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thatmexisaurusrex · 4 months

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My Current Table of Contents

Lol finally changed the banner into something better 😂 Anyways, reposting an updated Table of Contents for my AO3 works. Check it out here or on my AO3 😆 :

Canon Divergence:

The Bucky Quest Saga, which tells the behind the scenes story between Sam and Bucky post-Captain America: the Winter Soldier through to The Falcon and the Winters Soldier and beyond that

A Captain and His Bucky which is what if Bucky was the original Captain America, Sam has been Captain America since the events Avengers Movie, Steve Rogers is the Winter Soldier, and Sam found Bucky thawing from a chunk of ice in SHIELD headquarters during the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier and has now taken him in to help him navigate life in the future

My Aaron Davis/Peter B. Parker Fake Marriage Enemies to Lovers Fic You're a Sunflower (I Think Your Love Would Be Too Much)

My Heimdall/Sam Wilson Post-TFATWS Fic Series, Loving Are All-Seeing Men and Midgardian Captains

Sam Wilson finds himself in a very strange game show with some asshole named Bucky Barnes, The Marriage Game

Two clubbing feelings with porn SamBucky fics. One that happens post-TWS during Bucky's European Tour and one that happens during the black market art auction nightclub scene in TFATWS. The fics titles, as well as this collection title, are based on lines in the song hand crushed by a mallet by 100 gecs, I didn’t get to tell you goodbye

A story about Sam and Bucky finding out that Sam's dead husband Riley is a Winter Soldier, Captain America, The White Wolf, and the Winter Soldier

A story about Bucky hearing Sam truly laugh for the first and a bonus series of vignettes about Bucky's twenty-three goats and their pun names, Sam and Bucky's Cabin

Time After Time, or my Sorcerer Supreme Sam Canon Divergence Fic

Back in the Gulf, where Sam Wilson tries to figure out where he fits in the world post-blip and if he wants Bucky Barnes to be part of his life.

My All Caps fic, sometimes that's all we need, an Endgame Canon Divergence where everyone lived, no one went old and went to the past, and Steve and Bucky are competing for Captain America Sam Wilson's love and attention

Five Times Bucky Got Dirty and the One Time Bucky Got Sam Dirty, a two-part fic about five times Bucky got dirty around Sam and the one time Bucky got Sam dirty

My gay chicken, post-blip, accidental undercover fake married fic, Playing with Fire

My Valentine's Day Fic about Sam Not Knowing He's Actually Dating Bucky, You'll Never Be My Maybe.

Meanwhile... a short two-part fic about Sam and Bucky figuring out their love for each other while on a mission.

My Gideon Visits and Shenanigans Ensue two-parter, A Surprise Visit

My IWTV Season 1, Episode 2 Loustat fic, I don't think you realize (but you are in my insides)

The Beyoncé Trilogy, a series of three fics inspired by the Beyoncé songs "Blow", "Cuff It", and "Texas Hold 'Em" that take place during an alternate version of CATWS.

Fantasy AUs:

My Fantasy/Medieval/Arranged Marriage AU, Golden is the Sun

His Wingless Stranger, which is a "What if WWII Bucky fell off that train into a world that spliced Tomorrowland with Hiyao Miyazaki and Sam lived in a future society where everyone has wings?"

My Zombie AU, ESCAPE TO WAKANDA

My Apothecary Meets Prince Who Accidentally Becomes His Apprentice Fic Series, The White Wolf Apothecary

My Star Wars AU, Star Wars Episode IV.V: The Phantom Hookup

Fairytale AU, The Little White Wolf

A story about monster Hunter Joaquín meets Vampire Sam and Werewolf Bucky in a bar, Joaquín Torres Monster Hunter

The Two Strangers, A post-apocalyptic future western SamBucky AU on a different planet

My Practical Magic inspired AU, Impractical Magic

My matelotage Pirate!Sam, Merman!Bucky fic, Reaching Out For You

My Future Kid Fic, Pre-Vampire Apocalypse fic Canary in the Coal Mine

My Selkie and Pirate two-part love story, The Selkie and the Pirate Elect

My If You Were the Last AU, The Hypothetical

The Midnight Lover, my bittersweet Vampire AU

My Percy Jackson and the Olympians AU, Sam Wilson and the Olympians

No Powers AUs:

My Single All the Way AU, A No Snow Christmas

My Popstar AU, The Only Thing That I Refuse to Forget

My one fantastic impromptu date fic, A Night With You

My airport chase confession fic My Best Friend's Brother

My Bachelor AU, If I Take You Home

My Christmas Fake Relationship Fic, For the Holidays

From That Show, my Sitcom Actors!AU

My High School AU fic, Walking and Running to You

My Anthologies:

The SamBucky Halloween 2021 Anthology I made for the SamBucky Halloween 2021 event the SamBucky Library is hosting

The WinterFalcon Week 2021 I participated in that's being hosted by the WinterFalcon Week tumble

The Nine Short Dates with Sam and Bucky ficlet series I made

The Sambtember Ficlets and Drabble Anthology I created for the Samtember event hosted by the Sam Wilson Fest tumblr

The Kinktober Collection 2021;

Water They Waiting For anthology series. It's 9 writers, 19 stories, and a lot of sexual tension involving water

My SarahBucky fics for Fleur de Louve Month2021

My SamBuckyTorres anthology, Captains and Falcons and White Wolves, Or My!

My collection of three fics for the MYSU Holiday Gift Exchange 2021!

My collection of fics based on the SamBucky Library's Candy Hearts Event 2022, SamBucky Library's Candy Hearts Event 2022 Fic Anthology

My collection of stories inspired by my the Daily SamBucky Fluff Diary on my tumblr, The Daily SamBucky Fluff Diary Auxiliary Stories

My collection of fics based on the 2 card of the MYSU Valentine's Day Bingo 2022, MYSU Valentine's Day Bingo 2022 Fic Anthology

My collection of fics based on the photos in post by hot-chocolates-world on tumblr, The Tush Collection

My collection for the SamBucky AU Week 2022, My SamBucky AU Week 2022 Collection

My collection of Drabbles and Ficlets for Samtember 2022

My collection of WinterFalcon Bingo Round Two 2022-2023 Bingo Fills

My collection of fills for SamBucky Halloween Bingo 2022

My collection of fills for the Sam Wilson Bingo Round 2

My collection of fills for the SamBucky Festive Bingo 2022

My collection of fills for TFATWS Anniversary 2023 Fics

My collection of All Caps Bingo Round One 2023 Fills

My collection of SamBucky Summer Bingo 2023 Fills

My collection of Samtember 2023 Fills

My collection of SamBucky Halloween Bingo 2023 Fills

My collection of SamBucky Gift Event 2023 Fics

My collection of SamBucky Valentine's Day Bingo 2024 Fics

My SamBucky One-Shots!

My Other One-Shots!

#table of contents #sambucky #sambucky fic #sambuckyquin #all caps #samriley #sambuckyriley #just #a lot of fics #all good stuff #check it out #happier with this banner lol

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petrolstationflowers · 12 days

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Do your sims yearn for the dark embrace of the mines? Obsess over shiny stones, have a collection of hard hats? Why not give the Mining career a go, where they can dig up all the dirt and rocks they desire! This is the last in the batch of requests from Catrillion

This job is available for YA - Elder, and you can join via the Science Lab. No opportunities, uniforms, or books. Please note you will need Ambitions installed as you need the hidden Collecting and Consignment skills.

Three skill tones are available at work, with no boss or coworkers:

Swing Pickaxe (Athletics) Gather Resources (Collecting) Sell Findings (Consignment)

Please note Collecting and Consignment are both hidden skills, which you can track through MasterController. Athletics and Collecting appear at Level 2, but Consignment won't appear until level five. The carpool will also not show up until level 5. This career only goes up to level 8.

Levels under the readmore:

Pet Rock Collector - 10 simoleans p/h, 12:00 - 16:00, M-F Description - You’re down to eating wildflower salads and artistically stacking rocks you find in the park because you can’t afford decor. Times are tough and the grocery store isn’t hiring – what to do? Luckily the old mines have just opened up again and they’ll accept anyone without claustrophobia and enjoys hitting rocks. It’s better than the unemployment office, so get applying! Human Canary - 12 simoleans p/h, 06:00 - 14:00, M-F Description - Nothing quite says “expendable,” like being told to monitor the gas levels lest they get too high. You’ve been given a box with a scary looking radar and a blinking light and told when the box starts beeping, sound the alarm and tell your fellow miners to get out. If you don’t die from carbon monoxide poisoning, there actually might be a career in this! Cart Pusher - 15 simoleans p/h, 06:00 - 14:00, M-F Description - Another unfortunate soul gets to be the canary now you’ve moved on to bigger and better things. Granted, it’s only wheeling carts of coal and mined ore along the tracks so they can be sent to the surface, but you’re getting your step count in and there’s less danger of suffocating. Do a good job and you might actually get to sit down next time you’re promoted! Rock Inspector - 20 simoleans p/h, 14:00 - 22:00, M-F Description - A chair… a coffee machine… central heating… after too long working underground, this is bliss. You’re tasked with sorting the rocks into anything that might be remotely valuable, sorting your pebbles from your coal, your diamonds from your quartz. You’ll need a keen eye to tell them apart and plenty of patience, so stock up on podcasts and polish your magnifying glass. Consignment Carrier - 25 simoleans p/h, 09:00 - 17:00, M-F Description - Finally, out into the fresh air! Your bosses have deemed you trustworthy enough to take the gems and coal to the local consignment store and barter the best prices for them. Strong arms are a must, as well as the gift of the gab – because if you get short changed, it’ll be coming out your pocket. Money Seeking Miner - 50 simoleans p/h, 06:00 - 14:00, M-F Description - Fresh air is great and all, but there’s gold in them hills and you’ve got bills to pay. Since there’s been talk of mysterious yellow eyes in the mine, workers have quit en masse and management are offering big incentives to get back down in the pit. Plus they’ve promised that if you find anything fun, you get to keep it! Gem Seeker - 75 simoleans p/h, 06:00 - 14:00, M-F Description - The mines are lovely, dark, and deep, and you’ve spent so many hours down here, you’re forgetting what sunlight looks like. You’re in the more lucrative veins now, digging out gold and rubies as big as your hand, but you’ve heard of the legendary pink diamond and are determined to find it. Who knows, maybe that’s your ticket out of here? Mine Owner - 250 simoleans p/h, 10:00 - 16:00, M-F Description - You’ve found it, the pink diamond in the rough! After swiftly selling it for millions of simoleans, you’re making enough to take over the mine itself and take over operations! What will you look for? Rainbow gems? Shang Simlan artefacts? Perhaps pull up as many space rocks as you can to try and entice the aliens? On the flip side, maybe you should get back into painting pet rocks with all your free time…

Translations: I've included the English Strings in the file; if anyone is talented enough to translate, I would be incredibly grateful, so please let me know in the comments!

With thanks: To MissyHissy's career building tutorial!

#ts3 #ts3cc #the sims 3 #sims 3 #sims 3 custom content #sims 3 custom job #sims 3 custom career

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zolupine · 6 months

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“Hey you still into bird watching?” - A thread on Betty Grof bird symbolism - crossposted on twitter!!!

I think about which birds Betty’s magic birds are and a couple come to mind. I’d personally like to think they’d change form to the following:

1.) Canaries- for a multitude of reason 1.) being that they’re some of the most similar in terms of size and shape minus the beak, but i did want to bring up the phrase “canary in a coal mine"

1a.) “⁃A canary in a coal mine is an advanced warning of some danger. The metaphor originates from the times when miners used to carry caged canaries while at work; if there was any methane or carbon monoxide in the mine, the canary would die before the levels of the gas reached those hazardous to humans.” In terms of interpretation i think thats rather clear about Betty’s fate in terms of being digested with GOLB though its a reach, something something caged within GOLB something something dying with him and becoming rebirthed

1b.) - Extra info. Canaries are song birds and individualists in nature EXCEPT when mating- possibly playing on Betty’s recluse nature with the exception of magic man and Simon/IK.

2.) Nightingales- ANOTHER bird that looks very similar to those animated, this time the beak and tail-feathers match quite well. Matching the color scheme (in terms of their bellies being brighter!) and are overall very similar in nature!

2a.) Their symbolism- nightingales have been associated with a variety of themes, including "creativity, the muse, nature's purity, and, in Western spiritual tradition, virtue and goodness." the nightingale is deemed to be ”a prime example of poetic invention occurring naturally” Though not intrinsically related to Betty herself, it could be a representation of her usage of magic and how she’s becoming less and less human, and more in tune with the nature of Ooo around her. Though birds are also associated with magic man…

2b.) “A nightingale sang in Berkeley Square” - who doesn’t love some music symbolism coupled with bird symbolism! The song itself is about the power of love, and how the “whole damned world seemed upside down” - could easily be a representation of Betty’s love for Simon :)

2c.) In more literal interpretations of the nightingale, its seen as a sign of coming striping, it’s song ushering new leaves after the winter. It’s referenced in Homer’s odyssey when a nightingale sings in the woods, spring has just begun (Odyssey 19.519). Spring is often seen as a time of change, "Every one thousand years, the Catalyst Comet mysteriously reincarnates itself and collides with Earth, bringing with it an Agent of Change." It could be interpreted as such, that her nightingales were the first signs of HER change. Though it’s a reach considering the airing date of the episode, unless it was foreshadowed like crazy. Which is totally fucking possible. Also! This next one is just for fun.

3.) Toucans - Though not at all similar in shape or size, toucans have a very interesting meaning, as well as a quote directly from Ice King himself. Also they are quite cute…

3a.) This clip [season 9, episode 3 “Bespoken For” part 2 of 8 of the elements specials], the SAME episode as “Betty's birds”- as Ice King is going “bird watching” he refers to Betty as a Toucan- as seen in the clip below.

It’s a one off line, because on ice kings bird list, a Toucan is one of the things he needs to check off. Not to mention his later reference to Betty as an exotic bird to life giving magus!

3b.) Though the Toucan has interesting symbolism, Toucans are regarded as a bird with a sacred eye, they’re seen as conduits between the worlds of the living and the dead. Which could again play into her role as GOLBETTY, because of GOLBETTY’s omnipotent nature. It could easily be implied that she’s a conduit, but less of matters of the living of the dead and more so in regards to the antiverse and the multiverse.

Ok thats all from me ^_^ I might continue this thread, but for now enjoy some bird watching :)

#adventure time #fionna and cake #betty grof #ice king #birds #toucans #nightingales #analysis #autism attack #i love birds #ornithology #media literacy #just an interpertation #not fact #magic betty #weird lady #magic lady

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andyetnobananas · 2 years

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Ok, so you know that whole "HBO Max killing off cartoons" thing that happened recently? So after some digging (and by that I mean watching this video from Shark3ozero) the situation is so much worse than that. Like... Monstrously worse.

In case you don't know, it's not just cartoons and their creators that have been f__ked over recently, but a WHOLE SWATH OF PoC CREATORS HAVE BEEN LAID OFF. Like, almost no non-whites left in executive positions.

Apparently, before the merger, Discovery has a more white, old, heteronormative demographic than HBO, and instead of trying to consolidate the 2 demographics, Discovery's CEO, David Zaslav, has been made into the CEO of both sides of the company, and is trying to turn one into the other. To this end, he has slashed the divisions overseeing kids, family and international content, and intends to create more content for "Middle America." So yes, they cut Infinity Train and Batgirl and others BECAUSE. THEY. ARE. DIVERSE. CONTENT. They are deliberately removing different cultures from their services because catering exclusively to white audiences is more profitable... According to them. I have serious doubts this is casting the net wider instead of narrower. (Also, another part of the shift is that they want to pivot back to cable content and away from streaming, which... Lol, good luck man. Warn-scover-CNBO might already be on a collision course, and fingers crossed that it is.)

OH, BUT IT GETS WORSE. APOCALYPTICLY WORSE.

HBO also owns CNN, and they have a new chairman in the shadow of the merger, Chris Licht. It's already canned one news show, 'Reliable Programming' a show frequently critiqued the republicans and fox news, and has warned that "more changes are coming soon."

Worst of all, John Malone, who is on WBD's board, and gave Zaslav his job in 2006, has explicitly said that he wants to CNN to have a "less liberal bias", and thinks that Fox News "makes actual journalism." Yes, Fox dominating a third of US cable news is not enough, he wants to make another 3rd of it propaganda programming.

Warn-scover-CNBO's market capitol were flushed down the tubes in light of all this horses__t, but in order to keep the a new propaganda apparatus of unfathomable scale from rising, it must stay down and never recover. Warn-scover-CNBO's changes scaring off huge droves of people is an objective good, and the complete collapse of the company is our only hope now.

Tl;dr: The death of Infinity Train and Uncle Grampa is the canary in the coal mine of a massive swath of pop culture and journalistic practice turning into a right-wing propaganda apparatus unlike anything seen before.

#hbo max #infinity train #cartoons #cartoon network #animation #warner bros discovery #wb discovery #cnn

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trashquisitor-shirozora · 1 year

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Oh my god the Mandalorian s3 decisions being a push to make Bo Katan more marketable for women makes so much sense.

I’ve been watching the flames of season 3 for afar wondering what possibly possessed them to sideline the wildly popular duo of Din and Grogu in favor of this Bo Katan stuff, aside from the obvious future content advertisement… it’s because it’s popular with women…

Like it’s a known pattern that corporations hate when something they’ve created aimed at men is disproportionately popular with women because they strive to keep a very distinct line between Boy things and Girl things. Anything Star Wars is for men, except the acceptable Girl Things like Leia and Padme and Asoka. But then the Mandalorian became wildly popular with women and they can’t just cancel a cash cow like the Mandalorian without milking everything they can from it so they’re like “well let’s bring in Bo Katan she’s for the Women now start making the toys”

I am so late to this but that meant time to simmer and seethe over Disney's decisions before and lately, and things I've read over the years about how corporations market to their target audiences, and how little things have changed.

I saw rumors and theories that KKKennedy (y'all sorry I keep calling her that but iykyk) meddled a LOT with The Mandalorian and Jon even threatened to quit, but at the end of the day the Mouse House has the final say and we're stuck with their decisions. I really don't know how the final numbers will look, how it'll affect their merch sales, and what it means for the future seasons of The Mandalorian. Maybe the hard pivot to redeem Bo-Katan for the bajillionth time will be the new cash cow or the canary in the coal mine (for The Mandalorian; I'm sure Ahsoka will be a hit no matter what). Maybe they gambled right or they've lost too many viewers who wanted Din and Grogu to be the heart and soul and center of this particular show. It's called The Mandalorian after all. If they want to claim that it could be any Mandalorian who's The Mandalorian of these season, then maybe Season 2 should've followed a different Mandalorian and established this before scamming us with Season 3. They were already trying that with TBOBF before having Din and Grogu steal the show.

But now that I've seen those rumors and theories, I could not fucking stop thinking about what happened when the ST was rolling out and when Rogue 1 and Solo came out. I could not stop thinking about the casting choices for Rey, Jyn, and Qi'ra, could not stop thinking about how white and brunette they were. I could not stop thinking about KKKennedy and others talking about how they wanted to bring more female fans to Star Wars, acting like Star Wars was exclusively a male space, which, what a fucking insult. I could not forget pictures of her wearing "The Force is Female" shirts and pushing this message so fucking hard that it would keep showing up in critical reviews of TLJ/TROS/ST as proof that Disney didn't know what it was doing.

Rey, Jyn, and Qi'ra were lucky to not have the kind of long history that Bo-Katan already had in the gffa by the time she made her live-action debut. It didn't take much to google her involvement in TCW and Rebels, and see what she'd done. I've seen commenters say she redeemed herself in Rebels by rallying the Mandalorians but are you sure about that? Are we still having trouble with writing redemption arcs after the fucking horrible one Disney put Kylo Ren through to the detriment of every other character not named Rey?

I wouldn't have minded Bo-Katan having greater involvement in Season 3 if she didn't basically take charge of not just the COTW but also the entire show. Watch out for the new merch of her with the Darksaber now. Probably the most we'll get out of Din is whatever happens to him in the season finale because Disney gotta make more money, amirite? Grogu got a new accessory so that Disney can sell new versions of him, so why not Din?

I truly envy the poeple who are having a good time or don't need to have these thoughts constantly in their heads while watching. I didn't have a good time and I can never turn those thoughts off. I don't have the luxury so I'm never shutting up about this.

ftr I unfollowed Okiro after the billionth time he called Din, Grogu, and Bo-Katan "Clan of Three". what the fuck had she done to earn equal footing?

#shirozora awkwardly responds to asks #the mandalorian #the mandalorian critical #mando critical #the mandalorian season 3 #mando spoilers #sorry y'all but as a yellow person i am ALWAYS constantly aware of this shit #i cannot deal with kkkennedy's brand of white feminism interfering with good stories and sensible character arcs #sorry also for these long asks but i can't help critical ramblings because i have nothing else to offer for this season #ask box will still be open but i gotta yeet myself out of it until I'm done with these illustrations

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coloursfalllikesnow · 1 year

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Here is a Bane I used recently in one of my chronicles that perhaps others might be interested in using - it’s free to use for your chrons.

Coalmouth An ancient spirit that has been changed by the modern day, Coalmouth was created for use in a chronicle in the Appalachian mountains, but is suitable for any location that coal mining is or was common.

Rage 10, Gnosis 8, Willpower 6, Essence 60 Charms: Airt Sense, Materialize (which grants 12 health levels), Realm Sense, Re-form, Blast, Warp Reality*

(*Functions as the Nexus Crawler Warp reality charm in W20 Core, though Coalmouth is limited to affecting the surrounding landscape, such as raising or lowering temperatures or changing patches of earth to pitch, and so on.)

Materialized Stats: Attributes: Strength 5, Dexterity 6, Stamina 5, Perception 4, Intelligence 1, Wits 2 Abilities: Alertness 4, Athletics 4, Brawl 5, Intimidation 4, Primal-Urge 4, Stealth 3

Bans: Coalmouth cannot abide the singing of the domestic canary, and it causes it great pain to be in the vicinity. As well, Coalmouth is weakened by direct sunlight; its Essence is treated as half if led into the sun.

Image: Coalmouth resembles a long, pitch-black serpent as big around as a small car, though several dozen pairs of pointed legs extend down its body like a centipede. Its head is blunt and has three slit-shaped eyes arranged an equal distance apart on the top that glow orange in dim light. Its mouth is a jagged maw of sharp teeth, and when open appears to lead into the depths of a furnace. Its roars are layered over many other noises to an unsettling effect - fire crackling, and the screams of dying miners. It gives off small amounts of smoke and ash when it moves, and radiates heat.

Background: Coalmouth has been known by a number of names by many different people, though the current one is an approximation of the Garou tongue name given to it (represented by the glyphs for "fire", "earth/stone", "poison/disease", and "tooth") in the mid-late 1900s. In days long past, Coalmouth was a remnant of a great and terrible brood of ancient plant-spirits, sealed deep under the earth by parties unknown in the time before the Garou remember. It managed to eventually slip its binds and threaten to escape into the material once again, though the local Pure Tribes sealed it once more under the earth, in a small but twisting series of caverns. And that was that... At least until the coal boom in the Appalachian region, when the rich seams of coal were discovered and dug deep into by the coal companies.

The greed of the coal companies and the suffering of the miners as they toiled all around the coal veins it was sealed into fed Coalmouth better than it could have ever dreamed. The small but slippery spirit grew stronger and stronger, eventually cracking its bindings enough to start roaming around the mine in the Umbra. Following the closure of the mine when the coal boom died down, the bane contented itself will collecting the remains of former mine workers when it could, and attacking any unfortunate kinfolk who would wander near. While its binds were cracked and weak, it was still tethered to the mine, and couldn't roam too far, unfortunately for the beast, and so bides its time.

The weakening of the binds and the lack of upkeep by any Banetenders is likely due to a long-running conflict between two local septs, the feud causing both sides to neglect duties they should otherwise be keeping tabs on. Coalmouth is unaware of these interpersonal conflicts, but benefits from them greatly anyway. The spirit is too powerful to be completely destroyed without great effort, but perhaps if relations could be mended, the bane could be sealed completely once more, or even destroyed by a joint effort.

Storytelling Notes: Coalmouth has an intense hatred of the Changing Breeds but especially their kinfolk, and will attack any it becomes aware of, preferring them to normal humans or other spirits, though it will still attack Garou and Fera if presented with them. The spirit is old and crafty in a primordial, instinctual way, and when not in the presence of any of its Bans will prefer to slither through disused passages of its mine or tunnels of its own making to avoid attackers. It is well aware of the effect sunlight has on it, and will refuse to exit the mine during the day to avoid it, unless bidden to by a greater force.

#werewolf the apocalypse #old world of darkness #world of darkness #TTRPGs #WtA #long post

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tsuki-sennin · 4 months

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Cure Sky is a hero. With our final battle mere moments away, what terrible scheme has Skearhead brought forth? How will our dear Cures fare? Will the Empress have her heart mended?

Spoilers, I guess...

-Skearhead, that sunnova bitch.

-Oh she mad

-Prism, I don't think a paint palette's gonna patch impalement.

-Jesus Christ man, you

-"Maybe if she weren't such a weakling, she wouldn't be dying horribly."

-"Die like your father, you pinheaded son of an ice cream maker."

-holy shit a royal assassin

-The Emperor...

-Is that a heart tattoo on his arm? That's super adorable.

-"I traumatized you, yes."

-This is beyond fucked up, man, what the hell

-Ohhhhh

-D

-Darkhead.

-Okay, he quite literally personifies the villainy that the Underg preached.

-That's uh... quite interesting, actually.

-Dude

-Duuuuude.

-Skearhead shut the fuck up, you did like 30% of that.

-V

-Vessel???

-"Come, daughter of Sky Land."

-Daaaaaaamn, okay Wing! Good initiative.

-Aaaaand the party's been split.

-Imma be real, these guys have been jobbing lately, Butterfly probably could beat them all on her own if she moved fast.

-"Princess's orders~!"

-That's a big boy.

-You can do that too, eh, Majesty?

-All on her own...

-The Big Princess...

-We left our baby.

-"Do you know why I made you my vessel?"

-Hero...

-I see, Darkhead goes for the Zamasu approach.

-"Cure Sky, she's perfect."

-Daaaaamn, okay Sora.

-For the Empress!

-"Darkhead, your villainy ends today!"

-"Power is nothing without someone to use it. ...which is why power can use instead."

-OH

-Like canaries in a coal mine.

-"This mist is nothing! I've inhaled grosser and more dangerous things on jogs!"

-"Exactly what I've been looking for."

-Sky

-Sky no-

-Oh

-That is not right, that is not correct, that is not cool Toei.

-Okay, no it is, this IS SO SICK

-Aesthetically Underg Energy Sky pops the fuck off.

-This is the only time we've seen this asshole happy. How fitting.

-Ohhhhh

-Oh nooooooo

"Dulling hop! Suffocating step! Dark Jump~! Eternally falling black sky! Cure Darkhead~!"

-Goin' for the Warlock Punch!

-Hot damn, Prism's not even flinching

-YOOOO SORAAAAAA

-"Are you shitting me?! I lost...? I lost control of Cure Sky's body because her GIRLFRIEND-!?"

-The Empress's heart has been made whole again.

-"You're just like us, Empress Underg :)"

-"I'm no hero. Not yet at least. But with Prism, Majesty... Wing and Butterfly too... all of Sky Land and the people of Earth... and I guess now even you, Empress... I truly feel like I'm-"

-INVINCIBLE SEASON 2 PART 2 BABYYYYYY WOOOOOO

-Friendship confirmed, I repeat, friendship confirmed!

-Dang, you guys had fun, huh?

-Daijarg!

-"Listen pal, you really should go to bed."

-It's Hero Time~! Once more~!

-What a season this has been.

-Every time I thought it was getting a little stale, or that perhaps I wasn't taking things super seriously, it just pops back up to surprise me again.

-Excelsior, Cure Sky. You'd have done the legends behind so many of the world's best superheroes proud.

-One last Hirogaru Change for the road! Soaring to Infinity! Our World!

-Then after that...

-Doggy

#Hop! Step! Jump! Hero Gals Dream of the Everlasting Sky!#hirogaru sky precure #hirogaru sky spoilers #precure #pretty cure

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wren-kitchens · 2 years

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past, present and future (with you)

I opened tumblr 45 minutes ago to post this and completely forgot until 15 minutes ago then I got sidetracked again until now

my brain is a mess lmao

chapter 2

like the day before, jimmy is rushing to complete something when tango turns up. this time, to his embarrassment, he’s trying to get twigs and leaves out of his wings, since when he was visiting joel earlier, he flew into a tree.

“uh, just- just a minute!” he calls, wishing he was more flexible as he fails to reach some of the foliage stuck in his feathers.

“are you okay in there?” tango asks.

“yeah- yep, just perfect.” jimmy grunts.

“I can come back later if you’re busy.” tango says.

“no- just, hang on.” jimmy fumbles for a moment before opening the door.

tango looks slightly surprised as he takes jimmy in. then he stifles a laugh.

“do you, ah. want some help?” he asks, failing to suppress a smile.

jimmy’s face flushes with embarrassment. “yeah.” he admits. “come in.”

he leads tango to his room and sits on the bed, gesturing for him to do the same. “do you know how to preen wings?” he asks.

tango nods. “I do.”

jimmy raises his eyebrows. “where’d you learn that?”

he isn’t sure, but he thinks tango blushes. “oh. um, I can’t remember.”

jimmy doesn’t know whether to believe it or not, but he shrugs it off and extends his wings for tango.

“how’d you get all this in your wings?” tango sounds amused as he picks out the twigs and stacks them in a pile.

“I, ah. flew into a tree.” jimmy mumbles.

tango audibly snorts. “i’m sorry, i’m sorry.” he says when jimmy whines in protest. “just- how?”

“that is for me to know, and you to find out.” jimmy sniffs, knowing he’s blushing again.

tango laughs quietly. “alright.”

jimmy smiles. tango has a nice laugh, he thinks. and it’s quite sweet, really, how he’s helping him. plus it feels kinda nice to have his wings preened by someone who can actually reach the harder-to-get plumage.

“your wings are really.. fluffy.” tango says.

“yeah?” jimmy asks. no one’s particularly mentioned his wings before. it’s not a fun topic, but he doesn’t mind it.

“yeah. what type of bird are you?” tango asks, now starting on the leaves.

jimmy chuckles. “you’re really not from ‘round here, huh? i’m a canary.”

tango frowns. “are they native to the mesa?”

“nope.” jimmy says. “ah, that’s a long story that you do not want to hear. in short: i’m an omen of death. i’m basically a warning. like a canary in the coal mine.”

jimmy feels tango’s hands still and he glances over his shoulder. tango is looking at him funnily.

“is that a self-proclaimed title, or did someone else tell you that?” he says.

“technically neither.” jimmy explains. “it’s kind of like fate, y’know? unavoidable. i’m better off not tryna change it.”

“what, so you’re just destined to die? where’s the fairness in that?” tango looks surprisingly angry.

jimmy shrugs. “‘fair is foul and foul is fair’ and all that. it’s fate, s’not meant to be fair.”

tango starts picking out the leaves faster. “you can’t just accept that you’re meant to die.”

“there’s a whole lotta proof to back it up.” jimmy says. he wasn’t expecting tango’s reaction. “what about it bothers you?”

“what bothers- how doesn’t it bother you?” tango exclaims.

“dunno. just doesn’t.” jimmy says simply. “I mean, there isn’t a lot I can do about it. no point worrying about it, I suppose.”

tango makes a noise of distaste, now moving onto any pinfeathers jimmy missed. “I guess.”

“at the risk of sounding rude, why do care so much? you’ve only known me for a day.” jimmy asks, suppressing a chirp of pleasure as tango removes a pinfeather that’s been annoying him for days.

“okay, maybe I have, but it doesn’t make it any better to hear that you’re ‘fated’ to be an omen of death.” tango says.

“oh it’s not that bad.” jimmy says. “I get cool wings.”

tango rolls his eyes. “my god, you are annoyingly optimistic.”

“better than annoyingly pessimistic.” jimmy grins. “at least i’m being uplifting.”

tango shakes his head in exasperation. “I don’t know how anyone could be this positive about being a death omen.”

“I mean, I told you. I get cool wings.” jimmy says. “it’s like automatically better.”

“until you fly into a tree?” tango says.

jimmy chuckles. “until I fly into a tree.”

a moment passes where the two don’t speak. it’s not awkward, and it’s almost unusual how natural it feels. it’s broken when tango says,

“alright, that’s the last of it.”

jimmy turns around and sees a pile of leaves, twigs and yellow feathers behind him. it’s a lot bigger than he expected.

“heh, thanks for helping me.” he says.

“what do you do normally?” tango asks as jimmy stands and picks up the pile.

“usually I don’t fly into trees.” jimmy jokes, shovelling the debris into the bin. “well, I mean, it doesn’t get bad that fast. i don’t really have a technique.” he admits. “I just get what I can— which is usually most of it, so.”

tango doesn’t reply. instead he just looks at jimmy, the ghost of a smile on his face. it makes him feel strange, and his face starts to flush.

“um, anyway, you don’t wanna hear about my inability to effectively preen.” his voice sounds too loud. he thinks he’s startled tango. “aren’t we supposed to be lookin’ for history?” he tries to play it off with a grin, but tango still gives him a funny look for a moment before nodding.

“yes! I haven’t gotten much to help with it, except some stuff for detailed work.” tango says. “but I take it you have shovels?”

“yeah, of course.” jimmy says. he wonders, briefly, if he’s heard of the jokes about him being the poorest kingdom. “where’d you reckon we should start? you’re the one with the know-how here.” he nudges tango’s arm.

“i’d say out of your town.” tango says. “if we find something massive, i wouldn’t want to unrest the foundations here.”

“alright, i’ll get the shovels and you lead the way.” jimmy says.

—-

jimmy regrets not bringing water. he was able to fly them both out of the valley, and over to where tango suggested, but the digging is hard work. although, tango doesn’t seem to be dehydrated at all.

after about half an hour of digging (and a considerable amount of complains on his half) jimmy’s shovel strikes something solid that doesn’t feel like the hardened clay of the plateaus.

the clank of the shovel catches tango’s attention immediately. “you got something?”

“yeah, i think so.” jimmy leans on the spade, panting. “dunno what it is. not metal or wood.”

“well, let’s find out.” tango grins at him and starts digging again, this time more carefully.

after a few minutes, they’ve gotten most of the sand off, and they brush most of the rest of it off with their hands.

it’s a statue, and a massive one at that. the head is the only thing they can see, and that’s almost bigger than their bodies. it looks to be made out of a mixture of stone and clay, what with the brown/grey colour of the material.

the person it was designed after was apparently a king, based on the crown adorned on it’s head. jimmy leans closer and sees that the terracotta is dyed with very faded colour.

“woah.” tango says. “woah- I gotta get pixl, he’ll go insane.”

<tango> pix get over here

<tango> we just found something

<pixlriffs> ‘over here’ is not an exact location

<tango> the mesa

<pixlriffs> better but still vague

<pixlriffs> just send me coordinates

“oh yeah.” tango mutters. jimmy suppresses a smile.

<tango> -335 68 1228

“how are we gonna get this out of the sand?” tango asks. “there’s no way we can lift this, not even the three of us.”

jimmy sighs, feeling like he’s been set up. “I know who can.” he says begrudgingly.

<solidaritygaming> oi joel

<smallishbeans> who are you ‘oi’ing

jimmy sighs heavily before sending,

<solidaritygaming> we need your mighty powerful godly strength

<smallishbeans> i’m on my way

“who’s that?” tango asks.

“joel.” jimmy says. “he’s our resident god with very low self esteem. he talks about how cool he is to counteract it.”

“I.. see.” tango says slowly.

“he will talk about how tall he is.” jimmy says. “he’s like 11ft, so I guess it’s fair enough.”

“isn’t that like, really short for gods?” tango asks.

jimmy blinks. “well that’d explain a lot.”

tango laughs. he has a nice laugh, jimmy thinks.

“I have arrived!”

jimmy turns to see joel standing with his hands on his hips, grinning impressively.

“oh, great!” tango smiles.

“what did you need help with?” joel walks up to them, casting a shadow over them both.

jimmy points at the head of the statue. “lift.” he says.

“how big is it?” joel asks.

“dunno.” jimmy says. “big.”

“that’s super helpful, thanks.” joel says. he moves over to the statue and grabs its head, straining as he pulls it backwards out of the sand.

jimmy may not have been specific with his estimate, but he was accurate. even though they could only see the bust, it was at least joel’s height already— it’s head half the size of him.

halfway through, pixl turns up, and after some frantic checks of the condition (just yanking out of the ground isn’t the most delicate way to excavate), he begrudgingly watches as joel pulls the rest of the statue out of the sand.

“well. it’s something alright.” jimmy says as pixl inspects it thoroughly for any damage.

“yup.” tango agrees. “can you imagine how long this could have been here?”

“how did you know where to dig?” jimmy asks.

tango shrugs. “had a hunch.”

jimmy nods appreciatively. “you must be fun in gambling.”

“I got kicked out for winning every game.” tango grins at him.

“really?” jimmy says, impressed.

“no.” tango laughs at his own joke. “I don’t gamble. unless you count trading with the piglins.” he gives a huff of annoyance. “they fleece you, I swear.”

jimmy laughs and tango’s expression softens. “do you trade with them often?”

“too often.” he shakes his head. “obsidian is such a rare trade, oh my goodness.”

“couldn’t you just mine it?” jimmy asks.

“well, yeah but you don’t-“ tango’s eyes widened slightly and he shakes his head again. “uh, I don’t have diamonds.”

“sounds like you have a lot of gold then.” jimmy says.

“too much, arguably.” tango nods.

“hey, guys.” they look over at the sound of pixl’s voice. he’s peering down at the inscription on the statue’s pedestal.

“yeah?” tango steps over to read it too. “oh my god. is this real?”

“what is it?” jimmy follows tango. the inscription reads,

‘the king of mazelea

(who is very tall)

1021’

“seem familiar to anyone?” jimmy grins, looking up again. apparently that’s not what was surprising about it. “what?”

“jimmy, do you know what happened in this year?” pixl asks.

jimmy shakes his head.

“well, in the year 1021, there was a massive natural disaster.” pixl explains. “we still don’t know what caused it, but it pretty much destroyed everything. the entire ocean drained, blood, debris and lava rained from the sky, there were monumental earthquakes. pretty much everyone and everything died.”

“woah.” jimmy looks over at the valley. maybe their town being a lake in the past isn’t such a ridiculous idea.

“yeah.” pixl nods. “we call it the rapture. before it, there was some evidence of civilisation in the world, but we haven’t been able to find much other than a few books and an ancient shrine. but this,” pixl gestures towards the statue. “this is concrete proof that there was a kingdom, and in the mesa of all places..” pixl trails off, gazing at the horizon.

“do you know what this means?” tango says excitedly, grasping jimmy’s hands. “there could be a buried civilisation underneath our feet, right now!”

jimmy feels his own heart racing, tango’s excitement is contagious, as is his curiosity.

“we’re gonna need some more shovels.”

#this is v long #it was gonna be longer but like I spent ages writing this so #i’m so excited for when I can write about archeology and them finding out the past of empires #it’s such a cool concept to me oml I love it #empires ficlet #team rancher #rancher duo #past present and future (with you)#double life ficlet #empires smp

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vinlynce · 2 years

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Woe! Scrapped Warden E/Canary in a Coal Mine au content from 6 months ago be upon ye! The plots changed enough that neither of these are usable in the story anymore sadly, the last one was going to be part 2's thumbnail, but Lisia is no longer part of the story this was drawn for :p

#hall matron argenta #subway master emmet #gym leader skyla #subway boss emmet #coordinator lisia #hall superstar lisia #warden e au #canary in a coal mine au #originally argenta was a faller but that plot got scrapped #curse of the battle frontiers. . .

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drumlincountry · 1 year

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I watched a 3 part documentary about how one of Ireland’s only billionnaires (I believe we have only ever had two) rose in power, went mad because that’s what happens when you’re a capitalist, comitted a bunch of financial crimes, fell from grace, and began battering people about it (allegedly). & i have so many TRICKY THOUGHTS!

like there’s a lot of people in the region where he’s from who are absolutely frantic bootlickers about him. like, people who work in the factories he started. and continue to work in those same factories. they are still are BAYING for him to take the factories back over. Because those factories are rightfully HIS and they were TAKEN FROM HIM because mumblemumble complicated legal financial shit where he was definitely in the wrong and he still owes the irish taxpayer €2 billion we’ll never get back. mumblemumblemumble

and yet. I can see the pov that there would be no factories without him. Now there would be no need for factories to prevent rural decline if it wasn’t for This Fuckin System. and yet while we are in This Fuckin System, he WAS a uniquely valuable person to his community. He DID found factories where no other capitalist was willing to build factories (war torn border region actively occupied by the british army). and that DID create jobs that kept people in the area. I wanna be a marxist about this but at the end of they day there’s a current in irish society where people would rather be oppressed by a good local lad made good than anyone else. He stayed living in the community too, sent his kids to local schools, he didn’t separate himself socially.

so people are GRATEFUL even tho they ....still have a job right now - without mr billionnaire running the factory? and therefore ... he isn’t uniquely responsible for their employment? He is still a huge figurehead who had his name over every factory door and its a lot easier to understand the “benefits” he brought to the area than the harm he did - cause the harm is diffuse and abstract while the “good” is concrete (lol) and immediate.

& like. the irish government & financial sector hasn’t ? done much fuckin good for the border communities? so when they come and “punish” the local golden boy for reasons that are tricky to understand, people get really angry? Cause the local identity is more salient than the class identity?

and the locality IS disadvantaged. it IS suffering because of being ruled from cities. but the things that would change that, properly, actually, for everyone, aren’t ............a local billionnaire.

And i struggle to navigate any of these currents, as someone with a strong local attachment but also class consciousness and a profound dislike for the injustices of the Strong Local Identity irish politics stuff. The hero worship, the sexism and homophobia and racism, the bitterness and anger and resentfulness that is always bredy by poverty. Its a twisted and fucked up culture. I am bad at navigating it despite spending most of my life living in it because i have canary in a coal mine syndrome and that makes people uncomfortable.

at the end of the day Sean Quinn personally owes me €377 and bootlickers are embarrassing.

#me fein #this is all totally apart from the bit where he (allegedly) had his former business associates kidnapped and assaulted #for the crime of ....continuing to run a successful business in an economically disadvanaged region he claims to want the best for?#check out the rte documentaries they're pretty good #irish shit

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raincitygirl76 · 9 months

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One thing I really enjoyed about Heartstopper Season 2 is it started to show the cracks in young love. That romantic love is wonderful, and supportive friendships are also wonderful. But neither of them are necessarily all-conquering.

Please note I haven’t read the books yet, so maybe this gets addressed later on.

Charlie seems to have some mental health issues which Nick’s love and support are unlikely to magically fix. Neither will the love and support of their friends group. And Darcy’s family being unsupportive is an ongoing issue that is causing her significant stress, to say the very least.

Even though Tara is a loving and supportive girlfriend, and even though their friend group band together to provide support to Darcy when her family are being difficult. Matters are exacerbated by Darcy being legally a child still. She’s basically stuck until she’s both a legal adult and has finished her secondary education.

Now, I’m not saying either Charlie or Darcy are doomed just because of shitty life circumstances. I’m quite sure that Nick the compulsive googler is worried about his boyfriend, and Nick may play a decisive role in Charlie getting psychological help. Charlie (quite rightly) trusts Nick’s good intentions. If Nick is worried about him, Charlie might be more inclined to talk honestly with a professional.

Just as Tara being Darcy’s girlfriend and offering loving support may enhance Darcy’s resilience, and help her cope better with family bullshit. Tara could also be the canary in the coal mine, if in the future things ever escalate to the point where Darcy can no longer live in her family home, for either her emotional or physical safety. Obviously this is all highly speculative.

But neither Nick and Tara’s romantic love nor a fabulous network of mutually supportive friends can FIX Charlie and Darcy’s problems. They can help, they can make a big difference, but there’s no magic wand.

Season 1 was more focused on the joy, butterflies, and heartbreak of falling in love for the first time. Also on the way friendship groups change and coalesce as life circumstances change. Ex: Charlie, Tao, and Isaac coming to terms with changes in their long-standing quartet once Elle switched to an girls school. Elle making friends with Tara and Darcy at her new school, and introducing them to her friends from Truham. And of course, Charlie trying to integrate Nick into the gang, with vigorous opposition from Tao. Not to mention the conflicts between Nick and his rugby friends as they saw Nick drifting away from them in favour of a bunch of uncool weirdos.

Season 1 was delightful, but Season 2 felt more…grown-up. It was still a blast to watch, but it felt like these young people are maturing.

Honourable mentions to the following S2 awesome bits which I didn’t mention yet:

1. Elle and Tao’s romance, Elle’s painting, and Tao’s mother’s absolute heartwarming delight that her son is now dating Elle.

2. Isaac’s romantic and sexual crisis, a journey so memorably leading him to the realization that there’s nothing wrong with him. He’s perfect and whole just as he is. He’s asexual and aromantic, and there’s a whole community of other people like him out there. There are even BOOKS about people like him.

3. Imogen breaking up so memorably with that goddamn attempted rapist Ben Hope, and getting drawn into Nick’s new friendship group as her S1 crush on Nick deepens into friendship. And maybe discovering she might be more than an ally. Very intrigued to see what, if anything, happens with Imogen and Samar in S3.

4. Nick calling out Ben with, “No, I hate you because you literally assaulted him.” I understand why the show didn’t really give a name to Charlie’s trauma at Ben’s hands in S1. They didn’t soft-pedal it emotionally, even though they never really label it as attempted rape. S1 Charlie was obviously traumatized, Nick was obviously repelled by Ben’s actions and desperately worried about Charlie. But the vocabulary wasn’t there, for whatever reason. It took until S2 for Nick to say to Ben, “you literally assaulted him,” with all the rage that reminder deserved. And I cheered!

5. My darling Mr Ajayi (my favourite S1 side character!) got a love interest in Mr Farouk. Who is such a polar opposite in personality to Mr Ajayi, but somehow, they click. And if they get married someday, they DAMN well better invite Coach Singh and her wife to the wedding. After all her yenta-ing to encourage them.

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crowcaws · 11 months

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hi! i think it's time for star trek and animation fans to unite once more, because paramount+ has chosen to remove star trek: prodigy from its library as a tax write-off. lucky for star trek fans, star trek is a 57 year old IP with fans all around the world, so we're hoping as much support as possible will get the show saved, since paramount is planing to sell the show to other streaming services! please consider watching prodigy (illegally if you must, since it was removed from p+ by now) and spread the word for support, it's a real gem of a show! #savestartrekprodigy

Thanks for spreading the word anon!

Prodigy is still up on P+ in Australia as of me checking just now, but if it's anything like Willow, this will happen in a week or less!

Star Trek fans please stream -- TODAY. I literally have it playing on my phone at work with the volume on mute. Non Star Trek fans, Willow fans, First Kill and Warrior Nun and JATP and Lockwood fans, please stream -- you know what this is like first hand. Even if it's on in the background and you're doing other stuff/not watching it! Even if it's not your cup of tea, the thing I love the most about Trek is that there's a Trek for everyone, and a whole bunch of people, kids especially, are about to lose theirs.

The era of streaming has brought the start an epidemic of lost media that we're only just starting to see. Piracy is illegal, and yet pirates are the only thing standing between these companies and the media they are trying to erase forever. Batgirl was the canary in the coal mine, so to speak, and this will keep happening so long as it's profitable for companies to erase media for tax write-offs, remove content to avoid paying residuals to the hard-working creatives who make their content, and produce flash-in-a-pan shows to bring in subscriptions and create the illusion of diverse content, only to cancel after one or two seasons. Paramount say they're going to sell Prodigy season 2 on along with the rights, but I'll believe this when I see it.

We need laws that protect media, both for us and for the people who make it, who rely on having an accessible portfolio for employment opportunities. US residents, please write to your relevant politicians about this issue if you can. Express concern for the loss of employment opportunities and job security in media. Streaming companies are purging content to avoid having to pay residuals to working screenwriters, ESPECIALLY amidst the current WGA strike. Your country has a massive monopoly on the media market and we're relying on the USA to change if this is to stop.

#star trek #star trek prodigy #lockwood and co #willow #jatp #save star trek prodigy

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aguacerotropical · 1 year

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living in the Caribbean through climate change it is absolutely so fucking bleak. since 2017 we’ve seen hurricanes María, Irma, Dorian shatter records and devastate our countries, many of which are *still* colonies, and now we’re seeing extreme heat. Its fucking 125F here!! My car marked 112 F. Im seeing the plants in the garden die in 3 days from the heat and the frogs aren’t singing like they used to every night. This whole island is a tropical rainforest and there. is. no. fucking. rain. for this whole damn 2 weeks. That isnt normal

meanwhile something like 84,000 THOUSAND PEOPLE had no electricity today bc the grid can’t sustain itself on a good day thanks to colonialism and the resource extraction that privatized it!! And if people get sick and they go to a hospital, congrats! They’ll probably die in a hallway w/o even an IV put in thanks to the fact we have no medical doctors. I WISH i was exaggerating but this is literally what ive seen with my own two miserable eyes

but ppl in hedge funds on wall street can snort premium cocaine and get off looking at their 20th rolex watch or whatever while people die of misery. bleak. absolutely bleak. and this is coming for the rest of the world, we’re the easily ignored canaries in the coal mine.

Edit: if anyone wants to donate, i can direct twds some grassroots orgs i work alongside with

#I am seething i have been so angry all day #Blowing up a pipeline is a moral imperative #the worst part is that i ask myself what could i *do* to feel less helpless and i already do those things!!#My house runs 100% on solar energy and i go to workshops focused on covering climate change #But it is not enough!!!#Puerto rico #climate change #caribbean

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sciencespies · 2 years

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As oceans warm, snapping shrimp sound a warning

https://sciencespies.com/environment/as-oceans-warm-snapping-shrimp-sound-a-warning/

As oceans warm, snapping shrimp sound a warning

In a warming ocean, snapping shrimp might be the acoustic canary in the coal mine.

Research published by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientists today in Frontiers in Marine Science confirmed their previous observations that rising temperatures increase the sound of snapping shrimp, a tiny crustacean found in temperate and tropical coastal marine environments around the world.

In the first study of its kind, WHOI marine ecologists Ashlee Lillis and T. Aran Mooney established a clear relationship between rising temperatures and the frequency and volume of the sound emitted by two snapping shrimp species, with implications for underwater navigation and communication for both humans and animals. The continuous popping sounds made by snapping shrimp — which evoke the sound of sizzling bacon — are so loud and cover such a wide acoustic range that it interferes with ship sonar and fish finders. Research shows that whales and dolphins may rely on the sound of snapping shrimp to orient themselves along the coast, and diverse soundscapes help attract fish, shellfish, and coral larvae to appropriate settling sites.

“These shrimp are the most ubiquitous sound producer in the ocean, and now we have evidence that temperature has a huge impact on their behavior and the overall soundscape,” said Lillis, a WHOI guest investigator and principle scientist at Sound Ocean Science. “That’s relevant to everything from migrating whales to larvae trying to use the soundscape, or humans who use the sea for extractive or military purposes.”

Lillis analyzed recordings of snapping shrimp from an oyster reef off the North Carolina coast and found an increase of 1 to 2 decibels, as well as a 15 to 60 percent increase in snapping frequency, for every Celsius degree rise in temperature. Put to the test in controlled lab setting, Lillis found that snap frequency more than doubled with water temperatures between 68F (20C) and 86F (30C), with some differences depending on the season or the shrimps’ social grouping.

The experiments simulated the effects of a short-term heat wave, so it’s not yet clear whether the shrimp might eventually adapt, or how the increased snapping could impact their physiology or the ecosystem over time. While temperature has long been understood to influence crustacean behavior, the effects of warming water on the overall marine soundscape is a crucial — and often overlooked — ramification of climate change, says Mooney.

“Climate change is impacting the marine soundscape in fundamental ways,” Mooney said. “Warming waters can influence how animals are physically able to communicate and use sound to reproduce and attract mates. We don’t yet know what happens to the ecosystem when background noise levels are higher, but there are far-reaching implications.”

Funding for this research was provided by NSF Biological Oceanography Grant #1536782 and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Interdisciplinary Award and Postdoctoral Scholar Programs.

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