konrad, Siricije (Croatia)

Artur (Czech Republic)

Conradus (Denmark)

Dagmar, Maara, Maare, Tamaara (Estonia)

Sisko (Finland)

Delphine (France)

Anneliese, Konrad, Kurt (Germany)

Kyparisia, Nikon, Stelios, Stergios, Stiloanos, Stylianos (Greece)

Virág (Hungary)

Corrado, Cristo (Italy)

Konrāds (Latvia)

Dobilas, Silvestras, Vygantė (Lithuania)

Konrad, Kurt (Norway)

Delfin, Dobiemiest, Jan, Konrad, Konrada, Lechosław, Lechosława, Leonard, Sylwester (Poland)

Stellina (Romania)

Kornel (Slovakia)

Conrado, Juan, Leonardo, Silvestre (Spain)

Linus (Sweden)

Mallory, Rashad, Rashawn, Yesenia, Yessenia (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 330 of 2024; 35 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 47 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Ngetal (Reed) [Day 27 of 28]

Chinese: Month 10 (Gui-Hai), Day 14 (Wu-Zi)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 13 Kislev 5784

Islamic: 13 Jumada I 1445

J Cal: 30 Mir; Nineday [30 of 30]

Julian: 13 November 2023

Moon: 99%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 22 Frederic (12th Month) [Sidney]

Runic Half Month: Is (Stasis) [Day 1 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 64 of 89)

Zodiac: Sagittarius (Day 5 of 30)

Calendar Changes

Is (Stasis) [Half-Month 23 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 12.10)

#calendar #Holidays

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