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supernovasilence · 1 year

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Ok we all talk about the Pevensies' trauma at returning to Earth at the end of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and their trouble readjusting to life there again but think of all the funny/good parts too

They return from the country, and their mom is surprised when all her children hug her at the station. Even Peter, who thinks he's all grown up. Even Edmund, who went away surly and withdrawn. She doesn't know her children haven't seen her in over a decade.

They miss their dear Cair Paravel, but they absolutely do not miss its chamber pots. Indoor plumbing is amazing.

It takes a while to remember how modern technology works, though. How many heart attacks did the siblings give their parents or the professor because they walked into a dark room only to turn on the light and find the children sitting there in the dark. (They were by the window! There was still plenty of light from the sunset! They would have gotten a candle in a minute!) The kids sheepishly remember oh yeah electricity is a thing.

(Edmund has a new electric torch in Prince Caspian. He was so excited to get that torch. Almost more excited than you'd think a kid his age would be, and his parents expect Peter at least to tease him, but the siblings all agree light in your hand at the touch of a switch is terrific.)

Suddenly getting really high grades in some subjects and terrible in others. Their grammar, reading comprehension, spelling, vocab, even penmanship? Amazing. History and geography? They don't remember anything. One time in class Susan forgets Earth is round and wants to die.

Also they can never remember what the date is supposed to be because Narnia uses different months and years. They can estimate time really well by looking at the sun though, and Edmund at least can always tell which way is north etc without thinking about it (again, using the sun)

Okay but how many times did they go to pick something up or reach something and realize they are so much shorter and less muscled than they expect? It's a common sight to see Peter climbing on counters to reach a top cabinet, grumbling about how he's High King this is demeaning. (No he never takes the extra five seconds to grab a stool. He will climb that shelf.)

Peter and Susan being delighted because they are no longer almost thirty. (In a few years Edmund and Lucy will tease them about being old and their parents will not understand.)

Lucy doesn't have to deal with periods anymore for a few years yet. Susan might not either. Heck yeah

Lucy loves to climb into her siblings' laps and be cuddled. In Narnia she eventually she grew too big, but now she is small and snuggleable again. Peter is her favorite, and if she's upset, he'll tickle her and tell bad jokes until she's smiling again, but really she loves cuddling with all her family. She grew up without her parents; how many times did she just want to crawl into her mom's lap and her mom was a world away? Imagine the first time she realizes she can now. Or, imagine one day, a cold and grey sort of day, when the rain is pattering against the windows, and it sounds like the rain on the windows of the Professor's house, that first day they went exploring. It sounds like the day they played hide and seek. It sounds so like the rain on the windows of Cair Paravel, that if Lucy closes her eyes she can imagine she's back there, having tea and chatting with Mr. Tumnus before the fireplace of her room, and soon the rain will stop, and they will go out on the balcony and wave to the naiads and the dryads and the mermaids, who have come out to enjoy the rain and visit one other on the banks of the Great River winding past Cair Paravel down to the sea.

But if Lucy looks out the window, all she'll see is the rain over London, so it's not only a cold and grey sort of day, it's a lonely sort of day too.

Susan and Edmund are playing chess in the living room (and they must have studied with Professor Kirke, thinks their mother, because they certainly weren't that good when they left). Lucy goes over to Edmund, and oh dear, thinks their mother, now he's going to call her a baby and be horrible to her, but instead he picks her up and puts her on his lap without even taking his eyes off the chessboard; it's simply a matter of course.

"Doesn't the rain sound familiar?" says Lucy in a solemn, wistful way.

Their mother doesn't know what that means, but her siblings must, because Susan says, "Yes, Lu, it does,” and Edmund gives her a little hug with his free arm as she tucks herself under his chin to watch the chess match.

(Five minutes later there is a crash from the next room as Peter falls off a counter. Their mother does not understand the words he must have picked up from the Professor, but he's grounded for them anyway. His siblings have no respect for their High King, because they refuse to stop laughing.)

#the chronicles of narnia #narnia headcanons #peter pevensie #susan pevensie #edmund pevensie #lucy pevensie #helen pevensie #the pevensies #okay this did end up a little bittersweet at the end but I tried #let's all just focus on the high king falling off counters alright #and yes the siblings all picked up narnian swear words and i refuse to believe otherwise #i'm also suddenly wondering how much language drift there is in narnia #when the pevensies return in prince caspian are all the swear words/exclamations they learned outdated?#are they using the narnian equivalent of oh horsefeathers?#nova actually posts stuff #long post //#the higher the queuer #post lww pevensies #soft post lww headcanons

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color-palettes · 3 months

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I saw a palette here once with 7 bars of colors, are the maximum colors still 6? Or can we actually add like 7 bars now?

jam (queuer) has some explaining to do :'/ i dont pay him so it's fine i guess

as for your second question, ill open it to the crowd

#palette spam #in the grand scheme of things you can never have too many colors #but i like to arbitrarily organize

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crowley1990 · 2 years

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This higher queue limit is very exciting for me, personally, a chronic queuer.

#ooh i have 360 posts queued now #the luxury #jb

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protagonistheavy · 3 years

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Kind of becoming of the opinion that killers should be able to opt into playing against grouped survivors or not lol. It's easily one of the least balanced aspects of the game; even just two survivors communicating with one another live is going to be a VASTLY different experience than if all four were solo queuers, and it's only more wild with groups of three or four. At the very least, the matchmaker NEEDS to consider handicapping this dynamic; survivors in groups should be calculated as a rank or two higher each, and even more if they're intentionally queueing with a lower-rank survivor in hopes of smurfing the killer they get.

Seriously, I almost see my posts about this topic as like... a chronicling of the toxicity I'm finding. I'm playing the game and watching streams, and it's just wild how many people really do get mad at The Mechanics and Design of a Video Game -- but then, worst of all, they take that anger out on the players. If I'm on a streak with having crazy opinions today, then let me also suggest that they just remove the post-match chat, 60% of the time it's used just for the players to shit on one another.

I think also the survivor experience needs to be revamped slightly, especially in the results it gives. It's an easy pitfall for survivors to judge their end-game results as purely on a "survived-died" binary; either you got out, or you didn't. But really I find there's more varied results to be considered, like, maybe you died, but if you got a lot of unhooks... if you popped a lot of gens... if you were the last one to die, like, I consider all these aspects before deciding "that was a shit game."

But it seems most survivors only think "winning the match" means personally escaping, or worse, escaping WITH EVERYONE... and the game just isn't balanced like that, dudes! It's pretty obvious by the design of things that they EXPECT some survivors to die. They intend for killers to get one or two kills pretty consistently, which naturally means one or two survivors... have to die. But that also means that the game intends on one or two survivors escaping! It balances out when you step back, but players don't want to see it that way, they just want to see a hard VICTORY or DEFEAT plastered over their screen at the end.

It's just so sad that I've been playing the game for like basically just two months maximum and yet I've seen almost EVERY aspect of the game get complained about. It's disheartening. I wish people would just... enjoy the video game they're playing, enjoy the experience it was crafted to be.

I really like this game but the attitudes around it are so unbearable at times. It's crazy that when I initially began watching DBD through streams, I used to think, "wow, what a surprisingly non-toxic community! So many people in the post-match chat are friendly and understand the dynamic of the game!" God how misinformed I was lol.

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ibilenews · 4 years

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Man who was part of long Ikea queue snaps at online critics, curses Covid-19 on them

Big crowds are a big no-no in this current climate, but that didn’t stop throngs of people from forming long snaking lines last weekend outside the two Ikea outlets in Singapore.

Right before the month-long closures of schools and most workplaces on Tuesday (Apr 7), folks used their last free weekend in the great outdoors, waiting to grab themselves some Swedish modernist furniture.

Photos of the Ikea-loving mob went up on social media, and so did comments chastising the people in the queue for being kiasu and creating a higher risk of coronavirus infection. There is a reason why social distancing is now part of the law.

Amidst all the criticism and mockery that ensued on social media, it seems that the trigger has been triggered. In an Instagram Story rant, a man who admitted to being one of the people in line at Ikea last weekend had some vicious words to say to his detractors.

“Those that question why people go to Ikea before the lockdown… Shut the f*** up and just pray you (are) not the one [who will] get infected lah. Care so much for f***… So annoying everywhere also Ikea memes,” he wrote.

He went on to explain that the reason for the long queues was that the single entrance into the Ikea outlet (he did not mention which) was small, and staff members were conducting rigorous crowd control. “Hence the queue lah dumb f***s,” he wrote.

Oh yes, he certainly snapped. The man went on to spew even more hostility towards commenters.

“Wanna get furniture on a normal day wrong meh? Against the law meh? Got disrupt your f***ing pathetic life meh? F*** you lah.”

The icing on the obscenity-laden cake is his wish for the coronavirus to hit anyone who dared to criticise him and his fellow Ikea queuers.

“Comment so much maybe the Covid-19 should strike you and your loved ones. Toxic f***ers.”

Well, that was certainly… interesting. His Instagram page has since been taken down from the public eye, but All Singapore Stuff uploaded a screenshot of his bitter post on Facebook.

While there’s nothing wrong in purchasing necessary homeware from Ikea before the circuit breaker measures hit, queuing up en masse is objectively questionable during a highly infectious virus outbreak, especially when the company has a little something called an online store which offers delivery services.

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