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arrenkae · 9 months
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Companion age facts:
Shadowheart is over 40, she says she gave 40 years of her life to Shar. Elf genes are no joke
Wyll is 24, he says he left Baldur's Gate 7 years ago, and he was 17 when that happened
Karlach was in her teens 10 years ago when she was sent to Avernus, so late 20s
Halsin is 350
Astarion was turned 200+ years ago when he was 39, and keep in mind that he's an elf so in elf years he was a literal baby
Lae'zel is also super young, considering that she hasn't killed her first mind flayer yet; I think her writer confirmed her being 21 or so
Gale is a wizard so who knows
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holomars-turtles · 1 year
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MARS’ GUIDE TO TURTLE NOISES!!
So it seems there are a lot of misunderstanding when it comes to turtle noises in the tmnt fandom so I thought I’d give an easy and helpful guide for artists and writers!
Common turtle noises:
Turtles hiss when they’re nervous, stressed, or approached by someone or something they do not feel safe with yet. This is an involuntary response. It’s also the most common noise turtles make!
Hissing paired with heavy breathing is usually a sign that the turtle is in an aggressive mood. When a turtle hisses aggressively, it’ll sometimes come out as a grunt.
Turtles chirp or click for a variety of reasons ranging from discomfort to expressing happiness! Other examples are hunger, stress, boredom, etc.
Grunting can mean a couple of things as well depending on the circumstance. Turtles grunt, squeak, and sigh when they’re happy! This happens when they’re eating or playing.
Churring is a high pitched trilling noise that many animals do, not just turtles! Actually, it’s not really common for turtles to churr to express happiness—as said above, happiness is usually expressed with squeaks, chirps, sighs, and more.
Turtles make a wide variety of different sounds to communicate to eachother!!! These are just the most common ones.
Turtles vocalizations are very quiet, not many noises can be heard by the humans naked ear. Though it’s common for turtles to communicate vocally to one another, they tend to communicate though physical means more often (such as nose touching as a form of introduction or expression of curiosity!)
I Hope this is helpful for y’all!!! Enjoy!!!
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ramblingandpie · 11 months
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revolutionarysuicide · 2 months
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ekat-fandom-blog · 1 month
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Dr Wayne AU
Idea from this post.
Bruce graduated from medical school. He went out and trained to become a vigilante. He came back and things mostly turned out like the original universe does. Until Dick. The stress was getting to him. Gnawing away at his morals and last shred of patients. Mysteriously, the building Tony Zuko was in blew up and Batman wasn't seen again.
Years go by, and more mysterious explosions kill more mob bosses and super villains. No one connects Bruce to the explosions except for a malnourished street kid who caught him in the act. Smart little street rat that is Jason Todd uses this knowledge to get some food. Bruce quickly takes a liking to him and brings him home. Jason starts helping Bruce rig these explosions after a while. While setting up a bomb meant for their slipperiest evil doer, Joker, it goes off while Jason's in the building. Bruce goes a little crazy (or maybe crazier. who's to say) after Jason's death.
He meets Tim Drake at a function being held by Mr and Mrs Drake and notices some things. The first thing he notices is how similar Tim looks to Jason when they met in that dark alley. The second thing he notices is that the Drakes are almost always out of Gotham. The third thing he notices is that Tim seems to light up when Bruce mentions Dick. He'd love to just snatch the kid up and bring him home, but he couldn't. Not without a reason to keep the kid. It was just luck that one of the many villains still populating Gotham decided to target the plane the Drakes were on a week later. In his gratitude for the opportunity to take in the sweet child he'd found, he made sure the explosion he set for them would only maim them instead of kill them.
Getting Jason was amazing and horrible. The sweet precious boy nearly killed Bruce and Tim with the minor explosive he'd put in Bruce's favorite car. But that didn't matter all that much. By the end of the entire debacle, no one was hurt and they'd even managed to clear up some misunderstandings. Bruce had all of his children under one roof again.
He thought he had all of his children under one roof until he learned about Damian. There weren't any words he could use to describe how upset it made him to learn that another of his children were being kept from him. He did have to thank Talia, however. Without Talia slipping up to Jason about Damian's existence he wouldn't have known until one of the Al Ghul's revealed it to him. Tim overheard Jason and Bruce planning to retrieve Damian and revealed that he'd known since he came to the manor what Jason and Bruce did. Told the two that he knew how to help gather intel on the League long term as long as they could slip a microchip into one of the League's mainframe computers. The Plan went well, all things considered. Jason and Bruce came out of it with a few scars and a broken rib, which was less damage than expected. They sadly weren't able to catch many of the assassins in any of their micro explosions, but they overall won the battle.
After everything was said and done, Damian fit in well with their chaotically violent family. Even if he did prefer swords to explosives. It was much less strange than Dick's proclivities to only do harm when he felt it was strictly necessary. He gets it from Alfred, Bruce supposed.
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briwates · 8 days
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Some context things abt Yohan's birth/Yohan's mother:
- if he's born around ~1985 thats in the middle of SK's antinatalist era when the state did everything it could to limit births (official communication on family planning even included things like "two is too many". Yohan is an extra marrital second child in the midst of an intensive family planning policy era, feels like that could add to the shame & difficulty of the whole situation for his mother + for jisang, even if considering how rich and disconnected from society he was, it probably would not have affected him much (aside from the catholic guilt I suppose). Her as a working class, to-be single mother on the other hand...
- even today only 2% of SK kids are born out of wedlock + it's precised on their birth registry/birth certificates if theyre born outside of a marriage. Legally there's no difference of treatment compared to babies born to married parents, however I'm sure there are social consequences. Depending on who registered Yohan at birth, his original papers could have that indication. It seems to make more sense for him to find ways to dissimulate it once he had the means to tho, especially after becoming a public figure.
- Also idea floated by @clawbehavior that yohan's mother could even be a foreigner. There's that scene in the show where Heo Joongse accuses Yohan of not being fully korean. HJS's is written as a fascist/ethnonationalist which explains these claims once Yohan turns against him, but it's nonetheless a possibility. Now Yohan as a second child born out of wedlock, in the antinatalist era, and on top of that to a foreigner in an ethnically homogenous country ? So many avenues to explore
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sysboxes · 5 months
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Is there a limit on reposting in a time frame? Idk if "repost spam" is a thing that affects blogs. I'm very unfamiliar with Tumblr works
Ok so! Tumblr does have a post limit, I’ve never hit it but from what I understand: you can only make 250 posts every 24 hours. This includes both posts you reblog and original posts you make. I’m not sure if that’s 250 posts per blog or if posts you make/reblog on a sideblog count towards that limit. I’m also not sure if you can still queue posts or save them to your drafts if you’ve hit the post limit.
As far as I can tell, there’s no other effects it has on your blog, it shouldn’t boost or hide you in an algorithm or anything. While tumblr technically has an algorithm (setting your dashboard to “best stuff first”), most people opt out of it and set their dashboard to reverse chronological order. Even in the algorithm tumblr does have, I’m not sure posting a ton has any effect on it.
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aveterhours · 1 year
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In my previous qsmp post I talked about how all the challenges of the qsmp are made so that the players will fail, but I wanted to elaborate a bit on the overall purpose of Why and the motive of this entity that controls this island, assumedly the qsmp federation. I also wanted to speculate on the overall theme of this story, and why I think this will actually have a (relatively) positive conclusion.
The theory that this is some sort of data-gathering operation is the one I think is the most plausible. This whole thing is an experiment. Maybe even a reoccurring one; this island is old, with broken down buildings and a wall covered in vines that can presumably move up and down. There was audio formatted like a report on test subjects until it devolved into errors. At least a few of the messages the players receive from the duck are recorded on videotape, possibly so they can be reused. The entire island feels used and artificial and is falling apart. Perhaps there were previous participants who faced similar tests and had similar conflicts and are now gone, in some way or another. Some of the entities present on the server might even be remnants of these past participants---mainly the ones who don't seem to be here intentionally, like the glitched green text creature, and the coded message telling them to find a way out.
As for the other entities, primarily the deities, to me they don't seem actually all that powerful. Maybe it's the fact they actually appear in game and not as some cutscene, or because they resemble players, but they seem to be working within the bounds of this experiment and this island, and are on a lower level compared to the federation. They are moreso variables than all-powerful beings. Which speaks to the level of control exerted over this island, amongst other things; something else that comes to mind is how death doesn't actually seem permanent, at least not yet. Players don't have an established limited amount of lives, and while the eggs do, they have come back on multiple occasions and only seem to stay dead because that's what some sort of controlling force wants. I don't believe people can permadie unless the federation wants it.
But why is this experiment being conducted? To prove a point, i think. To prove that these two groups cannot come together and use teamwork and get along and complete 'simple' tasks. To prove that unity is impossible. These challenges are made unable to be won, to cause more conflict, because they want to prove that this collaboration is foolish and harmful and should not be attempted.
The entire overarching theme of the qsmp, on multiple levels, is two different communities, two groups that speak different languages, coming together to make something. It's about working together despite differences and difficulties and learning from it. These challenges are the antagonistic force because they are driving people apart. The federation is the antagonistic force because it put them all on this island in a skewed experiment in order to prove collaboration between these two groups impossible. I think the story will be about defeating this because, despite how things are going now, the entire idea of the qsmp is to show that teamwork is possible and to prove those negative ideas wrong. To overcome those obstacles no matter what and subvert expectations of failure. It is a theme that permeates the entire operation, from the concept to the construction to the story, and I think it will prevail.
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elalalune · 6 months
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What if Law is a White Queen candidate? And when the Red and Heart kingdoms separate, he's the one that becomes the new White Queen?
In an AU of this AU he could be 🤔 not sure how he'll feel after going through 3 different roles in his lifetime though
My thoughts on the main AU is that White and Red are based off chess pieces and one of their ways to become a Queen is through Pawn promotion. Since Luffy is technically a Pawn here, he has the ability to become a Queen (not all Pawns can just become Queen though, they'll have to go through highly specific conditions or have the right drive/characreristics for it). And Law was a Knight candidate that was promoted from a Pawn before the shift, so he could've become a Queen candidate if he stayed on a Pawn's role
Also unlike chess, this is the process for the Pawn's roles: Pawn —> "Queen/Bishop/Rook/Knight" candidate —> Queen/Bishop/Rook/Knight (whichever role they picked to be a candidate of)
The Pawn "_" candidates can go back to being a Pawn but they cant pick any other option once they chose the role (ex. Pawn becomes Bishop candidate, goes back to being a Pawn, can't become a Rook candidate)
It's different for those that are already born to be candidates of their position. Not all Queens/Bishops/Rooks/Knights came from Pawns. Once someone else already has taken their potential role, they simply lose that candidate role.
Heart doesnt have the Pawn method of choosing though and most of the time Red and White's Queen candidates were picked the same way as Heart
I do like the idea of Luffy, Law and Kid being the next gen of Queens but I'm still not sure if I really want that because I might change my mind later 😅
It doesn't really matter to me though because I'm only focusing on Shanks' and Buggy's story, so feel free to think of who's who in the next generation ^-^
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useyourtelescope · 14 days
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So after some particularly frustrating days at work I ended up re-reading one of my fics in the evening to calm down and realised there was a pattern in the fics I return to as a comfort read. Now I want to know what other people's habits are, so it's poll time!
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USA Catholics: May 18, 2023
hey! Catholics!
If you are in: Massachusetts Connecticut New York Pennyslvania Nebraska
TODAY is Ascension and it's a Holy Day of Obligation. It's 11am EDT as I write this, y'all should have time to find Mass today.
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koskela-knights · 4 months
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Ilmo and the Sampo
I've been talking to @veikkoalen & @zephyrone01 about Ilmo and Jaakko's names and got some interesting insights that I wanna share with the rest of yall 👀
Initially, I knew that his name was derived from the name Ilmarinen, a mythological figure appearing in the Kalevala epic as a blacksmith. And even though I read (on Wikipedia, my knowledge in Finnish mythology is basically limited to that) Ilmarinen is the creator of the Sampo, the connection didn't click until Veikkoalen said Ilmo is trying to bring Sampo to Watery.
The Sampo is a magical device that was said to bring fortune (sometimes gold or other resources) to the holder. (This is just a very condensed description btw)
In that regard, Ilmo also tries to bring fortune to Watery which has been struck with poverty & decline in population after their main income resource (lumber mills) closed down. 🥺
And finally, Zephyrone01's comment on Jaakko's name and possible meanings/interpretations. Jaakko's name has ties to the name Jacob, which means "supplanter". "The name is traditionally thought to mean "heel grabber" because in the Bible, Jacob was born holding his brother Esau's heel." And their interpretation that Jaakko might feel like he was in Ilmo's shadow.
Though I think Jaakko might not always mind being on the background. But maybe during difficult, low moments he might experience a sort of jealousy?
But yeah, the Koskelas invoke many deep thoughts and sad thoughts too.
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hi grizzly-bear-official! i have a question that is kinda gross, but i hope it's not super weird. anyways, i was wondering: can bears vomit? i'm just curious because i know bears can and will eat anything they can get their paws on, no matter how rancid or rotten it is, but what if it makes them sick? do they vomit to purge the toxins out, or do they seek out and eat something that they know will help, like rats?
yes, bears are capable of throwing up. a bear that ate something bad (garbage it couldn't digest, poison berries, etc) would most likely do so to prevent itself from getting sick.
however, there have also been reported instances of bears self-medicating with medicinal plants, though these instances are not widely studied.
the phenomena of animals utilizing natural medicinal resources to their advantage is known as zoopharmacognosy (zoo: animal, pharma: medicine, cognos: to know). there are a bunch of animals that do this other than bears, but it's been most widely studied in primates.
The most notable usage of medicinal plants by bears is their use of Oshá root (translated literally to bear root). Brown bears coming out of hibernation will often seek it out - both to eat it and to chew it into a paste to rub on their bodies. The Oshá root helps stimulate their digestion and appetite.
(I am not very knowledgeable about this, but as a sidenote: Oshá root has been widely used by Indigenous North American tribes for generations. If anyone who knows more about this or has better resources would like to add onto this post, please feel free to.)
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natjennie · 6 months
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All my knowledge of ghosts comes from you so I have a question if that's okay!! If all the ghosts come from the house then how is the cave person (robin? I think) part of the crew :0c
Hope your tummy feels better soon 💖
tysm, I am feeling a little better today I think <3
but yeah that's actually a great question! so the rules the ghosts follow as explained in the show are inconsistent and confusing, even for the ghosts themselves, as shown in "a lot to take in" when julian (90's politician) has just died and can sit on a chair but also walk through it and thomas (regency poet) says "yes, it doesn't make sense, does it?" so just know that even the show itself recognizes that the lore is nonsensical.
but yeah "you stays where you dies" "and how you dies- died!" "it's your classic haunted house" is basically the number one rule, so for the ghosts that came before the house was built, namely robin (the caveman), the plagues (plague pit), and mary (burned at the stake), are tethered to the land rather than the house. even for those that died after the house was built, pat (scout leader) died outside of the house on the grounds, for example.
there's a whole bit in uhh the exact episode escapes me, but there's a bit where mary and robin act as sort of lawyers trying to insist that alison owes them because technically she's living on their land, and the land came before the house, so it should belong to them. so even they are sort of unclear on the distinction between the land and the house.
the exact boundaries on their roaming aren't ironed out totally either, julian who died the most recently tried to leave the grounds through a main gate and kept getting sort of teleported back, and cap (the captain. you know him.) remarks that "we've all done it" and robin jovially counts how many time julian attempts this, implying that the other ghosts have all similarly tried to leave the grounds. but the exact point that stops them might be different for each ghost? I have no idea. robin goes into the woods a lot more frequently than anyone else, howling for the neighbor's dogs and such. so his like. haunting radius might be bigger than the others??
but then, you have to consider the fact that, in s5, when alison is considering selling a chunk of the estate, fanny (edwardian noble lady), is all in a tizzy about losing some of their precious grounds. captain talks about how he likes to walk around the part they're planning to sell, but kitty (burgundy dress, hair feather), says that they still would be able to. and cap says "the afterlife isn't bound by freehold agreements" so???? what the fuck is it bound by then bestie???
I even have a wip of a fanfic idea going that considers this, imagining that they are connected to the physical land like the soil rather than anything, so if alison digs up a chunk of dirt they can follow her sort of on a leash outside the bounds of the house. why not?
anyway. long story short. it's a really good question. and I don't have a satisfying answer. the simple version is that they're all sort of loosely bound to the button house grounds, even the handful that came before the physical house. but the details of that connection are a shoulder shrug at best. even within the fiction of the show, they don't really know. so. that's the best I can do for you.
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pandemichub · 1 year
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Howdy! Under my post you offered to talk about Purpled's lore/character and it would be really cool is you did that!
You have unlocked an unskippable cutscene I could literally talk about this for days on end
under the read more cause this is gonna be LONG
okay SO the very basics of Purpleds character is just he’s a really skilled fighter, so he became a mercenary to put those skills to use
ccpurpled said himself that cpurpled just wants money and power
but despite this, he’s not a fan of conflict at all, and prefers to avoid fights and wars whenever possible
a favorite quote of mine, “I’m like Switzerland, I don’t really fight, but when I do fight, I win” (not word for word I forgor)
he greatly prefers to keep to himself, and just gather materials and chill with his dog and mind his own business, because he’s seen what happens to everyone else, and doesn’t want any part of it
Early in the server, before he did a lot of serious lore, he had a decent amount of relatively positive relationships with a couple people, and he didn’t necessarily hang out with them or anything but he trusted them
he mostly just sat around and built stuff, the first big thing he was a part of was the Manberg vs Pogtopia war
-karl recruited him against his will
-he ran around for like 30 minutes just rambling about how he had no idea what was going on ever
-he fought for like 3 minutes before switching sides
-*getting killed by fireworks* “IM ON YOUR SIDE” “YOU WERENT BEFORE”
-was dead silent for like 40 minutes as he just ran around fighting people and no one acknowledged him
-schlatt fucking died “did he just have a heart attack?!?” “He just fucking died!!” And then went silent again
-the whole thing were no one wanted to be president
-it ended up being tubbo
-no one could figure out who the traitor was
-watched wilbur die right after lmanberg blew up
-killed one of the withers and was very proud of himself
-Connor joined the game, left the game, joined the game, stole purpleds pants, and left
-purpled went home, reiterated that he had no idea what the fuck just happened, and ended stream
this is so long already but wait, there’s more!!
not a whole lot important happened after that, he was still living in a cabin of the main path, and his UFO was just kinda vibing (that’s a surprise tool that will help us later)
he kinda chilled on his own, and suddenly the Eggpire is a thing! Purpled has no friends, so he doesn’t care!! (There are vines all over his UFO but he doesn’t live there anymore so he doesn’t do anything about it)
suddenly Ponk wants to talk to him, and now uh oh, BadBoyHalo is in some random ass cave trying to hire Purpled to kidnap Puffy
purpled has nothing better to do, so he takes the job
he doesn’t log on for months, so Quackity puts bombs in his house
suddenly purpled logs on and Quackitys like “I understand this looks bad but I want to hire you”
“what’s this another mercenary job?” God forbid someone hire him to do his job
he accepts, and badda bang badda book now he’s working against the Eggpire
Q, purpled, and Techno are going to take down the red banquet, and then Quackity decides to be an asshole (Purpled and Techno want to go in and help, but Quackity makes them wait and foolish dies, then Quackity goes in and plays the hero)
they beat the shit out of the Eggpire (bad is not happy with purpled)
purpled leads everyone out of bads creepy basement “you’re a hero, purpled” “I try my best”
purpled wants his payment for helping the duck man
Duck man pays him, and then breaks the entire fandom and blows up purpleds ufo right in front of him!
purpled wants to kill him, Quackity tries to convince him not to, tells him that he’s basically nothing now, and purples goes home
fucking dumbass blows up his own house after having 37 mental breakdowns
slime is spying on him and purples wants to strangle him
he goes to las Nevadas, “I just want to make it very clear that I don’t think there will ever be a point in time where I respect you as a person,” and joins LN just like Q wanted!! Surely nothing bad will happen!!
~timeskip~
Quackity has an anxiety attack, purpled leads them to the most unnecessary trap ever, he and Q yell at each other, Quackity does a fucky wucky, and now Slimecicle is dead
purpled just fucking walks away like the girlboss he is, and later kidnaps slimes corpse and traps him in a cave
Punz shows up, says some stuff, purples agrees to work for him and dream (this will not go well)
they raid las nevadas!! dream blows some shit up, foolish releases an army of slimes, and purpled yells at Quackity some more
slime reveals he’s not actually a dumbass and shoves purples of off a balcony
and then the server fucking ended so I guess that’s that!
so, long story short, purpled is pretty much just a badass but also cringefail assassin, who does not like people or conflict, and has cared about two things ever (his ufo and his dog, which is thankfully still alive), but is also still just a teenager, and has some shit going on.
he doesn’t care about a lot, but he does have silly little feelings sometimes and the only two times he ever showed that he blew up his own house and the second time he fucking died
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