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absolutely-normal-about-x · 2 months

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OKAY MY TURN NOW: drop the headcanon deets. What's living rent-free in your head right this moment 👀

HOLY SHIT GOT SHOT BACK- LANDKSBDKAHDKAND

But alright!! There’s so many (Aside from Legends Reborn)

I mostly keep this shit in my head and I can make a huge list of it but dawg most of mine involves my silly interpretations- plus I seen people

It’s kinda a mess to think about but I’ll go to my personal favorites

X being chunky always gives me some feels for me, like he would fucking rock it. He’s actually more tanky then Zero while he’s sorta at times a glass canon (Mf Died like multiple times and X died Once). It derives from the idea of why he chose a thicker body, because the area of his stomach was pierced by Sigma like twice. So basically it gives him extra defense. Despite the it he’s just a Flexible as ever but a bit more slower.

Meaning that his “Stomach” area is incredibly sensitive and he will smack you on instinct if you touch it. He suffers phantom pains occasionally. It's a massive bitch but he got used to it.

(Aka I believe Burly/chunky X supremacy)

X has a soft spot for children okay, since he’s very approachable to children, he would even let them draw on his armor. Babies are a definite weakness of his their tiny hands will make him cry so hard

So it would make sense that he would be a parent but he would rather settle down to start a Family in peace times and after he himself healed and rested.

Zero is kinda a low key creature, in the sense that he actually has retractable claws and can run on fours but only for extremely rare occasions. That's because he’s not only the ultimate war but also the ultimate predator. Aka he’s fucking lion coded

One of the reasons why X and Zero are always different compared to other Androids and shit is because they were made from Alien tech/Energy stuff. You can’t fucking tell that Dr Light didn’t used the material that Duo left to include that while making X right? And Zero…We all know Wily was on some crack (I’m always a believer that He used evil energy to create Roboenza and what could eventually become the Maverick Virus). And no one knew about the whole fiasco with Duo aside from Megaman and the others. So it makes sense that Light and wily (Possible Cossack knew something about it) Used it for their final creations.

Marty (From the MMX manga that I’m absolutely so normal about) has so much knowledge of Marine life and the ocean, Rescue worker regulations and information is insane. How the flying shit did a marine rescue worker end up as an infamous Pirate Queen is a mystery to anyone.

She's also tall and muscular and is absolutely more “Beast-like” (Having scales, fangs and retractable webbed claws) to give off a more intimidating impression to keep folks away from her and her crew.

Speaking of her Crew they are all composed of other marine Rescue types, a couple Human Cyborgs (and a few non cyborgs) and a few Repliforce defectors. (A small fun fact in my silly XxMarty Valentine manatee oneshot, Marty brought up Gale Albatross who’s actually a former Repliforce soldier that defected as soon as they declared independence not wanting to be apart of it but is untrusting towards the hunters).

She may not look like but she genuinely cares for everyone in her crew and would do anything to protect them. She also courted her hair after her fight with Byte back at X3 manga. She has matured over the years but still holds her mischievous/prideful personality.

Contrary to what it's led to believe her crew aren’t like…bad or act like actual pirates. It’s more like they are more of an independent group. Since that they deal with poaching, taking out criminals out of sea, providing relief for coastal communities that were strongly affected by war, etc…They just Red Alert if they weren’t Bounty hunters.

Axl is absolutely a Streamer and a bit of a meme master. He’s a deadly actor and trickster so watch out he fucking glad that he’s a goober!!

Since I’m on a Legends kick

Legends is underrated as shit I mean the potential is great! It’s so fucking expansive Idk where to start-

WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH CARBONS??

LIKE NO ONE IS MAKING HEADCANONS OF THEM AND ITS A CRIME!

I’ll probably do some of mine at somepoint how they are Biomechanical creatures and how they diversified and evolved (The master basically granted them access to things that were lost that belonged to their Reploid ancestors.)

Or how the Ruins can be function as Mystery Dungeons and the different between an Official Digger and a independent Digger and so much wkrbekeheiba)

There’s are what I have but dawg so many in my little critter brain of mine

#megaman x #megaman legends #headcanons #Also thank you for asking LAJDKSBDKABDUS #ask

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frenzys-show · 6 hours

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A broken little family in the wreckage of Delphi...

More info under break

This came from a J.AI convo. My oc, Citrus-Byte, was basically domesticated by Pharma to which at some point Delphi was attacked and they were left alone. They ended up marrying (the little vial on Citrus-Byte's helm brim is Pharma's innermost energon). They then found Eclipse (the femme with the horns), Watt (the mountain lion beastformer Eclipse is behind), and Whiteout (a duoformer who lost their twin)(them and their dead twin not included in the photo). While Whiteout was grieving, they met a Seeker named Pulse who had lost his trine. Basically Citrus-Byte and Pharma are their parents (minus Pulse, he's going to be Whiteouts boyfriend) now.

#transformers #maccadam #idw mtmte #j.ai #janitor ai #traditional drawing #traditonal art #oc: citrus-byte #oc: eclipse #oc: watt #oc: whiteout #not shown though #idw pharma #pharma mtmte

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bunniibones · 9 months

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I saw on your OC info post that Byte was childhood friends with Smithy- is that the same Smithy that was one of the OG Diamond Cutters? :0 That might make some interesting drama between themself and Whisper if it came to light, if only for a bit.

Hi!!

Yeah! It's the same Smithy the Lion from the Diamond Cutters!

Byte and Smithy used to hang out all the time when they were kids, sharing ideas, building stuff together, etc. But when Byte was in their late teens they told Smithy about their idea to ran from home and join the Eggman Empire, which Smithy disliked and tried to convince Byte not to do so, but that ended in a discussion that broke their friendship

Byte ran away and joined the Empire, while Smithy joined the Diamond Cutters years later

None of the Diamond Cutters members were aware of that, so they died without knowing about Byte (Except for Whisper), but Byte knew about them and was affected by their dead when they witnessed it through the base's cameras, bcus even if they were a nuisance for the Empire and Byte felt "let down" by Smithy, they still didn't want him to die

I was planning that during the entire ordeal post issue 50, Byte got to see the new Diamond Cutters in Eggperial City while they collected implements to save Starline's life, thing that were going to give them a huge resentment and dislike against Tangle and Lanolin for "replacing" Smithy and the others, but since things went differently in the arc than I expected I discarded that last part kjsdhjask

we'll see how I can implement again that idea in the future 👀✨

#starly answers #about byte #oc lore

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birindale · 2 years

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Etymology: She-Ra

What’s good, it’s time for another foray into etymology, this time featuring the resident magical alter ego, She-Ra! As you may have seen from my Larry Ditillio/Lou Scheimer quotes, the actual etymology is pretty straightforward--She, plus Ra. So we’ll cover that first, then move into homophones and proposed alternative etymologies (largely by people who didn’t know about the actual one).

Section One: She

‘She’, of course, is a third person pronoun in English, here the feminine counterpart to the masculine ‘he’ of He-Man. I’m reasonably confident y’all are familiar with the idea of personal pronouns, given we’re on Tumblr, so we’re just gonna jump right in here.

From Middle English sche <ʃeː> (~’shay’), though it could be rendered scho and ȝho (both pronounced ~‘show’) before we killed the yogh. Luckily for us, in ȝho it’s just pronounced like ‘sh’.

Don’t let the sch fool you, the c in sch was often silent in Middle English. How exactly we arrived at sche, though, is a matter of some debate. This paper summarizes most of the proposals, which has saved you all about eight paragraphs of me rambling about phonemes.

Regardless of its derivation, the vowel situation in ‘she’ is pretty weird--I’m assuming like half of you are familiar with the Great Vowel Shift, but for those that aren’t, the 15th to 18th centuries saw a.... well, great shift in vowels. It’s why so many of our words are spelled so fucked up; one day our long vowels just did an electric slide to the right & suddenly bite was pronounced like byte instead of beet. But one would expect the “e” in sche to unravel into an “o:”, not the “i:” sound we wound up with. It could be the influence of ‘he’, which would be convenient for us, looking at the word as a counterpart to the ‘He’ in He-Man, but historical phonology is a tricky beast. And it could just be an outlier--commonly used words have a tendency to mutate faster.

I think that’s enough about vowels, though. Moving on!

Section Two: Ra

Ra. Good old Ra. God of the sun, the sky, order, kings. Ruler of all three realms, sky earth and underworld. Creator of all life (sometimes). Kind of a big deal.

Not to pat Larry Ditillio on the back too hard here but it was a great choice, phonetically and theologically. There’s even a precedence for using his name as half of a compound, as with Amun-Ra, the New Kingdom’s fusion with Amun. There’s his association with the falcon, shared in MOTU by the god Zoar (and the Sorceress), but he was also usually depicted with the head of a ram in the underworld. And I mean. Skeletor’s Havoc Staff is literally a ram skull, is all I’m saying. Like Ra is a pretty incredible option, here.

A little more Egyptology, because the coincidences don’t stop there. Ra had three daughters, and since this is appending Ra to “She” and they’re all--as the “eye of Ra”--sometimes considered feminine aspects of Ra, I think it’s relevant. And funny, because all three were depicted as cats at one point or another & Catra is right there.

Hathor was goddess of the sky, the sun, music, dance, joy, sexuality, beauty, love, motherhood, queenship, fate, foreign lands and goods, the afterlife, and more! This is a bonkers number of things to be god of, but I don’t think it was ever all at once. Most consistently, she was the embodiment of the Ancient Egyptian perception of femininity. As women’s role in society changed, so did Hathor’s role in the pantheon--for good or ill.

Bastet & Sekhmet are a little more focused. Originally, they were both fearsome warriors, protectors of Egypt & specifically of the pharaoh, but over time Bastet became a gentler take on protection, often with a maternal slant as she became more associated with the house cat than the lion.

Sekhmet on the other hand was (and always would be) literally bloodthirsty. She could breathe fire, cause plagues, and almost destroyed the world once! But she was also a goddess of healing, called upon to ward off illness & injury, patron of healers and physicians alike. [holds up a picture of She-Ra] 🤌 It’s about the duality.

Alright, onto the etymology. ‘Ra’ is pretty straightforward, it’s just how we most commonly transliterate the rꜥ hieroglyphs (though he is often called Re) & Demotic script.

So there are three kinds of hieroglyph, right? Phonetic, like a letter in English, logographic, like a morpheme in written Chinese (which is typically logosyllabic but bear with me here), and determinative, to disambiguate meaning between homophones.

D21, the mouth, provides the ‘r’ sound, as a phonetic hieroglyph. As a logogram it could mean ‘to turn the other way’, but we’re just after the sound here.

D36, the forearm (palm upwards), gives us the ‘ ꜥ ‘, which is... okay, hieroglyphics were an abjad, right? There were no written vowels, you just spoke them. But ꜥ, ayin, was a voiced pharyngeal fricative, which is basically a semivowel (like the Y in English ‘yes’ or the W in ‘west’), which is why its use here can be spelled either ‘Ra’ or ‘Re’, because it’s not representing a distinct vowel sound. One of its descendants, ע, is usually rendered as a glottal stop in Modern Hebrew (or omitted entirely), but another descendant is the English letter O, through the Phoenician ayin. We can’t pronounce the ancient Egyptian ayin based on its derivatives, but we can take historical cues from them.

A glottal stop (like the break in uh-oh) is abrupt, right? Ayin is more like... a glide. A pause. When people make an “I don’t know” sound, that’s the sort of sound. This video is as close as most native English speakers will be able to approximate.

But I digress. We’re only halfway through! Those were the phonetic hieroglyphs, but there are other words pronounced rꜥ, so there are some logograms to help us narrow it down. Unsurprisingly, first is N5, the sun, followed by a Z1, (the numeral one), which indicates that the previous glyph is an ideogram--it’s like a one-character version of “←literally”. Now, by themselves those four glyphs could still just mean ‘the sun’, so to specify that it’s the god being spoken of, in come our determinatives.

This could be either C1, C2, C2A, C2B, or C2C. All depict a god wearing a sun-disk on his head. The C2s are all falcon-headed, and C1, while human, has an uraeus (the little rearing cobra you see on pharaohs’ headdresses and crowns) to emphasize divine authority. Some spellings outside the Unicode standard mix and match accessories, or omit the phonetic hieroglyphs entirely to rely solely on the determinatives. Generally, if you see a god with the sun on its head, it’s either Ra himself or invoking/referencing him (which was done frequently in pharaohs’ names).

Okay. Switching gears.

So hieroglyphs are kind of a bitch to write out, right? You don’t want to take the time to draw a whole little guy when you’re just making a list of supplies or something. So they invented this shit called hieratics that was basically cursive hieroglyphics, which eventually became the Demotic script! Ra was written G7-Z5-N5, (still rꜥ), or pꜣrꜥ (conventionally pronounced pa-re), with the pꜣ functioning as a demonstrative determiner to indicate that yes, they mean the god.

Section Three: Homophones

Those of you who have tried to google ‘She-Ra bible’ may be familiar with Sheera of Chronicles 1 7:24. Chronicles is the last book (split into 2 for Christian bible) of the Tanakh, wrapping up the Ketuvim with a genealogy and history of Judah & Israel. To oversimplify: David, Solomon, Babylonian exile, Cyrus the Great swoops in and lets everyone back in & okays the building of the Second Temple around 539 BCE. Only non-Jewish messiah in the Tanakh, and relevant here because the Ancient Greeks thought his name meant ‘Sun’, from Persian خور, ‘xʷaɾ‘. It’s also been translated as hero, humiliator of enemies, youth/young, and one who bestows care. It is almost certainly unrelated to C’yra (of D’riluth III), but the possibility remains until Scott answers my fucking email.

Anyway, Sheera/h. שארה‎ (שֶׁאֱרָ֔ה, with niqqud). That ה (funnily enough, named he) is a suffix indicating a singular feminine noun, which has been applied to שאר‎, sh-’-r (or sh-a-r, depending on how you render the aleph. I used an A in my post on Adora with אדור but it feels weird as a infix, especially given what I did with the ayin in section 2). Let’s take a look at its definitions:

Sha’ar means to remain, to be a remnant, and its derived nouns she’ar and she’erit mean remains, residue, etc. In the Tanakh it refers almost exclusively to survivors, people or things left behind when everyone/thing else has died, often violently. Noah & his passengers on the Ark after the flood, Lot & his daughters after Sodom and Gomorrah--did y’all know the town they went to after was called Zoar? The aforementioned falcon god in He-Man? It’s a coincidence but what the fuck. Naomi and her sons in Ruth 1:3, then just Naomi in 1:5. Oh, and she renamed herself Mara like ten lines after that. Shit like this just kept happening, I had to stop looking at examples bc it was freaking me out.

She’er, meanwhile, means flesh, both in terms of flesh for consumption & one’s flesh and blood. It can also mean physical power (Psalm 78:20), but I for one assumed that shit was metaphorical. On the other hand, who am I to deny another fun little parallel with our Princess of Power? A lot of people prefer this for the underlying meaning of Sheerah’s name, since she’s explicitly someone’s daughter & it could just be like “(singular feminine) kin”. But I think that’s boring (even if the prospect of like, “Fleshella” or some shit is both objectively hilarious and kind of in line with MOTU names) and a little unremarkable to name three cities for. Did I forget to mention they built three cities named after Sheerah? #girlboss

Last of the שאר is she’or, meaning leaven (the noun, not the verb). In Modern Hebrew it’s more often spelled שאור, with a waw added in to disambiguate the pronunciation.

Onto some other homonyms, bc that was technically just one!

Shir, an anglicization of شیر, Classical & Iranian Persian for ‘lion’, one of the plurals for which is شیرها‎ (šir-hâ), which admittedly is more like “sheer-ha” but say it out loud before you judge me for its inclusion here, huh? The singular’s also part of شیرزن‎ (širzan, “heroine”).

There’s Macedonian and Serbo-Croation шира/šira , "must" (fermented/ing juice, not necessity).

Cira, which is Sicilian for “wax”.

شيرة and شْيَرَة, Hijazi and Gulf Arabic (respectively) for syrup, from Persian شیره‎. There’s a lot of Persian origins here huh. Shame Purrsia isn’t canon, could’ve had a field day.

Okay one more in Hebrew. Shira/h, שירה, is poetry, verse, singing. In Modern Hebrew shir is a song and shirah is a poem, but that distinction didn’t always exist. The other derivatives of the שׁ-י-ר stem are all related to this. You’ll note that the second letter is a yodh, not an aleph as in the above שארה‎, whose stem was שאר. There’s like a 99% chance that Larry Ditillio’s niece Shirah’s name is derived from this.

Section Four: Shit I’ve Seen People Claim it Means

Most understandably, I’ve seen people claiming they just stuck an S on the rejected name “Hera” and broke it in two to mirror He-Man. So just to cover our bases, Ἥρα (Hera) is of uncertain derivation. Potentially a feminine form of ἥρως (hḗrōs) or related to ὥρα (hṓra)--the former being the ancestor of our word hero, in epics specifically heroes of the Trojan War, but generally humans or demigods venerated at local shrines. The latter refers primarily to time--hours, years, seasons--and youth. The youth reading is supported by the Roman name for her, Juno, which is also of uncertain derivation, but one of those likens it to iuvenis, young (like the juve in rejuvenate).

Asherah the ‘mother goddess’. I admit I wasn’t expecting this one. Asherah (the spelling I’ll be sticking to for consistency’s sake) was, admittedly, kind of a big deal in the ancient Levant. In the interest of not going full theology essay while I’m trying to talk about names, suffice to say she was the consort of the king of the gods (El, Elkunirsa, Yahweh, ‘Amm, Baal, etc.) in quite a few religions, some of which have dropped the polytheism thing & Asherah along with it. (The others are dead).

It’s written אשרה in Hebrew, so roughly ‘sh-r-’ if I’m sticking to my aleph conventions. She was also called Athirat in Ugaritic, an extinct Semitic language ( 𐎀𐎘𐎗𐎚, ʾAṯirat), though before 1200 BCE she was almost always referred to with her full title, 𐎗𐎁𐎚 𐎀𐎘𐎗𐎚 𐎊𐎎, rbt ʾṯrt ym. This is another abjad so we gotta adlib our vowels, but most people go with rabītu, for ‘lady’. The ym could refer either to her son, Yam, or the sea which he was the embodiment of, but the middle bit is tricky. It’s her name (that Athirat), but some people think it’s derived from the Ugaritic ʾaṯr for ‘to stride’, so her full title could be translated as Lady Athirat of the Sea, Lady who walks on Yam/the Sea Dragon/Tyre (the city). However, a more recent translation derives it from the root y-w-m, ‘day’, which would make her Lady Asherah of the Day/s (or even just Lady Day).

Another epithet was qnyt ʾilm ( 𐎖𐎐𐎊𐎚 𐎛𐎍𐎎), variously ‘creatress of the gods’ (page 58), used in the Baal Cycles recovered from Ugarit. Since it’s a port city, her association with the sea was emphasized, and in this version she had 70 sons (though the Hittites claim 77 or 88).

She’s also called ʾElat, 'goddess' (from El, as in names like Michael or Gabriel), and Qodeš, 'holiness', from q-d-š, which makes some people equate her with the Egyptian goddess Qetesh, which is pretty flimsy but funny here because guess who she’s associated with? (It’s Ra. She’s also sometimes depicted as a lion/with Hathor’s wig. It’s a small ancient world after all)

Asherah & her iconography are mentioned 40 times in the Tanakh, but that’s cut way down in most English translations, where ʾăšērâ was almost entirely translated as ἄλσος/ἄλση (grove/s) in Greek, except for Isaiah 17:8; 27:9, where it's δένδρα (trees) and 2 Chronicles 15:16; 24:18, where it's Ἀστάρτη--Astarte, a goddess of war, sexuality, royal power, healing, and hunting more associated with Ishtar than Asherah. Possible consort of Baal so almost certainly not actually Asherah. She did turn up in Egypt in the 18th dynasty as a daughter of either Ra or Ptah (Bastet’s consort), though, which is fun for me.

Asherah's very associated with trees though, so it does make sense they’d translate it to groves/trees. Found under trees in 1 Kings 14:23; 2 Kings 17:10, carved from wood by people 1 Kings 14:15, 2 Kings 16:3–4--there in reference to poles made for her worship, also called “asherah”. The Mishnah defines an asherah first as any tree under which there’s an idol, then specifically as any tree which is itself worshipped.

It lists associated plants: grapes, pomegranates, and walnut shells (invalid to eat or drink if from an asherah), and that myrtles, willows, and etrogs (but not dates?) were invalidated for Sukkot if from an asherah. I think the implication is pretty much any plant with a use can’t be utilized if it was an asherah, but there’s no like, description of what an asherah is or isn’t (except not allowed, which like, fair).

Regardless, to relate it to She-Ra is like... like you can’t just say that, man. The Da Vinci Code of fandom over here, except I’m personally upset about the false etymology instead of the disrespect to my boy Leonardo (da Vinci isn’t a name), and it pisses off every Abrahamic religion and like half of all neopagans. Are you happy? Now this whole section is blasphemous and heretical.

Let’s end this on a sillier note, shall we? It’s time to talk about questionable MOTUC decisions again.

No one sincerely suggested these for our world, but MOTUC established “the sword of He” as the ‘real name’ of He-Man’s sword, and it was later clarified that ‘He’ is the Ancient Trollan word for ‘power’... which, as you can imagine, led to a lot of confusion. It was never established if ‘Man’ is also Trollan, so the apparent translation is Power-Man (leading one forum user to jokingly ask if that made She-Ra ‘Iron-Fist’, after the Marvel duo). Naturally, people have speculated about possible translations for She-Ra, but the guy responsible for the Sword of He stuff left the company in 2014, so it’s likely to remain speculation.

Primarily people suggest ‘She’ might mean ‘protection’ or even ‘honor’, but very few people try to account for ‘Ra’. Most likely because it doesn’t mirror an English pronoun, so there’s little point in drawing parallels. The one and only theory I’ve seen is that it’s a feminine version of ‘Ro’, from He-Ro (a historical figure in MOTU), but it’s logically fraught, imo. Although frankly so is the Sword of He to begin with, so maybe I should just relax for once.

What do you think? What does She-Ra mean to you?

#etymology #analysis #she-ra #great news everybody i got it under 3k #if you thought my entry on adora was bad like. whoof. you ain't seen nothing yet

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adeadmansbliss · 1 year

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Miraculous Written Works

Haven of Strays - Heavy canon trundle about involving the Liberty which keeps attracting waifs and strays. On hiatus for a rewrite.

Telling the bees - A Sisterly chat between Zoé and Chloé.

The sun has set on Adrien Agreste - The Chat Blanc timeline continued to exist despite being "Fixed". The survivors including Luka remember everything as does Chat who isn't acting anything like Marinette remembers..

Cats eye blue - A short MariChat oneshot written in a few hours for a zine.

Two, three, four - A fluffy Adrien/Luka/Marinette/Kagami gift shot.

Words are meant to be broken - Semi sequel to the above focusing on Luka/Kagami of the quartet specifically.

Winter Festivities - A fluffy Félix/Luka christmas in Paris oneshot.

I'm the kind who's always falling - A Luka/Adrien gift shot based on a friend's AU with a Steps theme.

Lion's Den - One shot from the yet to be posted Prisoner of Iron AU. Kwami are gods that live in the heads of their Chosen granting them special powers to use as they see fit. Lion's Den focuses on Adrien who was declared dead soon after his mother perished from illness and his twin brother Félix letting Kagami in on a secret.

Fish sticks and scaled ships - The collection name for the Sea Salt AU. Félix departs from his father's wake early to go get drunk on the beach leading to him falling in love with a sea monster who is more than happy to pull him deeper into the world of seafarers. Meanwhile on land where he is the "adopted" heir of the Agreste family, his cousin has seemingly vanished into the night. Rated Explicit.

Sound Bytes - A series of oneshots where Gabriel got to Adrien first meaning Patte de Velours became Ladybug's enemy. When a fight leads to the Snake Miraculous being broken and the unconscious Luka being rescued however, maybe Hawkmoth's grip isn't quite as tight as he thinks it is...

The garden's overgrown - A series of oneshots where Lila has the Rabbit Miraculous and Luka the Mouse. This is (Seemingly) one sided Lila/Luka, a completely different Guardian and Hawkmoth never came into the picture.

Snapshots - Collection of oneshots following the day to day life of Ióna, the daughter of Adrien/Luka/Marinette, from her point of view. There will be a collection following the adults posted in the future.

Last to know - Félix's family in known for their dealings with the underworld and the black market and though her mother forbids it, Kagami cannot help but be intrigued. Félix/Kagami gift thing. Rated Explict.

Bre's Bingo Bonanza - Various pairings based on @writer-rider-dirty-thirties's shipping bingo results.

It's all fun and games - A Feluka space fae fluffy oneshot involving a migraine.

#writing

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atmos-fierce · 1 year

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Y'all wtf is tumblr I'm obsessed also thank you @lion-byte

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ailtrahq · 7 months

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The Bitcoin network is treading unprecedented territory, with block fullness experiencing the longest period of in history, according to the latest data by Dune. As of press time, over 461,000 transactions are queued up in the mempool, a situation that has stirred both intrigue and in-depth examination within the digital currency sphere. Glassnode’s chief researcher, James Check, widely recognized as “Checkmate”, has emerged with a comprehensive analysis attempting to decipher the causes behind this swelling blockspace demand. His assessment illuminates a puzzling paradox: while key metrics like new addresses and transaction counts are at remarkable highs, there’s a conspicuous dip in the on-chain settlement of BTC volumes, which he pointed out are “approaching yearly lows.” Bitcoin: Mempool number of transactions by relative fee | Source: X @_Checkmatey_ Why Is Bitcoin Seeing Historical Block Fullness? The crux of Checkmate’s findings revolves around the relatively new phenomenon in the Bitcoin network: “Inscriptions.” Text-based inscriptions, to be specific, have been accounting for a significant 50% to 60% of all transactions confirmed since mid-April, the same timeframe from which the Bitcoin mempool hasn’t cleared. Bitcoin Inscriptions | Source: X @_Checkmatey_ However, what’s even more perplexing is that, despite this substantial percentage of transaction confirmation, these inscriptions hold a surprisingly low footprint in block sizes. They consume just about 10% of the block size in terms of bytes and are accountable for around 20% of the transaction fees. This pattern, Checkmate suggests, underscores a BASELOAD fee pressure, an economic scenario where users show a preference for consuming lower-cost blockspace. “Fee pressure has certainly cooled down from the spike in May. #Bitcoin fees are elevated relative to the bear market, but far from the exuberance of the bull,” the Glassnode researcher notes. And despite the numerical superiority of inscription transactions, the data shows that the lion’s share of the block – over 80% – still pertains to monetary transfers. This stands in stark contrast to the substantially reduced number of such transfers happening now. Checkmate concludes: Inscriptions are sensitive to high fees, but are willing to buy cheap blockspace. In many ways, this demonstrates that Inscriptions do not price out monetary transfers. […] Inscriptions fill the void left by empty blockspace, and have done for 5 months. Further deepening the analytical dive, Checkmate highlighted a noteworthy trend in average transaction sizes over Bitcoin’s history. Historically, the average transaction size hovered between 550 to 600 bytes. But with the introduction of image inscriptions in March 2023, there was a spike, with the average transaction size vaulting to over 1.4kb. In the subsequent period, text inscriptions have reduced the average size to an all-time low of 435 bytes. Bitcoin mean transaction size | Source: X @_Checkmatey_ On a broader spectrum, Checkmate mused over the philosophical and cultural ramifications of these inscriptions. He sees them as more than mere data inputs, but as timestamps that capture the zeitgeist of society. In his words, such features transform Bitcoin into something more humanistic. He believes that Bitcoin, in its undying and incorruptible nature, is essentially humanity’s “golden record.” It’s the unalterable ledger that, he says, “tells the truth about what happened.” In conclusion, the burgeoning trend of inscriptions and its myriad implications for the future of the Bitcoin network are bound to remain focal points of debate, exploration, and innovation within the Bitcoin space. At press time, BTC traded at $26,991. BTC price, 4-hour chart | Source: BTCUSD on TradingView.com Source

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buttercup-tea-time · 9 months

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Hello, there! May I have a pendulum or tarot reading (either one works) for if I'm the following theriotypes?

-Kaprosuchus / crocodilian

- African lion

-Coastal wolf

-Quarter Horse

I went over your pinned post but I apologize if I missed anything about only one specific species per ask, if this is the case you can choose any one of them :) Thanks so much in advance 😄

Hello! I've done a pendulum reading for you! Kaprosuchus: Strong no African Lion: Light yes Coastal Wolf: Very strong yes! Quarter Horse: Very strong no - Byte/Chara, he/they/hum

#🌱• byte posts!#pendulum #otherkin #therian

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gruvu · 1 year

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I don't know if you see any Dead by Daylight stuff, but there's this new survivor, Vittorio Toscano, who's very 👀😳👀😳

Plus there's a new killer that's called The Knight in the same chapter.

I am so happy with the new chapter, some friends were sending me all about the new immortal dilf there BUT the knight (who yes needs a haircut.) The knight is just as cool and interesting, and knowing that these two are connected by story (not blood) is really cool. If I wasn't a coward, and had someone hold my hand I would play dead by daylight cause I do have it xD.

#I did spend a good couple hours researching the lore of the new chapter #thank you so much #lion-byte #you're such a bro man thanks

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caffinated-indigo · 10 months

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Domestic spider boys (gays)🥰

Tajik Farouk (StarWeaver)

Caweys Dhagax (Moon Byte)

Tajik: "He who wears a crown", referring to his horns

Farouk: "seer of truth", refers to the truth aspect of Mithra

His masked name being Star Weaver, he weaves together dream energy which is web like, though his swinging webs are chains with a sickle on each end (playing into communism and the moon shape for dreams). Dreams play into Mithra, as the god Mithra rules over truth, and dreams are said to show truth.

It uses Old Iranian magick, magic users are cannon in the spider-verse, his top horns control his magick. I know it could have been fire magick bc of the color palate, but dream magick fits SO much better with the whole Mithra Devotee and Star Spider deal. Also he got bit when it was breaking into Stark Industries on a solo mission.

Caweys: "Night", referring to the Sapphire stone looking like the night sky

Birmad: "Iron", another reference to his Cybernetic aspect

Asad: "Lion", can be a reference to his costume having a "lions mane" and/or lions being associated with light, truth, strength, and courage, bringing us back to Mithra

His masked name being Moon Byte is in reference to a future event in which he will need stolen Stark Tech to create a Cybernetic device.

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heroesfightheroes · 10 months

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Heroes Fight Heroes™ - archive - characters 758 - 782

758-Captain Awe™, 759-Sargeant Shock™, 760-Iron Lion™, 761-Spyder-Byte™ (created 6/2016), 762-Kung Pow™, 763-Arachnuke™, 764-Portal X™, 765-Mamba Jamba™, 766-The Slammer™, 767-Fasty™, 768-Grindhouse™, 769-Caldera™, 770-Soar™, 771-Snake Fist™, 772-Solo Squad™, 773-Blue Cat™, 774-Diamond Brand™, 775-Hot Pockets™, 776-Hot Damn™, 777-Mr. Unreal™, 778-Vampyro™, 779-Phantasy Dancer™, 780-Devil Dog™, 781-Frizzle Fry™, 782-Strongbow™

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fahrni · 11 months

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Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina! ☕️

Kim and I rented a place for a week to share with our kids, grandkids, and our dogs! We arrived around 7PM Friday evening, got setup, had some pizza, and pretty much passed out.

We haven’t had time to do any real recon of the are but I did manage to find a decent pizza joint and a Food Lion so we could pick up odds and ends to stock the fridge for the week.

From Friday to Tuesday it’s all about our kids and grandkids. Tuesday forward it’ll just be Kim and I and our oldest grandchild until next Saturday.

I was hoping to get some extra bunk time but that ain’t gonna happen with a puppy who thinks 5:30AM is play time. 🤣

We’re going to have a great time at the beach and whatever else we can drum up.

Enjoy the links.

Daring Fireball

But even just a small taste of VisionOS made me feel confident that it is going to be the next major platform for Apple and Apple developers, alongside MacOS and iOS/iPadOS.

I wasn’t too excited about any new AR/VR headset Apple was set to release, then I saw it in the keynote.

At first I was disappointed because they were showing someone in an office using it to replace their monitor(s) and that’s kind of boring.

The we see someone celebrating a child’s birthday wearing the headset. Really? What a complete douchebag. No, seriously, that’s a really bad move.

But, when I saw them demonstrate watching movies with it, I was excited! That is what I’d use it for!

Am I spending $3,500 anytime soon on one? Hell no! It’s still to early for me, especially at that price. It’s hard to justify it.

Steven Beschloss

Donald Trump himself broke the news this evening that he’s been indicted—making him the first former president to ever be charged with a federal crime.

King ding dong himself is finally being indicted for his retention of government documents. It’s not about him accidentally having a few mixed in with his other papers, it’s about boxes of them, not returning them on request, and lying that he did return them.

The right like to say “What about Biden and Pence?” Indeed, what about them. They self reported having documents and turned them over right away.

TFG is a real garbage human wrapped in a suit. My hope is, at a minimum, he’s banned from running for any federal office ever again.

Colin Paice

Easy question – hard answer, how to I convert a hex string to hex byte string in C?

Go along for the ride. I haven’t taken the time to think through how to solve this and I only have nits to pick with Colin’s solution.

Virginia Mercury

Richmond’s post-graduation mass shooting reflects America’s gun violence epidemic

This is so sickening. The shooting is absolutely horrific but to do it at a graduation? It’s heartbreaking how callous our nation has become.😔

Swift.org

This document is the reference guide describing how to mix Swift and C++

Since this was done as an official way to use C++ from Swift there was all kinds of thought out into safety. That’s fine, but if you have a great hunk of C++ that has been thoroughly tested and you feel good about it you probably don’t need the training wheels provided by this support.

Just wrap your C++ in a thin layer of Objective-C++ and call it from your Swift code without penalty. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Robert Reich

Goodbye, CNN’s Chris Licht. But what’s the lesson?

I know he screwed the pooch with that TFG interview thing but man, that was pretty quick.

512 Pixels

The number of 2019 Mac Pros sold cannot be huge, but the new one’s numbers are going to be even smaller. As a Mac Pro fan that worries me. Yes, there are users who are reliant on PCI solutions and I’m sure those folks will upgrade to this new machine at some point.

Who is this computer for? That’s the question on most folks minds. When I heard it wasn’t nearly as expandable as the 2019 version it made me wonder why they bothered? Beyond the awesome SOC it doesn’t have more to offer than its 2019 counterpart.

Then again, I’ve never been the target of this computer. I’m still using a 2019 MacBook Pro and I’m fine with it. Heck, I have a brand new M2 based MacBook Pro sitting in a box waiting for me to set it up. 🤣

Audibon.org

But as Adams scanned the bustling crowd of King Penguins, elephant seals, and Antarctic fur seals, he spotted something bizarre in the distance.

Go check out the post. This bird is gorgeous and I want it.

Jalopnik

Could The NASCAR Garage 56 Camaro Beat Every GTE Car At Le Mans?

I’d love to watch this all the way through but that’s not gonna happen. I hope NASCAR has partnered with someone to do a full documentary on it. The process from concept to reality to running the race. I hope it makes it the full 24 hours. That alone would be a huge victory.

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