Traditional ant names
Traditional ant names are based on one ant virtue as the first name and one ant “intimidating quality” as the last name.
For example:
Temperance the Absconder
Proportionality the Relentless
Synchronicity the Amputator
Alacrity the Calculating
Efficiency the Eternal Witness
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its important to do this every time a museum or school thinks this is a good idea
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narratively I am a fan of romances that don’t ever actually become romances
I don’t mean in an aromantic life partner way, I mean romantic tension that is never resolved or acted upon for whatever reason but by the end it’s clear that both characters experienced the love of their lives without ever acknowledging it as such. but they know. they know.
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*raises hand* i think laios dungeonmeshi’s successor should have to ritually consume him to transfer the kingdom’s protective aura/the Curse/keep the demon forever sealed away. also because it’s what he would have wanted.
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Actually the ideal Beleg should be clad entirely in colors that blend in with the environment (as per his canonical white winter outfit) except his shoes should be bright red poulaines for no understandable reason
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War profiteering but for polycule drama
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Tbh? I don't like Paul. I don't want Paul. I understand that Paul serves an important narrative function and that Paul is the best possible ending for Camilla and Palamedes given their situation, personalities, and relationship. However what I really want is for Camilla and Palamedes to attend the ATN wedding as two individual humans and for Pal to be a lightweight who loses his tie in the garden fountain after three drinks and for Camilla to do exactly one shot with the group, keep Gideon from ripping the sleeves off her dress shirt, and absolutely kill it at lawn games during cocktail hour. Since this scenario is a wild tonal mismatch for the series and also Palamedes was already dead, this was unlikely to ever happen. However Paul is the final nail in the coffin for the theoretical existence of this scene and I can't help but resent them for that
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Absolutely gorgeous art of Morwen and Aerin that the wonderful @carlandrea made for me! Thank you so much for putting my indecisive hazy mental scenes into extraordinary art. The light in this is unbelievably cool!! And their clothes are exactly how I imagine them,
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mom says it's Cel's turn with the eldritch monster boyfriend :)
Thank you to everyone who joined me on stream to watch me color this!!
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silas calling palamedes an inbred and implying that he has an improper relationship with his cavalier only gets funnier the longer i think about it. if silas knew that people shipped him with his nephew, i think he’d step off that cliff for realsies.
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Now wait a dang minute, I'd forgotten about David's lament for Jonathan being called "The Song of the Bow" (you know the one, it's got the lines about "thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women"; it's a good 25% of the reason that anyone in the Christian tradition writing any kind of literature about anyone gay will drop a David and Jonathan reference in there.*)
And because I've been marinating in Tolkien, I remembered that the lament that Turin writes for Beleg is called "The Song of the Great Bow".
The thought of this being a deliberate reference hadn't crossed my mind because of the wildly different valences the stories of King David and Turin Turambar, but at the time of the lament in question, Turin is indeed also on the run from the court where once he was cherished as a hero, living among outlaws in the wilderness. (And will also go on to make some catastrophic choices in the matter of marriage, but that's a story for another time.)
*The other 75% is literally the entire rest of the story of David and Jonathan.
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Looking up some stuff led me to the Wikipedia page on Annwn, which made me go “hey that sounds like Henneth Annûn, i.e. Window on the West —> annûn = west = Valinor”, but Wikipedia’s already got it covered:
Annwn, Annwfn, or Annwfyn ([ˈanʊn]) is the Otherworld in Welsh mythology. Ruled by Arawn[1][2] (or, in Arthurian literature, by Gwyn ap Nudd[3]), it was essentially a world of delights and eternal youth where disease was absent and food was ever-abundant.[4][5]
…J. R. R. Tolkien used the word annún in his Middle-earth mythology as a term in the Elvish language Sindarin (phonologically inspired by Welsh) meaning "west" or "sunset" (cognate with the Quenya Andúnë), often referring figuratively to the "True West", i.e. the blessed land of Aman beyond the Sea, the Lonely Island Tol Eressëa, or (in the later mannish usage) to the drowned island of Númenor. This is an example of Tolkien's method of world-building by "explaining the true meaning" of various real-world words by assigning them an alternative "Elvish" etymology. The Sindarin word for 'king', aran is also similar to Arawn, the king of Annwn.
But. The Wikipedia entry also has this:
The appearance of a form antumnos on an ancient Gaulish curse tablet, which means an ('other') + tumnos ('world'), however, suggests that the original term may have been *ande-dubnos, a common Gallo-Brittonic word that literally meant "underworld".[7]
….I’m feeling like that’s where Tolkien got Utumno from.
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