#Thousand Million Years Old

[bookshelfdreams]

btw "Jews are stealing blond children for their nefarious purposes" is one of the oldest antisemitic lies in the book. It has been around since the middle ages and often been used to justify the murder and persecution of jews.

So if you see someone making this exact same accusation today, with no source in sight, and certainly not the sort of iron-clad proof a claim like that would need to be credible, maybe consider that it may just be a lie that seems plausible because it exploits deeply ingrained prejudices.

And then don't spread the lie further.

#there's a screenshot of a twitter thread making this claim going around #source: trust me bro #and like. can we not. can we please not. is it so hard to not fall for lies and tropes that are nearly a thousand years old #next thing will be someone spreading a screen that the israeli government is dropping biological weapons in the palestinian water supply #and 3 million people have died of the black plague #and yall will eat that up too without second thought #current events

[oars]

can we go back to people being allowed to make their "cringe rawr xd doing anime poses on camera" videos without people adding them to cringe compilations and showing a video having harmless fun to thousands of thousands of people. remember when you could do that and literally no one would care. why do we hate other peoples fun. also why do we have to be ableist and fatphobic ontop of it all go explode

#remember when you could make a dumb video as a 12 year old upload it to youtube and like no more than 200 people would ever see it #and the chances of it becoming viral were extremely rare #the worst that could happen is one bad comment #instead of grown ass people making fun of you in a video in front of their thousands of subscribers perhaps millions. #whatever

[midnights-dragon]

sometimes when talking to non-American mutuals I’ll casually mention the state of national affairs in America and that will always without a doubt follow with five minutes of silence and then a ‘what the fuck’

#mostly about mitch mcconnell #and about how our presidents are all like a million years old #and how it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to not die #anyways yeah fuck america and its healthcare education system government etc e TV #fuck america #what the fuck is a kilometer #???? #what am i saying #im losing my miiiiiind #shitpost #textpost #textpost meme #funny #it’s ok u can laff

[captainsjack]

listen jack and the doctor are narrative parallels but i don’t have the words to explain it right now

#i will. come back to this #something something both are souls destined for a lonely forever. forever running from happiness and to it at the same time #souls thousands/millions of years old pushing those away who dare try to love them. because they know in the end they will be the ones left #behind. finding happiness in the smallest moments while running from loneliness. #the only two people in the universe who can understand each other. #the only two people in the universe who’s chance at eternal happiness is with each other #but they have both faced so much loss that they push the other away . they push their happy ending away because that’s what they’re used to #they’ve both resigned themselves to the fact that immortality is forever lonely #something something how jack knows this and calls the doctor ‘one like himself #but how that’s a paradox in itself because the doctor does not know it is jack himself saying it #because he is met with the face of boes death not knowing who he is. #how jacks final moments are with someone he knows and loves but who does not know and love him #the one person who he could have a happy ending with is the one who he spends his last moments with as a stranger #hhhnnnnnngggggggg. i have thoughts. #doctor who #doctor/jack #captain jack harkness #*

[chennnington]

Me when I have to do math while writing cause someone asks Jaheel how many contracts Andreine had during his active days

#so much math #first I gotta remember how old Andreine is and how old he was when he got initiated #then I gotta subtract the time he was away and sulking plus the time he was officially retired #then I gotta figure out how many contracts per year are reasonable #too much math #and I bet Jaheel would be lying anyway #‘he did THOUSANDS! MILLIONS!!! cause he’s so AMAZING!!!’

[zakurohampter]

Boutta take a shower went “where are my pajamas” girl I’ve been wearing them. It’s been that type of day

#rotting on the sofa for a million thousand years #another hours long nap #but I still managed to grind and finish every single lab task that I had left in my todo list #I’m done…. breaking chains happy guy meme #my supervisor today was like btw you were my favorite RA so in the end it was all worth it I love validation <3 #that said my body is literally falling apart #guys I don’t think I’m going like. live to be old like I can’t imagine this body taking me to over forty. fifth at most #anyway love and peace. I think I’m going to.zzzz

[hematomes]

starting to get irked by the "traveler is 500+ years old" thing bc it reminds me of the "julius caesar, who has been dead for well over 70 years" meme. you're not wrong with that number but i just hate it

#they're thousands if not millions of years old 😭 #and my problem the 500 thing is that it only takes their slumber into account #so that means ppl with the 'they were asleep they didn't age' argument can chime in #anyway i love getting unreasonably mad over the most trivial shit

[welcometoteyvat]

filled w indescribable urge to see those mindblowingly stunning zhongli artworks

#getting nostalgic for liyue bc autumn ig #time to overdose on moonchase/midautumn festival and on zhongli ceo of liyue art #needing his old friends to show up in game again real fast #wah. old friends. i should finish the fic i started 5 million years ago #midautumn festival.................. mooncakes.... a thousand miles apart we share the same moon etc etc #bruh i almost typed a thousand years apart and lowkey that's even sadder T_T #sharing mooncakes with his old friends (DEAD) across time #guizhong... RETUO LONGWANG T_T I NEED HIM BACK AND I NEED THEM TO HAVE A HOMOEROTIC MEETUP W TENDERNESS AND AFFECTION (said with feeling) #and ofc cloud retainer and other adepti co AND GUOBA #anyways zl missing hours goodnight i love him #ramblings!

[kokin7]

i hope everyone remembers that micro aggressions still happen and asians still arent past the point of being racially targetted in the united states

my 7 year old brother literally got told by a white woman without a mask on to put on his mask…im not even joking its cold season right now and everyone behind her was coughing and yet she decides to pick on my 4 ft tall little brother…

and everyone pls remember that asians arent just “aesthetically appealing” . its not just china and korea and japan. im speaking as someone whos filo-chinese , the philippines exists and we still get shit for it in america. theres southeast asians like from cambodia, indonesia, malaysia, theres south asians (indians), asia is not just one unified culture but so many that influence each other.

so when you say that you “like asian culture”, are you just saying that you like anime and kpop idols? do you like cute bento boxes and “the language”? what language? mandarin? hindi? every dialect on the philippine islands? do you like the culture or the aesthetic?

do you also appreciate the ugly side where we can’t live up to the standard our parents hold for us? would you eat a chicken fetus because you love asian culture that much? (its called balut btw). would you acknowledge the asians with dark skin or the asians that are plain dirt poor?

…or maybe youre just a part of the problem too?

fetishization also happens to us, like in miss saigon—a broadway show about themes of asian fetishization/prostitution with a vietnamese mc…lea solanga was the actress for kim, and yet i don’t know if many people are aware that the actress was a filipina and not an east asian...she even voiced jasmine and mulan’s singing voice. we’re here and yet, somewhat invisible. i don’t know how many people would even know that filipinos are aapi.

the philippines is literally almost the size of japan, we have vocal stars like morisette, comedians like jokoy and world famous boxers (shoutout to my guy manny pacquiao with the worst filipino accent in existence).

and yet, why are we forgotten in this debate ?

#im not saying you cant enjoy all the aesthetically appealing parts of asian culture #im saying that if you claim that then KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN. #im tired of not having a voice im tired of being shunned by people after i say this a thousand times im tired of getting fetishized #im tired of being pressured im tired of having to keep QUIET #im not saying that japanese chinese koreans etc arent a part of this #i am just asking for us to be acknowledged #the article about that 67 year old filipino woman haunts me down the streets #and yet every dumb question i FRICKIJGN get is like #but youre not asian right? #ARE YOU KIDDING ME #idk if you guys can tell im a little mad #centuries of colonization and the hard work of millions of immigrants #dwindled down to just #plain fucking ignorance. #i dont care who’s reading this #carry this with you #aapi #rant #vent

[elbiotipo]

I must be the only one with this particular pet peeve but I always twitch when characters say "aeons" in fiction because I was a paleontology and worldbuilding obsessed kid and I knew than an aeon in geology is the largest possible geological period, the entire period of eukaryotic life on Earth is a SINGLE aeon, we are talking about thousands of millions of years, so when a character says "I've been alive from aeons..." and they are at most a couple pathetic thousand years old I'm like "no, that's not right, that's not even geological time, do better"

#I know that the coloquial term is 'a very long time' but in my head an aeon is thousands of millions of years that's a VERY long time #so not even your million year civilization is aeons old. not even the dinosaurs are aeons old. talk about the age of the Earth maybe #that's not even getting into the whole gnostic and mysticist use of the term #cosas mias

[skylordhorus]

i think i lost some braincells reading the comments on a fossil hunting video….

#*deep space noises* #im sorry youve never been fossil hunting #‘hhhghhh its a fake concrete boulder!!!’ #‘sure it was tooootally just sitting on the beach’ (they couldve just moved to a more open area for extraction john. #also sometimes that just happens. big rocks get washed up) #‘lol a million years old yeah right its no older than a few thousand’ ok now im genuinely concerned abt u

[imissjensi]

when i die, and whatever entity at the end greets me, it will allow me to ask one single question. it can be anything, and it will answer truthfully. i could ask what the meaning of life is, or whether the world is better off without me. i could ask for a list of all the people who have had crushes on me, or what my life would have been like if i took one different turn. i could ask for something relating to my trauma, or my old friends. i could ask how my remaining family members will live the rest of their lives, or how many people came to my funeral. but i already know what question i will ask. no matter if i die today, in five years or sixty, the question will always be the same. the one question that has been plaguing me since i was twelve years old.

when i die, i will look this entity in the rough approximation of where it's eyes should be, and i will ask:

"what is the population of the lost cities?"

and i will be able to rest in peace.

#humans overpopulate the world its a huge problem #rant in the tags #kotlc #kotlc fandom #keeper of the lost cities #WHAT IS THE POPULATION OF ELVES SHANNON TELL ME PLEASE #this drives me fucking insane #like genuinely how can you create a secret world where people don't die of old age that's been around for thousands of years and not set a #population like literally what the fuck #i feel like population is an absolutely vital piece of world building information shannon please just give me a number #no generational turn over means the number will not flatten out like in the real world #the number just keeps raising exponentially #the elves have no reason to be like when they don't even fucking die and have been #around just as long #like i understand that elves don't have as many kids #and there are large gaps between when they have kids like alden is over 200 years old i believe #so i know that the number isn't in the billions or whatever but it has to be close to a million #i refuse to believe that there are only a few thousand #like think about how many mentors there has to be alone in foxfire to teach all those kids one on one #especially if they've been around for as long as the fucking dinosaurs because i'm still not over that #anyways rant over this bothers me immensely and now you all know too

[sunnydale-summers]

My only complaint about season 5 is why did they have to make Xander so gross about Dawn having a crush on him after finding out she was the Key 🤢

#xander harris #dawn summers #season 5 #btvs #buffy the vampire slayer #yes she's technically thousands (millions?) of years old but she's a 14 year old played by an actual 14 year old

[bookwyrminspiration]

Hey who was the third original councilor? I know there was bronte and fallon but. Who was the third? Fintan? I don't think that was ever mentioned- idk it just feels like it would be plot relevant if shannon ever did anything with it idk

Great question!! We actually only know one member of the original council for certain, and that's Fallon Vacker. Bronte was one of the first emissaries for the original council, but he wasn't an original council member. Easy to get it confused though, as he's the longest serving council member. However in this instance that means that everyone before him stepped down and got replaced with younger people, not that he was there from the beginning.

It's possible that Fintan could've been one of the three, but as of right now that is unconfirmed. We know he was a councillor at one point and then stepped down when pyrokinesis was banned, but as far as the timeline of everything goes we don't know when that happened in relation to the council being formed, if that makes sense.

We might get to learn of them, but it doesn't seem to be plot relevant. The reason we know about Fallon being an original council member is because it explains the Vacker family fame, which directly impacts Sophie's friends and therefore Sophie. And then we don't hear about the others because Sophie doesn't know their descendants and doesn't need to, if they had them. it's possible the Vacker family is the only one that went on to have descendants and the other councillors didn't have family and stay to themselves, more reason for them not to be mentioned.

So to summarize: we only know that Fallon was on the original council, but it's possible (yet unconfirmed) that Fintan was as well! Hopefully that helps

#kotlc #keeper of the lost cities #kotlc council #quil's queries #nonsie #every time I try to figure out a cohesive timeline for the past in kotlc my brain starts malfunctioning #because ancients seem to be only thousands of years old. but some of the worldbuilding implies that elves have been around for millions #(the dinosaurs. how did the save the dinosaurs if they weren't there 65 million years ago when they went extinct?) #we may never know about the original council #but it's a great question regardless!! i'd love to know more about them

[fatherkreiner]

i hsould be legally allowed to kill ppl who touch thegfucking rocks in karst caves. die die die die die

#randomly remembered ppl like that exist. you just stopped somwthing thats been growing for THOUSAND IF NOT MORE YEARS from growing be #ashamed. be DEAD even #and like old timey ppl didnt know it was wrong thats whatever. they say it klike a million times now when entering caves grow the fuck up. #wizardspeak

[agentgreenbean]

i think our ancestors would be proud of us. we give people food. we give them water. we give them things they need every single day to live. we give them luxury items, stuff they don't need to survive, but they want to have. we help people (dozens of people! hundreds! thousands!) have things they need and want. and it's not easy work all the time, or even most of the time, but it makes people's lives better and possible and i think that's nice. and i think our ancestors would be happy with that, that their descendants are helping others, bringing people joy and warmth, food and water, heat and shelter. even if it's not the easiest thing to do all the time.

[this post is abt retail/foodservice workers]

#is this anything #idk idk. ive just been thinking about this a lot #like. i think if i were some old caveman dude. and i found out that in thousands or millions of years or whatever #that someday my descendants would give people. hundreds of people. things they need and want. i would be proud