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dbaydenny · 5 months

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Conquers set sail

calling it discovery

planting a proud flag,

a whip to snap in the wind

more deadly than any sword.

D W Eldred

#poetry #tanka #the age of discovery

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deadpresidents · 6 months

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"¿El quiere que tú respires la caca?"

#SNL #Saturday Night Live #The Age of Discovery #Bad Bunny #Go around it!#Youtube #Sí! Más caca!

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emaya-chan-the-potato-headed · 6 months

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The part of history they never told you....

It's been recently discovered that King Phillip II of Spain was......apparently overthrown by a certain Juan Domingo (Master of Espionage and Weaponry)

case in point:

The King of Spain:

and this guy....

think about it! 😆

#snl #bad bunny #bill the film #simon farnaby #juan domingo #alternate history #the age of discovery #me having stupid fun here 😂#that skit seriously made my week tho'!#go to youtube and watch it NOW!#it's so hilarious #they're all speaking Spanish!#bad bunny is actually one hell of a comedic actor!#and i know none of his music stuff #not much into modern hiphop sorry

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realitys-ex · 1 month

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A Really Shitty Review of "The Age of Discovery" By Michael A. Stackpole

So, this'll be worse than my normal "Mediocre Reviews" because I haven't read this series in probably 5? years, and tbh, I tried to re read it, but I couldn't get into it again.

Which, for me, is a bit of a inditement. I reread books. A lot.

If I haven't re read a book within 2 years of reading it initially, it's odd to say the least.

Now, it may be better than I recall, but tbh not the point of this post.

No, I want to talk about the magic system.

Basically the magic is as follows: If you study/practice/get good enough at something you can pass a threshold where you become magically good at it. This always confers 2/3 side effects, along with a few others depending on what you are magically good at.

1)Magical immortality. Or at least you stop aging, and probably heal super well. You can be killed though. 2)You are supernaturally good at whatever, and clearly superior to anyone who isn't also magically good at it. 3)Now I am not 100% on this but iirc when you use your ability there is a chance of random magic effects on the surrounding area. (though that might have only been if there are 2 people going at each other).

So, the first person we meet is a magic swordsman, then there is a magical courtesan, and some other stuff.

The important thing though, is eventually we get a magical beaurocrat.

Yup, some dude gets so good at dealing with paperwork he becomes immortal.

To this day it is one of the funniest concepts I have heard of.

#mediocre reviews #The Age of Discovery #Michael A. Stackpole

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gwydionmisha · 6 months

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The Age of Discovery - SNL

#The Age of Discovery #SNL #Youtube

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ltwilliammowett · 2 months

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Carrack Nao Victoria

#tall ship #nao victoria #carrack #magellan #early 16th century #age of discovery #replica

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aromantic-diaries · 2 months

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You've heard of the character who is disinterested in romance but suddenly changes their mind and gets into a relationship by the end of the story, now consider:

Character who starts out as a hopeless romantic obsessed with the idea of love and after some introspection realizes they're aromantic

#aro #aromantic #arospec #aka: my self discovery from age 13 to age 17

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thenonconformistcurmudgeon · 1 year

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The Age of Discovery

Preamble: I have friends travelling to Portugal and sadly realized that the sum total of my knowledge of Portugal was where it was located and the explorers Vasco da Gama and Magellan. As my learned readers may or may not recall, da Gama found the ocean route to India around the Cape of Good Hope in Africa. There is a Portuguese documentary on Da Gama that I will be quoting below but to fully appreciate the man, the mission, and his foibles, a little background information is needed.

(A devout Christian and a loyal Portuguese subject, da Gama had no qualms about using violence — including against unarmed civilians — to force his way into the lucrative Indian and African trade routes dominated at the time by Muslims. "The accounts written by people on da Gama's voyages portray someone who was, even by the standards of the time, a violent personality,"

Da Gama’s first major encounter with an African Kingdom was in Mozambique, where he was poorly received, an experience that would be repeated. Da Gama was following the example of Columbus, who had won over native leaders with simple European goods like bells, flannel and metalwork. However, when da Gama stopped at ports in Eastern Africa and offered items for trade, people would laugh at him as they weren’t impressive to local traders. In Mozambique, the Sultan and his people were actually offended and started to riot. Da Gama fled back to his ship and lobbed a few cannon balls at the city as parting shots.

He threatened African leaders with his cannons in exchange for vows of loyalty to Portugal but nothing compares to the campaign of terror he waged along India’s Malabar Coast. In the most horrific incident, da Gama intercepted a ship carrying Muslim families returning from a religious pilgrimage to Mecca. Da Gama locked up the passengers in the ships hull, and despite pleas from his own crew not to do it, he set the pilgrim ship ablaze, slowly killing hundreds of men, women and children.

In Calicut, there were more skirmishes between da Gama and Arab traders. Da Gama responded by capturing 30 unarmed local fishermen, dismembering their bodies and letting the remains wash in on the tide as a message of Portuguese power.

After demanding the expulsion of Muslims from Calicut to the Hindu Zamorin, the latter sent the high priest Talappana for talks. Da Gama called him a spy, ordered the priest's lips and ears to be cut off and after sewing a pair of dog's ears to his head, sent him away. The Portuguese fleet then bombarded the unfortified city for nearly two days from the sea, severely damaging it. He also captured several rice vessels and cut off the crew's hands, ears and noses, dispatching them with a note to the Zamorin, in which Gama declared that he would be open to friendly relations once the Zamorin had paid for items plundered as well as the gunpowder and cannonballs.)

Now with this background, you may be better able to appreciate this re-enactment excerpt from the Da Gama documentary.

Narrator: We take you in the near days before Vasco Da Gama left the port of Lisbon in July, 1497. As da Gama was provisioning his ship, a wharf peddler struck up a conversation with the mighty Vasco.

Alfonso the Peddler: Hey Vasco, you need to bring gifts on your trip. Can’t show up in a new land without some presents. Got to show the natives some good will before you ransack their palaces, defile the woman, and loot the treasury.

Vasco: Good idea. I don’t want to spend too much though, but it needs to be high quality goods. None of the cut-rate stuff or knockoffs. Only brand names.

Alfonso: I only carry the best gear. Ask anyone. All along the wharf they say, I don’t know how that Alfonso does it, it’s like he is giving the stuff away. Look at my goods. Top quality, top brands, real brass vessels, the sweetest olive oil, genuine top of the line cloth and don’t get me started on these hats. For you Vasco, 6 hats for the price of 5. A good deal, you can’t get that in town. Only at Alfonso’s dockside can you get such a deal. The whole megillah I’ll give you for 25 reais.

Vasco: The stuff looks good but price a little steep. I’ll give you 15.

Alfonso: Vasco, give me a break, that’s way below my cost, I can’t give it to you for 15.

Vasco: All right, I’ll do it for 20 if you throw in 3 sets of dog ears with a nice pouch that I can put them in and tie them to my sash.

Alfonso: I can do that. Any size, breed, you are looking for?

Vasco: Whatever, any ones will do, a nice mixture would be nice come to think of it.

Alfonso: We aim to please. Will have it delivered at 7 AM. 20 it is. No credit as we don’t know when you will return.

Vasco: I can give you 5 now, the rest C.O.D.

Narrator: So a deal was struck and as promised Alfonso appeared with a delivery boy and a large crate that got put in the hold. To avoid having Vasco open the crate and check the goods, the peddler handed Vasco the beautiful bag holding the 6 dog ears and engaged in small talk.

Alfonso: Isn’t it a beautiful bag Vasco and check out those ears.

Narrator: Vasco was very pleased with the bag and ears and he tied the bag to his sash and since he was a little hung over from the prior night of debauchery and it was early in the morning, he forgot to inspect the crate.

Alfonso: I hear your going to India. Not sure why since word on the street is that the Italian who sailed for Spain found the route already.

Vasco: Columbus. A nobody. Total fraud. Tri corner hat wearer. That style went out with the philistines. He came back with some people in costumes painted up. Something you’d see in front of a cigar store. No spices, where were the spices? We need some spices for the gruel.

Narrator: da Gama gave him the remaining cash C.O.D but it turned out to be counterfeit. Da Gama thought he pulled a fast one on the peddler. Little did da Gama know that the product in the crate were shoddy and cheap goods, not the quality goods he saw on the wharf. The old bait and switch. The vessels were not brass but just painted brass color and would quickly chip, canola not olive oil, and the hats were used, sweat stained, and misshapen. The first payment of 5 reais was genuine currency so Alfonso still made a profit of 3 reais as the product he gave Da Gama wasn’t worth more than 2 reais and most of his cost were on the dog ears and pouch. Alfonso figured da Gama would die at sea or it would be years before he would return so he was not concerned about Vasco’s well known violent temper.

Da Gama didn’t open the crate until his first landing. He opened it in front of the rulers and offered it as trade. The locals laughed and mocked da Gama and told him to take his rubbish back to the ship, that it was worthless. He then offered it as gifts in all other spots he landed but again he would be mocked and the locals felt insulted by the offering. In the end, at each stop, da Gama engaged in wonton violence to get back at the ungrateful heathens.

After two years away, word on the street was da Gama was returning to port, just a day or two away. Alfonso beat it out of town and headed to a port in Spain to sell his wares. Da Gama returned to port furious and loaded for bear on the peddler. Before Alfonso went on the lam, he sold his wharf spot to Diego the peddler. Da Gama landed and was met at the wharf by his mistress.

Vasco: Where is he, where is he, the lousy thief peddler Alfonso. Due to him, I had to do a reign of terror several times because I was disrespected with that cheap crap he sold me that were leftovers from a rummage sale. I’ll torture him, kill him, and torture him some more.

Mistress: Forget the peddler, don’t you want to ravish me.

As she got closer:

Mistress: Vasco, you stink, all that time at sea, you need a bath.

Vasco: you peddler, where is Alfonso?

Diego: he left.

Vasco: Where did he go? You took his place, I’ll cut off your hands peddler, if you don’t tell me.

Diego: I don’t know. He sold me his spot, he didn’t leave a forwarding address. The dog ears, they were quality and I know I got them myself.

Vasco: You did? Yes, they came in handy and were top notch. I may call on you again.

Mistress: Vasco, Vasco, Vasco. Let’s go. The bath Vasco, please.

Narrator: As Vasco couldn’t tolerate his stink any more than his mistress, he left Diego and headed to his palace.

Alfonso slowly made a small fortune, pulling off his scam on the varied explorers across the continent. When things began to get hot in one location, he would scram to another. He went to Spain, England, France, the Netherlands, and Italy. When he had enough money, he retired to a chalet in Switzerland, sitting by the fire eating fondue and drinking Schnapps. The varied explorers who usually were in competition with one another banded together and hired a private detective to locate Alfonso. Each explorer promising themselves that once Alfonso was found, that they would go and kill him themselves.

Alfonso got a mail order Asian bride. She quickly got fed up with the fondue and the smell of Schnapps. Alfonso remained true to himself. He gave his wife what he described as extravagant and the finest clothes and jewelry. However, after one wear and wash, the dresses began to shred. When her ring finger started to turn yellow, she knew she had to act. She poisoned him to death within weeks of their marriage. She then inherited his wealth.

By the time the shamus found where Alfonso was, he was already dead. The wife found Alfonso’s journals and learned how he cheated all the great explorers and for how much. When her bank account started to lower, she wrote each explorer and for hush money, she promised to not publish them being scammed. They paid up, even if it left some of them penniless, as the great men did owe her a debt of gratitude for having killed Alfonso and they didn’t want their grand reputations sullied. She lived a long and happy life and took the secrets to her grave. Mysteriously, the journals were eventually discovered in the 21st Century in the Dogears bookshop in Goa India. How they got there, no one knows but it allows us to fill in the history of the great explorers.

The wife had children with the local constable. Due to being able to pass her wealth on to her progeny, her grandson had a life of leisure and was able to invent the Cuckoo Clock. Without Da Gama and his brethren, the Cuckoo Clock may never have been invented and it is something else to thank the great explorers for.

There has been some question regarding the authenticity of the journals and an alternative theory is that Da Gama got the goods from a going away party and he decided to re-gift at each stop. It is a well-known fact that re-gifting can bring trouble.

#The Age of Discovery

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sandalssandal · 9 months

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Contributing to the Asexual Alistair posts

Alt for my full hc:

#dragon age #da fanart #alistair theirin #dragon age alistair #he is in my heart of hearts #the blight makes you speedrun your self discovery #da:o #da: origins

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illustratus · 1 month

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The First Voyage, Christopher Columbus bidding farewell to Queen Isabella I on his departure for the New World, 3 August, 1492.

by Victor A. Searles

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revvethasmythh · 2 months

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The research notes on distilling dunamancy found in Brenattos apothecary are so interesting actually. It’s not outright stated who’s notes they are, but with a retrospective lens it’s quite clear that they’re Ludinus’. There are fragments there about his musings on some of Trent’s protégées showing proficiency with early dunamancy, that he is planning to incorporate it into his own skill sets to aid him in his pursuits, and he records how it seems the Kryn have been quote unquote “learning to bend and break the threads of destiny for hundreds of years. Be this truth, I cannot imagine the Raven Queen looks down upon them favorably either, though the thought brings a laugh to my lips.”

#I am going to be honest: I assumed he was aware of dunamancy for MUCH longer than this #but the way its stated implies this was a fairly new discovery #like i was aware that essek giving over the beacons had consequences™️#but I suppose i had not considered it to its full extent before now #why did i think ludinus knew about dunamacy for ages because apparently NOT #also the bit about the raven queen at the end just made me laugh. he’s such as shithead lol #yes another c2 rewatch #cr2e48 #also what’s the EITHER at the end there?? what the beef with TRQ??? does she hate you specifically??#i want the hot goss I want to know what he vanguard wear the symbol of TRQ I want to know why HER #otohan used to worship her. ludinus has beef with her. the vanguard wear her symbol #they marbelized HER champion #what the FUCK is up with that

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bakubunny · 4 months

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bunny can i beg for daddy izu crumbs if you have any ? whatever you’re feeling (totally can ignore this <3)

hi starr! no need to beg; i always intend to write some daddy!izu but never get around to it. you’re giving me a valid excuse to indulge that desire and avoid updating my masterlist yet again. gonna go with daddy dom izu & little reader bc that’s where i’m at rn. hope that’s okay. 🖤

here’s a brain dump based loosely off of this drabble. bc i know you’re okay with it: age play themes ahead, mention of caregiver/little (dd/lg), fluff ig?

i hc daddy izu as one that’s pretty soft; like i could definitely see him being as mean as they come, won’t put up with bratting of any kind, etc., but i could also see him being content with being soft and loving almost all of the time.

that doesn’t mean he’s not rough in bed tho; i think with him it’s a 50/50 mix, and he’ll usually adapt to what you need and enjoy it just as much.

he likes to plan his scenes out well ahead of time, but he can also do things on the fly with enough experience under his belt.

daddy izu enjoys orgasm control - delay, denial, overstim, ruined orgasms, the whole bit. he doesn’t do it all the time bc it’s not his top favorite thing to do with you, but he likes the variety it allows. he can be as nice or as mean as he wants at any given point without having to be harsh, and he knows harsh can be very overwhelming when you’re not expecting it. and more importantly, it’s all based around pleasure, which i believe a softer version of izu would be all for.

not much of a sadist outside of spanking and maybe some impact play. he really only does it if he knows you want (or need) it. he’s a fan of maintenance spankings bc they can be used for a variety of purposes - to keep his sweet thing in check, but also give you regular times to enjoy being a bit of a masochist if that’s important to you to name two.

he’s the kind of dom that’s not like… a jack of all trades? but he can adapt to what you want or need pretty easily with a little research, and he doesn’t have a specific area of interest outside of ddlg in this context? if that makes sense? anyway.

daddy izu has always known he likes to take care of people. he’s a hero, after all. it takes him a while to accept how far that actually goes. he struggles with it. it’s only thanks to the internet that he figures himself out while he’s young (early 20s).

by the time you meet him he understands dd/lg dynamics in theory, but he’s never been in one. heck, he’s not even sure if he wants that or can give that to someone with his status as a pro hero.

but that doesn’t stop him from slipping here and there and showing that side of him, especially when he sees how you melt under his care. he’s pretty sure he’s picking up hints that you might indeed be a little, but he’s way too embarrassed to ask.

izuku the kind of person that pulls the little side out of you when you’re too ashamed to show it. he showers you with sweet encouragement and doesn’t mind how needy you get. tells you, “it’s okay, sweetie. i love how much you need me. don’t ever be sorry for it.”

he feels his heart get warm and fluttery the first time he gets a real taste that his inkling might be right. maybe it’s the way you swing your feet so cutely when he “pampers” you by putting on your socks and shoes, or how you sort of melted into him and got shy that one time he carried you from the car to the bed because you were too tired.

or perhaps it was the most obvious moment, when he caught you watching a kids show, coloring on your own to de-stress. izuku had mixed feelings, ones of warm confirmation and others of pain watching you fold into yourself so quickly. he hated the way you immediately turned the tv off, snapped your coloring book shut, and tried to hide it like you had something to be ashamed of.

so izuku did the only thing he could think to do. he sat down next to you, gave you a kiss, and said, “hey, princess. whatcha got there?”

his smile was bright and kind as ever; he was trying to show curiosity rather than overwhelming excitement. but the look on your face told him you were hesitant.

“nothing, i’m just drawing,” you said. “sorry.”

his heart fell as he gave you a curious look. “no need to be sorry. can i see your drawings? i bet they’re very pretty.”

you tucked your head as heat prickled the apples of your cheeks; his tone of voice had shifted, but you couldn’t quite place it. “izuku, it’s dumb, really. don’t worry about it.”

“none of that. show me how well my girl draws, hmm? i want to see what you made,” izuku replied.

you considered it for a moment. then without looking up, you pulled the book of sanrio characters from your chest and opened to the page you had been working on. heat flooded your face. tears pricked the corners of your eyes.

“baby, that’s beautiful! i love it,” he said.

“thanks,” you said softly.

izuku’s enthusiastic response was far from surprising, but what caught you was his tone once again. and it clicked - you’d heard that tone of voice before plenty of times. it was the same one he used when he bent down to talk to small children who ran up to see him. you weren’t sure if you should feel humiliated or if -

“you’re doing such a good job, little one,” he said. “i’m proud of you.”

you froze. you looked to him. though you were on the brink of tears, his smile was still bright, albeit nervous.

“really?” you said.

“yeah! of course i am. do you have another coloring book, sweet pea? i’d love to draw with you.”

you pointed to the black backpack at your feet. izuku pulled out the only hero themed coloring book you had.

“i think this one’s perfect, don’t you?” he asked.

you pulled him in for a tight hug and nodded.

#not sure i like it #but i rly tried #also i will always and forever love the ‘first discovery of something abt your partner’ trope bc it’s soft like me 😤#hope this wasn’t too redundant #bakubunny #midoriya izuku #tw age play #tw daddy kink #💖#🧸

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ltwilliammowett · 1 year

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